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8 October 2013 at 21:48 #18014
@craig – contrast is much better, thanks. Not quite so ‘arrgh! The glare! And now I’m being mugged by a rogue paragraph!’ 🙂
Yes, it is the removal of the grey sides; I’m not good at coping with lots and lots of white. The British Dyslexia Association advice is: “Avoid white backgrounds for paper, computer and visual aids. White can appear too dazzling.”
The larger font is fine; now the contrast has been toned down I really like it.
8 October 2013 at 16:22 #17989@craig – any way of making the page background less – blindingly white? Or it might be the font – I’m not sure. But whatever it is, I’m reeling back from all the screen glare.
Off now anyway, back later, so no hurry.
8 October 2013 at 10:31 #17972@nick – I think ‘characterisation’ in Doctor Who is still developing. I don’t remember vast amounts of character development in BG Who beyond the First Doctor slowly becoming ‘The Doctor’, the hero – it was there, but it broadly tended to be the assistant rather than the Doctor.
The interesting thing, is that RTD and David Tennant don’t really give D10 a chance to redeem himself
Spot on. It’s not the format of Doctor Who to have the Doctor become a complete and fully rounded Time Lord in conventional dramatic style. Because he’s going to regenerate. He’s always going to regenerate. In fact, I remember David Tennant saying that he (and presumably RTD) felt that you could only do stories like Waters of Mars in the run up to a regeneration.
You can only have an incarnation of the Doctor going seriously dark just before he’s regenerating. Then it’s the job of the next actor to take it from there, in the knowledge that ‘regeneration’ is a bit like playing the ‘redemption through death’ card. The audience will accept that the flaws of the last personality have not necessarily carried over to the next personality.
In fact, you can see the Smith Doctor trying to deal with that dark side that resurfaced in the Tennant Doctor pretty much throughout series six and seven. Which is why I thought for a long time before it was officially announced that Matt Smith was leaving at the Fiftieth. If they’d decided he really was too young to tackle the Doctor they’d have taken him out at The Big Bang; otherwise he was staying until the Fiftieth Anniversary. These last two series have been a ‘regeneration’ arc; especially Series Seven.
Matt Smith got a ‘Best Actor’ nomination for the BAFTA’s – as critical recognition goes, it doesn’t get much better. And you’re not going to change the time slot to 9pm for Who – it’s not an adult show, never has been.
7 October 2013 at 22:07 #17969@wolfweed – part of the Doctor’s continuing battle to make sure small children learn to wash their hands. 😉
Next up – the Dalek fork. Exterminate those Brussels Sprouts!
7 October 2013 at 21:50 #17964So, I tried this ‘Are you an Internet addict’ quiz on the Guardian – and got a result of ‘you barely even seem to know what the internet is’.
Apparently my ability to maintain websites and my having to be physically dragged away from the screen rate as nothing -when weighed against the heinous crime of not caring about posting a selfie on Instagram 😀
7 October 2013 at 18:59 #17960More details on the missing episodes – the stories of 100 are ‘wide of the mark’, but the BBC is holding a press conference on Thursday.
A press conference sounds like it’s more than a couple of episodes.
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7 October 2013 at 12:54 #17953It’s really two things. One, you have what the writer/actors/director intended.
Two, you have what the audience ‘reads’.
And it’s entirely possible for the audience to pick up a reading that the writer/actor/director didn’t really intend. [We don’t like it, because – quite frankly – it means we didn’t do our job well enough. But it happens] Or, as you say, to apply later character development and say ‘well, everyone says X, but in hindsight Y seems a lot more likely.’
My take is that the Doctor has a very long onscreen history of misreading human body language and emotions – especially when it comes to sex. The one woman he flirts madly with is River Song – who’s part Time Lord. And Moffat has been very careful to put him in a situation – twice now – where he’s misread things so badly that the woman is practically dragging him into bed and he’s going ‘no, hang on, this isn’t what I meant!’ 🙂
As Amy says, he doesn’t so much give out mixed signals as a giant signal. ‘Hello girls, I’m the Doctor, get your coat.’
But from his point of views he’s just trying to be a mate. Err, companion. Err… dammit, just someone who wants to travel with me … oh, I give up. 😈
7 October 2013 at 10:49 #17944@miapatrick and @scaryb – yes, I’m still happy to watch Agents of Shield develop. I think a lot of people are expecting Buffy, and are surprised that they’ve got Toy Story instead.
