Yeah but the way they put seasons together has changed since then. It would be unthinkable to have the Doctor regenerate midway through a series these days.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Friday, 2 July 2010 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Peri suffered a fate worse than death, actually.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 2 July 2010 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I think fewer people watch early-evening TV in the summer - particularly on the big festival weekends and especially when the weather is good. I wish they would run Who in the autumn-to-Christmas zone instead.
― Vuvuzilla (suzy), Friday, 2 July 2010 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Also would be scarier.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 2 July 2010 09:52 (thirteen years ago) link
this is obv an issue, so suggest starting a Dr Who thread w/"spoilers" in the title if you want to talk about not-yet-shown-on-screen stuff.
― stet, Friday, 2 July 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah there was competition on all sides what with World Cup, Wimbledon, Glastonbury and the sunny weather, the latter being a pretty big deal given they'd moved it to an earlier time when most people would still have been out and about.
(There was similar handwringing when viewing figures slumped to 6m during Tennant's first season, wouldn't worry about it)
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Friday, 2 July 2010 10:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone know what viewing figures were like in the late 80s?
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 2 July 2010 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Grisly. At one point it was something like the 140th most watched programme of the week.
― Groke, Friday, 2 July 2010 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, in the 80s it aired at 9pm, and that's when the pool closed, so I usually missed the beginning of most stories.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 2 July 2010 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
In terms of the actual numbers though the gap wasn't so huge - Who gets final ratings of 7m or so now, 8m on a good week: at its worst in the 80s it was doing half that I think. But 7-8m now for a drama is still OMG territory.
― Groke, Friday, 2 July 2010 10:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/ratings.html - there you go.
― Groke, Friday, 2 July 2010 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, they're great. Never realised City of Death was the most-watched as well as the best-regarded, it probably bucks a trend in that sense.
And omg, I don't know whether I've made this connection before, but Season 23 is the point I stopped watching as a lad...and that's also the year it started airing against Coronation Street, right? ie I didn't lose interest so much as my mum stopped letting us have it on!
― JimD, Friday, 2 July 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Gaiman is kind of a hack, I don't know why people are so hotly anticipating his episode.
― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Saturday, 3 July 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
That's my take on him too tbh.
― Portugal vs Brazil: a game of two Alves (aldo), Saturday, 3 July 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
He's an occasionally brilliant writer, hoping Dr Who will bring the brilliance out. His work can be quite hackish, but just look at some of his stuff - a hack could never have written Coraline, for example.
And Gaiman at his hackiest is way more interesting than a Chris Chibnall or Helen Raynor.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Sunday, 4 July 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
graveyard book was trash
― ampersand (remy bean), Sunday, 4 July 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, considering the size of Sandman, I'd say very occasionally.
― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Sunday, 4 July 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
No-one seems to have clocked to the part where the Doctor claims Pandorum is a fairy tale and River says something like arent we all??
A fairy tale (time)rewritten by someone who used to write loads of stories about the raggedy doctor, who turns out to be the most important person when time (or stories of the Doctor) needs to be rewritten.
Sorry but I'm on some 4th wall, postmoderney-woderney reading of all this. I think the creating of a Raggedy Doctor fairytale by Pond will be the end of season make-it-all-better device.
I still think I was close enough with this idea, but as I was cribbing from Final Crisis pretty heavily, It all must be organised by some Scottish re-boot cabal of which Moffat & Morrison are part of.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 5 July 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FULL-LIFE-SIZE-DALEK-LICENSED-PLUS-EXTRAS-/130400802511?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1e5c7e56cf
please watch the video. its hilarious. (wont spoil it by quoting it here)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 July 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, great!
― Nhex, Sunday, 11 July 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Goddamn that thing is amazing, it even has gas??
― Brakhage, Sunday, 11 July 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
depends what you feed it
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 July 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, that Dalek sounds a bit like David Bowie.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
who also used to wear a ....;)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 11 July 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Shadow isn't a Silurian.― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 20:02 (1 month ago)
― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 20:02 (1 month ago)
What is it?
