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22 July 2013 at 04:24 #14253
@Thanks for the pics @wolfweed. I get the impression that those Daleks might be on Gallifrey. That looks like Gallifreyan script on the disk behind the Dalek in that last image. I like the use of sepia toning. I wonder if it’s supposed to imply that these events have happening in the past, rather an amusing concept in Dr Who when everything is happening in the past in a sense. Sepia for the Doctor’s past, red/blue for his present? I wasn’t suprised to hear the news re’ Daleks returning for the 50th though I guess it reallyconfirms that it is going to be set during the time war but I am certain that Moffat will do something unexpected. He usually manages to surprise us.
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Janette
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21 July 2013 at 05:01 #14226@blenkinsopthebrave, your multiple doctors is still my favourite bonkers theory though I doubt it will happen.I can think of several reasons why it would work well, chance to experiment with different styles of Doctor, ie female actor, give viewers time to get used to having lost Matt Smith before having to engage with a new actor and introduce a new element of unexpectedness as well as leaving the field open for the next show runner to pick his/her own Doctor. I am certain that there are a lot of actors who would love the play the Doctor as a one off but wouldn’t be willing to commit to a series or three.
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Janette
20 July 2013 at 04:40 #14187Good to hear from you again @blenkinsopthebrave, sorry to hear that life has been so difficult, all those Qantas Club lounges you have to suffer, 🙂
I do agree re’ giving exact credit but I think both @htpbdet and @jimthefish are really reacting to the current lack of credit given to Cusack for his design work. Without his memorable design the Daleks would have quickly been forgotten no matter how good the script and direction of the first story. I also think that Terry Nation’s later “ownership” of the Dalek’s makes one want to attribute a greater share to others.
Thanks to @wolfweed for finding all those great links.
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Janette
19 July 2013 at 13:32 #14086@Shazzbot, we live between Adelaide, which is indeed an overgrown country town with delusions of grandeur, and the Barossa Valley. Baring the climate, deathly hot in summer, freezing in winter because heating in S.A. is virtually unheard of, Adelaide is a great city to live in.
@wolfweed, thanks again for the posts.
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Janette
19 July 2013 at 12:04 #1407219 July 2013 at 08:20 #14066Thanks @craig. I don’t usually type into word first, though on checking I found so many typos that I was thinking I maybe should do so. I will follow your advice in future.
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Janette
19 July 2013 at 06:31 #14061Maybe there is a bug in the site then. I hope that’s all it is as I trust @craig will be onto it asap. I have now typed my comment in word so I can copy paste it if and when I can if it doesn’t magically appear out of the ether, with typos uncorrected. (The benefit of having time to check.. I found quite a few.)
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Janette
19 July 2013 at 05:56 #14059Hi. I have tried posting a reply four times now in the “Showrunner” blog and my comment has not appeared. Am I doing something wrong or is it simply the universe eating up my posts?
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Janette
19 July 2013 at 03:13 #14058@htpbdet I like your analogy of the relationship between the Doctor and the Tardis to a horse and rider. I have to confess, (looks about makes sure no one is listening) to being the only fan who didn’t like The Doctor’s Wife. I felt it shifted the relationship between the Doctor and Tardis too much however, I tend to get around my discomfort by telling myself that like S.M. and the good Doctor, the Tardis lies and was greatly exaggerating her role in his adventures. There have been plenty of times in BG Who especially when the Tardis appeared to be directing the Doctor.
The questions raised in AG Who about free will perhaps reflect societial concerns as to whether there really is any such thing as free will.
@Shazzbot. The Princess Bride rightly deserves to be shoe-horned into every conversation. 🙂
I think the beauty of Clara’s intevention in the Doctor’s time stream is that it can explain everything or nothing, and like all time travel, has logic holes bigger than the universe. I really hope that Moffat doesn’t try to hard to explain or justify what happened as it leaves things open for the viewer to decipher. As with a lot of Moffat stories we can just take them at face value or work out our own explanations for what happened. (I am thinking the exploding universe.) It could be that S,M works only in “broad brush strokes” and is too lazy to devise his own explanations or (and this is what I think more likely), he has the full story sketched in his head but only give us fragments of us, letting us fill in the gaps, sort out the logic for ourselves, if we wish too. Moffat’s stories are open compositions, filled with clues and false leeds, more puzzles really.