He’s already had two members of his rep company on board; Clark Gregg was in his Much Ado About Nothing as Leonatus and J August Richards was playing Mike in Pilot. That was pretty much the same way he worked in Firefly; all the regular cast were new – the rep company played the guest spots.
He’s also already got Alexis Denisov in a recurring part in the movies. 🙂
6 October 2013 at 22:52 #17934@Shazzbot – charm is a very personal thing, of course. One person’s charmer is another’s ‘You’re not my type.’ 😀
Regarding the Tennant Doctor’s attitude to Martha – I think this is where knowledge of the BG Doctor’s comes in. It’s incredibly easy to believe that the Doctor would be utterly oblivious to how much Martha fancied him – because, in previous incarnations he’s been equally oblivious. The AG Doctors are also slightly puzzled as to why their Companions’ mothers seem to dislike him so much. And why do those mothers keep slapping him? 😉
I can’t find the interview (perhaps it was the Confidential for The Shakespeare Code?), but at one point both Freema Agyeman and David Tennant said that the Doctor didn’t realise. Because if he had, his behaviour in The Shakespeare Code would have been very, very cruel.
The Tennant Doctor’s path was one of starting out thinking that the Time War was over, finished with, done. He could get on with his life and have fun with Rose. And then, as his incarnation ages, he finds out that the Time War isn’t finished. He can’t escape from it. He hasn’t got his pre-War touch somehow; he loses people he’s learnt to love, people and places from the War keep coming back to haunt him – and when he finally has to walk away and let people die in the proper Time Lord manner, he can’t. He goes mad instead (temporarily).
The Smith Doctor starts from that point. He is born knowing he can’t escape his past – because the events leading up to his regeneration could be summarised as ‘my past, coming back to haunt me’. He’s the madman in the box, and when he looks at his previous incarnation’s Companions, the predominant emotion is guilt.
The Doctor: there must be someone left in the Universe I haven’t screwed up yet.
The Tennant Doctor doesn’t start at that point. He starts at the point where he hasn’t screwed up. Yet.
6 October 2013 at 15:35 #17929I’d agree with @janetteb – Chris Eccleston played the Doctor. Both David Tennant, and later Matt Smith, simply ‘were’ the Doctor. They both have a pitch perfect instinct for the character.
David Tennant also had that really cheeky grin and all that charm. Yes, the Tennant Doctor had lots of charm. Did I mention that he was charming? He’s probably the only Doctor to date that I could genuinely imagine shagging his way around the universe – if it wasn’t for the fact that it takes him so long to figure out that a girl fancies him.
Until River managed to marry the Smith Doctor, the Tennant Doctor was the uncontested winner of ‘Doctor Least Likely to Be Asexual’. 😈
What else? Well, experience tells, and the Doctor/Donna pairing was the best of the Tennant teams. The fuss about Catherine Tate’s casting seemed to be largely based on people thinking that she’d repeat her performance in the Christmas Special. Of course, she didn’t. That was Donna in crisis mode; the Donna who’d decided she did want to travel with the Doctor after all was a person who knew what she wanted to do with her life.
Did David Tennant leave too soon? That’s something that only the actor knows; everyone would’ve been happy for him to stay on – but he’s the only one who can decide that this is his time to move on. I think he did once say in an interview that he realised that if he didn’t make the move when he did, he might have never left.
6 October 2013 at 14:04 #17923@phaseshift and @craig – I’d be happy with either The Mind Robber or Tomb. I’ve seen Tomb, would be happy to watch it again (yup, that good) but I’ve never seen The Mind Robber.
I’d vote for avoiding The Two Doctors – we’re all wishing @htpbdet well and hoping for him to get better, and reshowing that travesty will not help.
The two anniversary shows do have their charms, especially The Three Doctors – but on the whole, I think if we’re trying to introduce Patrick Troughton to people who’ve never seen any of the BG series beyond these retrospectives, Troughton ought to get something from his own era.
5 October 2013 at 22:56 #17899Funnily enough, considering it was the final episode, I found that the weakest part of the story. The air strike seems to take forever to turn up – the bus could have been to Birmingham and back in the time it took to scramble that jet. The denoument depends on the Master realising in ten seconds that the allies he’s been working with for ages might possibly turn on him once he’s brought them to Earth. And poor old Rex Farrell spends his time being knocked down, getting up, being knocked down again – before finally being killed as a decoy.
