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Official Doctor Who Series 1, 5, 31, or Fnarg Thread of Moffat & Smith

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Nothing like an episode of Doctor Who to relax you after a shitty week. This is my new fill in show for whenever I want to smile at the end of a bad day/week.

Anyways. I'm about to start Cold Blood.

And Keysor? Still waiting for that .gif. :D
 
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More DVD info:


Details have been released of the 2010 series boxset which will be released in the UK on 8th November 2010 and in North America on November 9, 2010.

Available in DVD and Blu-ray formats. In the UK, as well as the general release, a number of sets will be available in the form of a specially limited edition.

Special features include additional scenes written by Steven Moffat and exclusive to DVD.
- Additional scenes: Meanwhile in the TARDIS, written by Steven Moffat and featuring Matt Smith & Karen Gillan, telling the story of what happens between episodes. Why was Amy floating in Space above Starship UK, and what happened after 'that' kiss between the Doctor and Amy?
-Monster Files - The Monster Files will get under the skin and inside the minds of the latest Doctor's most challenging opponents.
- Outtakes
- In-vision commentaries
- Video Diary
- Confidential Cut Downs
- BBC Trails and Promos to New Series 5

http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/
 
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Series 5 is showing again on Fridays on BBC 3 and Series 4 is showing again on Saturdays on Watch. Time for one bizarre rewatch.
 
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I GOT IT!

Something has been bugging me about Smith this entire time. The other two Doctors clearly like humanity (Tennant was in love with "us" in fact) but Smith seems to barely tolerate humans. Almost everything out of his mouth is how bad humanity sucks. So why does he keep hanging around Earth and saving the planet? He can go anywhere, so why stick around somewhere that annoys him so much?
 
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WanderingWind said:
I GOT IT!

Something has been bugging me about Smith this entire time. The other two Doctors clearly like humanity (Tennant was in love with "us" in fact) but Smith seems to barely tolerate humans. Almost everything out of his mouth is how bad humanity sucks. So why does he keep hanging around Earth and saving the planet? He can go anywhere, so why stick around somewhere that annoys him so much?
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Eccleston dissed on humanity too, often. And to answer your question, plot device.
 
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WanderingWind said:
I GOT IT!

Something has been bugging me about Smith this entire time. The other two Doctors clearly like humanity (Tennant was in love with "us" in fact) but Smith seems to barely tolerate humans. Almost everything out of his mouth is how bad humanity sucks. So why does he keep hanging around Earth and saving the planet? He can go anywhere, so why stick around somewhere that annoys him so much?
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Because he likes humanity. He's just not so far up the ass of humanity like 10 was.
 
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Green Scar said:
Eccleston dissed on humanity too, often. And to answer your question, plot device.
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I don't really recall that so much, actually. But I've only watched them once. (Except Dalek and The Empty Child)

Smith is just constantly shitting on humanity. He does it in a mostly humorous way though, so it's mostly okay.

KibblesBits said:
Because he likes humanity. He's just not so far up the ass of humanity like 10 was.
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"Beautiful, lovely, brilliant, humans! Supremely resilient, supple, sexy humans!"

Yeah. Tennant was a bit obsessed.

EDIT:
They killed Rory. Why did they kill Rory?
EDIT2:
They really killed him. They really killed Rory.
WTF. WTF WTF.
 
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Green Scar said:
Eccleston dissed on humanity too, often. And to answer your question, money.
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Would cost to much to make the show set on some alien world (most the time). Same reason why Star Trek talked about doing a Klingon spinoff show, but it never happened.
 
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Xelinis said:
WTF
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DrForester said:
It just takes a while. There will be a Christmas Special but chances are mid next year before a new series.
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Wow. You scared me for a minute there.

....fuck. Another year? What's up with that?
 
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WanderingWind said:
Wow. You scared me for a minute there.

....fuck. Another year? What's up with that?
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It's how things work in UK broadcasting. I'm not an expert by any means, but I don't think that many shows get more than 1 new series per year, and it's usually short (~12 episodes)

Top Gear is one I can think of that gets 2 per years, but their series are usually only 6-8 episodes.

UK GAF can probably clarify better.
 
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Mr. Sam said:
We firmly believe there IS too much of a good thing, frankly.
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I think it's because we in the US are used to ~24 episode seasons, and depending on the show they may be shown back to back for 24 weeks, or split up and shown at two different parts of the year.
 
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DrForester said:
I think it's because we in the US are used to ~24 episode seasons, and depending on the show they may be shown back to back for 24 weeks, or split up and shown at two different parts of the year.
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Yeah, this. I didn't know UK TV was less regimented. We have seasons, and pretty much know when the shows are airing.

