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

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Reza_Neko

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I'm finally almost caught up with the series. I only got into Doctor Who last year, just recently watched "The End of Time", "The Eleventh Hour", and "The Beast Below". I'm not gonna lie: I kinda teared up a bit when watching "The Beast Below". The humans don't deserve that majestic creature!
 
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Seraphis Cain

bad gameplay lol
So, I was just thinking about the upcoming Doctor Who Wii and DS games (which, by the way, we still have no screens or information on whatsoever...) and I had a thought.

They need to make a Doctor Who game for the 3DS.

And have it be about the Weeping Angels.

Think about it.
 
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Napoleonthechimp said:
You mean they don't recycle the same animation?
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We use animation templates to keep them consistent from shot to shot but there's still a decent amount of manual tinkering involved any time something interacts with one. Though, I also handle the lighting, HDRs, rendering and some of the tracking.

My unofficial job title is 'anomaly-guy'.

Syth_Blade22 said:
You're my new best friend <3

love that show.
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One thing I can say for sure about this new series is that it's our best looking TV work yet. Should be a lot of fun.
 
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Seraphis Cain

bad gameplay lol
So this is mostly unrelated, but after seeing John Simm as The Master in Doctor Who, I'm kinda wanting to watch Life on Mars now. Is it worth watching?
 
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Keyser Soze

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Seraphis Cain said:
So this is mostly unrelated, but after seeing John Simm as The Master in Doctor Who, I'm kinda wanting to watch Life on Mars now. Is it worth watching?
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Good God almighty yes... I would probably recommend it to people ahead of Who.

I supposed if you did not grow up in England / watch English TV when younger, you might not get a few reference and nods to certain things, but the quality of the show is good enough.

...then, seeing as you will have a mancrush on Gene Hunt when you finish it, move onto Ashes to Ashes (a little step down in overall quality, but wraps up the Life on Mars idea/story nicely)
 
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infiniteloop said:
Could be either that or
Gatiss
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Didn't we get some information saying that
Gaiman's episode would take place in a dollhouse? Those certainly look like dolls to me.
Still, you could be right, as well.
 
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infiniteloop said:
Where's that gif of River Song/Spoilers?

Some real spoilers here:

http://home.comcast.net/~RJDiogenes/Who_1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~RJDiogenes/Who_2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~RJDiogenes/Who_3.jpg

Most likely from
the recently filmed Gatiss episode. Creepy doll things?
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infiniteloop

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There's this book/annual coming out soon, the big book of doctor who or something. It has a list of vague series 6 teasers/spoilers. Here they are!

1. The Doctor will be on trial - Twice!

2. Who controls the light sculptors?

3. You won't believe what's buried under Wembley Stadium.

4. Scared of the Eye in Space? You should be.

5. Take up thy sins and walk - slowly.

6. There won't be a pub quiz on Tuesday because there won't be a pub.

7. Beau Geste is cool.

8. Bow Street runners are cool.

9. Bromley-by-Bow is cool.

10. 4 August 1982 - Happy Birthday, Ma'am.

11. Some lies are too much for the psychic paper.

12. "I won't take calls from THAT Prime Minister."

13. "Marc, where are you?"

14. The only water in the forest is the river.

15. What awaits the TARDIS at the zero point?

16. "72 years on and Rory's still terrified of Granny Grainger?"

17. "I was lost in France."

18. "How could a fellow Gallifreyan stoop so low?"

19. Horror of Bangkok.

20. "Give it up, sweet Korn."

21. Argonite? Here?

22. An ordinary block of flats.

23. "If I saw them walking down the high street what would I think?" I don't think you'd think anything at all, Amy."

24. Find the lady - before she finds you!

25. "Margaret! Come back!"

26. The Doctor defeats the Sahara Desert.

27. Susannah's still alive.

28. Mill Green on fire.

29. The Doctor will get married - Twice!

30. What are the dangers of Port Olveron?

31. 502, but never 503.

32. Beware of the kites.

33. "A pillar of salt, yes - but not because she looked back. Looking back is good!"

34. They'll have to get a new name for Thanksgiving.

35. Pay attention - It's not really her.

36. Treading through the sand - on the one night they come back.

37. The Shuddering Brethren, they'll stick in your mind.

38. "I'm my own Doctor."

39. Octavian wasn't lying.

40. Mysterious semblance at the the strand of nightmares.

41. The bones of the TARDIS.
 
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Seraphis Cain

bad gameplay lol
Something's bugging me here...it was the fall from the tower in Logopolis that killed the Fourth Doctor, right? If that was enough to do him in, how the hell did the Tenth Doctor survive the much, MUCH longer fall (well, jump) from the ship in The End of Time Part 2? I mean shit, he landed flat on his face from what had to be a drop of 200 or more feet.