Yes, the final bit with the Doctor looking forward to meeting the psychotic mass murderer again is a bit creepy. It’s that attitude that all Time Lords, even the nice ones, seem to have – that, when push comes to shove, they’re the only important people in the galaxy.
5 October 2013 at 20:39 #17898You can read the original Guardian blog comments here. Broadly, they divided into two camps; those who loved it, and those who thought it was a pile of over-sentimental twaddle. I can only guess that the second camp spend Christmas muttering ‘Bah! Humbug!’ and chucking orphans out into the snow.
I was in the first camp; I really liked it. It was sweet, very Christmassy, and about ‘the best Christmas ever’ – that is, the one where the kids got Daddy back alive, by a special Christmas miracle. I also enjoyed Moffat’s not-so-subtle dig at the bloggers who insist in the face of all the evidence that he’s a misogynist. The men were ‘weak’, the women were ‘strong’ – and by and large, that’s exactly what they were.
In terms of long running themes; the Doctor’s lack of family, again. He can’t rescue the trees; he’s got crap parental instincts and he’s got no home to think of, so he can’t pilot the ship. Children, again. The Doctor puts children in danger. He doesn’t mean too, he doesn’t want to, he wants them to have a fun time. But what he does either puts them in danger or damages them badly.
Then there’s the story of the Doctor’s life: things get a bit clinchy in the middle, but sort of work out in the end. I think we’re solidly in the clinchy bits right now.
And finally, my favourite lines:
The Doctor: This is one of the safest planets I know. There’s never anything dangerous here.
{the forest shakes}
The Doctor: There are sentences I should just keep away from.
4 October 2013 at 23:23 #17851@phaseshift – fairly easy for those of us in London for the Celebration: central Cineworlds are in Shaftesbury Avenue and Haymarket, the one nearest the Excel Centre is West India Quay in Canary Wharf.
3 October 2013 at 22:33 #17822@danmartinuk has reached Remembrance of the Daleks in his Guardian classic episodes blog.
3 October 2013 at 14:07 #17810@pedant – ah, yes, I remember the toytown railway days. One little carriage, shuttling back and forth like a sort of electronic era Thomas the Tank Engine.
We’re now up to a whole three carriages!
Fortunately my stamping grounds are very near to two night bus routes, so my ‘how the hell do I get back’ problem has generally translated into ‘can anyone point me in the direction of Trafalgar Square or St Pauls?’
3 October 2013 at 13:07 #17808Trouble with the east end is it starts to require multiple travel changes for those not already in east London
@pedant: tell me about it. I have days when getting home involves four different trains, some of which I’m on for only one stop. The DLR is very good – there were huge swathes of the East End that used to be accessible only by bus – but its policy is ‘save up all our profits and build another extension/line when we’ve got enough money’. You end up changing trains a lot until they change the points/work out how to structure the new network.
South Bank/London Bridge is generally better connected, both in terms of tube trains and being able to walk across various bridges to get a Night Bus.
2 October 2013 at 23:31 #17798@Shazzbot – re: Canning Town and Custom House – think London Fields, but minus hipsters. I’m sure the gentrification of the East End will succeed eventually as more and more flats get built on the old docks (the Excel Centre was part of the regeneration/gentrification), but it has to fight against a certain … Canning Town-ness. It’s got several of the most deprived wards in the country.
I know what you mean about Canary Wharf; it was a bit ‘tumbleweed blowing in the wind as souls were destroyed’ a few years back. It’s not as shite as it was – slowly developing a character, especially around the Docklands museum – but it’s basically a massive office complex plonked down in an area of post-industrial devastation. Canary Wharf Management were really surprised when it took off as a shopping centre; and positively shocked when people who didn’t work there wanted places to eat out at. I think they prodded the idea of a multiplex cinema a bit suspiciously, as well. Worried it might attract, well … locals. 😈
2 October 2013 at 22:46 #17793@scaryb – the snack bars are generally okay, but yeah – the usual recommendation if you’re a stranger to the area is to get on the DLR and head elsewhere. It’s not that there aren’t great places to eat cheaply; it’s just that it’s very easy for a tourist to find themselves in parts of Canning Town and Custom House which are a tiny bit too authentic.
Canary Wharf is pretty good in a chain restaurant sort of way, but it’s absolutely packed with relaxing bankers on a Friday night. Given that people are likely to be coming in from different parts of London, I’d say the South Bank has a lot to recommend it . Even if thermal underwear might be a good plan. :~
2 October 2013 at 21:39 #17788@scaryb – everything will be pretty busy around the Excel on a Friday night due to the office workers on Canary Wharf.
