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Eccleston still keeps up with the show well enough to know about Amy Pond
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 03:22 |
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I hope Eccleston works with Big Finish soon. Few hours of recording a week, nice environment. Maybe they'll get him. Then we get him and Tom in a room together. Best multi-Doctor story ever.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 03:31 |
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I hope Eccleston works with Big Finish soon. Few hours of recording a week, nice environment. Maybe they'll get him. We'll have to buy Eccleston a BF subscription. And then...
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 03:58 |
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I'm kinda jealous of people who, a few weeks before work is supposed to start, have no idea how they will be ready in time and still produce a brilliant piece of art. That's why they get paid the big bucks, I guess.
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saucerman posted:I'm kinda jealous of people who, a few weeks before work is supposed to start, have no idea how they will be ready in time and still produce a brilliant piece of art.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 05:11 |
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I hope Eccleston works with Big Finish soon. Few hours of recording a week, nice environment. Maybe they'll get him. I'm not holding my breath. If Eccleston didn't want to do Day of the Doctor, I highly doubt he'll do Big Finish any time soon. I'd imagine he and Moffat have each other on speed dial though, just in case.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 05:56 |
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NarkyBark posted:And how good was he! One moment as the Doctor and he nails it. He totally gets it. And he was lovely about being in it. I wasn’t there on his last day, but he gave a little speech and said something like: “I don’t want anyone to think I took this lightly or thought I was slumming it. This really meant something to me, to be the Doctor.” He was quite insistent, saying to me and to others: “So I am properly Doctor Who now. I am a Doctor Who. I can say it?” He loves the fact that he’s Doctor Who. Only having to stay in Cardiff for three weeks, he gets to be Doctor Who. I love John Hurt quote:I took Louis up and, across the room, Sylvester saw us arriving. He leapt up from a sofa – and he’s not a young man – and he spun his walking cane like the Doctor’s umbrella and said, “Louis, Louis! I’m falling over. Could you just come and help me?” So Louis rushed over and helped Doctor No 7 and he thanked him very much. He’d turned into the seventh Doctor like that [clicks fingers] and I cannot now hear a bad word about his Doctor. I love Sylvester McCoy quote:RT: The icing on the cake was getting Tom Baker to do a cameo towards the end of the special. How did that come about? Tom Baker's OK too
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 06:02 |
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Jerusalem posted:Eccleston still keeps up with the show well enough to know about Amy Pond Now we know why he didn't do the 50th... "Ok, right, so I'll get to work with Amy and Rory right! Love Amy Pond, she's great!" "Um no, sorry Chris. We've moved on from Amy, we're on Clara now." "Yeah, that's a bit naff. Sorry Steve, I'm out." jivjov posted:It's just one clip, so I don't want to draw any sweeping conclusions, but he sounds really off in that one clip. Not nearly.....gravely enough. I said this when they announced these audios, and I got a sense from the War Doctor novel they did--we're going to see a huge range from Hurt on these stories. We're going to come to realize that War IS the Doctor, and he'll be very Doctorish--funny at times, light, caring. Not all grumbly and weary and moody. And from what Moffat said about how into the role Hurt is, I think he's going to be excited to delve into all aspects of the character. PoshAlligator posted:Should have just stuck with Victoria nanny Clara. I just realized when (not if) Jenna Louise Coleman signs up for Big Finish, they can do an entire range of Splinter Clara adventures with ALL the Doctors. Should be pretty rad! Also we'll need a Torchwood where Jack meets Ashdlr. Because he'll get around to her, eventually.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 06:03 |
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I just have this horrible feeling that Chris is never going to come back to the role.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 06:05 |
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Rhyno 10 Years Ago posted:I just have this horrible feeling that Tom is never going to come back to the role.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 06:08 |
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Davros1 posted:They already have my money. All of it. Zoe did join in with that quadrilogy for the latter half. I do enjoy those three storys, the Companion Chronicle part I don't really have an opinion about tho. I'm looking forward to getting the the trilogy with the three doctors and the old companions in my listen though.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 06:18 |
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Yeah and look how long it took him!
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 06:20 |
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Rhyno posted:Yeah and look how long it took him! Well, if we count Dimensions in Time, it took him 12 years to reprise his role as the 4th Doctor.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 06:21 |
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Hang on. I leave for a couple of months and Big Finish starts doing Ten and Donna audios? And John loving Hurt is recording a few?! Do they just flat-out have a license for all of New Who? I had better get back to catching up!
