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Doctor Who Series Seven |OT| The Question You've Been Running From All Your Life

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Smelly Tramp

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I like the look of rory kinnear, he seems like a good fit. A doctor with a dry sense of humour seems like something we havent had in nuWho. Decent acting chops as well.

Just end the race for the next doctor and give it to Stuart Lee haha, imagine how great that would be.
 
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Batigol

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FatboyRoberts said:
So, out of nowhere, British press appears to be running wild with the notion that Rory Kinnear is the frontrunner.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/who-new-doctor-who-rory-1928254

and

http://www.independent.ie/entertain...-to-be-new-time-travelling-lord-29331348.html

as well as

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06...innear/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

and

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/cel...James-Bond-star-to-be-its-new-Doctor-Who.html

Visual aid: Rory Kinnear is M's assistant from the rebooted James Bond movies.

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Please no :(
 
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Deleted member 231381

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I would totally be up for that. Man is from my college.
 
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Dr Zhivago

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Big Finish are doing an audio drama called 'Trial of the Valeyard' later this year, I don't think they'd be allowed to do that if he was going to appear in the TV series.
 
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PlanetSmasher

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I wouldn't mind a female Doctor, myself. I also wouldn't mind a black Doctor, an Asian one or even a Ginger.

But I definitely want Twelve to be an unknown. Casting someone prominent would be weird. John Hurt gets a pass because he's a guest star and because he's John Freaking Hurt.
 
ElRenoRaven

ElRenoRaven

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Hot Coldman said:
Basically bang-on with why I'm cautious about the introduction of a female Doctor. I'm up for it at the moment, as change is coming and I'd be in the mood for a large amount of it, but it nails why I feel the Doctor's male nature has been so great so far
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I agree. The article is really really good. It's not like women in the series have been played to be complete morons either. Hell how many times have the women saved his ass on the show? I'm up to season 6 now and I've lost count of how many times they've saved him just as much as he them.
 
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8bit

Knows the Score
There's a piece on Private Eye's website about how the BBC managed to screw up the departure news (which I'd encourage you to click on as anything that gets Private Eye to acknowledge online is a good thing).

http://private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=media_news&issue=1342

I didn't know that John Hurt had spoiled the conclusion himself though:

This exposed the cliffhanger reveal that John Hurt will be playing a hitherto unknown version of the Doctor in this November’s anniversary special – although by then that news was already out, Hurt having blown the gaff a week earlier to his local paper, the Eastern Daily Press, while publicising, er, the revamp of Sheringham Little Theatre’s Film Club.
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The Elite

The Elite

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Dr Zhivago said:
Bleeding Cool are claiming a load of lost episodes have been found:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06...e-a-very-special-surprise-for-us-in-november/
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Oh god yes if true!

"The Full Hartnell"

You never go Full Hartnell.

There’s even the rumour that the much touted DVD set Regenerations out this month, with its previewed animation clip of the regeneration between the first and second Doctors is a bluff, and they now have the full The Tenth Planet in which the Doctor regenerated for the first time which will be released in this set. But that strikes me as wish-fulfillment too far. Would be very clever though.
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That would push me into buying that set.
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just heard that kentpaul is in the lead to be the next dr who. he will bring deep changes to the series innit
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I'd rather SmokyDave gets the part.
 
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Sulik2

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It still feels strange to me the Matt Smith era is coming to an end. It feels like he had another season to his character. The christmas episode better be a doozy.
 
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mclem

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Well, the missing episodes thread on Gallifrey Base has certainly exploded recently. I don't know if that's responding to the rumour or adding extra information, though.
 
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V_Arnold

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Sulik2 said:
It still feels strange to me the Matt Smith era is coming to an end. It feels like he had another season to his character. The christmas episode better be a doozy.
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Yeah.... "I hate endings".
I wonder what he will do with that line in the Christmas Special.
 
