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06-25-2013, 04:12 AM
http://whatculture.com/tv/doctor-who-10-worst-casting-decisions-ever-made.php
Since Doctor Who began, if you forgave its occasional production shortfalls, it paid you off generously with AMAZING performers and casting. And in the Classic Series, casting often was everything. The New Series mostly continues the impeccable standard. I stand with a majority of fans and say they’ve NEVER blown casting the role of the Doctor, and more often than not the companions have been perfectly rendered too. Many, MANY iconic villains are what they are not because of ring modulators or Dalek casings – They were effortlessly portrayed through perfect casting, sometimes by names that were justly famous already (Martin Jarvis, Kylie Minogue, Brian Blessed, Julian Glover, and Sir Ian McKellan for example) or who rose to fame shortly thereafter (We can count Andrew Garfield, Martin Clunes, and Carey Mulligan amongst those who broke out on “Who”).
Sometimes, though….they get it SO wrong. New and Classic Who sometimes just skimp on the casting budget, or seemingly think it’ll come together after editing and Murray Gold have their way with it…..but no. Some performances are just SO painful, and it’s not even the writing or story OR costume. It’s just an actor who’s literally screaming for you to end the game of “Which One Doesn’t Belong” that you shouldn’t even be playing.
So here, as we set off to another series with such names as Dame Diana Rigg and Warwick Davis in the cast lists, are ten names that we shouldn’t ever have seen in the credits following that familiar end-of-episode sting.
Read more at http://whatculture.com/tv/doctor-who-10-worst-casting-decisions-ever-made.php#DzwFwB2O1swqMA3K.99
Since Doctor Who began, if you forgave its occasional production shortfalls, it paid you off generously with AMAZING performers and casting. And in the Classic Series, casting often was everything. The New Series mostly continues the impeccable standard. I stand with a majority of fans and say they’ve NEVER blown casting the role of the Doctor, and more often than not the companions have been perfectly rendered too. Many, MANY iconic villains are what they are not because of ring modulators or Dalek casings – They were effortlessly portrayed through perfect casting, sometimes by names that were justly famous already (Martin Jarvis, Kylie Minogue, Brian Blessed, Julian Glover, and Sir Ian McKellan for example) or who rose to fame shortly thereafter (We can count Andrew Garfield, Martin Clunes, and Carey Mulligan amongst those who broke out on “Who”).
Sometimes, though….they get it SO wrong. New and Classic Who sometimes just skimp on the casting budget, or seemingly think it’ll come together after editing and Murray Gold have their way with it…..but no. Some performances are just SO painful, and it’s not even the writing or story OR costume. It’s just an actor who’s literally screaming for you to end the game of “Which One Doesn’t Belong” that you shouldn’t even be playing.
So here, as we set off to another series with such names as Dame Diana Rigg and Warwick Davis in the cast lists, are ten names that we shouldn’t ever have seen in the credits following that familiar end-of-episode sting.
Read more at http://whatculture.com/tv/doctor-who-10-worst-casting-decisions-ever-made.php#DzwFwB2O1swqMA3K.99