Just, what the hell. :lol
 
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WanderingWind

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I NEED MORE DOCTOR WHO.

Okay, here's the deal. I want somebody to invent the memory erasing thingy from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind so they can use it on me so that I forget that I ever watched Doctor Who in the first place. That way, I can rediscover it all again.

I understand this process is lengthy and expensive, and while I'm not a rich man, I can afford to pay upwards of 7 dollars a day and you can totally eat anything from my fridge for the duration of the experiment. Except for the Ben & Jerry's Chunky Munky. That's for my weekend.

Barring that, do you think the "hitting somebody over the head with a 2x4" works as advertised in Bugs Bunny? Cause I'd like to keep my options open.
 
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infiniteloop said:
3. You won't believe what's buried under Wembley Stadium.
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Freddieeeeeeeeeee!!!

WanderingWind said:
I NEED MORE DOCTOR WHO.

Okay, here's the deal. I want somebody to invent the memory erasing thingy from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind so they can use it on me so that I forget that I ever watched Doctor Who in the first place. That way, I can rediscover it all again.

I understand this process is lengthy and expensive, and while I'm not a rich man, I can afford to pay upwards of 7 dollars a day and you can totally eat anything from my fridge for the duration of the experiment. Except for the Ben & Jerry's Chunky Munky. That's for my weekend.

Barring that, do you think the "hitting somebody over the head with a 2x4" works as advertised in Bugs Bunny? Cause I'd like to keep my options open.
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Caves of Androzani.

Go watch it now.
 
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infiniteloop

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Do you have a Netflix account? Watch old Doctor Who from the beginning.

On a related note, finished watching The Space Museum the other day. It's really not as bad as everyone says it is. The first episode is a bit wibbley wobbly timey wimey.
 
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Keyser Soze

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I am watching Dexter now like WanderingWind was watching Who a few months back. 8 episodes in 3 days. FUN!! I am trying to catch up with Season 5 before it gets any further ahead.
 
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APZonerunner

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Picked up the specials OST today. Superb stuff. Great arrangements. Vale Decem - the regeneration music - sounds incredible, and I forgot how good the music was in The Next Doctor, too.

Also, talking about that new book that's out - there's a quote from Moffat in it about the new Daleks. He says they're not doing away with the old design - and all he's done is "given the Daleks an officer class" - and we'll see the RTD era ones again, as soldiers. Which is what I thought the red ones were going to be.

Which seems to be a bit of an about-face. Possibly after a ton of people slagged the new ones off, or it might be because they realized they wouldn't have any money to make any more of the bloody things. They already had to destroy the new Blue one to make the stone one, so they're one down already. Possibly a mix of both reasons.

Something's bugging me here...it was the fall from the tower in Logopolis that killed the Fourth Doctor, right? If that was enough to do him in, how the hell did the Tenth Doctor survive the much, MUCH longer fall (well, jump) from the ship in The End of Time Part 2? I mean shit, he landed flat on his face from what had to be a drop of 200 or more feet.

Just, what the hell.
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Well, the glass broke his fall, I suppose. It is a bit shit, but that can be explained away by any number of things, as there was dimension and time crossing and all sorts of shit going on in that room at that time.
 
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APZonerunner said:
Picked up the specials OST today. Superb stuff. Great arrangements. Vale Decem - the regeneration music - sounds incredible, and I forgot how good the music was in The Next Doctor, too.

Also, talking about that new book that's out - there's a quote from Moffat in it about the new Daleks. He says they're not doing away with the old design - and all he's done is "given the Daleks an officer class" - and we'll see the RTD era ones again, as soldiers. Which is what I thought the red ones were going to be.

Which seems to be a bit of an about-face. Possibly after a ton of people slagged the new ones off, or it might be because they realized they wouldn't have any money to make any more of the bloody things. They already had to destroy the new Blue one to make the stone one, so they're one down already. Possibly a mix of both reasons.



Well, the glass broke his fall, I suppose. It is a bit shit, but that can be explained away by any number of things, as there was dimension and time crossing and all sorts of shit going on in that room at that time.
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Oh fuck I forgot this was already out fuuuck.
 
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Shanadeus

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APZonerunner said:
Picked up the specials OST today. Superb stuff. Great arrangements. Vale Decem - the regeneration music - sounds incredible, and I forgot how good the music was in The Next Doctor, too.

Also, talking about that new book that's out - there's a quote from Moffat in it about the new Daleks. He says they're not doing away with the old design - and all he's done is "given the Daleks an officer class" - and we'll see the RTD era ones again, as soldiers. Which is what I thought the red ones were going to be.

