/who/ - Doctor Who General

What's mtv /who/ ?

Did /tv/ get a movie board?

How do we "fix" Big Finish?

>>81190786
/tv/ and /mu/ merged for april fool's

>>81190786
April fool's combo board. /mu/ + /tv/.

>>81190706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmsafe5d4oM
reminder

>>81190706
>Cyberbring

>>81190786
>>>/film/
Film nearly exists

>>81190825
Get Paul back on the main range. Give another Doctor a chance for an uh epic side series.

Sorry
Parallel universe:
>>>/mtv/15289

>>81190863
>>>>/film/
That was meant to be a link but looks like it auto fixed.
Just amend it in your URL bar.

>>81190863
>Give another Doctor a chance for an uh epic side series.

The Fifth Doctor Boxset?
The Last Adventure?
The FDAs?

I do actually agree with you but thought I'd point out what maybe kinda sorta fits your suggestion already

>>81190830
>>81190852
Was it fun?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KbqE_EzJM

Best cliffhanger in Doctor Who history above.

Ruined with a sonic screwdriver cop out.

>>81190825
>Fuck Briggo off
>Make like 3/4 series instead of pumping a story out every 3 hours with a plot equivalent to a pile of jizz
>Hire more decent writers
>Pcaps and Jenna series

Fox didn't want a regeneration scene, and the BBC wanted Tom Baker to play the old Doctor in the TV Movie. Huh.

Subscribers get more, at BigFinish.com

>>81190944
(src: http://lissy-strata.tumblr.com/post/158704639821/the-movie-could-have-been-much-much-different)

>>81190913
no

>>81190934
>Implying Death To The Daleks part 3 isn't the best cliffhanger

Big Finish.
We Love Stories.

>>81190904
To put those into perspective. The 8th doctor got four series of EDAs and three (Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition, The Time War) major arc chronicles you think of a better name for them

>>81191002
Briggs Finish.
We Love McGann.

>>81190944
The BBC wanted the movie to ignore '80s Who completely. Could you imagine if that happened? Damn, the TV movie could have turned out even worse than it did.

>>81190825
Give it to me so I could finally make it into my autistic fanfictions. They'll all be Natural History of Fear knockoffs and people will love them.

I don't know where I am

I don't know where I am!

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>>81191119

>>81190825
Cancel all the spinoff ranges and fund a Shalka Doctor meets 8 box set

>>81190934
I forgot how god tier season 5 is.

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>>81191119
>>81191143

>>81190825
Cut down on the amount of spinoffs

How do we "fix" Nicholas Briggs?

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>>81191119
>>81191143
>>81191174

How do we "fix" Chris Chibnall?

>>81191042
>worse
But ignoring the 80's is a good thing

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>>81191197

How do we "fix" Nardole?

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>>81191263
make him the watcher

How do we "fix" the Watcher?

>>81191272
Looks like he's saying "us"

you will be like us

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>>81191335
I'm pretty sure this features in the new title sequence

>>81191353
Based Sylv aside, the 80's were pretty fucking shitty

How do we "fix" the Valeyard?

>>81191272
That's Bill

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>>81191488

>>81191367
1. A new sequence would be silly since it's his last series and Moffat's last one, too
2. Why would the companion's face be in it?
3. WHY WOULD WE HAVE TO SEE HER WITH HER MOUTH STUPIDLY HANGING OPEN EVERY FUCKING TIME WE WATCH AN EPISODE

>>81191854
I could see them doing a new sequence, even though it's Moff's last series. They've certainly gone to various lengths to promote this series as all brand new, ep1 title included, so a new sequence would help sell it as fresh.

Also, half of Series 7 had a title sequence all to itself before changing again for Series 8.

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>>81191367
my sources tell me this is also part of the new title sequence

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Sup faggots

>tfw the Class theme song is about you
What have I been waiting for,
Been wasting all my time
Watchin' my youth slip away
Surely is a crime

>>81191002
What the fuck are they gonna do with McGann after the 4 Time War boxsets?

