FANFICCER'S FRIEND - THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE CURATOR

 

Fairly recent pictures of Tom Baker living his good life can also work as pictures of the Curator in everyday situations.

And every so often one comes along which can be given a fantastical twist to make it a possibility for your head-canon, including crossovers and reunions with old friends.

Take this picture of Baker with a clowder of kittens. 

Who’s to say that Thomas Kincaide Brannigan isn’t among them as a toddler, somehow plucked out of his proper time-stream?  Sure, several of the Doctor’s past incarnations didn’t like cats, but with each regeneration, they get new personality quirks which differ from their past lives.  And we did see that the Eleventh Incarnation established a rapport with a cat in “The Lodger”….

Or based on this double page magazine photo of several actors who played the Time Lord – from left to right, Colin Baker, Paul McGann, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, and Sylvester McCoy….  What if the Curator summoned a few past incarnations to help on an investigation into the Dark Archives? 

The special short “Time Crash” had some splainin to do as to how those past Doctors would look different because of their close proximity to each other.  So none of the others might question how different the Sixth Incarnation looked from when he was alive.  But what if he wasn’t the Sixth Incarnation?

I’ve always wanted to see Colin Baker return to the series, but since Time had marched on, why not bring him back at a character he played in an earlier adventure?

Commander Maxil.  Colin Baker could have had a steady gig in a recurring capacity as a nemesis to the Curator.  But with the assistance of some of his past selves, the Curator could have foiled whatever Maxil had in mind for the contents of the Under Gallery.

Just an idea….