American Doctor Who: The Whys, Hows, and Whens.

Okay, after really no demand I still felt like I should be doing this post. I feel like I need to explain my reasonings behind doing something that my favorite fan base considers a disaster waiting to happen/something sacrilege/off-with his head style! American Doctor Who. I felt like as someone who is about to embark on this, I should clear the whys, hows of why I think this can work out and be good, despite popular opinion (including sometimes even my own.).

Back in 2008, when I moved to Maryland, I had no clue what Doctor Who even was. I may have heard of it in passing somehow, but I had no clue what it's basic premise was, who was starring in it, where it had been before. As British as my TV got before then was Monty Python and James Bond. So I move up to Maryland from Alabama, I become even greater friends with possibly the best friend a guy could have, and one day he pulls this DVD out. Immediately I look at this DVD, this very odd looking DVD and think ''What the hell are we about to watch?" I'm staring at this DVD, blue, with police public call box on the top and a young blonde girl with a man a little bit older than her standing together.

I'm already thinking "What is this?", but the DVD goes in because he says ''I'll love it." and ''It's like the British Buffy." (I should have learned to listen to Ryan by this point instead of defying him when he recommended stuff to me. Tis how I feel in love with Heroes Season 1, Ugly Betty, Veronica Mars and more). The episode begins and instantly I'm transformed into this weird world, there's a young blonde girl named Rose who works in a shop. Human enough I suppose. Then the shop mannequins come to life and I turn to Ryan and I give him this look that just probably said ''The hell is this shit?"

But by episodes end, do you know what? I cared. I wanted to continue, I wanted to find out where Rose would go, how she and The Doctor would behave together. And by the end of series 1, I was hooked, we bought the series 2 DVD right away and I cried with joy and laughter throughout it, then with tears as Rose is stranded on Bad Wolf Bay, never (until Series 4 anyways) to see the Doctor again.

My love affair with the show continued onwards with RTD's version and seeing The Doctor travel with Martha, Donna and all his glorious one off companions (Astrid, Adelaide, Lady Christina, Wilfred Mott, Oh, that fantastic Wilfred Mott.) and battle all his fantastic enemies ! (The Daleks, The Master, The Cybermen, Ood, Slitheen, Silurians, Sontarans, oh, the list!)

I even went back into the long rich history of the show (47 years of it, this year!) and enjoyed as much of it as I can. I grew to just adore this show. It's concept is really one of the most brilliant things in the world. It can continue onwards forever. An alien man who changes his face and his best friends (and lovers) travel through space and time together? Come on! It's fantastic! Infinite possibilities!

But enough of my admiration for such a great great TV Series. You are probably thinking after reading all of the spewing adoration. "Why not just continue from where the British version left off?" And my answer is: That's not my goal nor what I want. There's so much in that version, so much stamped all over that is the goal of Steven Moffat to continue with series 5/1/31. I looked forward so much to seeing the first series of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor.

My goal is to prove that the show is not simply great because it's British. The show's greatness hinges from the fact that it's gotten some of the best characters on it, such rich deep, vibrant characters. The humor, the love, the passion, the hate, the fear, all those characters feel. Those are not inherently British (The only thing that's inherently British on the show is the Tardis's out appearance.) They are traits of characters from every nation, every race and when we laugh at the Doctor do we laugh and say ''Oh he's so British?" (Which sounds silly to say, since British isn't a character. It's a nationality.)

I don't think many of us do and if we do were laughing at him for the wrong reason (Not to mention he's not even British anyways. He's an alien from the planet Gallifrey who just happens to be around an awful lot of British people. ) His humor and his charm comes from his quirkyness, his zany mental ability to be such an utter genius, but such a utter dope the next. I mean only The Doctor would defeat the Daleks one episode with his brains, then the next fight a villainous fire creature off with a water pistol!

Let's go back to series 1 of RTD's era on Doctor Who. Such a great start and rebirth for a show, one that has propelled it into the height of popularity. Take away the fact that Billie Piper and Christopher Eccelston are British actors. Say Rose works instead of Henrik's in London, but say Macy's in Los Angeles. The Autons attack her at Macy's. The Doctor, a charming intelligent zany alien man whisks in to save her. And Jackie Tyler, he flirty slightly dimwitted tart of a mother and her mechanic boyfriend, Mickey are left behind in the dust, everything is still brilliant about that. Changing the locale does not destroy the show's greatness.

Changing the character, changing the fact that you have two brilliant characters traveling together and saving the day, that's the heart of the show. That's what makes it SOOO great. If Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, and Donna Noble were all American girls. It'd still work, because inherently we follow their travels in the Tardis, because they intelligent strong-minded women being shown by an alien man, that anyone can change the world. That is the brilliance and essence of this series. That is why it has survived so long.

And that's why I'm setting out to prove that when Rachael Burrows is whisked away from her life in Los Angeles, California and thrust into the world of time travel and space with The Doctor, a zany brilliant intelligent man from Gallifrey who changes his face, that it can be done. Good stories with the Doctor can be localized to any nationality, if anything the Doctor should be international ,which is something I've REALLY thought about doing with my version.

If you get and this is going away from my fan fiction for a second, a brilliant show-runner (Joss Whedon or even Russell T. Davies himself) who is a fan of this wonderful British television series who respects it and wants to localize it here it can be done. If that show-runner then goes out and casts a great dynamic duo as The Doctor and companion, it can be done. If someone in Japan wanted to make a Japanese Doctor Who, localized for that nation. It'd work. It just takes passion and love for what you are doing.

That covers the whys and the hows, just about, but the when is still in question. When will I get this out? When will this see the light of day on a website? Who knows? Hopefully soon, because when Rachael meets The Doctor and she enters that Tardis, it will hopefully show all what the true heart and brilliance of Doctor Who is all about.