it took me until he said something about cracks in space-time and time echos or the like, about halfway through the episode.
the characterization of the salvagers felt a bit off to me, but all the other bits were awesome. curious how many bits of the tardis interior would be more significant to ppl familiar with the pre-revive tv series.
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Sunday, 28 April 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
found some bits about various refs here: http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/04/27/doctor-who-7-10-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-tardis-review/
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Sunday, 28 April 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Do you think any of this is true or is it all outlandish rumors?
If Moffat was really that bad wouldn't the BBC just get rid of him? I would think Doctor Who makes them too much money now to put up with with a lot of guff from the showrunner.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
Moff is holding the BBC to ransom over Sherlock, I think ... so they're stuck placating him for now.
I would love to know what went on with the negotiations/non-negotiations with other Who actors for the 50th.
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
If these issues cannot be rectified - and soon - Doctor Who may go into a semi-permanent hiatus, and return as a series of TV Movies or extended episodes once every eighteen months.
Eh, probably not a bad thing for a few years.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
I went to the originating blog and read some of the dumbest spoilers (if they are true) I've ever seen (upcoming Christmas episode will be the worst one yet if that rumor is true)
I have no actual window into how Moffatt runs a show but I feel like he was a tyrant with Coupling as well?
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
(upcoming Christmas episode will be the worst one yet if that rumor is true)
If that's true that would be so incredibly stupid I would be forced to give up the show, kind of like I did when Lost aired the episode with Jack and Bai Ling.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
Can't find the xmas rumour on that blog, only stuff about the 50th anniversary and the season finale.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
it's a bullet point in the post titled "Clarity"
I refuse to retype it because that might make it come true
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
oh god
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
nooooooooo
― snapchats and tattoos (c sharp major), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
it is the single worst idea I have ever seen in Doctor Who, and this is a series that:
- had a bad guy die by karate-kicking a giant walking electric eel (Warriors of the Deep)- ended an episode with a literal "cliffhanger" (Dragonfire)- had the Doctor break the fourth wall to wish the viewers "Merry Christmas" (The Chase)- wrote a gratuitous gay sex scene into the middle of a stakeout so that the book's coda could declare a cure for HIV/AIDS (Damaged Goods)- allowed Fear Her and The Idiot Lantern to be shown on television
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, oh shit, that will be rubbish!
― ailsa, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
had a bad guy die by karate-kicking a giant walking electric eel (Warriors of the Deep)
Now I want to see Warriors of the Deep because that sounds hilarious. I've managed to watch a lot of the old series on Netflix but I'm still a ways away from watching them all.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
oh man, I left out "built an entire episode around the shocking idea that a machine designed to pull people apart might kill someone (The Leisure Hive)" and "Tried to pass Nicola Bryant off as an actual American"
xp: I actually love "Warriors of the Deep" and that entire final Davison season because it just piles bleakness on top of bleakness on top of bleakness, but that specific scene could have been handled differently
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
Unfortunately it rings all too true with things I've also heard.
I guessed some considerable time ago one of the series cliffhanger plots involving a companion (and, I think said so here).
The John Hurt thing seems more than credible.
'merry Christmas' isn't from The Chase, it's from The Feast of Steven during Dale Master Plan.
You also appear to be missing that Rusty's big plan for the (thankfully unmade) "best ever" Christmas special was to crossover with a reunited Star Trek TNG cast but the Americans thought he was a prick. (This is in his book about how he was the best thing ever to happen to Doctor Who.)
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
oh dammmit you're right re: Dalek Master Plan
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
x-mas spoiler: SO dumb that it just might work????
― a sentimental knife (reddening), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
let me think about that
...
... nope
also I never heard about that TNG crossover, or if I did I completely blocked it from my memory because it was just. so. stupid
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
He devotes something like 20 pages to it in The Wanker's Tale and about how much of a genius it makes him. HOOT!
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
the more I realized that Rose was RTD's mary sue, the more I started hating the character
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/df8543798f07aacbfa189b9d093f41c4/tumblr_inline_mlkmb0LXWl1qz4rgp.gif
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
okay Nicole that is incredible
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
I can't help thinking of New X-Men.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
If anyone wants an EARLY piece of evidence I am genuine, I could give you all spoilers from ANY up coming BBC programme... Just pick one!
It's one thing to say 'Cardiff we have a problem' and it's another to beg to be blacklisted
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 04:29 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh fuck no
― mistah WRIGHT! WHAT you doin'? (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
brace yerselves
geronimHO HO HO
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
re this lot of rumours: this is the sort of thing that might come out of a production that was failing, but the fact that it's still hugely successful (critically and viewerly) means this sort of thing would normally be tolerated.
the best parallel i can think of is in australian politics, where our last pm was so reviled by his own party for being tyrannical and ruthless that he was rejected by his own party, and then subsequently fought off like six times by a government which is actively falling to pieces. assuming at this point that moffat really is so horrible to work with that the production would rather just not be making the show at all.
as aldo said, this isn't coming from nowhere either. rumours touching on this have been floating around for ages.
xp noooooooooooooooo
― mistah WRIGHT! WHAT you doin'? (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
btw 'series 8 intentions' reads a lot like 'series 27 intentions'
- metatraxi- safe-cracking companion- lungbarrow
― mistah WRIGHT! WHAT you doin'? (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.digitalspy.com.au/british-tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a477531/doctor-who-brian-minchin-to-be-new-executive-producer.html
― mistah WRIGHT! WHAT you doin'? (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
More spoilers.
I have a bad feeling about this...the xmas rumor is probably true.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I am fine with the Omega idea
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
unless of course it ends up that Omega is (Xmas rumor) in which case I may have to hunt and sleigh
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I'm not saying that that's a bad idea but it makes his other claims (like the xmas special) seem a bit more credible.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
I know that the Daleks are the original Who monster but I've always felt like Omega is the ultimate Who boogeyman thanks to him being the bad guy in The Three Doctors
I also love the pattern of Gallifrey's greatest heroes turning into monsters that threaten the cosmos, because what does that mean for the Doctor?
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
Xmas rumour sounds like terrific fun, I am also mega-down with Feast Of Steven
― charli.xlsx (sic), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
can we avoid being so open about rumours in case they turn out to be real spoilers though
― charli.xlsx (sic), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
(or "rumours" since they're just one blatantly attention-seeking bloke on a blog, not accreted murmurs)
― charli.xlsx (sic), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
That blog post reads as hysterically overdramatic comedy butthurt to me but this is Doctor Who I suppose.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed, the Xmas rumour strikes me as a fun idea actually.
I imagine many, or even most, shows have similar background stories.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sorry Chuck, now we have to kill you
no hard feelings?
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 May 2013 01:04 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
instantly thought of ian levine when i read this
― mistah WRIGHT! WHAT you doin'? (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
I made it through Happiness Patrol, you can't hurt me anymore
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god how did I miss the that when I was listing stupid things that happened in Doctor Who
Fucking Delta and the Bannermen too, ffs
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
watching Happiness Patrol tonight, RIP Helen A
― charli.xlsx (sic), Thursday, 2 May 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
!!!
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
okay lol
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
actually you know what was a super underrated 7th Doctor story that gets lumped in with the terrible ones but has a fantastically creepy kernel and is surprisingly enjoyable, is Paradise Towers
I have a hell of a lot of affection for that story, particularly as it came on telly when I was nine. The cleaner robots really shat me up at the time (think we've been through this before).
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link