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 06:52 |
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CaptainYesterday posted:Well, if we count Dimensions in Time, it took him 12 years to reprise his role as the 4th Doctor. So Chris is due in 2017? I'd be surprised if he came back before 2027.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 07:00 |
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Bicyclops posted:Hang on. I leave for a couple of months and Big Finish starts doing Ten and Donna audios? And John loving Hurt is recording a few?! Do they just flat-out have a license for all of New Who? I had better get back to catching up! They are now allowed to openly play around in the revival stuff, which is great. There's going to be a range soon of Classic Doctors facing off with Revival Monsters, there's already a new UNIT series, Strax has hooked up with Jago & Litefoot, there's 10/Donna stories coming, War Doctor stories, River Song is going to be appearing in an 8th Doctor story, and they're going to do a Time War story set in its early days when the 8th Doctor was doing his best to stay uninvolved. Good times, good times.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 07:07 |
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Jerusalem posted:They are now allowed to openly play around in the revival stuff, which is great. There's going to be a range soon of Classic Doctors facing off with Revival Monsters, there's already a new UNIT series, Strax has hooked up with Jago & Litefoot, there's 10/Donna stories coming, War Doctor stories, River Song is going to be appearing in an 8th Doctor story, and they're going to do a Time War story set in its early days when the 8th Doctor was doing his best to stay uninvolved. Well, almost good times.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 07:08 |
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I respect Christopher Eccleston's decision to take a lot of distance from the role, and he's actually been very gracious in the way he talks about the culture behind the show and its fans, and some of his thoughts about class, but I hope he comes back, just once, to record an audio with Big Finish, and that when he does, it's one of the good writers.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 07:09 |
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Ashldlr. Ashldlr you have hosed up. You have hosed right the gently caress up Ashldlr! I get the feeling the death won't be permanent but it would be pretty rad if that's how Clara goes---not a big season ending finale thing, just tried to cheat death one too many times in a random episode and it backfired spectacularly, but she got to go with dignity and also to keep Twelve from just glassing the entire Trap Street and hanging Ashldlr from a dwarf star heart. I'll be damned if Twelve doesn't make me want to see him push the Valeyard/Time Lord Victorious button and just rain down hellfire and brimstone on everyone associated with this, though!
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 07:50 |
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I actually really think Clara's death will stick. She's properly leaving this season, they wrote the hell out of that death scene, and there's room in the season to properly explore the Doctor's response to her death. Really, what do you think they'd prefer to spend the last couple episodes writing about : -The Doctor dealing with one of his closest companions dying right in front of his eyes, as a result of her trying to 'play Doctor'? -Or the Doctor undoing the death of a character played by an actor who's leaving anyway? I'd say, at most, we'll see her make some sort of 'unreal' appearance, like Danny did in Last Christmas. She won't actually be back, but she'll have a bit of a presence.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 09:17 |
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if this wasn't her death scene how long and drawn out will her real death scene be
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 09:41 |
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Acne Rain posted:if this wasn't her death scene how long and drawn out will her real death scene be It will be next seasons arc.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 09:43 |
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In my day, death scenes were the person clutching their chest and falling over dramatically with a musical sting!
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 10:31 |
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BSam posted:It will be next seasons arc. 12 episodes of screaming, moaning and flailing in the background.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 10:52 |
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The_Doctor posted:12 episodes of screaming, moaning Yes we know what the thread will be like, but what about the show?
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 10:53 |
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Jerusalem posted:
Did I imagine the bit where the Doctor plays the spoons on stage as a "Eurovision" song entry? If not, that bit was great.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 12:10 |
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The_Doctor posted:12 episodes of screaming, moaning and flailing in the background. stay out of my personal life
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 12:40 |
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NarkyBark posted:Magical. I can say I was actually there, the day Tom Baker came back. "He just sort of wandered onto the set while we were filming out of nowhere and started rambling at Matt Smith, so we made sure to record as much as we could".
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 13:03 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:"He just sort of wandered onto the set while we were filming out of nowhere and started rambling at Matt Smith, so we made sure to record as much as we could". Then they just edited down to make it plot relevant. "What time do the pubs shut around here? Does it matter? Who knows?"