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Janette
18 July 2013 at 11:14 #13996My partneer thinks the Mr Potato head is brilliant. I threatened to buy him one for Christmas. He changed him mind rather quickly. Now that is taking merchandising just a tad too far imho.
Thanks for the amusing pics, @wolfweed
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Janette
17 July 2013 at 06:15 #13932@craig. Nice to be noticed, even though as @scaryb says, it was only the marketing department. I haven’t had a look at their site yet but am certain to share ScaryB’ reaction despite being Australian. If I do buy anything to add to our Who merchandise collection I will review it on here if you like. I probably won’t be buying the DVD’s though.
@wolfweed. Thank you for the Proms link. Another fine performance from Matt, who IS the Doctor.
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Janette
15 July 2013 at 09:06 #13886I wonder just how much of River’s background Moffat had devised at this stage. Assuming that he knew he would be showrunner by the time the episode was produced, I would guess that he had at least a sketchy idea of her future. She was too important a character to the Doctor to appear in just two episodes which is I think one of the reasons that I did not initially warm to her. Moffat has said that he was inspired by The Time Traveller’s Wife indicating that he intended to develop the character and their relationship in future episodes. I guess he didn’t have to be the showrunner to do that. I would guess that he had decided upon making Ameila her mother by the time he began work on the next season hence the surname “Pond”. I wonder if he did toy with the idea of her being the Doctor’s daughter. He certainly teased the audience with that expectation in AGMGTW.
If the man whom Donna was married to in the library was real then probably the children were too. But they would have been released when he was so the children R.S is caring for are evidently not the same ones. I have never been quite sure what to make of that last scene of River with the children. IT was not consistant with the character as she portrays herself but the I always feel that River is putting on a tough act most of the time. Only occasionally do we glimpse the vulnerable person within. The bravado is a shield and top marks to Alex Kingston for conveying that in her performance. As @bluesqueakpip (I always have trouble tying that) pointed out she is Rory’s daughter and is as Rory’s daughter that we see her at the end. I wonder how much R.S. influenced the character development of Amy and Rory.
Apologies if my ramble makes no sense. Too many coffees to keep awake today.
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Janette
13 July 2013 at 06:12 #13736@phaseshift. Thank you so much for that link. Had the family gathered around my laptop watching. As Tom Baker said, “there are many Doctors but only one Brigadier.” The Brig’ was central to my early Doctor Who experience. The first story I watched was his last (I keep getting it confused with Andriod Invasion but it was the one set in Scotland which is Terror of the Zygons. Gotta love those comic strip titles.) But then I watched endless repeats of earlier stories which featured the Brig. I was thrilled when he reappeared in Sarah Jane Adventures and the reunion between the two characters was as warm as I imagine the reunion between the actors was. Indeed to me that scene is one where character and actor merge and as a viewer we are aware of what the moment means for actor as well as for character.
Thanks again for sharing,
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Janette
12 July 2013 at 15:25 #13693@MadScientist72 and so to conclude we need more Donna Noble’s, or at least companions who are strong enough to be “mates” with the Doctor. (There can only ever be the one Donna Noble.)
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Janette
12 July 2013 at 15:22 #1369212 July 2013 at 15:17 #13689@Shazzbot I confess to being inadequately acquainted with Yorkshire pubs. The offending “fake gas fire” pubs I am thinking of were all in the West Country, where you would expect the real thing too.
I would hope the cruise organisers are paying their special guests more than they paid the web page designers. 🙂
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Janette
12 July 2013 at 13:54 #13676A cruise. Yuck. I’d much rather a night in a pub, a nice cosy English pub with a real log fire with Sylvester, Frazer Hines and Carole Ann Ford. (I do realise that there are no pubs left with real log fires, they all have the fake gas ones, but one can dream..)
