Paint it, fill it with love

The other day I saw this tweet and immediatly thought in him.
As i said in the other entry, I started to reconnect with my whovian side recently, I started watching the tv show in 2009 and although I wasn't a big sci fi fan at first I quickly became bond to the characters, actors and the stories in it.

But the funny thing is, I never knew, well I did knew but wasn't that interested, in the audio dramas but one day I saw a pic of David Tennant (the 10th Doctor) with Paul (the 8th) in a convention and then I remembered Paul and his stunning mini-episode in Youtube, the movie and my first attempt of listening the audios three years ago.

After watching the melancholics Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and now Thirthieth Doctors (I've only saw the New Who era, sorry) Experiencing the always joyful Eighth Doctor before the Time War is such a delight and Paul is just so splendid at it I consider a crime to only have him in audios and not in the actual tv show (he just have a couple of TV moments, a 1996 TV movie and a minisode in 2013)

But let's start from the beginning.

The TV movie was actually the pilot of a new series and it was going to be set in America, the man even planned to move there with his wife and kids but the movie was a total failure and the series was cancelled after it.

Good thing, because the movie plot was so bad, and the wig was so horrible (fun fact: he had to cut his hair for another role and when he came to the Doctor Who set the producers were so horrified they had to put that wig everyone including mcgann hates) The movie was bad but it was his acting which in a way saved it and his Doctor (and his voice, god, that deep, calm voice) will always remains in our hearts.

After that we didn't saw any Doctor Who in the TV until 2005 with Chris Eccleston in the main role with news of a Time War between Time Lords and Daleks and that was what apparently ended with the life of the Eighth (we never saw the Time War itself, thet just mention it)

We never knew what happened with him after the movie but that was't entrely true because Paul returned to the role in 2001 (even before the new series started) in the form of audio stories which became the home of the Eighth Doctor. He continued having adventures, even today he still have audio dramas and if he was good in the movie, the audios helped to establish him more as the character. People describe him as a "romantic" and yes, he is a romantic but also adventurous, reckless, naive but also can be very dark and the more we reach the Time War era, the more we see how he deteriorates and becomes more obscure and angry as he just keep losing his friends to the War.

Years later (2013 to be precise) in the 50th anniversary of the show a minisode was released in the yt channel. I was at uni, sitting in a bench, put my earphones on and a girl was looking for help (in the video) until someone (also in the video) said "I'm a Doctor" we couldn't see his face at first but then he said "but probably not the one you were expecting" and I swear I almost drop my phone, it was Paul Mcgann the Eighth Doctor 17 years after the movie and still looking good. At that time the show was in the 11th Doctor (the youngest of them all, Matt Smith) and Paul being the 8th the writers totally nailed the line "but probably not the one you were expecting" lmao I still love that line so much. The minisode is about how Eighth lost his "life" and regenerated into another Doctor, the War one.

Anyway, the thing is. Years later after that mini episode, I found out some of the audio dramas were on Spotify and started listening to them. There are plenty of audio adventures, even the classic and new era Doctors but as they already had their moment on the TV I decided to give only the Eighth Doctor a chance because I knew knothing about him and what a joy that decision was because not only he has the best voice of them all, the stories are darker than the TV show, probably because they're directed to a more mature audience.

Regarding the TV Show vs Audio Dramas, I think that if some day they give him at least one season on the TV (because he's still look good at 62, perks of being a vegetarian) the stories wouldn't be as good as the ones we listen in the audio dramas.But who knows, personally, I would like to see him one more time on the TV, in interviews he looks so full of good vibes and interested in the fandom and so nice with fans is so difficult not to fall for him. His Doctor easily became a favorte of mine, a carefree alien, book and tea lover, wandering around the universe running away from his own kind, the pompous Time Lords, looking for adventures with his favorte species: the humans.

About the actor, I only have seen a few titles of his filmpgraphy apart from Doctor Who, but if I were to reccomend one film, that would be a classic one named Withnail and I.

Mandatory pic to end this entry

Hugs for everyone (even the Daleks):

THIS MASTERPIECE

I wanted to talk about this album so bad!! Domoto Tsuyoshi (re)surrected project “ENDLICHERI✰ENDLICHERI” now under the name of “ENDRECHERI”. It actually has a meaning though, something like:

END: referring to the previous project that ENDed.
RE: (RE)BORN. The (RE)turn of it.
CHERI: People used to call him by that.

Hybrid Funk it’s the first album under the name of ENDRECHERI and since the very first track we are submerged in a world of ancient fishes, space ships and funky grooves. The rearranged version of an old instrumental track ENDLICHERI✰ENDLICHERI (now named END RE CHERI) with its different variations of rythms and styles, makes it the perfect introduction and also, serves as a summary of the journey.

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