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4 June 2013 at 00:33 #11812
And just before I go to bed I just thought I’d point out that they discussed the possibility that the next Doctor might be a woman on the BBC’s flagship news programme Today this morning. Is worth a quick listen. Just skip to 2:21.20
4 June 2013 at 00:23 #11811@kibouchi Welcome to the forum. 😀 I agree with you entirely that the actor should be unknown, or at least little known. Eccleston didn’t really do it for me as I had seen him in too many things before. It was always just Eccleston acting as The Doctor. I was aware of Tennant but hadn’t seen him in much so I was able to accept him more. However, with Matt, as he was a total unknown to me, he became The Doctor very easily.
In the same fashion, when I was younger I was aware of Davison having been in All Creatures Great and Small but I was so young I don’t think it mattered to me then. TV was probably still a world of magic. But when McCoy came along he was just too familiar to me from other shows that I found it hard to accept him as anything other than an actor playing The Doctor.
That’s why the whole John Hurt thing may not work for me. But I hope to be surprised.
4 June 2013 at 00:06 #11807@whisht Thanks.
I’m quite happy with innocent questions, and am happy to help people out. However, in this case they did need a slap down. I get notified whenever someone new joins, and I always check their first post, just in case. That was their one and only post, right after they joined. Given the obvious bad spelling and factual mistakes (“over 50 years”) they wanted people to jump on it, react to it, which is why I pointed out to everyone that it was trolling as quickly as I could. They’re still a member though. And I’d be happy if they wanted to post something properly, no hard feelings etc.
3 June 2013 at 22:39 #11794@pedant I do have a romantic heart.
Because of that I haven’t actually deleted anyone yet (apart from the spambots that got in before I managed to build my electrified spambot wall). I have deleted a few posts. One time that led to that person last weekend deleting themselves. But wouldn’t it be good if someone came on here to troll and actually decided to join in because it was more fun to be constructive?
Yeah, I’m probably a dreamer. But I live in hope. 6 months from now I’ll probably be deleting them left, right and center though, like I’m playing Call of Duty.
3 June 2013 at 21:13 #11787@phaseshift I posted that on the spoilers thread when the news broke. I didn’t come up with it, some wag on Twitter did. I agree though, I think it definitely has to be the title for the Christmas episode.
3 June 2013 at 20:55 #11783Dear all, esp. @bluesqueakpip and @haveyoufedthefish I mentioned a while ago that I had been contacted by a PhD student who was doing research into the motivating factors behind active posting behaviour in online communities.
Then I forgot to post any more info 😕 She’s contacted me again to remind me. If you would like to take part in a survey to help out a PhD student then her message and link are below. You must be over 18, all your details will be confidential, and if you click the link there are more contact details and credentials if you are slightly wary.
Hi my name is Stephanie, I am conducting a survey to gain a better understanding of community member participation, as a valued member of this community I would really appreciate your input. For more information and to take part in this study please click on the link.
3 June 2013 at 20:13 #11777@brynwe We get a few. We also have a several people who just post banal nonsense. At the moment I’m allowing them to continue to comment despite them adding little to the site, just because I don’t want to be authoritarian. They’re easy to spot, get ignored anyway, but I’m keeping an eye on them. The list is growing.
It’s interesting running a forum. You meet all types.
3 June 2013 at 20:08 #117753 June 2013 at 19:52 #11772@pedant They definitely don’t. But I’m not gonna delete just yet. The troll may redeem themselves, I may have misjudged them 😀
Proper trolling on this site would be a 300-500 word post, well argued, full of knowledge about the show, that just implied, in the slightest way, racism and sexism. That would be impressive trolling, and probably the only way we’d bite. Although I’d hope we’d still see through it.
3 June 2013 at 19:25 #11769@Shazzbot This:
Bigger isn’t better, and quality does matter. It would be far more thrilling to be recognised by the programme-makers themselves as being a haven of civilised, intelligent people who keenly adore the show and love to discuss it – and lacking any links to Amazon or eBay! – than to be known as a grossly commercialised (and frankly ugly) site like DWO.
That is my opinion exactly. I don’t want to commercialise this site. At the moment it doesn’t cost very much to run. If we start to get really big and more expensive then I think I’d rather accept donations from people who love the site and want it to continue than go over to the dark side.