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Janette
12 July 2013 at 13:41 #13673I think the problem, raised by Pond Life was that too much tension was being teased out of the Amy Rory relationship. Episodes like Amy’s Choice used the tension between them to advantage, the seperation did appear to be written in the for the sake of it. Amy’s explanation for why she left Rory goes a long way to compensate for that and I agree that AotD was a brilliant episode and the reconciliation did leave eyes here with that annoying water problem, however I did have a niggling feeling that enough had already been said about Rory and Amy and we didn’t need yet another reminder of the strenght of their relationship before AiM which really said it all.
At times in the past the lack of development of sexual relations, ie between Ian and Barbara felt like a lost opportunity. (Well handled by @jimthefish in his blog story.) In AG Who it is at times overdone. The Doctor does not need to fall in love with every companion or have every companion fall in love with him. It worked with Rose but destroyed the character of Martha. The dynamic of Doctor/Amy/Rory worked very well.
Not sure where I have ended up with this post and I don’t even have a decent Shiraz to blame it on.
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Janette
12 July 2013 at 08:32 #13669@Shazzbot. Thanks. It is nice to be more than a grey n’ white blob. I should have got it up ages ago. I had the figures just didn’t get around to taking the photo. I used them for cake decorations for my partner’s 50th. We have a long tradition of Dr Who themed birthday cakes.
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Janette
12 July 2013 at 08:28 #13668@fishcombobulated, to quote @jimthefish General open Thread, TV shows post 1219 “the campaign to get John Noble on Who starts here. He’d actually be quite a good Doctor. Or at the very least a quirky take on The Master…”
Naturally I’ve signed on..
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Janette
11 July 2013 at 14:38 #13627We watched Utopia and the episode that follows, (forget episode name and too lazy to look it up) last night and yes, the more I watch those the worse I find Simm’s Master. RTD wrote some lovely stuff and I loved the way he riffed on current social and political themes but he had a deplorable tendency to go over the top. He was in desperate need of a good script editor who would say, “great story, lovely ideas, but we don’t need to end it with giant fighting robots or the destruction of the galaxy every time to make it dramatic. There is drama enough in the small stuff. ” I generally loved the first half of RTD’s stories, lost interest in the second. His strengths and weaknesses were very different to Moffats.
By the time Simm was dispatched I was relieved, not because he was evil but because he was stupidly annoying. A bad character portrayed well is a pleasure to watch, the “villian that we love to hate”. Delgado was perfect as an ongoing villian who we could admire even while we despaired at his evil deeds. Ainley felt like a poor attempt to be Delgado. Simm ceased to be the master and became a deranged monster. He did not pose a real threat to the Doctor either because we knew that the later was so much smarter whereas we felt that Delgado’s Master was the Doctor’s equal in the brain department. I still look forward to the next regeneration of the master and following the discussion on another thread, rahter like the idea of the master returning as a Livia, (I Claudius) type woman.
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Janette
11 July 2013 at 14:18 #1362311 July 2013 at 12:41 #13620@scaryb. quote, “General thoughts on AG companions in particular – most of them meet the Dr when they need to. Yes, the experience of travelling with him changes them, but usually for the better. They find qualities in themselves that they didn’t know they had”
I think this was particulary emphasised with Donna which is why her eventual loss of memory was worse than the death of the character would have been.
@bluesqueakpip I like your distinction between RTD as a novel writer and S.M. as a short story writer. I think you are spot on there, and not only because it made me feel much better about my failures as a short story writer. (having said that i have not seen any of Moffat’s other t.v script writing offerings but certainly in Who his tight, short stories ie Blink have been brilliant whereas he does seem less confident with long arcs.)
(( if the last post was slightly off topic blame it on the excellent Barossa Valley Shiraz 🙂 )
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Janette
11 July 2013 at 06:01 #13601@scaryb. I currently don’t have a clue if anything is planned here for the anniversary or not. I will ask Pres’ of the local fan society next time I see him.
In general, over the years, we have been served by our ABC in terms of Who. It used to be screened four nights a week and when the new series ended they would run repeats all winter. Rewatching Pertwee and Baker stories was just part of a winter school night. During the 80s they did get huffy about the series, one head of ABC informing protesting Uni Students that Dr Who would never again be shown on the ABC. (I hope he lived long enough to eat those words.) In the early 90s, while we were flatting, the Tom Baker stories were repeated late at night. Not being overly attentive to T.V guides back then we only stumbled upon the repeats by accident but then recorded them all, hence being able to introduce our children to the series at a young age. Back in 04 or 05 they repeated all of Dr Who from the beginning, excluding the Dalek stories because of a dispute between the BBC and the Nation estate. Given their previous record I would be surprised if the ABC does not have something planned.
