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Have you watched Shada? debating whether to buy it or wait for a price drop.
And now :
I have the 8th Doctors SHADA as well on cd by Big Finish, must listen to it again.
doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-9-soundtrack-confirmed-for-release-in-2018-86634.htm
We've been waiting for it since forever !
My reaction when I heard the news :
And must the Tardis explode so often?
After show with Moffat interview
The PC stuff in the script fell flat for me
When Jodie Doctor
My guess is the Doctor will have
Possibly my favourite Christmas special so far; less silly than most, but still festive.
The cliffhanger was exciting too. I sort of fall in and out of watching this show to be honest, but I'll definitely be tuning in next year to see how it is.
Until I read the last sentence, I was going to ask how much of the previous Doctors you had seen, and what you had thought of them.
Within the show its been built up for several years if anything the pressures come from fan resistance, I understand why it's happening one reason is the show has gone stale. Female Doctor is not my concern, the next show runner has a poor track record with Doctor Who which worries me.
@MajorDSmythe, I've caught parts of Eccleston, Tennant, Smith and Capaldi, but definitely the most with Tennant as I was always watching BBC America as a kid during his run and always saw marathons on.
Eccleston I can barely remember anything about outside of Rose being there, but I do think that's because he came off as more stern and didn't have a lot to make him stand out.
Tennant was probably the best I saw of that group, as I loved what they did with his character, not only in look but what David brought to it. I guess that, in the same way Sean could do it all as Bond, David could as the Doctor too, going from humorous clear to quite touchingly emotive. He had great range and could nail both the excitable curiosity but also the big heart of a man who was always under pressure to save the universe, etc. Without really understanding the history of the character at the time, his regeneration really got to me and his final words spoke to who his character had been that whole time, a little kid who always wanted to see and do more.
Smith was very similar to Tennant from what I saw, in that he could do both excitable curiosity and emotional content well, but really doubled down on the former. I think Smith was a very engaging actor because like David he knew how to use his body and mannerisms to captivate an audience and build a character, and he could play to the camera well on top of it.
I've only not caught the start of Capaldi and the end of his run, but from what I saw I liked that they returned the character to more earnestness for the first time since Eccleston and for my money did it right this time. After two very high energy doctors I think it was important for Capaldi's to be this way and I think Capaldi's age and look was a perfect visual signifier for how he'd play the role: like the actor, the doctor is an old man who has seen so much, and he's wondering how much more he wants to see. I thought the little touches of rock n roll they gave Capaldi were interesting, and made him more than just a serious doctor which may be why I didn't attach to Eccleston's. As I said above I really liked his final minutes in the role and, much like Tennant's Doctor, the final scene stayed true to who his character was. He wants to give up and stop his pain, but knows that he's needed by so many out there and, as always, does what he has to do.
I still love all of the rest, though. That's the thing with Doctor Who; if you don't like a particular Doctor or production team, just hang around, another will be around soon enough.
Capaldi was a major fan, too. I love the story that Mark Gatiss told: that he owns Jon Pertwee's jacket from 'Planet of The Daleks', that he brought it onto the set, and you can see it on the hatstand as Capaldi regenerates. What a wonderful link to the history of the show, and to Capaldi's younger days in fandom, too. Magic stuff.
I hope everyone gives Jodie a chance. Let's not forget that she is a Yorkshire lass, and therefore one of the few races in the universe that even the Time Lords look up to.
It's not Whittaker that I worry about, it is Chibnall...
Maybe one day I'll find the time and energy to check the older episodes and doctors out, but sci-fi has never been my arena. I do quite like the looks of Baker's Who, however, and have a feeling he'd be a favorite if I went for it. Love the whole look and vision of the way that character seemed to have been played.
He's not my favourite Doctor but he's so brilliant in everything he does - favourites are Puddleglum in the BBC Chronicles of Narnia and Barley Blair in the radio adaptation of The Russia House.
I feel the same way, he isn't my favourite, not even top 5, but in other things he is a fine actor (when I think of him outside of Who, I think of Cold Winter, Vault Of Horror, Blackadder and Swiss Toni). And in some in some interviews, he is a tonic for dull days.
"I didn't say swear words, I didn't say words like fffred."
- Tom Baker, trolling before trolling was a thing.
Personally, I felt David Bradley was squandered. It would've been much better had the Beeb remade the missing Hartnell episodes in colour, utilising his services much better than this rubbish. As you might have gathered, I disliked it immensely. I thought she looked more like a young Victoria Wood.
Couldn't see the whole of the episode, but caught the regeneration on youTube, and it's a nice send-off for twelve. But to end the episode on such a cliffhanger, knowing that, according to what I have read, the new series won't start until fall/autumn, that's not going to satisfy the more impatient fans.
That's an excellent idea, I really like that, and the same could be done for Troughton. If fully animating the stories is too expensive, then your idea is an avenue they should consider.
Agreed @MajorDSmythe. David Bradley is a wonderful actor and I for one would love to see them remake the missing episodes with Bradley as Hartnell. Yes, the same goes for Troughton, too. I believe it was Reece Shearsmith that played him in An Adventure in Space and Time opposite David Bradley playing Hartnell. I'm sure they could find a more suitable actor with more of a resemblance to Troughton than Shearsmith. Maybe his son, David Troughton, would be a better fit? Nevertheless, I can't understand why the Beeb don't try and replicate what they clumsily lost?
Depending on what is said or done that one side gets upset about, to decide what side I fall on I ask myself how I would feel if the roles of the incident were reversed and the "victim" became the bringer of the offense. In most cases, you can see a double standard at play and discover just how trigger happy we are to jump on cases where women or minority groups are on the receiving end of something, but do not speak up when a white man is.