I am curious to know what those are.
Also curious to know if certain writers who pop up every year despite shovelling 'meh' to 'below average' episodes ever get rewritten.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;45757437]I am curious to know what those are.
Also curious to know if certain writers who pop up every year despite shovelling 'meh' to 'below average' episodes ever get rewritten.[/QUOTE]I'd literally be listing more than half of the Doctor Who episodes (also I don't know specifically which ones).
RTD did it to an even higher extent than Moffat. If you read 'A Writer's Tale' that's made very obvious. He really wasn't kidding when he says 'the only scripts I didn't rewrite were Steven Moffat's'.
I don't think people realize how much the showrunners really affect the writing quality. All the Moffat/RTD haters probably have favourite episodes that they think aren't written by them but in reality chances are their favourite episodes ARE partly written by them.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;45757381]Didn't Gaimen's PA or somebody close to him post on GB explaining that his story was cannibalised when he lost the script and had to do a last minute re-write to take in changes Moffat had issued. [b]Including changing the companion from a victorian who had two children as her charges to a modenr day nanny.[/b] And the script was slower paced and eery. The Cybemen didn't even stomp.[/QUOTE]
That reminds me, I thought I heard rumors when Jenna was cast that the new companion would be from Victorian times. Does that mean Clara may've not always been meant to be modern and the Snowmen would've been her introduction proper?
[QUOTE]Steven Moffat has said that there will be more deaths in the upcoming series and that there are “dark times ahead.”
Speaking in the new issue of DWM he says: “It’s a bizarre thing that I always find myself accused of killing off characters, and I think, ‘What on Earth are you talking about? I don’t kill nearly enough people in my fiction!’
He adds: “I’m aware that I have a sentimental tendency to whack people back on their feet again – you can have several deaths in one lifetime, apparently – and I’m aware that that’s a weakness, so I thought in our new, scary universe we’d make sure we off some people, and that would make it more exciting and more visceral. The word I keep using is ‘visceral’.
“For our new Doctor, there are dark times ahead.”[/QUOTE]
Thank you, Steven
[QUOTE=Drewsko;45757673]That reminds me, I thought I heard rumors when Jenna was cast that the new companion would be from Victorian times. Does that mean Clara may've not always been meant to be modern and the Snowmen would've been her introduction proper?[/QUOTE]
I wish it was, the idea of a companion fascinated by objects that we find mundane and everyday would probably make the audience feel like the Doctor does in the presence of companions.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtkWPaTs4A4[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgR6dJMshNo[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EtRI73xudQ[/media]
Q&A is worth it just for Peter's answer (& Moffat's response) for favorite villains :p Lovely message from Peter at the end, too.
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[QUOTE=Grizz;45758814][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgR6dJMshNo[/media][/QUOTE]
God, 1:26 just killed me.
"WOO YOOO WLOWIED FROM TAKING OVAH FROM MAAAAT SMAAAAAAFF"
I would never normally watch the One Show but tonight they have Peter Capaldi.
not even peter capaldi can compel me to watch the one show
They gave him an action figure of himself.
Alex Jones said it had been announced Jenna was leaving? Oops. Researchers getting their interview material from The Mirror? :v:
The new theme was in that segment.
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[url=http://www.diggvideo.com/doctor-who-us-exclusive-new-tardis-design-tour-new-season-sat-87c-bbc-america_4bb2881dd.html]Inside the TARDIS with Michael Pickwoad[/url] - bits of the new title sequence included, by the way.
Psychic paper coming back? Nice nice
[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;45760683]Psychic paper coming back? Nice nice[/QUOTE]
I'll say again: it ever left?
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;45761944]I'll say again: it ever left?[/QUOTE]
thing is it's been so underused in the previous few series that it felt like it was absent even if it did ~technically~ never leave.
Underused?
It's a lazy plot device. It can't be underused, only over. It (like the screwdriver) functions as a get out of jail free card for the writers. I sorta liked how it's vanished, it calls for more inventive writing.
That said I think the only reason it hasn't been used recently is because we've had less infiltration based stories lately.
I would like it if the psychic paper almost backfires on them and gets them into more trouble
Episode 5 is out there now - only one day to go :(
YouTube ad is ready.
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Capaldi Eyes keep flashing up :v:
[QUOTE=krten_2x 4b;45762869]I would like it if the psychic paper almost backfires on them and gets them into more trouble[/QUOTE]
It did for Rose.
I hate how quite a lot of episodes now are some form of "Everybody lives!" or "Love Solves everything". While they weren't bad episodes i didn't like what they did with the Day of the Doctor and the The Time of the Doctor. I really hope that things go back to being quite dark and serious with Capaldi, from what I've read it seems like that might actually happen.
Apparently there is a TARDIS in Parliament Square and The Doctor is on screens on the London Underground.
I'm told the YouTube homepage promotion is tied in to the Parliament Square thing - I'll have to check it out properly. BBC are doing a great job this year.
Like this?
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Apparently Jenna is going on This Morning... right now, This Afternoon.
Also, a submerged TARDIS has interrupted the BBC hippos ident.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEKx6INB1sk[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UDjFFxUrJM[/media]
Sorry I didn't tell anybody about Jenna. I've known for about a week.
I just forgot and assumed Grizz knew all the things.
She's also on Radio 1 if you can stomach Matt Edmondson thinking he's funny. He admitted he knows nothing about Doctor Who and got his audience to do his research for him yesterday.
[editline]22nd August 2014[/editline]
I'm watching This Morning on plus 1. Apparently the Jenna interview is really bad? I guess that's what happens when you hire a bloke from JLS and his wife to present.
This happened on Absolute Radio this morning: [URL]https://audioboo.fm/boos/2414386-doctor-malcolm-tucker[/URL]
Surprised Capaldi isn't in a radio interview. Matt always did Radio 1 with Jenna. He's not doing any interview actually. He'd be pretty great on 6music.
[editline]22nd August 2014[/editline]
I'm guessing at this point the prequel is DVD and cinema only?
Sadness.
what, there's an actual prequel at the cinema viewing? shit i thought it was just a Q&A thing getting streamed
I [I]think[/I] so. It's certainly on the dvd.
It would be silly to only release the prologue story after everybody has seen the main event...
don't worry if it's any good I'm almost certain it'll be online at some point soon
[QUOTE=Freeze;45767025]don't worry if it's any good I'm almost certain it'll be online at some point soon[/QUOTE]
Have you seen it.
Spoiler hounds said it's: [sp]The Doctor erratically flying to different places in time by accident. Includes running into a face from the past. Ends with a dinosaur[/sp]
i have not
but if (somehow) it's not online.. i'll be requesting a copy :v:
[QUOTE=Dan2593;45767310]Have you seen it.
Spoiler hounds said it's: [sp]The Doctor erratically flying to different places in time by accident. Includes running into a face from the past. Ends with a dinosaur[/sp][/QUOTE]
Hopefully not enough to detract from the opening gag of the episode.
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