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[Exterminieren]

No tweed for the Christmas Special.

Just hope they get that balance right! And to be honest, I'm being unfair. The last time Daleks invaded Earth, they invaded... a suburb in outer London. Oh and a forest in Germany.

And, like, saucers fucking up New York and stuff.

If there's anything we can't fault that two-parter for, it's ambition.

 

[RetroMG]

Hey, you know what would really go great with all these reveals? A trailer. A trailer would really hit the spot.

 

[V_Arnold]

Hey, you know what would really go great with all these reveals? A trailer. A trailer would really hit the spot.

One more word and there will be NO MORE TRAILERS FOR THE INTERNET!
Got it?

Sorry, we're fresh out of that. How would you like a steaming hot dish of the BBC's entire yearly budget poured into CGI footage of the Daleks fucking up London.. again?

Okay... I guess I'll take that EXTERMINATE being repeated 60-70 times over a good conversation, thanks BBC!

 

[DiipuSurotu]

https://twitter.com/DrWhoOnline/status/377360358823849984/photo/1

Getting wiggy with it

https://twitter.com/thesilvercloak/status/377360781794230272

His wig doesn't look like a "wig", but it doesn't look like his former hair either IMO.

 

[The Technomancer]

And on the rings of akhaten - am I the only one that finds the long song sequence melodramatic to the point of being embarrassing? It was one of the most saliently awful parts of season 7 for me and evoked the Russell T Davies era in all the wrong ways.

Funny, for me it evoked the Matt Smith Doctor in all of the wrong ways, i.e overly dramatic and explicitly self-appreciative while trying to convey a dramatic intensity that he wasn't capable of depicting.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

His hair looks really greasy. Like, matted and dirty. Yuck.

 

[aHebrewMenagerie]

His hair looks really greasy. Like, matted and dirty. Yuck.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[Forever]

So by "movie length" they meant "animated Disney movie length"? Crazy that End of Time got almost double that, and this is intended to be the biggest Who celebration since the reboot. Ah well. 75 minutes of Tennant, Smith and Hurt awesome isn't bad. I'm not expecting the actual plot to be that solid by the way, I do think they're going to focus on the characters instead. The Time War isn't even Moffat's bag. Ideal situation is that the Christmas special follows on directly from it.

The End of Time was split into two parts, and The Day of the Doctor is clearly meant to be paired with The Name of the Doctor so it's not that far off. Especially if the Christmas episode does make it a three parter.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

The End of Time was split into two parts, and The Day of the Doctor is clearly meant to be paired with The Name of the Doctor so it's not that far off. Especially if the Christmas episode does make it a three parter.

Calling it something simplistic like "Death of the Doctor" would make a nice Name/Day/Death trilogy.

 

[Forever]

Calling it something simplistic like "Death of the Doctor" would make a nice Name/Day/Death trilogy.

The Fall of the Doctor maybe.

 

[Petrichor]

Thank you! Count me in as a Beast Below fan as well. It's definitely a solid "introduce the companion to the universe story".

It's by no means perfect - the ending is rushed and there are a couple of superfluous/underdeveloped elements - but it has some neat ideas (one of the rare episodes of doctor who to have political subtext "forgetting every five years"! Sophie Okenedo is excellent in it and the mystery is elaborate enough to be mildly compelling) and there's a lot more right with it than there is wrong. There's certainly nothing in it as egregious as the veritable car-crash that happens in Ahkaten's narrative as soon as the doctor and clara get on the bike. God what a clusterfuck.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Posted a supposed poster for the 50th over in the 50th OT.

 

[aHebrewMenagerie]

Calling it something simplistic like "Death of the Doctor" would make a nice Name/Day/Death trilogy.

Death of The Doctor was already a Sarah Jane episode, and a preliminary name for the End of Time

 

[King of the Potato People]

Terrific poster, it really looks like HurtDoctor has come from hell.

Trailerpleasethough.

 

[Jintor]

Hngggghhhhhh

 

[Forever]

I'm not sure I can forgive Eccelston for snubbing the 50th.

 

[Jedi2016]

I'm not sure I can forgive Eccelston for snubbing the 50th.

You're not alone. Like a lot of us that only started with the new series, Eccelston was my first Doctor and will always have a special place in the lineup.

 

[Jintor]

I'm not sure I can forgive Eccelston for snubbing the 50th.

Same.

But what does he care?

 

[odiin]

Chill out, guys. Didn't you hear the news about him already commuting to doing the 100th?

 

[Keyouta]

I've just finished watching Series 6, what's the recommended watching for Series 7?

 

[Quick]

I've just finished watching Series 6, what's the recommended watching for Series 7?

All of it.

You've gone this far, what's another 14 episodes? (15 if you count The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe)

 

[ChaoticJack]

All of it.

You've gone this far, what's another 14 episodes? (15 if you count The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe)

Don't.

 

[gabbo]

Don't.

Don't listen to him, Do

 

[Quick]

Don't.

 

[Box of Bunnies]

Seriously, it's like a dozen episodes. Why are you even watching a show if you can't watch that "many"?

 

[Future Foundation]

I'm super late, but I love everything about the 50th Anniversary poster. Fucking everything. I love the title, I love the runtime, did I mention that I loved the poster?

 

[gabbo]

I'm not sure I can forgive Eccelston for snubbing the 50th.

The section where Hurt is walking just screams '9th' to me :' (

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

I've just finished watching Series 6, what's the recommended watching for Series 7?

Just watch Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy, The Power of Three and The Rings of Akhaten. The rest is pretty bad.

