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Doctor Who Series 2011 |OT| Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff

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Discotheque

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oh snap. Time to get my rewatches of Blink and Silence in the Library in.

Blink > other weeping angel episodes. I hope Moffat goes back to that horror-like vibe again.
 
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EleventhDoctor

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PhoncipleBone said:
Urgh. LOTS of Doctor Who is expiring from Netflix in three days. Lots of the classic ones as well as Series 1-3 and the specials. I did not see series 4 and 5 on the list, but that doesnt mean they wont disappear as well. Torchwood will expire too.
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Whoa are you serious?? That's my main reason for keeping Netflix...
 
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brucewaynegretzky said:
Rassilon tries to have him executed in the time lock and he devises a way to escape.
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I'm pretty sure that shortly after they're sent back into the Time War, it ends and both the Daleks and Time Lords are destroyed by the Doctor. They said it was the final day of the Time War, hence why they were desperate to escape.
 
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Lonestar

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PhoncipleBone said:
Urgh. LOTS of Doctor Who is expiring from Netflix in three days. Lots of the classic ones as well as Series 1-3 and the specials. I did not see series 4 and 5 on the list, but that doesnt mean they wont disappear as well. Torchwood will expire too.
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uggggghhhh

Last I checked, the DVD sets were pretty expensive too...
 
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I need those in my life.
 
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womp

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I noticed all the BBC programming has the same Dec 1st warning on Netflix a few weeks ago.

This happened this time last year as well it seems. I think it is a license thing and everything will be fine.
 
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judhudson

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Teefury may be infected with maliciousness, but the artist's direct website isn't! If you can't get the Doctor Who-ville shirt without risking your computer's security settings, go to www.ianleino.com. A little more, but worth it.
 
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radioheadrule83

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Steven Moffat: "To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot"


Don't want one then, personally. A movie with 48 years worth of television as its exposition, jumping in at the 11th or 12th Doctor might go over well with us - but it wouldn't do very well as a movie for wider audiences.
 
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I guess this is the best place for it: the international iPlayer app for iPhone (way too much alliteration!) is now available in Canada. Subscription fee, archive content (not displaced live content like the UK iPlayer), and free content each day this month as a promo requiring no fee.

It's not the best option, but it's *an* option.

I'm told it includes some quantity of Who, but I've no idea how much and what.
 
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I'm highly skeptical over Moffat's response....sure, he is the head of the show, but if BBC wants it to happen, Moffat doesn't really have any say over a reboot for a movie (I'd think).

Plus, given that they are 3 or so years away from even filming, my guess is that Moffat would have already moved on from being the show runner.
 
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DarkFlow

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So I'm a rather new fan to the show. I must say I love it, I even got my gf and her 6 year old girl to love it lol.
I took a odd approach, starting with torchwood when it was on starz, then working to the start of that series. After we blasted all of that we decided we should give who a try since its the main to that show.
We started with the ninth doctor, was not that impressed at first but stuck with it because I've heard the tenth doctor was better. Once we got to him that's when we got hooked really.
We've just finished "the doctor's wife" in series 6 and so far I'm like it better then 5, and i really enjoyed 5. Anywho just wanted share a little and look forward to the Christmas episode.
 
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radioheadrule83 said:
Don't want one then, personally. A movie with 48 years worth of television as its exposition, jumping in at the 11th or 12th Doctor might go over well with us - but it wouldn't do very well as a movie for wider audiences.
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I don't think throwing out all the old would necessarily be any easier. The '96 TV movie and the start of the 2005 series are examples of stories meant to work both as introductions and continuations. It's not like they'd make a movie like The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang and just expect everyone to know what's going on.
 
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teiresias

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OK, this is a series back, but I'm watching Season 4 for the first time (I DO miss Tennant). I'm like 30 seconds into "The Time of Angels" and all I can think is, "Those pumps are AWESOME!!!"
 
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KuwabaraTheMan

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radioheadrule83 said:
Steven Moffat: "To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot"
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Thank you, Moffat. (Something I didn't think I would be saying any time soon)

There's no need for a reboot, especially by Hollywood people. Crisis (hopefully) averted.
 
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BatDan

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Isn't "The Time of Angels" a Matt Smith episode? How do you go from talking about Season 4 to a Season 5 episode?
 
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Boogiepop

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Finally all caught up. (Just new Who)
So, two quick questions I was trying to sort out with the friend who introduced me to it that I didn't exactly have sorted out:
First off, where does the whole "Doctor goes off for 200 years or so before coming back at the start of season 6" fit in? Did he just kind of do it off screen at some point and not mention it, or did he somehow get the knowledge to act as though he lived that time when popping up at the beginning of the season?
Also, after watching the bonus bits from the season 6 set, I'm extra confused with the lines from River's first appearance (in the library), as I definitely recall some stuff that at least heavily implied she knew several off his later regenerations, but the bonus stuff seems to say that the 11th doctor is the last one she ever meets.
So yeah, moderately confused as to the wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey details.
 
