Sea Devils even, jaysus.
― I'm into SB (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 January 2010 12:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
The one thing Moffatt has consistently done better than any Dr Who writer is tapping into things that genuinely do scare children shitless. So anything involving vampires is good with me, especially in Venice (which means vampires wearing CARNIVAL MASKS dudes).
Pretty sure this season will be better than any nu-Who series with the possible exception of the first one. More historical shit and alien planets, fewer identikit industrial spaceships please. Also, needs more MYSTERY. It'd be great if the reason the finale was a Must Watch was because something massive was going to be revealed, rather than yer usual bombastic Davies ending.
Presumably Moffatt got Davies to drop in the Weeping Angels as imprisoned Timelords bit as something he's planning on developing in some way. Wonder if he's had something like that in mind since the start - it would make sense given that they can move people around in time and feed off the energy.
Given Moffatt, IIRC, was the first dude to write Tennant's Doctor as hormonal girl-snogging drunken tit in The Girl In The Fireplace, I'd say anyone looking for Matt Smith to be an old-skool sexless Doctor will be disappointed. Also, well, River Song. Moffatt is really good at doing emo anyway.
Matt Smith is going to do a lot of gurning, isn't he? I just hope there isn't a big public backlash due to him not being Tennant that scuppers this series.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Moffatt set this development up way earlier with Ecclescake and "The Doctor Dances". But yes I agree he will probably be better than RTD at emo/romance bits - one of my favourite "aw" parts was in Silence in the Library, at the end when Donna just misses out on meeting her virtual husband. He's good at writing these really simple but effective scenes. none of RTD's soppy soliloquys.
― Roz, Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
Every time I watch that season trailer I get more excitable. This is gonna rock bells fuiud.
― I'm into SB (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah Ecclestone's Doctor was more sheepish and embarassed geek than Tennant's full on drunken adolescent though - "Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete" etc.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Sunday, 3 January 2010 16:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh of course, i just meant that Moffatt arguably started the whole "the Doctor isn't an asexual weirdo after all" on nu-Who.
― Roz, Sunday, 3 January 2010 17:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, the difference is that Moffatt can do emotions and characters and stuff like that and Rusty...well, y'know...a fucking lottery ticket???????
― I'm into SB (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 January 2010 17:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
which means vampires wearing CARNIVAL MASKS dudes
too similar to TGITF surely
just really interested to see how Moffat deals with the show outside his previous confines (writing the scary episode, not dealing with classic enemies) and how he'll do opening episodes and finales differently from RTD
― mdskltr (blueski), Sunday, 3 January 2010 17:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
THIS IS PRETTY SHIT NEWS, TBH:
The soundtrack website Music From The Movies has a new interview with Doctor Who composer Murray Gold, in which Gold confirms that he will be staying on to compose the music for the 2010 series of Doctor Who.In the interview, Gold discusses composing and recording the scores for "The End of Time" and the other 2009 specials. He also mentions that he has already begun work on a new version of the Doctor Who theme for 2010, and that the forthcoming series will feature scripts by Mark Gatiss and Gareth Roberts.
In the interview, Gold discusses composing and recording the scores for "The End of Time" and the other 2009 specials. He also mentions that he has already begun work on a new version of the Doctor Who theme for 2010, and that the forthcoming series will feature scripts by Mark Gatiss and Gareth Roberts.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 3 January 2010 22:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ew, yes.
― Alba, Sunday, 3 January 2010 22:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh ffs I was sure that the terrible score for the last ep was a swan song.
― I'm into SB (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 January 2010 22:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I was really hoping he'd go.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Sunday, 3 January 2010 22:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
:( was also so so hopeful he wld be gone
― Audrey Wetherspoons (sic), Monday, 4 January 2010 00:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
tho just knock the score down to a quarter of the volume and it'll be okay tbh
I was vainly hoping for a score of eerie ambient electronic noises.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Monday, 4 January 2010 02:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, it's the intrusiveness which bugs me, which is surely a failing of some sound editor, rather than Gold himself. THough I, too, would love a return to Radiophonic Workshop ambient weirdo stuff.
― Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats. (James Morrison), Monday, 4 January 2010 02:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
I suppose my problem is more with the mixing than the score itself, but my feelings towards Mr Gold were not greatly improved by that Doctor Who Prom they did (christ knows why I was watching this - that time of day where sitting mindlessly in front of someone else's telly choices is about all I can manage I suppose) mentioning Murray Gold's Amazing Wonderful Doctor Who Theme Tune approx 6000 times, Ron Grainer maybe once, Delia Derbyshire 0 times
― brett favre vs bernard fevre, fite (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 4 January 2010 09:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
i reckon if they're going to rip off windowlicker so badly, they might as well hand over the score-writing duties to mr richard d james - not like he's doing anything much else at the moment except hanging round the synth shed smoking weed
that would be a welcome return to weird radiophonic noises
― Karen Tregaskin, Monday, 4 January 2010 11:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
I really don't know why Moffat would get rid of everything else from the RTD era, but decide that Murray Gold is a keeper.
think his normal footwear will be black boots
The boots are Prada.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 4 January 2010 14:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
All a bit wibbly-wobbly torchy-worchy.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Looks like an old-school Doctor there, right enough
― stet, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
A dalek turned up in "better off ted" this week.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
annoying gingers complaining about doctor who complaining about not-being-ginger giving the rest of us gingers a bad name:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6977818.ece
― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, 7 January 2010 10:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Awesome choice of picture there.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 January 2010 10:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, January 7, 2010 10:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
karen, i was on the fence about your whole steez, but this is the second lame anti-ginger comment in two days, so: get fucked, you highly annoying challops merchant/fake woman.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hearsay and rumours that this series will contain Winston Churchill (could be awful) and Vincent Van Gogh (could be amazing).
