Topic: Doctor Who (Read 135647 times)

Barmymoo · « **Reply #150 on:** 16 Dec 2013, 13:48 »

If you could choose to be the Doctor's companion for one episode (one that has already aired, although you wouldn't have to be the companion that was in that episode), which one would it be and why?

ev4n · « **Reply #151 on:** 16 Dec 2013, 14:32 »

Thoughts:

In terms of meeting historic personages, The Unicorn and the Wasp
In terms of stellar travel/location, Smith and Jones
In terms of meeting fictional future characters, The Waters of Mars

EDIT: Having said all that though, I think I'd choose The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #152 on:** 16 Dec 2013, 14:55 »

Oh, yeah, Lauren Cooper. I forgot she was called that. Possibly to do with my hair colour.

Shouldn't have said that.

Anyway ... To be a companion for one episode ... Day of the doctor is epic but you're not doing much ... Bad wolf rose? You get to kick dalek arse ... The pandorica opens?

Barmymoo · « **Reply #153 on:** 16 Dec 2013, 15:20 »

Has the Doctor ever met Jane Austen yet? I know I said episodes that have actually happened, but I'm breaking my own rules now

I'd LOVE to be the companion for that encounter.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #154 on:** 16 Dec 2013, 15:26 »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostfire

Try again. Yes, doc met Austen. In a big finish audio thing.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #155 on:** 16 Dec 2013, 15:41 »

I don't get it.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #156 on:** 18 Dec 2013, 18:33 »

J · « **Reply #157 on:** 18 Dec 2013, 21:55 »

Method of Madness · « **Reply #158 on:** 18 Dec 2013, 21:57 »

THAT IS THE BEST THING EVER

Lines · « **Reply #159 on:** 20 Dec 2013, 18:44 »

AWESOME!!!

dps · « **Reply #160 on:** 22 Dec 2013, 22:16 »

Quote from: Gareth on 16 Dec 2013, 05:47

And I hated Donna because it was fucking Catherine Tate.

Seriously, I'm not sure Americans understand how much generally intelligent society loathes Catherine Tate. We're talking about an equivalent of 'The new companion for The Doctor is... Dane Cook!'

As an American, I'm sure that I don't understand how Brits, intelligent or otherwise, fell about Catherine Tate. If I did, though, what would it matter? If a new companion is a well-writen character, and the person playing the role does a good job with it, why should I let the fact that I hadn't liked the performer's prior work keep me form liking their work on Doctor Who?

Thrillho · « **Reply #161 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 02:51 »

Oh if they do a good job their previous work becomes irrelevant of course, but I can't even stand the voice she used because I was already sick of it. It's not her real speaking voice.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #162 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 04:00 »

Have a Buzzcocks with Tennant and Tate. That's what she sounds like. And that's how little she knows about the show she starred in.

Kugai · « **Reply #163 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 15:11 »

FYI

Get an 'Embedding Disabled By Request' on that one Beo.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #164 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 16:25 »

Well, fuckles. I get to see it ... hmmm ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTFaCw9KvcA

Lines · « **Reply #165 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 20:13 »

Meh, still liked her better than Rose.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #166 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 14:19 »

So, that happened ...

Method of Madness · « **Reply #167 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 18:38 »

Yes, it most certainly did.

LookingIn · « **Reply #168 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 19:47 »

The crack sealed up, but is it really gone? Moffat wouldn't link the crack and the return of the planet without using it again especially since the new guy will have his own ideas for Series 9.

Of the regenerations, this one has to be the most interesting since it's the third that was forced on him but the first that was forced by choice.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #169 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 19:51 »

I'm not really sure what you mean by that.

Thrillho · « **Reply #170 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 08:17 »

Clara is a bit sexy, I gotta say.

I cannot wait to see what Capaldi does with his Doctor. I'm hooked into the show for the first time since Rose left.

Kugai · « **Reply #171 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 12:57 »

"Do you know how to fly this thing??"

THAT'S an interesting start for the new Doctor.

Thrillho · « **Reply #172 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 14:34 »

I'm just going to post again that Clara is sexy, because... Clara is sexy.

Yes I found that interesting. I also enjoyed that Capaldi has lost none of his Tuckeresque nightmarish intensity stare.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #173 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 15:08 »

Would not kick her out of my bed.

Mostly because if she's there, I'm sure she's sleepy and I wouldn't want to be rude. Still ... Bit fit.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #174 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 15:19 »

She's sexydorable. A word I invented a long time ago.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #175 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 15:23 »

My girlfriend hates her. Tooclever by half and too mysterious, last season.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #176 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 15:24 »

I dispute that it's possible to be "too clever".

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #177 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 15:37 »

I guess she meant in relation to the doctor ... But, yeah ...

Method of Madness · « **Reply #178 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 15:55 »

That's probably why she works better with Matt Smith than she would have with Tennant (aka "Clever Doctor")

Thrillho · « **Reply #179 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 16:07 »

And there is part of what pissed me off about Tennant's Doctor.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #180 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 16:34 »

The doctor will always be the cleverest person in the room. How is that annoying?

Method of Madness · « **Reply #181 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 16:35 »

Because Tennant's Doctor was very aware of being the most clever person in the room. That's why I call him "Clever Doctor".

Thrillho · « **Reply #182 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 16:39 »

Please find enclosed, Charlie Brooker's point about David Tennant's Doctor that I agree with entirely.

