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

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

I don't mind them levitating! Just all the flying through the fucking air in foramtion shit. What a cheat that is.

(lol im drunk)

First time (nuWho first time, at least), when Lynda-with-a-Y was trapped and they all showed up out the window in front of her, that was cool, millions of them, being scary as fuck and flying and shit. Now, they are really really tedious.

I'll be honest, only the first Ecclescake dalek ep did anything for me (and that can't ever have happened now under Rusty continuity). Never been that huge a fan of the daleks, my favourite stories with them in (The Mutants excepted) are the ones with other plots in them, like 'Day of...' with the time travel predestination stuff. Oh, and technically daleks have always been able to fly for almost as long as we have known them (in the 'date shown on screen context) - they have "anti-gravitation disks" as far back as 'Dalek Invasion Of Earth'.

On Tennant in SJA, I thought the opposite, that he worked far better in that precisely because he's reduced to a couple of crap gurns and if his Doctor is always going to be played that way rather than do it on something more obviously targeted at younger children than the main show. Still would rather have him on neither, mind. And this series of SJA hasn't been that great, although YAY for K9 being back.

Do I need to seek out these SJA eps to be adequately prepared for the November special?

I don't think there's anything you need to know (except a hint that the Doctor will "go through a gateway", which may be a reference to the upcoming animated thingy).

UH

http://sensei.sttrinnians.net/comic.php?1

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/760/sensei1.jpg

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg176/PS85Enigma/DoctorWho/DSCF0614.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg176/PS85Enigma/DoctorWho/DSCF0612.jpg

I am lolling at the 'actor' names at the bottom of these DVD covers.
http://sensei.sttrinnians.net/artwork/3senseis.jpg
http://sensei.sttrinnians.net/artwork/5senseis.jpg

Having investigated the website I am not sure exactly how RONG these are but I need to continue to investigate to find out.

I am watching K9 & Company. IT IS GRATE AND YOU ARE ALL RONG. (Haha, the swinger subtext line has just been uttered.)

Notice they haven't tried to make Sylvester McCoy into a cute manga chick.