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Which season of Doctor Who should get a Blu-ray set next?
This poll is closed.
One of the black-and-white seasons 16 29.63%
Season 7 7 12.96%
Season 11 1 1.85%
Season 13 0 0%
Season 15 2 3.70%
The Key to Time 21 38.89%
Season 21 0 0%
Season 25 7 12.96%
Total: 54 votes
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Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

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Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-spin-start-filming-31522208

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The first of the new Doctor Who spin-offs will feature the Sea Devils and is due to start filming this spring.

The reptile monsters, first seen in 1971, are the hibernating original inhabitants of Earth who woke to find humans had taken over. Last year they reappeared in an episode with Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor. The five-part spin-off – The War Between The Land and the Sea – will be the first of several planned series centring on monsters from the 60-year-old BBC show.

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Big Mean Jerk posted:

The unread post count had me wondering which surviving classic Doctor had died :argh:

Don't worry, it was just the Morbius Doctors

(Not the actors that played them)

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Jerusalem posted:

People just got too scared about the feelings awakened in them by his Pertwee hair.

:hmmyes:

he also had to go before he was consumed by his own power hair

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Surprised one of the first posts wasn't The Comic we all know and love - feel like that should be part of the OP

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

MikeJF posted:

Hold up. Looking back, did we never see Twelve's time vortex?

We saw it in Twice Upon a Time but that was One's.

Only in the opening titles, sadly

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

MikeJF posted:

Was that meant to be the Vortex? It just looked like it was just semi-abstract art, it was all clocks and planets and gallifreyan writing, never a bit that looked vortex-ish. Even the circley bit at the end with the TARDIS flying through was made of symbols.

Wierd if they managed to go three seasons of the show without a vortex shot.

Yep, each opening sequence is meant to show/represent the time vortex of that era

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

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I feel bad for the cameraman that shot all of these, must’ve been really stressful constantly having to go hurtling through the time vortex every time the BBC needed a new intro

Now we just have to wait for them to add 14/15 to the list

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1744411682850349493

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Jerusalem posted:

Anyway, this all reminds me of The 5 Doctors where each of the Doctors appears to walk into the one TARDIS but it turns out that all of their respective versions of the TARDIS are just sitting in the same place at the same time. :allears:

Imagine if One had come back out and grumpily asked who added color to his TARDIS - he liked the classic monochrome, thank you very much!

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Watch Tomb of the Cybermen

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1750522672180764955

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1750561917230338057

Hm...Definitely think the book got the better cover out of the deal

'course, making a custom cover for the media isn't all that hard if you're determined to change it, especially since they were kind enough to give us a textless version if you want all the logos to match

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Edward Mass posted:

Something I missed on the first watch of Dinosaurs on a Spaceship: the Doctor claiming that he’s (probably) a Sagittarius. I laughed when I looked up the dates that a Sagittarius is born under.

[checks]

Aw, that's a cute detail

Airdate of An Unearthly Child was Nov 23rd, for those curious

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

The CoatTM grew on me and I kinda wish we'd get a modern Doctor with one in spirit (should be a required publicity image, dammit)

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

I'd love to see a Heaven Sent-quality episode about the Doctor wandering through the TARDIS between their adventures without a companion, just musing to themselves about whatever

Maybe even have ghostly echoes of Doctors past they talk/react to, or silently reminisce about those they lost

Imagine Eight wandering the corridors, finally catching up on his knitting after Bi-regenerating

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

The_Doctor posted:

I’d be a lot happier with Kill the Moon if it wasn’t Earth’s moon. Make it a colony planet somewhere else in the galaxy! Having it be our moon just brings up so many “but wait…” thoughts.

That's really the rub, isn't it

How much better would some stories be if they weren't on Earth, but somewhere in the local quarry with some alien set dressing or people wearing silly hats?

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/la_bonj/status/1748790349554761923
https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1748815163778621791

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

We love the live-action Lilo and Stitch sneak peek in this house

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

It's a good episode, but being tied to what comes after definitely drags it down

A Frankenstein episode with Cybermen is a great idea

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

I mean, the last two times the Doctor took a bus out into the wilderness, it didn't end particularly well...

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1759644962134581395

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

The song might've played just as a nod to the Master's affection for odd pop culture and Dhawan added his own flair to the scene to amuse himself

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

SirSamVimes posted:

I like how in an episode called Power of the Doctor, the Doctor doesn't actually do anything and her companions fix everything.

I mean...that kida...is the power of the Doctor?

Getting others to willing die and kill for you?

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/ThatTallGinger/status/1763566870899130621

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/TheCyberdevil/status/1765784284835574052
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/articles/2024/bbc-marketing-generative-ai-doctor-who-promotion

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We’re going to take it one step a time, starting simple and learning as we go. We have chosen to start with Doctor Who, as it is a joint content priority for both BBC Public Service UK and BBC Studios marketing teams. There’s a rich variety of content in the Whoniverse collection on iPlayer to test and learn with, and Doctor Who thematically lends itself to AI which is a bonus.

We will be creating human-written marketing copy for a Doctor Who push notification, email subject line and in the promotional rail on BBC Search - then we will be using generative AI to suggest copy variations which are then reviewed and approved by our marketing team before being shown to the audience. Their success will be measured by click- rates, open-rates, and post-impression conversion-rates across each channel.

