Doctor Who 2008: Sontarans cometh, RTD Ood 'ave 'im etc.

Watched the Sarah Jane pilot a couple of nights ago, and I thought it was loads of fun! So I'm pretty excited about the rest of it.

Still haven't watched Torchwood past S1E2. I should get around to that too, at some point.

AND WITH JANE MUTHERFUCKING ASHER as alterna-sj. woo+

xpost. that was extra "Whatever happened to Sarah Jane" info

Well, this dropped off the new answers page fast.

Nu Who can be quite exhausting to talk about.

Also, y'know, it's finished now.

http://www.greyhoundleader.com/

As mentioned above, the Brigadier will be back for a two-parter in SJA. The latest news update mentions which ep(s) and the villian(s).

Watching Journey's End again just now. It's a bit more entertaining on second viewing now since I got all my "OH FUCK OFF" stuff out of the way the first time round. Might have to turn over before emo Rose love story ending though. Also the music was dreadful.

I love that the world is so organised that someone can rig up a massive celebratory firework display while the earth is being towed through space, and that BBC News 24 remains on air. Oh wait, no, I don't love it at all. It's shite.

Oh man, how many crazy alternative realities/lives/existences did poor Donna have to live anyway? I mean she had all this crazy, painful shit that was practically like memory wipes anyway (library database, 'turn left') and then she gets it all wiped and goes back to being ebullient sassy nobody temp. The whole thing started to really freak me out, esp. the two eps before the final. Those are the kinds of stories that have freaked me out all my life, tho.

Did anyone end up dying? I forget.

Also:

RTD was on record in the Guardian yesterday saying that he'd never introduce a woman doctor for the reason that parents would have to talk about genital swapping with their kids.

What the effing eff?

Quite a few people were vapourised and presumably the Daleks did a fair bit of exterminating when they were ruling the earth.

EXTERMENIEREN!

Russell T. Davies has revealed his co-writers for the forthcoming Doctor Who specials in 2009.

"I can confirm that after Christmas 2008 there are a total of four more specials to come before the Steven Moffat era begins in 2010," Davies told Doctor Who Magazine. "Two of next year's four will be written by me, One will be written by me and Gareth Roberts and one will be co-written by me and Phil Ford."

Roberts has previously written episodes 'The Shakespeare Code' and 'The Unicorn And The Wasp' for Doctor Who, in addition to co-writing 'Invasion Of The Bane' with Davies for The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Ford has never scripted an episode of Doctor Who before, but is responsible for 'The Eye Of The Gorgon' and 'The Lost Boy' for Sarah Jane and 'Something Borrowed' for Torchwood.

also Agyeman isn't doin Torchwood

Is Mickey joining Captain Jack?

I don't know where else to ask this: If I've seen naught else but new Who, is it ok if I watched "City of Death" straight away?

Go for it. It doesn't really rely on any ongoing plotlines, and it's lots of fun.

My gf did exactly that, and she loved it.

A very good old-Who to start with.

on a different note, steven moffat was very funny at comic-con. his reply to a question about other doctor + rose: "gotta give the Doctor *some* credit for finding a way to get rid of his slightly clingy girlfriend. another universe didn't work."

Were you there, Roz? I was half-asleep at the panel. Moffat speaks an awful lot like Dr. Tennant, yes?

Rewatched the finale again this week and realised that I am, in fact, very slow:

Russell T Davies must have wrote that last five minutes that has the Doctor wiping Timelord Donna back into normal Donna and handing her back to her family intending 'Donna' to represent the show and the Doctor as Rusty himself, right?

Cue Cribbins' "She was better with you! She was!" line, as well as all the rest of it. Dur. Can't believe it took me long to figure that out. Symbolism and meanings all working on a different level, or something.

Don't blame me - I'm just a temp and I'm no one special.

That's awfully cynical.

Not necessarily an invalid reading though.

Interesting to say the least.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AnR1CZbvhEM

Sounds a wee bit like DT, but they were both brought up in the same town, so not surprising.

Were you there, Roz?

Hehe nah i was actually looking for reports from the LOST panel and got sidetracked by Who/Torchwood on youtube. Didn't see all of it, but the bits I did see was lols. Moffat does talk a bit like Tennant but with the Doctor's habit of going off on tangents.

in that YT clip Moffat hints that he doesn't like prequels (re Star Wars ref) so no Time War stuff (as if this wasn't obvious for it would require McGann/Eccles surely)

Suspect he'll draw a line under all the Rusty stuff and concentrate on building his own supporting cast and mythology - River Song is probably the first bit of that. We'll probably see Jack again though.

River Song is probably the first bit of that.

I'd wondered about this. I remember her lines about how *her* Doctor looked much older which made me wonder if that meant oldster Tennant or old 11 or what.

i think Moffat says in that clip that he was being intentionally ambiguous about that. he really does seem like an actual hybrid of RTD and Tennant at times.

Tennant's dating Georia Moffett now apparently.

That's been going on a while. Given what a Peter Davison freak he is, that smacks horribly of when Nicolas Cage married Lisa-Marie Presley.

heh is there anyone left on the show who hasn't slept with DT?

Barrowman?

but you know he would if he could.

I'm sure there's enough slash on the subject to fill a small country.

I smell a new thread

I'm sure there's enough slash on the subject to fill a small country.

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my girlfriend has read and rated most of it

Blimey. Georgia Moffett is only 23 but she's got a six year old son. And he's called Tyler.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7618537.stm

I realise this may already be true for some posters here so I should shut up, but a little bolt of horror just went through me at the thought of being older than the Doctor. Just doesn't feel right!

I read somewhere before that Davies wanted the guy who played the Son in the Family of Blood as the new Doctor too and he's even younger than Russell Tovey.

It's got fuck all to do with Davies now, so who cares. He's stuck with Tennant until Moffat takes over.

I think this is more of a crush list than any real shortlist of next doctors.

That guy looks like a younger version of Wallace (& Gromit).

I would be an awesome Doctor Who.

They've confirmed the title of the Christmas Special - it's "The Next Doctor". Wouldn't it be kind of ace if it turned out to be a two-doctor story, but with Tennant + Doctor 11? I mean, wouldn't it have been kind of ace if The Five Doctors had originally been shown as part of Troughton's run, and then we'd had to wait for Pertwee and Baker and Davison to all turn up as leads? So yeah, now I've had this thought, my heart is set on that happening, and I'm inevitably going to be disappointed when it doesn't.

The prospect is enormously exciting because one day it will actually happen.

This is exciting because I suggested David Morrissey as the next doctor ages ago, and he is in the Christmas special and I thought that would preclude him being the actual next doctor, but perhaps I might actually have called something right for once in my life. Probably not though.

would be super-lame to have a "the doctor regenerates!" cliffhanger in ep 12 that turns out to be a fake-out, then have the plot of 'ep 14' be "the doctor regenerates!"

^^would not put it past RTD though. and it's possible that the doctor doesn't in fact regenerate in ep 14 - he just meets the future version of himself.

ailsa, i totally support your call for david morrissey as the next doctor, i think he'd be great.

I only really know him from this:

http://www.fest21.com/files/images/BASIC%20INSTINCT%202.jpg

And even speaking as a fan of bad campfests I ended up only watching maybe twenty minutes of it. Hopefully he's better in something that's not so horrible.