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KuwabaraTheMan

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Dr Zhivago said:
Bleeding Cool are claiming a load of lost episodes have been found:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06...e-a-very-special-surprise-for-us-in-november/
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This reads like wish fulfillment to me. There have only been three episodes recovered in the past decade, and suddenly we're going to get dozens of them coinciding with the anniversary?

I'd love for it to be true, but I'm not going to be crossing my fingers. It just seems way too good to be true.

I want to believe. Oh god, please be true.
 
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Blader

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If this is true, I wouldn't be surprised if the BBC had found a lot of these episodes years ago and has just been sitting on them waiting for the anniversary.
 
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mclem

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Blader5489 said:
If this is true, I wouldn't be surprised if the BBC had found a lot of these episodes years ago and has just been sitting on them waiting for the anniversary.
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The only slight issue with that theory is that they've been making animated versions of episodes that no longer exist for the past few years for completeness's sake... and two years ago they *did* find and release two episodes.


From reading the Outpost Gallifrey threads, the most notable thing I've picked up is that there's been no explicit denial, and there are people on that forum who would be capable of making explicit denials. Now, they may simply not have seen the discussion, of course, but it's something.

So, yes. Nothing concrete whatsoever, and whether you think it's true would probably come down to the pessimistic (It's *far* too good-sounding to be true!) versus the optimistic (...but no-one's denied it yet). I'm still on the pessimistic side, given that the quantity listed is, frankly, ridiculously huge, but I have to concede the ponts from the optimistic side.
 
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maharg

idspispopd
Man, even were the episodes an epic shitfest I would still kill to actually see the last episode of the Tenth Planet and Troughton's first few serials in their original form.
 
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odiin

My Apartment, or the 120 Screenings of Salo
Jesus this is amazing if true. The notion of being able to actually SEE more Troughton stories is mindblowing. I've been slowly slogging my way through the loose cannon reconstructions and as much as I hate to admit it with all the hard work they put into them... It's kind of a bore. Even without a visual element the narrated audios have an easier time holdimg my attention.

The only exception is Marco Polo. That recon was legit. I can only imagine how much better it would be to finally see it in it's original form.
 
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KuwabaraTheMan

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mclem said:
From reading the Outpost Gallifrey threads, the most notable thing I've picked up is that there's been no explicit denial, and there are people on that forum who would be capable of making explicit denials. Now, they may simply not have seen the discussion, of course, but it's something.

So, yes. Nothing concrete whatsoever, and whether you think it's true would probably come down to the pessimistic (It's *far* too good-sounding to be true!) versus the optimistic (...but no-one's denied it yet). I'm still on the pessimistic side, given that the quantity listed is, frankly, ridiculously huge, but I have to concede the ponts from the optimistic side.
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The lack of any explicit denials so far is the one thing giving me hope about this. Especially since several of those guys regularly do go into the Missing Episodes thread and have been known to explicitly deny rumors in the past.

I'm still really skeptical based on this sounding too good to be true, but there's cause to start hoping.

I would absolutely love to be able to see Marco Polo, The Massacre, The Savages, The Power of the Daleks and The Enemy of the World especially. Although I'd be happy with any new discoveries, even if they were from The Celestial Toymaker or even The Underwater Menace.
 
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Worthintendo

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odiin said:
Jesus this is amazing if true. The notion of being able to actually SEE more Troughton stories is mindblowing. I've been slowly slogging my way through the loose cannon reconstructions and as much as I hate to admit it with all the hard work they put into them... It's kind of a bore. Even without a visual element the narrated audios have an easier time holdimg my attention.

The only exception is Marco Polo. That recon was legit. I can only imagine how much better it would be to finally see it in it's original form.
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Same, from what I've seen of him, I could see him being my favorite Doctor ever, I just love his character. Matt Smith seems to have taken a fair bit from him as well character wise, not surprising that he is Matt's favorite Doctor. But yeah just to see the original Ice Warriors episode in full or Troughtons Dalek episodes and the rest of his Cybermen ones. Please let this be true.
 
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FillerB

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The Technomancer said:
...yay?