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Mank said:
Finally all caught up. (Just new Who)
So, two quick questions I was trying to sort out with the friend who introduced me to it that I didn't exactly have sorted out:
First off, where does the whole "Doctor goes off for 200 years or so before coming back at the start of season 6" fit in? Did he just kind of do it off screen at some point and not mention it, or did he somehow get the knowledge to act as though he lived that time when popping up at the beginning of the season?
Also, after watching the bonus bits from the season 6 set, I'm extra confused with the lines from River's first appearance (in the library), as I definitely recall some stuff that at least heavily implied she knew several off his later regenerations, but the bonus stuff seems to say that the 11th doctor is the last one she ever meets.
So yeah, moderately confused as to the wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey details.
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This all happened between The God Complex and Closing Time. All of the promotional text for the episode mentioned that, but somehow they never actually specifically mention it in the show. I think I read something where an explanation of it was cut, for some reason. Pretty dumb move in my opinion-stating it specifically would have given the episode more gravitas he literally ran around avoiding the inevitable for 200 years and didn't see The Ponds for that long-which makes seeing them in the store more poignant.
 
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I've been cherry picking my way through the modern Doctor Who episodes after getting burned my some of the early Eccleston ones- which in practice means that I've been watching the ones written by Steven Moffat.

I have now watched up through Blink and I have loved all of them. Aside from a few early Eccleston ones, I have now gotten this far only watching only the Moffat ones and I fear that I'm selling the rest of the episodes short. Are there any other great standalone episodes that I should check out or should I indeed just move on to "Silence in the Library"?
 
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Tom_Cody said:
I've been cherry picking my way through the modern Doctor Who episodes after getting burned my some of the early Eccleston ones- which in practice means that I've been watching the ones written by Steven Moffat.

I have now watched up through Blink and I have loved all of them. Aside from a few early Eccleston ones, I have now gotten this far only watching only the Moffat ones and I fear that I'm selling the rest of the episodes short. Are there any other great standalone episodes that I should check out or should I indeed just move on to "Silence in the Library"?
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If you're talking the first three seasons, then there's quite a few. Father's Day is a gut punch, the Bad Wolf two-parter has a killer back half, School Reunion is an excellent episode that sets up a lot of the themes that New Who often comes back to, The Impossible Planet has an awesome, bleak atmosphere to it, Gridlock is one of my favourite, richest episodes ever, and the Human Nature two-parter is a stone cold classic. These often do have strands connecting them to other episodes, but they can easily be enjoyed on their own merits.

Silence in the Library, good as it is, isn't the best of series 4. That honour goes squarely to Midnight, and I highly recommend you track it down. Turn Left is superb, but sort of needs some knowledge of other episodes. The Unicorn and the Wasp is, IMO, a superb comedy episode, but opinions vary on it. The Fire of Pompeii is a bit of an epic, too. Out of the specials, watch The Waters of Mars.

If you plan on watching Moffat's series, definitely watch Silence in the Library.
 
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isny said:
Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe premieres Sunday, December 25, 9:00pm ET on Space in Canada and BBC America

Also, keep in mind the advent calendar is being updated daily on http://www.BBC.co.uk/doctorwho

BTW, why did no one mention the adventure games are now available to non UK residents? I already have enough of a backlog, but I can't say no for only $5!
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isny said:
Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe premieres Sunday, December 25, 9:00pm ET on Space in Canada and BBC America

Also, keep in mind the advent calendar is being updated daily on http://www.BBC.co.uk/doctorwho

BTW, why did no one mention the adventure games are now available to non UK residents? I already have enough of a backlog, but I can't say no for only $5!
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Sucks that the Mac versions aren't out for non-UK residents. There are ways to download the UK version though. If I could, I would buy the non-UK versions of the games :( I guess the BBC just hates Mac users that don't live in the UK :(

Htown said:
So are those adventure games actually not garbage? Because they look terrible.
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Eh, they're not that bad (from what I've been told :p ).
 
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Damn, just a few more weeks until the Christmas Special. I was already starting to get over seeing Doctor Who for a very long time.
 
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Tom_Cody said:
I've been cherry picking my way through the modern Doctor Who episodes after getting burned my some of the early Eccleston ones- which in practice means that I've been watching the ones written by Steven Moffat.

I have now watched up through Blink and I have loved all of them. Aside from a few early Eccleston ones, I have now gotten this far only watching only the Moffat ones and I fear that I'm selling the rest of the episodes short. Are there any other great standalone episodes that I should check out or should I indeed just move on to "Silence in the Library"?
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Which Eccleston ones did you get "burned" on? He's only got 13 and none of them strike me as being dull or bad :p
 
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