>>81190934
It's an incredibly serious cliffhanger that goes through with the literal destruction of everything, including the possibility of any more Doctor Who, in the most fatal event conceivable. As in the universe actually ends.

With a development like this, the tone with which it's responded to is more important than the arbitrary plot details. Any manner in which you un-end existence is going to be bullshit, but the way you choose to do it reveals what your story is actually saying. The decision was, in the face of all consuming darkness and oblivion, to resolve it with irreverence, fun and trickery.
Don't think it's anything other than totally deliberate that the super-imposing Pandorica can, when all's said and done, be whacked open in 2 seconds by the sonic screwdriver. We've been set up to see it as a grand power symbol of the Daleks and co., and it gets utterly deflated.
The Doctor being imprisoned in a cube is really no more than a silly spatial inconvenience which, when the notions of space and time have been obliterated, becomes trivial to solve (i.e. by cheating, complete with comedy music).
Even River's predicament, which seemed inescapable, becomes harmless when we realise the TARDIS wouldn't just let something like that happen.
And Amy's death is turned around by taking something horrible about the Pandorica (it doesn't let you escape into death) and recasting it as something hopeful. When the story culminates in ultimate destruction, the Doctor Who solution is to subvert the pieces of the story to create a better outcome.

Instead of maybe some dour-faced and portentous battle in the quantum realms to save reality, the episode that results is basically a romp running away from a Dalek (maybe the most basic possible form of Doctor Who). But each major beat hinges on the emotional bonds between 11 and his companions, this is important because it's 11 who must risk oblivion to atone for his own hubris. Basically The Big Bang is the best finale.

>>81192224
WE GO ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON NEVER KNOWING WHE NEVER KNOWING WHERE WE GONNA WE GONNA WAKE UP IN THE MORNAYY AYY AYY

>>81191335
where's this from?

>>81190041
The slitheen one is pretty cancerous

>>81192339
go to bed sandifer

I'm Bill, I serve chips.

>>81191234
If Chibnall's era is marked by a colorful synthwave wonderland aesthetic then it will be GOATest on that alone.

Capaldi should release a solo album after he leaves Doctor Who.

>>81192229
Maybe go back to more main range type stories earlier in 8's timeline or continue the novel adaptation range and start adapting some of the EDAs.

>>81192405
the latest trailer

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*David Tennant voice*
WHAT?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt2Mgz8sufE&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt2Mgz8sufE&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt2Mgz8sufE&t=2s

>>81192229
"The Time War: Divergence" in which 8 never dies on Karn and never becomes the War Doctor, so he has to tackle the Time War by himself. This will be 4 boxsets.

Following that, McGann will star in "The Time War: Divergent Divergence" where basically he jumps a time track and has to face the horrors of the Time War but in a different coat. This will be 8 boxsets.

>>81190825
Before fixing it we must diagnose the problems.

What would /who/ say is wrong with Big Finish?

>>81192567
ahh thanks

>>81192596
They go on about casting the right person for the part regardless of gender, but here Steven admits he thought of the gender swap twist before anything else.

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Don't you forget about this.

>>81192738
excuse me sir but thats the 2005-2009 era tardis TRY AGAIN

>>81192547
It'd be hard adapting EDAs (the few that aren't cancerous like Alien Bodies, Seeing I or Camera Obscura) as they're trapped in the huge Mad Larry arcs. I haven't listened to any of the VNA adaptations so God knows how they did Love and War or Original Sin.

>>81192596
SIMM/MISSY TWO MASTERS STORY CONFIRMED FOR FINALE

>>81192596
>>81192926
How based would a Beevers/Simm/Gomez story be tho?

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>>81192596
>Oh dear lord the children
Moffat's mind is a very strange place.

