OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY: nu-Who season 8

The Lodger is my favourite episode of Doctor Who ever, probably. The Doctor's Wife is great. Amy's Choice, Vincent And, Girl Who Waited and Hide are all highpoints of their respective series.

(Not an argument for any of those writers as showrunner, btw, and most of them obviously wouldn't do it. Whithouse does appear to have a breadth of story interests that would make him a tenable case, though. [Personally would rather be surprised by an unknown who turns out to be a wonky font of creativity, like Adams or Cartmel or, let's face it, Whitaker. (also cf Smith!)])

Whithouse is the other obvious, if slightly unexciting, candidate, seeing as he's had showrunning experience. Only really good ep he's done IMO is The God Complex, which also owes a lot of its grim power to Nick Hurran's excellent direction. Actually, School Reunion is good too, although the most affecting stuff, i.e. Sarah Jane's return, was probably RTD's doing. Vampires of Venice is a decent romp. Town Called Mercy could have been really interesting, but ended up kinda dull - direction partly to blame. The pacing was zzz.

Not a show runner candidate, but it's a shame Jack Thorpe of The Fades fame, has been poached by Hollywood to do the Sandman movie. I'd like to have seen him do a Dr Who episode. Rumour has it he was approached, but things didn't work out. Maybe he can be brought back in at some point.

Not sure about the new changes to the TARDIS.

okay this is going to sound insane and I didn't feel this way until looking at that picture but I was suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that, for the first time since the reboot, I'm looking at REAL Doctor Who

I mean, I liked/loved nu-Who up to this point with some notable exceptions (hey there large chunks of season 2) but this is suddenly making me feel like what I've watched up to this point has been well-done fan-fiction

aw, I was hoping they made the TARDIS interior less stupid.

so excited for this weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Yeah I don't want to set myself up for a disappointment but I have great faith in capaldi and everything I've heard about the new direction sounds spot on.

Is it just me or does that sonic screwdriver look more like a dildo microphone than any previous sonic screwdriver?

I uh dunno what a dildo microphone looks like.

that's the same one matt smith had.

capaldi could carry a pineapple and a tiny parasol & I'd say it was the best direction ever

You just want him to be Manila Luzon.

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very carefully excited

New teaser!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HaiGKiUuik

:D

I want that coat.

New teaser reveals a returning villain, won't say who for the spoiler sensitive amongst you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbX4tNG_k3s

Assuming it actually is who it sounds like.

Much speculation as to whether it is who everyone thinks it is... not the same actor as before... and the voice changes too... maybe two voices? or a new character? What mystery: the teaser has done its job well.

Very excited for new series. Capaldi sounds quite Baker-ish in the previous teaser. The way he attacks 'be my PAL' with the punchy plosives and elongated vowels. And yes, it seems some alterations to the Tardis interior have been made. Still the same console, but I think there'll be a few tweaks, different lighting etc.

Frank Cotrell Boyce's just announced episode 10 has 'a cast of child actors'. Do they mean exclusively? Some kind of bizarro episode where the Doctor and Clara et al are turned into kids? This could be horribly gimmicky, but I've liked other stuff FCB has done, so will reserve judgement. And once in a while these high concept episodes work - Buffy's Once More With Feeling etc.

Much speculation as to whether it is who everyone thinks it is... not the same actor as before... and the voice changes too... maybe two voices? or a new character? What mystery: the teaser has done its job well.

I'm going with Occam's Razor on this one.

it's pretty obvious who it is

What's this rumour I may have heard about leaked scripts? Real or hoax? Pretty big deal if real, I'd think.

It was being reported with a straight face on a couple of basically reputable sites this afternoon.

"10:00:00 EXT. SKY - DAY
A beautiful blue sky - no clue where this is.
A huge, thunderous impact, earth-shaking - and now, swaying into view the head of a T..."

Hmmm.

Nevermind. I'm vv tempted to read on but I'll wait.

any word on the London World Tour event (day, what will they do)? I'll be in London then.

also I am not above reading leaked scripts, but can't find them.

THE HEAD OF A WHAT? I can't think of any Who races beginning with a T!

...ARDIS?

Wait, was there some kind of lumpy-headed thing called a Tyranoid? Or did I make that up?

No, I'm thinking of the Draconians.

