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New Dr. Who Episode Leaked
Cougem writes "BBC News is reporting on how an episode from the brand new series of the old science fiction TV show, Doctor Who, has been leaked onto the Internet. 'A 45-minute episode, called Rose, has appeared three weeks before the series is expected to begin on BBC One. Rose is the name of the character played by pop singer Billie Piper, who will be the assistant to the Doctor, played by Christopher Eccleston.' With people saying sci-fi appeals more to the technical minded viewer, will this TV show's release onto the Internet damage the ratings considerably for the BBC? Or is it a minor problem for a corporation whose role is just to provide the public with entertainment?" Maybe it will boost ratings, instead; the public buzz about "leaks" is still far ahead of the average viewer's ability to actually find and download.
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I always knew that little metal bastard was up to no good.
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It will boost ratings instead. Sci Fi fans watch shows repeatedly plus they'll get better quality on tv than internet d/load.
Who believes these 'leaks' anymore?
Or is 'leak' just a fig leaf to cover over the fact that good advertising may conflict with some of the copyrights and legalese?
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You see what happened was Dr. Who downloaded the episode legally from BBC's open archives in 2052, as a piece of nostalgia from his earlier days, but forgot to unshare it from Kazaa again when he travelled back to 2005. D'oh!
Given that the SciFi channel isn't showing it, it can only help the interest within the USA.
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There was a reasonably large argument over there about actually distributing it, but in the end a full seed was completed.
And no I have not watched it, yet.
The argument really did center around - would geeks watch it - or just download it and not support it. If there is no support for the series, then it will not continue being produced.
Counter arguments included: I will watch and pay for it anyway, I'm such a big fan - almost my opinion.
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It's not scheduled here - I need my fix - usually americans...
Anyway, I think I will like it, and if I can catch it on TV, at a reasonable time - I will watch it.
For now - I have my fix if I need it.
JC
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
It's shocking, really. They go to all that effort to keep it secret, and dirty bastards go and ruin it all by watching it months ahead of time. The file-sharing creeps.
Having said that, it's a lot better than I expected. Billie Piper is a much better companion than I though she'd be, and the Doctor is quite credible as, er, a time-travelling alien. No mention of that half-human shite, which is nice.
It'd be injudicious of me to mention that the file is called Rose1.avi, and is 366757888 bytes long, so I won't.
Doctor WHO?
I'm a big tall mofo.
He's on first.
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From news.bbc.co.uk: "The BBC was unavailable for comment."
Investigative journalism is truly dead.
Without Tom Baker there is no Dr. Who.
Someone you trust is one of us.
Don't worry...
Your alone.
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
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There were a few hot babes in it, but they never dressed like Wilma Deering, so that wasn't good enough of a draw.
It's not a lie. It's the truth with lossy compression.
Thank you and have a nice day.
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People who loved this series were religious, they'd watch the thing over and over anyway. It's not quite on the level of The Simpsons, but expose any given fan to any three minutes of any episode, and it was "Hey, this is the one where... Oh, yeah, SHE was the Doctor's assistant then..."
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I never got it either. I always figured it was a British thing until I found out a xenophobic friend of mine was a Dr. Who junky. Now I'm just confused.
The theme song was good though. Especially when Orbital covered it.
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If you don't get it, and your technically minded...then you need to go back to school.
Does this mean everyone in the world has to pay a computer license fee to teh b33b or worry about black computer detector vans going down the street?!
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That green slime had it coming.
Does the new series have Dr. Who with a huge afro and a gigantic ugly scarf?
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Hopefully they will redo the old pinball machine that was Dr. Who based. That was probably the best pinball machines out there. But of course, someone will throw up a legal suit challenging the use of such copyrighted works that are put on display publicly........ BAH!
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Don't think so. I got it, and I still don't care for it.
Give me an episode of Blake's Seven anyday if we're talking British Sci Fi.
Mercy was given to me by Christ...I must give the same to others.
I rather enjoyed Dr. Who, but since I was a little kid and it aired after bedtime, I rarely got to see an episode in it's entirety.
