There is a very real chance that the person who wrote the synopsis haven't even seen the 50th. Who would be important enough to have seen the 50th (which is under very strict confidentiality) and yet low down enough that they're the person who writes TV synopsis-es? If it was someone higher up in the BBC they wouldn't be stupid enough to spoil something like that, and if it was someone lower down why would they even have seen the 50th?
Chances are someone at the Finish BBC who wasn't a huge fan was told to write a synopsis based on what we know and guessed some of the details.
Basically, don't take these as fact at all. It's possible but unlikely. The BBC are holding off until as close to the 50th as possible to give out details, so the time they'd send out TV synopses is most likely a week or two away.
[QUOTE=Freeze;42732270]There is a very real chance that the person who wrote the synopsis haven't even seen the 50th. Who would be important enough to have seen the 50th (which is under very strict confidentiality) and yet low down enough that they're the person who writes TV synopsis-es? If it was someone higher up in the BBC they wouldn't be stupid enough to spoil something like that, and if it was someone lower down why would they even have seen the 50th?
Chances are someone at the Finish BBC who wasn't a huge fan was told to write a synopsis based on what we know and guessed some of the details.
Basically, don't take these as fact at all. It's possible but unlikely. The BBC are holding off until as close to the 50th as possible to give out details, so the time they'd send out TV synopses is most likely a week or two away.[/QUOTE]
BBC writes it, sends it out, and a foreign TV listings website puts it up when they receive it not realising it's embargo'd. It's just a synopsis not a plot detail, legally it has to be out in the next week or so anyway so magazines can put it in print. It's not totally farfetched to think it's been sent out already.
Same has happened with nearly every episode of Series 8, most notably The Name of the Doctor.
A foreign TV listings company really has no reason to make up a TV listing do they? It's not like they're sitting there saying "hey this little known TV show has a huge following overseas, let's make up some bullshit and put it on our website so everybody who uses our services can be fooled on the off chance somebody somewhere will post it on a forum"
A few people now have seen the 50th. Several people working at the BBFC, and other film classifiers across the world have seen it. They've also seen the trailers and the prequels. That's the thing with cinema-showings. A lot more people are going to see the 50th before it airs than would see an average episode. Also crew had a screening.
[editline]2nd November 2013[/editline]
Basically, incase you've not been here during the pre-hype for an episode before. This is what happens:
-BBC writes synopsis for listings mags/websites
-BBC sends it out. Not just Doctor Who. That entire week worth of programming will go out together.
-In the case of important stuff like this, it may be embargo'd till a certain date. But not for long because these mags need to fly into production pretty quickly.
-Some foreign company doesn't pay attention and foolishly puts it up early. Or maybe they just have different rules they need to comply with.
It has happened every year since the show came back.
I don't think they deliberately made up details, I think the person who wrote the synopsis thinks that's what's going to happen based off of already known info.
You can't say 'It's just a synopsis' while also saying 'Which changes everything we thought we knew about Hurt on it's head.' It's either a big detail or nothing much, not both. :v
EDIT: I understand how it works, but the 50th isn't your average Doctor Who episode. They will be doing things slightly differently around it, and certainly if it's info that 'changes everything we thought we knew about Hurt on it's head.' they wouldn't just give it out (I'd expect) like that, they have no reason to. The 50th only happens once and they want to make sure they get it right and unspoiled.
[QUOTE=Freeze;42732498]I don't think they deliberately made up details, I think the person who wrote the synopsis thinks that's what's going to happen based off of already known info.[/QUOTE]
In Finland? Over here that's a possibility as a good 10 million watch the show. But Finland?
I doubt it's as watched and marketed as anything else in a different language. I imagine it's a tiny cult show. The chances of the guy:
A) Watches the show enough to make a guess and
b) Having the balls to not write "N/A" and instead make something up
are pretty miniscule. But yeah it's just a synopsis. In the sense it's not a major leak, just turns a tiny online fan theory (that a few thousand people in the world know about) on it's head.
[QUOTE]'Me, You And Doctor Who', a special episode of The Culture Show, will air at 9.30pm on Friday 22 November on BBC Two.
Lifelong fan Matthew Sweet explores the cultural significance of the BBC’s longest running TV drama, arguing that it’s one of the most important cultural artefacts of modern Britain. Put simply, Doctor Who matters. He’ll examine how the show has become a cultural force in its own right and tell the stories of some of the unsung cultural heroes, who pioneered its innovative music, design and storytelling.[/QUOTE]
I may try to avoid the Children in Need clip - depending on length. I don't want to pay for cinema tickets and then sit through a scene I've already watched before.
[editline]2nd November 2013[/editline]
I would prefer to watch it all blind, bar a trailer :)
I'm actually debating going cinema.
It would mean getting there so very early to insure a decent seat. It's going to be packed.