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Janette
11 July 2013 at 04:08 #13599I simply can’t think of “female villians” without thinking of Livia in I Claudius played by the wonderful Sian Phillips. Certainly that was many, many years ago though there is a remake in development I hear. A Livia, type Master would be brilliant. Checking Sian’ IMDB she is still acting so is a possibility for our female master and she have yet to make an appearance on Dr Who.
Also congrat’s Shazzbot on the new status. I like the new avatar too.
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Janette
10 July 2013 at 06:06 #13501I agree with @htpbdet that the Pond split as depicted in Pond Life was inconsistent with the character development to that point. (I am writing from memory however as I found this morning that we don’t have Pond Life “on file”.) The inference, as I recall, is that their relationship becomes acrimonious for no obvious reason, as some relationships do. However in AofD Amy reveals that she left Rory because she was unable to give him children and he wanted children. It might have been a poor decision but it is understandable and becomes for her proof of her love for him. The testing of her love for Rory was crucial to the story, it saved her from becoming a Dalek, at least until we discover that the Doctor has given her his wrist bracelet.
As to whether it is padding or not, I guess that depends upon whether one views the entire Amy/Rory relationship as padding or not. The problem with using a relationship to give a story emotional depth is that after a time it can get repetitive and the drama begins to feel contrived because ongoing conflict is necessary to generate tension. I think this was becoming the problem with the Amy/Rory thread. There was only so much tension that could be milked from their characters before the puppetier pulling the strings becomes too obvious. (The same problem weakened the final series of Fringe.)
Hope this makes sense. AS usual I my thoughts are rather muddled, ending up with a different argument to the one I started with.
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Janette
10 July 2013 at 04:44 #13500@scaryb Really enjoyed watching Tennant’s video diary. Nice to see, (yet again) just how he inhabited the role, emotionally. I almost shed a tear too. OH and I hope you won’t mind if I point the finger of blame in your direction when my partner complains about today’s internet hit. 🙂 I think that must have put us back in the red but it was well worth it.
The next best thing to being able to attend the convention in London is hearing the stories if you lucky few who are going, Glad that you were all able to get tickets. I hope there will be photos posted somewhere. (including the Airedales running on Hampstead Heath as I am already picturing them) Only about four months to go…
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Janette
7 July 2013 at 10:04 #13282SiL was one of the very few episodes of Dr Who BG or AG that I have found truely frightening. The other, oddly enough was Talons of Weng Chiang. It was years before we could persuade our sons to watch SiL and FotD. I was not initially overly impressed with SiL. I found it an episode that improved upon repeated viewings, maybe because initially I disliked R.S. (“Who is this woman getting familiar with our Doctor?”) The concepts behind the story, a planet sized library, (though I agree with @phaseshift, those Jeffery Archer continents would also be my idea of hell along with Barbara Cartland) and invisible, shadow, monsters, was the perfect combination. The childhood fantasy, (certainly mine) of living in a library was undermined by our most instinctive fear, the dark/shadows. As with the best of horror Moffat turns something which we find safe and comforting into a thing of terror.
Donna, by this episode, had grown nicely into a strong character and this was one of her shining moments. Had we ever douted that Catherine Tate could do pathos here we were assured that indeed she could. I was left wondering why she has wasted her acting talent upon the Catherine Tate show, (which I have fortunately avoided).
@phaseshift, I do hope that Alex Kingston can be persuaded to return to R.S. duty with the next Doctor at least once. She implied that she had met more than two regenerations. (And as an aside I am currently wishing my ancestors had not so thoughtlessly decided to immigrate as I would love to see her as Lady Macbeth playing against Brannagh.)