>>81192963
Macqueen's master would make it GOAT

>>81193222
How GOAT a 12/Gomez 8/Macqueen story
Also nice digits

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>>81192963
>mfw we get The Six Masters with Missy, John Simm, Alex Macqueen masking his debut as based bureaucrat Master, the return of Derek Jacobi, Ben Miller as Ainley, and Beevers in GOAT crispy makeup
>mfw Missy casually kills John Simm at the end because she remembers that's how she herself came into being

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>>81193316
>mfw I forgot to include based American Master
>Eric Roberts will now never return and it's all my fault

https://twitter.com/Da_Whelan/status/848613234965966848
Shits kicking off :0

Reminder that the series 9 soundtrack isn't happening

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>>81193389
and nothing of value is lost

im sure an anon here said he "rebranded" and ... https://twitter.com/Da_Whelan/status/848593148775411712

whelan browses /who/ confirmed

>>81193345
The TV Movie isn't canon

https://twitter.com/elijahkraling/status/848203316056248320

https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/doctor-who-fanfiction
Someone upload Shit Trips Vol 1

>>81193398
>identical white triplets, dead white and levitating
That's a really fucking cool image desu. I seriously wish Moffat based an episode on the Master's selfcest and children, it'd be a lot better than another fucking Gatiss episode.

>>81193440
Moffat made it canon

>>81193562
They probably have mods. Best post it under another name, or just add the SFW stories.

>>81193681
This post has given you out, Sandifer

>>81193681
Nardole big finish spin off when?

https://twitter.com/Da_Whelan/status/848289577936846853

How can he complain about death threats when he told people to kill themselves? I'm trying to feel bad for him but I just can't.

>>81193834
Coming soon from Briggs Finish
'THE NARDOLE ADVENTURES'
The untold story of Nardole written by Matt Fitton or another bland BF regular featuring a shoehorned in classic Doctor cameo for 5 minutes where they can't meet or the timeline will be destroyed, a crappy companion companion and a side character from one of his stories like the guy who built the restaurant in HORS
Boxset 1 of 4

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>>81194250
topkek

>>81194250
With the talented Nicholas Briggs as the narrator and performing the voice of Nardole! Get it now for the special pre-order price of only £60!

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do i do it /who/?

>>81194472
>BBC are letting fans submit Doctor Who fanfiction

What could possibly go wrong here?

>>81194506
wait what, what did i miss

>>81194563
Pretty sure that >>81194472 is the same thing the BBC used for Class, when they asked people to submit fan scripts

>>81190934
>only the DOCTOR can pilot the TARRRRRDIIIS!
that was perfect, and when the Doctor started to get desperate

>>81194706
Link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqAblY4tWJo

Favorite theme

>>81194962
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/doctor-who-fanfiction

LISTEN TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>81193984
I'm starting to think he has genuine issues. But I also think hes just a cunt

>>81194927
It's one of the only cliffhangers where you think the Doctor is totally fucked and there's no way out. It's a shame The Big Bang was so shit.

https://twitter.com/DWMtweets/status/848571262255419394

Wow, it actually looks COLOURFUL

>>81195157
Also love that they refused to show any Next Time trailers for The Big Bang

kek https://twitter.com/jonnymorris1973/status/848640492900409344

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>>81195185
That's pretty rad

>The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe
Comfy special, or comfiest?

>>81195398
dull, tedious, boring and the laziest

it put me to sleep

>>81195415
you're not invited to my slumber party

>>81195345
starting to feel excited now

this is gunna be capaldi's best series

Bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam

>>81195559
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvdDr9yqXI

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>>81194472
>Mad Larry and the Fiction Paradigm

>>81195345
HYPERINOS
Y
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>>81195345
Whys Capaldi holding a kryptonite dildo?

>yfw S10 is the new S4

Moff best series confirmed.

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How do you go from this

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To this

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To this?

>>81195771
Nothing can beat S5

>>81195771
>S26 is JNT's last season
It's his best
>S4 is RTD's last season
It's his best
>S10 is Moff's last season
You tell me

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To this?

