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Doctor Who 50th Anniversary |OT| Splendid Chap, All Of Them
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infiniteloop
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Pretty sure they wouldn't give it to someone who has never written for the show before, or really anything in that genre.
I'm hoping Broadchurch keeps Chibnall busy.
I'm hoping Broadchurch keeps Chibnall busy.
Iannucci showrunning a children-focused humanitarian science-fiction show would be a sight to behold. Can't stop thinking about that now.
Future Foundation
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Hi-res version of the Time of the Doctor artwork
infiniteloop
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MacFarlane Chard
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Delighted to announce that MCA's PAUL MURPHY @paul_murfy will be directing Eps 3 and 6 of the new series of @bbcdoctorwho #doctorwho
(not related to anniversary, but no better thread I could find.)
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Delighted to announce that MCA's PAUL MURPHY @paul_murfy will be directing Eps 3 and 6 of the new series of @bbcdoctorwho #doctorwho
(not related to anniversary, but no better thread I could find.)
I seriously don't understand why so many people are confused by this. It's all there pretty plainly in the dialogue yet so many people seem to think it's meant to be ambiguous. He's just doing the whole "I shouldn't be telling you this so if anyone asks you didn't hear it from me. I'm just the humble old Curator!" thing.
No idea who that is but you can extract from this that if he's directing episode 3 and then coming back 2 episodes, those two episodes in between will probably be a two-partner. Maybe those Dalek episodes that were rumoured awhile back?
Future Foundation
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So, we've got four of the 13 episodes all accounted for. Wheatley for 1 and 2, and now Murphy for 3 and 6.
I think it's a perfect fit. Right now he's working on a book called Tongue International, which he calls 'a satirical fantasy about a privatized language'. His sense of humor would translate perfectly to Doctor Who, and he would have no trouble coming up with moral lessons for the children. Give him all of time and space to play with and it could be great. More importantly, it would definitely be something distinct from RTD and Moffat.
Bobby Roberts
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Iannucci isn't doing it. It's probably gonna be Gatiss or Whithouse.
My personal dark horse? Nick Briggs
My personal dark horse? Nick Briggs
infiniteloop
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Is he any good? I really wouldn't know.
Oh I agree. It would be hilarious. Hope that could happen but it obviously won't.
infiniteloop
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me neither. here's his IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614609/
worked as grip on a lot of Peter Jackson stuff...not familiar with much else.
Has it actually been confirmed that Wheatley is doing the first two episodes and not just the first two to be filmed?
I'm going to be so disappointed when we get, like, Whithouse or something. Bleh.
Are you sure it's that Paul Murphy? I just did a search myself and this guy came up:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1973873/
Guy has worked on a bunch of BBC stuff so I'm guessing it's that one.
Bobby Roberts
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Not even if Capaldi begs him?
Would Capaldi beg him, or just tell him?
"you're doing the fucking show, Armando."
Yessssss.
The Time War has served its purpose, and it's probably not necessary any more.
Yeah, a new generation is hooked, now they can bring back the weird dudes wearing robes and giant golden helmets. In all seriousness given Moffat's love of the messiah aspect of the Doctor I would have guessed he was the most enthusiastic of the two about Gallifrey being gone. (fake edit: I just remembered about levitating Jesus Tennant and I recant my last statement)
I really like this little theory on who The Curator actually was
The round things.
Balls. I was kind of hoping Peter Jackson had finally agreed to do an episode but mandated that they give his buddy some work in return.
paradox121
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Plus what better place to resolve it? One of the biggest episodes in the shows history, if not the biggest, and one that will get rewatched for years to come. All revolving around a plot point RTD created. Surely that's a compliment more than anything.
TetraxShards
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My personal dark horse? Nick Briggs
Show would be cancelled within three years, but what a glorious three years it'd be.
Exterminieren
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Wheatley isn't doing 1 and 2. We know Moffat's writing the first episode, and Wheatley's directing a two-parter written by his wife. 4 and 5 makes sense.
Why wouldn't they just give him his Dalek instead? I'm sure he'll do an episode.
Exterminieren
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Unless plans have changed or my info's off, Jackson is pencilled in to do next year's Christmas Special.
infiniteloop
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You're right. My bad.
Ah, so it's actually planned? I always figured it was just wishful thinking.
That's awesome. I figured after he had a brief part in the 50th celebrations lines of communication must at least be open.
