rogerdelgado replied to your post “On the new First Doctor stories: I read that WillIam Russell has said...”
I agree with you. I am not particularly excited by the new Bradley and company audios. Not because Bradley isn't fantastic, because he is, but because I think Bradley's interpretation of the First Doctor is more visual than audible. William Russell and Peter Purves both have fantastic First Doctor impressions and, for my money, Russell had the best Companion Chronicles of the entire run.
Yes exactly, agree with you. It’s been made a big deal on how Bradley looks like Hartnell and how visual his performance is. How will that translate to audio? And we love the other AISAT cast too but they were playing the actors, how will they be at the actual characters themselves? We’ve seen criticisms of William and Peter not sounding like Hartnell but how does Bradley sound like Hartnell? We don’t think the voices have to be replicas but if that’s true then why would we need anyone else doing it when Russell and Peter are so amazing at capturing the essence and spirit of the man they both worked with? (And they love doing it, Peter talks all the time about enjoying it so much) And yes, the companion chronicles for Russ are amazing and the Early Adventures so good. They could always try a First Doctor era spin-off idea. We’d prefer that.
Think what’s upset us most is we’ve seen comments already saying things like ‘wow finally First Doctor audios’ when they’ve been doing them like ten years. There’s already more interest now than we’ve ever seen for any release for the original actors and it makes us feel they’re being ignored. In our minds Hartnell doesn’t need another recasting. It’s getting too much.
