Doctor Who Off-Season | Hey Missy, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind

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APZonerunner said:
Oh, yeah. He's still a knob for acting like Doctor Who is career kryptonite, though.
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Indeed. I know it may not have been a great exp but he's very precious about it. I appreciate he may have said all he wishes to say about the issue and the frustration he feels on being asked the same question over and over but it does come with the career path.

Especially sad since he's in my top two favourite Doctors of all time. Would have killed for a second season. Loved Chris since his Cracker days.
 
Donna is easily my favorite companion, but Clara has the potential to be number 1. I can't tell if I liked her chemistry more with Smith or if it's simply that I hated Danny so much. That shoehorned relationship was so damn forced. They tried to cram in a season what they wisely took their time with for Amy and Rory. This last season we see in episode 1 Clara lost and confused about the new Doctor. The season should've shown a lot more focus on their new relationship, but unfortunately the light had to be shared with Danny.

Can we get a damn companion who doesn't have to have a boyfriend? Maybe that is why Donna is my favorite. No distracting boyfriend. And she had a badass grandfather.
 
BrokenFiction said:
Makes me wonder if he's a dick to kids and fans who ask him about DW, too.
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He's almost certainly the Alec Guinness of Doctor Who.

Someone who's read The Writer's Tale, is there any explanation in the book about what Eccleston's major malfunction is all about? What is this dude's deal? Is he just an asshole? Does he have good reason for being such a surly prick all the time about getting picked over people who adored this long time beloved icon (like, say, David Tennant?)
 
APZonerunner said:
Oh, yeah. He's still a knob for acting like Doctor Who is career kryptonite, though.
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It's a very natural reaction. Hartnell was interviewed very shortly after quitting as what had by then become the most beloved character in British television. He sounded just as precious as Eccleston ever does, and he was obviously rather impatient to present himself as an actor with a career beyond Doctor Who.

When actors strive to distance themselves from former roles, they're fighting against career death.
 
Eccleston's always been a bit of a knob. Great actor, there's no doubting it, but utterly up himself.

Still, that journo wasn't playing fair. Baiting Eccleston with stories about him dying on the internet, not talking about the project that he's promoting, before moving in for the kill with the Doctor Who question he was repeatedly told not to ask... Boom, instant "Eccleston's an arsehole" article.
 
tonysidaway said:
It's a very natural reaction. Hartnell was interviewed very shortly after quitting as what had by then become the most beloved character in British television. He sounded just as precious as Eccleston ever does, and he was obviously rather impatient to present himself as an actor with a career beyond Doctor Who.

When actors strive to distance themselves from former roles, they're fighting against career death.
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The ironic part is the modern series has only been a plus for the careers of the actors on the show. Seems like a lot of them have gotten cast for other projects based off their work on Doctor Who.

In other words, the creative/casting people in Hollywood are aware of the show, but are comfortable casting the actors in other roles since the general public in the US doesn't know who they are.
 
I think him turning the 50th down was a big, final effort to tell people to please leave him alone about it. And honestly I think people should stop asking him. It's been 10 years now.
 
thefro said:
The ironic part is the modern series has only been a plus for the careers of the actors on the show. Seems like a lot of them have gotten cast for other projects based off their work on Doctor Who.

In other words, the creative/casting people in Hollywood are aware of the show, but are comfortable casting the actors in other roles since the general public in the US doesn't know who they are.
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I don't honestly think Eccleston is shunning the show because he fears it'll damage the future roles he's able to get- as you say, pretty much every major player in the modern series has enjoyed a significantly boosted career off the back of it. It's not like Eccleston only sticks to quality, high-brow work either- he played the villain in a Thor movie and a bloody GI Joe movie, for Christ's sake.

Nah, Eccleston doesn't talk about the show because he never respected it as a drama for anyone other than kids. Don't get me wrong, he was excited to work with RTD again, and he relished the chance to do something that the younger audience might enjoy, but he had a bad time making the show, and he has absolutely no time for any of the fanbase who aren't kids. Like, in the slightest.
 
Exterminieren said:
Nah, Eccleston doesn't talk about the show because he never respected it as a drama for anyone other than kids. Don't get me wrong, he was excited to work with RTD again, and he relished the chance to do something that the younger audience might enjoy, but he had a bad time making the show, and he has absolutely no time for any of the fanbase who aren't kids. Like, in the slightest.
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This.

I think he was excited to do it, and I want to believe he's at least mildly pleased with some of the content they produced (there are a few real clunkers in series 1, but a couple of great ones too), but I don't think he had imagined that the show would become such a major hit again and that the role would really stick with him after he'd gone. Combine that with bad experiences on set and you got yourself one grumpy ex-Doctor.
 
OneEyedKing said:
Makes me wonder how this guy managed to pull this off last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtV1TgcexKE
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Wow, this is really surprising.

Even though he didn't do it in the end, he did have some meetings with Moffat about appearing in the 50th anniversary. I think he just mostly hates being a part of the media and having to represent a franchise as opposed to himself as an actor. I remember him being a bit of a dick when he had to do some media appearances for other big movies, such as that time he played the villain in one of the Thor movies.
 
I'm late to the party but I saw Series 8 a week ago and Last Christmas today, I love Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and Jenna Coleman was fantastic all season.

