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8 January 2013 at 22:53 #929
Agreed. Given that it’s now thirty years since Tom Baker played the role, it realistically isn’t possible to have him on screen without some extensive phlebotinum to explain why the Fourth Doctor suddenly looks like he’s in his late seventies. They just about got away with it for Peter Davison, but he’s twenty years younger than Tom Baker.
On the other hand, a lot of the surviving actors who played the Doctor have been very happily occupied (in-between other work) doing audio stories for Big Finish. Vocally, there’s no problem.
So if we are to have all the incarnations, I’ll go with you @blenkinsopthebrave – it’s either going to be still photos again (reprising Eleven’s entrance in The Eleventh Hour – possibly coming full circle as Eleven’s exit?) or they’ll have them as Out of Shot or Voice Over.
8 January 2013 at 22:36 #911Talking about the Doctor’s most constant companion (aka Sexy); I’ve often wondered (usually whenever listening to the song) whether they played the Muse song ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ instead of ‘Starlight’ because ‘Starlight’ gives away far too much.
“Starlight”
Far awayThis ship is taking me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die
Starlight
I will be chasing the starlight
Until the end of my life
I don’t know if it’s worth it anymore
Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms
My life
You electrify my life
Let’s conspire to ignite
All the souls that would die just to feel alive
But I’ll never let you go
If you promised not to fade away
Never fade away
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms
The Doctor and the TARDIS? Or the Doctor and his companions? Discuss.
8 January 2013 at 11:44 #749Searchability on Google tends to grow with a) number of posts and b) the linkages to other sites.
I’m a frequent poster-and-technical-assistant on another smallish site (Joss Whedon based, though for some reason we discuss Steven Moffat’s shows a lot 🙂 ) and that has now migrated to top of the list if you search for it by name.
So I wouldn’t worry too much about being way down the lists when we’re less than ten days old.
8 January 2013 at 09:44 #723The prop-maker isn’t going to go to all the bother of mocking up a newspaper page from 1890s and then reference a completely different period for the other story.
When I was looking up the relevant Prime Ministers, I thought ‘there’s no way this can be a mistake’. The names are utterly different, and Karoe Fumimaro would’ve been aged one in 1892. Plus, it’s unlikely a report from an 1930’s paper would look the same as an 1892 paper – not to a prop maker.
7 January 2013 at 23:47 #689It reminds me of The Wedding of River Song; you know, when all the times have collapsed together because breaking the fixed point broke time?
So the Japanese PM of 1941 is co-existing with 1892. Hmmm… those dates are 49 years apart.
The Bloomsbury Lane is a bit of a joke – Bloomsbury’s chokka with universities, the British Museum, SOAS etc. In the late Victorian/Edwardian era all self-respecting intelligences hung out in Bloomsbury (especially Great ones).
Sadly, the N31 bus doesn’t go through there, though. It stops at Camden Town.
7 January 2013 at 22:40 #673@juniperfish – we’ll just have to agree to differ. 😀 It’s probably because I’ve seen him do very different roles.
7 January 2013 at 22:37 #671I always thought the Doctor’s explanation about how the pollen (which is a hallucinogen when it heats up) just happened to float into the TARDIS was a bit … feeble. Sort of ‘I have no idea how that got in here, honestly’ feeble.
Sort of ‘isn’t it strange I knew exactly what was causing our hallucinations’ feeble. 🙂
7 January 2013 at 22:25 #665The poor man’s called Simm. 🙂 And Tony Ainley lasted all the way from Tom Baker to Sylvester McCoy, so it really is up to Steven Moffat.
John Simm is a good enough actor, and Steven Moffat a good enough writer, that they could presumably move the Master to a characterisation that’s somewhat less barking than it was under RTD. Fun as it was, I don’t want the Master like that all the time.
While Steven Moffat was still on Twitter, his response to the Benedict Cumberbatch rumour was ‘he’ll have to wait his turn’. Which did sound like he still thought of John Simm as the current Master (subject to availability).
Though, Rule One. Of course.
7 January 2013 at 21:59 #653Eight’s canon. His picture appeared in ‘The Next Doctor’ AND ‘The Eleventh Hour’. He couldn’t be more canon if Nine, Ten or Eleven had pointed to him and said ‘Oy! And that’s what I used to look like’. 🙂
The Master, okay? If they bring the Time Lords back, the Master has to come with them. And while the little pepperpots aren’t compulsory for anniversary specials, I think all the Anniversaries so far have included the Time Lords to at least some extent.
It does occur to me that – since we’re on Eleven and Matt Smith did once want to be a pro footballer – we could have a ‘Doctors Eleven’ match.
7 January 2013 at 17:17 #617Rather like the shot of Ailsa Berk in the background, with a warm purple puffa jacket – and the expression of a drill sergeant.
