Ok im gonna have to watch "Brain of Morbius" stat! Also i need to catch up on my post-Tom Baker Doctors.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 November 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
I think I have muddled in my head Barry Letts and Christopher Barry's likenesses. Also I'm pretty sure Graham Harper is the one before Douglas Camfield.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Saturday, 16 November 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
Haha I never knew the Morbius faces were production staff, that's awesome
― guitar is coffee (DJP), Saturday, 16 November 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
It's funny how collective fandom decided that one-episode throwaway would become canon forever, but the earlier Doctors one-episode throwaway would be forgotten.
Well, to be fair, fandom didn't decide that. The showrunners did, by making multiple references to the 12-regeneration limit before the reboot started, and the First Doctor being explicitly called such multiple times as well.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 16 November 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
that plural is misplaced*, I don't think anyone used it again until JNT, during the Bidmead season, and then still only in the context of The Master -- which context of course showed inherently and textually that the "limit" wasn't actually a limit. It didn't become a tedious embedded part of show canon until L3v1ne got his fingers into the continuity, and the Time Lords started appearing every third story and being exactly the same every time, instead of almost completely different every time as they had been under Dicks' and Holmes' various influences. (come to think, Terrance might actually be responsible for this - if he used it in more than one Target novel, that's all the reinforcement it would have needed. ISTR the Morbius novel being explicit about the earlier faces not being all Morbs' though?) *apart from the noun not being a thing that existed at the time but u kno
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Saturday, 16 November 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
sic, one day i'm buying you a beer for that big finish summary.
also: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-11-15/doctor-who-50th-anniversary-david-tennant-and-billie-piper-named-best-doctor-and-companion
Best DoctorActor %David Tennant 56.1Matt Smith 15.93Tom Baker 10.05Christopher Eccleston 6.59Patrick Troughton 2.86Jon Pertwee 2.38Peter Davison 1.59Sylvester McCoy 1.36Paul McGann 1.35William Hartnell 0.9Colin Baker 0.88Best ComapnionCharacter / Actor %Rose Tyler - Billie Piper 25.09Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen 15.42Donna Noble - Catherine Tate 12.32River Song - Alex Kingston 9.09Amy Pond - Karen Gillan 4.79Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines 4.1Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman 3.49Ace - Sophie Aldred 3.09Clara Oswald - Jenna-Louise Coleman 2.65Martha Jones - Freema Agyeman 2.54(Colonel then) Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart - Nicholas Courtney 2.39Romana - Mary Tamm, Lalla Ward 1.89Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill 1.8Wilfred Mott - Bernard Cribbins 1.26K-9 - John Leeson, David Brierley 1.14Jo Grant - Katy Manning 1.01Leela - Louise Jameson 0.97Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding 0.83Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant 0.73Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill 0.67Ian Chesterton - William Russell 0.51Nyssa - Sarah Sutton 0.49Adric - Matthew Waterhouse 0.48Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford 0.44Harry Sullivan - Ian Marter 0.42Strax - Dan Starkey 0.34Turlough - Mark Strickson 0.31Liz Shaw - Caroline John 0.28Craig Owens - James Corden 0.25Madame Vastra - Neve McIntosh 0.15Dr Grace Holloway - Daphne Ashbrook 0.11Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford 0.1Mickey Smith - Noel Clarke 0.1Lady Christina de Souza - Michelle Ryan 0.1Vicki - Maureen O'Brien 0.08Steven Taylor - Peter Purves 0.08Polly - Anneke Wills 0.07Jackson Lake - David Morrissey 0.07Sergeant Benton - John Levene 0.06Jenny Flint - Catrin Stewart 0.06Dodo Chaplet - Jackie Lane 0.04Adam Mitchell - Bruno Langley 0.04Captain Adelaide Brooke - Lindsay Duncan 0.04Ben Jackson - Michael Craze 0.03Astrid Peth - Kylie Minogue 0.03Katarina - Adrienne Hill 0.01Captain Mike Yates - Richard Franklin 0.01Kamelion - Gerald Flood 0.01Sara Kingdom - Jean Marsh 0.01Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury 0Victoria Waterfield - Deborah Watling 0
Actor %
David Tennant 56.1Matt Smith 15.93Tom Baker 10.05Christopher Eccleston 6.59Patrick Troughton 2.86Jon Pertwee 2.38Peter Davison 1.59Sylvester McCoy 1.36Paul McGann 1.35William Hartnell 0.9Colin Baker 0.88
Best Comapnion
Character / Actor %