Ecclestone was dark, angry and cynical and when something broke through his shell, like in the WWII episode, he had a childlike wonder that he clearly felt he'd lost.

Smith's Doctor was so ridiculously youthful looking that he often SEEMED immature, not in an irritating fashion (although I did sometimes find him irritating in general) and I felt like he was always learning about things, constantly discovering new aspects to the universe.

Tennant, though, was just... 'oh it's one of these, they still work by pressing this button? *beep*'

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #183 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 17:02 »

One of Tennants best bits was the whole blood control thing from his first ever episode.

Thrillho · « **Reply #184 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 17:10 »

In fairness, I am expressing opinions about something I've not seen in seven years.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #185 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 17:12 »

I enjoyed Tennant's Doctor enough, but to be fair I sped through those, and Matt Smith was Doctor when I caught up.

LookingIn · « **Reply #186 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 18:33 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 25 Dec 2013, 19:51

I'm not really sure what you mean by that.

Moffat is leaving the show after series 8, the new producer will have his or her own ideas about the storylines, new characters, and new situations just as Moffat had his own storylines, characters, and situations that are vastly different from Russel T. Davies'.

So bringing back the crack and linking it to the Time Lords and to the fact that they are missing and not destroyed he links loose ends together allowing the next producer to have a clean slate as he did. This was done previously with "The End of Time" special when RTD ended his run, tying up all his loose ends in the closing minutes before the regeneration.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #187 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 18:41 »

Wait, he announced that he's leaving? Has series 8 even started yet? I wonder why he's going.

LookingIn · « **Reply #188 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 18:52 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 26 Dec 2013, 18:41

Wait, he announced that he's leaving? Has series 8 even started yet? I wonder why he's going.

He won't admit anything, but he is only signed on through the next series and with the loss of Smith he now has to totally redo his work to incorporate Capaldi's Doctor. He has also stated repeatedly that the show is tiring for him...so it hasn't been confirmed but things are adding up to him leaving.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #189 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 18:53 »

Oh, well you said "after series 8" which is specific enough to sound like it was confirmed. And wait, was replacing Matt Smith not Moffat's idea?

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #190 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 01:07 »

Quote from: LookingIn on 26 Dec 2013, 18:33

Quote from: Method of Madness on 25 Dec 2013, 19:51
I'm not really sure what you mean by that.

Moffat is leaving the show after series 8, the new producer will have his or her own ideas about the storylines, new characters, and new situations just as Moffat had his own storylines, characters, and situations that are vastly different from Russel T. Davies'.

So bringing back the crack and linking it to the Time Lords and to the fact that they are missing and not destroyed he links loose ends together allowing the next producer to have a clean slate as he did. This was done previously with "The End of Time" special when RTD ended his run, tying up all his loose ends in the closing minutes before the regeneration.

Of course, the whole River Song thing, which started under RTD and with 10ant as the doctor only got concluded two days ago. The time war got the once over in the fiftieth anniversery special. So, you know, loose ends were not very well wrapped up by RTD.

I just have to wonder how far ahead they're planning.

jwhouk · « **Reply #191 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 01:50 »

Surely not 50 years from now...

Thrillho · « **Reply #192 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 04:41 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 26 Dec 2013, 18:53

Oh, well you said "after series 8" which is specific enough to sound like it was confirmed. And wait, was replacing Matt Smith not Moffat's idea?

I'm pretty sure it's almost always the doctor actor himself who decides to leave. Exception would probably be McGann and he'd not played the part for nine years anyway.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #193 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 04:45 »

Colin Baker, perhaps, too?

Method of Madness · « **Reply #194 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 04:56 »

Wait, Matt Smith wanted to leave? The bastard!

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #195 on:** 27 Dec 2013, 05:53 »

Probably a heavy workload, or something, that three years seems to be about the limit for every doctor.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #196 on:** 30 Dec 2013, 13:03 »

From I09's The Biggest Mistakes, Blunders and Bad Ideas of 2013:

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Very few pop culture characters manage to make it to the esteemed 50-year mark, and even fewer series. So the fact that Doctor Who had been around for (most of) the last half-century was a major cause for celebration. But what do we get? A mere eight episodes, a 90-minute 50th anniversary special that was mostly just David Tennant and Matt Smith palling around, and the docudrama about the creation of Doctor Who, An Adventure in Time and Space. Surely there was more that could have (and should have) been done to celebrate this iconic character. More episodes. A (much) bigger special — maybe one that aired over several nights. Maybe they could have used actor David Bradley (who played the actor William Hartnell in the docudrama) to play the First Doctor in the special, to tie Doctor Who's past and present together. And again, more episodes. The sad part is the most exciting Doctor Who product of the year was the 8-minute minisode featuring the return of Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor. That's not right.

Thrillho · « **Reply #197 on:** 30 Dec 2013, 16:01 »

Different strokes for different folks. And some people are just never happy with anything.

Saying that I didn't much care for Time of the Doctor.

ev4n · « **Reply #198 on:** 31 Dec 2013, 14:45 »

That reads a LOT like "people should do more work that I don't have to pay for".

Grognard · « **Reply #199 on:** 01 Jan 2014, 17:03 »

? I don't know about you, but I do pay for my Cable TV.
ergo..
I AM paying for it, and I wanted MOAR of it.

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