The Anchor is walking distance from Waterloo, Southwark or London Bridge on the Jubilee, is fairly easy to spot and is also in a sort of huddle of various restaurants. I eat at the nearby Nando’s quite a lot. 🙂
Then there’s the Founders Arms, by the Millennium Bridge (walking distance from St Paul’s, Central Line) – but I don’t think they’re too good with dogs.
2 October 2013 at 15:34 #1776619. “The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe” (2011)
20. “Asylum of the Daleks” (2012)
21. “The Angels Take Manhattan” (2012)
22. “The Snowmen” (2012)
23. “The Bells of Saint John” (2013)“The Name of the Doctor” (2013)
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2 October 2013 at 09:20 #17752- “The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe” (2011)
- “Asylum of the Daleks” (2012)
- “The Angels Take Manhattan” (2012)
- “The Snowmen” (2012)
- “The Bells of Saint John” (2013)
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1 October 2013 at 16:08 #17740@Shazzbot – I think that one will be ‘my head a splode’ 😉
It wouldn’t surprise me if Jenny’s back in either the 50th or the Christmas Special, though.
1 October 2013 at 15:42 #17736@craig – good practice.
Looking at my own possible not-so-good practice, I can think of a private post (about Journey tt CotTARDIS) where I quoted @phaseshift, @phileasf and @htpbdet – but it was private, I said where the original posts were, and if I ever get asked to place it on a public site, I’ll ask them first. Or if any of them want to PM me, I’ll send them a copy of the post.
1 October 2013 at 14:06 #17734@osakahatter – glad you got some!
1 October 2013 at 13:59 #17733@scaryb – I think the idea that Clara is in fact the Doctor’s daughter – via River – is a good one. Let’s add ‘the Doctor’s daughter, adopted for her own safety by his granddaughter Susan’. That’s both nicely bonkers and explains a lot about Clara and her Mum.
It would also make Clara her own Great-Aunt-by-adoption; not quite as good as ‘I’m my own Grandpa’, but still timey-wimey enough for Moffat. 🙂
Okay, running down Clara’s character traits:
- empathic and cares for children – from Rory. He’s caring, he always wanted kids.
- loves to travel – from the Doctor.
- Adventurous – from Amy.
- Practical in the face of danger – Rory, again. She will travel with the Doctor, but she’s not a danger junkie. She doesn’t find staying somewhere safe a problem.
- Speaks TARDIS – River
- Very intelligent – from the Doctor. And River’s no slouch, either.
- Self-sacrificing – River, big time.
- Terrible cook – I have a sneaky suspicion that’s Amy; in the dream world of Upper Leadworth she’s got Awesome Baking Skillz, in real life everyone has this strange habit of suggesting takeaways.
- Clara also seems to pick up some of the Doctor’s physical habits very quickly – poking him on the forehead/nose, for example. The posters have also often placed her as the Doctor’s ‘mirror’.
1 October 2013 at 13:32 #17731@craig – the site I’m a moderator on has a ‘private’ side and a ‘public’ side – and the way we deal with copyright is that the site owner emails us with a list of posts they want to make public. We then email back giving formal permission.
That way, there is an e-mail in existence which states that we have given permission for publication; we can’t later say that our copyright has been infringed. Conversely, it means that if we don’t want that post published – for whatever reason – we have evidence that we refused permission.
29 September 2013 at 22:32 #1769429 September 2013 at 19:49 #17688I can’t remember if anyone’s posted this, but seeing as we shamelessly promote ourselves on Dan Martin’s Guardian blog:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/danmartin/26-reasons-the-bbc-is-actually-brilliant
29 September 2013 at 15:43 #17684@phaseshift – I always like those translations of research paper language into what actually happened. You know, things like:
“the experiment was then left to continue for a short period…” (bugger all was happening, so I went and got a cup of tea).29 September 2013 at 12:27 #17667Yes, I liked Atlantis best. It wasn’t thoughtful entertainment, but it was entertaining. But please, dear lord, can we see a bit more of the women next week? This was like ‘Saturday teatime entertainment for the boys’. And no, a bloke taking his shirt off is not a case of ‘well, that’s the girls taken care of’. 🙂
Shield: like you, I had mixed feelings about the pilot – for one thing, I think they should have been given a double length episode. But then, the Buffy pilot was a bit wobbly, and look how that went. I suspect, though, that a conflict between the normal Shield method of operations (lying, assassinations, secrecy, more lying) and the new Agent Coulson team’s methods has already been set up. Don’t want to do too many spoilers – but think who Coulson stuck that truth drug into.
