Yes, I'll try and chase up some others.
They landed a whole-ass Dalek space shuttle in a real school playground in Remembrance. That still looks like "how tf did they manage this?"
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 22 January 2021 05:21 (three years ago) link
This box will make Mel the second companion to have all her stories out on Blu-Ray, after the almost equally beloved Adric. Every story in the set has alternate extended editions and optional new 5.1 surround sound mixes AND isolated scores. Also not mentioned in the video: twenty-five hours of studio footage (edited highlights of a hundred hrs!).
Other blu-ray promo videos:
Ace Returns! - Season 26 promo, the first of these
Jo and Cliff Jones return to Llanfairfach - Season 10 promo
The Home Assistants Of Death?! - Season 14 promo (also see the last 30 seconds of this trailer)
Jo Grant vs the Autons... Again?! - Season 8 promo
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 22 January 2021 08:43 (three years ago) link
I liked the Jovanka Airways one.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Friday, 22 January 2021 10:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQEvPJC8AEI
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Friday, 22 January 2021 10:14 (three years ago) link
from one of the folks who works on the blu-ray bonus features:
My favourite thing about Season 24 is that they wanted to have Sylvester McCoy playing the spoons but his first story was set in space so they had to design SPACE SPOONS. God bless @LeeBinding for including them on the cover, but we should be issuing them as free gifts too! pic.twitter.com/6HrVNRjAE2— Chris Chapman (@ChrisChapman81) January 22, 2021
and the perils of presenting these programmes in high-as-possible definition, when the makers knew that all the TVs at home would be rounded at the corners so you'd never see anything at the edge of frame:
What makes it worse is that it's such a wonderful, witty shot - and all it needed was a tiny crop to hide the fault!— Chris Chapman (@ChrisChapman81) January 22, 2021
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 22 January 2021 10:19 (three years ago) link
And some earlier blu-ray trailers I hadn't seen before (lower yr expectations tbh) (also xpost):
Season 18 Announcement Trailer (Galactic Glitter Package Tours advert voiced by Tom)
The Season 19 Safety Video with Tegan Jovanka
The Sixth Doctor is on trial AGAIN!
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 22 January 2021 10:20 (three years ago) link
how come I didn't know about these Blu-Ray trailers until now, this is seriously fantastic
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Friday, 22 January 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
The 24 Carat one has really raised the bar for future seasons.(accidentally posted the followup on that second Chapman tweet - click through for a Delta & The Bannermen snippet)
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 22 January 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
Thanks for finding them. I think the newest one is still the best. I have 3 of the blu-ray sets now, but I've only watched half of "Battlefield" on them so far.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 22 January 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
RTD's new series, It's A Sin (set in young gay 1980s Manchester), will include an episode in which one of the leads gets a part in a McCoy-era Who serial.(Davies' Regression Of The Daleks is an imaginary sequel to Resurrection.)Show starts Friday 22nd on Channel 4 (and maybe HBO Max), with all five eps on All4 immediately afterward.
(Davies' Regression Of The Daleks is an imaginary sequel to Resurrection.)
Show starts Friday 22nd on Channel 4 (and maybe HBO Max), with all five eps on All4 immediately afterward.
Bit off-topic, but have just watched the first episode of this and it was really quite good, best thing he's done in ages.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 22 January 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
I haven't gotten around to Midsummer Night's Dream yet, but the other three of his last four things were great-to-fantastic.
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 22 January 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link
It’s incredible, I’m full of anticipation and dread for the next episodes in equal measure.
― scampopo (suzy), Friday, 22 January 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
I missed it, the HEAVILY rotated trailers made it look like every gay drama ever, but I'll give it a shot if people say it's good.
― chap, Saturday, 23 January 2021 00:07 (three years ago) link
Just bumped across the end of ep 2 of Remembrance on TV (streaming free on Pluto): the special FX of the Dalek starting to teleport into Shoreditch, all transparent and pink-brain-mutant showing first, then the scene of another Dalek chasing and shooting at Ace in the science lab, are also pretty great.
