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

Come the fuck on: the horrible Olympic torch relay one is the worst.

half of that entire season is the worst

Anna, formerly of this parish, with a good spot

There was no room for the hippies’ peace and love

YES

wait even better

My guess is that this Doctor will be angry, sharp-thinking and mostly very controlled – except on the few occasions he turns into a bit of a berserker.

Doctor in NYC

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Complete-8-DVD/dp/B00I3JR9SG

Hahahahaha

what's the funny? they often take preorders before it airs

kinda hoping we get a branding/logo refresh

Reviews all written from the future.

Oh damn. I just skimmed right past that. That's freaking awesome

Other highlights include, 'Lets Kill Osama', a story set in 1066 with absolutely no references to Osama Bin Laden whatsoever and the two-part 'Quarry Quandary' which is set entirely in a quarry in Wales, filmed on location in Singapore.

bwahhhh hah ha

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/Rising-Star-Joins-Doctor-Who-for-Peter-Capaldis-First-Series

I'm fond of the idea the series gets back to where it started, with two teachers from Coal Hill School.

Be kind of neat if the first Capaldi adventure was visiting the stone age.

Clara turns out to be his granddaughter.

ha it just occurred to me that they could bring back Susan any time they wanted to by the magic of regeneration

actress is still alive so hopefully they'd give her the dignity of a regeneration scene

Susan is used really well, and played by Carole Ann Ford, in "season 4" of Big Finish's McGann stories.

also :( at discussing plot points itt seven months before the stories air

Well, what should people do for seven months then?

Btw, I just saw "Star Trek: Into Dumbness", and I was kinda wondering: am I the only one who thought the guy at beginning of the movie (played by Noel Clarke) was actually Mickey, stranded in the 23th century because of some TARDIS-related hijinks?

Sorry sic, I momentarily forgot the spoiler policy on Doctor Who.

Tuomas, Doctor Who threads are pretty much a complete spoiler free zone. One the episode has aired in the UK it's fine for discussion, although there may still be people (and I tend to abide by this) hold back on particularly spoilery things until US and AUS airings (or enough time for people to obtain nefariously if airtime is way off).

Yeah, I get that, but I don't think the "no spoilers" policy should apply to people speculating about future plotlines? AFAIK none of us are working in the Dr. Who staff, so it's just pure speculation for fun, not actually spoiling anything. IMO this sort of speculation and guessing is big part of the fun of fandom, and it happens on pretty much all ILM TV show threads.

"ILE TV show threads"

remember how delightful the first 20 seconds of the 50th anniversary special were? imagine being similarly surprised and heartwarmed by there turning out to be a new male companion who's a teacher at Coal Hill School when you actually watch the episode, not half a year or more before it airs.

I see that, but OTOH there are people (like myself) who like to discuss official Who-related news, such as the announcement of a new companion (which is on the BBC site, not in some gossip mag). Should there be two different threads, one for us, and one for those who want to remain completely spoiler-free? I mean, if we're being strict about spoilers, no one in this thread should've even mentioned Peter Capaldi until "The Day of the Doctor" had aired... Or maybe even until "The Time of the Doctor" had aired, since you didn't see his full face in "Day" and he's uncredited there.

we did this already

Excatly, and that's why I'm apologising to sic.

Sorry again.

I dunno I kind of think if you're that precious about spoilers maybe you should just avoid the internet.

We've done that before as well.

I haven't done anything.

New board description.

^^^We've done this before but obviously need to look at the issue again.

If something (casting and the tiny bit of info that accompanies same, generally) is on the BBC site it really isn't a spoiler. There's a point at which others' need to be cocooned from all information is just not a realistic thing to ask from other people on an internet discussion board. Speculation is fun, too.

OTM.

remember how delightful the first 20 seconds of the 50th anniversary special were? imagine being similarly surprised and heartwarmed by there turning out to be a new male companion who's a teacher at Coal Hill School when you actually watch the episode, not half a year or more before it airs.

― Charles, hatless (sic), Friday, February 28, 2014 10:43 AM (3 hours ago)

This is the responsibility of the BBC - they're the ones releasing the information. If they think the information piques interest rather than spoils surprises then that's their prerogative. Expecting people not to talk about information released by the official sources is ridiculous. Expecting people not to speculate is also ridiculous (and as Tuomas says, nobody here works on the show, speculation != spoilers). Obviously posting leaks from insiders, digitalspy etc is not on, but in all my time reading these threads I think that's happened, like, twice?

The Beeb never give anything too important away really. Though I'd quite like it if regenerations were complete surprises, but it would be rather impractical to keep a change of lead actor in a massively popular show secret.

I didn't think posting casting news from the BBC website was a spoiler.

Yeah, I was thinking recently it'd be great if they sprung one just in the middle of the course of normal events, in the middle of a season somewhere. I do sort of sympathise with sic's position about (good) surprises being 'delightful', but that's the idiosyncratic position - most people like to read introductions, watch trailers, look up a synopsis, read a review etc before they consume media.

xp - it's not!

i've not seen much of this show the last few years but when i was following it, because i am quite precious about spoilers, i figured not reading this thread or others like it was the only reasonable way to go tbh

nothing stopping people setting up an "absolutely nothing that cd be construed as a spoiler in this thread" thread, i'd've thought?

I do understand how it would be fun to watch an episode with no prior knowledge and be like 'Oh shit it's an Ice Warrior!', but I think if you're serious about seeking that kind of experience you should have the discipline to not go on threads like this.

We've been though this before and even officially sanctioned BBC interwebs were out of bounds (iirc it was because Karen Gillen said before the season finale in a BBC televised interview she was coming back the next season).

god for a bunch of time travel show nerds yall sure are wedded to your own timeline

congrats to former ilxor al ew1ng and my pal nick abad3is on getting to write new doctor who comics:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=51164

I'm as much of a spoilerphobe as there is on ILX (I avoid film trailers, tv promos, the copy on the back of novels/jackets, etc.), but if you follow Who even tangentially on the internet, something on the level of a new companion joining the cast is going to be impossible to avoid. It's the simply cost of being on the Internet, and a well-crafted episode will spring the surprise and delight on you no matter your foreknowledge -- I'm sure that a lot of us weren't going to be ~surprised~ that Capaldi would make a cameo in the 50th, if not actually expecting/anticipating it, but the way the show did it still managed to provoke a strong, visceral geekout.

it's not the announcement of casting I was talking about, and no idea at all why ppl think I was saying anything about speculation*; just the specific plot info that Clara will be returning to Coal Hill School and etc etc as mentioned.

*obv now we know, it'd be a little sad to not at least see the headmaster in the background of a scene, after the security guard in Adventure In Space And Time

Wait, really?

Wasn't Clara already shown teaching in the school in The Time of the Doctor?

no, Day Of, like I said

Well anyway, what I meant is that it isn't a huge spoiler she's teaching there by series 8, is it, if we're already seen her there in a previous episode?

Burying the lede here, I think - a1 ew1ng doing a Matt Smith comic? That's pretty cool.

she couldn't be returning if she hadn't already been there.