Re: From the Archives .....

Blueshirt wrote on 22/4/24 5:34 am:

The True Doctor wrote:

On 20/04/2024 22:05, Blueshirt wrote:

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Robert Holmes re-wrote the script as you well know and it was
the intent of the Production team of that story that those
were the faces of the Doctor. When you watched "The Brain of
Morbius" as a child, that was the intent behind that scene.

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Nope. When I watched the story as a child the faces were
presumed to be those of Morbius as he was winning.

 You were very clever then wasn't you, as that's not what the
intention behind that scene was, as you know. However, as I said
to Dave, people are free to take whatever interpretation they
want to from that scene, it doesn't change what the original
intent was. If people had read the Target novel first, before
watching the story on VHS or DVD (etc.), the idea that those
faces were pre-Hartnell Doctors would be a strange proposition
indeed. So I can accept that point of view.
 But trying to say that the producer of "The Brain of Morbius"
didn't intend for them to be the faces of 'The Doctor' when
those episodes were filmed is historical revisionism.

Did I read someone here or was it in the UseNet Archives??....
Did someone post that in 'The Brain of Morbius' there are actually TWO SCREENS and The Doctor is viewing one of these screens, seeing all those faces flash past.
So, I presume, Morbius could be watching the other screen, also seeing faces flash past.
So couldn't each of them be seeing their own previous incarnations flash past .... which then brings up the question of all those other, extra, faces ... that, to the best of the TV Viewer knowledge AT THAT TIME hadn't been worn by The Doctor .... but the TV Viewer NOW knows could have been previous Doctor Who incarnations.

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The [second Doctor] line about a previous "renewal" was cut
from the draft script following a discussion among the
production team.

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So they realized it would contradict what Hartnell said in The
Tenth Planet.

Not if the Second Doctor mentioned only one previous incarnation!

It's possible somebody mentioned that. It was 1967, so who knows?
<shrugs>  That line from the draft script was excised and we got
what we got in the episode.

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Daniel