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Galvanise_ said:
Capaldi needs his own characters.
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Out of pure interest do you class Kate and Osgood (and other UNIT members) to be Capaldi's or Smith's?

I purely ask because it definitely feels like they're gunning for a big 3rd Doctor style UNIT family for Capaldi, even if they all have appeared previously. Which is great in my books because Capaldi suits have military figures around him.
 
Vincent Alexander said:
The recycling of old characters/villains is the absolute worst part of Doctor Who. In this vast universe, throughout all time, and we keep running into the same people.

But it won't stop
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Doctor Who has been a nostalgia trip more so recently than before. I don't hate it, but I do want to see more new things.
 
Quick said:
Doctor Who has been a nostalgia trip more so recently than before. I don't hate it, but I do want to see more new things.
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At the same time you could make the argument that these things will always follow the doctor no matter how far he runs
 
Vincent Alexander said:
The recycling of old characters/villains is the absolute worst part of Doctor Who. In this vast universe, throughout all time, and we keep running into the same people.

But it won't stop
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Oh I don't care about bringing characters back. I like that. If they managed to bring Amy/Rory back I'd be chuffed. It's when Moffat insists on bringing his brainchildren characters back time after time.
 
After a bit of a break I'm continuing with my second classic series rewatch. I just started series 14 (Tom Baker's 3rd). I forgot everything about Masque of Mandragora, so it's surprising how much fun I'm having watching it now. Unless it all falls apart at the end this might end up being one of my favorites.

I'm deep into the 'golden period' now, with lots of classics to look forward to. Just in this season I'll get Hand of Fear, Deadly Assassin and Talons of Weng-Chian. Man.

I know I'll like the next couple of seasons, but I'm very curious what I'll think of the Doctors after him this time*. I didn't enjoy the show nearly as much starting with the last set of stories in Tom Baker's run the first time I watched them, but I also didn't care for Pertwee's Doctor and most of his stories the first time through, and I've completely come around to him. Really enjoyed most of his stories this time, including some stories I remember especially hating the first time. I hope something similar will happen when I hit the 80s this time.

Man this is the best show in the world.

* I liked the Doctors - especially Davison - I just didn't like 90% of the stories.
 
- I'd guess that the Sherlock episode will either be shown on Christmas Day or New Year's Day. Now there's an interesting idea for a BBC Christmas ident...
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Sherlock's screaming "Boxing Day" to me. You don't want anything too dense on Christmas Day itself.
 
couple pics from the prequel to Doctor Who Series 9, The Doctor's Meditation

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Someone on Twitter pointed out that
the chalice is the same one the McGann drank from to regenerate
. Whether that matters or they're just reusing a prop/
 
Checkered pants spotted. Or checked out, rather. If they were spotted they wouldn't be checkered pants now, would they. Ahem.

Anyway, yeah - interesting chalice.
 
That smacks of the no series (or very few episodes) next year rumour being true, as well, if the production team usually doing Who has time to take on that sort of project.

Either way, excited. Should be interesting - and will be curious to see what RTD accomplishes with modern Who level production stuff.
 
I wonder if the checkered pants come from the TARDIS wardrobe. Next thing you know the Doctor will be wearing his old Panama hat from his seventh form.
 
APZonerunner said:
That smacks of the no series (or very few episodes) next year rumour being true, as well, if the production team usually doing Who has time to take on that sort of project.

Either way, excited. Should be interesting - and will be curious to see what RTD accomplishes with modern Who level production stuff.
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I didn't follow that news very closely, but couldn't that be related to the recently created Bad Wolf Studios in Cardiff? RTD is involved with that, and some other people who used to work on the show back when RTD was head writer (Julie Gardner, Jane Tranter). I think that's what RTD means with that statement. Again, I don't know the details, so I could be wrong. That would mean there's no real overlap with the current Who team, except perhaps for some of the prosthetics and effects and stuff. That would put it on the same level as RTD's Wizard's & Aliens, or that crappy BBC Atlantis show - some shared talent, but not impacting the production of DW at all. All this is obviously just me speculating based on half-remembered information though.

Might also explain Tennant showing up for lunch with RTD in Cardiff. I think there's a bigger chance of him showing up in Midsummer than in Who right now (especially because he still has his beard).
 
APZonerunner said:
That smacks of the no series (or very few episodes) next year rumour being true, as well, if the production team usually doing Who has time to take on that sort of project.

Either way, excited. Should be interesting - and will be curious to see what RTD accomplishes with modern Who level production stuff.
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Same here. I'm excited to see what he can do with the production team now.

I guess they can't really split the production team to work on both Doctor Who and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
 
paradox121 said:
Out of pure interest do you class Kate and Osgood (and other UNIT members) to be Capaldi's or Smith's?