I'm not even going to watch any trailers with clips in it.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;42732994]I'm actually debating going cinema.
It would mean getting there so very early to insure a decent seat. It's going to be packed.[/QUOTE]
You didn't get to reserve seats?
Blackburn Vue had hardly filled up after 24 hours booking :v: <3 Still 1/4 free for advance booking - depends on how many people "just turn up."
Where I live in Scotland we waited a good few days before booking our tickets and it was fine - Doctor Who obviously isn't very popular round this area.
Official site is sporting a golden theme
[img]http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5673/ojjf.png[/img]
I only booked today and I got really good seats for me and a friend.
I can't wait to see the 3D TARDIS entrance.
[video=youtube;pe7eelednbs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe7eelednbs[/video]
How come nobody has posted this yet? It came out yesterday.
Here's the full song btw. [url]http://youtu.be/4IQzZTmp3uw[/url]
I wasn't aware it had been uploaded - because xandercom hasn't gone on an arrogance rampage on DS, yet.
I saw it but I didn't like it at all.
It's cool but I prefer that other Capaldi one
[QUOTE=LinkMandos;42734126][video=youtube;pe7eelednbs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe7eelednbs[/video]
How come nobody has posted this yet? It came out yesterday.
Here's the full song btw. [url]http://youtu.be/4IQzZTmp3uw[/url][/QUOTE]
It's a good song, I give him that, but I don't really feel blown away by this one. Possibly due to the reuse of effects from his Capaldi intro.
I'm more of a fan of this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmH0Wi__Qu0[/media]
I like this one too if were going to post fan made intro scenes now.
[video=youtube;ZDuORTbSRXM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDuORTbSRXM[/video]
I was just about to buy tickets, and then I find out that it's sold out at both theaters in my city.
Great.
I want the TARDIS to go through a clock spiral in the new intro:
[t]http://static8.depositphotos.com/1323882/798/i/450/dep_7987551-Time-Spiral.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Grizz;42733038]You didn't get to reserve seats?
Blackburn Vue had hardly filled up after 24 hours booking :v: <3 Still 1/4 free for advance booking - depends on how many people "just turn up."[/QUOTE]
Can't do reserve seats in my scummy Luton cinema :'(
You're from Luton Dan?
Sorry for your loss.
Then again I'm back in Stevenage till after Christmas..
[QUOTE=Acezorz;42741673]You're from Luton Dan?
Sorry for your loss.
Then again I'm back in Stevenage till after Christmas..[/QUOTE]
Worse. I'm from Dunstable which Ricky Gervais once described as "full of white trash". We don't even have a cinema. Luton is where I go to uni, and shop, and cinema, and spend most my life.
The more I think about it, I'd rather not watch it with fellow Lutonians in a Luton cinema. On the first screening of Star Trek: In To Darkness (3D) the screen just shut down 30 minutes before the end and everybody had to leave. They played the first ten minutes or so of Spiderman (in 3D) with a green tint. The Hobbit (3D) was out of sync and not fit into the screen.
That was back when I had a cinema card and could afford to see films multiple times in 3D. I don't know how I'd react if The Day of the Doctor shut down halfway in and came back up in shades of green.
I think I'll stay home.
I was gonna get tickets for the Leicester Square Odeon, it's right down the road from where I work and it's where all the film premieres are but that sold out very quickly.
[QUOTE=Acezorz;42741765]I was gonna get tickets for the Leicester Square Odeon, it's right down the road from where I work and it's where all the film premieres are but that sold out very quickly.[/QUOTE]
Ah yeah, I think the Iron Man 3 premiere was there. I was just walking down the road not paying attention when I found myself standing on a red carpet next to a red sports car that said "STARK" on the license plate. Security took me away, apparently I walked right through security and nobody noticed. So I walked the Iron Man 3 red carpet.
Will Day of the Doctor have a red carpet event? Probably not as everybody is at the convention. But it would be nice. I could gatecrash that too.
Probably not, but that would be cool.
Do you reckon 12th Doctor will have a new title sequence? I'm just hoping we get to do it again. That would be amazing.
7 title sequence variations in 15 episodes might be a bit much :v:
I think they will just change Matt's face to Peter's.
Yeah I hope for at least his first series the keep the previous one and change the face. A bit of continuity. Keep the TARDIS interior too.
[editline]3rd November 2013[/editline]
It's just nice seeing The Doctor use a TARDIS you associate with The Doctor. It helps the transition process.
It was great seeing Matt at the Coral-Tardis in The Doctors Wife. The way he used it effortlessly reminded you he's the same man he was before.
There is no way in hell they are changing the TARDIS interior for at least the next season, they spent a FORTUNE on that thing. Most expensive TARDIS yet I believe.
And it looks amazing.
It was a fortune they didn't really need to spend. I really love it, it's the best one yet. But it wasn't entirely needed. That fortune could've been put towards other things.
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