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

Has Moff mentioned anywhere what kinda direction they're going to go with Rory's character? Is he still going to be kinda an Arthur Dent hapless fifth wheel or did 2,000 years of being a Blitz-surviving Centurion actually toughen the boy up?

Nothing's been said, but then we don't actually know what the current position is with him anyway. You can hear him say to Amy's mother at the wedding "I used to be made of plastic...", but how much he actually remembers I have no idea. Although I really liked him, he was mainly used to double the zing potential in his first series.

Of course it was a bloody Silurian. Good grief.

Anyone else heard the rumour that Nicky Wire is set to write an episode of Doctor Who? Not sure if banana suits will be involved.

http://www.manicstreetpreachers.com/global/blogs/diary/2010/07/21/nickys_blog_july

"I’ve been trying to write a script for Doctor Who called 'Do Not Go Gently', Wire writes on the Manics' website. "The idea is centred around Dylan Thomas's last days in New York. Of course it's going to have a massive f**king monster in it too."

Has everyone seen this?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_3rsEwYVE

No-one's really matched Delia Derbyshire for eerie, spectral whooshing have they?

That cheesy Rory avatar is still making me laugh. I can't believe he has such a fan following.

I still think the Derbyshire version is the best TV theme ever. The Jon Pertwee one with the kazoo is such a mis-step it almost works, oddly enough.

I like the late T Baker/Davison one. Cool synth sounds.

Was that absurd Pertwee one ever even broadcast? I've never heard it before, and I've watched a fair bit of Third Doctor.

they did a delaware version in '73 or so that never(?) got broadcast but turned up on the recent Dr Who At The BBC cds (vol 1) - delia using a synth rather than the tapes of the original. starts at 1.06 in the video above.

the analogue effects in that video > the digital versions. baker and davidson seem very dated whereas the earlier ones somehow don't. but they do pick up again afterwards

having nightmares about starface mccoy winking at me

Starface McCoy would be an excellent hipster band name.

having nightmares about starface mccoys waving pitchfork reviews at me

It's the asthmatic wheezing in the original that I love the most. Also loving how in that video the Peter Howells and Dominic Glynn arrangements (second Tom clip, for Season 18 and second Colin, for Season 23) function as Westlife style key changes.

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/15525212/Doctor-Who-Eleven-Doctors-Action-Figure-Collectible-Set/Product.html

Gosh, that McGann one was so jarringly awful that it made Murray Gold sound good. (Unless it was Murray Gold, obv. Failing to find out on the interwebs. I'm sure there isn't a Doctor Who FACT that is not on the internet 1000x over and it's just my searching skills lacking, though.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116118/fullcredits#cast

John Debney - Original Music. but not clear whether that includes the title

jesus christ, I thought I had grown out of collectibles but wow do I want those

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/08_august/29/doctor.shtml

Next season of Dr Who to be split in two for big cliffhanger.

Well done BBC and Stephen Moffatt, good tactics for getting me excited.

http://imgur.com/ntB6m.gif

SMH

chap otm

wld be even better if they get to up the episode order too

So FINALLY a series 6B will be canon, then. [/whonerd joke]

http://i56.tinypic.com/29p25c5.jpg

Heavens, that's bigger than I thought it would be.

that's what you hope people say

I think the fez shop pulled a prank on you...
"heh... lets give 'em the TALL one!"

where's the tassle?

yes where is the tassle hmmmmmm.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100628014352/tardis/images/f/f9/11th_Doctor_wearing_a_Fez.jpg

The fez worn in The Big Bang appears to be lacking a tassel, which is often associated with the hat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mhphnpXXM4

Why is Amy Pond in an ad for birth control?

Whoops, I mean
http://i51.tinypic.com/2hewk6q.jpg

(Could be considered spoilery):

whaaaaaaa???

ok this is bullshit if true

(not surprised though)

I could probably talk about this at length tbh.

wow, I thought I was beyond this but reading that made me go allhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

meh, only bothered if the show turns to shit after moffat and smith quit

Dan, with no Matrix this is always what I had assumed would happen. (not going into the whole thing further so I don't get accused of spoilering.

hmm...

that is kind of a valid point maybe...? It would help if I remembered exactly how The Matrix tied into oh crap we can't keep talking about this can we

I don't think it's at all spoilery tbh

wow, I thought I was beyond this but reading that made me go all

I for one amhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGing my damn eyes at this news big time. Probably because it's an RTD script.

This cat would make an awesome twelfth Doctor, btw.

I kinda thought the 12 regenerations thing was gone w/ the Matrix, too...? Or, I figured it had been "reset" in the last season finale, as the Doctor is a newly regenerated creation out of Pond's memory

Doctor Who Live show currently on a 25-date, nine-city tour)

what? WHAT?!

guy i know is doing the sound. he doesn't know doctor who at all and is mightily confused by what goes on.

but says it is awesome.

Dan, with no Matrix this is always what I had assumed would happen. (not going into the whole thing further so I don't get accused of spoilering.

Ditto. And if not, they'd just say, 'With all the other Time Lords gone, all the regenration energy of Gallifrey ended up in the Doctor, so he'll last forever,' and quietly move along.

Meh, this doesn't bother me at all. It was inevitable that the rule of 12 would be done away with, and I'd rather the main show wasn't clogged up with nerdy retconning.

And it's not as though other characters in the past weren't doing this. The Master has been given a new set of regenerations once or twice, plus was completely resurrected by the Time Lords. But I will try to stop being a nerd and explaining this.