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 13:09 |
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Jerusalem posted:(All I know about it is that all the other countries are in on the joke that the contest exists purely to make sure England doesn't win it, just to see England get mad about it) It's the UK in Eurovision, not England BSam posted:quadrilogy Tetralogy if you're not 20th Century Fox
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 13:22 |
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NarkyBark posted:SM: We had to work out what else to do. At that point neither David nor Matt were under contract either. I had Jenna [Coleman]. And I did come up with a plotline that was just Jenna. It was a nightmare. We’re weeks from filming. A production team is assembled, people are doing storyboards and I don’t even know if anyone who has ever played the Doctor is going to be in it. It's insane and terrifying to me how close you can get to making a terrible show and then suddenly pull an amazing one out of the hat. I'm also amazed to learn how late all of it came together. I thought the reason the 50th anniversary special turned out so great was because it had the benefit of so much lead time. I figured the War Doctor idea came in relatively late, and there are numerous lines in the special where I can almost hear Eccleston saying them. But I had no clue how late.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 13:27 |
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Yeah, as much as we can talk about how a writer or a producer or a showrunner is doing a bad job, very few people get to the point of being involved at that level on a T.V. show without a fair amount of talent. The few that do are always pretty noticeable, there's certainly no shortage of bad comedy shows and horribly made movies, but generally if you made it to the top echelon of the entertainment industry you know your poo poo. There's also the fact that the product they're producing can vary wildly based on how they've changed and the hundred-plus other people involved. The same guy that made The Sixth Sense made The Last Airbender, after all. Basically, sometimes you need to whip up a 50th Anniversary script in about two weeks to remind the people in charge to keep those cars full of money coming to your door.
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Jerusalem posted:Short Synopsis: Star Trek: The Eurovision Frontier The thing that most bothered me about this was the guy doing the bad Terry Wogan impression. I wonder if they tried to get the man himself. They were able to get Tony Blackburn for "The Rapture".
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NowonSA posted:Yeah, as much as we can talk about how a writer or a producer or a showrunner is doing a bad job, very few people get to the point of being involved at that level on a T.V. show without a fair amount of talent. The few that do are always pretty noticeable, there's certainly no shortage of bad comedy shows and horribly made movies, but generally if you made it to the top echelon of the entertainment industry you know your poo poo. There's also the fact that the product they're producing can vary wildly based on how they've changed and the hundred-plus other people involved. The same guy that made The Sixth Sense made The Last Airbender, after all. Exactly. In my experiences working in the industry, it's the tiniest variables that can determine if something is going to be amazing or terrible. Even if a script is top notch, there's still all of production and post left to gently caress things up. Conversely, a brilliant director and editor can polish up a middling script into something decent. E: I didn't like The Magician's Apprentice at all. However, a draft of the script appeared online not too long ago, and it works much, much better on paper. HD DAD fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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Jerusalem posted:Especially that story, it's really good! Not quite as good as The Seeds of Death, but then very little is Dr. Gene Dango MD fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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saucerman posted:I'm kinda jealous of people who, a few weeks before work is supposed to start, have no idea how they will be ready in time and still produce a brilliant piece of art. That's why they get paid the big bucks, I guess. That is literally every week on DW. HD DAD posted:E: I didn't like The Magician's Apprentice at all. However, a draft of the script appeared online not too long ago, and it works much, much better on paper. I'm glad it's not just me - we shot 3+4 first followed by 1+2 and I felt like 1+2 were a big improvement on paper, but it's hard to argue that the actual result was the other way around (the diector of 1+2 was excellent btw so I don't think blame can be laid at her feet)
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 15:35 |
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In enjoyed a lot of the individual scenes in the first two-parter but it felt disjointed as a whole. The plot kindof felt like it was zigzagging rather than progressing at times.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 16:48 |
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On no goddamn planet is 3+4 better than 1+2, because after the 5-minute mark 4 is terrible and makes 3 worse in retrospect. 1 and 2 may not be a perfect execution of the two-parter mandate but they're certainly the more enjoyable 90 minutes.
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# ? Nov 24, 2015 17:35 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:The thing that most bothered me about this was the guy doing the bad Terry Wogan impression. Really? That and the misdirect of the Doctor and Mel having to find a fill-in for the Earth entry are my favourite parts. (You're meant to think Mel's going to perform, because if anyone in thread doesn't know, Bonnie is an ex-musical theatre star,.)
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saucerman posted:I'm kinda jealous of people who, a few weeks before work is supposed to start, have no idea how they will be ready in time and still produce a brilliant piece of art. That's why they get paid the big bucks, I guess. You should read RTD's Writer's Tale. To my recollection, a large part of it is him panicking over missed deadlines.
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