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

I would not be prepared for a Jodie Whittaker Doctor though. That might be too "for the dads" even for this dad

The denouement of Broadchurch season 1 is almost certainly somewhere among my top ten worst endings ever. God, it still makes me IA just thinking about it. My gf seems to still enjoy watching it on her own, though. But, yeah, between that and Chibnall's Who and Torchwood eps, I'm not psyched.

which Torchwood eps did he do?

'Cyberwoman' for a start...

"Day One" (2006)
"Cyberwoman" (2006)
"Countrycide" (2006)
"End of Days" (2007)
"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" (2008)
"Adrift" (2008)
"Fragments" (2008)
"Exit Wounds" (2008)

"Cyberwoman" was terrible but "Countrycide" was the best episode of the first season and "Fragments" and "Exit Wounds" are two of the best episodes of the entire show,

I will have to review what some of those episodes even are. Didn't realize I hadn't seen any Torchwood for the better part of a decade.

Countrycide is the one with the village of cannibals
Fragments is the one where the whole team is about to die and we learn how everyone but Gwen came to Torchwood
Exit Wounds is the season finale with that fantastic final scene between Tosh and Owen

still haven't watched any torchwood beyond the first three episodes, I really should get on that.

Yeah, excepting Countryside then Chibbers might be the best Torchwood writer (noting he didn't do They Keep Killing Susie or the PJ Hammond ones or Jack in the train carriage in the Indian Uprising).

announcing the next doctor after the wimbledon men's final

men's final

men

Countrycide was at least good for still being the only episode of nuWho/spinoffs where the answer to the mystery wasn't 'aliens'.

Just for fun (*) I'm going to remove this bookmark and unsubscribe from a few news feeds and just see whether there's any way I can stay unspoiled on this until Christmas.

(*) It won't be fun, it'll be annoying.

Hang on, when I typed Countrycide last night I meant Cyberwoman.

after the men's final, so it could be on Monday as well?

Unlikely, because they'll close the roof on centre court and get the final finished tomorrow.

oh, right - I forgot about the roof

Interesting choice for the new Doctor pic.twitter.com/GHUuoXBtxM

— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) July 15, 2017

that would be fine

For those like me who just got lost temporarily that's Pierce Brosnan

But let us salute his audition scene in full.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXcgt6l_LcA

who is the worst person they could cast? (as in worst person who is halfway plausible, not like Nigel Farage or someone) (I think someone might have mentioned James Corden as an answer to this question upthread?)

Ricky Gervais?

Vinnie Jones?

tom allen

him out of cold feet

I'm slightly bemused that Tom Allen has spread to Australia - is it because of his Who history?

terry jones

Bonnie Langford? Is she still with us?

Johnny Depp.

James Corden is hopefully making too much in the U.S. to ever consider it.

I think that Merlin guy might be pretty good.

Bill Bailey

the other guy from little britain

Corden is the one I cannot see being redeemed by any amount of good writing. I didn't like the chances of Capaldi but he turned out okay afaict. Corden though just seems to lack the appropriate strings in the harp of his being

corden was quite good in his two who performances. I don't think he'd be a good doctor though.

oh God yeah, David Walliams would be my nightmare pick. Or Alan Davies or someone. Hugh Dennis. argh.

you know who would be really good is Arthur Darvill, based on his work on Legends of Tomorrow (which is a generally stupid show). He basically plays the Doctor there. He's great.

There's a certain attraction to the idea of a Doctor who dies in every episode..

so... Roger Federer is the next Dr. Who?

We're all the next Doctor Who.

In the future everyone will be Doctor Who for 15 minutes

GET. ON. WITH. IT.

The two finalists to become the new Doctor have to lip sync for their lives

— Keidra (@kdc) July 16, 2017

it's a female woman!

Jodie Whittaker

Wikipedia page right now:

In March–April 2013, Whittaker starred in the ITV detective drama Broadchurch. In January 2014, she starred in the reality-based spy drama miniseries The Assets on ABC. On 16th July 2017, Jodie was announced as the new Dr Who.
Now the 13th Doctor Who
After the men's final of Wimbledon, it was announced that Whittaker was to be the 13th Doctor of Doctor Who.
On 16th July 2017, Whittaker was unveiled as the 13th Doctor Who.
In July 2017, she was announced as the next Doctor in BBC's Doctor Who.
On 1 July 2017, the BBC announced that she would be the 13th Dr Who.

ex-Eastender and born in Skelmanthorpe lassie!

no she wasn't in Eastenders!

She was also in Attack the Block, if you want to see her fight some aliens.

fine choice. would have preferred fleabag but it sounds like she's busy.

another fuckin northerner pfft

I wanted Fleabag Space-Mitford too, but Jodie Whittaker is good.