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Happy 50th Doctor Who
beaverdownunder writes "To commemorate 50 years of the Tardis, today the BBC is airing a 75 minute special finally revealing the secrets of the Time War. What did you think of the special? And what's your fondest memory of Who? And what about that Capaldi guy?"
Okian Warrior pointed out today's Google doodle too.
It's only just started this minute.
Troughton FTW.
Pity so much of his stuff has been lost as he was such a great character; the development past grumpy educational granddad to the different forms we know today.
for nerds! I don't know any that like that garbage. We're all sci-fi fans so we instead like shows like Star Trek or Stargate. What's next? Gossip about Dexter?
Although the Tardis has its many fans worldwide, it's most popular in the UK. Which proves once again that it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
(Disclaimer: I don't know if that's really true, but it was necessary to construct the above "joke".)
The couch has been moved a metre forward from the wall, and I have adopted the traditional viewing position.
And here come the Daleks.
EXTERMINATE!
So there I was, scribbling down some notes off the PC screen by hand, when I reached for the keyboard and Ctrl-S'd.
It all makes sense now....Dr. Who was on the grassy knoll the whole time
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I never could stand Doctor Who, new or old. I've tried several time, but it's just too hokey..
I assume this will show up on iTunes some time later this week (last season, they had every episode the day after)? Anywhere else?
Why are Internet audiences still apparently treated as second-class?
That was pretty fun! I wasted 10 regenerations trying to get past the Crying Angel in the graveyard.
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I haven't seen much of the old series, but I've been watching the revival up through about 2009. I've lost almost all interest though. Nearly every show has multiple deus ex machina, or should I say science ex machina. He lives in a world of the most crazy hocus-pocus magic I've ever seen, but it's supposed to be alright since a quick spouting of psuedoscientific technobabble can explain away any and all supernatural phenomena. It's all the excitement of a really weird supernatural universe, yet within the comfortable box of scientific naturalism.
Enough said.
What Google doodle? Was it yesterday?
To all the crybabies:
Complaining about Doctor Who for not being scientifically accurate is as stupid as complaining about The Lord of The Rings for not being historically accurate. Now, go f**k yourself.
My favorite doctor is Tom Baker... all the energy, the scarf, the huge grin, the way he could challenge just about any evil, despite the odds.
I loved how the Doctor got pulled into locating the keys to time:
White Guardian asks the Doctor to locate the keys.
Doctor: What happens if I say no?
White Guardian: Nothing
Doctor: Nothing?
White Guardian: Nothing
Doctor: Nothing???
White Guardian: Nothing... ever
I must admit, though, one of the best moments is when BBC revived Dr. Who and had an episode (maybe the first episode) where the Doctor takes Rose billions of years into the future, with the sun about to engulf the earth. To the Doctor, it's just all part of the normal cycle of things... just on a larger scale. But Rose is overcome watching the extinction of her planet. It makes you realize that the Doctor is NOT just a guy with a time machine... he's an alien, with a completely alien view of the universe.
What number system do Time Lords use?
If its Hexadecimal then 12 regenerations iis not a problem for a while at least.
It should be on Google's home page, starting Saturday.
Perhaps it's not Saturday yet where you are? Or maybe it's locked by country-code or something?
Dr. Who, Star [Wars|Gate|Dreck]. Too retro. I'm old enough to remember when they all started. They had their day. They need to disappear into history.
Even Ender's Game is retro. I read the original short story when it came out in 1977. It was a good short story. Then it was turned into a long, dreary series. Then a movie. Now Lionsgate is planning a second movie or TV series. Are we going to have to put up with that whole series as movies?
This week "Hunger Games #2", which is at least original. Its first copy is "Divergent", coming out soon. There's a whole section of post-apocalyptic teen novels in print, and, the vampire/werewolf/zombie thing having run its course, we'll be seeing more of those. There's a glut of "chosen one teen hero" movies. It worked for Harry Potter, but it's been downhill since then. Low point: "The Last Airbender", or "Why M. Night Shyamalan sucks".
(Recommended reading in that genre: "Stormdancer", by Jay Kristoff. It's Japanese drama by a gaijin, but it's well executed and has film potential.)