>>81195876
S4 was ruined by all the returning characters overshadowing Donna to be desu

>>81195876
>tfw it's wibbly wobbly timey wimey meaning S10 is his worst and S5 is his best

>>81195861
>tfw you're about to be molested

>>81192655
- Too many "trad" audios nowadays. There's nothing wrong with a throwback story every now and then, but too much adherence on making the audios feel more like the old show has really hindered BF's abilities in the last few years.
- Arcs that zig zag through a dozen ranges. Listening to Dark Eyes, it was cool to see the MacQueen Master from UNIT Dominion, but then they added in the Eminence, leading to a clusterfuck of villains. And that's not counting how the EDA's unresolved arcs with the Monk were added into a 5th Doctor main range audio. It's sometimes cool to see all these plot elements bounce between Doctors, to help with the time-travel element of the franchise, but it often leads to mismanaged delivery and poor payoff.
- Matt Fitton writing everything. He's not even a particularly good writer like Dorney or Morris are, so why is he writing every range? At least Briggs has the excuse of being the executive producer.
- Recent companions haven't been memorable. Liv and Helen were all right in the last Doom Coalition and Absent Friends, but they just didn't have that spark 8's other companions like Charley or Lucie did.

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>>81195887
JUST

>>81195864
S3

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>>81195398
Reminder of the new Big Finish series

>>81195876
JNT barely had much to do with S26. Cartmel was pretty much running the show with JNT just saying yes to everything (except telling them not to make Lungbarrow)

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How do you go from this

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To this?

>>81196055
Sorry, should clarify. No Moffat series can beat S5.

S5 is his best series.
Then probably 8, 9 and 10.

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to this

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>>81196092
...to this

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>>81196092
To this

>>81194472
is this a trick by the BBC to get good stories from fans so they can steal them and make them into future episodes because they are all out of ideas?

>>81196133
That's how the show's been since 1988.

>>81196133
>good stories

I mean, the people using this site will probably be 17-20 year old #DWSR-style weirdos who wank over endless continuity

The stuff there will be 1000x worse than Briggs Finish

I heard you can actually submit scripts to the BBC, what if your ''fan fiction'' script is actually really good? could it be made into an episode?

>>81196286
They'll probably use it to headhunt new potential writers?

>>81195999
Does he have HIV?

>>81196286
If it's extremely good it makes the producers shit themselves in glee, probably. But the chances of that happening are as likely as Eccleston coming back.

>>81196286
Highly doubt it, the actual Doctor Who production probably don't even look at them. Don't they currently only let people write for the show if they have past tv/film/book credits?

>>81196342
Eccleston was spotted on set today.

>>81196411
April Fools was yesterday m8

>>81196411
Pic? Link? Something?

>>81196342
If it's extremely good, they'll just steal the episode idea, delete the script from the web, and pass it off as their own

Reminder Moffat was one of us, a shitposter and a writer of decent fan fiction.

>>81196526
very unlikely

I doubt Chibnall or anyone will even have access/bother looking at it

I suspect it's more a BBCWW project to headhunt people for new projects (eg the Fan Show) and online shit

>>81196457
Dude, do you actually believe him?

>>81196526
RTD in a nutshell.

>>81196565
Yeah it's for kids anyway, doesn't look like it has anything to do with the Doctor Who production at all. They'd never have an open fan-written script submission for the show, as cool as it would be. Imagine all the erotic fiction they'd have to wade through

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>tfw you randomly come across Barrowman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-836TtoF_5I

>>81196552
source?

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>>81196756

>>81196779
And he posted this when he was 34.

kek.

>>81195185
>>81195345
Christ, have they been reading /who/? That's… EXTREMELY colourful.

>>81197116
This whole season's gonna be super colorful. I feel like someone important actually is reading /who/.

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Hahhahahaha

New companion a lesbian.

when does next season start? love some woman on woman

>>81197170
April 15

Doctor Who?

