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

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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

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

thanks for the reminder herb, I was wondering when that was going to start actually. also with you on being enough of a who-stan...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alun_vega/3983891712/in/photostream/

So the tenth doctor is going to kick it in my favorite tie (the one he also wore in The Girl in the Fireplace)? :(

It has a white question mark on a blue field? (sorry but could be homage to prev dr)

Seems to be wearing Tennant's clothes in the pics with the new companion as well, so presumably the Moffatt/Smith era begins straight after the regeneration?

that would make sense. it's unlikely you'd see more of Matt Smith in RTD's final episode than you saw of Tennant in The Parting Of The Ways.

Can I make my "RTD is furiously scribbbling with his crayons" joke now?

I've probably posted this guy before, but there are new clips up:

http://io9.com/5390286/macross+inspired-doctor-who-anime-exterminates-our-eyeballs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqR8A8ecKWo

was a DT and K9 cameo in Sarah Jane Adventures this afternoon (2nd part tomorrow)

xpost: Great stuff - the dandified early 70's look of Jon Pertwee and Roger Delgado makes an amazingly perfect fit with the Japanese concept of "Elegant Gothic" style.

Moffat is writing six of the 13 episodes.

Also "I always liked the Tardis from the Peter Cushing [Dr Who] movies, and wanted to make it more like that".

Sounds like they might be doing the RTD finale part 1 on Xmas Day and part 2 on New Year's Day.

did we see the thing yesterday when he revealed (on gmtv?) that the special will be mid-november?

Moffat is writing six of the 13 episodes.

Good thing in my book.

Yeah, it's not like he's a first draft writer.

Watched those two SJA eps this morning. Tennant at his worst, he just seems to be trapped in a loop of the same five or six mannerisms over and over agan. Really can't wait for this regeneration.

I wish I could suggest ban Matt Smith.

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― Matt DC, Friday, 30 October 2009 16:08 (Yesterday)

Yeah, it's not like he's a first draft writer.

― Otter madness (Nicole), Friday, 30 October 2009 16:10 (Yesterday)

i assumed we all thought this a good thing!

i don't think he is doing the Dalek episode(s) i've heard about tho

Fuuuuuuuuuck Dalek episodes.

They'd better not fly about this time. Hate it when they fly.

but if they didn't there would be the shit stairs escape every time