As somebody not very familiar with British accents-- is there a reason Graham sounds like Mike from the Young Ones to me?
Not half as much as General Staal did.
As somebody not very familiar with British accents-- is there a reason Graham sounds like Mike from the Young Ones to me?
I like the new companions, I enjoy the new Tardis, reminds me a bit of ten's organic Tardis. Anyone remember how he gave a piece of "coral" to his duplicate and said it would grow into a new Tardis? Bit odd but whatever.
Dear Lucasfilm,
Can you please send us a digital copy of Peter Cushing.
All the best,
BBC
I thought BBC refuses to acknowledge any of the non-BBC Who stuff.
As somebody not very familiar with British accents-- is there a reason Graham sounds like Mike from the Young Ones to me?
This is not a bad thing, but he sounded familiar until I finally put my finger on it.
The others all have Yorkshire accents, but Graham has an estuary (London) accent which I suspect is Bradley Walsh's natural accent or close to it. I think it's the same accent he used in Law and Order UK.
Yeah it was kind of unbelievable when she said "I love it".It's fascinating that the interior of the TARDIS is the exact opposite of our colorful, happy Doctor; drab, lifeless and lacking in color.
Must be that plus a combination of his inflection/tone that make it close. I don't generally think all Londoners sound like Mike.
I like the production art (below) much better than the final product. Looks amazing. Brighter, shinier, cleaner and with a real classy console. Seems like a much better match to me. Bright amber instead of dim orange. The light coat and rainbow shirt could be at home here.It's fascinating that the interior of the TARDIS is the exact opposite of our colorful, happy Doctor; drab, lifeless and lacking in color.
I like the production art (below) much better than the final product. Looks amazing. Brighter, shinier, cleaner and with a real classy console. Seems like a much better match to me.
The final looks neglected by comparison. Dark and dirty.
Ignoring design differences and just focusing on lighting for visual clarity, I think it's a big step down. Who turned out the lights?
Lot of people (adults and children) I've spoken to (I work at a school) found these episodes quite boring. Hope things pick up dramatically though next week looks like a slow historical.
I do think the background is too busy as well, but the overall impression is still way better.The production art does look better but it's also very busy. Which makes me think they've turned down the lights to avoid everything contrasting against each other.
I also think the major difference is that clearly the production art is in an idealised huge area, whereas the final product is limited by the realities of studio space. So everything has been drawn inwards, making the overarching crystals that much more overbearing.
Comparing those pictures of the other TARDISes, it's very weird to me that you would design a new one where there are elements that are going to actively block long shots of your characters around the console. Even the coral bits in the 9/10 TARDIS go outwards and away from the centre (and are fairly thin anyway).
I'm not convinced the Tardis interior was fully illuminated on Sunday. Not least because the official Twitter has just posted a pic of the console with loads of previously unseen illumination on the floor.
Even ignoring physical design differences and just focusing on lighting for visual clarity, I think it's a big step down. Who turned out the lights?
I was already worried he wouldn't be suitable to be showrunner before, he wrote the worst episodes of Series 5 (The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood) and Matt Smith's worst episode (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship), and certainly no great episodes. Now he's proving himself to be unsuitable IMO.The more I think about it, the more I'm concerned about Chibnall.
13's reminds me of a crab.
They do and they don't. It's a lot like it was with Star Wars prior to the great Disney purge, actually: all the extracurricular stuff is considered canon until the point where it contradicts the main show, basically. Consider the Big Finish/novelized 8th Doctor adventures, for instance: in Night of the Doctor, part of the New Who TV canon, we hear the 8th Doctor name-check a bunch of his most significant companions from those adventures before he regenerates. They are canon.
The BBC also has the current show-runner sign off on things like books and audios - so a good example is around Series 2/3 time, RTD vetoed a book that was going to feature the 10th Doctor alongside Winston Churchill because they considered Churchill the sort of figure the show might want to one day tackle... and three years later, they did just that. Also, as mentioned, the show has adapted some of the best other medium stories for TV - Human Nature, Spare Parts (Rise of the Cybermen), Jubilee (Dalek), etc. Obviously as these stories were adapted they dropped out of the canon, replaced by their TV counterparts, because the TV show is the 'top line' of the show.
Pretty much his natural accent!The others all have Yorkshire accents, but Graham has an estuary (London) accent which I suspect is Bradley Walsh's natural accent or close to it. I think it's the same accent he used in Law and Order UK.
I was already worried he wouldn't be suitable to be showrunner before, he wrote the worst episodes of Series 5 (The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood) and Matt Smith's worst episode (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship), and certainly no great episodes.
