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Post by jjpor on Jan 26, 2009 20:38:52 GMT
Well, some people aren't too keen on the idea (click only if you're spoiler-immune): www.guardian.co.uk/culture/garethmcleanblog/2009/jan/16/1Don't want to go inflicting politics on the forum, but y'know, the guy has a point... * Billie speaks sense in the article Merry links to. I second the City of Death thing; I'd like something like that. I think the thing is that City of Death just...works, in so many ways, even if you think the overly humorous approach of the late Four era was ruining it a bit (I don't! - love that stuff, me!). It's hard to replicate that; just putting lots of jokes in like RTD tends to doesn't really do it. Moffat maybe came closest in NuWho, with Blink. I'm all for art theft, sarcasm, pointless location shooting, smiling baddies and Python cameos, though; bring it on, RTD! Speaking of art theft, that black outfit the girl in the pics is wearing is kind of like the sort of thing people get kitted out in in Hollywood action movies when they're getting ready to, I dunno, nick some enormous diamond from a heavily-guarded museum or something.*
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 27, 2009 4:45:33 GMT
Yeah, I definitely understand why people would be upset. At the same time, it's likely they can't afford somewhere better. Which doesn't make it okay, just more complicated. Some bits of David Tennant's new video diary from the readthrough are up at the BBC site, here if you're in the UK, and here if you're not. (The name of the next Doctor is mentioned, if you're avoiding it.) It actually made me sort of sad - I'm really going to miss him and all his fanboyish enthusiasm.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 27, 2009 13:17:18 GMT
I found the comments written for that news post very interesting in themselves. I know a few people who have lived in/ visited the UAE and they all seemed to think it was a fine enough country, though, as I understand it, these places often have a way of shielding their dark sides from foreigners. Hmmm, I'll have to do some more research on it before I can come to a conclusion.
* I didn't think of that Planet of Death - City of Death parallel, but now that you mention it, and, seeing as they both have the random location filming... hmmm, I wonder if we can cross our fingers and hope for some random Monty Python cameo? Though, I should expect that they're all a bit grey now...
As for our mystery companion, I just had a thought, and one which makes rather more sense than Ace (though that would be Ace yes? Crazy talk true, but still...) however... Jenny? Regenerated Jenny? Yes, yes?
Can Jenny even regenerate???*
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 27, 2009 19:40:57 GMT
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As for our mystery companion, I just had a thought, and one which makes rather more sense than Ace (though that would be Ace yes? Crazy talk true, but still...) however... Jenny? Regenerated Jenny? Yes, yes?
Can Jenny even regenerate???* If she could, I think she would have done so already after she died. Plus I'm sure getting back Georgia Moffett wouldn't be too difficult...
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Post by jjpor on Jan 27, 2009 21:07:41 GMT
*I doubt we've seen the last of Jenny...but not yet; I think that'll come when Moffat is in charge. He is, after all, the one who allegedly asked them to keep her alive. Now as for whether Jenny or indeed River Song making a reappearance would actually be a good thing or not...
It has been a long term belief of mine that Michael Palin has always been the best actor out of the Pythons, on the quiet, and he's wasted making those travel documentaries...
Of course, the thought does occur to me that all this business about mysterious pasts and people finding their lives connected to the Doctor etc. is just RTD talking up his story before the fact, as per usual, and that none of it will prove to be relevant once we see the actual special.*
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 30, 2009 3:59:41 GMT
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Post by Stripes on Jan 30, 2009 4:11:35 GMT
They are actually fliming in Dubai? O.O DT you are so lucky.