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 23 January 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
For those that might appreciate some classic-era nerdery, the original Myth Makers interviews have gone up on Amazon Prime, hours and hours of the stuff, and a lot of supplemental episodes too.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 24 January 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
It's A Sin has an US premiere date: all five eps on HBO Max on Feb 18th.
(Am up to #4; cried through most of 3.)
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:16 (three years ago) link
Apologies if this constitutes unwelcome self-promotion (and please delete/ignore if it does), but I'm doing a live Doctor Who podcast at 8pm GMT tonight on Twitch (audio podcast to follow afterwards) looking at The Ark, Caves of Androzani and Heaven Sent + asking if they can tell us anything about the Very Strange Times we're living in right now.
Streaming here: https://twitch.tv/illexplainlaterdw
― bamboohouses, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
An article about the Daleky bit in It's A Sin, with some poignant details, director interview, and several irritating errors: https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a35347177/its-a-sin-doctor-who-crossover-scene/
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 30 January 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link
Peter Davison's home audio booth for lockdown recordings.
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 8 February 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
There was a Love & Monsters tweetalong today, with the special commentary coming from the nine-year-old kid who created the Absorbaloff for a Blue Peter competition.
While Abzorbaloff wasn't originally inspired by the Slitheen, I like the world building and the similarities are obvious. He was actually inspired by boogers, nightmares and the Simpsons. #LINDAunited— Channel Pup - Objectively Good YouTuber (@channel_pup) February 14, 2021
Ha. That's quite a slab in the face. Poor Ursula. Getting literally stoned in Elton's apartment. #LINDAunited— Channel Pup - Objectively Good YouTuber (@channel_pup) February 14, 2021
In the spirit of valentine's Day, fun fact: Abzorbaloff gets auto-erotic pleasure from absorbing people. #LINDAunited— Channel Pup - Objectively Good YouTuber (@channel_pup) February 14, 2021
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 15 February 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
well i just learned a lot from the "blue peter" wiki
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
Perhaps the most important revelation from this weekend's newspapers. #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/NqqAqlWF59— Nathaniel Tapley (@Natt) February 18, 2021
― stilt in the wings (sic), Friday, 19 February 2021 05:32 (three years ago) link
Haha good god. Course he pretty much got his way with Yrcanos, eventually. That eyeliner was...dubious.
Incidentally, I've been ploughing through tons of 60s and 70s tokusatsu stuff recently, and was very happy to find that the bad guy in King Kong Escapes is an Asian Doctor Who
― JimD, Friday, 19 February 2021 10:41 (three years ago) link
As pointed out in the comments, Troughton's first thought was to play The Doctor in blackface too:
"My original idea was to black up and wear a big turban and brass earrings and a big grey beard and do it like the Arabian Knights. I thought that would be a wonderful idea, but when I'd finished, I could shave off, take the black off, take the turban off and nobody would know who I was and I wouldn't be typecast."
And of course he did brownface as Salamander in Enemy of the World.
Brian Blessed hated Hartnell and almost decked him once:
I couldn't find this clip of Brian Blessed talking about how he once almost beat the crap out of William Hartnell anywhere on the internet, so here it is. pic.twitter.com/4vqgLOqu1G— Paul Cornish (@PaulGCornish) August 13, 2020
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Friday, 19 February 2021 11:07 (three years ago) link
The makeup aspect / white actors aside, it's notable that both Troughton and Blessed supposedly thought in 1966 "It is FINALLY time for a Doctor Who of colour!"
― stilt in the wings (sic), Friday, 19 February 2021 12:09 (three years ago) link
uh
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Friday, 19 February 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
I suppose that is one way to interpret that
Any day now.
― stilt in the wings (sic), Friday, 19 February 2021 12:34 (three years ago) link
(I’ve never seen any aspect of the Blessed story before; Troughton’s may be an exaggerated ‘80s convention anecdote - he doesn’t seem to have actually pitched doing the show in blackface and turban to the production team.)