The Avengers film itself was already fairly dubious about Shield; it was just that they were even more dubious about the World Council. 🙂
Orphan Black – I’m going to need to catch episode 3 on IPlayer, so if someone could persuade me that I need to…
29 September 2013 at 12:10 #17664@jimthefish – the department, like many other BBC departments, has been dealing with massive budget cuts. That’s why you keep seeing trailers for Original British Drama rather than individual shows.
If anyone’s interested, there’s a Marketing Week article from last year which mentions use of social media. To summarise: the lack of actual money means they really are relying on forums like ourselves to do a lot of the publicity.
29 September 2013 at 08:29 #17661@Shazzbot and @pedant – I’m quite sure my whelm will be back to its usual sunnily sarcastic self by later today. 🙂
I agree with @phaseshift – the trailer will be a narrative trailer.
28 September 2013 at 21:49 #17652@wolfweed – that was a bit – underwhelming.
Yeah, my whelm is definitely running ‘under’ at the moment. They’re very, very serious about not giving anything away, aren’t they?
Atlantis was good, though.
28 September 2013 at 21:31 #17651@stevethewhistle – I thought that was the function of bunsen burners?
It was a nicely paced episode and I liked the way that Robert Holmes had the Doctor trying to escape, but kept it utterly understated. Given the unreliability of the TARDIS at that period, if he had succeeded in taking off, he’d have been leaving Earth to the tender mercies of the Master. It’s a far cry from the AG Doctors, who see the Earth as ‘under their protection’.
I agree that Holmes probably wrote in the deadly phone cable after one too many wires had come to life and tried to strangle him. 🙂
28 September 2013 at 18:19 #17648All good things must come to an end: the last full length Confidential. Hopefully, like Doctor Who itself, this period will later be known as the Before Gap Confidentials.
28 September 2013 at 18:15 #17647I’d forgotten how much sheer fun this episode was. Time may be collapsing around us, but we have to have the Doctor explain why that’s a problem.
Again, the format plays with time – most of the first part is told in flashback – if you can have a flashback when time has stopped. And it plays with the idea of the Silence. Why do the Soothsayer and Emperor Churchill keep finding themselves in different rooms? With weapons out?
And why is the Doctor wearing such a terrible beard?
Secrets; if the Doctor hadn’t been so bloody determined to keep his solution a secret, River would’ve known to shoot him straight away. But then, if he hadn’t – she would never have married him. This is a story where we have a paradoxical time loop, which then collapses. But we had to go through the time loop, to get to the right moment.
Series 5 finishes with a wedding. Series 6 finishes with a wedding. Has the Doctor noticed that, since meeting little Amelia, his tragedy now keeps ending with the traditional comedy ending? He’s not heading for his death; he’s heading to his marriage. Which, given the amount of time he’s managed to avoid re-marrying, he may see as a fate worse than death. 😈
28 September 2013 at 17:05 #17642@scaryb – yeah, it’s normal to put the trailer together from existing footage. However, if they’re really super-keen to keep details hidden, they might film a ‘prequel’ trailer. It would be considerably easier to film that during the filming of the 50th, so I’d guess that they did the post production for the 50th first, then started working on the trailer.
I don’t know why, but when they said the trailer was only just in post production, my immediate thought was that Peter Capaldi was either in it, or narrating it – the time scale means they could have done some filming/voice-over during the Christmas Special production. But we shall see.
28 September 2013 at 15:52 #17636@Shazzbot – I was trying to think of something equally iconic, and came up with Robin Hood. Are we good, now?
But honestly, Bill Hartnell would have been more familiar with the idea of a character being played by several different actors than we are now. They couldn’t juggle filming dates back in the 50’s; you were either available for the live broadcast or you weren’t. So there are a lot of 1950’s TV shows where part X was played by actors Y and Z.
Hartnell himself was in The Army Game, where Major Upshot-Bagley was played by both Geoffrey Sumner and Jack Allen, Private Cupcake Cook was played by Norman Rossington and Keith Banks, Private Professor Hatchett by Charles Hawtrey and Keith Smith…
The brilliance of regeneration was not that it came up with a way of replacing Bill Hartnell by another actor. It was that it came up with a way of replacing any actor playing the Doctor by any other actor – who could then play his own interpretation of the character.
