"some familiar foes as you've never seen them before"
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Cameras roll on 'blockbuster' new Who series
The BBC's spinners have worked themselves into a right state over the news that filming has kicked off on the seventh series of Doctor Who. Viewers are promised 14 "blockbuster-movie episodes" as Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan embark on "their final, rollercoaster voyage" with Matt Smith's Time Lord. Arthur Darvill, Matt …
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012 12:01 GMT Aldous
X in SPAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCEEEEEEEEE!
so theres been :
Spitfires (complete with spinny props) IN SPAAAACE!!!!
Victorians IN SPAAAACE!!!!
Pirates IN SPAAAACE!!!!
Flying sharks IN SPAAAACE!!!!
Titanic IN SPAAAACE!!!!
so let me guess it will be
Cavemen IN SPAAAACE!!!!
dark ages IN SPAAAACE!!!!
eqyptians IN SPAAAACE!!!!
etc
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012 13:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Re: X in SPAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCEEEEEEEEE!
"a) Travelling more than 100 years from the current time.
b) Travelling more than 300 miles from Cardiff."
One should be careful with such accusations, especially on a tech website where Who fans could be lurking anywhere. Namely that one over there coming at you swinging episode 3x11, where they go to the year 100 trillion... Although admittedly they do start in Cardiff. :P
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012 17:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Re: Re: X in SPAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCEEEEEEEEE!
I can't say that I'd be too upset about an obsessive fan picking a hole in my off-hand statistics.
But nonetheless, DW continues to swan around 20th-21st century London, and that's why I stopped watching it. Heck... even when they do go into spppppaaaaaaccccceeee or time, it's usually a future London, or has a distinctly British feel. Dullllllll.
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012 14:53 GMT TheProf
Re: Re: The seventh series
As far as the BBC were concerned Steven Moffat 'rebooted' Doctor Who. So this is NuNuWho and they've just started filming series/season 3.
Or series 'fnarg' as The Moff calls it.
(I think a recent issue of Doctor Who Magazine went to some lengths to muddy the series numbering.)
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Thursday 23rd February 2012 11:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Re: Re: The seventh series
It's not a reboot. It's just following the shows tradition of reinventing itself.
A reboot (which is what was mooted in the 90's) would see the show starting again. But to give them their dues both Davies and Moffatt have drawn on the shows rich history using everything from Sarah Jane Smith through to a recent reference to the Nimon (which got a cheer in my house).
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Thursday 23rd February 2012 07:38 GMT Derek Currie
Re: Re: The seventh series
I also suspect the NuNumbering etc. had something to do with repudiation of the last years of the original series. There were a few absolute winners in there. But in general, the most horrible things you'd see watching Dr. Who were the production values. Why they kept that guy [He Who Shall Not Be Named] as producer is beyond comprehension. Way to tank the show dude! Some of the episodes were positively nauseating in quality. The show literally killed itself, despite explanations to the contrary.
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012 14:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Bet it's Torchwood all over again
What influx of American money?
And what do you mean, "the villain"? It has a different one every week.
And as for the plots and pacing being pure Hollywood, haven't you noticed that since the show returned in 2005, it's been self-contained 45-minute episodes with 'Previously...' catch-ups at the start of many, 'Next time...' trailers at the end and the occasional two-parter. Just like Star Trek and every other Hollywood sci-fi show.
There are still people who bemoan the fact each story is no longer spread across two months in 23-minute slices, mostly full of boring filler sequences of people walking along corridors, through caves, up stairs, or just wandering lost calling out for The Doctor. The old Doctor Who all too often felt like you were watching a cricket match. Maybe that was OK at the time, but not now.
I couldn't go back to that any more than a small CRT TV, VHS recorder with 8-programme timer, cassette walkman or a car with a crank handle.
The problem with Torchwood was that it was too expensive and too much of an effort for an in-house production. The BBC are happy to make a show like that if they get 13 episodes, but not just 5 to be shown over one week. They leave that sort of thing to independent producers, but the BBC won't hand over Doctor Who or Torchwood to another company. So that leaves co-productions, which often lead to too many cooks with conflicting goals, agendas and internal politics.
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012 14:38 GMT W.O.Frobozz
Crazy? I'd be happy for consistent...
The bogus "second half" of the last season was a huge, convoluted mess with a big letdown (copout?) of a resolution. I think the Moff made it all too complicated and twisty and had trouble coming up with a satisfying resolution.
Old monsters eh...Meglos? (Don't laugh, it almost was...and we did get a Nimon last fall...)
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