I’m kinda reminded of the great Bill Hicks (apologies if there are children watching) 😀
3 June 2013 at 18:54 #11767I’ve posted another blog post by @htpbdet. This time it is his musings on the distinction between BG Doctor Who and AG Doctor Who. For those who don’t know, we’re using Before Gap (BG) and After Gap (AG) instead of Old Who and NuWho.
http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/the-distinction-in-ag-doctor-who/
3 June 2013 at 18:38 #11763@onethingannoysme 😀 Nice trolling. Good luck with it.
2 June 2013 at 22:26 #11711Yeah, I’m a bit slow today 😀
2 June 2013 at 22:15 #11709@Shazzbot I meant it will be 4 or 5 years before the next Doctor, and the need to comment. Of course we’ll be the biggest before then!
You are a grammar Nazi though aren’t you? I’ve been in the pub all day! Leave me alone 😀
2 June 2013 at 22:11 #11708@Shazzbot The Wikipedia entry is pretty much the case as far as I know. I may be completely wrong. He is a music producer, DJ and huge Doctor Who fan. He has saved a lot of old episodes in the past for the BBC. He does have, or did have, a lot of connections with the BBC, and is well known in Doctor Who fandom. One has to be careful as he is rumoured to be quite litigious, although it is just a rumour and I am not making any statement of fact, honest.
2 June 2013 at 21:55 #11705@Shazzbot As for being on the news I nominate @phaseshift @jimthefish or @bluesqueakpip to represent us in 4 or 5 years time when we’re the biggest Doctor Who Forum on the net 😀
2 June 2013 at 21:40 #11703In fact it doesn’t seem like RTD likes him very much at all…
2 June 2013 at 21:33 #11701@Shazzbot Who is Ian Levine? Ian Levine is a ****. And I don’t follow him on Twitter. I just heard about the rumours, then it was actually a post by @lula on the Spoilers topic that pointed me in the right direction of the source.
You can read more about him on Wikipedia if you really want. My favourite bit is this though:
An unofficial continuity consultant [on Doctor Who] during the early 1980s, some observers have speculated that the Abzorbaloff monster played by Peter Kay in the Doctor Who episode “Love & Monsters” was based on Levine and reflects his role in fandom.
2 June 2013 at 21:28 #11700@thommck I have the unfortunate position of possibly, occasionally, facing the wrath of some members. I’m sorry I made you a bit cross, but I made sure it was all over the mainstream news before I posted. I would never post spoilers here (in the sense of something that is not mainstream news and is avoidable).
And as you discovered, it was big news!
2 June 2013 at 12:14 #11635If anyone fancies a bet, here are the odds
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-rupert-grint-russell-1927048
Simon Cowell at 250/1 !!!
2 June 2013 at 11:54 #11631Here are the main tweets:
I just heard this rumour – Start date last week in Aug 2014 12 eps. New Doctor. BBC Worldwide email ACCIDENTALLY sent out today to employees
— Ian Levine (@IanLevine) May 30, 2013
@davadsteel I guess that would lessen the blow – but the fact remains my rumour comes from a decent source and as such I have to assume true
— Ian Levine (@IanLevine) May 30, 2013
@thecraiglister According to what I’m told they DIDN’T release an e-mail. A private e-mail was sent but someone accidentally copied everyone
— Ian Levine (@IanLevine) May 31, 2013
Oh dear.I’m told the BBC are not happy with me.Apparently my name is discussed on internal memos because I leaked the secret news I got told
— Ian Levine (@IanLevine) June 1, 2013
@johnnor My sources tell me it not only IS correct, but by leaking it, I have seriously caused a major shitstorm at the BBC.
— Ian Levine (@IanLevine) June 1, 2013
2 June 2013 at 11:45 #11629@scaryb @timeloop It was actually strongly rumoured on Twitter a couple of days ago. The people announcing it said that someone at the BBC had cc’d about 200 people they shouldn’t have on an email that said Matt was leaving. You can checkout @IanLevine’s page for more info.
I think their hand was forced.
2 June 2013 at 11:22 #11621@bluesqueakpip and everyone else. Lengthy interview with Joss Whedon in today’s Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jun/02/joss-whedon-reading-comics-pay-off
2 June 2013 at 11:15 #11619Hmm… The Radio Times (more or less the BBC’s unofficial magazine) has an article on who should replace Matt with some serious and some not-so-serious suggestions. David Bowie anyone?
But they also had an article and ran a poll a month ago on whether Lara Pulver from Sherlock should be the next Doctor. Testing the waters?
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-05-01/doctor-who-should-sherlocks-lara-pulver-become-a-time-lady
2 June 2013 at 10:05 #11607Even Shatner is interested. Do you think he watches regularly?
Has there ever been a female Doctor Who or is it Whoess?