The zygon framing story seemed a bit forced - it just distracted from the more important events. The main story went very, very nicely. Canon consistancy achieved quite well (Packed full of references to the classic series), though I think I saw them acknowledge the existance of the movie in there - and that alone is a serious, serious problem.
Fans *deny* that movie.
And the temporal hypercomputer trick? That was just very cool.
The best 50th anniversary coverage I've seen by far is over the The Register. (Yes, the same publication you read to find out what will be on SlashDot tomorrow.)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/23/doctor_who_is_50/
I am just wondering who will empty the cup of tea and find Gallifrey. It will make it more interesting if a few Time Lords can be brought into future plots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBxHd3bMhg
The mystery of the Time War is part of the mythos - don't explain it, then it's just a thing. When Tennant told the Master about "the could-have-been-King" that was awesome - left you just enough to wonder and imagine what happened. BBC is killing Dr Who by commoditizing it.
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I seem to be massively in the minority here, but I wasn't impressed with the 50th anniversary Dr Who episode.
Aside from the randomness of running around with Queen Elizabeth I, I don't understand why writers feel it is necessary for them to retcon an established story's past. We've always known that the Doctor did something awful that resulted in the destruction of Gallifrey and the Daleks, and although it ended the Time War and saved the galaxy, it is something the Doctor has always felt very guilty about.
However, the writers of the show decided that they could fix this problem by "freezing" Gallifrey in a fixed point in time, rather than burning it. This, they reasoned, would result in the planet and the Time Lords being saved, but the Daleks being destroyed. How? Simple - they would destroy one another in the crossfire.
No. No, they wouldn't. There are millions and millions of Dalek ships surrounding the planet. They wouldn't just keep firing once the planet popped out of existence, wiping all their forces out. They would stop as soon as Gallifrey vanished, leaving the galaxy to attempt to face (and lose to) a huge army of rampaging Daleks. And even if they did something kill each other in the crossfire, the Daleks on the surface of the planet are just as frozen in time as the citizens of the world.
Why change what the Doctor did? Why remove that flaw, in an attempt to make him whiter-than-white?! The destruction of his homeworld was the Doctor's burden to shoulder. Taking that away makes him less human (I'm aware of the irony there, as he's actually an alien).
I just got back from watching the simulcast, and it was so fantastic, I can hardly see straight!
"Inhaler!"
My favorites: The "War Doctor", the Brigadier's daughter, Dr Who - King of England(!), Gallifrey Stands!, and my VERY favorite, the "Curator". Holy crap, I wasn't expecting the Curator!
Night of the Doctor mini prequel on BBC YouTube Channel http://bit.ly/1cJgVLP the 8th Doctor regenerates into the John Hurt #drwho
Really kept the pace up and "I wonder what will happen next" factor at a high level all the way through. And the John Hurt character was brilliant and quite different from what we had been led to expect. As for the nerds currently moaning about "the canon" because their favourite pet theories have been exterminated, calm down and have a jelly baby.
Great basis to take the series forward from too once the equally intriguing looking Xmas episode has played out.
The curator, when done talking to Matt Smith, had pulled that little rumpled bag from his coat pocket and said the magic words...
"Jelly Baby?"
...the Time War since the only Daleks defeated were the ones in close orbit around Gallifrey, which certainly was not all of them.
I don't expect perfection from Doctor Who script-writing but I expected better.
Currently airing on BBC's Red Button and soon to be on demand on iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03lv3mj/The_Five(ish)_Doctors_Reboot/ is The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot a self parody by the former Doctors.
With that nickname your campaign will soon become flaccid here. I know, I peeked behind the Tardis door.
So does this mean that John Hurt is the nineth doctor and Christopher Eccleston is the tenth? Or is John Hurt the 12 doctor? Does it go by when they were introduced on the show or by the Doctor's age? Or is John Hurt not getting counted? Paul McGann was in only one episode and he counts. Actually we never saw Paul McGann turn into John Hurt and we really didn't see John Hurt turn into Christopher Eccleston (he was turning into another doctor but I guess they couldn't get Christopher Eccleston to do a cameo) so in the future could they just keep pulling out more and more past doctors? The nerd in me wants to know!