― oh shit a ◕‿‿◕ (sic), Monday, 12 July 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/12/doctor-who-christmas-special
― THIS BOOK EQUAL CONJOB (suzy), Monday, 12 July 2010 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
"the most Christmassy Christmas special"
ruh-roh
― postcards from the (ledge), Monday, 12 July 2010 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd prefer the most timey-wimey christmas special
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 12 July 2010 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I think this means Moffatt will be going for all-out children's Christmassy magic, rather than RTD's "sit around the turkey bickering" idea of Christmas.
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 July 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I have no idea who Katherine Jenkins is.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 12 July 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Singer. Face made of Botox.
― ailsa, Monday, 12 July 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Always meant to post this for Aldohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq32PJHZNYo
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Welsh chick looks full-on Ginger Spice in that promo shot, minus the hair-dye.
― Don Homer (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, hadn't heard that before. Could have made the lead line a bit more Jus Osborn solo-y to up thew doom effort, but good effort.
Whoever was asking about the graveyard shadow, it was supposed to be explained in The Big Bang that it was the Future Doctor (as was the same shadow in The Eleventh Hour) but since there were more unexplained things from the series that were supposed to be explained in The Big Bang than an unexplained things from the series that were supposed to be explained in The Big Bang convention it'll either get mentioned in Series 6 or, erm, won't. OMG may well still be a thing.
― Hey Jabulani! Pope of four four two. (aldo), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link
supposed by whom?
― oh sh!t a ¯\⎝⏠___⏠⎠/¯ (sic), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Supposed by the people who know these things.
― Hey Jabulani! Pope of four four two. (aldo), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://avatars.ravelrycache.com/hamstergal/31045166/rorywedding_large.png
― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^I think this is the funniest avatar I have ever seen
― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm reckoning it was the Silurian.
― oh sh!t a ¯\⎝⏠___⏠⎠/¯ (sic), Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Has Moff mentioned anywhere what kinda direction they're going to go with Rory's character? Is he still going to be kinda an Arthur Dent hapless fifth wheel or did 2,000 years of being a Blitz-surviving Centurion actually toughen the boy up?
― Don Homer (kingfish), Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Nothing's been said, but then we don't actually know what the current position is with him anyway. You can hear him say to Amy's mother at the wedding "I used to be made of plastic...", but how much he actually remembers I have no idea. Although I really liked him, he was mainly used to double the zing potential in his first series.
― Hey Jabulani! Pope of four four two. (aldo), Thursday, 15 July 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Of course it was a bloody Silurian. Good grief.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone else heard the rumour that Nicky Wire is set to write an episode of Doctor Who? Not sure if banana suits will be involved.
― emil.y, Thursday, 22 July 2010 12:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.manicstreetpreachers.com/global/blogs/diary/2010/07/21/nickys_blog_july
"I’ve been trying to write a script for Doctor Who called 'Do Not Go Gently', Wire writes on the Manics' website. "The idea is centred around Dylan Thomas's last days in New York. Of course it's going to have a massive f**king monster in it too."
Has everyone seen this?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_3rsEwYVE
No-one's really matched Delia Derbyshire for eerie, spectral whooshing have they?
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
That cheesy Rory avatar is still making me laugh. I can't believe he has such a fan following.
― ô_o (Nicole), Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I still think the Derbyshire version is the best TV theme ever. The Jon Pertwee one with the kazoo is such a mis-step it almost works, oddly enough.
― The great big red thing, for those who like a surprise (James Morrison), Thursday, 22 July 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the late T Baker/Davison one. Cool synth sounds.
Was that absurd Pertwee one ever even broadcast? I've never heard it before, and I've watched a fair bit of Third Doctor.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 22 July 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
they did a delaware version in '73 or so that never(?) got broadcast but turned up on the recent Dr Who At The BBC cds (vol 1) - delia using a synth rather than the tapes of the original. starts at 1.06 in the video above.
the analogue effects in that video > the digital versions. baker and davidson seem very dated whereas the earlier ones somehow don't. but they do pick up again afterwards
― koogs, Friday, 23 July 2010 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
having nightmares about starface mccoy winking at me
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 23 July 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Starface McCoy would be an excellent hipster band name.
― trishyb, Friday, 23 July 2010 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link