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Post by jjpor on Feb 1, 2009 15:03:05 GMT
This is interesting - very interesting... Click at your peril: www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hacuuHZB6KToDO6V365skMEtPkDgNow, bear in mind that the two newspapers in question are quite far from being the most reliable of sources, and print about one crazy eventually-disproved Who rumour per week, so this may or may not be true, but: * Martin Clunes?! Huh, what?! I understand some people quite like him, and he was in Snakedance, wasn't he? Still, if that is true I'm kind of glad it didn't happen.*
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Post by clocketpatch on Feb 1, 2009 17:42:50 GMT
.No comment on that Clune fellow (though he somewhat annoys me in Snakedance, I think he's kind of supposed to in that). As for Martha... what?!?? Now, I love Martha, don't get me wrong, and I think she deserves more love in fandom but I thought season 5.2 with the New Doctor was supposed to be a Tabla Rasa for the show to reinvent itself from. I don't want to see old companions coming back, not Martha, not even Donna (no matter how much I love her) and CERTAINLY not Rose. .
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Post by jjpor on Feb 1, 2009 21:35:01 GMT
* I generally agree with you on that, Clocket; you know, I'd make an exception for the Brig or one of the other oldschool companions (or past Doctors! in fact, I'd squee if it was a past Doctor!) if they were making a School Reunion-style one off guest appearance, but yeah, I'd hope that they could go for at least one season without the entire NuWho supporting cast popping up the way they seem to. That said; I bet Jenny shows up at one point; I feel a disturbance in the Force or tingly spidey-sense or something (you know, the same uncanny clairvoyant powers that told me Paterson Joseph was DEFINITELY going to be Eleven!). I don't like to go bandying about phrases like "would finally lose all credibility for me", but...well, Moffat; Rose; just don't, mate, okay? Just don't. And that goes for you too RTD with regard to the specials.
A nasty thought occurs; aren't Martha and Mickey rumoured to be involved in the revamped version of Torchwood that we have been threatened with? Does that mean we're going to be graced by Captain Jack and his not-so-loveable crew again? How will I contain my enthusiasm?! If they want to revamp Torchwood, they should just make it into the Continued Adventures of Gerald and Harriet; I'd watch that!* Oh, er, bigtime spoiler alert; don't click on the below if you are at all bothered by that sort of thing. You have been warned: www.denofgeek.com/television/194415/doctor_who_planet_of_the_dead_aliens_announced.htmlWhat's the betting that that "unnamed set source" is RTD himself? Talking c--p as usual... ;D
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Post by clocketpatch on Feb 1, 2009 23:53:50 GMT
*lols my head off* I've got to agree with you on that unnamed source JJpor. *picks up head and tosses it from hand to hand consideringly* . I would for sure watch a Torchwood with Gerald and Harriet (written by you). I'm hoping to read the next installment of their adventures later this week when I have more time to bandy about.
also... fly-human-monsters...? um... ala the Web Planet...? i do hope not.
but... oh noes! The Dead Planet... Th Web Planet... my heart sinks. The 11th hour rewrite doesn't bode well either, though maybe it will force them to be more creative...? I hope so.
Personally, I still haven't ruled out Joseph as 11, and won't until the glow-y light flies. I'm living under the delusion that Matt Smith is just a decoy bird, that he'll end up being a companion or something, but that the REAL 11 is hiding somewhere in the shadows...
I'm ALLOWED to live in dream world okay?!??. EDIT . you know, looking at him, Matt Smith sort of looks like a young Clune. He has that same perpetual lipstick thing going on, if you know what I mean..
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Post by jjpor on Feb 2, 2009 19:44:35 GMT
*Yes, yes I do know what you mean... I think the lad's going to be okay, though; I don't think they'd have cast him if he didn't have what it took. I think it'll be a lot like Tennant or, maybe more appropriately, Davison, where even if we cringe at the writing or storytelling choices from time to time, the actor himself can't be faulted (I know, I know; I may live to regret these words come 2010!). I see his obvious enthusiasm in interviews, a lot like Tennant, although he doesn't share Tennant's very likeable little-boy fannishness, and I think, yeah, the kid'll be okay...
