Also it's DOCTOR FUCKING WHO you'd think the thing would be popular enough that enough people will switch on whatever happens regardless of half and hour here or there. Especially with some decent promotion.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 08:35 (sixteen years ago) link
why not make it 6.23pm
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link
BBC innit, ratings shouldn't matter that much.
^lol
― DavidM, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably want people to miss it and watch on iPlayer then the bbc can point to what a roarinf sucess iPlayer is.
― Ed, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
damn thing stalls every time i try and watch Torchwood on it (not so bad with other shows)
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
The Sontaran Stratagem
that would be sontarans then. hello ILX
― Alan, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Ed, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 21:45 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
Doctor Who most-viewed iPlayer show 12 April 2008
This weekend's Doctor Who's fourth season premiere is the most popular programme in the iPlayer's history, a BBC spokeswoman said today.
The episode, featuring Catherine Tate's debut as a regular in the series, was requested by 2,830,000 computers in the UK. Director-General Mark Thompson is a git.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe the Sontaran's strategem is ... erm ... not to appear in the episode!
― Forest Pines Mk2, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
A friend has just asked me to participate in his fan fiction. PARTICIPATE. As of this moment I have nfi wtf he's talking about.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that like cosplay, life modelling or just being written in, whichever it is I fear you may be finding out if the doctor's little TARDIS is bigger in or out.
― Ed, Thursday, 3 April 2008 05:45 (sixteen years ago) link
man i have no way of watching this, and it is bothersome
― remy bean, Thursday, 3 April 2008 05:48 (sixteen years ago) link
yes you do. Get your bt client up & runnin'.
― kingfish, Thursday, 3 April 2008 06:01 (sixteen years ago) link
SOME DO NOT LIKE TO STEAL THE BREAD RIGHT FROM THE WRITER'S MOUTHS, KINGFISH.
EVEN IF IT IS A HAMMY, JOWLY MOUTH.
― Mikey Bidness, Thursday, 3 April 2008 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
and some of us like in the u.s., where broadcasts aren't as easily seen...
― kingfish, Thursday, 3 April 2008 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
and some us live in something called REGION 4 which basically means YOU WILL DRINK WATER FROM THE COLD TAP.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 06:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Also it's DOCTOR FUCKING WHO you'd think the thing would be popular enough that enough people will switch on whatever happens regardless of half and hour here or there.
You'd think the thing would be popular enough that it would stay in a prime time slot. Prime time is prime time for a reason. It's when most people get most time to watch TV.
― onimo, Thursday, 3 April 2008 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe it's on early because it's a children's programme?
― Stevie T, Thursday, 3 April 2008 08:54 (sixteen years ago) link
^
Where's the thread for the christmas special? I watched it last night for the first time and thought it was GREAT. I almost cried!??
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 April 2008 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
When the ABC waits six months to broadcast the series, yeah BT is warranted.
― Mikey Bidness, Thursday, 3 April 2008 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I think they call it family viewing. xxp
― DavidM, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
You're not fucking wrong.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 3 April 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I couldn't wait for the S3 finale, so I downloaded it before it aired on Sci-Fi here. Then I caught parts of it when it did air, and I was horrified - you wouldn't think a couple minutes cut here and there would ruin an episode, but they did more than that, cutting literally seconds out of the middle of scenes, reaction shots, etc. It ruined the pacing and feeling of the show far more than I expected. I shudder to think about what I've missed in pieces from the show over those seasons by watching these hacked versions on Sci-Fi.
So this year I'm not bothering to wait, BT it is. RSS torrenting = godsend.
― Nhex, Thursday, 3 April 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
That's why I can't watch it on sci-fi -- the editing is just so awful and random.
― Nicole, Thursday, 3 April 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Why is that? I'd always assumed the whole reasoning behind the 45 min episode length was so they could sell it to the international market without need for additional editing - 45 minutes of content plus 15 minutes of ads snugly fills a one hour slot.
― chap, Friday, 4 April 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Networks are cocks. They whine when people torrent yet they pull devious shit like this.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
It needs to be about 38-40 minutes long to fit an hour in the US.
― Ed, Friday, 4 April 2008 05:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Hang on, it became a problem because *MARTHA* was in love with him? Um, hello? Rose?
Not a bad start otherwise, tbh.
― ailsa, Saturday, 5 April 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
As I put in the wrong thread
The only thing missing from that was the two goons with the guns walking into the blue oyster bar.-- Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 5 April 2008 19:10 (29 minutes ago)
-- Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 5 April 2008 19:10 (29 minutes ago)
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 5 April 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice start.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 April 2008 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Well that was better than it had any right to be.
― Mikey Bidness, Sunday, 6 April 2008 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's not get carried away.
― Alba, Sunday, 6 April 2008 05:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Pretty goofy.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 6 April 2008 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Goofy, yes, but RTD's been responsible for plenty, plenty worse.