That's good you can enjoy them. And obviously that's just my opinion but I think it's also a pretty common one that those were some of the weakest episodes of Series 5.If you say so. I love those episodes, and the Silurian two-parter is one of my favourites from the revival. Neve Mcintosh went on to play a much-loved recurring character, Madam Vastra, using the same or similar facial prosthetics.
Then again, this isn't the first time I've seen Doctor Who fans conflating "episode I didn't enjoy" with "inadequacy of the writer."
I'm glad you brought this up. This bothers me a touch, too. I can go with a character doing this when it's very specific (like Batman and guns), but killing is killing. (This is the smallest of quibbles, but in Zygon Inversion, 12 specifically mentioned burning as one of the horrors of war. I love that speech though, so it's always in the back of my mind.)Typical Who nonsense...
Hey, killing is bad! How dare you kill.
5 seconds later
Burns creatures to ash.
If they are trying to avoid having too much in the way of backstory to explain, they could surprise us with The Rani. Another Time Lord with a TARDIS could be interesting, all things considered. So I like her and the Monk.Never mind the Valeyard; surely we're due a comeback for the Meddling Monk?
I was thinking her parent.So, bets on the Timeless Child being a Timelord ? Maybe the Master?
Edit: could be Susan, lol.
I was wondering about one of Susan's parents, too, but the "...and forgotten" part is throwing me. It also makes me wonder if it will just be someone new.I was thinking her parent.
That or Jenny. But probably not Jenny
The more I think about it, the more I'm concerned about Chibnall. Moffat had his weaknesses, but he was without doubt one of the best writers the show ever had. His dialogue was sharp, witty, at times full of pathos and it literally guided the actor in how to attack it.
By contrast, Chibnall's dialogue is laboured, slow and ponderous. He didn't have a brilliant track record coming in, but he literally took two episodes to do what Moffat did in one with Smith.
Lot of people (adults and children) I've spoken to (I work at a school) found these episodes quite boring. Hope things pick up dramatically though next week looks like a slow historical.
Personally for me that's what made the show good. Without it it's just a bit empty to meBit disappointed to see so many negative reactions. The tone and pacing was refreshing to me in this episode and kind of reminded me of a solid Big Finish audio. I think I had my fill of hypermanic goofiness in the RTD and Moffat eras and welcome the shift away from timey wimey comedy.
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Most of this isn't actually correct. The BBC doesn't maintain any actual canon for Doctor Who. It's nothing like the old Star Wars days where there were specific levels of canon with proclamations about what didn't count, or like Marvel or DC stuff where people will officially declare things "non-canon". As far as the BBC is concerned, there's stuff that's officially licensed, and stuff that isn't. RTD even mentioned how there's no real concern for a Doctor Who canon in the past.
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship was just atrocious and it's weird because it's on totally the other side of the Who spectrum from the new more (overly IMO) grounded episodes.
Because people want it to be hard sci-fi and no funI keep running into astonishing opinions like this here. It's dinosaurs. On a spaceship! And it has Rory's dad and everything. And David Bradley as an evil entrepreneur, and really silly robots. And a huge beach that's an engine room. I can't even think of any part of that episode that isn't perfect.
Then again there are even people who think Robot of Sherwood is bad, and that one has evil Ben Miller and a spoon fight and mediaeval killer robots and Clara being brilliant, and Capaldi's eyebrows. And a tower that's really a spaceship! And Robin Hood! I laughed so much I nearly died from lack of breath.
Are comic stories somehow regarded as not really Doctor Who material, or something?
Like most of that series the pacing of that episode is a mess. It felt like it was written to be twice as long and they had to cut a massive chunk of it out for time. I have no idea what Moffat was trying to do with that series.I keep running into astonishing opinions like this here. It's dinosaurs. On a spaceship! And it has Rory's dad and everything. And David Bradley as an evil entrepreneur, and really silly robots. And a huge beach that's an engine room. I can't even think of any part of that episode that isn't perfect.
I keep running into astonishing opinions like this here. It's dinosaurs. On a spaceship! And it has Rory's dad and everything. And David Bradley as an evil entrepreneur, and really silly robots. And a huge beach that's an engine room. I can't even think of any part of that episode that isn't perfect.
Then again there are even people who think Robot of Sherwood is bad, and that one has evil Ben Miller and a spoon fight and mediaeval killer robots and Clara being brilliant, and Capaldi's eyebrows. And a tower that's really a spaceship! And Robin Hood! I laughed so much I nearly died from lack of breath.
Are comic stories somehow regarded as not really Doctor Who material, or something?
Was Dinosaurs on a Spaceship the one where the Doctor murdered the bad guy at the end in an unreasonably brutal way?
I don't even remember what the exact situation was, I just think that was the episode where at the end everyone went "Wait what, did that just happen??"