i thought The Happiness Patrol was amazing at the time, apart from the Doctor's spoon jam
― blueski, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought every McCoy story was amazing at the time, I was nine.
― chap, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe you were right
― blueski, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1879/careymulligan01afd8.jpg
Dear Moffatt please make this girl a companion okthxbye.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 May 2008 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
If the rumours of Warreen Ellis writing are true, I'd fear for Sally to turn into a chain-smoking goth. With a bluetooth implant...
― carson dial, Thursday, 22 May 2008 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Warren Ellis? Oh, fuck, no! He'll make the Doctor a chain-smoking arsehole with a bluetooth implant who talks exactly like an idealised Warren Ellis (and every Warren Ellis hero EVER).
― James Morrison, Thursday, 22 May 2008 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Neil Gaiman could write a good Who or two I reckon. Better than Ellis certainly, it's not really his style at all.
― chap, Thursday, 22 May 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
mid-season trailer. Bits of the next ep, Rose with a blaster, some folks in spacesuits walking around menacingly, and lookee lookee who pops up(sorta) at 0:46 in.
― kingfish, Sunday, 25 May 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HiAFD6ODllI
― kingfish, Sunday, 25 May 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
the 'stars going out' idea is totally cool
― blueski, Sunday, 25 May 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
NEVER EVER DATA GHOST
― Jarlrmai, Sunday, 25 May 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
this is NSFW http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/f/f3/Catherine_Tate_Fan_Art.jpg
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 25 May 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
OK so I might be waaaay behind the curve here but LOL crepey fan tribute videos.
― suzy, Sunday, 25 May 2008 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah they are totally doing the stolen Earth thing.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 25 May 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Good lord I did not need to see that, Herman.
Stars going out a very good idea. Also a stolen idea, but hey.
― James Morrison, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:12 (sixteen years ago) link
So, we're getting Davs for sure. Good stuff.
― chap, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I know no one does, but I unfortunately saw it posted over at the ex southern lord doom/drone forum so I had to post it here so Dan spits out his coffee when he sees it. x-post
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Davros is in the trailer?!
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
we're not telling
― kingfish, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks but I saw it and don't remember seeing him. Need to see it again.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Of course it's fucking Davros. If was anyone else, Rusty would have run out characters to make a big splash with in his last season finale.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Incidentally I rewatched both Blink and The Girl In The Fireplace this afternoon and realised Moffat's series will be incredible because:
a) He is FUCKING BRILLIANT at devising monsters that are terrifying to children. And I don't mean killer robots with drills or whatever, I mean monster under the bed, statues that kill you. He just GETS what is and isn't scary.
b) No one else has nailed the 'Doctor with actual human emotions' thing as well as Moffatt did in the Girl in the Fireplace, except maybe Paul Cornell and that doesn't really count. He kissed Madame du Pompidour and on no point in the previous thead did anyone go "Oh no WANK!", which must count for something.
c) Doctor needs to do more zinging. The most consistently entertanining relationship in nu-Who has been between the Doctor and Mickey. I want to see him be more of a cunt to people.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 May 2008 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Just because we get an important-seeming zoom-in on the bottom half of a Dalek while the top half is wreathed in shadows doesn't mean it has to be Davros. It could, for example, be a rolling Dalek TV tray, carrying an assortment of Dalek snacks.
So earlier this week I was committing Who treason and thinking the Moffat two-parter might be the first of his episodes to crash and burn, what with the dodgy-sounding "Data Ghost" and the moony-eyed girl in the trailer and "Count the shadows" sounding like he was aiming for classic "Don't blink" status and falling down the melodrama well instead. But then someone posted what looks like the pre-credits scene on YouTube and it looks pretty awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1lJw74sHFY
― reddening, Monday, 26 May 2008 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
haha. "Who treason." We'll have to save that one.
― kingfish, Monday, 26 May 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
It could, for example, be a rolling Dalek TV tray, carrying an assortment of Dalek snacks.