Rose Tyler - Billie Piper 25.09Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen 15.42Donna Noble - Catherine Tate 12.32River Song - Alex Kingston 9.09Amy Pond - Karen Gillan 4.79Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines 4.1Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman 3.49Ace - Sophie Aldred 3.09Clara Oswald - Jenna-Louise Coleman 2.65Martha Jones - Freema Agyeman 2.54(Colonel then) Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart - Nicholas Courtney 2.39Romana - Mary Tamm, Lalla Ward 1.89Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill 1.8Wilfred Mott - Bernard Cribbins 1.26K-9 - John Leeson, David Brierley 1.14Jo Grant - Katy Manning 1.01Leela - Louise Jameson 0.97Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding 0.83Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant 0.73Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill 0.67Ian Chesterton - William Russell 0.51Nyssa - Sarah Sutton 0.49Adric - Matthew Waterhouse 0.48Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford 0.44Harry Sullivan - Ian Marter 0.42Strax - Dan Starkey 0.34Turlough - Mark Strickson 0.31Liz Shaw - Caroline John 0.28Craig Owens - James Corden 0.25Madame Vastra - Neve McIntosh 0.15Dr Grace Holloway - Daphne Ashbrook 0.11Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford 0.1Mickey Smith - Noel Clarke 0.1Lady Christina de Souza - Michelle Ryan 0.1Vicki - Maureen O'Brien 0.08Steven Taylor - Peter Purves 0.08Polly - Anneke Wills 0.07Jackson Lake - David Morrissey 0.07Sergeant Benton - John Levene 0.06Jenny Flint - Catrin Stewart 0.06Dodo Chaplet - Jackie Lane 0.04Adam Mitchell - Bruno Langley 0.04Captain Adelaide Brooke - Lindsay Duncan 0.04Ben Jackson - Michael Craze 0.03Astrid Peth - Kylie Minogue 0.03Katarina - Adrienne Hill 0.01Captain Mike Yates - Richard Franklin 0.01Kamelion - Gerald Flood 0.01Sara Kingdom - Jean Marsh 0.01Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury 0Victoria Waterfield - Deborah Watling 0
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 17 November 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury 0
Obviously being crazy was a prerequisite for entering the survey.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Sunday, 17 November 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
Tom Baker over Matt Smith? the hell you sau
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 November 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
say
don't say
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Sunday, 17 November 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link
Romana - Mary Tamm, Lalla Ward
oh come on, you can't split up Romana I and II? what a weak survey.
― Viceroy, Sunday, 17 November 2013 03:13 (ten years ago) link
adric beat strax
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 17 November 2013 03:51 (ten years ago) link
I don't think anyone used it again until JNT, during the Bidmead season, and then still only in the context of The Master -- which context of course showed inherently and textually that the "limit" wasn't actually a limit.
I was thinking of Mawdryn Undead where the fact that the Doctor is the Fifth Doctor and has eight regenerations left is pretty explicit, it is a plot point. I don't know much about the behind-the-scenes stuff, but it clearly wasn't something the fans just took from the Deadly Assassin and nothing else.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 17 November 2013 05:59 (ten years ago) link
ie me otm.
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Sunday, 17 November 2013 10:13 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/rEmm6UP5G88
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
Fuck, I can never get these bastards to embed.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
Just paste in the "long" Youtube link, a la:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEmm6UP5G88
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
giant spoiler is out for the 50th but I won't actually mention it here. if you search around you'll find it. no idea if it's true.
― akm, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 02:20 (ten years ago) link
went to a Waris Hussein Q&A on Sunday, and later stood beside him while watching a staged recreation of An Unearthly Child.
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 09:26 (ten years ago) link
I realised I didn't actually care about spoilering the episode for myself that much and had a look and it turns out that a) that is a massive spoiler and b) I really, really hope it happens.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 10:24 (ten years ago) link
other ppl itt might care tho so pls guys
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 10:29 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I'm not going to mention it here.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 10:29 (ten years ago) link
I'm assuming this is the one that was in Bleeding Cool yesterday, that the individual in came from said the BBC had explicitly asked him not to release it but fuck'em?
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Not a spoiler, rather a new minisode:
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/11/the-last-day-201113103008.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
The clip is currently listed for £2.49 in the United Kingdom store, or for free in the United States.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/abunay/FunnyStuff/WTF-DoctorWho.gif
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
Check the update: confirmed mistake, free everywhere now.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
Or just go here
http://io9.com/the-time-war-is-hell-in-the-newest-doctor-who-minisode-1468384384
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
so not worth paying for too feel bad for those who did.
― akm, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
Taylor Parkes in the Quietus on that which is the Doctor. Nice overall reflection, really.
http://thequietus.com/articles/13940-dr-who-anniversary-bbc-taylor-parkes
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 November 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
There is very little about that article that is "nice" IMO.