Those times when I did get to see some of it, I enjoyed it, but I don't think it was worth the ass-bruising I got sneaking into the living room.
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Yup, always like it when Oribital's version of the theme hits my playlist - even got a nice video of them mixing it live somewhere - it's still on the bittorrent nets if people are after it.
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
Forget the usual threads of: (a) I never liked Dr. Who. (b) I LOVED Doctor Who! (c) Was Jamie gay? Anybody got something important to add, like a mirror?
Likewise dont go into watching this expecting it to be the BSG remake others where hoping for, THIS IS DR WHO, like Dr Who of when I was a kid and where watching the 60's reruns. Its campy and funny and ejoyable and a real family show. I know a lot of people where hoping for it to be remade but its not they are making this to be just like the old shows minus the cardbord and celophane sets.
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the ad revenue from one airing
The BBC is publicly funded and does not have any advertising revenue.
i personally think the BBC should provide free downloads (by bittorrent or something) to UK residents who have a tv license.
They could probably increase revenue if they created a subscription service for non-UK viewers too.
Warren Ellis reviewed just this (I'm not going to link to his site, it's already slow), and said that Americans would almost certainly not enjoy it. It's (as far as he's concerned) a return to many things that're right and wrong with Brittish television, but far too Brittish for most of the rest of the world to enjoy, especially us Yanks.
"Word is that Sci-Fi Channel declined to acquire this new DOCTOR WHO series. And I can see why. It's too damned English." -Ellis
"What did they lose, the ad revenue from one airing?"
You seem to have misunderstood the entire principle of the BBC...no ads at all on their UK channels.
I do that for almost anything - I can name any song I know from the first second or two, have been annoying people with identifing episodes of CSI that I have seen with only a moments viewing at the beginning....
I don't watch much stuff twice for this reason - but then there is Red Dwarf - just as good on the 48th viewing as on the first....
Anyway - back to the good Doctor.
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
The BBC has no ad revinue, it gets its funding from the UK tax payers' TV liscenses.
No... instead they had Leela... who, apparently, was a HUGE draw when Doctor Who and one of the Football leagues were on the air in adjacent time slots.
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Since they don't get ad money, what's the problem? Free publicity and free distribution.
Look, someone on the inside leaked the episode. Did he have unofficial permission?
Maybe...
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We don't get BBC over here and PBS hasn't had favorable deals to air Doctor Who in many years in my market, so there is almost no Doctor Who fix for me. It seems like when MythTV does catch it for me, it's an old William Hartnell episode. Bah.
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Is it any good?
Seriously, who's seen it? I want to know what to expect. Other than Galactica and some Stargate episodes most SF shows right now are terrible.
Since when does the Beeb care about ratings? Do ratings have an impact on the collection of the license fees? (well, I suppose if ratings go low enough, then at some point people will stop owning/using their TVs...)
The BBC itself does actually want to try something similar, and you might have seen the articles here about the then director general Greg Dyke discussing a "BBC Archive", and I'm pretty sure the R&D dept. was messing around with Bit Torrent.
However, the main problem (as with the BBCs "listen again" radio feature, but far more problamatic for TV) is the Writers Guild of Great Britain, which is extremely upset that the BBC plans to offer these shows without paying royalties to the writers. They have yet to bash out an additional payment to allow this...
Yeah, you must be the only one.
Also, is this series in continuity with the previous series? Or are they going for a tabula rosa to avoid the kinds of problems that plague series like Star Trek? (For example, Enterprise.) I'd hate to see the new series go in a weird direction in 12 years or so when the Doctor regenerates into the Valeyard.
Those who complain about affect & effect on
So when the hell is the Doctor going to get with the times and replace the police box with a cellphone? Everyone else has one, they're very convenient.
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for a remake of the UFO tv series, complete with liquid-filled UFOs, purple wigs and pinhole contact lenses.
Who am I kidding. They'd probably remake it totally different. Well, maybe they'd keep the wigs.
