Guitar Hero: Nu-Who Season 9

How many other companions (other than Doctor-Donna) have been shown to really know how to operate a TARDIS?

Susan
Zoe
Romana
Adric, I think? or maybe he THOUGHT he could and screwed everything up
Nyssa
Turlough, I think?
River

I just really, really hope they take on board the feedback from the Heaven Sent one where he's trapped in the castle and realise you can do a lot with a little, don't have to cram everything in, just choose carefully what you do put in

I guess they've got pressure on them when they're making the episodes (who's they? I have no idea about the backstage stuff) and people saying 'It's a kid tv show so you've got to imagine what an idiot would find exciting and do that'

Or like I dunno, just do one or two episodes per series that are 'special' episodes like Heaven Sent where the usual demands are relaxed and they're allowed to make something good?

I was trying to come up with the fanwankyiest suggestion possible that I would still enjoy and ended up with a several part story where someone is wreaking havoc on the Doctor's timeline and he has to go to the aftermath of some of his most classic stories and make them happen correctly ; hell, they could focus it to "someone is trying to steal the Key to Time" and do what-happened-next riffs on The Ribos Operation and The Pirate Planet as a two-parter and I'd be happy

Some "why do people make things that suck?"' realness there.

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aw

I can never remember if realness is meant to be good or bad

if anyone who has this thread bookmarked doesn't know, soref is running a Classic Who ballot poll over here: Doctor Who original series (1963-89) ballot poll voting thread

Has anyone read the prequel novel to 'Day of the Doctor'? Looks like a page turner!

fair warning: if you're watching the Christmas special on some platform that has the option for closed captions, turn them on. this is by far the worst Murray-Gold-mixed-higher-than-dialogue episode ever, with entire scenes drowned out completely.

(apart from that, second or third best Xmas spesh so far, and Capaldi is having an absolute ball.)

I wasn't, tbh

fantastic episode, with several nods to Douglas Adams and genuinely touching ending. Capaldi and Kingston work great together, so much chemistry.

Really a bit of a waste casting Greg Davies as a 12-foot tall monster alien robot, and then never having him actually walk around being tall at people.

(Or indeed, appearing in shot with any other members of the cast: the only time he does that's not obviously an effects shot was an overhead shot of him lying down and River standing by his head. So possibly that's fake and he was never on set with anyone else.)

Seconded on the subtitle recommendation. Great episode though - terrific script, which makes the soundtrack issue even dafter.

"Sheer poetry, my boy"

was there a chair with a panda on it?

Clara and Me could go pick up Steven from the Savages planet and get his panda with him. Purves might be up for a serial or two.

Is Clara effectively immortal now (at least until she returns to her raven hug)?

Yes, that was the implication. She is stuck on her last heartbeat before death.

I know that she's stopped aging, but what if she receives what would otherwise be a mortal wound?

She already has one, so IDK

same as Me (and the Doctor pre-1985): can live forever, can be killed normally

Only just caught up on the special, thought it was really excellent.

Hmph.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-01-22/doctor-who-showrunner-steven-moffat-quits-to-be-replaced-by-broadchurch-creator-chris-chibnall

Ouch, no Doctor Who in 2016 except a Christmas special.

xp ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, TUMBLR? T_T

boradchurch (typo but leaving that in) was shiiiiiiiit

it was fucking awful (season 2 anyway, I liked season 1 a bit).

Well, at least it wasn't Gatiss or Harness or Neil Cross.

I was hoping for Toby Whithouse.

Same, or Gareth Roberts.

anything that keeps broadchurch season 3 from happening

roberts would have been awesome, in theory anyway.

Broadchurch season 3 is happening though.

I'm not too pessimistic about this, I think Chibnall's better at making people talk like people than Moffat is at least.

Assume he won't be bringing back the vervoids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIqTPQqgvQ

More annoyed by lack of new season than changeover, tbh.

Second season of Broadchurch was one of the worst things I've ever seen, considering cast/budget

Jodie Whittaker as new companion please

no, all she did was whiine and scream on broadchurch

charlotte rampling for old racist companion!

Chibnall is the second-worst writer in Dr Who history.

Well, at least it wasn't ... Harness or Neil Cross.

Phew, lucky we didn't get an idiosyncratic, imaginative writer when we could have the author of Cyberwoman instead!

And the first worst is...?

The team that teenaged Chibnall once tried to battle to their faces on TV.

william emms. geoffrey orme. haisman/lincoln. eric saward. anthony steven. glen mccoy. kevin clarke. frank cottrell boyce.

I don't write anyone off on a single script, as it's impossible to judge their breadth from that (but the one ep of Galaxy 4 I've seen was interesting enough, and Forest Of The Night works well on its explicitly being-a-fairytale level).

Haisman & Lincoln wrote one that was standard for its season, then one that was a huge improvement and long regarded as an all-time classic, then one they took their names off & refused to write for the series again when it got dicked about with.

Saward, tragically for him, would probably have been a better writer if he hadn't been given the staff job - for all the faults of his credited scripts on the side, they do tend to have a clear or interesting motivating premise, some well-drawn character moments, and do generally improve year-on-year, culminating in one that's actually kinda good, and certainly one of the only two Colin TV stories worth watching.

(Haven't seen the existing eps of Underwater Menace. Concur with your judgment on the single scripts of Steven, McCoy and Clarke. Although I also suspect it's unfair to wholly blame the writers of stories that were edited by Saward...)

What's the story on Capaldi, hope no new series this year doesn't mean he's more likely to leave earlier. I've been enjoying him.
Seemed to be some more rumours since Xmas of him leaving.

There is no change to the plans for Series 10.

i'm sure capaldi will see it out through season 10. I'd love it if he stuck around for another few years but 3 years seems to be the running max these days