Watched my first Tom Baker episode, and his first episode!
He's awesome!
Apparently Capaldi, Hurt, and Eccleston were all considered for the 8th Doctor.
Out of the group we only know Eccleston was offered an audition and he turned it down as he didn't like the script.
sauce?
[QUOTE=Freeze;43026974]sauce?[/QUOTE]
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They were discussing this book on GB and somebody posted that those were some of the names in consideration according to the book.
Eccleston said in 2004 he turned down the TV movie.
Could someone please give me a brief overview of the past couple of series and the 50th episode overview? I want to start watching Doctor Who next series but I havent got a clue what is happening. I zoned out around the time of the Tennant doctor.
Do watch the 50th, you'll like it.
[QUOTE=ragawaga;43027749]Could someone please give me a brief overview of the past couple of series and the 50th episode overview? I want to start watching Doctor Who next series but I havent got a clue what is happening. I zoned out around the time of the Tennant doctor.[/QUOTE]
Better. I'll give the info up until the 50th an just watch that? I reccomend not reading this though and just watching it:
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Tenth Doctor started travelling alone. He eventually became The Eleventh Doctor in an explosive regeneration which destroyed the TARDIS. The Eleventh Doctor crash landed in the back garden of a young girl called Amelia Pond. He made friends with Amelia and told her he'd be right back, then he jumped into his TARDIS and disappeared (while he repairs it). Amelia packed her bags and waited patiently but The Doctor never came. 14 years later he finally returned for Amelia, who now calls herself Amy. The two went traveling all over time and space.
Along the way The Doctor realised he was being followed by a mysterious crack in time and space. Anything that touched the crack was immediately erased from existence. The Doctor deduced that the crack must've been caused by a mysterious catastrophic event in the future. Also along his travels people kept warning him that "Silence will fall". A mystery The Doctor couldn't understand.
Amy eventually confesses that the night she ran away with The Doctor was actually her wedding night. She was due to marry a local man called Rory Williams, a nice yet slightly unambitious and cowardly man. The Doctor decides to take Rory on his travels with him and Amy. Along the way The Doctor keeps running into a mysterious woman called River Song who appears to meeting him backwards (they're both time travellers, they keep meeting out of order). The Doctor doesn't know much about River (who knows everything about him), he doesn't even know who she is. All he knows is that she's in prison for murdering somebody and is possibly his future wife.
During one story all the aliens of the universe lock The Doctor in an impenetrable prison. Because they're afraid of him. They're afraid he will start the events that will lead silence to fall. Some mysterious force also captures the TARDIS and destroys it, causing it to explode. The explosion is so powerful it causes cracks in space and time (the cracks we've seen). But long story short, The Doctor fixes it all. Then him, Amy, and Rory whiz off for more adventures.
Eventually The Doctor discovers who River Song is. She is the daughter of Amy and Rory, who was kidnapped by a cult called "The Silence" who altered her DNA so she is part timelord. They then conditioned her to kill the Doctor. The Doctor manages to fake his death, which sends River to prison, he also marries her at the same time (it's complicated). The Silence wanted to kill The Doctor because according to an ancient prophecy he will bring the end of days. The prophecy is:
[QUOTE]"On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the eleventh, when no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer, a Question will be asked, a question that must never, ever be answered. The First Question, the oldest question in the Universe, that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. Doctor Who? Doctor Who?"[/QUOTE]
The Doctor chooses to ignore the prophecy. Keeps traveling with Amy and Rory until an incident with the Weeping Angels causes them to eventually die from Old Age. The Doctor spends many years grieving for his friends alone. He redesigns the TARDIS again in this time. It's here he meets Clara, there's a long story involving Clara dying repeatedly which I won't go into. She's okay now. She doesn't travel with The Doctor though, he just occasionally picks her up. It's with Clara that The Doctor eventually travels to Trenzalore. It turns out Trenzalore is where The Doctor is buried. Apparently it was the site of a great battle, where The Doctor was killed at the end. Though that battle is yet to come, and the question is yet to be asked. But we'll be seeing it very very soon.
And that brings you up to date with show for the 50th.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;43028209]She is the daughter of Amy and Rory, who was kidnapped by a cult called "The Silence" who altered her DNA so she is part timelord..[/QUOTE]
I don't remember the Silence doing that to her? I thought River was part timelord because she was conceived when Amy and Rory made sweet love in the TARDIS in flight?
Wow. That is one impressive-ass 3+ season storyline.
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;43028417]I'm scared that one day he'll come across our fantastic pictures :v:[/QUOTE]
But that would be absolutely....
geronimostic
[QUOTE=Dan2593;43026001]A reliable spoiler guy:
Doesn't say if it's Series 8 or a plan for Series 9[/QUOTE]
Paul Murphy is directing Episodes 3 and 6. So that's two standalone episodes.
