Sea Devils And Die: GeroniMoffat's Doctor Who In The 2010s

if it's set in present-times, there's another timeline crunch for aldo to annotate (though last series' reset button gives them a bunch of leeway)

OR DOES IT, HMM?

I am only going to lurk this year btw. Until I explode in a fit of pique.

Moffatt did do a bunch of in-story handwaving to waft away the remaining aroma of Rusty's continuity excesses, with which he'd been lumbered. (Though he doesn't seem overly arsed about sticking firmly to a new chronology in the wake of that.)

Maybe you and AA can have an irrationally angry about Dr Who thread to vent in?

From the side, I thought it was President Logan from 24 at first.

Would very much like a separate Doctor Who IA thread, tbh (not to participate in, just to read)

xp not watching it this year, staying out of thread &c.

Reel to reel tape recorder suggests nixon era, as does voice (kinda), nose.

I've forgotten everything I suppose I'm supposed to remember from the last series.

yeah, am sure it's meant to be Nixon if any real or real-world-analogue PUSA

I've forgotten everything I suppose I'm supposed to remember from the last series.

Hooray, the rewriting of time and the cracks have worked!

I figured Logan in 24 was based on Nixon as well, so I wasn't far off.

I think we need a new thread for the new series...

VETO

(Spoiler alert/warning)Oh snap.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2009/12/SHIT-JUST-GOT-REAL-GIF.gif

He's denied it already btw.

it's actually "The Doctor's Sister-Wife"

It's "The Doctor's Wilf", about the fan theory regarding Bernard Cribbins' character, whose name was an anagram of TIMELORD WTF.

Also, this title has form. JNT used it more than once to try and pin leaks down to a specific individual.

please let's not spoiler here

First story set in 1969, so Nixon

Would like to see Ice Warriors again, since a baddies race that actually aren't baddies is more interesting, and they kind of muffed the Silurians comeback by giving it to a dud writer

though it was really obvious it was Nixon from the clip tbh!

Any Ice Warriors story on a TV budget is going to fall short against The Dying Days.

If they do the Ice Warriors, they should totally try to get Emma Thompson to show up as an older version of Benny

so when are they bringing bonnie langford back then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vIsQ25Krq8

most interesting wtf glimpse occurs at 37 seconds

also what might be a MINOTAUR

the return of NIMON

The season trailers never fail to get me super stoked.

I am super stoked to see ǝןoɔ ʎןıן and Karen Gillan lez up

lily cole has a face like a sullen pudding, so not so much interested in that, thanks

but also super stoked by trailer in general

I didn't see the lezzing up in the trailer. I too am super stoked by that (as much as non-porn lezzing up can ever be super-stoking) but yeh, the whole trailer looks fun. Sad clown sitting on the bed was a bit Shining, I'[ve got high hopes for this series.

most interesting wtf glimpse occurs at 37 seconds

The bloke from Outcasts? BBC SF mashup!

Also, was that a glimpse of the clown from the painting in the hall in the Corden episode?

A bit too stoked for this as well...

Wasn't the clown the Doctor?

Kids + "look behind you" sounds a bit tired-Moffat to me, but I will try to keep the faith.

i'll probably never get tired of that but am trying to keep the faith re Doctor saving himself paradoxes

Possible spoilery talk follows, please ignore if required ...

The back-of-the-DVD text for the first 7 eps mentions a bubble universe containing an old friend with a new face -- are we talking a certain person once played by Mrs Richard Dawkins here?

http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/000/080/640/original/the_angels_have_the_phone_box_by_tess_san-d2z001b.jpg%3F1288750898

http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/000/080/640/original/the_angels_have_the_phone_box_by_tess_san-d2z001b.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12969897

"Children absolutely rank Doctor Who stories in order of frightening-ness - that's what it's about.

"You put the jokes in and the silly bits in for the adults and you put the scares in for the kids."

2-month break in the middle of the series sucks. I suppose it means they don't have to worry about running it in the school holidays/height of summer.

I am annoyed by this too -- a lot of the US cable series do this, and it is never not irritating.

There's no (well, very little) continuity across episodes, though, so I see it as a way of just drawing out the pleasure. It would suck if it were all over in three months.

http://www.denofgeek.com/television/837935/doctor_who_series_6_episodes_1_2_spoilerfree_review.html

^^^ exciting

Not reading that. For the first time since 2005 I'm going into this series without knowing anything about any of the episodes.

i think the 2 month break is an awesome plan. esp as it means who in autumn WHEN IT IS MEANT TO BE ON

Episode titles aren't spoilers, right?

1. The Impossible Astronaut (pt1, Steven Moffat)
2. Day of the Moon (pt2, Steven Moffat)
3. The Curse of the Black Spot (Steve Thompson)
4. The Doctor's Wife (Neil Gaiman)
5. The Rebel Flesh (pt1, Matthew Graham)
6. The Almost People (pt2, Matthew Graham)
7. A Good Man Goes To War (Steven Moffat)

No, they only are when I mention them. In fact, Dan and I got a NO SPOILERS for referring even obliquely to the title of the Gaiman ep. It's enough to make you think there's a conspiracy.

In fact, on 28th March.

The prequel to the first ep (which it's not clear if you need to watch) is on the website btw.

No, they only are when I mention them. In fact, Dan and I got a NO SPOILERS for referring even obliquely to the title of the Gaiman ep. It's enough to make you think there's a conspiracy.

― I said Omorotic, not homo-erotic (aldo), Friday, 8 April 2011 03:55

lol, because I was asleep at A QUARTER TO FOUR IN THE MORNING and not leaping onto the internet in case you took longer than nine minutes to reply? I accidentally read the last one of those titles while scrolling past, and I am indeed mildly annoyed about knowing it.

[and thus being able to draw inferences about characters and plots that might be in an episode TWO MONTHS AWAY, and which will have been built up to by SIX PREVIOUS EPISODES about which I know nothing. except that one's in puɐןɐɔıɹǝɯɐ]

a bunch of us ITT have said that we rly like avoiding reading anything about upcoming Who, and thus bringing a sense of fresh, childlike wonder to our viewing, because a) we are all sappy nostalgists about watching the show as kids and b) it is designed to reward that attitude so why not meet it halfway. it's about a way some people enjoy the show, that happens to not be the way others like and choose to enjoy the show - it's nothing personal about you!

you big nerdy mentalist you.