"10:00:00 EXT. SKY - DAY
A beautiful blue sky - no clue where this is.
A huge, thunderous impact, earth-shaking - and now, swaying into view the head of a T..."

T-Rex? Dinosaur extinction meteorite day?

I mean, fuck knows if this even is a leaked script or whatever, just joining in with the wild conjecture.

PS guess what the top Google hit is for

"doctor who" oogly

Transylvanian? Terry Wogan lookalike?

That was an xpost

I'm not telling - but someone guessed correctly.

Transylvanian? Terry Wogan lookalike?

I'm sure the internet has some Rocky Horror/Who mashup fan fiction, but Eurovision too? It's possible...

Doctor Who's bloomers

http://youtu.be/TivqZTq5u6Y

Oooooh. And I was right.

I've still not seen Lair of the White Worm, but I was looking at some pics from it and OH MY GOD HE'S NOT OOGLY:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvd6tjb7kt1qmlph5.jpg

this is also the most excited I've been about Clara since she was a Dalek

emil.y, you should also make time for Dangerous Liaisons:

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1988_Dangerous_Liaisons/988DLS_Peter_Capaldi_005.jpg

2013 World War Z WHO doctor

lol

World War Z
W.H.O. Doctor

― Number None, Monday, August 5, 2013 5:24 AM (11 months ago)

whoops didn't see a post in some other thread. my miss.

can't believe that a joke hundreds of ppl made on the internet the week Capaldi's casting was announced would have been on the thread about Capaldi's casting being announced

I really like Ingrid Oliver.

i like her but still ... rmde

From the plot for that episode and from a moffat iv, it is the zygon version that will be appearing

guys stfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_xoICJChu8

Thanks for the info! I guess in those cases they didn't try to explain why some random character looked like the future Doctor, like they're doing now with Capaldi?

― Tuomas, Thursday, August 28, 2014 5:40 PM (1 year ago)

Here's Paul Cornell, a contender for the most prolific and longest-running (though peripatetic) Dr Who writer ever, theorising about the choosing-your-face aspect, yesterday:

www.paulcornell.com/2015/12/the-12-blogs-of-christmas-one/

Interesting and fun. Although it should be noted Cornell has only written two (Very Good) TV stories (Father's Day and Human Nature/The Family of Blood), the rest being the fancy fan fiction of the spin-off books and such

Four Doctors is the only one that's fan fiction bcz Titan doesn't count imo*. Shalka was BBC too if that's yr cutoff!

*also easy to discount because it suuuuuucked.

yeah, tried the four doctors, but couldn't be bothered past issue 1

on the topic of spin-offs, have swallowed some of my reservations and bought the new Big Finish War Doctor set of audios. Hope they're better than the last ones I tried (Paul McGann, Doom Coalition, which was very uninspired meat-and-potatoes stuff with a good actor wasted as a potentially interesting but actually boring mustache-twirling villain)

Who's writing those? I mean, I assume it'll be meat-and-potatoes at very best, even if doing stories in the Time War wasn't a completely stupid and painfully small-minded thing to do from the jump.

(Was it this thread or the previous where I gave a recommended list of actually good Big Finishes?)

They're by Nicholas Briggs, so three veg if we're lucky, sadly. I really like John Hurt and his voice, so decided to get these in a moment of weakness. Maybe I'll be happily surprised.

ALL Nick Briggs? You fool.

oh, i know it

i finally got around to finishing last season. the final couple of episodes were really quite amazing and moving. i really liked the "conclusion" to the Clara storyline, at least it is better than Rory/Amy got (and they did get a mention in that diner TARDIS). i would have been really mad at the Doctor had he wiped her memory so i'm glad they went w the ending they did there.

Christmas episode was cool and fun and weird. those guys with their heads sliced down the middle were pretty crazy. the ending was fucking brilliant. not going to spoil it here in case anyone hasn't seen it, it's wonderful. is this really the last we see of River Song? it was a great send-off if so. easily one of the best River episodes.

Looks like Capaldi is going to stay for a while from what I've seen headlined on facebook. Looked like he might be leaving with Moffat for a while.
Still wish there was a full season before 2017 instead of just a special.

I dunno I don't begrudge them a chance to recharge every few years. Keeps things fresh I think.

glad capaldi's not leaving, because after moffat's gone i feel like he's gonna have a lot of heavy lifting to do...