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

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!

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01466/Doctor-Who_1466640c.jpg

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.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alun_vega/3865648374/

DO NOT WANT.

ugh

ha ha wtf that sound terrible (the flickr clip not the cartoon)

Ah, that means nothing, still reserving judgment.

Sounded a bit like young Malcolm McDowell at the end.

Richard Curtis to write episode of Doctor Who

The prospect of that weird whispery voiced hipster acting out the script is v. depressing. Not that I should be judging on some weird out of context sound clip, but still.

The mere suggestion of Doctor Who meets Blackadder makes me want to kill.

it would be a curse of fatal death

ha!

The War Games dvd is out now, right? in Region 1? How is it?

new logo

New logo is great IMO, way better than the old one.

yeah think its good that they put the Who underneath the Doctor again, TARDIS motif also fitting. still too much lens flare tho.

link please?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/medialibrary/images/new_logo/new_logo640x395.jpg

I like it! The lens flare is giving me flashbacks of the Star Trek movie though.

It's good, got a bit of a 60s vibe.

So much better than the somewhat cheap looking current one.

funny, other people saying 90s, 80s, 70s... xp

It's truly a time-travelling logo.

It is so much nicer than the old one, which reminded me of the logo for some early 90s rave artist.

Thinking about it, new logo probably also means a new version of the theme song.

Like, durr, obvious, right?

hope so, latest version so shit

I realize it's too close to the end of the year to create a 2009 thread anyway, but how has this 2008 thread gone on for so long?

I'll go against the trend and say I'm not really liking the new logo, it feels too deliberately retro, when DW's logo has always been trying to look futuristic (and hence constantly dating itself).

Why oh why didn't they take the opportunity to fire Murray Gold? His music is so overbearing.

OTM, but it worked with the overbearing emo of RTD. I hope the new retro logo hints that Moffat is returning to form, esp. with the idea of 11 being Hartnellesque, the 'old man in young body' approach that Davison never really pulled off.

New season of Sarah Jane Adventures starts on the 15th, and yes I'm enough of a Who-stan to watch goddamn Sarah Jane. it pushes the same sci-fi cheezola buttons as my Tomorrow People box-sets.

The new logo kinda reminds me of

http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Knight%20Rider/Knight%20Rider%20Pictures/Knight%20Rider%20Logo.jpg