Haha, I just woke up my gf laughing at that. She'll be pissed at me in the morning, but 'twas worth it.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 26 May 2008 05:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Incidentally I rewatched both Blink and The Girl In The Fireplace this afternoon and realised Moffat's series will be incredible
Funny, I rewatched The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances yesterday. A+++ Agreed he understands a child's/anyone's nameless dread better than any of the other writers, plus he makes with the lolz - more so during these two episodes than the whole few series of Coupling it seemed.
He can do Sapphire & Steel style creepyness well, which is why I'm confident the living shadows of his 2-parter won't dissappoint.
ps. was also reminded that Ecclestone was great.
― DavidM, Monday, 26 May 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, yeah, that's Davros.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 26 May 2008 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah that trailer makes the next episode look great. Looks like he might be doing another elaborately structured dual timeline thing as well.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 May 2008 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
me: "Looks as if Davros is coming back to Doctor Who! wife: "Is that the guy in the wheelchair?"
― onimo, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
So I wonder if they went ahead and got Ben Kingsley for him, or dug thru the old rollodex to get Terry Molloy.
Hey, lookee this, somebody's wiki has already been updated:
It has been heavily rumored that Terry will reprise his role as Davros at the ending of the fourth series of the new Doctor Who. Interest was fueled even more so at the release of a "mid-series" trailer on 24 May 2008[1] which features a Davros-like silouette at the end of the trailer. This reprisal has not yet been confirmed by the BBC.
xp haha
― kingfish, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Julian Bleach has got the past of Davros. Been common knowledge for a few months.
― aldo, Monday, 26 May 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"part"
― aldo, Monday, 26 May 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
for a given value of common.
― onimo, Monday, 26 May 2008 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, quite. YOU ALL HINTED NO SPOILERS.
― aldo, Monday, 26 May 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, wtf?
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
weird second guessing now. as they have effectively publicly spoilered davros for anyone paying attention, and rose's return was signalled from the off -- what could they be keeping back?
they signposted the master too last year, but springing him out in utopia was quite well done. not that it wasn't totally secret, but it wasn't trailed publicly either/ they went to some effort to emphasise the 2, not 3, part finale.
― Alan, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2007/03/02/btchas.jpg
http://bp1.blogger.com/_AkrZ09GYiws/RyB9W10kuBI/AAAAAAAABvg/OakYbJbl8RE/s400/frankenstein_itv.jpg
http://www.pomegranatearts.com/project-shockheaded_peter/images-gallery/shp_magnifying.jpg
Hmm.
― kingfish, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Alan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 07:16 (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
This took me 100% by surprise.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
xp the fuck are they??
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, Rusty has done fuck all on this series other than the first one and is then doing the last four, so I would assume one big story, even if it takes place in several places and eras.
Bearing in mind if rumours are true he has to fit into four episodes the Doctor, Donna, [MASSIVE LIST OF SPOILERING REMOVED], Bernard Cribbins and fuck knows what else.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Nothing, they're of no consequence.
xp
― kingfish, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah Jenny will probably turn up as well.
Are you just going on a massive spoiler trip now?
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
he has the option of getting fish face, emo zombie, welsh tea crumpet and the one who is good with computers involved rather than sending them off to tibet or whatever he did with them last year
― Ed, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
will there be any Cardiff this series
― blueski, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, I was under the impression this was all mentioned upthread as I don't get my Who information from anywhere other than ILX but apparently I was wrong. I've zapped the offending names.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not a spoiler reader. I just watched the trailer they aired this weekend.
― kingfish, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Me too, and I guessed Davros a few weeks ago.
What Matt DC said makes sense, considering it's the end of the first superhypermegablock and there's a 'break' next year.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I know no one does, but I unfortunately saw it posted over at the ex southern lord doom/drone forum so I had to post it here so Dan spits out his coffee when he sees it.
so so so wrong
― HI DERE, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
you didn't spit?
― blueski, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link