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That Ace Creeper name looked a bit like Age Creeper in the new Doctor Who font. Freaked me out for a second.
I don't like the look of that sonic screwdriver.
It is the sonic screwdiver that would hurt the less if used for .... screwing if you know what I mean xD
I am thinking the leak may be fake though since it is just a mock-up. I dunno but there is a store page with no image - http://www.zappies.com/product/13th-doctors-sonic-screwdriver
It looks like a sonic dildo. Which is the last fucking thing this doctor needs with all the shit she's already gotten and is going to get in the future just for being a woman. The production doesn't need to be contributing to that shit. I really hope this is fake, just some guy taking the piss.
I sure hope so.
Lady Christina de Souza is getting her own Big Finish series that charts her adventures after she zooms off on her flying bus at the end of Planet of the Dead.
The Curse of Peladon
Not terrible, but extremely boring. It's only four episodes long but took me at least a week to muster the interest to get through them all. The opening is really good, with the Doctor and Jo scaling a stormy mountainside to seek refuge while that TARDIS crashes below. And I like the idea of a more politically-driven, conspiracy thriller (of sorts) story. But it's all pretty dull and muddled, and hard to take seriously in the first place given -- even by Who standards -- how cheap and shoddy looking the costumes are. It's not even just the aliens, though Alpha Centauri is surely the worst-looking and worst-sounding alien design yet; David Troughton's King Peladon just looks ridiculous in whatever BBC period drama leftover he was wearing. I'm also generally not a fan of the medieval sci-fi aesthetic that this story uses; most of the time it just feels cheap to me.
On the plus side, Jo (for the most part) feels like a more proactive and competent companion here, and not just playing the ditzy damsel in distress. Pertwee has a great brawl with the king's champion, that ends up getting surprisingly physical. And while he looks like he's wearing a bucket over his head, the Ice Warrior delegate was pretty cool.
Not terrible, but extremely boring. It's only four episodes long but took me at least a week to muster the interest to get through them all. The opening is really good, with the Doctor and Jo scaling a stormy mountainside to seek refuge while that TARDIS crashes below. And I like the idea of a more politically-driven, conspiracy thriller (of sorts) story. But it's all pretty dull and muddled, and hard to take seriously in the first place given -- even by Who standards -- how cheap and shoddy looking the costumes are. It's not even just the aliens, though Alpha Centauri is surely the worst-looking and worst-sounding alien design yet; David Troughton's King Peladon just looks ridiculous in whatever BBC period drama leftover he was wearing. I'm also generally not a fan of the medieval sci-fi aesthetic that this story uses; most of the time it just feels cheap to me.
On the plus side, Jo (for the most part) feels like a more proactive and competent companion here, and not just playing the ditzy damsel in distress. Pertwee has a great brawl with the king's champion, that ends up getting surprisingly physical. And while he looks like he's wearing a bucket over his head, the Ice Warrior delegate was pretty cool.
The sound of them really scraping the bottom of the barrel here cos they can presumably only get Tennant in once or twice a year
To be fair, I think people expect Big Finish to try and dig into weird niche stuff and there were a few dangling bits in the RTD era where it was like "Maybe this character will show up again" and they never did. I suspect some of these boxsets are backdoor pilots - I'm not sure we'll see Lady Christina de Souza get another outing but if it's unexpectedly popular you might be scratching your head at the announcement of Lady Christina de Souza volumes 4 to 8 in a couple of years.
The one they should probably do is the kids from SJA grown up, carrying on her legacy. Make it a YA thing. Fighting aliens while at university, or while penniless working graduate jobs, etc.
They asked and RTD said no, although that might have been a couple of years ago, a bit closer to her death.
I imagine it's going to take it being mentioned in the show first.. (and honestly, I wouldn't put an appearance from Luke out of the question under Chibs) as I presume a bit like with the Brig they will act like she's still alive until they want to make a point of her passing in-universe.
I always wondered if Clara was a tribute to Liz - she cropped up the series after Liz died, and Clara is her middle name. Moffat's never said either way.
I always wondered if Clara was a tribute to Liz - she cropped up the series after Liz died, and Clara is her middle name. Moffat's never said either way.
It does strike me that an awful lot of BF's Who spinoffs are female-led; you've got the long-standing characters in the form of Wildthyme and Benny Summerfield, and more recently there's been the River Song diaries, the new-UNIT stories and now this. I've a nagging feeling there's a couple of others that I've missed.
While I initially had a "who asked for that?" reaction, on thinking further... yes, a sci-fi catburglar? I think I'd take that. Hope she gets the stories that can do that idea justice.
Nothing crazy that I have seen. Here is a RT article -
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2...whittaker-has-just-revealed-about-doctor-who/
OP
OP
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Eccletson was absolutely wonderful as the Doctor (and was consistently so despite fluctuations in quality between episodes). It's horrible that he's the one person who didn't get to enjoy the role and that it was such a stressful experience for him.