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>>81197654
DOCTOR CHANG!

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>>81192536
Capaldi will disappear into retirement, happy to do BF audios/ voice of documentaries/ occasionally direct on TV shows forever more, to top up his pension.

And fair play to him. I'd do the same in his position.

>>81197770
fuck moffat

>>81197794
Nah, he'll fly to Disney and play Glomgold in the new Ducktales.

>>81197770
:O

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>>81197654
DOC. TOR. HOO.

I need to marry Clara, lads

>>81196779
90s internet
everything was so new and cutting edge

Was Name of the Doctor kino?

>>81199029
a bit

>>81199029
Only on first watching, for the most part. The bits with all the Doctors and John Hurt at the end are perpetually kino though

>>81199029
The episode might be a mess but I love the moody, depressing atmosphere. And seeing 11 be serious for once instead of goofy.

>>81192633
Unironically love the first idea

>>81196131
>that subtle body hair above her lips

>>81199029
No. It was alright though.

>>81190825
>Greatly reduce Briggsy's powers, ad if possible replace him
>combine all spin-offs into a single range. 3 box sets a year, and that's it.
>Cancel the Tom Baker shit. Seriously. It's just worth attempting to salvage
>Bring in some new writers

>>81192229
They're not doing 4 Time War sets. Just the one. The next set of box sets haven't been announced yet.

>>81199029
I'd say no, but opening and closing scenes are fantastic

>>81199029
It's kino up until 11 goes into the timestream to save Clala at the end and everything goes a bit wonky (because Moffat has no idea how to actually connect this episode with the 50th and is making this scene up on the fly).
Although the shot of John Hurt turning to face the camera nearly redeems it.

Name of the Doctor is literally a bunch of characters standing around in a set, and then moving to sit around a table, and then standing around in a graveyard, and then standing around inside the TARDIS, spouting exposition and not much else.

>>81200040
Not enough action and explosions for you, kiddo?

>>81200240
Not enough plot, is the issue. Literally, 90% of the episode is people stood around talking about things. Then the GI does a timestreamy thing, Clara follows and undoes the things he does (which River said would kill her but, uh, didn't) and then the Doctor walked in and walked back out again.

Errrrr

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Remember me in my life without life

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Come once more to be my wife

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Come today, before I grieve

>>81199029
The whole atmosphere is great, though I can get why some can say it's messy in places.

And this scene is so underrated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXRtvQT1V_Y

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Enter the web of let me believe

>>81200620
delet this

>>81200040
I'm sorry but you could reduce nearly anything to that description and certainly most Doctor Who episodes. Because the nature of Doctor Who involves characters (and the audience) needing to understand and learn about new, totally unfamiliar situations, working through exposition is one of its chief components. In situations like this the dramatic pulse comes from how the information is affecting the involved characters and the audience's expectations.
For example, the main plot of the episode is a very simple 'the Doctor is forced to go inside the giant TARDIS', but there are a whole array of character and emotional beats for him on the way, as the forces compelling him shift and he reaches different stages of the journey (e.g. making the decision to go, witnessing the graves, his friends being threatened). We also see a lot of the episode from Clara's perspective as she slowly comes to grasp the magnitude of the problem, also setting up the question of how River's ghost will influence the situation.
The point where you can actually say 'standing around' is once they get inside the TARDIS, mainly because various things happen that the characters are physically powerless to stop. Clara is pushed to her final decision by what she's learning from the dialogue. Something handy to remember is that exposition can also be action, e.g. River can tell Clara that the time winds will tear her into a million pieces, as an act of trying to stop her from going in.

>>81192224
>>81192354
WE GO ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON

>>81200670
Unironically the best scene of nuwho untill the café scene in S8

>>81200753
I'm sorry but it's still 40 minutes of characters gathered together in about 4 different locations talking at each other. And talking about stuff they can't show us. Not the best telly.