I wasn't a fan of the overarching storyline of Series 8 at all, felt very incomplete by the end and had very uninteresting outcome. I did like quite a few of the episodes like Into the Dalek and In the Forest of the Night, and despised Kill the Moon. Ben Wheatley needs to return as a director and Frank Cottrell Boyce as a writer need to return for Series 9.

Also the music while good reminded me a lot of Sherlock, but maybe I'm crazy.
 
PaulloDEC said:
The always-brilliant Babelcolour has just posted a video tribute to Season 8.

I wasn't even a huge fan of S8, but watching this makes me want to give it another run.
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There's something about Doctor Who, and I'm not sure what it is, that any trailer or clip collection from it makes the show look significantly cooler than it is. Maybe it's just cutting out all the talky bits and focusing on the visuals.

Also every time I see Missy I just want her in every episode from now on.
 
http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/lego-doctor-who-to-materialise-later-in-2015

LEGO!

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September 2015 sees the release of a very special story from Big Finish, as Doctor Who - The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure at last provides a heroic exit for Colin Baker’s much-loved Time Lord...

It's with some delight we can confirm some tweets and posts, photos and rumours, that something very extra special is coming for fans of the Sixth Doctor at Big Finish, with the September release of Doctor Who - The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure.

Colin’s last outing in the Doctor Who role on television was The Trial of a Time Lord in 1986, but there was no proper handover story to Sylvester McCoy when he joined the series in 1987. Now, 28 years later, the full details of the Sixth Doctor’s death will be revealed - and it’s part of an epic battle that spans many sections of his life, and involves many of his companions.

‘I spoke to Colin not long after Matt Smith’s final outing, The Time of the Doctor, was broadcast on television,’ says producer David Richardson. ‘I felt very strongly that regeneration stories, and each Doctor’s final end, are very important to Doctor Who fans - these are stories that allow us to see the Doctor at his most courageous, making a sacrifice that only makes us love him more. And so I asked Colin if he might finally consider doing the Sixth Doctor’s final story with us. To my huge delight, he said yes.’

‘I owe a lot to Big Finish,’ says Colin. ‘They have given my Doctor the opportunity to live beyond those few episodes on television which were recorded during a time when the programme was under siege from various quarters. My Doctor did not benefit from that time. However at Big Finish the Sixth Doctor has lived and breathed anew and developed in a way that I am extremely happy with.

‘That would be the only reason I have agreed to bring my Doctor to an end - although it’s not really an end, because Big Finish plucks stories from the whole era of every Doctor. But because I never actually filmed a regeneration, and left poor Sylvester floundering around in my empty clothing with a blond wig on, I have resolutely maintained the lie that I am still the Doctor and all the rest are imposters because I never regenerated!' (He laughs) 'So it’s a tribute to the smooth talking people at Big Finish and the standard of the work completed thus far that I have cast aside my reluctance and joined all the other Doctors in actually having a regeneration.

‘And I can promise you: it’s a cracker.’
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Got to say I'm glad this is finally happening. Damn.
 
I almost read that as Colin Baker quitting Big Finish, which thankfully isn't the case.

Really glad this is getting made. Baker deserves it.
 
ClivePwned said:
I normally find fan-made "what if" stuff really, really, really tiresome. But this "what if there was a 5th anniversary special in 1968 with Hartnell, Troughton and Peter Cushing as the War Doctor is really nicely done.



The dude has done this as an actual thing you can buy
until someone points the BBC his way

http://www.colinbrockhurst.co.uk/ebay/dayofdoctorwho.html
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I kind of like this. I won't pay for it though.

8bit said:
http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/lego-doctor-who-to-materialise-later-in-2015

LEGO!

2day40je0az1000
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BAH GAWD!
 
I haven't bought Lego since, well, Tegan.

I will definitely get on this. And by that, I will probably step on these barefoot.
Hopefully, this removes the barrier to a Lego Doctor Who game.
 
LEGO DOCTOR WHO.

This genuinely cheered me up. I have been having a shit week, and this put a smile on my face. Don't know what that says about me, but goddamn, LEGO DOCTOR WHO.
 
Valeyard: "Do you remember when you tripped over that brick, hit your head on the console and regenerated? THAT BRICK WAS MY TARDIS. IT WAS ME DOCTOR. ME"
 
ClivePwned said:
I normally find fan-made "what if" stuff really, really, really tiresome. But this "what if there was a 5th anniversary special in 1968 with Hartnell, Troughton and Peter Cushing as the War Doctor is really nicely done.



The dude has done this as an actual thing you can buy
until someone points the BBC his way

http://www.colinbrockhurst.co.uk/ebay/dayofdoctorwho.html
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This is great. I wouldn't mind owning that poster.

And Doctor Who Lego?! Aw shit!

I'm already looking forward to the Funko Pop figures. Take all my money.
 
People should temper expectations with the Lego stuff, as it's a single LEGO Ideas set (of the TARDIS, I voted for it!), not like a full line of toys. Similar to the BTTF & Ghostbusters sets put out. It could lead that way though (Minecraft Lego started a similar way), but to be honest I doubt it will...

Here's the set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUtt-y67DwU
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https://ideas.lego.com/projects/59181

LEGO will edit it significantly, one imagines, as they did with the others. It'll also be grossly expensive, being from the Ideas site. But at least we're getting it! If I had to guess based on how they edited the other sets for mass production, they'll not do the outside of the TARDIS and the transforming aspect and just do the interior. The proposal suggests one 'set' of minifigs gets picked, so it'll probably be Capaldi & Clara.
 
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