Recasting the first seven doctors

A meme by MightyGodKing.

THE IMAGINED SITUATION IS: The BBC has decided to air a one-time four-hour miniseries event of Doctor Who. The miniseries will be entitled “The Eleven Doctors” and feature every single Doctor as the cast, with a number of companions rounding it out.

Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith will play the Eighth through Eleventh Doctors. (Some suggested that at 51 McGann was too old to play his Doctor, but fans argued that he deserved a second chance to play the Eighth Doctor again and really, 51? That’s not a big deal.) However, the remaining living former actors who have played the Doctor all agreed that they should let more age-appropriate actors play the younger incarnations of the earlier Doctors (perhaps with one or two making jokes about “the need for a sonic cane,”) and of course Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell are all long dead.

So:

Who plays each of the first seven Doctors?

I'm going to twist this a bit. Here is my list answering the question:

1. Michael Gambon
2. David Suchet OR David Troughton
3. Charles Dance
4. John Sessions OR Hugh Laurie
5. Michael Sheen
6. Sam West
7. Tony Robinson

I really really really disagree with his idea of putting Rickman in as 1; Rickman is way too sexy to be 1. He should be The Master. Also, James Nesbitt is SO WRONG for Six it's untrue. Just because YOU don't like Six doesn't mean you should cast someone totally inappropriate >:( Nesbitt can do the shouting yes, but he has no capability for the layers of Sixie. And he's bald, and what little hair he has left is dark and straight. And now... Now I'm going to give you eleven girls:

1. June Whitfield
2. Arabella Weir
3. Annette Crosbie
4. Frances de la Tour
5. Georgia Moffatt
6. Patricia Hodge OR Emma Thompson
7. Prunella Scales
8. Helena Bonham-Carter
9. Angela Bruce
10. Tamsin Grieg
11. Gemma Arterton

Some of them are clearly older than the male equivalents were at the time, but...

Do feel free to tell me how wrong I am in the comments. It'll take my mind off today.

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Booklist 2011 #1: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson

Yeah, I know, everybody else has already read it. I didn't like it, so this isn't going to be a long review. Something about the prose style put me off from caring about the characters, even though you'd think the titular Girl would be right up my alley. And I hated the torture porn and sexualised violence.

In style it struck me like a less well-written Jeffrey Deaver - even down to the real life stats at the beginning of sections. I'm a big fan of Jeffrey Deaver. I wasn't keen on this. Won't be reading the next two - in part because the excerpt from the next one in this one was all torture porn...

Next on the list: Batgirl Rising, which was one of Holly's Christmas presents from A Nonnymouse.

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