>>81201002
You're honestly right. And it wasn't even the best or most fulfilling dialogue. Not Doctor Who's best at all.
It stops being fun once you find out everything. A good episode has rewatch value.

>>81201045
This. John Hurt saved it. Otherwise it was boring.

YOU'RE A SUPERHEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

SAY WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>81201045
I appreciate the fact they can't show us the GI undoing all of the Doctor's actions, but the flashback was still poorly handled. The GI literally stood in various classic scenes. Then Clara walking through some shots. The exposition to help that was necessary but also pretty dull. Them showing Strax and Jenny dying as a result of the GI tampering wasn't really enough to show the ramifications, nor were the stars going out (a blatant rip from S4 too). It just felt a bit messy and badly handled.

Someone or something accessing the Doctor's entire timeline and undoing stuff is a GOAT idea. But not one they could've ever really pulled off well. Which is a shame considering that's the meat of the villain's plot, the same villain who's also a recurring one and the finale big bad.

>>81201085
The entire episode is effectively just treading water until the John Hurt reveal. The GI's plan, as >>81201175 suggests, was a cool idea but executed very badly and maybe they shouldn't have bothered. (They ruined the Great Intelligence with Series 7, IMO.)

>>81201226
Not to mention Richard E. Grant was awful. Wooden performance. He used to be a great actor, I don't know what happened. It's like he learned his lines 10 minutes before filming.

>>81201175
Well I agree with everything you're saying but I dunno what you mean by the stars going out being a blatant rip from series 4. It's called a reference. The entire episode was full of references — the Doctor died and could not stop Davros's reality bomb, which would arguably have been his biggest failure if he failed to stop all of creation from dying.

I WOULD CALL SECURITY BUT

>>81201267
Agreed. Shame, really, after Ian McKellen did a superb voice for the Intelligence. I can see why they drafted the character into E Grant (so he could return with a familiar face in the finale) but he was absolute dogshit.

Hell Bent>Big Bang>>>>>>Death In Heaven>>>>>>Name Of The Doctor>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Wedding Of River Song

>>81201273
I took it as a reference to the Pandorica stuff but that's also true.

>>81201314
No no no, Big Bang before Hell Bent.

wasn't this created by a /who/ anon? kek

https://twitter.com/Da_Whelan/status/848670055697088513

http://doctorwhogeneral.wikia.com/wiki/Adam_Orford

>>81201380
Oh boy I hope he posts it in Gallifrey Base

>>81201310
Also so him being spread through the Doctor's timeline can be headcanoned as the reason for Shalka

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>>81201502
Tragic.

>>81201679
Whelan is banned.

>>81200620
That is a pretty good scene, especially in context. Smith at his best.

>>81201502
>Terms of Use Violation: Privacy, Harassment)
Ironic.

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>>81192229

Headline with Tennant's 10th Doctor Series. Halfway through replace Catherine Tate with Billie Piper.

Headline Matt Smith to do 11th Doctor Series. Bring in Jenna to be companion, then Karen Gillian, etc.

Continue War Doctor series with John Hurt impersonator and/or Short Trips.

Novel Adaptations of EDA.

Hire David Bradley/John Guilor - guy who did First Doc's voice in Day of the Doctor - to impersonate Harntell and do "Missing Adventures" or "Early Adventures"

>>81201314
Big Bang > Parting of The Ways = Dark Water > Hell Bent > Journeys End = Name of The Doctor > Doomsday = Wedding of River Song >>>>> Last of The Timelords

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Post yfw the next Doctor is a white male and Gallifrey Base is angry

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>>81202294

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>>81202294

Back to serving chips already

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3238610/new-doctor-who-sidekick-pearl-mackie-set-for-axed-after-just-one-series-after-peter-capaldi-quits/

>>81202181
>Dark Water
That wasn't a finale.

>>81202874
confirmed new S4
get hype

>>81202874
It's real
>ext-her-minate
kek

>>81202874
>EXT-HER-MIN-HATE

>>81202874

Chibbers knew he needs another Jenna to carry him in S11

>>81201969
lol, I just noticed how much you've been posting this. Pathetic.

