::: Area #112 (Doctor Who Echo)
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Date   : Sat Jan 31 15:34:00 1998
From   : Steve Quarrella of fidonet#1:124/9005
To     : Artimus Brown
Subject: Doctor Who Magazine

Hello, Artimus...

Monday January 12 1998, Artimus Brown said to Audrey Seddon:

 AB>   As for an animated Doctor.  Well, I for one wouldn't mind seeing it.
 AB> You have to admit, it does open up realms otherwise unatainable by live
 AB> action.  In my book, it would be better than nothing.

I recently spoke with SF-Fantasy author, Michael Moorcock (there's that name
again), about a movie based on one of his major creations, and the long and
short of the reply was that he didn't want to prostitute his characters to
Hollywood for big money, having been burned once previously.  He indicated,
though, that he wouldn't mind seeing the character brought to life in the
format of some high-quality animation.  While I think this would work, both in
Moorcock's case AND in that of Doctor Who, the "problem" that I see (and maybe
this is just an American thing) is that animation tends to be equated with
"cartoons," and these days, "cartoon" often means "half-hour commercial for
someone's product."  Frankly, I'm still wincing from the animated Star Trek of
25 years ago.  They DID have one or two good stories -- "Yesteryear," for
example -- but there were what?  About twenty of them?  A handful out of
twenty isn't a great trek (er) record, and I'd have to see the Doctor have the
same fate.  Of course, Star Trek came back, to great success, so we don't sit
around saying "You know, I loved the original show, but when they finished it
off the way they did, it was really depressing, with the low-quality animation.
"  I'd like to see DW come back as it was, but alas, we had our chance and we
seem to have blown it. :(

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