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Janette
5 July 2013 at 04:29 #13199Umm. Sounds like time to immigrate back to the U.K. Oh well just going to have to console myself with jammy dodgers, jelly babies and burnt souffle on the night.. (I’m still working on the Dr Who themed feast. Not so sure about the fish fingers in custard but I’m sure the kids will be willing to give it a try.)
I will be looking foward to hearing accounts of the day and the meeting, for us poor deprived colonials..:)
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Janette
28 June 2013 at 05:59 #12924I hope they make up for the lack of on air material by publishing some nice big, newsy books on Dr Who. It does rather seem as though their idea of celebrating the anniversary is to put out loads of merchandising to bleed our bank accounts. Well mine anyway. I’m a sucker for merchandising especially it is Who related. (Reaches for Dalek coffee mug.)
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Janette
27 June 2013 at 14:42 #12902Sorry IÂ am not about to defend C.B. whom for many years I viewed as the man who killed Dr Who. I realise now that he was not solely to blame for that henious crime. Certainly JNT has worn that unenviable label. I was always rather lukewarm about Davison as the Doctor. I couldn’t quite shake off the memory of Tristram. Also by that time I had essentially left home and only watched Dr Who on occasions. I still haven’t seen many of P.D.’s stories. As I have posted elsewhere, when it was announced that Colin Baker was to become Doctor I was horrified. I disliked him, rather unfairly, because of the character he played in War and Peace. I convinced myself that I should not judge an actor by a character they played, and so I did watch his first episode. The very little I saw of him as the Doctor suggested that he was playing a slightly older version of that same character, arrogant, self centred and shallow. I decided then that life was too short to waste any of it watching Dr Who during his tenure, a decision that I still hold to be valid. I saw him talking recently in an old documentary about B.G. who and felt rather sorry for him. Poor scripts and direction certainly gave him little to work with but I am not convinced that even the best scripts and direction could have made him believable as the Doctor. He was the wrong actor for the part.
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Janette
27 June 2013 at 13:30 #1290132 pages of Dr Who silliness. Wonderful. Thanks for the link @Shazzbot. It was just what I needed after a busy day. Those nails are deeply distrubing and I must admit that beautiful though those cakes are, I could not imagine eating them. I do want that blanket though. We have the scarf. Bought it for younger son’s birthday. We now only need a hat to complete the T.B. outfit.
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Janette
25 June 2013 at 13:26 #12873Saddened by the news about Mick Aston. He appeared to be genuinely enthusiastic about sharing his knowledge and expertise and endeavoured to make Time Team educational as well as entertaining. It is the second death for me this week, two too many.
Janette
19 June 2013 at 09:15 #12516@chickenelly I just read that and popped over here to join in the discussion. I supect that, given the source, this rumour, like all the others, can be taken with a very large grain of salt and some Aoili too.
I have to say that I would prefer Rory Kinnear to Julian-Rhind-Tutt. He look too, too, smooth and smart, (not sure I can quite find the correct word for what I’m trying to say) for my liking. I have only seen him in two roles, Black Books and The Hour where he played arrogant characters, the wrong kind of arrogance for Doctor Who, but it is maybe unfair to judge an actor by two roles.
The Sun list all are sound and unexciting. Burn Gorman would be my choice from that limited list had he not had a major role in Torchwood. (About the only scene from Torchwood worth re-watching, or even watching at all, was him emptying the fridge after he died. I had given up on Tw long before that but “he” insisted I watch that one scene.)
We re-watched the Christmas special with David Morrissey as the ‘fake Doctor” last night. (sorry tough day and I’ve forgotten the title.) He was so good, and remember at the time hoping that he might be the future incarnation. I would like the Doctor to meet his future self. If he has unlimted regen’s then it could be a very distant future incarnation and not one ever likely to be encountered again. Or it be an alternate regen’.
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Janette
16 June 2013 at 04:46 #12353@HTPBET so glad that you are back and well on the way to a full recovery I hope. We missed you but really appreciated the articles you sent through.
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Janette
14 June 2013 at 06:03 #12255I like the idea of doing a selection of both BG and AG series. Focussing on Moffat’s stories makes sense and in general they stand out as amongst the best of AG. Talons would be a good story to cover from the first series but I’d be happy with whichever story is picked, (Just as long as it isn’t a C.B. one.) We recently started watching the later 3rd Doctor stories and were up to “Robot” when our eldest distracted us with B.5. We are almost done with that and about to return to the Doctor.