Hot Coldman
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Hopefully this opens the way for Spielberg to finally do an episode.
Exterminieren
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That's what I've been told, yeah.
Not sure where his promotional duties for the last Hobbit movie stand, but there it is.
Bobby Roberts
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The way it looked, considering how tightly packed together the ships were around Gallifrey, the explosions from a couple ships going up would probably have started a chain reaction?
Plus, the planet suddenly blinking out of existence I'm sure would have caused some sort spatial disturbance that caused whatever ships weren't blown up by their own lasers to crash into each other?
Maybe?
There was a pretty big boom, at any rate.
Plus, the planet suddenly blinking out of existence I'm sure would have caused some sort spatial disturbance that caused whatever ships weren't blown up by their own lasers to crash into each other?
Maybe?
There was a pretty big boom, at any rate.
APZonerunner
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In the case of old Who, though, there's a very direct correlation between the level of Time Lord bullshit & quality of the show. The show even started getting better when they dragged McCoy's Doctor away from it and started injecting the mystery again! It's not even the stuffy no fun allowed attitude, but it's that it instantly diminishes how special the Doctor is. The TARDIS is no longer special,but just becomes one of many - and an outdated one with less features, in fact. Etc etc.
That's my great fear, really. The Time Lords provides a very easy, accessible route for a lead writer to guide the show up its own arsehole incredibly quickly. It especially worries me next to Gatiss probably being next in line to the throne, as he's a man who describes himself as having a "terminal case" of nostalgia, so he might try to do stories like the Time Lord heavy ones of old out of affection, and sod that.
That said, Gatiss' favourite era of Doctor Who is the Pertwee era, which had no Time Lords to speak of other than The Master and for a large chunk of it no TARDIS, so...
Fred Norris
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Where did we hear that??
....so i am having a blue screen of death right now on my brain !
Someone said that the Doctor can only regenerate 12 times ... but CAPALDI !
...but now the
and a friend reminded me that 10th regenerated into himself !
So that means that 9 is now 10, 10 is now 11 AND 12 and 11 is now 13 !
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
Someone said that the Doctor can only regenerate 12 times ... but CAPALDI !
...but now the
War Doctor is a Doctor
So that means that 9 is now 10, 10 is now 11 AND 12 and 11 is now 13 !
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
APZonerunner
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It's been rumoured for ages. It started when he told an interviewer he was a fan of the show - he cast Sylv in The Hobbit because he had fond memories of the 7th Doctor, and even owns one of his original costumes that he bought at auction. He said in the interview he'd do an episode in exchange for a new series Dalek, no other payment required. Somebody then asked Moffat in an interview & Moffat said it'd be a steal and they'd of course build him a Dalek.
The rumour mill indicates after this they genuinely started talking - quite possibly through McCoy - and that it's actually going to happen. He even appears in the classic Doctors anniversary thing they produced. He loves the show.
This is being dealt with at Christmas; it's no spoiler to say as Moffat has been going around saying it in interviews this week - going into Christmas the Doctor is facing his final death, he can't regenerate again. But somehow, he'll escape...
lol that's great.
I've just realised that what they did by removing gallifrey was exactly the same as what happened at the end of Blink.
GOD MOFFAT STOP REUSING STORIES.
APZonerunner
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It's basically the same solution as the death in The Impossible Astronaut, as well.
infiniteloop
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Day of the Doctor is "Just this once, everybody lives" on a grand scale.
peanutbutterlatte
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To be honest, this takes away the "Just this once..." that The Doctor was comparing to! It'd be quite a short excercise listing all the people who actually die and don't;
- Lose their memory
- Are stranded in an alternate universe
- Die (of old age after a long happy life in the past)
- Die (in an aborted timeline and then come back to life)
- Die (in a dream)
- Die (and get brought back as an auton)
- Die (but the universe is reset so you come back)
- Die (as a Tesselecta version of yourself so it looks like you did die but you didn't)
- And of course, good old fashioned pavement blowjob monster.
Bobby Roberts
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My wife told me she was expecting that callback to come, considering "I don't want to go" and "I don't like it" but was kinda disappointed it didn't happen.
I think you've also got to fannon it a little bit, in that pulling Gallifrey out of space time into a pocket dimension also caused space-time rifts that killed quite a lot of Daleks, so it's a bit more plausible.
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