Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

I am 100% lost to the matching game

Also I just got to 11 for the first time

I got 10 TWICE yesterday, #goals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMgKaTU9-bQ

yoooooooo Janet Fielding is so great, it’s unreal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEkC6InjWQ8

Still can't really get used to the show having a big SFX budget.

great way to showcase the new doctor, flash him up wordlessly for 2-3 seconds at the end

that said NPH is a good Celestial Toymaker

This looks like it's mostly an advert for one special - I could well believe it's a victory lap for Tate and Tennant (which I am 100% here for) and maybe the same amount of Gatwa in this one as Tennant in the previous (or none!).

I don’t expect Gatwa to be in the first two specials at all, and likely not more than a regeneration scene at the end of the third.

(Multi-doctor anniversary shenanigans teaming up the Fourteenth and Fifteenth together would be fun, but likely bemusing to the genpop audience that Tennant / Tate are expected to win back, compared to a handover at the end)

Isn't it a 3-part one-story special?

Yep

I love everything about this trailer other than 'kaaaate lethbridge stewart'

She was in the last episode and not once has she been given anything to do (hey maybe this is where it changes but please don't mention her dad. again. and again. and again. who has nothing to do with her in the stories)

It's three episodes, to be TXed on different nights. All I know about the content is that as in each of RTD's first three seasons, one episode is a telly adaptation of an existing Who story, which suggests that each ep will have a resolved plot as well as a continuing arc for the lead characters.

(The fact that the adaptation has the same title as the original suggests that it will be more like the S3 degree of closeness than the other two; the duration of the special demands that it will have at least as much variance from the source as that story still enjoyed.)

All three of the specials having separate Target novelisations by different authors suggests even more strongly that they will have discrete elements.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/doctor-who-archive-on-bbc-iplayer

"Over 800 episodes of Doctor Who programming on BBC iPlayer and every episode will now be available with subtitles, audio description, and sign language for the first time"

Oh good! I can cancel my Britbox sub now

The wording of the release suggests one or fewer stories per classic Doctor, so if your subscription is specifically to have all extant C20th telly Who at your fingertips, better wait and see

“Over 800” covers the lot hopefully

871 just mainline Who, not counting any spinoffs

does that include the missing episodes?

it does, but the number of spinoff episodes (102) roughly equals the number of missing episodes (97) so their figure of "800" is interesting

The wording strongly suggests that Confidential and other / new retrospective material is being counted too

how long before AI is good enough to make all the missing episodes again using the recons?

maybe they can use frog DNA

That's how we got Chibnall.

so anthony coburn's kid is an absolute piece of shit (sadly that's not particularly noteworthy these days) BUT i'm just going to start calling it "the tribe of gums" from now on

mel was right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qUmy7XFeUY

my god did moffat actually say "the queen should be played by a man"? because _that's_ never happened before. has he really not seen 1992's _orlando_? tilda swinton looks like an elizabethan dominatrix on the cover! it's like the movie was made to appeal to his personal sexual fetishes.

not entirely sure that your conclusion that Moffat wants to fuck the author of The Old Man Of Lochnagar is supported by his endorsement of the principles of regeneration but I do think selling drawings of it would be a niche concern

https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2023/55905

https://cms.doctorwho.tv/sites/default/files/2023-10/451412-e5f029a281.jpg

fuck, wrong link: https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/welcome-to-the-whoniverse-and-tales-of-the-tardis

Steven and Vicki?????

RTD has still got it!

This is by far the funniest thing I've seen in relation to all the Davros stuff pic.twitter.com/vwVuvECUMX

— Flight Red 50 (@FlightRed50) November 19, 2023

Suella Braverman attacks for Rishi Sunak for his failure to bring back the old Davros

i’m perhaps unreasonably stoked for next saturday

Rightly or wrongly the first thing I thought when I saw Julian Bleach in the CiN thing was 'damn he'd make a good Giuliani'.

I am also stoked.

probly time for an RTD2 thread

i’m quite up for it. unlike chinballs rtd does know how to put a show together, even if i find some of the melodrama a bit ott for my taste. so disappointing that the first female doctor didn’t have a better showrunner.

word

yes plz!

"I watched Barrowman do it and just laughed. HOOT!"

Fantastic wink skills here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_1kx9z3kU

Fuck me, Stef Coburn is a better friend to Doctor Who than this. Makes Chinballs look like Bob Holmes.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-adapted-doctor-who-star-beast/

new-nu-Who: RTD2 (Doctor Who on telly 2023-?)

Anyone else (who can) tried The Daleks In COLOUR on iPlayer? Barbara's pink shirt is tripping me out.

Also watched for the first time recently: The Aztecs (good esp. considering it's 'just' a history lesson type story), a few Troughton era openers, Spearhead From Space (not so good but wanted to see how indoors Who on film from that time looked) and started Genesis (seen some of before but never in full).

I just spotted that Dalek thing today! It's on my list, I've been watching the two surviving episodes of The Wheel in Space.

The Daleks looks lovely but the editing is all over the place, it's easily 15 minutes too short, nearer 25.

And if you hate Murray Gold's music then... intrusive isn't the word.

I've only dipped in and out, but they seem to have used some very odd sources for the uploads, Reign of Terror for example has a broken audio master that plays like a massively warped record.

I remember when the Blu-ray Spearhead came out, the most Hammer that Who has ever looked.

The thing I only really picked up on when I rewatched Spearhead this month was that the different look and feel is partly down to film but also very much because it's 100% filmed on location, no studio work at all in there.

Pertwee's has always been the one era I've had near zero awareness of, mostly because "stuck on earth" and "loads of unit/military stuff" have always both been huge turnoffs. But I'm finally working my way through it and finding lots more to enjoy than I expected. I don't particularly like Pertwee himself and a lot of it really is just men with guns chasing each other around grim industrial estates, it sometimes feels more like watching The Sweeney than Doctor Who. But some of the stories really stand up well (Inferno, Mind of Evil especially), and Delgado is just amazing, he hugely lifts every episode he appears in.

Parts of Inferno are like watching some of kind of art gallery video installation - it's very intense and strange, especially the sound