Doctor Who 2008: Sontarans cometh, RTD Ood 'ave 'im etc.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6_6ZU-fz3Y

also wtf shirt tucked in and no belt? old man in young body indeed

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Suspenders make this an acceptable choice, tho

Tardis looks brand new, which fits with the "redone" rumor that was floating around, right?

Anyone put off by his prominent brow/no eyebrows combo?

still needs a haircut imo but then they did pick him partly because of the hair

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00849/SNN2001TVD_280_849059a.jpg

Pleased about Alex Kingston - I had no idea how Moffatt was going to write himself out of that corner otherwise.

I'm hoping for a subtler, less zany Who. There have been moments of sheer unwatchability in the last couple of series.

didn't River Song say Tennant's Doctor looked younger than the one she knew tho?

Think she said he WAS younger, not that he looked younger. Maybe she can SEE INTO HIS SOUL or something.

Tennant looks younger than Smith, weirdly, despite being what, ten years older?

It's the slightly anvil qualities of Smith forehead that age him so.

i still believe he is Chris Morris lil brother

Does not have giant lips and leprosy scars.

It's the slightly anvil qualities of Smith forehead that age him so.

Also he looks like an Easter Island head with floppy hair.

I was just coming here to comment on his Easter Island-like forehead, but Matt has beat me to it.

fivehead morelike

After Eccleston and Tennant, it's odd seeing an actor playing The Doctor who looks like he should be in a physics lab.

Also, the new pictures of the tardis make it look like it was made out of legos. I haven't decided whether this is a good or a bad thing.

here's the new look interior

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs28/f/2008/102/8/b/Lego_Tardis_Console_Room_by_ryfter.jpg

http://www.kasterborous.com/news.asp?ac=11&id=2655

Tom Baker has finally agreed to start doing some audios for the BBC

GIS is failing me; where'sa new Tardis interior shot?

If that Mickey Mouse shirt is the new Doctor look, I'm excited.

hadley freeman, the guardian's fashion columnist, strangely appears to feel that he is.. too fashionable?

Dude is wearing a version of a scarf I was given by a Berlin designer in 2005. Is that too fashionable?

Anyone in a character shirt reminds me of...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40136000/jpg/_40136877_videolink203.jpg

The recent shots got me to watch Silence In The Library again, in preparation for the Moffatt era, and... holy crap it's creepy. I can't imagine how much the data ghost plus the skeleton in the suit would have freaked me out as a kid.

yeah and the bit where the shadows were creeping up on them.

i think Blink would've terrified me more though - inanimate objects coming into life and turning into monsters was always my biggest fear as a child.

The Forest of the Dead was cracking as well, that bit when Donna ceases to exist to her "children" when they closed their eyes...

I'd forgotten that River Song dies - that's a hell of an undercurrent for her time in future series.

I'm hoping that Moffett will bring back H/H-era gothic horric.

Horror of Goth Rock and all that.

RTD & Tennant were at SDCC, and here's some news:

http://io9.com/5322961/david-tennant-tells-us-why-his-doctors-so-sorry-and-whats-to-come

http://io9.com/5323195/doctor-who-and-the-end-of-time-tennants-last-moments

Someone asked David Tennant if the new Who is a reimagining of the old show, and he responded: "It's the same show and the story continues. I'm playing the same man tht William Hartnell was playing. I just have a slghtly different wig."

Someone from the Guinness Book Of World Records presented the show with an award for being the most successful science fiction show of all time, and Davies happily accepted, making jokes about Star Trek. ""Eat that, Supernatural!" He shouted, followed by "Eat me, Supernatural — oh I didn't really say that, did I?"

Why does this thread say that there's a post by MattDC at 11:11, but it's isn't there? Has it fallen into THE RIFT?

I deleted it because I suddenly realised it contained a massive spoiler that people might not want to read.

Ah, OK.

i am going to read all the spoilers, to ease disappointment as RTD fucks it all up even more than last time

He can't possibly fuck it up any more than creating a separate fuckbuddy for Rose.

there's some poor recordings of the trailer for the Christmas special aired at Comicon out there

Oh aye, I went off to cut and paste that, then got lost in the internetz and forgot to come back.

spoilertastic link!

They'd better show us the fucking Time War, otherwise Rusty seemingly invented it and destroyed Gallifrey and dangled the whole story in front of us for five years purely as an excuse to make the Doctor a bit emo.

they can't show any Time War stuff without McGann/Eccles. RTDN has devalued it with subsequent "epic" Dalek battles anyway.

am much more bothered by his continued penchant for "killing off" characters just so he can bring them back for one last pointless hurrah. he also said this week that Torchwood would be returning and that Jack is an integral part of the show (implying Barrowman will still be in it). GNUUHHH...

Yeah, he's terrible for that kind of shit. I loved Donna against all odds, but her story is over as far as I'm concerned.

The Time War was invented back in the BBC Novelization days, the first book of which is Interference (published in August 1999). Gallifrey was destroyed in The Ancestor Cell (July 2000).

I guess I should have kept reviewing these on The Brown Wedge.

(first book of The Time War, I should clarify, although there are hints of it in Alien Bodies)

(rereading that makes me feel like I've wasted my entire life)

nooooo. just some of it.

I guess I should have kept reviewing these on The Brown Wedge.

Yes! Or at least email me and tell me which ones I'd like, since I have a long vacation coming up and will need some fluffy reading material.

In general, these authors are great:

Lawrence Miles
Jonathon Morris
Peter Anghelides

oh, also Dave Stone and Ben Aaronovitch!

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Doctor Who has been turned into a cartoon featuring David Tennant in a special animated adventure. The six-part series, titled Dreamland, will premiere on the Doctor Who website and via the BBC Red Button service in the autumn, before being broadcast on BBC Two as part of CBBC.

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DO NOT WANT.

ugh