Since I have no way of watching the BBC, and BBC America will probably never air it, and all my local PBS stations took it off the air years ago, my normal (personal) dislike of filesharing (I chose not to do it, but if others want to, I'm not going to bitch and moan) I'm hoping and praying that they snap to it on DVD releases.
Doctor Who has a worldwide market if the Beeb is smart enough to capitalize on it. I've got region free players, so I'll be happy to order the series direct from the UK the second it's available.
That being said, I would jump at the chance to watch even a crappy quality pre-production version just to whet my appetite. No amount of access to shared files will stop me from purchasing the DVDs from a legal source as soon as it's available. I don't think I'm the only one.
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Quote from article:
> "The BBC was unavailable for comment."
So allow me to translate:
We were unavailble for comment on the leak.
- Bruzer
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No. You're not alone. Personally, I like it. I think it's an entertaining lighthearted Sci-fi. Some people like it, some people think it's stupid. Same goes for everything.
If you don't like it then you have your own tastes and opinions. This is a good thing, but a lot of nerds don't appreciate that people can have a perfectly valid opinions that are different from their own.
Wouldn't life be dull if we were all the same.
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Come on guys, you're slacking. Where's the .torrent? You know you want to...
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Nope.
Pinball is officially dead. Williams stopped producing it, as well as the other manufacturer (who's name slips my memory right now). If anybody's still making machines, it's Sega, but Sega's machines are shoddy and almost always broken.
There's just not a market for games that require maintenance anymore... Sad but true.
I think CBC were running advertising for it last night during Harry Potter.
Another Dr Who theme cover (kind of) is in the Pink Floyd song _One of These Days_.
The theme song was good though. Especially when Orbital covered it.
If it ain't Delia Derbyshire or Peter Howell, it ain't worth shit.
Seriously, I don't see the deal with Orbital's version; it's nothing special. Better than the techno version they plastered on that "Children in Need" monstrosity, though.
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Yes! You are alone. It is a pitiful life you must be leading.
im a tax payer ( well i pay the license fee for BBC TV ) so technically ive already paid for the Beeb to produce this. I wonder how it can be convulted to prove that if I download it then im not infringing copywrite !
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Look at the bright side, they could have hired Lemmy.
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Visit the BBC website and read its charter. You're both off, you moreso than the original poster.
It could help their ratings, or it could hurt. It really depends on the episodes ability to stand on it's own. If it's a good episode and brings some new things to the table, it will get some good word of mouth amongst those who care. If it is a slop-shod episode, that brings nothing new to the table and is a thin attempt to reskin an old episode, then it will get bad word of mouth.
The risk because of the leak is great. I cannot believe it was intentional due to this; If the episode is good, word of mouth will be good and it will travel through the ranks of Dr. Who fans. It probably won't do a thing to add viewers, because people who don't already watch it, are not going to care, as they never had interest before, and probably won't until it hits the screen. A bad review from the leak, will cause fans to knock the show, and drive anyone who might have watched it to not watch it and hurt viewership.
In short, leaking is never very good. The damage can be great whereas the potential good that can come from it is extremely small. No one cares about good news, unless it is something that they care about to begin with. Everyone loves to hear bad news. Fact of life. That's why the evening news is nearly 100% bad news.
I prefer the Skinny Puppy one myself... Good fraggin' music. I want to ... Annihilate
Watashi wa chikyubutsurigakusha desu.
If people like it, they will watch it. If they don't like it, they won't. Is the whole family gonna huddle in front of the computer to watch it? No, they will wait until it's on TV and watch it there. If someone downloads the show and watches it and likes it, they will watch it again when it's on TV. And they might just drag a few more eyeballs to the TV with them. Content producers need to stop obsessing over the control of their content and pay more attention to the quality of the content. Good stuff will be successful, and bad stuff will sink into oblivion. DRM, copy protection, broadcast flags or whatever else that gets in the way, just throws a big wet blanket over the whole process.