The brilliance was that regeneration meant the Troughton Doctor didn’t have to pretend to still be the Hartnell Doctor, just younger. He was alien, he could change completely. He could be a small, scruffy, clown, with more to him than met the eye. Then the Pertwee Doctor didn’t have to be the Troughton Doctor; he could be a dandy, an action man, an authoritarian who was also a rebel.
With regeneration, main character and show became extraordinarily fluid, and very adaptable.
Myself, I think it likely that Hartnell made that comment when the Daleks were such a big hit. He was the one most approached for autographs; I think he was the one who got the full picture of the kind of impact they were having and so realised his character had the potential to be the ‘Sherlock Holmes’ of that generation.
28 September 2013 at 14:52 #17633@jimthefish – really? What it made me think was that there’s something or someone in it that they couldn’t film until the Christmas Special filming was underway. 😈
28 September 2013 at 13:15 #17627Okay, gang, @phaseshift‘s idea that the BBC might use Atlantis to kick-start the build up to the Who 50th was spot on.
The trailer is apparently still in post production, but there will be ‘stings’.
28 September 2013 at 13:04 #17626@phaseshift – quite right, of course. I’d forgotten that the Dalek films were made when Hartnell was still in the role.
28 September 2013 at 12:14 #17620@Shazzbot – she could be misremembering something Bill Hartnell said later as something he said at the time, yes. But as for the analogy not being worthy of me – firstly, there’s Robin of Sherwood. Yes, they made ‘Robin Hood’ into a title, but he was played by two entirely different actors within the same series.
Secondly, there’s Quatermass in the 1950’s. Bernard Quatermass was first played by Reginald Tate – who died. Then, in the second Quatermass serial, he was played by John Robinson after Tate’s early death. They didn’t like Robinson’s performance (to be fair, neither did Robinson) and he was unavailable during filming dates anyway – so Andre Morrell then took over for Quatermass and the Pit.
Same character, three actors. I’m pretty sure Billy Hartnell would know Quatermass; Doctor Who drew from Quatermass, after all. So he might have thought from the start that another actor could take over the role in later years.
28 September 2013 at 10:19 #17618@Shazzbot – it might be that Hartnell was thinking along the lines of someone else playing The Doctor, without actually thinking ‘regeneration’. Robin Hood’s been played by an awful lot of different actors.
27 September 2013 at 18:52 #17610@jimthefish – there’s a sneaky little question hidden in the TARDIS one.
Does Clara speak TARDIS?
27 September 2013 at 17:16 #17600@thommck – yeah, that one nearly threw me as well. I finally figured it out because of the ‘gottle o geer’ joke in the episode.
Were they ever named on-screen?
27 September 2013 at 16:37 #17598@thommck – 52900
I agree that some of the multiple choice answers are a bit of a giveaway – in some cases there’s only one choice which is a genuine Who monster, so you don’t even have to look behind a single tile.
I have Friday afternoons off, btw. Just sayin’
27 September 2013 at 12:49 #17595Yup. Numberless times on the DVD commentaries, there is a succession of Doctor Who producers complaining bitterly about the BBC trailers. @fatmaninabox may be right that programme producers can say what they don’t want in – the constant complaints suggest that the Marketing Dept (or whatever they’re called this month – I think it’s Marketing and Audiences) simply don’t listen.
They reveal monsters who are supposed to be a surprise, they show trailers early, they put out a programme blurb for next week which gives away this week’s as-yet-unbroadcast plot point. They don’t want to keep secrets; their job description is ‘tell people exciting things so they’ll want to watch’.
So my guess is that the Comic Con trailer was prepared by the production team as an exclusive – and as you say, it wasn’t designed to be examined frame by frame. The BBC trailer has to be prepared by BBC Marketing – and they’re getting the actual programme (or possibly even selected clips) as late as possible.
26 September 2013 at 10:53 #17583For those who didn’t manage to get tickets to the Doctor Who Celebration – they now have a few tickets available. Because of the insane demand last time, they’ll be holding a ballot for them.
The ballot is now open, and will be open until 10am 30th Sept.
26 September 2013 at 10:41 #17582@whisht – Yes, my Google Search powers are awesome. Especially when searching for good looking young men.
😀
Actually, I can’t claim credit for that one; I first saw it when it was posted on Whedonesque. Presumably on the grounds that a) Tom Hiddleston plays Loki in Avengers Assemble, so there’s a Whedon connection and b) he’s very good looking, so let’s make the most of the Whedon connection. 😈
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