I'm actually in love with Ncuti's Doctor's outfit, spectacular work.
― chap, Friday, 21 April 2023 09:50 (one year ago) link
I thought a YInka Shonibara take on the late Victorian/Edwardian style would be very interesting. But a 60s take on the style works for me.Maybe Shonibara too gimmicky anyway. Would love to see it though.Wonder to what extent Ncuti will be changing costume anyway. After the continual costume change in Sex Education is it going to continue here.Do love teh reinvention of the style. The early Doctors have influenced my tastes and designs too.Just watched the first episode of Tom Baker in Robot last night. Had me wondering where i started with Pertwee in terms of watching things at the time they were initially broadcast. Wondered also if my elder brother had been watching Troughton era when I was too young to really take in and remember , do remember a lot of Pertwee though.
― Stevo, Friday, 21 April 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
I assume previous mention of Ncuti costume is the blue with white stripes 60s version of an Edwardian suit that is pictured in Radio Times.
Yinka Shonibara is a Nigerian artist. His work comments on the process of colonisation by recreating period clothing etc in waxed cotton.Thinking frock coats made in that stuff would look good. Planned to make a couple myself and haven't got that far so far.
Did make a couple of frockcoats out of a pattern people have used for versions of Colin Baker's jacket. Customised the pattern a bit for my own tastes.Colin Baker was a bit of a coincidence. That era clothing I. E.late 19th/early 20th has been an influence on me since I became interested in clothing decades back. Though do think the coat of many colours may be a bit OTT.
Started watching Tom Baker era show again from the start. Watched it through a couple of times over last couple of decades. & had seen it when it was first on. Which had me wondering when I had first watched Dr Who. If it was something my brother had been watching before I was really aware of things. Like if I was born in 67 and my brother in 63 if it was something I sat in front of as a baby. I definitely remember several Jon Pertwee stories from the time. So assume we watched it regularly throughout his era.
Watched all of the show that still had footage through a couple of times. Over last decade and a half. I'm not as into the later classic era. Think things decline for me from when Tom Baker stops wearing late 19th/early 20th century clothing and gets a costume redesign. It's still watchable I think but a bit lesser. Sylvester McCoy gets some really naff stories. Peter Davison gets a pantomime monster that is clearly 2 guys in a costume and I find him less interesting overall than the earlier stuff.
― Stevo, Saturday, 22 April 2023 07:28 (one year ago) link
I am 100% lost to the matching game
Also I just got to 11 for the first time
― Marvel Puzzle Quest is my favorite gasm (DJP), Monday, 19 June 2023 15:21 (ten months ago) link
I got 10 TWICE yesterday, #goals
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 19 June 2023 16:28 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMgKaTU9-bQ
yoooooooo Janet Fielding is so great, it’s unreal
― the new drip king (DJP), Monday, 17 July 2023 18:28 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEkC6InjWQ8
Still can't really get used to the show having a big SFX budget.
― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Monday, 25 September 2023 20:08 (seven months ago) link
great way to showcase the new doctor, flash him up wordlessly for 2-3 seconds at the end
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 25 September 2023 21:25 (seven months ago) link
that said NPH is a good Celestial Toymaker
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 25 September 2023 21:27 (seven months ago) link
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!).
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 00:30 (seven months ago) link
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)
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 00:42 (seven months ago) link
Isn't it a 3-part one-story special?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 03:25 (seven months ago) link
Yep
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 03:31 (seven months ago) link
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)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 03:32 (seven months ago) link
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.
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 08:39 (seven months ago) link
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"
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 15:40 (six months ago) link
Oh good! I can cancel my Britbox sub now
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 16:17 (six months ago) link
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
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 16:29 (six months ago) link
“Over 800” covers the lot hopefully
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 18:57 (six months ago) link
871 just mainline Who, not counting any spinoffs
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 19:03 (six months ago) link
does that include the missing episodes?
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 19:04 (six months ago) link
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 absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:25 (six months ago) link
The wording strongly suggests that Confidential and other / new retrospective material is being counted too
― vashti funyuns (sic), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:27 (six months ago) link
how long before AI is good enough to make all the missing episodes again using the recons?
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:38 (six months ago) link
maybe they can use frog DNA
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:40 (six months ago) link
That's how we got Chibnall.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 01:10 (six months ago) link
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
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 21:00 (six months ago) link
mel was right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qUmy7XFeUY
― Jane Eyre Jordan (Leee), Saturday, 21 October 2023 17:20 (six months ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 October 2023 20:27 (six months ago) link
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
― vashti funyuns (sic), Sunday, 22 October 2023 03:19 (six months ago) link
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2023/55905
https://cms.doctorwho.tv/sites/default/files/2023-10/451412-e5f029a281.jpg
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 03:05 (six months ago) link
fuck, wrong link: https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/welcome-to-the-whoniverse-and-tales-of-the-tardis
Steven and Vicki?????
― the new drip king (DJP), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 03:43 (six months ago) link
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
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 19 November 2023 12:57 (five months ago) link
Suella Braverman attacks for Rishi Sunak for his failure to bring back the old Davros
― soref, Sunday, 19 November 2023 13:20 (five months ago) link
i’m perhaps unreasonably stoked for next saturday
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 November 2023 16:29 (five months ago) link
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'.
― nashwan, Sunday, 19 November 2023 17:15 (five months ago) link
I am also stoked.
― steely flan (suzy), Sunday, 19 November 2023 17:26 (five months ago) link
probly time for an RTD2 thread
― vashti funyuns (sic), Sunday, 19 November 2023 19:17 (five months ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 19 November 2023 19:19 (five months ago) link
word
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 November 2023 21:53 (five months ago) link
yes plz!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 November 2023 22:12 (five months ago) link
"I watched Barrowman do it and just laughed. HOOT!"
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 19 November 2023 22:20 (five months ago) link
Fantastic wink skills here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_1kx9z3kU
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 24 November 2023 18:55 (five months ago) link
Fuck me, Stef Coburn is a better friend to Doctor Who than this. Makes Chinballs look like Bob Holmes.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 25 November 2023 19:36 (five months ago) link
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-adapted-doctor-who-star-beast/
― koogs, Saturday, 25 November 2023 20:08 (five months ago) link
new-nu-Who: RTD2 (Doctor Who on telly 2023-?)
― bae (sic), Saturday, 25 November 2023 21:04 (five months ago) link
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).
― nashwan, Monday, 27 November 2023 22:42 (five months ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Monday, 27 November 2023 22:46 (five months ago) link
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.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 27 November 2023 23:03 (five months ago) link