I really have never understood the appeal of the whole "cameo" thing, especially in completely disparate properties.
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Cameos are just another form of fanservice. Nothing more, nothing less. There;s not really anything to get besides them trying to get a "omigosh was that a ponified 4th/10th/11th Doctor? Awsm xdxd"-reaction from the extended audience. FiM has a metric ton of this kind of stuff going on in the background.
 
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The Technomancer

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FillerB said:
Cameos are just another form of fanservice. Nothing more, nothing less. There;s not really anything to get besides them trying to get a "omigosh was that a ponified 4th/10th/11th Doctor? Awsm xdxd"-reaction from the extended audience. FiM has a metric ton of this kind of stuff going on in the background.
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Yeah that's the part that I don't get :/

Ah well
 
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APZonerunner

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Been watching some Who repeats and things on BBCA while in the states for E3/other things. Fuck me, the placement of the ads is bloody awful. Ruins the pacing pf episodes badly. It's awful, especially in earlier series' (they were showing 3) but even in more recent stuff (such as 7).

I suppose as a Brit I know how it is raw, which doesn't help... But I did think it was terrible! I never even would've thought Who that different from a show designed with ads in mind, but the difference is night and day.
 
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acheron_xl

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APZonerunner said:
Been watching some Who repeats and things on BBCA while in the states for E3/other things. Fuck me, the placement of the ads is bloody awful. Ruins the pacing pf episodes badly. It's awful, especially in earlier series' (they were showing 3) but even in more recent stuff (such as 7).

I suppose as a Brit I know how it is raw, which doesn't help... But I did think it was terrible! I never even would've thought Who that different from a show designed with ads in mind, but the difference is night and day.
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American broadcast TV blows. Digital distribution for life.
 
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The Real Abed

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APZonerunner said:
Been watching some Who repeats and things on BBCA while in the states for E3/other things. Fuck me, the placement of the ads is bloody awful. Ruins the pacing pf episodes badly. It's awful, especially in earlier series' (they were showing 3) but even in more recent stuff (such as 7).
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How do they air in the UK? Always been curious. In America ads are so often and so long. 22 minutes or 44 minutes for a show after they're all said and done.
 
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8bit

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The Real Abed said:
How do they air in the UK? Always been curious. In America ads are so often and so long. 22 minutes or 44 minutes for a show after they're all said and done.
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For shows on the BBC, there are no adverts. The only thing between shows is usually promotions for other shows. The other channels (ITV, Channel 4, Sky et al.) have ads as you would expect them, 4-5 minutes of advertising per 30 minutes or so.
 
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APZonerunner

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The Real Abed said:
How do they air in the UK? Always been curious. In America ads are so often and so long. 22 minutes or 44 minutes for a show after they're all said and done.
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To make it absolutely clear, the BBC is funded by taxpayer money, meaning they don't run ads because everybody in Britain with a TV has actually already paid for it. The BBC doesn't do ads, or product placement, or any of that. I was amazed they were allowed to use Jammie Dodgers in The Bells of Saint John, to be honest, as Jammie Dodger is a brand - mentioning them in Evolution was one thing, but briefly showing the packet really stunned me.

That's why whenever you see people using computers and things in Who they're always clearly an off-the-shelf computer with logos covered up or replaced, like the "Myth" laptops or pretty much all TVs being from Magpie's.
 
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maharg

idspispopd
APZonerunner said:
To make it absolutely clear, the BBC is funded by taxpayer money, meaning they don't run ads because everybody in Britain with a TV has actually already paid for it. The BBC doesn't do ads, or product placement, or any of that. I was amazed they were allowed to use Jammie Dodgers in The Bells of Saint John, to be honest, as Jammie Dodger is a brand - mentioning them in Evolution was one thing, but briefly showing the packet really stunned me.

That's why whenever you see people using computers and things in Who they're always clearly an off-the-shelf computer with logos covered up or replaced, like the "Myth" laptops or pretty much all TVs being from Magpie's.
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Isn't Jelly Baby also a tradename? Or is it genericized?
 
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