On either side of a traditional pre-S6 2-parter slot, though.
[QUOTE=VaSTinY;43028386]I don't remember the Silence doing that to her? I thought River was part timelord because she was conceived when Amy and Rory made sweet love in the TARDIS in flight?[/QUOTE]
No.
That made it possible to make her part Timelord, it was the actual altering that did it.
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[QUOTE=Grizz;43028449]Paul Murphy is directing Episodes 3 and 6. So that's two standalone episodes right there.
On either side of a traditional pre-S6 2-parter slot, though.[/QUOTE]
Yeah already saw that. Ben Wheatley two parter?
He's doing the first two.
So could 1&2 be a two parter?
4&5 could be a two parter too?
Maybe 4 two parters?
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I'm sorry :v:[/QUOTE]
"your mummy my arse"
A proper northern Doctor would be great.
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;43028509][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/iWSvHDW.png[/IMG]
I'm sorry :v:[/QUOTE]
What's the original?
I really liked that image as a kid. But now I look at it closely I realise it looks like The Doctor is pulling the scariest face in the world, so Jack and Rose back away slowly.
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Series 1 has so much nostalgia for me.
Don't get your hopes up for [I]many[/I] two parters - seriously.
Right now a step in the right direction would be a full run of episodes without a split. With a three two parters like the past.
I remember missing an episode of series 1 after seeing the opening minutes of Rose, I think I was unsure of what exactly it was. I rejoined at episode 3 and I think the only episode i've missed out of that now is the second episode and Boom Town and that should be fixed when Christmas comes along.
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Also I want another 3 parter, I liked the master 3 parter at the end of series 3.
The problem with having single episode stories is that they generally feel too rushed.
It'd be much better to flesh things out more and have 2 parters or even 3 parters.
It really depends on the story, some really don't need two parters
The Rebel Flesh episode certainly didn't
I'd love a three-parter again. That's if the end of Series 3 counts as a three-part story.
Funny enough, I'm watching the Sound of Drums again.
[QUOTE=LMB10;43030216]It really depends on the story, some really don't need two parters
The Rebel Flesh episode certainly didn't[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't have worked as a single episode either.
If it was the olden days it would've been 3 25-minute episodes.
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[QUOTE=Sonic Fan;43030368]I'd love a three-parter again. That's if the end of Series 3 counts as a three-part story.
Funny enough, I'm watching the Sound of Drums again.[/QUOTE]
A lot of people don't count it, but I do. Utopia purely exists as a set up to the following episodes. Easily my favourite story, those three episodes. I was so excited every week.
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The guy who played the teacher at the start of DOTD was hinting on Twitter that he'll be back.
Future companion? I hope not, he seemed way too like Rory and Mickey. Why does every modern male companion have to purely exist to be a romantic interest for the female companion. Why do they always have to be bumbling and hopeless? That's the instant impression I got from him.
For once I'd like a girl that isn't feisty and attractive, and a guy that isn't awkward and love struck. My dream TARDIS team is still an awkward shy geeky girl and her slightly over protective dad. It's a dynamic that has never been attempted, and some much more interesting than "THIS GIRL IS REALLY SPECIAL- here's her boyfriend"
I'd like to see a series with a new companion each week - like how David Tennant's specials were done. It'd force the writers to have to build emotion into a character with only 45 minutes to work with.
[QUOTE=Freeze;43030667]I'd like to see a series with a new companion each week - like how David Tennant's specials were done. It'd force the writers to have to build emotion into a character with only 45 minutes to work with.[/QUOTE]
Which would become a disaster.
I couldn't even connect with Tennants post-rose companions because they simply didn't spend time enough on the series. Rose and Ponds are IMO the only companions that were good enough, with Jack and River being right at the top at pop-in and out guests. Clara isn't nearly developed enough to throw her away for a good 1½ seasons.
For one-offs, i'd rather they bring Jack or River in or invent a new part-time companion. Like that fellow 11 was hanging with after the ponds married and divorced. He was a nice chap.
I dont know what it is about clara that makes me like her so much. Her character isn't exactly developed but she's just so good on the show that I don't even mind. The fact that she's a teacher now is really cool though - it just sort of fits. Imagine having a teacher who in their spare time travels through space and time
wait omg
clara is ms frizzle from the magic school bus now
Cass worked well enough for the 120 seconds she had on screen.
Gosh, I didn't realise how that one piece from the start of Day of The Doctor had been from the Slitheen episodes. I knew it so well. That Big Ben crash is just such a great picture for Modern Who.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYbeNSTpRg[/media]
Everytime I hear someone say Fantastic I keep thinking of Eccleston now.
Help. Me.
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