Reinvention is the wrong approach. The key appeal and brilliance of Doctor Who is that it has an infinitely extensible premise. Anything you want to do with Doctor Who you can *already do*.
https://twitter.com/stealexanderuk/status/1308116781903552512
Like, cast a Doctor, cast a companion, make up a location, make up a problem for that location, and put the TARDIS there.
If you cannot come up with half a dozen genuinely new ideas for how to do that you’re probably not cut out for writing genre fiction in the first place tbh.
If you cannot come up with half a dozen genuinely new ideas for how to do that you’re probably not cut out for writing genre fiction in the first place tbh.
It is literally the most extensible and flexible concept in the history of pulp storytelling. Reinventing it is like reinventing a margarita. You have a lot of room to play, but at the end of the day, the point is how wide a space tequila + sweetness + acidity can define.
If you want to make something that is not tequila + sweetness + acidity then MAKE A DIFFERENT FUCKING DRINK.
A feral member of the gentry and a person frustrated with the confines of their existence travel freely in time and space. They arrive somewhere with a problem and try to fix it.
If that gets stale, the problem is not with the setup.
If that gets stale, the problem is not with the setup.
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