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/blufruity/status/1766130956245602742

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

What on earth is that pose for Nine though

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tIDEHY21Bc

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

The Giggle novel is about as surreal as you can get with a novel written by the Toymaker - you get to poke through the president of the US's brain, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart does the Eyes emoji, and there's an entire CYOA section with the corridors... :allears:

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Down came planets and stars and comets. The planets bounced and then fell still. Some shattered like baubles. Some rolled away never to be seen again. Not a bad representation of the Flux - a celestial hurricane that had devasted half this miserable universe.

I'm glad the novels can have that kind of fun - we even get a little scene of the Fourth Doctor picking up little Kate because her father was busy saving the world

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

"What, the roots of the sunset? I'll have to confer with the stars themselves."

:3:

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

River on the back foot for a change

It's great

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

His arms are too long



https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/coming-soon-the-tardis-memoirs

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The Doctor has a unique bond with their TARDIS. They’ve always loved the ‘old girl’ for the way she’s gone looking for trouble anywhere in the universe. The Doctor says they stole the TARDIS from Gallifrey. The TARDIS disagrees…she stole them. It hasn’t always taken the Doctor where they want to go, but it’s made sure to take them where they needed to be.

For the TARDIS is far more than just a time machine crossed with a spaceship. Its life reflects the Doctor’s life – a shared wanderlust and longing to explore. Now you can revisit the Doctor’s adventures as seen through the eyes – or the flashing rooftop light, at least – of the TARDIS. From the time the Doctor stole it from Gallifrey to its latest adventures with the Fifteenth Doctor, the TARDIS reflects wittily on its epic, incredible history – past, present and future!

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Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

If they could recapture Eleven's Series Five energy and pair him with Ncuti...

Perhaps with Twelve filling the Grump role

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Just sneak the other Doctors into the backgrounds of scenes without explanation, rhyme, or reason

Stick the Wax Tom to the ceiling of a bar Ncuti and Ruby are partying in with a bandoleer of wine bottles strapped to it


...No, wait, that's the real Tom :stare:

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1774428938942521412

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017



Interesting title reuse
Wonder if the story will be similar too

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Big change concerning Daleks going forward

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Infinitum posted:

It's OK, it was an evil TARDIS

"TARDIS Commits Tax Evasion", coming to EGS, Gamepass, Switch, and Steam Fall 2024

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Jerusalem posted:

assuming that of course the Doctor would always figure out a way to remember things that had been stripped from her.

Forget remembering their time in the Division

What would happen if they suddenly remembered all the Big Finish audios they forgot about? Meeting how many other (new) Doctors and Masters? All those run-ins with River?


https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1780914177453789211

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Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://ew.com/doctor-who-ncuti-gatwa-cover-story-8633590

https://twitter.com/EW/status/1780325519432577400

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The show had its writer; now, it needed its Doctor. Davies says he searched the galaxy, auditioning men, women, and nonbinary actors from “all sorts of diverse backgrounds.” Gatwa was the very last actor to read, and his involvement came with a sort of serendipity: Just one week earlier, unprompted, he had texted his agent to say that he’d like to tackle a project like Doctor Who someday. When he heard the show was actually casting, he threw himself into research, locking himself in his house and rewatching as much of the revival series as he could. From about 6 in the morning until 6 at night, he binged every episode of Eccleston’s and Tennant’s runs, paying particular attention to Davies’ signature blend of heart, humor, and sci-fi thrills. “I just fell in love with it,” Gatwa explains. “It was so easy to put my phone in airplane mode and just not reply to anyone because this show was taking all my attention.”

But even after all that prep, Gatwa still approached his audition with tempered expectations. “I mean, this is a show that has been running in our country for 60 years,” he explains. “It’s like a British institution. And I just didn’t…” He pauses. “This isn’t in a self-deprecating way, but I just didn’t think it was realistic that I would get the offer.” Instead, he decided to treat the audition as a useful acting exercise. Best case scenario, he reasoned, it would be a good excuse to network with Davies. “I was like, ‘I’m never gonna get it, so I might as well just get comfortable in this audition," he explains. “I took my shoes off and did it a bunch of different ways.”

Davies knew immediately that he had found his next Doctor, and he had to restrain himself from offering Gatwa the role on the spot. “We spent the next week hoping and praying that he hadn’t been offered another job,” Davies says. “That’s the worry: You think anyone that good is being asked to be James Bond at the same time, or he’s got some writers creating their own series.” He remembers literally crossing his fingers as he waited for Gatwa’s response, thinking to himself, Please, please, please.

Gatwa got the call from his agent just as he was about to walk into his local barber shop. “I just put the phone down and didn’t think about it for about a week,” he says, shaking his head. “The concept that was proposed to me was so meta that I was like, What? There’s no way. I can’t even think about this. I need to do my laundry!” After a week of consideration, he finally felt ready to give an answer: “Eventually, I was like, ‘F---ing hell, I think I might be Doctor Who!’” Gatwa says with a grin. “‘Yes, I’m ready to accept! It’s a no-brainer!’ But it took me about a week to wrap my head around how huge that concept was.”

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