....and I'm not sure the "too much of a good thing" really applies to the longest running show in history. :p

To fill the void in my Doctor Who schedule (I'm out of cash funds for the last few episodes until Friday) I'm watching classic Who - The Dead Planet. Supposedly the first episode of the Daleks. Exciting!
 
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WanderingWind said:
Yeah, this. I didn't know UK TV was less regimented. We have seasons, and pretty much know when the shows are airing.

....and I'm not sure the "too much of a good thing" really applies to the longest running show in history. :p

To fill the void in my Doctor Who schedule (I'm out of cash funds for the last few episodes until Friday) I'm watching classic Who - The Dead Planet. Supposedly the first episode of the Daleks. Exciting!
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Not quite when you account for American soap operas unfortunately.


And the very first Dakek episode was the 2nd serial.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x84iwb_the-daleks-part-1_shortfilms
 
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I didn't think Smith was any more anti-humanity than Eccleston or Tennant. There were moments of it (The Beast Below, the shitty Silurian two-parter) but it never seemed any more egregious than the other Doctors.
 
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DrForester said:
Not quite when you account for American soap operas unfortunately.
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Oh. Well, then.

Longest running science fiction show ever? Longest British show ever? Longest show that, from what I can ascertain, has been good from the start?

Blader5489 said:
I didn't think Smith was any more anti-humanity than Eccleston or Tennant. There were moments of it (The Beast Below, the shitty Silurian two-parter) but it never seemed any more egregious than the other Doctors.
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I dunno. It's all pretty fresh in my mind right now. Maybe it's just his better delivery of snarky dialogue, but he's not very...tolerant of humanity. And Tennant's Doctor was all over the nuts of humanity.

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And the very first Dakek episode was the 2nd serial.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x84iwb_the-daleks-part-1_shortfilms
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That's the one I'm watching. It's called The Dead Planet though, save for the nameplate in the beginning. Weird
 
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WanderingWind said:
That's the one I'm watching. It's called The Dead Planet though, save for the nameplate in the beginning. Weird
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My bad, I forgot that was the name of it. I'm used to it being called "The Daleks".
 
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WanderingWind said:
Longest running science fiction show ever? Longest British show ever? Longest show that, from what I can ascertain, has been good from the start?d
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You've Been Watch Watching The Longest Running Episodic Show In Television History!

HISTORIC!!!
 
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Empty said:
all you need to do is compare the us and uk versions of the office to see the superiority of our system.
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If the US Office had ended two-three seasons ago, it would have won out easily. But alas, it waged a war of attrition against itself...and lost.

But the UK Office still bores the crap out of me for the most part.
 
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I spent months laughing about the Rory scene before it was aired.

Also, at the end of the series,
several weeks forcing myself not to post 'Guess who comes baaaaaaaack' in this thread. Nice thing was that the twist took me by surprise too.
 
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WanderingWind said:
Oh. Well, then.

Longest running science fiction show ever?
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Sure, I think it can claim that, although it fights tooth-and-nail with Trek.

Longest British show ever?
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Coronation Street started in 1960. The Sky At Night started in 1957, and still has the same presenter. He missed one episode due to illness in over 50 years.
 
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Sherlock's not scifi though is it? It's just like a crime show isn't it.

Also on Dr Who Confidential Moffat baiscly revealed the plot arc for the next season will be "The Silence", probably not surprising but it's nice to see it confirmed. Also he revealed that the signifigance of Amy's wedding date will be revealed next season.
 
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KibblesBits said:
Because he likes humanity. He's just not so far up the ass of humanity like 10 was.
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He loves humanity so much that he wants them to be the best that they can be.

Also, I don't know if it was discussed, but
the voice in the Tardis sounded quite a bit like Davros. Seems like something he would do, too.
 
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Pretty sure in that Writers Tale thing Moffat tells Davies he doesn't need Davros or the Daleks to be the main arc in the next series and Davies could use them in the finale if he wanted, not sure though.
 
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I kinda hope the big bad guy in season 2, 6, 32, Snarg, is a brand new bad guy. I'd kinda like Moffat to invent something himself, so that 20 years from now, in the Who Revival 3.0, they will go back and reboot his baddie :)
 
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The Weeping Angels and Gas Mask People are his - but did he invent the Vashta Nerada? I seem to remember them being mentioned in, ugh, Love And Monsters.
 
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Mr. Sam said:
The Weeping Angels and Gas Mask People are his - but did he invent the Vashta Nerada? I seem to remember them being mentioned in, ugh, Love And Monsters.
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I know both of those are his, but there are still very much lower-tier baddies (although both awesome). They are also both a race or group of characters, and not a singular bad guy. The Moffat version of an arch-enemy to The Doctor (like Davros / The Master) built from the ground up with referring to the past would be interesting.
 
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