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[Mudcrab]

Everything I could have hoped for and more! Mentioning Charley, Lucie bleeding Miller, and the others feels so good, at least for Big Finish fans anyway. Amazing lines from McGann and more questions answered than all of last year. Thank you, Moffat, I'll never doubt you again.

Spoiler

Until you do something stupid again that is.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Heh.

My first post in this thread, from April of 2013:

From the time this was announced until now, my wants for this show have shifted. I don't mind not seeing any of the other doctors, or any of the other companions. Really don't.

So long as McGann is in it.

In fact, I think my "Shoot for the moon/it'll never happen you fool" hope is that we'll get some sort of flashback, and we'll finally see 8 regenerate into 9.

Again - I KNOW this is a ridiculous hope. It will likely remain unfulfilled. But I'd like it.

edit: Heh - followed up by this after an exchange with HotColdman

Yeah. Basically, I'm getting into fanfic territory here, but I always imagined it less of "McGann ends the timewar, regenerates into Eccleston, who runs off" but more of "McGann hesitates to end the timewar at the critical moment, gets killed, regenerates into Eccleston, who has NO PROBLEMS ending it, and does."

I dunno. Was kinda close (ish) (not really)

I've watched this minisode about 4 times now. Hearing him shout out Lucie Miller really did sorta kick me in the chest. Would have never expected that in a million years.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

So the moffat interview says he wants all regenrations to tick his comletitionist boxes? mmm...

Maybe they use a cardboard Eccleston!

Spoiler

please, please please, be that Eccleston has been lying this hole time. even if he appears only 10 seconds

And the trailer of An Adventure in Space and Time is excellent.

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

Eccelston said he'd basically do anything for money. BBC could easily Kickstart his cameo if taxpayer funding wasn't enough.

Maybe he was just pretending to be a jerk and he appears at the end of the 50th.

Or maybe he'll be in The Last Day. That's the other webcast, right?

 

[DrForester]

So the moffat interview says he wants all regenrations to tick his comletitionist boxes? mmm...

Maybe they use a cardboard Eccleston!

Spoiler

please, please please, be that Eccleston has been lying this hole time. even if he appears only 10 seconds

And the trailer of An Adventure in Space and Time is excellent.

This is Doctor Who, not some high school play. They would never resort to using a carboard cut out. They have some fucking class!

They use wax statues.

 

[RetroMG]

So the moffat interview says he wants all regenrations to tick his comletitionist boxes? mmm...

Maybe they use a cardboard Eccleston!

I've had this image in my head for months now of the Hurt doctor, alone, in his Tardis, starting to glow with regeneration energy, then suddenly spinning around to have his back to us as he explodes into his regeneration, shifting to a man (obviously one of the crew that happens to be on hand,) with short dark hair and big ears. He throws his hands in the air, (with his back to us,) and a sound clip of Eccleston saying "Fantastic!" is edited into the sound mix.

Yeah, I have nightmares about the how the Hurt>9th doctor regeneration is portrayed, what about it?

 

[davidcotton]

Interview with Moffatt about the Night of The Doctor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/Steven-Moffat-on-The-Night-Of-The-Doctor

Also from that interview :-

Im always telling the Doctors and companions, as they come through the show, that they'll never be quite done with it - Big Finish is expecting them."

Hmm Tenth Doctor audios incoming perhaps when the license is up for renewal?

 

[Hot Coldman]

This is Doctor Who, not some high school play. They would never resort to using a carboard cut out. They have some fucking class!

They use wax statues.

Wax statues plus recasting!

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

This is Doctor Who, not some high school play. They would never resort to using a carboard cut out. They have some fucking class!

They use wax statues.

I've already saw those Tom Baker wax photos (and every time someone post them it makes me laugh), but this response with the photo added nearly killed me of laughter.

I've had this image in my head for months now of the Hurt doctor, alone, in his Tardis, starting to glow with regeneration energy, then suddenly spinning around to have his back to us as he explodes into his regeneration, shifting to a man (obviously one of the crew that happens to be on hand,) with short dark hair and big ears. He throws his hands in the air, (with his back to us,) and a sound clip of Eccleston saying "Fantastic!" is edited into the sound mix.

Yeah, I have nightmares about the how the Hurt>9th doctor regeneration is portrayed, what about it?

If it happens, thats what im totally see them doing. Including the fantastic voice clip lol

 

[Bobby Roberts]

What if it's a bad voice actor, and not even a clip of Eccleston?

"I'm The Ninth Doctor and I am FAN-TAS-TICK! NORTH MISS TESSMACHER!"

 

[infiniteloop]

They didn't need Hurt for 8's regeneration, I'm be surprised if we don't at least see Hurt start regenerating.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

What if it's a bad voice actor, and not even a clip of Eccleston?