Fly-monsters? Digusting fly-monsters? As iconic as Daleks and Cybermen? Yeah, pull the other one, RTD, it's got bells on... For a starter, any level of disgustingness they are allowed to portray on what is at the end of the day a kid's show won't live up to whatever anyone who's read that is now imagining (I was put in mind of the mind-blowingly horrible The Fly when I read that, and I think we can all agree we probably don't want anything like _that_ in Who...). Secondly, I wonder will we be sitting around in ten years' time talking about the Daleks, the Cybermen and...you know, the fly-men? You know, the ones who were in that one with the bus in the desert? You know? What were they called...Tetraps? Teripterils? Something beginning with "T"; no, I can't remember what it was, but they were easily as iconic as the Daleks and Cybermen. Well, okay, as iconic as the Ice Warriors and Sontarans, then... Well, all right, as iconic as the Zarbi, possibly...
RTD is his own worst enemy, you know, with all of this pre-event talking-up he indulges in. I do find it sort of amusing, though. Still, a bus, fly-men, mysterious femmes fatales, Lee Evans...in the desert... It could be a good little story provided Russell avoids some of his more OTT instincts. Something like Midnight rather than something like Journey's End, if you get my drift.*
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Post by merrythemad on Feb 5, 2009 14:58:18 GMT
ACK ARGH!!!! whitedness follows
* Seriously? flymen? *headdesk* Can we please just go and take over? David Tennant loves Who and he will support us in our DbA rewrite. As for Matt, he isn't 11, as I have already told you, he is a red herring, no fear! David Morrisey is eleven, it's all a big joke on us, and RTD wants to laugh all the way to the bank! okay, I'm done, must go get coffee before I say more.*
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Post by IMForeman on Feb 18, 2009 18:03:25 GMT
Is this reputable? Supposedly the new companion for the second special of the year. There are quotes and everything. *shrug* I hope it's true, I've not heard of her before but she seems like a well-respected actress, and David often works best with older women.
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Post by jjpor on Feb 18, 2009 22:40:44 GMT
Hmm, looks reputable enough. I think I know who she is: *if anyone saw the series "Rome" (one of my guilty pleasures from a couple of years ago), I think she was Brutus's mother/Caesar's sometime girlfriend*. But, this made me go huh? - "We are delighted to announce that she will be joining the team and playing the Doctor's most strong-minded companion yet." What?? RTD, you can quit it with the hyperbole now, mate; you're nearly at the end...
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Post by IMForeman on Mar 8, 2009 16:48:34 GMT
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Post by merrythemad on Mar 8, 2009 20:44:48 GMT
*The Unicorn & The Wasp scribe also adds that this special will feature a character who is a "loving portrait of Doctor Who fandom."
The possibilities here are endless, but having just stumbled across a scary fanfic in which "the prettiest" Doctors are abducted by fangirls, I am so very afraid.*
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Post by jjpor on Mar 8, 2009 21:43:59 GMT
* The Unicorn & The Wasp scribe also adds that this special will feature a character who is a "loving portrait of Doctor Who fandom."* You mean, like the kid in Greatest Show in the Galaxy?? Thou shalt not mocketh the fanboys; they seeeth not the funny side... * I remember him from Neighbours; I think he was Jason Donovan's brother in it or something like that. Haven't a clue who the model girl is; I suspect I probably read the wrong sort of newspapers and magazines. ;D I see the BBC has now enshrined that "bestest and cleverest companion evah" thing in officialdom; I'll be impressed if she really is, but, well... I'm a bit put out that Easter is the last one before Xmas. Maybe someone could clear something up for me; are there supposed to be three specials or four? I thought four, for some reason, but Easter+Xmas+New Years' Day=3. Were they counting last year's Xmas special as one of the four? Is this where my confusion arises from?*
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 8, 2009 23:31:26 GMT
You mean, like the kid in Greatest Show in the Galaxy?? Thou shalt not mocketh the fanboys; they seeeth not the funny side... that's what I thinking too actually... though I'd hope for something closer to the creepy groupies in Doctor Horrible
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Post by IMForeman on Mar 11, 2009 3:35:55 GMT
Oh god, please not another Love & Monsters.
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