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

Wow, playing in 13 theaters in the metro Atlanta area. Hell yes.

did you get to see Prince in a nightclub?

Of course I did!

also just bought tix for Boston

I'll inform my wife later, lol

he did one aftershow in Sydney last year, where they sold about 100 tix for a 2000 capacity club bcz the owner is a multimillionaire cock who likes showing off

he did about five in Melbourne :(

considered cinema screening, but not sure whether i want to be angry in 3d

you liked Name right?

Yeah our crew had a bit of an adventure out here -- everything locked down in the site, nothing coming up for a preferred location. Happily someone noticed a fallback location that was accepting orders that was about the same distance away so we're good. (We didn't even bother with the Saturday simulcast -- only one theater in all of OC showing that and I figured trying would be a disaster, which by all accounts it was.)

you liked Name right?

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yeah, so 1/8

managed to get simulcast tickets in SF after they added a second screening. see no point in going to this on Monday when I'll undoubtedly have already watched the thing twice. excited.

Oh neat! Did they open up another venue or was it the same one?

yeah, so 1/8

well part 1 of this story was my point

(but of course you'll be furious at it no matter the content or quality, <3 )

i don't want to be!

same one, just a second screen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01l9ntt

Space battles look a bit Star Wars prequel, but would be lying if I said I wasn't excited for this

parts of this will be delightful

PSYCHED imo

Saw a trailer for this before a movie. I have never seen anything to do with in public (living in America) and it got me SUPER excited.

anything to do with Dr. Who in public

am very looking forward. can't go to 3d screening in cinema as have little baby, but will be watching it at 3am or whatever time it's shown in Australia

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-11-11/doctor-who-writers-son-challenges-bbc-tardis-rights

There seem to be "minisodes" all over Youtube, etc, that I had no idea existed. Search 'Clara and the TARDIS', 'The Infomarium', 'The Rain Gods', 'Strax and Zygons'. Some seem to be filmed from a movie screen, so not sure where they were shown, but still...

The Stef Coburn stuff's pretty odd, partly because there's plenty of freely available evidence that the Tardis idea was already in place before his father was even contracted to write any episodes (eg this memo, which predates Coburn's involvement by two months), and partly because of this crazy stuff.

blimey.

Viewers with interests which could be described as WIGGY may want to seek out the Night Of The Doctor minisode straight away.

I know of at least one person who won't be happy now that's canon...

Ah Christ, that minisode and the new trailer have just ratcheted up my excitement another few notches.

There's been an interesting debate online about just how much the idea that it's the 50th anniversary has made it outside of fandom. Have things like the savetheday hashtag, and even the Capaldi reveal, obscured the anniversary so that your average mug punter just thinks this is the Smith/Capaldi regeneration and the start of a new series?

I dunno, I think it's been promoted pretty well for the most part, it's been covered heavily all year so far as I can make out. Hadn't considered that the Capaldi reveal might have obscured the anniversary, if anything it seemed to draw more attention to it. I expect the Beeb'll go beserk for it in the final week

Still can't read Capaldi's name without thinking "OH MAH GAWD HE'S OOGLY" and giggling

That mini episode was UTTERLY UTTERLY UTTERLY GREAT.

Was it a list of big finish companions who also just got brought into canon?

It's been promoted as *something*, but has ot really been promoted as an anniversary to the general public? Rather than #savetheday, wouldn't #dw50 or something have made more sense?

There's been the tv special too I suppose, that ought to add clarity. Idk though, is Joe Public really that bothered that this is a particularly significant year for Doctor Who? I mean by the look of it this episode isn't exactly going to be accessible to people just looking in for the occasion.

The anniversary episode is never super accessible to non-fans

Also, the Big Finish companions get to be canon but Sam, Fitz, Anji, Compassion and Trix don't?

"The anniversary episode is never super accessible to non-fans"

Well yeah, and as a fan I have to say that I'm delighted by that.

But in terms of a discussion about how well the event itself has been promoted I think you should probably factor in that this looks set to be a particularly esoteric, exclusive episode of a fairly esoteric, exclusive programme, and therefore not of tremendous appeal to the wider public even if you do promote the shit out of it.

There's a certain level of "this has been an institution for 50 years" that mitigates some of that IMO. Also, in the US Doctor Who has never been more popular or embraced than it is now; Matt Smith was voted onto the cover of TV Guide this year as part of reader's choice poll, which would have been unthinkable during the show's initial run.

Haha McGann is still so shit at this.

Have things like the savetheday hashtag, and even the Capaldi reveal, obscured the anniversary so that your average mug punter just thinks this is the Smith/Capaldi regeneration and the start of a new series?

Importantly, who gives a shit?

mini-lol at wigmeister's audio companions getting brought in but his BF costume being denied (AMAZING job of making the old one look non-rubbish though!)

especially odd since I figured from end of Name Of The Doctor that Hurt was either an aged Eight or next regen specifically because his costume looked like the current one!

and even the Capaldi reveal, obscured the anniversary so that your average mug punter just thinks this is the Smith/Capaldi regeneration and the start of a new series?

Yeah my housemate asked where Capaldi was when the trailer came on TV, and was quite surprised to learn the regeneration isn't due for a while.

Wish McGann was the Doctor, he is effortlessly superior to Eccleston, Tennant, and Smith put together after just three minutes. Well maybe not Eccleston.

I agree with "different", disagree with "superior"

He does look more like my platonic ideal of The Doctor template than Tennant or Smith though, and I like that they managed to import some of the extreme pathos from the book line into a three minute appearance.

Meantime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEwikIhEZrE

It maybe that six minutes is about as long as a Doctor Who episode needs to be.

But seriously, McGann kicks so much ass in the Big Finish audios. As does Colin Baker.

Colin is the best BF Doctor by miles and miles

omg I just watched Night of the Doctor weee that was v exciting

<3 <3 Paul McGann <3 <3

I like to imagine legions of merchandisers clutching their heads as they realize everything they make now has the wrong Dr number associated with it

whoops, forgot: Moff sez “The Doctor numbering stays exactly the same”

Much love for McGann over here, love the TV pilot and the audio stuff

tho I gotta say, if I drank a magic potion with ‘be a warrior’ on it John Hurt is not exactly who I would be expecting to become