Best concert I ever saw was Motorhead at an ornate, luxurious Opera House/theatre in Munich, Germany, in the early 1990s. Can't remember the venue name now, but it was a gorgeous building. Anyway, I wasn't much of a metal/hard rock fan or anything back then, but scored the ticket via a friend of a friend, went along expecting to be bored and was absolutely blown away!!! Superb band.
Actually, I've wondered why SF has to be so realistic. What's wrong with having sets like a in a play, as long as they set the appropriate mood? Gives Dr Who / Blake's 7 / ST:TOS a whole new aspect. Hmmmm.... "Dr Who live", "Star Trek on ice"!
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I have loved Doctor Who since I first saw Tom Baker back in 1976. When the local PBS affiliate ran the series starting with the first doctor all the way through to Sylvester McCoy (seventh doctor), I watched and recorded every episode. I still have those VHS tapes and plan on tranferring them to MPEG format on muptiple HDs for archival purposes. It was a great series that illustrated that using your brain is much better than using force. Interestingly enough, nearly every person I made friends with along the way has liked Doctor Who. So I guess it's "birds of a feather". I would also highly recommend the series "Jonathan Creek" for people who like a central character that prefers to use their smarts instead of flexing their muscles.
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Motorhead has been through my city 4 times in the past 23 years. They rule. And their 5th visit will be April 22, 2005! My girlfriend is coming along. She's gonna be sorry.
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If Yanks don't like British shows, then how come so many people I know like The Office?
Dropping this show just illustrates how mindless the Sci Fi channel is. They lucked out with Battlestar Galactica.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The plot was full of holes.
Bah-dum Dum!
For those fans in the UK: apparently (after listening to Front Row) the first episode will show on TV on Saturday 26th March. Looking forward to it...
I'd better go and buy a sofa so I'll have something to hide behind if Davros appears...
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CBC was the first international network to license the new Dr. Who series - this was announced last October. The series starts on Tuesday April 5th, at 8pm in most time zones. I'm very impressed - that's only a few days behind the UK broadcast schedule. Its been so many years since I the heyday of Tom Baker - http://www.tombaker.tv/ - Let's hope the next 13 episodes are worth watching!
Nope, Google has never carried binaries (nor did Dejanews). If you don't have a good news feed use the torrent a few people posted!
Publically funded through the television license at, what is it, 100 pounds a year?
Maybe they're leaking it to help make the case for establishing a new computer tax as people are able to watch license-funded TV without paying the TV license.
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Knock KNock !
whose there ?
Dr !
Dr Who ?
Wow, how did you guess !
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Feel free to download it to your PC till someone chooses this series over a show like Mansquito.
Surprised noone's chimed in with the KLF^WTimelords' version of "Doctorin' the Tardis." The video is.... amusing...
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With any luck, BBC America will decide to show it. While I wouldn't mind having it on PBS, I'd rather have it on BBC America so I don't have to worry about whether or not any of my local stations pick it up. (Although I'm pretty sure KCET would, as they showed it for at least a decade when I was growing up.)
If anyone else wants to see BBC America show Dr. Who, go fill out this form on their site and let them know that you want to see it!
-- Tim Buchheim
What's the theme-tune like?
THe bbc has to give the british public the best entertainment. If it fails to do so it loses the ability to charge liscence fees, and it would be impossible to give EVERYONE in the TV and radio world with news and television channels without adverts. They're possiblly the bigest ad free network in the world to not charge any subscribtion. (they do charge uk viewers £9 a month but that's a lscence fee not subscription )
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Gabbo..GABBO..GABBO!!! Or Gump Happens. I doubt this was an intentional leak. The name of the game is anticipation not giving it up 3 weeks before the start date.
...there actually have been Doctor Who stage shows. Amateur things, but scripts do exist (I remember one way back about 20 years ago)...
but if it turns out to be any good.
the internet is a harsh critic.
Well I just watched it, and yes it is complete. I think for the first time they just introduced the Doctor without the usual metamorphis when they go from one doctor to the new guy, where is the fun in that?!? I can't wait for more episodes, unfortunately I'm gonna have to download them because no TV stations here will carry the new series. :( Yep, F/X are as cheesy as they've always been, but you watch it for the story more then the effects right?!?