Eccletson was absolutely wonderful as the Doctor (and was consistently so despite fluctuations in quality between episodes). It's horrible that he's the one person who didn't get to enjoy the role and that it was such a stressful experience for him.
Are we sure they're human, no human adults would purposely mismatch their socks that badly. ;)
I wonder whether the odd socks are plot-related. Persons 1 and 2 seem to be wearing a pair between them on their right legs, while another pair is divvied out across the left feet of persons 1 and 4. All the other socks seem to be missing their twins.
Now you're making me feel bad for insulting their fashion choices.
I bet they traded socks but Jodie was already wearing mismatch socks so she didn't have to trade :*)
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2...on-of-the-doctor-who-50th-anniversary-script/
Oh what could have been.
Oh what could have been.
The music is meh. I do like the visuals, though. Except for the CGI head.
There hasn't been many good fan title sequences this time. Pre-S8 was a great time for them, lots of cool attempts.
I guess everyone who would've done one is now employed by one of the vfx vendors xD
I like the geometric shapes but that CGI head is wigging me out.
Not to just get into a fan intro spam post but I really dig this one:
Bit long, but I like the concept of worlds spilling in to each other.
This one's not bad either:
I could see them going for something a bit more 'prestige drama' with their 3 minute long intros featuring silhouettes and black and white photos and crap.
Not to just get into a fan intro spam post but I really dig this one:
Bit long, but I like the concept of worlds spilling in to each other.
This one's not bad either:
I could see them going for something a bit more 'prestige drama' with their 3 minute long intros featuring silhouettes and black and white photos and crap.
I just accidentally caught a rerun of Last of the Time Lords on TV, and boy, you really can tell RTD was rushed/ill when he wrote that. What a mess that last ten minutes is. Strong emotional core, like, but an absolute pig otherwise. I think the most baffling thing of all is how once the finale begins they teleport the Doctor and the Master to a cliff-edge for no reason other than for the imagery of them standing on a cliff, except it was clearly pissing it down based on the way David's hair looks and how much they've had to wash out the scene in order to make it play... and then there's like six lines of dialogue there and then teleport back?? It's so mad.
I do miss this era of the show, though. It's easy to forget how crap and TV it looked compared to Series 6 onwards (I adore its obsession with small-scale crowd reaction shots to the alien threat), but that's really part of its charm.
I do miss this era of the show, though. It's easy to forget how crap and TV it looked compared to Series 6 onwards (I adore its obsession with small-scale crowd reaction shots to the alien threat), but that's really part of its charm.
Aha, someone else watching Watch HD as well.
They tend to do three episodes every sunday. Its been a nice way to re-watch these episodes without having to stick a DVD in.
I suspect it is deliberately like late 90s Sundays watching classic Who on UK Gold in the mornings. Kudos to whoever scheduled that.
Aha, I remember that as well. Love catching old re-runs, always nice to see how far its come and changed.
Rewatching early Season 10 stuff while sick in bed, and it's really weird how cagey Twelve is about Time Lord stuff with Bill. I can see why people held candles for the "Bill is related to Susan somehow" theory for such a long time.
It's a cameo, according to Lee Mack himself. He just badgered them for a small role until they gave in. Apparently he has his own TARDIS and his own Dalek.
"I am blink-and-you'll-miss-it. It's just a little thing. I've just been a fan all my life, so I just harassed them until they gave me a little part in it."
"I am blink-and-you'll-miss-it. It's just a little thing. I've just been a fan all my life, so I just harassed them until they gave me a little part in it."
Glad to see the Frank Skinner method of begging for a role works xD
Skinner (not somebody I rate at all, normally) was a revelation in Mummy. That was one of the most effective guest appearances I've ever seen on Doctor Who.
Ah, fair enough. The Radio Times was a little evasive on the subject. Bang go my hopes of him being The Rani.
In rather more rumoury news, I'm hearing muttering that there was a recent event where Michelle Gomez let slip that she'd be doing Big Finish audios, one with River Song. Treat it as a rumour for now, but some people do seem rather emphatic about it.
That's an interesting rumour. Their license only extends to the events of Time of the Doctor and I think they had to get special permission to use the Paternoster Gang in existing sets because they were still being used in the Twelfth Doctor era. The latest Churchill boxset quite heavily hints that a Madam Vastra boxset is in the pipeline for the future. I wonder if they're changing the license or if they'll allow them to use Twelfth Doctor stuff on an ad-hoc basis for now.
Been feeling sort of burned out on Pertwee lately, not so much because of him but because of the quality of the stories around him. But these last two were a really nice rebound.