Cybermen … ATTEN-HUT!
But yes, my attitude to spoilers: if it’s on the BBC website, the Radio Times or in the trailer, it’s no longer a spoiler. It’s information the production team want out there.
6 January 2013 at 21:45 #571Do we have a ‘general’ general forum yet?
In the meantime, http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-zero-1.12146 sounds very Who-ish
5 January 2013 at 23:01 #487My initial reaction, however, was ‘Oooh doesn’t Matt look young’.
Both David Tennant and Matt Smith have remarked what a physically demanding role The Doctor is. It’s pretty noticeable that David Tennant looked nearly a decade older by the end of his run – watch The Christmas Invasion; the difference is amazing.
So I’m not too surprised that Matt Smith is also looking a lot older as his run continues.
I loved the new make up for the Silurians; it allows them to use top-class actors rather than top-class physical theatre experts. I don’t think a modern audience would have tolerated Pertwee-style Silurians; currently I’m rewatching The Daemons, and while it’s well acted, Bok’s costume is a bit … bad.
I also enjoyed the way Chris Chibnall clearly did a wee bit of research into lizards and found that – in certain lizard species – the females are the aggressive ones. And then ran with it.
5 January 2013 at 16:01 #443I don’t see any historical reason they’d want to do it live: unlike Quatermass, Who was just late enough historically that it never went out live.
Maybe the rumours come from it being ‘live streamed’ on the Internet? Or Matt Smith’s comments about ‘live events’ surrounding the anniversary?
2 January 2013 at 16:36 #195Dunno, but ‘through the Looking Glass’ has been referenced. In The Power of Three, the Doctor says it to Amy.
2 January 2013 at 15:20 #189So looking at the ‘Clara – or the original Clara – is a Timelord*’ idea:
She’s of super-genius intelligence. Tick.
Not exactly modest. Tick.
‘Acute sense of time.’ Claimed, so tick.
Telepathic abilities. Inferred, so tick.
Ability to regenerate: we haven’t seen it and ‘Clara’ looked extremely dead in The Snowmen. Melody thought it was ‘easy’. Cross – but it doesn’t destroy the entire premise, because Jenny took ages to regenerate, and even then it didn’t follow the normal pattern.
Conclusion: she might be a Timelord split through time; which for some reason means she can’t regenerate – the parts have to be reassembled.
She’s certainly displaying a number of characteristics which ‘mirror’ the Doctor. The mirroring might be deliberately created (she’s a program or weapon) – or she’s a descendent. Either via Susan (current status: missing presumed dead) or via Jenny.
(Timelord being defined as someone from Gallifrey, cloned from someone from Gallifrey, descended from someone from Gallifrey, or in certain circumstances, conceived in the TARDIS).
2 January 2013 at 14:47 #179Maybe she is a telepath (even if she’s not fully aware of it).
Errmm… oh, wow.
Because Susan had/has unusually strong telepathic abilities. It was a major plot point in The Sensorites.
1 January 2013 at 18:43 #145I think Clara kissing the Doctor puts the kibosh on that one, how could you explain it to the kiddiwinks?
No, that’s relatively simple. Clara discovers the Doctor is her grandfather. And screams “Nooo! I kissed my granddad!”
The kids would laugh their socks off. Especially if the Doctor replies “I know. The last time I did that, she turned out to be my mother-in-law.”
1 January 2013 at 15:26 #137I don’t really go for the Doctor’s daughter by River – I still think there was a reason Steven Moffat wanted Jenny alive. And Oswin referred to her ‘Mum’, who was having a birthday.
But I’d agree that ‘family’ is a really important theme for Moffat. So it’s quite likely Clara Oswin Oswald is somehow ‘family’.
Okay; looking back over the first episodes of this season, I note that the female voice over for two of the computers has still not been credited. That’s got to be significant; the street-cred of Who at the moment is enormous – I can’t think of any actor who wouldn’t want that credit on their CV.
So I still think those voice-overs were done by Jenna-Louise Coleman. Anyone found evidence to the contrary?
So she may be a person fractured in time. And she may also be inhabiting the TARDIS.
Regarding the computers: Oswin – Operating System WINdows. Oswald – Object-Oriented Software for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data. Clara – Claranet, a very big European ISP. So far all her ‘genuine’ names are based around computing. COO = Computer: object orientated?
Another thought: Clara and Montague are both Irish names (Clara is an Irish town) – and ‘Gallifrey’ is often mistaken for ‘somewhere in Ireland’ when Brits first hear the name. Is Clara also a Gallifreyan name, and that’s why the Doctor liked it so much?
31 December 2012 at 13:08 #61Bit of a struggle with the name function, but Bluesqueakpip now squeaking.
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