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.denofgeek.com/television/393564/doctor_who_new_series_writers_lineup.html
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
That's a decent line-up of writers, especially given that both the Unicorn & The Wasp and School Reunion are underrated episodes.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Set pic from the Vincent Van Gogh episode - http://imgur.com/MpnPR.jpg
There's other ones with what's supposedly the new 'bad wolf' running theme shown, too.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Simon Nye?? o_O
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Chibnall ;_;
― Audrey Wetherspoons (sic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
dear mr. mayne: i AM ginger
this might be why i notice these kinds of things?
― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
am i missing something here or isn't 'karen' pretty obviously masonic boom?
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
portmeirion :o
― conrad, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
“I’ve still got legs. Arms, hands, lots of fingers, eyes, hair,” said Smith, 27, after completing his regeneration from David Tennant. Checking his new look, the eleventh actor to play the Doctor continued: “I’m not a doll. I’m still not ginger.”
what the fucking fuck he said "I'm not a GIRL" not "I'm not a doll" surely
whole show is ruined otherwise
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
the comment on that geek site linked to is rather wrong though - claims that the only historical personages the dr meets are writers?
since when was queen victoria a writer?
― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
chibnall is doing the two-parter? argh
― Roz, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
whilst Chris Chibnall (42) will pen a two-parter.
MEH. six Moffat eps tho, cup runneth over. question is who will be the new him and upstage the head writer?
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
blueski is correct.
Ward the obvious thing you're missing is that Masonic Boom isn't ginger!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
Six episodes is pretty hefty! Rusty usually did, what, four?
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
he did 6 for s4. i guess it means Moffat will write the last 4 or 5, building up to big revelatory arc in similar way.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
No Paul Cornell :(
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:30 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
should i grow a beard?
― joe, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
Get this shit off our nice Doctor Who thread, thx.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
word
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
As a ginger w/no sense of humour I might normally mind that there comment but chose to hear it as slightly funny dig at everyone (apparently every Who watcher ever except on ILX) who takes violent exception to Donna for being, ooh, a bit ginger and over 25, both pretty shocking for a woman who gets allowed to be on the telly
seriously everyone I talk to abt Doctor Who except on here moans endlessly about her being the worst companion ever, which is just a bit silly if you look at the competition, even the nu-Who competition
(xposts) Hm, I was scanning for Cornell too. It says "returnees include" so I don't know if it's completely ruled out or not.
Don't know whether to be excited or worried about new Weeping Angels, since I loved Blink but thought it was very neat as a one-off.
― ⍨ (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
question is who will be the new him and upstage the head writer?
I'm guessing that would be Paul Cornell, but is he actually writing any?
I thought 42 was an okay, certainly non-terrible episode.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Just checked, Rusty wrote five episodes for each of his series.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
don't know if this was addressed on the last thread or not as i walked in just as it was ending but donna is probably my favourite of the companions so far in nu-who not least for being a bit smarter, older, less in thrall to the doctor than rose or martha
didn't expect that at all as i don't rate catherine tate as an actor or a comedian
― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
I second that post.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
We should start a new thread with Who12 speculation. The deal has been done for months i'm guessing but who knows when we'll know about it.
It would be awesome to have a doctor of color (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Paterson Joseph), if I were writing it I would make *him* be the only person distressed that he's now black, that would be hilarious (maybe only to me)
― Brakhage, Saturday, 1 June 2013 21:33 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
We should start a new thread with Who12 speculation.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 June 2013 21:34 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Whoops -- adding to that: yes, will do.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 June 2013 21:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Done:
Your Doctor Who No. 12 casting speculation thread
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 June 2013 21:36 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 June 2013 21:37 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 June 2013 21:39 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
But how do you REALLY feel
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 June 2013 21:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 June 2013 22:00 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
:( :( Love, love Matt Smith, just wish his run had better stories overall.
― Roz, Saturday, 1 June 2013 22:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
OTM great doctor shit stories
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 1 June 2013 22:28 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
one dimensional doctor shit stories
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 1 June 2013 22:31 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i saw a montage of clips from this season & it served as a reminder of how shit so many of those stories were
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2013 22:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22769384
choice
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 17:10 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I heard this news the day before Matt Smith announced he was leaving, I thought the timing was kind of lolarious - "I want to be in a Marvel movie too!"
Or maybe filming in Michigan has been so splendid that he just never wants to leave.
― ...also i'm awesome (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 17:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
...while we wait:
http://io9.com/the-most-exciting-doctor-who-rumor-in-years-513435868
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 June 2013 18:36 (5 days ago) Permalink
I pretty much refuse to talk about that because if it turns out to be false I am going to cry for a year
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Friday, 14 June 2013 18:40 (5 days ago) Permalink
omg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 June 2013 18:47 (5 days ago) Permalink
also DJP otm
the sheer implausible scale of that rumour (assuming it's the one that's been going for the last two months and keeps being denied by the main episode-hunter-guy) makes it ludicrous to even consider.
can you imagine getting just Evil Of The Daleks ep 1 though? The Doctor and Jamie go antiquing for 20 minutes!
― pink, fleshy, and gleeful (sic), Friday, 14 June 2013 22:14 (5 days ago) Permalink
3/4 Beatles not impressed
― no man is an islam (onimo), Friday, 14 June 2013 23:49 (5 days ago) Permalink
part of me hopes it's true just to see sic speechless <3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 June 2013 01:38 (4 days ago) Permalink
Yeah a lot of people have been pointing out many of those episodes never aired in Africa... but damn, if it were true!!!
― Set the controls for the fart of the pun (Viceroy), Saturday, 15 June 2013 02:59 (4 days ago) Permalink
um apropos of nothing except: this happened today on twitter and it was awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:01 (4 days ago) Permalink