In Oz we used to have an episode a night wedged between The Goodies and the 7.00 pm news. Each new series was quickly followed by months of repeats. In 2005 ABC repeated every extant complete story of Doctor Who. It took about two years. (Naturally a lot of recording was done.) Now new episodes are screened on Sundays, which is all irrelevant to the discussion.
I look forward to the discussions
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Janette
14 June 2013 at 05:31 #12254@bluesqueakpip. I think point 5 is the most likely, any actor male or female other than Rory Kinnear but I still prefer the last option, the multiple doctors, and one can very certainly be a whale, or a kangaroo. “What’s that Skippy?”
@grimbo. Rowan Atkinson has already played the Doctor in the charity special “Curse of Fatal Death.”
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Janette
13 June 2013 at 13:23 #12204I didn’t even know how to find private messages until this issue arose and as I have recieved just the one, (only spammers love me), I don’t really care. On other forums I have been involved with p.ms were mostly used for trading or political arguments. Neither is likely to occur on this forum so restricting p.ms to members who are “friended” is fine. Anything to get the better of spammers.
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Janette
13 June 2013 at 13:16 #12203@bluesqueakpip I like the idea but don’t think I could fit in five episodes a week, what with meetings some nights and other things to watch, such as Horizon secret life of cats. (we need to know just what our moggie gets up to when we aren’t looking) and the rest of series 4 B.5. so I would prefer to just pick some of the best of each series. I know that will lead to some debate as to which stories are “best”. Maybe someone here who is cleverer than me could start a poll. Or we could decide on a weekly basis. Then again, upon reflection, I guess one doesn’t have to watch and comment upon every episode and even the worst epidodes have something worth discussing. (as usual my opinion is changing as I type.)
It would be nice to keep the conversation going, now there are no new stories to stimulate discussion. (I must admit though I prefer the somewhat less hectic pace. I can now keep up with posts and even occasionally make a comment.)
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Janette
13 June 2013 at 04:49 #12190@bluesqueakpip. I agree with your view on Richard II. It was one of the best productions I have seen, though being an Aussie that doesn’t say much. I have only seen Richard III performed on stage, and many years ago, a very bad production of Macbeth. But like you and HTPBDET I just don’t see R.K as the Doctor. He is a fine actor and I would like to see him playing an arch villian, maybe the next re incarnation of the The Master, but he doesn’t feel right for the Doctor. But then I can’t really think of any actors that do which is why I’m still hoping that the Doctor will be an unknown, after we have the multiple regenerations of course. I’m still loving @Blenkinsop’s theory.
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Janette
12 June 2013 at 09:02 #12151Glad to hear that @HTBDET is recovering. Please let him know that we are all thinking of him, and enjoying his contributions.
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Janette
11 June 2013 at 03:47 #12126@phaseshift A welsh Doctor with a welsh accent. (love Welsh accents. Being Australian I love most British accents.) Umm just as long as it isn’t Rhys Ifans. Not sure I’m so keen on Rob Brydon (despite the name, it being my grandmother’s and all). Anyway shouldn’t he be Scottish? (She was.) He isn’t very, fanciable. I’ll settle for a very talented young unknown Welsh actor who is in need of a career boost. Gender and skin colour optional but the next Doctor must be Welsh.
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Janette
10 June 2013 at 04:46 #12114I am glad that there has been no announcement to date because I am enjoying the discussion here so much I hope it continues for a few more pages at least.
I hope RK is not the next doctor, not because I dislike him, (well he’s an actor, with the exception of C.B. one likes or dislikes the character not the actor unless he/she is particulary bad) I think he would be a solid, predictable Doctor, but not an exciting or daring choice. IT would be rather like casting Peter Davison after Tom Baker.
I am still hoping, that whoever is cast, it will be an unknown or relatively unknown actor.
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Janette
5 June 2013 at 07:02 #11865We were staying at the Rocks YHA above Circular Quay a few weeks ago and looking for good wine bars in the area. Next time, (alas not in the forseeable future) I will seek your advice first. I trust you were able to enjoy Saturday night’s light show?
