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
Conrad: The "Portmeirion" sign should be ignored. It's just a point of sale banner for Portmeirion pottery in the window of the shop at Cardiff Millennium Centre (for that's where that particular scene was filmed). The rest of said episode was filmed in Croatia.
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
But on topic, fuck a Crayons Chibnall two parter :(
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
:o
― conrad, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
the planet Croatia i hope
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
The other thing to remember is that Rusty rewrote or got people to revise scripts to fit his view of how the series should be and presumably Moffatt will do the same. So a Chibnall script for Moffatt could end up quite different to a Chibnall script for Davies.
Looking forward to the Gatiss one, given that Rusty apparently trashed his original script for The Unquiet Dead and made him take out a lot of the darker bits.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
there's still strong anti-donna sentiment out there? i knew there was circa "Runaway Bride" but i thought people had gotten over it during S4. anyway i loved her and apparently i've self-selected places on the internet to go where everyone else loves her too.
― Euclidian pizza mathematics (reddening), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
does this also mean that moffat written script w/o rusty looking over his shoulder could be different from the moffat we've grown to expect?
― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
Rusty said he didn't change Moffatt's scripts at all, so maybe not.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
half-serious point but presumably now there will be fewer gay references? the occasional background character notwithstanding. i just can't imagine anyone consciously inserting gayness into proceedings with half as much vigour as Rusty.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
"inserting", "vigour"
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
ITS LIKE I'M HIM
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
If only Frankie Howerd had ever been offered the Doctor Who gig.
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
Worth bearing in mind Moffatt wrote the series' first gay ref in The Empty Child and also pretty much outed the Master in that mini Davison ep. So you never know… Plus Moffatt loves to troll the stuffier fans so I wouldn't put it past him to try and outdo Rusty for the lulz.
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think Moffat just writes better and more subtle innuendos generally tbh
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
I know :(
At least it isn't Helen Raynor. That's the only way it could be worse.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
Example of said trolling - the series 5 trailer. He punches someone! He kisses a girl! He fires a gun! SM must have known how those three things would piss off a certain type.
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
yes, it was all to empthasise how this Doctor was different (apart from the kissing girls thing).
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I had to look up the name of the dude who wrote "Fear Her", he'd be worse.
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think Moffat just writes better and more subtle innuendos generally tbh― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, January 7, 2010 1:18 PM (1 minute ago)
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, January 7, 2010 1:18 PM (1 minute ago)
Fair point.
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
From the clip it looks like a girl kisses him and he's all like omg a gurl. xps
― DavidM, Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
I had to look up the name of the dude who wrote "Fear Her", he'd be worse.― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 7, 2010 1:21 PM (11 seconds ago)
― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 7, 2010 1:21 PM (11 seconds ago)
Matthew Graham, creator and writer of Life On Mars. Lousy episode, not helped by how he totally misjudged the tone of the show (and like Moffatt, Chibnall and Greenhorn had a "no rewrites by RTD" clause in his contract). Also, poor casting and Euros Lyn's "LETS DUTCH TILT EVERY SHOT" style made a 50p episode look even cheaper :(
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
I agree I'd far prefer to see storytelling with more room to breathe and worldbuilding that justifes the expense of sets btw!
― ¬╡▫ ▫╞⌠ (sic), Friday, 24 May 2013 05:56 (Yesterday) Permalink
I've been Netflixing a lot of New Generation lately -- amazing how (in the good episodes) they manage to combine a, b & c plots, action stuff, worldbuilding, "room to breathe" scenes,e tc. all in 44 mins - and that's with a much larger cast too.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 24 May 2013 09:07 (Yesterday) Permalink