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

What was the name of the perfume?

Or is that the second question?

eau de pond

lol mark s

Petrichor, Mark G

Cyberman hiding

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg640/scaled.php?tn=0&server=640&filename=26snq.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

http://yfrog.com/hs26snqj

Does anyone else feel "yeah - Dr. Who starting in autumn, that works perfectly and will be great (and also boost ratings hopefully)!" but at the same time feel "GODDAMNIT Why do I have to wait so long, this is bullshit!!"

BTW anyone else try playing that "Worlds in Time" browser-based game? Totally shit, IMO.

I hate waiting too

This is for me the least anticipated series of Who since the final Rusty one. Last one was kind of a mess, despite some great episodes. Moffat is so much better as a guest writer than show runner IMO. I do really like Matt Smith, though.

1. I'm burning season 5 for someone and trying to get it all on one 4.7GB DVD and trying to include "Blink" -- I'm not going to screw up any canonicity by leaving out the Silurian two-parter, right?

2. Just watched Hartnell's "The Daleks." Wow, do I hate Ian Chesterton. Also, strangely not bothered by the hokey lack of sophistication that bugs me with a lot of classic Who.

I'm not going to screw up any
canonicity by leaving out the
Silurian two-parter, right?

You'll lose Rory's departure.

The Silurian lesbian crime fighter from Victorian London in S6 will make less sense.

Ian Chesterfield will always be good. I love The Daleks/The Mutants/Serial B etc and would (and have in the past) suggest it's top 10 of all time.

Yeah, you need to tell them to watch the last 10mins of Siluria on D4ilyM0tion or something.

Wow, do I hate Ian Chesterton.

Went back in time to SB you for this.

Daleks/Mutants is monster but waayy too padded at seven eps, when you're not watching week-by-week and not knowing anything about what comes next. Let's go back and forth between the Dalek city and the Thals camp AGAIN!

Grrr, he's totally a Season 1 Will Riker, being the "charismatic" young dude who keeps upstaging the older/ranking main character. His chauvanism is also nagl, imho.

Let's go back and forth between the Dalek city and the Thals camp AGAIN!

^^ My main complaint about the lion's share of the old serials I've seen.

Oh that obnoxious Chatteron..er.. Chesterton...
Lee OTM

Hartnell / Ian / Barbara / Susan is in top ten TARDIS teams of all time.

(I don't actually super care about Ian qua Ian)

I'd say he gets his comeuppance enough so that his character isn't actually a problem on the show -- doesn't mean I have to like that character even if its OG as it gets.

Olde Gallifreyan

lol

Barbara I quite fancy!

New SPOILERS

Disappointed that yet again they went with pretty 20something female. I'd welcome anything else, even if it meant James Corden.

I don't think this is going to help the feminist issues Moffat has been coming up against.

Like, a robot or a penguin or an older lady or a dude. Anything different, really.

she could be a robot!

non-gendered robot dog

I mean robot penguin

I had pinned my hopes on a transgender cowboy robot penguin.

Shapeshifting alien penguin

too on-the-nose

http://sharetv.org/images/farscape/cast/large/dominar_rygel_xvi.jpg

Rygel could have made his tv comeback!

Spoiler: Speaking of Farscape...

This makes me happy, at least?

Bum. Only 6 episodes this year.

After the six episodes broadcast in the Autumn/Christmas this year, the remaining eight will be shown next year, with Moffat adding: "Oh, there'll be more episodes than just those eight, but these are the ones we're making right now." No other details of when and what else will occur during the 50th Anniversary have been revealed as yet.

I'm hoping the new companion isn't from present-day Earth. Always more fun when they're aliens or from the past/future

hey it's the 50th anniversary, maybe she's susan's granddaughter

or, indeed, susan

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59264000/jpg/_59264969_014335769-1.jpg

Just realised they're probably doing the split season thing so Matt Smith can be the doctor into the 50th year, and then regenerate into #12, which would explain his contradictory "I'm just doing 1 more season" / "I want to be part of the 50th anniversary" statements

Oh god I hope so.

Best Doctor ever.

If you are like me, you've only just seen these:

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5iwoRA2Cas

for some reason i feel sort of awkward about how... expensive this looks? why did they spend so much money on location shots, what is wrong with a quarry, i ask you

I want my transgender cowboy robot penguin, you bastards.

Good to hear Murray Gold hasn't discovered any new tunes :/

the devil you know

ban Murray Gold

The score of Dr Who should be done on 70s synths.

77 synths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0N8NefJWCY

I really don't get the point of orchestral incidental music on Dr. Who, it just seems weird whenever I pay attention to it.

This v silly but it gave me a lot of lols and I <3 Peter Serafinowicz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJSQFzw1pEE

David Warner is going to be a guest star! Does that mean next season will be similar to Quest of the Delta Knights? One can only hope.

Posting here bc the RIP thread moved past this way too quickly

Doctor Who star Mary Tamm, who played companion Romana alongside Tom Baker, has died aged 62.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18995370

A few tributes here:
Doctor Who - Best Companion