"I'm The Ninth Doctor and I am FAN-TAS-TICK! NORTH MISS TESSMACHER!"

Nah, that means more money spent, a simple clip will do lol

It's production audio from Steven Moffat yelling just out of camera range "I'm the Ninth Doctor and I'm a Fantastic Twat! I'm a Twat I'm a Twat I'm a Twat I'm DESTRO"

My sides are starting to hurt now lol

 

[Bobby Roberts]

It's production audio from Steven Moffat yelling just out of camera range "I'm the Ninth Doctor and I'm a Fantastic Twat! I'm a Twat I'm a Twat I'm a Twat I'm DESTRO"

 

[aHebrewMenagerie]

It's production audio from Steven Moffat yelling just out of camera range "I'm the Ninth Doctor and I'm a Fantastic Twat! I'm a Twat I'm a Twat I'm a Twat I'm DESTRO"

Fucking killed me.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

What if it's a bad voice actor, and not even a clip of Eccleston?

"I'm The Ninth Doctor and I am FAN-TAS-TICK! NORTH MISS TESSMACHER!"

INTRODUCING
PETER KAY
AS THE NINTH DOCTOR

Or maybe he'll be in The Last Day. That's the other webcast, right?

That would be a lovely way to bookend the 50th.

The minisode is absolutely fantastic. The soothsayers dragging The Doctor into the war, McGann's performance, the manner of his downfall. Everything is just fantastic.

 

[Hot Coldman]

"I PLAYED A NAFF VILLAIN NO-ONE CARES ABOUT THOR INSTEAD OF THIS RAH RAH RAH"

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

"I PLAYED A NAFF VILLAIN NO-ONE CARES ABOUT THOR INSTEAD OF THIS RAH RAH RAH"

Seriously. Trying to upstage Tom Hiddleston? That's a game yo' gonna lose.

 

[Future Foundation]

McGann in full costume:

Courtesy of the DW Tumblr.

 

[Randy Lanzarote]

"I WERE IN HEROES! REMEMBER THAT? BEFORE IT GOT SHITE? I WERE THE INVISIBLE MAN AND I WERE PROPER BO I TELL THEE!"

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

"I DOE WANT YOU TO REMEMBAH WHEN I WERE A RAPE ADVOCATE IN TWENNY EIGHT DAYS LATAH THOUGH. THAT'S PROPA DARK."

 

[Hot Coldman]

"I WERE IN HEROES! REMEMBER THAT? BEFORE IT GOT SHITE? I WERE THE INVISIBLE MAN AND I WERE PROPER BO I TELL THEE!"

In all fairness he did a hell of a good job in that show.

 

[Slowdive]

Just a heads up, The Science of Doctor Who is on at 9 tonight. I completely forgot until just now.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

"I WERE IN HEROES! REMEMBER THAT? BEFORE IT GOT SHITE? I WERE THE INVISIBLE MAN AND I WERE PROPER BO I TELL THEE!"

First time i saw Eccleston on something ever, and it was my favourite character even if he appeared in like 3 episodes lol

 

[Joqu]

Big Finnish is holding an Eighth Doctor sale so I guess you can buy that if you want to

 

[Bobby Roberts]

The four-season Eighth Doctor Adventures (with Lucie Miller) are pretty damned good.

There's even an episode that's kind of a riff on "The Horror of Fang Rock" that has Bernard Cribbins playing a dickhead band manager. It's really fun.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

Big Finnish is holding an Eighth Doctor sale so I guess you can buy that if you want to

I am so intrigued to fill in the gaps, you have no idea. Just watched the "These shoes fit perfectly!" scene. He really was the archetype for the modern Doctors, no question.

 

[Pikawil]

Seriously. Trying to upstage Tom Hiddleston? That's a game yo' gonna lose.

INTRODUCING
TOM HIDDLESTON
AS LOKI
AS THE NINTH DOCTOR

(Hey, Hiddleston absolutely wanted to do the

Spoiler

CHRIS EVANS AS LOKI AS CAPTAIN AMERICA

scene with himself in the outfit before the staff decided to just get the genuine article.)

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Series 6 done, aside from this last episode which I think is a special.

"The question you've been running from your whole life. DOCTOR WHO?"

Great series, now for this special, then onto 7 with a week to spare!

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

Series 6 done, aside from this last episode which I think is a special.

"The question you've been running from your whole life. DOCTOR WHO?"

Great series, now for this special, then onto 7 with a week to spare!

Try and get through it all, there's some great moments in there amongst all the jank. What did you think of The Wedding of River Song btw?

 

[Hot Coldman]

I do wish McGann got the proper volcano effect. That's my favourite part of regeneration.

 

[BocoDragon]

I guess I'm a little disappointed in retrospect that McGann chose to regenerate into the War Doctor with a magic potion.