― stilt in the wings (sic), Friday, 19 February 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
"It is FINALLY time for a (white guy to play a)Doctor Who of colour!"
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 February 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
.@Paul_Burgin has spotted Peter Davison in the background as John Lennon performed 'Instant Karma' on Top of the Pops. pic.twitter.com/sN5ex9syaZ— Jonny Morris (@jonnymorris1973) February 21, 2021
― stilt in the wings (sic), Monday, 22 February 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link
The Tenth Doctor might have been oblivious to Martha but she had better luck with some of the others... pic.twitter.com/B4fWlZo6oX— Doctor Who Minus Context (@WhoMinusContext) March 2, 2021
DOCTOR WHO: 7/11 miniseries now please. Agyeman can drive the TARDIS while they bicker.
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 07:32 (three years ago) link
At the risk of overselling things, I have been enjoying STRANDED Vols 1 and 2, two boxed sets from Big Finish. The premise is that the Eighth Doctor is stranded in 2020 for months with the TARDIS out of action and is stuck being landlord for a whole block of flats, the various residents of which all become companions as he slowly wrestles the TARDIS back to life. The stakes are usually refreshingly low and the characters and storylines pleasantly progressive (one new companion, and love interest for a long-term audio companion, is a trans woman; another story is about two gay men getting together while serving in UNIT in the 1970s). It's not world-shattering but overall it is rather good--certainly better than almost any other BF stuff I've tried to listen to.
Of course, being Big Finish, they have at least 2 more box sets in the series planned and so will presumably flog it to death, but in the meantime...
If everyone thinks I'm wrong I'll blame lowered expectations from the Chibnall crap years.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 19 March 2021 06:17 (three years ago) link
cool premise
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Friday, 19 March 2021 07:08 (three years ago) link
That sounds really interesting. The only BF I've heard so far was Holy Terror, which was genuinely actually good, not just low-expectations-good.
Is McGann still a wee bit leaden?
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 19 March 2021 11:35 (three years ago) link
He's good in this, doing the Doctor is ultra distracted and driven mental by boredom
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 20 March 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
This fun twitter thread with someone ranking every nu-Who story reminded me that we're only a few seasons to passing the total number of classic-era stories.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
is COVID a thing in this story?
― akm, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 22:30 (three years ago) link
Weirdly not.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
Great list! And excellent number 1 choice (i.e. same as mine). Love and Monsters is fine but pushing it for Top 10.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:57 (three years ago) link
It's a lot more than fine and tbh I wouldn't have checked out the list without hearing that.
Gridlock at number 16, though...
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 1 April 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link
Nice thread. Interesting (to me at least) that there's nothing story arc/mythology heavy near the top.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 1 April 2021 10:38 (three years ago) link
Her #1 is the apex of the most complex story arc the series has ever done, and sets up threads that run for another two years tbf! Definitely leans toward stand-alone, though that might also be a function of what works best considered as individual units.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Thursday, 1 April 2021 11:08 (three years ago) link
I did think that but nothing else from the plot leading up to it is rated anywhere close and what they like about it is the resolution of the self-contained plot.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 1 April 2021 12:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXswDBbPEOM
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
4,068 pages of scripts, designs and other documents in the PDF materials on the S24 blu-ray.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 02:22 (two years ago) link
New from Big Finish: "Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures - Three brand new adventures featuring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor..." interesting!"..written by Nicholas Briggs." oh, never mind
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 08:35 (two years ago) link
There really isn't enough appreciation for that link abanana posted, holy shit
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
Fun and informative!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=901pWVPu2mQ
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 22 May 2021 09:56 (two years ago) link
Paul McGann has now been Doctor Who longer than anyone alive had been Doctor Who when he became Doctor Who.— James Cooray Smith (@thejimsmith) May 27, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link