Clipperton posted:

he's the worst who fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIqTPQqgvQ

Fil5000 posted:

jng2058 posted:

Okay, so where's the idea that Capaldi's leaving with Moffat coming from? I don't see any hard evidence of that anywhere. Indeed, given how Moffat himself said that it was extraordinarily difficult to handle becoming the new showrunner and inaugurating a new Doctor simultaneously, I'd expect him to do his best to get Peter to stay on for at least one season of Chibnall's run just to help smooth the transition.

Stabbatical posted:

I think Cyberwoman sucked as much as the next guy, but I think I'd be more interested in seeing another bizarre failure like that than another very competent episode of Moffat's worn-out bag of well-worn tricks again (Heaven Sent excluded). It's been, what, 5 years? It's change, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon.

Bicyclops posted:

That is a really good exchange.

I'm in the middle of the Eighth Doctor's fourth season and really enjoying it. They actually do a pretty good job of reviving the Meddling Monk as a villain. I'm still not quite sure how I feel about Tamsin, but it usually does take me a few stories to warm up to a new companion.

Davros1 posted:

Nick Briggs told a story about when it came to Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel, he and RTD had decided on the voice to use. So when they were filming (since Briggs does the voices live), director Graeme Harper came up to him and told him no, he wants the Cybermen to sound more like Darth Vader. Briggs began to fret, because he didn't want to upset the director, but that's not what he and RTD had agreed on. He conveyed this to David Tennant, who said "Call Russell". Briggs didn't want to do this, didn't want to cause waves, but David stressed "Call Russell". So Briggs did, explained the situation, and minutes after he got off the phone, Harper came up to him and told him they were going to do the voices they way Briggs wanted to.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Tell him that initially it was something that let him undo screws at a distance (which it was)

IceAgeComing posted:

yeah for all the flak that JNT gets he's basically the reason why it wasn't cancelled three years earlier; without him we wouldn't have had McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and some of the great stuff that he was in. I mean with the stories that you hear about how difficult the end of Trial of a Timelord was who'd have blamed him if he'd gone "gently caress this" and moved onto something else. I mean the last part of the thing is probably the only Pip and Jane thing that you can't totally blame them for being terrible!

Gaz-L posted:

Huh. BF just announced the new Benny Summerfield/Who crossover set will feature Benny and the Third Doctor... David Warner's Third Doctor, battling Mark Gatiss' Master.

Jerusalem posted:

Yeah, it should definitely be on around 7pm. The more people that make a fuss about that (I believe Moffat has also criticized the BBC over this) the better.

Stuporstar posted:

Why do I get the feeling this may end up like Colin Baker all over again? Capaldi gets only a couple up and down seasons only to get shafted with a poor regeneration episode because he decided he wanted to continue working rather than sit around while the show is on hiatus. Meanwhile a lovely showrunner runs the show into the ground, making weird dramatic plans for the story that will never come to fruition due to poor execution and executive fuckery...

Jerusalem posted:

For all that though, I absolutely adore the final scene and think it is a remarkable piece of visual storytelling AND acting. As the camera pans around Ashildr while time zooms past leaving her untouched, we get both a sense of the timespan she now suffers through and the personal changes she experiences across that time period. From wonder and joy to concern/horror to just empty, dull indifference.

http://i.imgur.com/h3x3A1c.gifv

CobiWann posted:

Yeah, I handed my wife's ex-husband my copy of Spare Parts for Peter Davison to sign while he's bringing his copy of The Mind Robber for Ms. Padbury. I really wish I could have gone this year and hope Peter comes back next year, especially if the con moves to a different hotel.

So those of us who are audio fans often make fun of Joseph Lidster, a writer who has almost redefined the phrase “misery porn.” He’s written some interesting stories with incredibly downer endings or canon-shattering events that are rarely, if ever, mentioned again (Eight’s two amnesiac companions in Terror Firma, Ace’s long lost brother in The Rapture).

I bring this up because he’s in charge of Big Finish’s Dark Shadows line the same way Nicholas Briggs handles the Who side of the house, and if you know anything about Dark Shadows then you know Lidster’s style is the perfect fit for the Collins family.

