Doctor Who (1963 - present)

Oh yes, she's lovely :) .

On the visuals thing, the scene where the Doctor leads Clara from the Tardis and then she opens her eyes and she (and us) sees Akhaten was breathtaking ... have been watching some Pertwee and Baker-era stuff recently, and couldn't help thinking that the effects bods from back then would've given their right arms for both the SFX technology and the budget available to the programme's makers today.

Alien meets Ice Station Zebra. A very lazy script.

British TV today is sorely lacking decent screenwriters.

And I forgot to mention ET. Ice Warrior phone home. Bollocks.

Screen writing isn't easy to break into. At least so I hear from friends who try.

Still, I liked the Ice Warrior, and as the Ultravox reference is a sure fire way of getting a thumbs up from me.

Gatiss generally seems to borrow ideas and references, I think, from what I remember off his previous scripts. There's always something familiar.

Ravenstone wrote:

Gatiss generally seems to borrow ideas and references, I think, from what I remember off his previous scripts. There's always something familiar.

Was that Gatiss? I didn't stay for the credits. Yeah, there was a lot of Hammer in his League of Gentleman stuff, but that seemed better handled to me.

BTW, I only watched Dr Who to try and find some common creative ground with you. ;)

Oh. I really enjoyed it ... could tell that Alien/The Thing were influences, but wasn't bothered by that.

Am off to this on Thursday night -

https://belfastfilmfestival.ticketsolve.com/shows/873491944/events

Sorry to be a nag but...

I haven't watched an episode since Amy departed, have I missed anything good?

I can download back episodes if directed to some good ones.

Erica Ambler wrote:

Was that Gatiss? I didn't stay for the credits. Yeah, there was a lot of Hammer in his League of Gentleman stuff, but that seemed better handled to me.

BTW, I only watched Dr Who to try and find some common creative ground with you. ;)

Writer's name appears at the beginning of the episode.

You're such a tease lol. But you should remember that - artistically - I'm more inspired by Blake's Seven. Much more morally ambiguous.

Don't forget the new British commemorative stamps

Yep, got a set last week :geek: .

Mrs Aural Sects wrote:

Don't forget the new British commemorative stamps

Very nice I must invest in a set myself....even though I generally try to blot Tennant and McCoy from my memory altogether.

Mmmm ... Colin Baker's been known to divide opinion too, and the general consensus on McGann seems to be that he was a good Doctor in an otherwise ill-conceived project.

From 'vintage' Who, my favourite is Tom Baker ... since it came back, wasn't MASSIVELY keen on Eccelston (too 'Mancunian tough guy' for my tastes), but Tennant and Smith I like muchly.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Oh. I really enjoyed it ... could tell that Alien/The Thing were influences, but wasn't bothered by that.

Am off to this on Thursday night -

https://belfastfilmfestival.ticketsolve.com/shows/873491944/events

This was fun ... there was some audience chuckling at some of the aspects that hadn't dated terribly well (well, it was a story from 1971 after all. Fortunately, there was equal lolling at the intentionally funny bits ... just as well, seeing as Terrance Dicks was there to introduce it and stayed to watch). Roger Delgado's Master was in full-on Bond villain mode in this, intending to intercept a nerve-gas missile that the army were going to dump in the ocean and launch it at a London-based international peace conference, triggering World War 3 (after which he'd take over, naturally).

Posters for the remaining 4 episodes -















'Hide' had its fair share of 'heebie-jeebies', but ultimately turned out to be rather sweet. The semi-scientific explanation for the 'ghost' was pleasing, as was seeing the orange spacesuit from the Tennant era again :) .

lachesis wrote:

Mrs Aural Sects wrote:

Don't forget the new British commemorative stamps

Very nice I must invest in a set myself....even though I generally try to blot Tennant and McCoy from my memory altogether.

Thanks for remembering me I immediately ordered myself a set. :cheers:

Well, the posters look promising!

So THAT'S what the mentioned-in-Matt's-first-ever-episode Tardis library and swimming pool look like ...

New episode?

I really loved the Crimson Horror which was easily the best episode this part of the season with Jenny Madmae Vastar & Strax thrown in for good fun. Diana Rigg was a very good if tragic villain, her daugther made an excellent victim. (now there is a Bondgirl for the near future!)

Brilliant ... Victorian 'steampunk' horror with laughs, essentially. Terrific stuff :) .

Recently finished watching the Tom Baker-starring 'Nightmare Of Eden', and have started onto 'The Seeds Of Doom' (also with him) .

I preferred last week's, even with the cop out "it was all a dream" shower sequence ending. This week's was too short for everything that was in it. And that Victorian triumvirate certainly deserve far more screen time.

Looks like next week is a creche on the TARDIS :(

With The Doctor's Wife, Neil Gaiman found a new way to look at the Doctor's 'relationship' with the Tardis ... and in Nightmare In Silver, he found new things to do with the Cybermen.

Damn, he's good :) .

Finished The Seeds Of Doom ... cracking stuff, there was a 'smashing through a skylight' rescue of Sarah-Jane in one of the episodes that wouldn't have shamed Bond. Have moved onto The Deadly Assassin, another Tom Baker story (interesting 'wood-panelled' Tardis interior in it).

Just a heads up ....

BBC America accidentally shipped DVD copies of Series 7, Part 2 early, which means a handful of fans have access to the series finale The Name of the Doctor a week in advance.

Some pictures were going around on the internet and the BBC confirmed the mishap. (The pic below is not mine, I'm not that fortunate.)



So for those of you who don't want it to be spoiled, you might want to avoid Doctor Who sites and such things for the rest of the week because information on how it ends has already hit the web.

Yeah, will be doing my best to avoid spoilers :| .