Doctor Who: Martin van Buren in a Japanese game show

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Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

The_Doctor posted:

I admire their sticking to the joke.

It's because Colin and Sylvester still don't know who it really is

# ¿ Jul 5, 2017 18:01

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 10:04

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

pgroce posted:

Here's an idea I'm toying with: Every portrayal of the Doctor descends, fundamentally, from either the Hartnell take on the role (authority figure, basically establishment) or Troughton (trickster god, basically counterculture).

I'm not even sure i'd go with that reading of Hartnell honestly, he's just as trickster-y/anti-authoritarian as Troughton, just under a less wacky exterior. He's the kind of guy that would cause mischief and blame it on somebody else while LOOKING like an authority figure, if anything

# ¿ Jul 5, 2017 18:17

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/886189206300655616

# ¿ Jul 15, 2017 17:50

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

Don't gently caress this up chris

# ¿ Jul 16, 2017 18:31

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

thrawn527 posted:

In audio, you can just assume they still look the same.

You say that but I always end up picturing Colin looking like he does right now

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 18:18

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

Davros1 posted:

Looks like the one unfinished Doctor Who story is getting yet ANOTHER retelling:

http://www.starburstmagazine.com/tv-news/18897-lost-doctor-who-classic-shada-to-be-bbc-worldwides-next-animation-project

quote:

Levine’s version was offered to BBC Worldwide some years ago but declined.

lol

# ¿ Jul 30, 2017 21:29

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Narsham posted:

Old companion brought back? How about the appropriate companion for a Doctor who just got traumatized fighting the Cybermen? Handles Mk. 2.

Bring. Back. Anneke. Wills.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2017 02:46

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

I know classic who recast actors a lot but man it was weird seeing him sans yellowface in a Pertwee story (the dinosaur one i think? It's been a while)

# ¿ Aug 7, 2017 06:24

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

As someone who got REALLY into Star Wars when he was 3 and Doctor Who when he was like 20, i always enjoy trying to spot the Star Wars bit part actors.

Except Michael Sheard is cheating since he's been on like 5 times

# ¿ Aug 28, 2017 01:50

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Jerusalem posted:

hell the Silence are perfect because it's built in for the Doctor and everybody else to forget they ever met them.

While the UNIT set featuring the Silence was pretty decent they did get pretty tiresome (probably because that concept is tough to stretch out for FOUR HOURS). Maybe they would work better in a single on-off story though

# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 16:31

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

Pro tier: animated Home Truths without immediately giving away the ending

# ¿ Oct 10, 2017 07:13

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

Lmao

# ¿ Oct 10, 2017 22:28

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

Is Nick Briggs a good Holmes? I think I bought one of BF's releases years ago but i never got around to actually listening to it

# ¿ Oct 14, 2017 16:21

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

Glad it's on audio because the look on Tom's face alone would make it unfit for television

# ¿ Oct 30, 2017 14:33

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CobiWann posted:

On the third hand, those must be some drat amazing lunches Big Finish provides for their actors and actresses.

I passed Terry Molloy in the hallway at a convention once and asked "are the Big Finish lunches as good as everyone says?" and he said "oh GOD yes"

# ¿ Nov 1, 2017 13:21

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

lmao

https://twitter.com/AndyLawrence5/status/925733565765218305

Private Eye posted:

As Doctor Who fans await regeneration of their hero into a heroine under an all-new production team, similarly epochal changes have been afoot at the programme's official periodical, Doctor Who Magazine, published by comics specialist Panini on licence from BBC Worldwide.

Irked by the increasing independence of the title and its willingness to allow contributors to criticise Worldwide's hunger to cash in on the series with all manner of toys, mugs, clothes and other gewgaws, the corporation's commercial arm seized on anti-Brexit and Trump comments by interviewees as evidence of political bias in the title. This is a strict no-no for BBC magazines, and Worldwide instigated a full inquiry, as well as insisting that all staff and freelancers must undergo a training course.

Editor Tom Spilsbury also had a falling-out with BBC Wales, which produces Doctor Who, after daring to be critical of the little-seen BBC3 spin-off Class, and in the summer he took a pay-off and left the magazine.
While Worldwide hoped to see a young, possibly female editor appointed to bring the title back into tune with the TV series, Panini instead appointed the distinctly retro Marcus Hearn, known for his books on Hammer horror films, Thunderbirds and a history of saucy seaside photographs. The company has also set about slashing the magazine's budget, which means that several long-running columns are being axed.

As a result, the current issue's 87th instalment of "A History of Doctor Who in 100 Objects" will be the last in the series. It does, however, contain an extra-special message for observant readers. Writer and some-time Dalek operator Nicholas Pegg has crafted the entire thing as an acrostic, with the first letters of each sentence forming the words: "PANINI AND BBC WORLDWIDE ARE CUNTS."

# ¿ Nov 6, 2017 04:48

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

Oh yeah i guess doctor who is a tv show too isn't it

I've listened to so much big finish in the past year i'd almost forgotten

# ¿ Nov 13, 2017 12:07

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Bicyclops posted:

The Absobraloff was too subtle a villain to be Ian Levine, really. Levine's more a more cartoonish parody.

I also love how many of his complaining tweets start with "Not that I care anymore, but..."

i'm gonna tweet "no balls" at nick briggs every day until i'm dead if the absorbaloff isnt in "classic doctors new monsters volume 3"

# ¿ Nov 14, 2017 16:01

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Forktoss posted:

https://twitter.com/grahamkw/status/935527337898233856

Personally I think the show started to go downhill when they shifted focus from the policeman walking through fog to that weird shack in the junkyard

https://twitter.com/LondonConcrete/status/935564286520381442

# ¿ Nov 28, 2017 18:51

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 10:04

Tim Burns Effect: Apr 1, 2011

I keep starting some version of Shada and never finishing it so maybe this new adaptation will be the one

# ¿ Dec 4, 2017 22:25

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