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https://twitter.com/georgiaetennant/status/1654920814716764163
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May 14, 2023 20:22
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I'm kinda' hoping they're advertising Donna so they can sneak in closure for Jenny.
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May 14, 2023 22:20
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Well it's nice she's got a sense of humour abut it  Georgia that is, gently caress Liz Truss.
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May 14, 2023 22:56
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1654893797216604164
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May 15, 2023 07:21
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Yannick_B posted:Is Ncuti Gatwa gonna have a different (real awesome) look each episode?? The more they show of the Ncuti season, the more I wish we could just completely skip past the inevitably irritating Tennant bullshit and get straight to 15’s run.
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May 15, 2023 08:21
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The more they show of the Ncuti season, the more I wish we could just completely skip past the inevitably irritating Tennant bullshit and get straight to 15’s run. 16th. Tennant is the 15th Doctor as well as the 10th and 11th. (+1 if you factor in the War Doctor) I too wish to skip him.
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May 15, 2023 10:55
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Tennant is one of my favs and all his stories owned so I'm excited for them and for the new doctor.
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May 15, 2023 16:13
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Yannick_B posted:Specials' titles revealed! One of the things I'm taking away from this, which is interesting, is that the time vortex is back to looking like it did during the original RTD era.
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May 15, 2023 16:22
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BooDooBoo posted:16th. Tennant is the 15th Doctor as well as the 10th and 11th. (+1 if you factor in the War Doctor) Ncuti Gatwa is being called the 15th Doctor in all the official BBC press materials and that’s what I’m going to call him until the show says otherwise.
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May 15, 2023 16:56
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Yeah, to be honest I'm a little iffy on calling 10 14 since he's clearly just 10 again (that we've seen so far!), but if that's what they call him I'll go with it. War (between 8 & 9) and Fugitive (between 2 & 3) have always stood apart in their descriptions so even if the numbering doesn't technically make sense, Eccleston is still 9, Tennant 10, Smith 11, Capaldi 12, Whittaker 13 etc.
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May 15, 2023 17:01
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i'm fine with calling em all "The Doctor" and having to figure it out from there.
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May 15, 2023 17:09
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Yeah doctor numbering is for viewer and discussion convenience, especially now when the Doctor has as many unmentioned iterations as they want.
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May 15, 2023 17:56
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah, to be honest I'm a little iffy on calling 10 14 since he's clearly just 10 again (that we've seen so far!), but if that's what they call him I'll go with it. War (between 8 & 9) and Fugitive (between 2 & 3) have always stood apart in their descriptions so even if the numbering doesn't technically make sense, Eccleston is still 9, Tennant 10, Smith 11, Capaldi 12, Whittaker 13 etc. Calling them all by their technical regeneration number also makes things needlessly complicated, especially since two of them already have other titles that make them easily identifiable (War and Fugitive, as you mentioned). Donna/HandDoc is also never portrayed in the show as a full incarnation of The Doctor, even if he did use up a regeneration. And even that distinction came later when Moffat did a soft-retcon with it in order to justify 11’s fear that he’d be the last Doctor.
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May 15, 2023 17:59
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I do kind of wish 12 had been the last of the regeneration cycle, I’d have loved to have seen Capaldi doing the ‘did you just mention THE RULES?!’ bit. Also his look is a nice mirror bookend to Hartnell.
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May 15, 2023 19:13
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The_Doctor posted:I do kind of wish 12 had been the last of the regeneration cycle, I’d have loved to have seen Capaldi doing the ‘did you just mention THE RULES?!’ bit. Also his look is a nice mirror bookend to Hartnell. Same, it's up there with "Should have been the Enterprise D is first contact" as a could-have-been story. It'd give a reason for the First Doctor to be there, and give him a reason to go on knowing subconsciously that he'll keep going. Ah well, can't have everything!
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May 15, 2023 19:37
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So they've announced the episode titles for the specials, but they still haven't given firm air dates yet, right? Or indicated if the first Gatwa season will be a spring release or a fall one or what for next year?
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May 15, 2023 19:42
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The 60th Anniversary specials will air in November, followed by a holiday special sometime around Christmas featuring Gatwa's first episode as the Doctor. We don't know when the next full season will be other than 2024.
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May 15, 2023 20:13
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I can cope with Tennant back because he has a shelf life. We know we're only getting three episodes. If this was the status quo going in and Tennant was back for an indefinite amount of time, I'd be annoyed.
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May 15, 2023 20:31
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Khanstant posted:Tennant is one of my favs and all his stories owned so I'm excited for them and for the new doctor. yeah i dont know why ppl are so pissy about him coming back lol. his tenure (lol) was the show at its best and it makes sense to have him as a stopgap to bring people back from the awful, awful, chibnall era.
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May 15, 2023 21:48
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Dongicus posted:yeah i dont know why ppl are so pissy about him coming back lol. his tenure (lol) was the show at its best The first bit is at least partially because not everyone thinks the second
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May 15, 2023 22:12
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The three Tennant episodes are simply to create buzz among wayward viewers who are nostalgic for where the show was thirteen years ago as to give momentum to Gatwa when he gets on screen.
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May 15, 2023 22:15
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CommonShore posted:The three Tennant episodes are simply to create buzz among wayward viewers who are nostalgic for where the show was thirteen years ago as to give momentum to Gatwa when he gets on screen. Yeah, it's quite transparently a ploy to get viewers back who quit watching during the Chibnall era.