― deX! (DJP), Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Very curmudgeon Brit article. Not that it's all unfair, but there's a lot of nostalgia for the pain suffered of being a "real fan" as a kid or whatever.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Has there been any talk of the bio play thing that debuts tomorrow night or the Matt Smith & Carla presented historic overview that Bbc3 repeat tomorrow?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
aAiSaT is on tonight, not tomorrow and is followed by aUC (and Tribe of Gum).
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
Grumpy fan is grumpy = that Quietus thing
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
aAiSaT is on tonight
Tomorrow in the US.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
Poster said BBC3 which made me assume he was a Brit. (Don't have jaymc.xls to hand to know by name)
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Thursday, 21 November 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
Right, had it as tomorrow, just got in and found out I've missed first load of it and presumably the Matt Smith history thing. Shit.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Well, that was lovely. Don't miss it.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Thursday, 21 November 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
I hope it is getting reshown before too long. Missed the first half but what I saw was great.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 21 November 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
What is it that you are talking about? Out of the UK right now.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 21 November 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
The Gatiss docudrama about the Hartnell era.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Thursday, 21 November 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah I really want to watch that.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 21 November 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
Meantime:
https://www.google.co.nz/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 November 2013 00:05 (ten years ago) link
As I quipped on Bookface: This week is all about sending an "it gets better" message back in time to the adolescent me in the mid-'80s as he shame-facedly struggles to stay awake watching a 6-part Hartnell episode on Iowa Public Television at 10:00 on a Friday night...
― Young Marble Index (zero of the signified), Friday, 22 November 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
<3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 November 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
my earliest memory of Dr Who is seeing the end credits when I was waiting for one of the other kid's shows on the govt-run channel ABC to star. And that big silver tunnel and the music SCARED the crap out of me.
my next memory was glimpsing part of an episode where Tom Baker encountered a monster that looked like a huge moving pile of black plastic seaweed. I had nightmares about that thing.
eventually I was old enough to watch it and enjoy it, but I didn't watch it regularly enough to always follow the storylines, I don't think I really got that they were serialized until I was much older.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 November 2013 03:32 (ten years ago) link
Meanwhile, anyone think this is going to go anywhere?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP3Bu4sCRvY
(Sons of Gallifrey, a pilot being developed not by the BBC, but involving some Who people, allegedly about a young doctor and master).
― akm, Friday, 22 November 2013 07:32 (ten years ago) link
Is Rusty behind that? (Can't watch YouTube at work) I think in A Writer's tale has says about how his final Who dream was to produce a Young Master 'n' Doc series set on Gallifrey - inspired in a large part by the success of the JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot. NB this may be the source idea for his Wizards vs Aliens series.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Friday, 22 November 2013 08:02 (ten years ago) link
I haven't watched Hartnell who in a couple of years so can't remember if he drops the more negative traits of his personality. Was surprised by things like the underhanded way he tried to do a couple of things in that first story, like the picking up a rock when the 60s pair are trying to help the stricken caveman who's just been through a fight with the unseen animal. Also his lack of practicality in things like creating fire without matches. Would think there would be things he'd have picked up along his travels if his superior intellect couldn't work them out for himself. Wondered if they were things that were got rid of as the character was further developed after that first story, or if feedback from the audience would be likely to sway anything, if it were negative about those things. Interesting to note both the Doctor and Susan announcing it was strange that the Tardis hadn't changed its camouflage. I take it that is being kept as that design currently (2000s) for sentimental reasons rather than because there is a problem with the circuit? Not sure what current back story is. Also that the word TARDIS was claimed to be an acronym coined by Susan in that first story, that has presumably been changed now? I guess there wasn't necessarily more than one of them being thought to exist at the time. The Dr mentions they are in exile but not sure if Gallifrey and the Timelords had been coined that early. There presumably is a text that is thought of as definitive on things like this is there? Not looked too deeply at the 50th Anniversary specials, them all seeming prohibitively expensive.
I also noted that the beginning of the first programme seemed to be a more in depth play than I was expecting. Things like the schoolkids having a little intrigue as you go by them before arriving at the character you were being introduced to were a nice touch.
― Stevolende, Friday, 22 November 2013 10:41 (ten years ago) link
Yes, Hartnell's character gets smoothed out as the early years go by, partly because they were making it up as they went along, partly explicitly because he got humanised by Barbara & Ian.
Yes, it's been the case for decades that the Doctor keeps the police box camouflage out of sentiment.
Susan coining TARDIS was dropped after that first episode, and we didn't see another one for years, and didn't see a second other one for more years after that. (The SIDRATs came in between though.)
It wasn't until Troughton's final story, six years in, that Time Lords or the Doctor's planet were thought up.
There presumably is a text that is thought of as definitive on things like this is there?
What sort of text?
Not looked too deeply at the 50th Anniversary specials, them all seeming prohibitively expensive.
Er...?
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Friday, 22 November 2013 10:56 (ten years ago) link