Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

Didn't click on the link til now, ew.

Definitely best NuWho christmas special. Felt very old who, Smith can be very impish in a hartnellesque way.

Pls to explain the "Gideons" ref?

Gideon is the real name of George Osborne, the current Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain - and is responsible for the Scroogey budget cuts to students, the poor and public services. The last two months in Britain have seen huge (and intermittently violent THANKS POLICE) demonstrations you may have read about.

The historic Lewis Chessmen feature in a new Doctor Who story written by Ayrshire-born novelist Jenny Colgan.

hahaha

She was my best mates sister and the year above me at school.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-16651810

ASR had a crush on Jenny Colgan!

hardly

does anyone actually buy these books?

LOL

I did read one that my co-worker suggested to me because it was "so good" but it was a new one about Rory and his emo manpain so naaaah.

I shouldn't have taken her advice in the first place because she thinks Torchwood is better than Doctor Who.

lol, i should have said "apart from dan".

My co-worker has read every new Who and Torchwood book published. It's a bit strange.

all the nu-Who books are hardcover and like $14 apiece, which is just too much damn money

I had no problems dishing out for these things when they were paperbacks and $6

To be fair she orders them all from our interlibrary loan system so she's not paying for them, but still.

Also, she went to England for the specific purpose of seeing David Tennant & Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing.

DJP, some of them get reissued as paperbacks for about that price. I don't know what they're like because I've not read anything since Gallifrey Chronicles, doubt they're ~essential~ though

The one I read was baaaad. But then I don't care very much about Rory's inner feelings, so.

To be fair she orders them all from our interlibrary loan system so she's not paying for them, but still.

Our interlibrary loans cost the library abt $12 iirc and are free to the end user

I'm in the office next door to the ILL staff so I think they might come and kill me if I ordered 6000 Doctor Who books at the library's expense

(this sounds quite funny, I might try it)

just looked at the ppl writing the new ones; I would generally be interested in written by (in descending order of interest):

Lance Parkin
Jonathan Morris
Mark Michalowski
Simon Messingham
Paul Magrs
Jaq Rayner
Justin Richards
Martin Day
Trevor Baxendale

I would expect the Gary Russell books to be REALLY dubious in quality and the Gareth Roberts books would vary wildly from great to unreadable. I am kind of shocked at how many of the same people are still writing these!

Lance Parkin (for obvious reasons) is maybe the only one I am not surprised at being not involved tbh.

does anyone actually buy these books?

IIRC the BBC became the fifth-largest fiction publisher in the UK simply by publishing the new range of tie-ins?

I rly liked Jenny Colgan's 2nd and 3rd novels, she turned untellably atrocious after that tho

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chameleon+circuit&oq=Chameleon+Circuit&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=14834l14834l0l26143l1l1l0l0l0l0l397l397l3-1l1l0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju0qWmjK_II

theres even worse ones on the link

this might be the worst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98rtEm7sUsU

and I wonder what life would be like if
I could choose not to say affirmative

^^^^ death penalty for that rhyme sequence alone

why would you do this to this thread AG
why
why
why

Delilah

*cries*

you're actually watching all the videos

I am not, I stopped after that stupid K9 video

oh you would love dr what

stfu

its about on a par with the cheesy power metal you grew up with and still love! :P

not helping

also gfy :P

the OG opening to K9 and Company is something to behold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu7OiJpnlUs

did my facebook acquaintances beat ilx to the naked karen gillan story?

say what now

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2008482/Doctor-Who-star-Karen-Gillan-naked-riotous-New-York-party.html

tbf its daily mail

oh shit that's last year ha

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Ms. Gillan has joined Twitter as of today and already has almost 20,000 followers, all of whom are posters here posting under numerous bots. She currently follows six people, including two Spice Girls.

The chap in that Mail story NZA posted is neither heterosexual nor a gentleman

Doctor Who Online have put out a THREE HOUR interview with Ian Levine. I'm slowly slogging through it on commutes, it's ridiculous and rambling and there are big chunks where I just don't know what he's talking about, but it's pretty great overall. He talks a lot about how close the BBC came to wiping a LOT more of the old episodes than they actually did, and while I'm sure he plays up his own role in stopping that, it's still amazing stuff. Eps 256/257 here.

I've been an apologist for Ian to an extent in the past, but his latest shit with Lawrence Miles (also, more or less, a dick) has tipped me over the edge with him. I can't defend him any more.

But because of the stuff with Lawrence I'm not talking about him at all, and certainly not speculating on his part in things.

wait, what's the latest shit with Miles

I could google but I am trying to make you renege on yr stance, lol

Lawrence put up a post on his blog in light of Ian's sudden love of NuWho as the best thing ever, featuring a graph which compared the popularity of The Daleks/The Mutants/Serial B with the popularity of Ian over the decades. Ian is trying to sue him over it and has been offering people money on Twitter to hand over Lawrence's home address/phone number etc.

omg just read the Miles post, cannot stop lolling

why do I love all of these dickish British SF types (see also Warren Ellis) so much