 

[Petrichor]

Just watch Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy, The Power of Three and The Rings of Akhaten. The rest is pretty bad.

But those are four of the worst.

(Just watch all of them and make up your own mind)

 

[DiipuSurotu]

I would have liked to have the 8th or 9th Doctor in the special. The lack of BOTH of them will be a huge disappointement, if confirmed.

 

[V_Arnold]

BAD WOLF?

 

[APZonerunner]

Moffat confirmed to the Guardian that Series 8 won't air until Autumn 2014. The Guardian specifically ask (they're talking to him as part of the Media Guardian Top 100 People, which he is on) and Moffat says Late Summer or Autumn is "probably right" as filming won't be beginning until January next year at the earliest. Well, bugger.

Moffat came in at 87.

Spoiler

To do the dumb competition, RTD debuted at 15, peaked at 14, dropped to 27 and then dropped off the chart completely after leaving Who. It is worth noting RTD was on the list prior to Who, though, as the man is basically the king of gay/lesbian TV in the UK, and that carries a lot of clout.

Steven Moffat is the man entrusted with one of television's most revered and longest-running shows – Doctor Who.

Having won plaudits with his choice of The Thick Of It star Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor, now all he has to do is oversee a triumphant 50th anniversary of the BBC1 show, in November this year.

Part of a programme-making dynasty – he is married to Sue Vertue, who is the daughter of Hartswood Films founder Beryl Vertue – Moffat is one of the BBC's most important programme-makers.

He is in charge of Doctor Who and creator, along with Mark Gatiss, of Sherlock, the hit modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth, which will return for a third series later this year.

Doctor Who may not be quite the force it was when it returned with Christopher Eccleston and in its David Tennant heyday in the UK, but has a growing audience in the US on cable channel BBC America.

It will not return next year until the autumn, giving it plenty of time to recharge batteries. And what better way to do that than with a new Doctor?

 

[wetflame]

I would have liked to have the 8th or 9th Doctor in the special. The lack of BOTH of them will be a huge disappointement, if confirmed.

I think both of them have said as much in interviews, plus there's been no reports, and they're not on that poster. I don't think they'll be appearing

 

[Box of Bunnies]

Silence in the Library's on telly here. I always feel sorry for Miss Evangelista, everyone's so mean to her

 

[Magwik]

I think both of them have said as much in interviews, plus there's been no reports, and they're not on that poster. I don't think they'll be appearing

They could just be wanting to surprise everyone!

Spoiler

:'(

 

[isny]

Just watch Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy, The Power of Three and The Rings of Akhaten. The rest is pretty bad.

Rings of Akhaten is pretty bad...

 

[aHebrewMenagerie]

Rings of Akhaten is pretty bad...

That speech at the end was epic though.

 

[Samyy]

So just finished all 7 seasons and can safely say im a fan now
Are the earlier episodes any good? When is the new season starting!

 

[aHebrewMenagerie]

So just finished all 7 seasons and can safely say im a fan now
Are the earlier episodes any good? When is the new season starting!

It depends, some of the classic series can be amazing, but other horrendously bad.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

Silence in the Library's on telly here. I always feel sorry for Miss Evangelista, everyone's so mean to her

And, I mean... she's smoking. Talulah Riley.

 

[Forever]

I would have liked to have the 8th or 9th Doctor in the special. The lack of BOTH of them will be a huge disappointement, if confirmed.

It's especially awkward since Hurt's Doctor is wearing 9's jacket over 8's vest, which tells a story in and of itself. It implies that he regenerated in the middle of the chaos of the war and just threw a jacket on top since there was no time for a proper wardrobe change. To not show that, or show his regeneration into Eccelston, would definitely leave me feeling like something huge and obvious is missing.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

To not show that, or show his regeneration into Eccelston, would definitely leave me feeling like something huge and obvious is missing.

I have a feeling Hurt's regeneration will star "Some Guy with a Shaved Head from the Back"

 

[wetflame]

A little old, but Francesco Francavilla, a comic book artist, has been watching Doctor Who and drawing up posters for all the episodes from The Impossible Astronaut onwards, there's some really good stuff in there. Take a look!

 

[mjc]

I'd say the show is more popular than ever...definitely more popular than it was when Eccleston and Tennant were on.

 

[EleventhDoctor]

I think that while most of Season 7 is dissapointing....it's all worth watching. With maybe the exception of Cold War. But even that's "Watchable"

 

[gabbo]

I'd say the show is more popular than ever...definitely more popular than it was when Eccleston and Tennant were on.

What was the atmosphere in England like when the reboot debuted?

 

[V_Arnold]

I think that while most of Season 7 is dissapointing....it's all worth watching. With maybe the exception of Cold War. But even that's "Watchable"

I agree. Cold War was the only one that failed to touch me. And even that had a good joke at the end.

 

[aHebrewMenagerie]

It's especially awkward since Hurt's Doctor is wearing 9's jacket over 8's vest, which tells a story in and of itself. It implies that he regenerated in the middle of the chaos of the war and just threw a jacket on top since there was no time for a proper wardrobe change. To not show that, or show his regeneration into Eccelston, would definitely leave me feeling like something huge and obvious is missing.

It's not 9's jacket and 8's vest, yes it is inspired by them.

Hurt's jacket is much longer than 9's and while 8's vest is sortof gold, Hurt's is red.

 

[Bluth54]

I have a feeling Hurt's regeneration will star "Some Guy with a Shaved Head from the Back"

They could have Matt Smith play him.

 

[8bit]