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) June 2, 2013
2 June 2013 at 09:14 #11600@fishcombobulated That made me properly laugh. The Doctor defeated by email and forced to regenerate. His new secret weapons are pen, paper and the postal service.
2 June 2013 at 09:10 #11599Hi @g33kboi Welcome. I think I’d probably agree too. My experience was the same as Gaiman’s although I was a bit too young to really remember Pertwee. We also have many stories on our Faces of the Doctor thread and Doctor Who Memories thread of people who started watching then thought “This new guy can’t possibly compare” and then fell in love with them.
P.S. I moved your post here to our new sofa – I’d forgotten to close the old one, but have now!
2 June 2013 at 00:30 #11555@blenkinsopthebrave Great idea. Done! Link on Home page added too… Let the speculation begin.
http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor/
2 June 2013 at 00:09 #11549The Sunday Times has this terrible headline on its front page:
Sexterminate! Doctor Who may come back as a woman
It then goes on to reveal that “Informed sources at the BBC suggest that his successor might be a woman.”
That’s “informed” for you… might!
Would be cool if we did get a female Doctor though 😀
1 June 2013 at 23:45 #11547Oh and can I just say…
1 June 2013 at 23:38 #11546Steven Moffat: Somewhere out there right now – all unknowing, just going about their business – is someone who’s about to become the Doctor.
— BBC One (@BBCOne) June 1, 2013
1 June 2013 at 23:22 #11541Oh, and not a spoiler but a joke going around is that, after The Eleventh Hour, the Christmas episode will now be called Twelfth Night.
I can believe that 😀
1 June 2013 at 23:12 #11539Supposedly some numpty at the BBC cc’d some people they shouldn’t have on an email about his exit, which is why they had to announce now.
There were even more details in that email, but I’m not gonna reveal what I know. I’ll let you search for them if you want to. @lula ‘s post above would be a good place to start, if you’re interested.
1 June 2013 at 23:07 #11536Yes it’s proper news, but thanks to everyone for keeping it in the spoilers topic until now.
From the BBC
Matt Smith to leave Doctor Who at the end of year
1 June 2013 at 12:58 #11506Have had another note from @htpbdet who says ‘the Forum gave my nephews and I a wonderful time together last night as we discussed rubbish Doctor Who monsters’.
They wrote this together for @danmartinuk :
If you define “rubbish” as badly conceived ( rather than badly designed or badly served by the script) , then my list of rubbish Doctor Who monsters is simple:
1. The Quarks. (Dominators)
Absurd, pointless walking guns with ludicrous voices. The stupidest idea ever had by a Doctor Who writer. Not even Patrick Troughton could make them look scary. Or even interesting.2. The Myrka. (Warriors of the Deep)
The Silurians are very intelligent – it was beyond belief that they would genetically modify a creature such as this.3. Mestor. (Twin Dilemma)
The other giant slug first encountered in Twin Dilemma. If you were a slug with super mind powers – powers so great you can open the TARDIS doors – you would not keep the slug form for long. Truly.4. The Nimons. (Horns of Nimon)
Words fail me. Those feet…The Tottering Morons of Doom!5. The Slyther. (Dalek Invasion of Earth)
It is really inconceivable that a Dalek would have a pet, but if it did, you would expect it to be something more vicious and horrific than this many-handed walking canvas bag of…god knows what.6. The Movellans. (Destiny of the Daleks)
No self-aware robot would ever have hair like that.7. Wolfweeds of Chloris. (Creature from the Pit)
Honestly, if you have the ambition and skill of Adrasta, your fiendish plant allies would be bred to do something useful…8. The Ergon. (Arc of Infinity)
Omega, one of the greatest Time Lords ever, the man who sacrificed his life to power the time travel technology of Gallifrey creates a foul fowl as his servitor? Really?9. The Tractators/Gravis. (Frontios)
What were they doing again? Never mind what they looked like, what were they doing again?10. The Vampires found in Venice. (Vampires in Venice)
What were they doing in Venice? What? Seriously?I will stop at ten. Just one thing – I don’t think it’s fair to count the Abzorbaloff in this list: an imaginative child came up with that. Who are we to squash the imagination of children, to stamp out the thrill of childhood success?
1 June 2013 at 12:02 #11503@thesimon2000 It’s from The Impossible Planet/The Satan pit.
As Wikipedia puts it: As they watch Scooti drift towards the black hole, Jefferson recites the lines
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Godsfrom Macaulay’s 1842 poem Horatius, Stanza XXVII, about the heroism of Horatius Cocles.