I hadn't really thought through it, but I guess I assumed that McGann died terribly as a result of events in the Time War, and that messy end caused him to be reborn as a vengeful Doctor.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

I guess I'm a little disappointed in retrospect that McGann chose to regenerate into the War Doctor with a magic potion.

I hadn't really thought through it, but I guess I assumed that McGann died terribly as a result of events in the Time War, and that messy end caused him to be reborn as a vengeful Doctor.

I liked it because it's the end of the Classic Doctor in more ways than one. You see him prancing around on the ship, making jokes, trying to whisk Cas away from it all. He's trying to step around reality, that being that he can't really ignore the war anymore. It's everywhere. He can't be that man anymore in these circumstances, and in atypical Doctor fashion he would rather die than risk not saving someone. That's where vengeful Doc comes in.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Try and get through it all, there's some great moments in there amongst all the jank. What did you think of The Wedding of River Song btw?

Not the best finale, but not bad either. I feel like in the Tennant days they would have drug out the twist a bit more and blown our minds, but I enjoyed it overall.

 

[Joqu]

I am so intrigued to fill in the gaps, you have no idea. Just watched the "These shoes fit perfectly!" scene. He really was the archetype for the modern Doctors, no question.

So am I but I really shouldn't be spending any money right now.

And yes, the shoe scene was lovely! I really like the movie actually. Sure it's kind of shit but it's filled with these great little moments that make me want to forgive it for its faults and just give it a hug you know.

I do wish McGann got the proper volcano effect. That's my favourite part of regeneration.

I don't know, McGann's regeneration effects reminded me of the ones of the classic series. It bridged the two quite well I think.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

I do wish McGann got the proper volcano effect. That's my favourite part of regeneration.

When i saw yesterday McGann's movie i hated the regenration effect, I know the volcano effect is new, and I also know how the old effect was for the classic doctors...
But the squishy squashy effect of McCoy to McGann was laughable, just like the terminator master lol

 

[BocoDragon]

I liked it because it's the end of the Classic Doctor in more ways than one. You see him prancing around on the ship, making jokes, trying to whisk Cas away from it all. He's trying to step around reality, that being that he can't really ignore the war anymore. It's everywhere. He can't be that man anymore in these circumstances, and in atypical Doctor fashion he would rather die than risk not saving someone. That's where vengeful Doc comes in.

I suppose it is better that he does it of conscious will.

But I rather thought regenerations are always a result of the Doctor's current psyche anyway, so dying amidst the war and coming back as the War Doc would be McGann's will.

 

[Quick Mustard]

The Science of Doctor Who is now on BBC 2 and the scene with filmed with Matt Smith was so good

 

[Zeouterlimits]

I.. yeah, I'm not a fan of the potion malarky.

 

[Hot Coldman]

I.. yeah, I'm not a fan of the potion malarky.

"Keepers of the Flame of Utter Boredom" sums up the majority of Time Lord stuff pre-2005 so I found that perfectly in keeping with tradition.

 

[paradox121]

I.. yeah, I'm not a fan of the potion malarky.

I wouldn't be normally either, but if you look at it from the angle that by that point the Time Lords had to have created some way of ensuring they had warriors to fight their wars, and that they didn't just regenerate into a load of Slyvester McCoys, it kinda makes a bit more sense. Though generally regenerations at this point have so many inconsistencies and differences and uses I'm kinda done caring.

The Science of Doctor Who has been great so far though, from a science nerd perspective. I wouldn't go in expecting a hilarious clip-show style look at Doctor Who. It's proper science. With cute little scenes with Matt Smith. And Silents!

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

McGann in full costume:



Courtesy of the DW Tumblr.

Looks pretty badass

 

[infiniteloop]

Series 6 done, aside from this last episode which I think is a special.

"Doctor, the widow and the wardrobe"? it's not very special lol

If you're going by Netflix, you might have missed The Christmas Carol between season 5 and 6. It's a great episode.

 

[bengraven]

I still liked McGann choice outfit. This looks a bit too much of a pirate.

 

[DrForester]

I still liked McGann choice outfit. This looks a bit too much of a pirate.

I like the swashbuckler look.

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

You know I have my complaints about Moffat's run but I think he was the right guy to portray the Time War. Glad it's going down on his watch.

 

[Quick Mustard]

Adventure in Time and Space Trailer they revealed earlier just aired on BBC 2, so good

 

[Zeppu]

Anyone watched The Science of Doctor Who?

I have such a man crush on Brian Cox.

 

[Slowdive]

I watched it, really liked the scenes with Matt.

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

Also I'm really impressed with McGann's performance in these short seven minutes. It's really magnetic acting. I'd rank him above 10 and probably above 9 as well. Would definitely be down for an Eighth Doctor miniseries.