So when is this starting, then?
― Tuomas, Monday, 10 September 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link
October 7. A SUNDAY!
― JimD, Monday, 10 September 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
Is sic asleep? OK let's go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCt6f1Ttmy4
― nashwan, Thursday, 20 September 2018 12:42 (six years ago) link
Liking everything apart from the Aaaaah, BODYFORM-ish power ballad all over the trailers and adverts.
― suzy, Thursday, 20 September 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
All is forgiven M Gold...
― nashwan, Thursday, 20 September 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
yeah that song is fucking awful
― akm, Thursday, 20 September 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
i'm not going to go quite that far re: m. gold - two wrongs don't make a right - but i did find it super-distracting, to the point where, having just watched the trailer, i have no idea what was in it except for bad music.
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 September 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
Interesting lack of Classic Foes unless I missed 'em.
― nashwan, Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
finally a Doctor Who workout video
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link
Tardis spin class!
― suzy, Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
― nashwan
apparently chibnall is making a clean break, at least based on the complaining article i read on the mary sue - no old foes.
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
I am 100% in favor of a couple seasons without Daleks or Cybermen
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
BREXIT MEANS BREXIT nashwan!
― Mighty Seething Bat (sic), Thursday, 20 September 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
The Macron Terror
― nashwan, Thursday, 20 September 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
you know a dalek or cyberman will show up eventually; I give it until mid-second season.
― akm, Thursday, 20 September 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
i think they should bring skagra back instead (as long as they don't do it by remaking shada YET FUCKING AGAIN)
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 September 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
Had never seen this young Doctors image before. Davison basically unrecognisable.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnmWPu7UwAAoSsX.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 21 September 2018 07:07 (six years ago) link
Sean Pertwee!
― JimD, Friday, 21 September 2018 07:31 (six years ago) link
in the full Davison pic he’s on a bus on the way to a ‘70s rock festival (and 18 iirc)
― Gibing The Amethyst (sic), Friday, 21 September 2018 08:09 (six years ago) link
Davison basically unrecognisable.
And Ecclestone.
― chap, Friday, 21 September 2018 08:22 (six years ago) link
Oh no wait, that's John Hurt.
Worzel has a bit of the Shia Labeouf about him.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 21 September 2018 08:30 (six years ago) link
i love the aesthetics of some of these photos, the way they evoke certain eras as much as they do the actors being photographed. tom baker being photographed in the same way as the young bill hartnell, mugshot jon pertwee, grunge peter davison, and then especially the run of the first four new series doctors going from airwolf to mall photo to john mayer album cover to new wave band. also, the colin baker photo, with some of its more distinguishing features cropped out, is super evocative of his first scene in "androzani" (did graeme harper direct that scene, btw? it's probably the weakest part of the episode - colin baker staring at the camera just doesn't work very well imo)
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Friday, 21 September 2018 09:11 (six years ago) link
yeah, Harper directed (Moffatt was on set to watch, though!)
― Gibing The Amethyst (sic), Friday, 21 September 2018 09:28 (six years ago) link
'Doctor Who' is actually a codename
― All right! A new season! (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 21 September 2018 09:29 (six years ago) link
And they’d lost two days of shoot, and threw away loads of script pages* to get finished in time - if the final shot of the day/week/recording block looks perfunctory, that’s because it was: they got done just before the unions shut down for the day.*including a big action scene featuring the magma beast chasing the Doctor and leaping chasms, so swings & roundabouts
― Gibing The Amethyst (sic), Friday, 21 September 2018 09:33 (six years ago) link
Is that an early photo of Jodie Whittaker or a current one.
― Stevolende, Friday, 21 September 2018 10:26 (six years ago) link
Very Don Draper-esque Troughton there, phwoar
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 21 September 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
mugshot jon pertwee
In the less cropped version of that he's wearing a sailor's uniform, at first I assumed that meant it was a promo shot from The Navy Lark but nope, looks more like it's an id photo from his days in the actual Navy.