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May 15, 2023 22:18
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It feels like out of all the nu-Who Doctors they're dragging 10 back in after already including him in The Day of the Doctor. If you can't get Eccleston to do more than voice work, and you can't get Smith to come back because he's a big deal now and you can't get Capaldi because it's too soon then, like, why even bother? But I'm honestly not that miffed over it, and I'm still gonna watch, because by the time November rolls around it'll have felt like an eon and then some since there's been new Doctor Who on the screen. I am just chomping at the bit for Gatwa's portrayal.
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May 15, 2023 22:22
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Dongicus posted:yeah i dont know why ppl are so pissy about him coming back lol. his tenure (lol) was the show at its best and it makes sense to have him as a stopgap to bring people back from the awful, awful, chibnall era. Maybe people are pissy because they’re tired of franchises dangling lazy nostalgia in their face to try and entice them into coming back instead of, you know, actually moving on and committing to new and interesting things. I hated most of Chibnall’s run, what I want (and what would ultimately get me back to weekly viewing instead of waiting months for it all to drop on streaming) is something new. Another year of Tennant specials ain’t it.
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May 15, 2023 22:27
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Maybe people are pissy because they’re tired of franchises dangling lazy nostalgia in their face to try and entice them into coming back instead of, you know, actually moving on and committing to new and interesting things. the whole show is nostalgia bait lol. e: also isnt the new doctor... new lol? w/e Dongicus fucked around with this message at 22:37 on May 15, 2023 |
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May 15, 2023 22:30
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The first bit is at least partially because not everyone thinks the second i dont believe you
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May 15, 2023 22:32
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AndyElusive posted:It feels like out of all the nu-Who Doctors they're dragging 10 back in after already including him in The Day of the Doctor. It's because Tennant was the most popular by far of the revival series Doctors; even Smith and Moffat's era was basically just them building on what Tennant and RTD had achieved before them. They're not bringing Tennant back because he was the only one they could get, they're bringing him back because he's the one people want to see. I'm also going to cop to a nagging suspicion that Tennant coming back is going to be hugely successful ratings-wise, and that the ratings success is going to largely be due to Tennant; and that when people (who are less terminally online than us, anyways) realize he isn't going to be the Doctor full-time again, the ratings are going to experience a decline. I think it's very much a case of RTD potentially shooting the new Doctor in the foot by bringing back an older and much more popular one first, instead of letting the new guy carry the show on his own, as all the other actors who played the Doctor got the chance to do before him. I could also be completely 100% wrong. Time will tell.
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May 15, 2023 22:33
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Part of the reason that Tennant was popular was that he was an attractive young man (which Smith, Capaldi and Whittaker all are not). Gatwa very definitely is.Dongicus posted:i dont believe you Tennant's period is probably the third worst imo, better than Whittaker and CBakes.
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May 15, 2023 23:01
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Dongicus posted:yeah i dont know why ppl are so pissy about him coming back lol. his tenure (lol) was the show at its best and it makes sense to have him as a stopgap to bring people back from the awful, awful, chibnall era. haha sometimes from this thread you'd think every doctor was loving garbage, every companion an abomination, and there has never been a good episode of the show.
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May 15, 2023 23:04
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Part of the reason that Tennant was popular was that he was an attractive young man (which Smith, Capaldi and Whittaker all are not). Gatwa very definitely is. Smith was a Tumblr hotboy
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May 15, 2023 23:08
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DoctorWhat posted:Smith was a Tumblr hotboy Whether you think he's personally hot or not, the series leant into it approximately 0% as much as it did in the Tennant era
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May 15, 2023 23:14
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One of grown up Amy Ponds early quandaries was if she was gonna bang 11 or not.
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May 15, 2023 23:18
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Khanstant posted:haha sometimes from this thread you'd think every doctor was loving garbage, every companion an abomination, and there has never been a good episode of the show. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/258262904091058176?s=20
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May 15, 2023 23:21
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Khanstant posted:haha sometimes from this thread you'd think every doctor was loving garbage, every companion an abomination, and there has never been a good episode of the show. Oh I dunno, the first seven were pretty darn good, along with (most of) their companions
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May 15, 2023 23:27
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Wasn't the Smith/Moffatt run the most popular the show has been? Or was that just because it's when the show pushed for a more global (globaler?) reach than before? Anyways, all that is secondary to the fact that I'm really drat excited for new Doctor Who, coming soon!* * Not soon enough!
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May 15, 2023 23:54
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Oh I dunno, the first seven were pretty darn good, along with (most of) their companions Hahaha I deleted a second line about, except for the old heads who think the originals are perfect in every way, because I still remember some squabbling over which and what occasionally... I just can never make it through very many of them to remember the characters/eps to contextualize the squabbles.
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May 16, 2023 00:45
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Khanstant posted:Hahaha I deleted a second line about, except for the old heads who think the originals are perfect in every way, because I still remember some squabbling over which and what occasionally... I just can never make it through very many of them to remember the characters/eps to contextualize the squabbles. It's almost like there is no actual consensus or agreement on anything, just like any other fandom!
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May 16, 2023 01:38
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I'm tired of the Hive Mind in this thread that is constantly claiming multiple contradictory things all the time seemingly based on completely individual opinions based on a person's own unique perspective! 
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May 16, 2023 01:43
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It's like doctor who cannon. Messy and contradictory.
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May 16, 2023 01:47
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Well that's what happens when you stand in front of a cannon!  Terrible puns aside, what are people guessing re: NPH's character? I have read zero spoilers so I have no idea, but based on absolutely nothing beyond the trailers that have been released I'm assuming he's some kind of trickster "god" and I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume he's a modern (and far less racist) version of The Toymaker. The Doctor gonna beat him with The Tower of Hanoi.... again!
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May 16, 2023 01:49
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