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

xp: can't believe this is not that thread

torn between apologising for being a dick and demanding that hl address my amazing Frobisher zing :-/

I'll admit that I am new to Doctor Who both irl and on ilx and I am way out of my depth with your Frobisher zing.

all is blamelessly forgiven as long as you stfu and gtfo forever, n00b

aw, fandom

oh man, i just found out about an event that i will be definitely going to that is whorelated and tho' i am embargoed i am pretty hype

What does -lated mean?

I was going to make that joke but didn't.

i guess that's where "whovian" came from

Good news:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jul/27/peter-capaldi-doctor-who-no-flirting-sidekick-coleman-new-series

Who'd want to flirt with oogly face anyway.

me :)

I was glad to hear Vastra, Jenny & Strax will appear again in the first season 8 ep, IMO been they've the best thing about the last couple of seasons. Isn't it time to give them their own spinoff already? (Or maybe they only work as supporting characters?)

Tuomas you should watch 1974 4-parter The Time Warrior, once you've watched the first episode.

"Ah, I understand. You have a primary and secondary reproductive cycle. It is an inefficient system, you should change it."

Tuomas you should watch 1974 4-parter The Time Warrior, once you've watched the first episode.

Is it related to the first ep? I don't where I could watch those old episodes, are they available online?

No, the first episode was made 10 years, 2 Doctors, about 20 companions and half a dozen production teams earlier. This one has the first Sontaran appearance and some amusing attempts at addressing gender politics, though.

The BBC used to rotate 10 or so full old stories on youtube, but don't seem to any more. Almost everything is illegally online on youtube or Dailymotion or Vimeo, in varying quality. And you can rent DVDs of all intact serials.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/rec.arts.drwho/fNc0-Zpirpg/-T0hm17wRcgJ

good find!

https://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/browse_thread/thread/7cd734f99a62ae98/c845f05e9b213df9

I guess he's been waiting to use this idea for a while.

― Melissa W, Sunday, June 5, 2011 6:47 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rvpElcXUi8

man Capaldi is gonna fucking rule

i'm kinda hyped.
my shhh shhh secret fell through unfortunately; thought i was gonna get to go to an early screening of the first episode. no such luck.

There are going to be Daleks OMG SPOILERZZzzzz...

thinking about going to see the premiere episode in the theater, would probably be fun.

Some of the fans might be a bit annoying.

You should have seen what it was like standing in a room full of Doctor Who fans in 1992. I think it'll be OK.

0 people were annoying at the 50th in the cinema (though two couples I know insisted on watching in their respective hotel rooms based on that expectation)

my shhh shhh secret fell through unfortunately; thought i was gonna get to go to an early screening of the first episode. no such luck.

Not so secret, you could have just bought a ticket! Sydney's is tonight, but at $100 they can fuck off.

Capaldi & Coleman were at work this morning; a desk neighbour snapped him coming through the lobby, and another friend got a couple of shots of herself with him - apparently nobody bothered Coleman at all.

aw that's sad

also the number of squeeing 20- to 40-somethings in the theater for the 50th who threatened to drown out the dialogue whenever Tennant spoke made me want to become suddenly, massively violent

it's not even really that I dislike Tennant's portrayal of the Doctor (he does hold the distinction of having the worst season of nu-Who under his belt, tho) but the hairy-palmed cult of adoration he inspired makes me want to watch nothing but McCoy stories

I assume Capaldi's portrayal will reduce the squeeing a bit, but really I don't mind. That would be part of the spectacle. If they could squee through the tedious story arc exposition, that would be perfect. I only want to hear the banter.

When Tennant gave his "I don't want to go" line before hopping back into his TARDIS, there was a loud "oHhhhhhh" that reverberated through the theater followed by the unmistakable smell of orgasmic release

Maybe I will bring my rain jacket.

also lots of sanitizer

aw that's sad

nah it's great! Ppl love Capaldi and are excited for him and can't resist letting him know; Coleman just got treated like anyone else in to do interviews.

it isn't Coleman's fault that non-Dalek Clara and Smith had the charisma of a damp fart; I really think her character is going to take off now that it's playing against an older-appearing, more irritable Doctor

eg I once heroically refrained from punching the prime minister in the face, when we were in the same lift

also :( that your cushion-wetting audiencemates presumably missed the next line taking the piss out of Tennant's final one

also she is adorable and I want to put her in my pocket it's going to be interesting to see how Clara's more pragmatic, semi-terrified reactions to the dangers of traveling with the Doctor will play against a Doctor much less likely to be indulgent or comforting

There was no room for charisma between 11 and Clara, as in all but two of their eps he was written to assholically ignore who she actually was as a person, getting caught up in his Impossible Girl quest instead. Forest for the trees.

xpost yes

I guess hoping for a Seventh Doctor/Ace dynamic would be too much.

I just rewatched Curse of Fenric this weekend and Ace comes across so much better than I remembered her; it's really too bad that half of the story is deus ex machina nonsense

Not so secret, you could have just bought a ticket! Sydney's is tonight, but at $100 they can fuck off.

Ace was one of the best companions, really.

I like Clara, I think she has potential. But I imagine she'll be gone at the end of this season. I preferred Amy and Donna both because they had more personality but I think Clara, with Capaldi, has the potential to be a kind of SJS Nancy Drew sort.

Also i missed Capaldi and Coleman and Daleks and whatnot in London last week because I was getting off a late plane from Barcelona, much to my dismay

so is anybody doing the early bird thing?

apparently the new title sequence looks a lot like this one:

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

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/aug/15/doctor-who-title-sequence-fan-video-steven-moffat?CMP=fb_gu

That's pretty cool.

Sad that we still have to deal with Murray Gould's maudlin orchestrations, though. Couldn't they get Mike Paradinas or Riz Maslen or someone to do a proper elecronic score instead of this guy's second rate John Williams stuff?

tuomas otm

Yeah, return to the weird disconcerting synth wobbles of the 70s please.