And with that said…

https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/dark-shadows-50th-anniversary-special-offers

Davros1 posted:

Elliot Chapman now voices Ben Jackson, Jemma Powell is Barbara Wright, Tim Treloar is the Third Doctor, and Frazier Hines is pretty much the Second Doctor now.

CobiWann posted:

London, England, the 1890s. Queen Victoria, ruler of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, has arrived for her annual inspection of the Torchwood Institute. This year, everyone is quite determined, nothing will go wrong.

Several minutes later a terrible creature is unleashed on the streets of London. No one knows where it comes from, what it is, or even why it's on Earth. It's ruthless, has no morals, and is quite unstoppable. Captain Jack Harkness is on the loose, and Queen Victoria is along for the ride of her life.

John Barrowman is Captain Jack Harkness in The Victorian Age.

adhuin posted:

So they're expecting people checking/buying things hourly during the Work/School day? That's weird.

The_Doctor posted:

The BBC online shop is shutting down! They're having a massive sale! However all the Classic series DVDs seem to have vanished from the listings...

Tavarin posted:

Alas no, it was some weird show about cycling afterwards.

Burkion posted:

We are immensely lucky because we have never had a bad Doctor to date.

CobiWann posted:

MrL_JaKiri posted:

A guy who played the Master for maybe four seconds in total is not really comparable to a Big Finish regular.

The_Doctor posted:

Aww, Blakes 7's Gareth Thomas has passed.

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2016/04/gareth-thomas-1945-2016.html

egon_beeblebrox posted:

I watched the old B-movie, First Man Into Space, earlier today, and was delighted to see Roger Delgado pop up in it. It was an OK movie.

Jerusalem posted:

Short Synopsis: The Doctor accidentally ends up the Boss on Celebrity Apprentice UK

Open Source Idiom posted:

Exile was sold on being a bawdy sex-change comedy, but it's also a story about the Doctor as alcoholic and possible schizophrenic. She experiences delusional spells (a trait strangely common among the Unbound Doctors), and there are moments when you can sense parts of the Doctor's earlier adventures peaking in around the edges of the script, in ways that suggest we're seeing a character who's losing their mind. Plus, casting Arrabella Weir as a working class Doctor means that you've got a good basis to explore and challenge some of the built-in assumptions about the character. Why is the Doctor (nearly) always an eccentric, upper-middleclass Edwardianite? How is that an essential part of their characterization?

Just look at the play's best scene if you want to see what Exile could have been -- the sequence where Weir drunkenly communes with a static playing television. It's the middle of the night, the character is blackout drunk, and she's hallucinating a vision of her former life, but she's also detected an alien message hidden among the whitenoise.

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Tensions start to rise between Carol and Tyreese when Michonne is introduced, and Carol begins to fear Tyreese will be attracted to her. Carol tries to ignore Tyreese and Michonne's friendship for some time and simply just brush it off as nothing, until she witnesses Michonne performing oral sex on Tyreese in the prison gymnasium. Initially, this led to her to think that she had to try and compete with Michonne for his affection, so when they were in bed she shamefully and tearfully attempted to give him oral sex as well. She openly expressed how she couldn't bring herself to do such a degrading act and broke down into tears.

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On one occasion, she passionately kisses Rick when he attempts to console her. She proposes the idea of a polygamous or plural relationship between him, Lori, and herself. Her reasoning being that since the normal rules of society no longer apply, they can live however they want, raise their children and provide each other with security and comfort in this nightmarish world. He rejects her idea. Visibly hurt, she goes to Lori and attempts to propose the polygamous relationship to her, only be to shot down a second time.

egon_beeblebrox posted:

So I just found out about the old slang term "Celestial" and, ouch, The Celestial Toymaker is unfortunate.

After The War posted:

If you have any faith in humanity, don't go look in the incarnation of this thread when that photo was released. "Emo" is a hell of a lot nicer than some folks were saying.

Bicyclops posted:

Me too, and they have said they wanted to go in "a different direction" with this companion, but they always say that. The 80s outfit will probably be due to some trip they're about to take in which the TARDIS accidentally lands in the 3080s

Either way, I like the two minutes we've seen of her. Her way of questioning the reality of the Doctor Who Universe kind of cheerfully,