It would be rather interesting to have Matt begin to regenerate alone in the Tardis then have the next series beging with no clear indication of just who the Doctor is.
Your multiple Doctor’s theory could inspire some fun fan fiction. Maybe an idea for a blog.
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Janette
5 June 2013 at 04:00 #11863I am still rather hooked on @blenkinsopthebrave‘s multiple regeneration idea. We were discussing it over pre dinner drinks last night, so yes, you can blame this on the wine, but my partner suggested that one of those regen’s could be as an alien or at least have some alien attributes. Well as I said, wine was involved..
A lot of good points have been made “re a female Doctor. I agree with @timeloop. It all depends upon the actor. Fun though it is to imagine this or that actor, in the role, (last night while watching B.5 I was picturing Jason Carter as the Doctor) in the end I would prefer the actor, whether male or female, to be a relavtive unknown who fits the role as Smith and T.B. did. (is it permitted to have two “My Doctors.”)
I am glad that the news was leaked. I wouldn’t want a surprise regen’ to ruin my Christmas. Now I am quite used to the idea of a new Doctor.
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Janette
3 June 2013 at 04:44 #11732@blenkinsopthebrave, that is an inspired idea. I like it a lot. Those multiple regen’s could include female, ginger, very old, very young, Ben Whishaw, Ayaode, John Noble, Thewlis etc. (Loving most of the suggestions.) Moffat has toyed with multiple regenerations before, in the Comic Relief, The Curse of Fatal Death. Then at the end of the year, with his filming in the U.S. done with Matt can return to the role he was born for. (Well one can dream..)
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Janette
2 June 2013 at 04:02 #11580Still to shocked by the news to start considering actual replacements but some thoughts. I don’t really think a “big name” actor, ie Helen Mirren or Bill Nighy would be a good choice. They are fine actors but I think the role is best suited to an unknown, someone who can really “become” the Doctor as Matt did. Much though I liked Eccelston I don’t feel he really quite fitted the role as Tennant and Smith did. Also well established actors wouldn’t be able to make the time commitment required.
The only actor who comes to mind at the moment is John Noble but being Australian I think he is automatically out. The Doctor is quintessentially English.
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sad Janette
2 June 2013 at 03:29 #11576Nooooooooooo. I’ve just seen the headline and I need a shoulder to cry on. I seriously hoped that Matt would give us at least another series.
Not happy,
Janette.
28 May 2013 at 05:48 #11184I am sure someone else has already noted this, but would take the better part of a week to trawl back looking so apologies, to @whoever We know that River has regenerated twice at least so the 10 could refer to her and the eleven to the Doctor’s who we now know has had a secret extra regeneration. I am certain that Moffat would want to erase the 12 regeneration limit from canon once and for all and as @whohar points out, this shelves the issue for at least another 50 or so years by which time dealing with outraged fans is no longer his concern. (Though I don’t think any sane fans would argue against giving the Doctor a few more regenerations.)
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Janette
25 May 2013 at 15:39 #10910Whew. What a read. It has take me three days to get to this point.. So many fantastic ideas to process, I feel as though there is a school of fish swimming around in my head.
I have always had the impression that Gallifrey is a highly classist (if that can presume to be a word) society, ruled by an elite that are almost entirely detached from the every day life of the general populace. My sons were re-watching Invasion of Time during the week. In IiT it is clear that not all Gallifreyans are time lords so the Doctor might remain the last of the time lords but not be the last Gallifreyan. I am hoping however that we do see the return of the Time Lords. I was excited to see an image of Gallifrey. Nu Who has been rather short on alien civilisations and, even though very sketchy, we know more of Gallifrey than any other alien plant to have been depicted in Who, other than perhaps Skaro.
Re Clara’s name. I am rather afraid that the Oswin does derive from her Os for the win comment at the end of TBoSJ, though I am certain Moffat chose that name because of its meaning. Nothing with Moffat is chance.
@scaryb. The 10th of April was my son’s 12th birthday. Other than that, no significance whatever. I suspect that the date is a red herring, there to keep us bonker’s theorises pondering.
Cheers
Janette
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