Carnival of Monsters
Just a clever and funny script, with probably the best, sharpest rapport between the Doctor and Jo I've seen yet. The time loops on the ship, the different scales to the story, and the Doctor and Jo journeying inside the machine all make this a much more interesting batch of episodes than the last several have been.
The Green Death
The Pertwee/Jo years have felt like an overall decline to me compared to that first season with Liz, but this one felt the closest -- in terms of aesthetic and tone -- to episodes like Inferno, Doctor Who and the Silurians, and even Troughton stuff like The Invasion. In other words, a little grimmer and more science-driven than a lot of the sillier fare Pertwee's Doctor has done since. There's lots of dodgy chroma keying here, and those maggots were pretty gross, but overall it's one of the better Pertwee serials.
The Green Death is particularly noteworthy for being Jo's final story. While I was never really a big fan of her character, and felt she was a big step backward from Liz, I found her exit pretty touching and well-written all the same. Ok, maybe the impromptu marriage was pretty contrived, but the running background subplot of the Doctor's jealousy over Jo growing away from him -- and then his final goodbye scene with her -- was nicely done.
Carnival of Monsters
Just a clever and funny script, with probably the best, sharpest rapport between the Doctor and Jo I've seen yet. The time loops on the ship, the different scales to the story, and the Doctor and Jo journeying inside the machine all make this a much more interesting batch of episodes than the last several have been.
The Green Death
The Pertwee/Jo years have felt like an overall decline to me compared to that first season with Liz, but this one felt the closest -- in terms of aesthetic and tone -- to episodes like Inferno, Doctor Who and the Silurians, and even Troughton stuff like The Invasion. In other words, a little grimmer and more science-driven than a lot of the sillier fare Pertwee's Doctor has done since. There's lots of dodgy chroma keying here, and those maggots were pretty gross, but overall it's one of the better Pertwee serials.
The Green Death is particularly noteworthy for being Jo's final story. While I was never really a big fan of her character, and felt she was a big step backward from Liz, I found her exit pretty touching and well-written all the same. Ok, maybe the impromptu marriage was pretty contrived, but the running background subplot of the Doctor's jealousy over Jo growing away from him -- and then his final goodbye scene with her -- was nicely done.
I mean technically the Doctor's last interactions with them was them inadvertently killing his best friend and sending him to 'hell' , and him stealing a TARDIS and running away. He'd probably rather not talk about them for a whole set of different reasons.
It will be interesting to see what approach Chibnall takes to them. Essentially Moffat reset things to the Classic era where they exist but the Doctor wants nothing to do with them. I get the sense we won't see them for a long time though, the Master included.
The thing is, he's even avoiding explaining his own biology when she asks him about it directly. He drops a regeneration reference several times throughout the season, and every time she asks about it he gets nervous and sidesteps the question. He mentions the two-heart thing and when she asks, he changes the subject immediately. He makes it clear he wants to tell her about the Time Lords, but "in time". It's like he's trying to ease her into the idea.
It's just odd. It feels like Moffat wanted to feed people's speculation engines.
But yeah, I'm with you re: Chibs. It's likely going to be a while before we see the Master again.
Was emailed about the release of the Season 9 soundtrack just now.
RELEASE DATE 27TH APRIL 2018
CD/DD
LIMITED EDITION CD INCLUDES ADDITIONAL BOOKLET WITH STUART MANNING POSTER IMAGES AND SLIPCASE.
This edition will be generally available but is limited in number. The Standard Edition is the same as the Limited Edition but does not include the slipcase or additional booklet. Once the Limited Edition runs out, only the Standard Edition will be available.
Contents:
- x4 CDs (Discs 1 & 2: Series 9 / Disc 3: Heaven Sent - episode score / Disc 4: The Husbands of River Song - Christmas special)
- 20 page booklet
- additional 16 page bonus booklet with Stuart Manning's artwork
- Slipcase
Edit: The pre-order price on the Silva Screen website is £14.99, which seems pretty reasonable for a 4-disc set to me tbh.
RELEASE DATE 27TH APRIL 2018
CD/DD
LIMITED EDITION CD INCLUDES ADDITIONAL BOOKLET WITH STUART MANNING POSTER IMAGES AND SLIPCASE.
This edition will be generally available but is limited in number. The Standard Edition is the same as the Limited Edition but does not include the slipcase or additional booklet. Once the Limited Edition runs out, only the Standard Edition will be available.
Contents:
- x4 CDs (Discs 1 & 2: Series 9 / Disc 3: Heaven Sent - episode score / Disc 4: The Husbands of River Song - Christmas special)
- 20 page booklet
- additional 16 page bonus booklet with Stuart Manning's artwork
- Slipcase
Edit: The pre-order price on the Silva Screen website is £14.99, which seems pretty reasonable for a 4-disc set to me tbh.