Which seems to be a bit of an about-face. Possibly after a ton of people slagged the new ones off, or it might be because they realized they wouldn't have any money to make any more of the bloody things. They already had to destroy the new Blue one to make the stone one, so they're one down already. Possibly a mix of both reasons.
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That's a shame :/
I really liked the new massive Daleks, they were more dangerous looking (and sounding) then the old puny, whiny ones.

Dr Who is the best British show there is, yet their budget seem to be relatively small.
 
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APZonerunner

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It's just one of the consequences of being taxpayer funded, really. The BBC has to spread their money evenly - so shows like Top Gear and Doctor Who can't get more money than everything else just because they're watched by a large audience and have good sales abroad - they have to spread the cost into programming for every taxpayer.

The disadvantage is shows like Who and Top Gear suffer budget struggles and cuts, but the advantage is the BBC makes a lot of excellent features like Planet Earth and the like that struggles to get made anywhere else in the world because it wouldn't turn enough of a profit.

Anyway, I'm kinda happy about that Dalek thing. I liked the size of the new design and the deeper voices, but I didn't like the 'hunchback' thing they had going on or the primary colours. Thing is, the gold is going to look really out of place next to the new designs, so if they do appear together will they recolour the RTD era ones?
 
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Shanadeus

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APZonerunner said:
It's just one of the consequences of being taxpayer funded, really. The BBC has to spread their money evenly - so shows like Top Gear and Doctor Who can't get more money than everything else just because they're watched by a large audience and have good sales abroad - they have to spread the cost into programming for every taxpayer.

The disadvantage is shows like Who and Top Gear suffer budget struggles and cuts, but the advantage is the BBC makes a lot of excellent features like Planet Earth and the like that struggles to get made anywhere else in the world because it wouldn't turn enough of a profit.

Anyway, I'm kinda happy about that Dalek thing. I liked the size of the new design and the deeper voices, but I didn't like the 'hunchback' thing they had going on or the primary colours. Thing is, the gold is going to look really out of place next to the new designs, so if they do appear together will they recolour the RTD era ones?
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Well, I hope that Dr Who gets big in the US or something. Would probably solve many of the budget struggles if they get a big enough viewer interest abroad.

And I kinda didn't like the hunchback thing either, or the colors, but I'm really going to hate going back to the small and whiny sounding RTD ones. Here's hoping that they'll at least deepen their voices a bit, and recolor either them or the new "officer" designs so that it wont' clash.
 
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Shanadeus said:
Well, I hope that Dr Who gets big in the US or something. Would probably solve many of the budget struggles if they get a big enough viewer interest abroad.

And I kinda didn't like the hunchback thing either, or the colors, but I'm really going to hate going back to the small and whiny sounding RTD ones. Here's hoping that they'll at least deepen their voices a bit, and recolor either them or the new "officer" designs so that it wont' clash.
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Thing is, Top Gear is like that - it's HUGE in the US - in fact, it's the biggest motoring show in the world. It's spawned an Australian and a US version that are properly 'localized' for those territories, a live stage show that's toured across the world, a ton of DVDs and merch and is even now appearing in a form in Gran Turismo 5 and Forza 3/4 - but the show's budget stays the same. The way the BBC works, that money goes back into the 'pot' and is distributed evenly amongst all shows.

That's why, even with Doctor Who's massive number of merch sales of toy Daleks and Sonic Screwdrivers and Doctor Who Live and Soundtrack CDs and what have you it doesn't get much more money to play around with than a show that doesn't have all that stuff, as that's not the way the BBC works. The overall 'size' of the show including merch is of course included in the decision of how much money they get, but that stuff isn't a gigantic influence - the #1 decision at the BBC has to be about the number of taxpayers watcing it on UK TV, not how well it sells in the US or how many DVDs or toys it shifts.

It's another reason that the Doctor Who games were free, and why a Doctor Who movie is a political minefield of sorts - as while they could make a Who movie and undoubtedly turn a profit in UK cinemas, the way the BBC's charter is set up any 'main' storyline stuff has to be available to the taxpayer free of charge, because by paying their TV license they've technically already paid for it. So how they'd charge for those movie tickets is difficult, unless it was spun off completely seperate from the main show with a different Doctor or whatever. The 1999 movie was aired free on the BBC first, so that's how they did it there.

Again, it's a blessing and a curse. I think if you started throwing US-TV amounts of money at Doctor Who it'd lose part of what made it Doctor Who in the first place.
 
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Nickiepoo said:
Unfortunately not, the Primeval anomalies are keeping me busy.
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I know some people don't care for it but I LOVE Primeval.

Hannah Spearritt makes my pants tighter and the dinos are great too. The only part I consider groan-worthy is the over exposure of the future predators. It was neat at first but then I got less and less dinosaurs and more future predators. It's all good though.

/Primeval love

Back to Doctor Who.
 
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