― Mikey Bidness, Sunday, 6 April 2008 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Catherine Tate was definitely more likeable in this one. Bodes well, fun ep. The through-the-window screaming bit was pretty funny. I was a bit surprised they gave up the Rose reveal so early, but I guess realistically everybody knew about that by now.
(Rose wasn't a problem because their feelings were first platonic then reciprocal... while Martha kind of always had that puppy dog attraction from the start.)
It's pretty early to call but I have this feeling that this year might be it for Tennant, and this season perhaps wraps up the last three (it looks like everybody is back at some point) and there will be a mini-reboot whenever the show comes back.
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 April 2008 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, mini-reboot sounds on the cards. I reckon Tennant and Davies are off after this year.
-- Gukbe, Sunday, 6 April 2008 16:37 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
-- Mikey Bidness, Sunday, 6 April 2008 16:49 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
It's a character introduction episode. No character introduction episode is ever going to be spectacular. It did its job and it did it well.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 April 2008 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Can someone explain to this dense viewer why Catherine Tate was snooping around at the beginning, saying she was from health and safety, asking for a list of customers, pinching the pendant, basically acting like a detective?
RTD seems inordinately obsessed with pregnancy and children.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 6 April 2008 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
It's because, having turned down the Doctor on the first go, she changes her mind because her life is shit and goes looking for him in places where Weird Shit is happening in case he turns up there.
― suzy, Sunday, 6 April 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah - she mouths through the window that she was looking for him! Man what a great scene.
I still like to think that she was going through all of that just so she could scam some free Adipose.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 6 April 2008 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
What IS the deal with all the annoying, overbearing mothers? Though both Mrs. Tyler and Jones did eventually get some character redemption (as I'm sure Mrs. Noble will eventually) they're all introduced as these obnoxious hens.
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 April 2008 11:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i hope we never see Donna's Mum again. i'm sure Cribbins will somehow end up saving the world tho.
― blueski, Sunday, 6 April 2008 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't mind the episode in itself, and there were some nice touches, but it just seemed a bit stuck together with old bits of nu-Who. A bit of the doctor running about for some reason as yet unexplained, a bit of aliens going about their evil business by exploiting modern mores (after bluetooth headsets and cheap TV sets and age-reversing technology), a bit of a woman persuading him to let her be his companion. You know.
― Alba, Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, and the overbearing hen thing.
― Alba, Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 11:04 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link
Turns out it's a film he's making, and he wants me to play an old man. (a) I don't know what he is saying about my age and (b) I have been asked to ACT in a FAN FIC MOVIE. Is there a thread for people who have been asked to act in fan fic movies?
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
So, half the season until a Moffat ep?
Also, the bt was worth it, since Sci-Fi won't be airing the premiere for another 2 weeks. Not that I have cable anyway...
also, the wiki says this:
2009 and beyond
David Tennant is confirmed to star through to 2009. However, during the second half of 2008, Tennant is committed to a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet. After the 2008 Christmas Special, three Bank Holiday specials have been commissioned to air throughout 2009.[13][14] The programme will then return in 2010 with a fifth full series. Russell T Davies has suggested that the programme is expected to follow this pattern, of full series interspersed with occasional year-long breaks, for some time into the future.[15]
― kingfish, Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Pompeii episode looks gangsta. 'I Cladivs' meets the fruitier bits of BSG in the CGI bits of a Vesuvius doco.
― Mikey Bidness, Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i didn't expect to see Wose in the first episode
― blueski, Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I much prefer the historical episodes when ignore the lure of big historical events and figures. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen very often.
― Alba, Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"When they ignore," I mean.
― Alba, Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
when did that last happen? all recent historical stories have involved famous figures and events no?
― blueski, Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Human Nature/The Family of Blood
― Alba, Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Delgado.jpg
1972
http://somelikeitnotcrushes.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/dappy.jpg
2009
― I'm into SB (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 January 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
The MASTER? More like the ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE.
I think he's still working on a certificate from DeVry.
― ô_o (Nicole), Sunday, 3 January 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
City & Guilds in Villainy and Basic Plumbing
― an executive by day and a wild man by night (snoball), Sunday, 3 January 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2009/363/0/5/The_Master__s_Facebook_Page_by_The_Hellish_Gnome.jpg
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 4 January 2010 01:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i love john simm but i thought he really whiffed this one. he never found anything to do with the master beyond leering.
it would have been neat if the doctor's farewell tour included a stop somewhere we hadn't seen before, with a character we'd never met, and she blushes, and he winks
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 4 January 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ that's what i'm talking about!
― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Monday, 4 January 2010 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link
That would have been great.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 4 January 2010 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
So the RSC production of the Tennant/Stewart Hamlet is online from the usual sources now...
― kingfish, Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link