No, doing that is illegal.
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Maybe not, but they are every bit as tasty as bears.
Metallica attributed their mass success to bootleggers back in the days. Then in later decades they turned on their own fanbase and those responsible for their rise to stardom by selling out and suing. This brings to mind what would happen if this bootlegging was indeed the cause of the Dr. Who success, and if the media company would eventually turn on the bootleggers, regardless of their role in the success of the series or not? For some reason, I find it very likely this will happen.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
"Son of a bitch" and "bastard" are not mutually exclusive categories. Although I'm not sure if "bastard" is strictly applicable to dogs, since the majority that aren't owned by crazy old ladies aren't married.
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It's awesome!!! The Doctor is back and Chris Eggleston is BRILLIANT!
--Akshun J
Someone got hold of the Tardis ....
will this TV show's release onto the Internet damage the ratings considerably for the BBC?
Or will the BBC, being a government funded media not dependent on ad revenue, even care about ratings?
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No, what's on second... Who's on first.
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Right.
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Ah man. I'd take me about 3 weeks to download the movie file...taking into consideration my 26.4 kbps dial-up connection. By then the series will probably be over anyway.
Pat
If you're a long-time Who fan, I recommend the ABOUT TIME series of Dr. Who unauthorized guides. Volumes 3 and 4 are currently available, covering the Pertwee era, and all but the last Tom Baker season. Volume 5, covering the end of Tom Baker and the Davison era, should be out this month.
Authors are Lawrence Mills (who's written Who novels, and I believe is the driving force behind Faction Paradox, a Who novel spin-off (sort of....), and Tat Wood.
I have a hard time putting the thing down. It doesn't recap the stories extensively, but it does provide a reminder as to which story is being discussed; details on what we learned about the Doctor, his companions, his people, and various planets and aliens; things to watch for (one for each episode of the story); and the cliffhangers.
In addition, there are sidebars discussing a wide variety of topics; "Things that don't make sense"; an analysis of what the story had to say about current events, and why it might have been written; and (certainly not least) lore, facts of interest regarding the goings on behind the scenes of the series. For example, evidently John Leeson (the voice of K-9) came in for practice and participated by crawling around the floor on all fours; Tom Baker really thought the show would be better without companions at all (although he evidently got along very well w/ Leeson, and presumably got along well w/ Lalla Ward (Romana II) at some point, since they were married....); and Mary Tamm (Romana I) got involved through her college roommate Louise Jameson (Leela).
I highly recommend the books. The production values aren't great (they're paperbacks, the covers are basically laminated, and the lamination is starting to come apart on mine), but the contents more than make up for that.
R David Francis
Well, somewhat near perfect. I keep getting an odd error which causes the elevating platform to be stuck in the "up" position, with the Davros target glitched, and all three Dalek gates glued shut. Everything else works fine, but that blasted platform randomly goes kaput.
And I still haven't figured out exactly what causes the "Transmat Oops" payoff. Sometimes, when you hit the Transmat target, instead of getting a new doctor, the display briefly shows the fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) morph into a cow. The bonus is called "Transmat Oops" and it remains a mystery even to those who are obsessive about such things.
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and a good trick it is! it's working, getting people really 'pumped' on seeing the rest.
I was a little surprised that the episode isn't like some Hollywood blockbuster movie, and isn't a complete "re-imagining" like BSG. This was just a fun romp, that sort of reminded me of Shaun of the Dead in it's tone. Yet still traditional enough to be Doctor Who as it always was - a fun show that doesn't take itself as seriously as some of the other sci-fi TV shows. There's plenty of them already. Doctor Who offers something different.
I had to watch it, couldn't resist. It was so much fun! Can't wait for the rest of the series!
I hate Most Brit comedy. I can't understand what the heck they are saying half the time. But Dr. Who was a TRULY awesome show. REALLY REALLY bad FX but really creative and interesting SCI-FI plots sprinkled with a touch of tongue-in-cheek humor (at least thats the way I see it).