I am missing out otherwise..
I looked through the site and I am missing it completely...
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them.
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, a 30-minute "behind the scenes" written and directed by 5th Doctor Peter Davison...
It's got everyone. Including cameo appearances by Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen (~13:00)...
Happy 50th Doctor Who
50th what? When you're discussing a show where one of the main features is the regular re-casting of the lead actor, and said actors are referred to by their ordinal numbers... just sayin'.
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.... great story, with a great ending.
Surprised they managed to got David Tenant and Billy Piper to sign for it.
Clara Oswald is a gorgeous girl !!!
So, Rose was, notionally, not really Rose here, but the interface to the machine consciousness. Still, it's worth pointing out that we have no way to verify that-- it could be indeed be Rose in her Bad Wolf phase, when she had great power over time, and could plausibly have appeared back at the Time War, and just pretend to be the avitar of the machine.
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The appearance of the Curator had my head scratching for a bit. I mean, how. We saw that regeneration, nothing weird about that. Seems like a bit of a problem. I don't care about canon, but what would the nerds think.
I forgot about the Watcher. Loophole; problem solved.
ROT-13: Tnyyvserl Oheaf.
.... damnit!
... ended with a scene in which Newhart wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette, who had played Emily, his wife from The Bob Newhart Show. He realizes (in a satire of a famous plot element in the television series Dallas a few years earlier) that the entire eight-year Newhart series had been a single nightmare of Dr. Bob Hartley's, provoked by "eating too much Japanese food before going to bed."
Quit REWRITING "History"
Last EP of Newhart:
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Pass it on.
The BBC also made a 50th anniversary drama "An Adventure in Space and Time" about the William Hartnell era, which was excellent.
I am so happy he is being replaced. Imo he is the worst of the new doctors yet (and clara is very two-dimensional as well). ... good idea, but so many stupid catchphrases that make no sense except being there for the sake of being there.
The episode was so/so
First I think the 50th special was amazing! It was in my favorite episode of all time. They did such a great job of bringing all 3 Doctors together. And John Hurt did a superb job! But then he's always been a top level actor. My favorite Doctor use to be Tom Baker. I loved him. I could not wait for Doctor Who with him to come on every week. But since David and Matt have come onboard, I now have 3 favorites. I find myself unable to choose between the 3. I find them of equal talent, just different. I am very, very excited to see the new Doctor in his first episode. I WANT A TARDIS!!
I'm old, not dead. Well that's my 2 cents worth, your mileage may vary. I say what I think, not what you want to hear.
Don't forget the alternate ending of Breaking Bad. In the Breaking Bad alternate ending video, star Bryan Cranston as wakes up in bed next to former Malcom in the Middle co-star Jane Kaczmarek. Cranston, who played Hal on the show, tells wife Lois (who was played by Kaczmarek) that he had a terrible nightmare. He says he dreamed he was a drug dealer who cooked meth and killed people. “I told you not to eat those deep-fried Twinkies,” Lois says. Hal tells her he dreamed he was married to a beautiful, tall blond and she tells him to “keep dreaming!” Hal seems very distraught about his ‘nightmare’ and Lois says, “You grow a beard and suddenly you think you’re Osama bin Laden.” At the end of the video, Hal tries to make a move on Lois like Walter White did on Anna Gunn’s character Skyler White on Breaking Bad. Louis tells Hal to stop it because she’s trying to sleep. He turns out the light and tells her “Goodnight Skyler.” Oh, and Walter White’s Heisenberg hat is notably slung on the seat of a chair in the bedroom throughout all this.
If you haven't seen the other 50th anniversary goodies, I highly recommend them. "An Adventure in Space and Time" is basically the real-life story about Doctor Who's beginning with William Hartnell (http://www.bbcamerica.com/doctor-who/guide/50th-specials/an-adventure-in-space-and-time/) and the "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot" is an amusing story about the classic doctors trying to get into the 50th anniversary special with some nice jokes for knowledgeable fans of the classic series (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01m3kfy).
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