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Doctor Who-ERA |OT| It's Almost Time... But Not Yet
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I#FindTheDoctor has been solved and trending high on Twitter.
If anyone's been following the little #FindTheDoctor mystery that's been scattered around official bits and pieces recently, this seems to be the result-
And the latest DWM lead to a clue which is another unlisted YouTube video that required the audio to be reserved, which you can listen to below.
If anyone's been following the little #FindTheDoctor mystery that's been scattered around official bits and pieces recently, this seems to be the result-
And the latest DWM lead to a clue which is another unlisted YouTube video that required the audio to be reserved, which you can listen to below.
I suspect they will go straight onto BD season box sets when the time comes. Hopefully they can use a bit of budget to improve the Reign of Terror ones though, the camera cuts on that were atrocious.
John Barrowman, whose account is now private, is tweeting about being blacklisted by the BBC and Big Finish.
https://twitter.com/DoctorWhoPN/status/1439215857348055042
https://twitter.com/DoctorWhoPN/status/1439215857348055042
All us Moffatt-complainers would love to have him back.
I thought Moffatt improved a lot once Capaldi came along though. There was a certain preciousness to Smith's Doctor that brought out the worst in Moffatt's style.
I'm confused as too why they've blacklisted him now, after all those years when he has already apologized for his behaviour many years ago. I get that Noel pulled some garbage, but it seems odd to drag Barrowman down with him.John Barrowman, whose account is now private, is tweeting about being blacklisted by the BBC and Big Finish.
https://twitter.com/DoctorWhoPN/status/1439215857348055042
Though the: "made them lots of money." comes across as entitled. You worked for them on a contract basis, that doesn't entitle you to anything other than what's in said contract.
Though I'd love it if they'd give us Torchwood Season 5 already!
My new obsession is using that AI art creator to make pictures based on episode titles. I find the longer the title the better. Here are a few that definitely need to be used on future blu-ray covers:
Heaven Sent
The Last of the Time Lords
The End of Time
The Angels Take Manhattan
Heaven Sent
The Last of the Time Lords
The End of Time
The Angels Take Manhattan
John Challis who played Scorby in the Doctor Who television story The Seeds of Doom and voiced the fifth incarnation of Drax in the Big Finish audio story The Trouble with Drax has died aged 79.
And at the beginning of the month Tony Selby who played Sabalom Glitz in the Doctor Who television stories The Mysterious Planet, The Ultimate Foe and Dragonfire has died aged 83.
www.bbc.com
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
And at the beginning of the month Tony Selby who played Sabalom Glitz in the Doctor Who television stories The Mysterious Planet, The Ultimate Foe and Dragonfire has died aged 83.
Only Fools and Horses: Boycie actor John Challis remembered as 'Peckham pal' after death at 79
The actor, who died on Sunday, was best known for playing car dealer Boycie in Only Fools and Horses.
www.bbc.com
Sitcom star Tony Selby dies aged 83
Actor Tony Selby, best known for his appearance in British sitcoms such as Get Some In! and My Family, as well as Doctor Who, has died at the age of 83, his management has said.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Considering the show's seemingly catastrophic state atm, I just have a morbid curiosity to see what sort of embarrassing thing they'll cobble together for the 60th.
Otherwise, I've seen nothing. I think people were speculating on the next showrunner lately, and the names floating around I'm not familiar with nor fill me with confidence.
It's really bumming me out tbh, used to be excited for everything about the show, now I'm just numb.
Even as someone who likes the Chibnall run, that's still the best possible outcome.
Great news.
Great news.
Though I personally liked Moffat more as a showrunner I'm more than happy with RTD coming back.
Despite occasional dud episodes (and who doesn't have any of those?), I was generally happy with RTD's run, so I'm happy to see him back, though totally shocked. Hopefully they nail the choice for the next Doctor, or I don't think it will matter who's running the show.
When has that ever proved anything tho?!
I'm so happy about this news, it's the best we could've hoped for.
That's good to hear then. Hopefully we'll be getting a black female 14.
I mean, he was the one who did end up casting the biggest Doctor of the new run and (what seems to be general concession) second largest Doctor after Tom Baker. So I have no doubt it'll be good casting.
I can't help but keep thinking about all the little lore things RTD has done casually in his Doctor Who side projects in recent years that will probably now be quietly ushered into canon. Some of it might be too outlandish, like the stuff about the Doctor having "hundreds" of incarnations including animal ones, but other ones will probably stick, like the story he wrote about Sarah-Jane's canon, in-universe death, and the fate of the SJA kids and all that. And K9! Ace inherits K9. I wonder if we'll get Ace in his new tenure - he almost had her back twice before, but scheduling stuff snarled it up.
Haha, I'd argue we don't need to see it on screen for it to be "canon" but I get what you mean, it's fun think about. I'm sure RTD will be quite happy to give those little nods, I know the side projects are playing to a different audience but from how he's (jokingly tbf!) talked about his vision for the show as this big whoniverse in the modern tv landscape I'm thinking we'll see more of that in his new tenure too.
A nod to the SJA canon would be lovely. And yeah, I'd be very happy if they brought Ace back, she's a fan favorite after all.
I could also see more Big Finish elements being brought into it really, he's had his hand in some of that too... With the Barrowman situation it's a bit more awkward but there's a fair amount of Torchwood he had a degree of involvement with and speaking they're also doing Doctor Who: Mind of the Hodiac in 2022 and that's a proper RTD script. The timing of that has turned into a rather fun coincidence.
The way I tend to think of it is just that everything is canon unless the show explicitly contradicts it, which is also the rule RTD himself said advocated for back in the day. So as far as I'm concerned, Sarah-Jane died peacefully after many years, Luke has a family of his own, and Ace inherited K-9 at the funeral. And the house, with the supercomputer in it, is left empty waiting for its next alien-fighting occupant. If the show later contradicts that obviously the story goes in the bin, but if RTD is around for more than a few years I'd imagine it gets acknowledged
I think that's fair!
I just like to consider everything canon, contradictions and everything, because you can always explain such things away in a show about time travelling like DW. After all there have been plenty of on-screen contradictions too. Maybe I just don't want to let go of the Eighth Doctor's adventure's with Mary Shelley though, haha. If all else fails I can blame it on a time war.
But yes, when it comes to RTD's little contributions over the years I at least fully expect him to keep them in mind when he returns. Just no reason not to.
when the televised series can't keep canon straight without retconning itself into oblivion (particularly the yo-yo destruction of Gallifrey), trying to integrate things from books, comics and big finish audios would make writing for the series even more of a nightmare.
I'm on team "On TV or it didn't necessarily happen."
I'm on team "On TV or it didn't necessarily happen."
Are we expecting to get more from DW at NY comic con or something? S13 is going to start like mid to late October right?
I guess the latest speculation is that it will start on October 31
The new showrunner announcement oddly has made me more willing to sit through Thirteenth Doctor episodes.
I agree, I feel very optimistic about the show now, which I think will increase my overall enjoyment of the next series knowing what's coming next