1 June 2013 at 09:16 #11493This is silly fun. A random Doctor Who story generator:
http://toys.usvsth3m.com/drwho/
Example:
The Doctor has vowed to return to a future Earth colony, but something lurks menacingly. The Doctor, Clara, and Clara’s two charges discover the first traces of the Master. The White Guardian intervenes and saves the day. Katy from CBeebies is revealed as a new incarnation of Romana.
1 June 2013 at 00:38 #11485Hi @brynwe welcome to our little site. You’ll find loads of people willing to talk about Doctor Who here. Thanks for joining.
Unfortunately by posting on an older episode you may get overlooked, so I’d suggest you post On The Sofa, or on the The Name of the Doctor thread or the 50th Anniversary speculation thread. That’s where all the conversation is at the moment.
Look forward to seeing you there.
31 May 2013 at 23:55 #11480@whisht When I was in conversation with him I offered to raise a little fund for DVDs and reading material but he said that had already been taken care of. At the time I didn’t think that might mean us! We’ll keep him busy for days.
31 May 2013 at 23:10 #11477Ah, Friday night post pub, it must be music night 😀
Had this in my head all day. I reckon you could do a pretty good fan video of Clara and the Doctor to this. Someone probably will (although maybe too many American references).
What do we do now. Jump?
Don’t be silly. We fall!31 May 2013 at 19:03 #11464Hi @theseniletardis , welcome to the site. If you want to know what we think there is plenty to read. You can start with these two topics. We’d love to hear your theories:
http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-14-the-name-of-the-doctor/
http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-50th-anniversary-special-part-2/31 May 2013 at 18:46 #11458@ Everyone After @phaseshift ‘s fantastic write up about Colin Baker, I received @htpbdet ‘s latest blog post today, which is also about Baker. You can read it here:
http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/the-doctors/colin-baker-the-garish-bully/
In addition, he has still not seen the final episode but hopes to this weekend, and thinks he will be back with us, hopefully, next week, which is great news. 😀
31 May 2013 at 00:07 #11411@curvedspace Thank you. That is actually me, one of my better fancy dress outfits! I love it too, it is a classic of kitsch.
30 May 2013 at 23:58 #11409@curvedspace Welcome, glad you’re enjoying the site. And thanks for that link to the teatimebrutality blog on “canon”. Hadn’t seen that before. Was a great read. Cheers!
30 May 2013 at 20:36 #11389Thanks @scaryb
I’m hoping to do some sort of poll thing next, you’ll be glad to hear!
30 May 2013 at 20:19 #11386A “like” or “vote up or down” button is not top of my list. I’m not ruling it out, but it would have to operate like Facebook and not be anonymous, and only for logged in users.
Anyway, tonight’s couple of hours have been spent on something much more important. This goes out to @whohar as well. I think I have got the rich text editor working for the blog comments 😀
It doesn’t quite look right, and currently asks if you want to log out. But I’ll fix those things later, tomorrow, the weekend maybe 😕
Now I’m going to have a large glass of wine and my dinner. 😀
29 May 2013 at 22:27 #11354No! I was planning on destroying it myself! Mwahahahaha 😈
29 May 2013 at 22:16 #11352@mtgradwell I’m still sticking wth my idea that it’s Tennant’s time stream, with Tennant now the Eleventh, now that Hurt has appeared.
Still, doesn’t explain how Clara could then be in Matt’s epiosdes such as AotD and The Snowmen, but with a bit of Timey Wimey I’m sure they can sort that out. 😀
But I like your idea of a new timestream. It fits in with Moffat’s comments about not looking back, but looking forward. He better not do too much of a Star Trek on us and have some huge change like Vulcan being destroyed though. I’m still angry about that 👿
29 May 2013 at 20:12 #1134929 May 2013 at 19:44 #11345@Shazzbot Yes, for someone who writes for part of my living I sometimes make very stupid mistakes 😀
@scaryb Yes, loved the Dalek posters, great find! Traffic has dropped to about 500 or 600 visits a day, which is understandable. But we’ve still had almost 8000 unique visits since 10th May and almost 90,000 page views!
And last time I checked and searched for Doctor Who Forum on google.com we were top! google.co.uk is a bit different as there a few forums with .co.uk addresses so Google deems them more relevant to someone using google.co.uk , but we’ll probably get there eventually. That’s why I’m desperate to sort out any issues now so that we’ve got scalability, just in case.
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