― JimD, Friday, 21 September 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
google image "young colin baker" - he's one of those suzanne vega types who never seems to have the same face twice
i don't remember him ever looking this young in doctor who, despite it being a DW promo picture. the fro' adds decades
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/ERX9PF/colin-baker-new-doctor-who-the-6th-with-actress-nicola-bryant-who-ERX9PF.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 21 September 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
this is what two years of john nathan-turner will do to a person
https://i.imgur.com/93fkaJu.pnghttps://gillatt.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/183932.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 21 September 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
So, I was thinking how I wish the next season wouldn't have one of those stories where the Doctor and companions get stuck on a space ship/space base/another isolated sci-fi setting, and they have to find a way to ward off an impending doom which threatens to kill everyone inside, because so far they've done of those at least one of those every season, and they're almost never among the best episodes... But then I remembered two out of the four eps Chibnall has written so far have had that plot, and the Silurian two-parter he did has shades of that too, so I guess we might get one of these again? I dunno, it's gotten tiring how they repeat the same elements, plus the excuses they have to come up for why they can't just save everyone with the TARDIS get tiring, and TARDIS shenanigans are usually the best part of the show anyway, so I rarely enjoy the eps where they write hee out of the story altogether.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 23 September 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
I dunno, it's gotten tiring how they repeat the same elements, plus the excuses they have to come up for why they can't just save everyone with the TARDIS get tiring, and TARDIS shenanigans are usually the best part of the show anyway, so I rarely enjoy the eps where they write hee out of the story altogether.
― Tuomas
i have some bad news for you re: the ending of the most recent episode
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Sunday, 23 September 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
Any info about the ending of the most recent episode would be news, can’t remember it at all.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 24 September 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link
Forget it tuomas, its doctorwhotown
― All right! A new season! (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 24 September 2018 07:16 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, forgot about the ending of the Christmas special... Well, presumably she will find her again by the end of the next episode. I don't mind it so much the introductory episodes for the new Doctor and/or companions are light on TARDIS, since they need to spend most of their runtime establishing the characters anyway.
― Tuomas, Monday, 24 September 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
Finding the TARDIS should've been the season-long plotline. Don't @ me.
― nashwan, Monday, 24 September 2018 10:08 (five years ago) link
Can I agree with you though
― El Tomboto, Monday, 24 September 2018 11:43 (five years ago) link
Also forgive me but I don’t really watch Doctor Who for the plot.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 24 September 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
Every week the Doctor hunts down a classic villain to ask for information regarding the question. The question that must never be followed by silence. The first and last question ever asked. "Where the bloody hell's my motor?!"
― nashwan, Monday, 24 September 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link
Lol.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 05:33 (five years ago) link
"Where the bloody hell's my motor?" is the plot of the series never broadcast where The Doctor and Martha run around 1960s London until Billy Shipton arrives from the future in Blink giving the Doctor a chance to get his motor back.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
Quite good I thought. THink I'm going to like her as The Doctor. Not so sure about that costume though, but if she gets the Tardis back she has a massive wardrobe in there, don't she?So wonder how long she'll keep the charity shop one.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 7 October 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
Lack of Murray Gold the obvious highlight.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 7 October 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
Craking Sunday night telly, that! Very slick, good scary monsters. Straightforwardness very refreshing after the Moffat years.
― chap, Sunday, 7 October 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Good cliffhanger too.
― chap, Sunday, 7 October 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Jodie Whitaker was alright but I thought that was pretty grim - too violent, lame script, stagey direction
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 7 October 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
And a lot of weird choices, esp the long list of who-gives-a-shit guest stars at the end.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 7 October 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
The guy throwing his salad at the robot was good though
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 7 October 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
it was good. the approach reminded me a little bit of "rose". looking forward to seeing where it goes from here!
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 October 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link