I purely ask because it definitely feels like they're gunning for a big 3rd Doctor style UNIT family for Capaldi, even if they all have appeared previously. Which is great in my books because Capaldi suits have military figures around him.
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If Kate keeps reappearing then she'd be a capaldi person. I hope Osgood stays dead.
 
Watching Hand of Fear (Tom Baker story, Sarah Jane's last), and it just occurred to me how similar Eldrad looks and behaves to the modern Silurians. The Silurians are probably the aliens that changed the most when they made the move from the classic to the modern series (and that's fine, because apart from their backstory (which is still the same) they looked pretty much like your generic rubber suit monsters back in the day, and even though I would be fine with Vastra never being on the show again, I like their modern look).

Silurians:

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Eldrad (completely unrelated species):

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The picture might not do it justice, but her mannerisms, movement and way of speech are a lot closer to what Vastra is like compared to the classic Silurians. If the stories weren't made 40 years apart you could be forgiven for thinking it's the same actress. Even the 'primal scream' one of the Silurian ladies did when her sister died in that Matt Smith two parter is from Hand of Fear. There must have been some inspiration there. Not sure why they made that connection, but Eldrad certainly is one of the more memorable alien characters from the show, even though her story is so specific that it's unlikely she'll ever be back in the show again.

Also this story is great. Maybe not as good as some of the stories surrounding it, but that's mostly because everything surrounding it is probably the high point of the entire show. Still excellent. I still have to watch the last episode of the story, but I'll do that tonight with a glass of whiskey. First time I'll watch Sarah Jane's
sort of
last episode since she passed away :(.

Eldrad Must Live
 
Just finished taking my girlfriend through NuWho and she is properly addicted to it now. I was initially worried about how she would take to 12, especially as she's been a bit of a 10/Rose fangirl. But she loved him and his asshole ways right away, in fact, he's probably becoming one of her favorites.
 
JonathanEx said:
To be fair, I'm rewatching the series now and the Doctor is a right arse in The Caretaker to her/Danny. Only fair she gets to be a prat back.
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Yep, it makes total sense if we assume there's a good episode in place of "In the Forest of the Night" that actually shows us how awesome Clara/Danny are as a couple and makes them likable together.

We got that turd instead. I guess it's not super-horrible as a stand-alone episode but it totally misses the mark on what it had to do for the series 8 arc.
 
Mariolee said:
Well, her fiance just died and the only way to save him refused to do so.
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Yep she was an emotional wreck and wasn't thinking clearly. She knew the Doctor wouldn't go back in time to save Danny since he doesn't go back on his own timeline to save people who die during their adventures so she came up with a crazy plan to try and force the Doctor to save Danny.
 
I must admit, I was surprised that Time Heist - which I found pretty average the first go-round - was better the second time around in my recent re-watch (except for that weird takeout food in the TARDIS ending that still feels like it was tacked on).

Forest of the Night is still a clunker, though.
 
Sir_Crocodile said:
Underwater menace has gone up on the bbc shop:

http://www.bbcshop.com/drama/doctor-who-the-underwater-menace/invt/bbcdvd3691

Coming out on the 26th of October - If this is accurate I'm guessing someone pressed the wrong button and put it up early. If it's real, I wonder if the missing episodes will be replaced by animation or telesnaps.
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Huh, weird, they cancelled this a while ago even though they found one of the missing episodes. What reason did they give for cancelling it back then?

Also a warning for people being excited that a (partially) refound story is coming out on DVD - this is one of the worst Throughton stories. There are some laughs to be had by how cheesy/bad the villain is (Notzing in ze World can stop me now!!), but it really is a mess.

Also contains one of three completely different explanations for Atlantis in the classic show.
 
Boem said:
Huh, weird, they cancelled this a while ago even though they found one of the missing episodes. What reason did they give for cancelling it back then?

Also a warning for people being excited that a (partially) refound story is coming out on DVD - this is one of the worst Throughton stories. There are some laughs to be had by how cheesy/bad the villain is (Notzing in ze World can stop me now!!), but it really is a mess.

Also contains one of three completely different explanations for Atlantis in the classic show.
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The production company who did the animations for the missing episodes didn't deem them financially viable. They lost money on every one they did and then went bankrupt.

I hope there are animations. I hate the damn telesnaps.
 
I'm glad it's coming out, of course, but I'd throw every copy of The Underwater Menace into a fire for a single episode of Power of the Daleks.

Ah well.
 
Glad to hear it. It would have been a missed opportunity if River never met Capaldi's Doctor, and a breezy, standalone Christmas special with her sounds a lot of fun.

It'll have been nearly three years since she appeared last. I have no problem with another appearance from her.
 
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