See Doctor Who As A Saturday Morning Cartoon
What if, instead of simply replacing the good Doctor with another actor or actress, Doctor Who decided it was time for something a little more drastic and relaunched the show as a Saturday morning cartoon? Maybe it could also be a spinoff, but we like the idea of completely taking the show and animating it. Regardless of how you envision it, a Doctor Who cartoon might look like this video below.
Check out Doctor Who reimagined in the Saturday cartoon style. This just seems to work.
The translation makes a certain amount of sense. Over the course of its decades and decades (and decades) existence, Doctor Who has widely been regarded as children’s programming (when has that ever stopped us from obsessing about a show, movie, or book?), and you know what kids seem to like? Cartoons, that’s what.
To be honest, I’m a little surprised this hasn’t happened for real at some point. It seems like someone would have tried to get this off the ground over the years, and Doctor Who seems tailor-made for animation. We’ve already got comic books, and Smith’s version was more than a little toon-y to begin with.
Either way, this short piece of Doctor Who animation from artist Stephen Byrne is a great deal of fun. Even without knowing about the Time Lord and his adventures, I would watch this show. A robot dog and a guy is zipping around in a flying phone booth. What’s not to like about that?
And there are tons of other fun little nods for already extant fans as well. There’s a Dalek, Cybermen, and a Weeping Angel, not to mention that opening clip that scrolls by a portrait of every one of the previous Doctors.
Being a modern Doctor Who version (in 2014), this stars Peter Capaldi’s incarnation of the venerable character, accompanied by his most recent companion, Jenna Coleman’s Clara.
The actual human versions of these Doctor Who characters would be back for continuing adventures later that summer, when season 8 started. This will be our first real, proper introduction to Time Lord number 12, who initially popped up during the holiday special at the end of last year.
Much had been made of the fact that Capaldi’s Doctor would be a much darker incarnation, but just about everything you can imagine is darker than this Doctor Who animation.
All you have to do is listen to that jaunty Doctor Who theme music and watch the characters bounce their way across the screen, having a grand old time of it, and you know there’s not too much darkness to be had here. Maybe for his follow up, Byrne can put the Doctor and Clara through a grim, bleak journey into the very heart of darkness. That sounds like a blast.