GSG
So, how about some people start sharing it on a proper P2P network like Gnutella, eh? Nobody has USENET feeds anymore, and Bittorrent is terrible for both speed, and security. And unlike a Torrent site, you can't easily shut down Gnutella.
Orbital made an awesome awesome awesome super great cover of The Theme on their next to last record -- "The Altogether"; It's track seven.
That track will give you religion, as you must be a fan.
Read Heinlein's 1953 Revolt in 2100, now more than ever.
If the original source is pre-broadcast then the quality could easily be much lower if it was encoded by someone who didn't know what they were doing.
All things being equal an encode taken from a broadcast receiver would be equally likely to be of low quality.
However all things are not equal. Since the people who would have access to television programmes prior to broadcast are more likely to know what they are doing.
Even if J Random Viewer has the same skill level as a broadcast engineer they have source material which has been mangled (in the case of some CATV systems mangled more than once) as a side effect of being broadcast.
Oh, so you've seen it, then?
Crap. Utter crap.
The plot is dire, lacking even quality Dr Who campness. The acting is awful (and Christopher Eccleston at least should have been capable of better). The dialogue is stilted and largely irrelevant to the actual plot (such as it is), and to top it all off the entire episode looks like it was made on a budget of about £12.50.
And apart from all the generically dire aspects of it, it looks like they've tried to make it so "English" that it just ends up being a caricature of itself. London bus? Check. Thick regional accents? Check. Prominent london landmarks every five seonds? Check. Jesus...
I never, ever thought I'd find myself saying this, but I actually enjoyed the dire americanised Dr Who "Special" (special... in the same way a turd in the bed isn't mundane) more. Sure, it completely dispensed with the Dr Who universe almost in its entirety, the Doctor is half-human, and even snogs his assistant, but at least by pretending it wasn't Dr Who you could derive some vague enjoyment out of it.
If this was on at 16:00 on after-school kids TV, it'd be fantastic. As anything else, it dies on its Gallifreyan arse.
Everything in moderation, including moderation itself
...has the first episode. I saw it. :-D I liked it :-D
I've gotta say, it hasn't lost that "campy" ad-hoc props department feel, but now we have the magic of digital film editing, so it looks much much better. So for all you old fans, you'll see some refreshing memories of the old, and the yet-to-be fans, it's not so 'cheap' that you won't want to watch it. (The sonic screwdriver finally has more than silly little sound, it has pretty light effects now too..hehe).
9th Dr. I like him. He's no Tom Baker....but he's right up there with him, (and this is just the first episode). I think the fans are really gonna like the new Doc....(I do, and I've seen every episode made, even the hokey Hollywood Peter Cushing Dr.Who movies) This new Dr. is very loveable, but he's got a sharper edge that I like, (if I were writing and casting for Dr. Who, Christopher Eccelston is very close to what I would've cast for.) He's new, he's hip, he's funny, and like all the Dr's (except Mr. Grumpy-pants Doc #1..)...he rushes from thought to thought like he can't spew them out fast enough.
Christopher Eccelston, did a little research on him. Not only has he been in a few feature films, but he's done a lot of theatre. I expect good things to come from him.
Billie Piper...*drOOOooooOOOL*...first thing that comes to mind, "Come to Butt-head". She's a hawtie. Not a dingy broad like some of the other Doc side-kicks. She's somewhere between her "supermodel look" days and her "superchuck look" days in body type. The hot girl next door look who looks like she might actually be a real live person and doesn't sit over the toilet with her finger down her throat..."*BARRRRF*.....am I pretty yet?"...
I'm no Fanboi, but this is a show worth grabbing in the States, so start writing letters to your local PBS stations, Sci-Fi channel, anyone else think of, I think it'll be worth your time.
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Even better:
Knock knock!
Who's there?
Dr Who
Dr Who who?
Yeah!
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I've seen the previews and they look terrible - I think people would prefer the Britsih versions if given a chance. But a lot of people will probably not see them...
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