Doctor Who: Countdown to Metacrisis

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What do you think of the new international distribution deal? This poll is closed.
Hate it	12	16.90%
REALLY hate it	16	22.54%
Hello, my name is Bob Chapek	43	60.56%
Total:	71 votes

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Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

Khanstant posted:

I blame them for the old problems too

Blowjob Brick is now a Disney princess.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2023 08:10

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 09:18

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

Oh look it's the Ringo Doctor

# ¿ Jul 19, 2023 04:43

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

jisforjosh posted:

The 2nd one was the ship voyage right? That one was alright and Claes Bang was great throughout. Fresh off the end of Series 5 in 2010, riding the high of Moffat's 1st season, I sought out more of his work and decided to watch Jekyll...and I feel insane looking up the show now and seeing 8/10 and 4.5/5 stars

I remember really enjoying Jekyll, but I don�t think I�ve actually watched it for over a decade. Don�t tell me it�s aged poorly.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2023 06:27

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

OldMemes posted:

If they're an in character thing, I wonder if they'll have some plot device to handwave away the Doctor's aging? Pete McTighe is pretty good at being creative with the Blu-Ray trailers he writes. I'm guessing a "oh no we've been pulled out of our timelines" thing.

I�m just going to assume that The Doctor�s using some kind of cloaking device to display an older version of themselves to make the former companions not feel uncomfortable about how much older they are now. �Look I�m old and fat and grey too, it�s ok�. 😌

# ¿ Oct 31, 2023 04:42

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

The new issue of SFX is out, featuring interviews with RTD and David Tennant and others.

A couple of interesting quotes from RTD:

�Next year, season one. Yes, we�re calling it season one�

�I�m not going to unwrite my good friend Chris Chibnall�s work on �The Timeless Children�. I�m not going to deny what he wrote. I�m going with it. It�s absolutely fine. It�s canon. It happened. It was transmitted. You cannot unwrite things, that would be absolutely rude to a great colleague and a lovely friend.�

None of the articles give anything away about Special #2 however, other than it�s �weird�.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2023 18:45

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 09:18

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

Warthur posted:

As is "not going to write something which keeps it in but puts a different spin on it".

Wasn't it mentioned somewhere in the 8th Doctor tie-in media (BBC Books line?) that, owing to being as active a time traveller as he is and being involved in as many conflicts with time-travelling opponents as he has, the Doctor's background is in flux anyway? So the Lungbarrow backstory works, the half-human backstory works, the "random Gallifreyan who got bored" backstory works, the Timeless Child backstory works...

It would be hard for RTD to outright contradict other backstories whilst being precious about Chibnall's take without looking at least a little hypocritical there. Why does Chibnall deserve more respect than the people who contributed those other ideas?

This is the full piece on how he deals with existing canon:

quote:

Given that Davies established a new Who mythology sans-Gallifrey prior to the 2005 series, how beholden does he feel to the lore that's been established since he left?

"Oh, quite beholden actually. I'm very well behaved in that sense... I feel completely free to make up my own stuff. But I think it's very interesting that the only piece of Doctor Who lore that's never been held aloft and run with is Paul McGann having a human mother.�

"None of us can deal with that. None of us cope with it and it's never been mentioned since. I find that really fascinating. That's not a hint that I'm going to engage with it at all. It's amazing, isn't it? Everything else gets kind of absorbed.�

"Let's stare that question right in the eye. I'm not going to unwrite my good friend Chris Chibnall's work on The Timeless Children'. I'm not going to deny what he wrote. I'm going with it. It's absolutely fine. It's canon, it happened. It was transmitted. You cannot unwrite things, that would be absolutely rude to a great colleague and a lovely friend."

# ¿ Nov 1, 2023 19:06

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