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>>81202874
>tfw Moff leaving is why Capaldi is fucking off and Chibbers taking over means resetting everything again
god 2018 is going to be such an awful year for this show I dread to even think

>>81192339
>bonds between his companions

Of which he has none, because his companions aren't characters but personality-free plot

Any manner in which you un-end existence is going to be bullshit

Don't set up a bullshit cliffhanger with a bullshit pay-off then. Here's a thought - don't base a story around pure bullshit and naked deception of the audience

>but the way you choose to do it reveals what your story is actually saying. instead of some dour-faced and portentous battle

We get a consequence free romp that devalues any attempt to take the threats in Doctor Who seriously, eliminating any possible of suspension of disbelief and destroying any sense of tension for the rest of Moffat's run. We get a brainless celebration of the Doctor's silliness and general memey awesomeness that completely undermines any takedown of the Doctor's hubris by setting up its affirmation in the same episode

Basically the Big Bang is the worst finale

>>81202874
Why are they acting like this is some shocking "fuck you" to Pearl? Didn't everyone assume she'd be a one-season companion so that Chibnall could cast his own companion for series 11?

>>81203161
Life depends on change and renewal

>>81190913
not as fun as >>>/mlpol/

>>81203179
>muh seriousness

>>81203278
/mlpol/ is fucking SHEEP.

>>81203161
Don't forget its being sold off to BBC Studios. It's over.
Enjoy Doctor Who while you can. Series 10 may be the last good series for a long time.

>>81203362

BBC America's co-producing it since S9, probably get more funding there.

Although Chibbers is only contracted for 3 more seasons and there's no replacement...2020 probably will be the last for NuWho.

>>81203392
>Although Chibbers is only contracted for 3 more seasons
Source?

>>81203180
The British media seems to like putting a negative spin on news regarding the show whenever possible. Why do Brits hate Doctor Who so much?

>>81203392
They'll probably let Netflix/Amazon or whatever have a go at it we'll get a shitty American version for awhile. I doubt it will stay dead as long as Classic Who did.

>>81203503
>PEARL IS EXTERMINATED AND AXED AFTER ONE SERIES BEFORE IT'S EVEN AIRED

will get way more clicks and hits than

>PEARL MAY LEAVE DOCTOR WHO AFTER ONE SERIES

(Tbh, this shouldn't warrant ANY news piece since it's all speculation but that'd get them zero clicks)

>>81203180
Exactly. And I'd be willing to bet she leaves in the finale, and Peter has a solo Xmas or a guest star for his last ep.

>>81203444

Moffat said in 2015 that Who will last until 2020, which means that Chibnall is slated to go until 2020 which is three seasons.

So is Capaldi regenerating during the Christmas special or at the S10 finale?

I really hope Moffat planned this shit out so we won't get another TOTD situation again

>>81203763
Capaldi is regenerating on New Year's day. It's a two-part special starting on Christmas.

>>81203763

Capaldi announced long before Moff had to write Ep 11/12 and the Christmas special, whereas Smith left end of S7 - before the 50th which forced the Christmas special to be the crap that is TOTD.

So yeah, I think Moff is not as rushed as he was three years ago. My guess is he regenerates in S10 finale and Christmas Special is a one-off

>>81203763
He said in a recent interview with Sunday Times that he gets a break from filming until he goes back to shoot the Xmas special in July. Xmas regeneration again.

>>81203739
P sure he said "at least 2020"

Also sure since then, they'll have decided their future which'll probably involve the continued recommissioning of Who if it stays successful.

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>>81203503
>Why do Brits hate Doctor Who so much?
It's not that Brits hate Doctor Who. It's that Brits, and actually just people in general, wank off to the idea of things they love (or that are supposed to be loved) having gone to the dogs and being embroiled in drama. It's part sadism, part masochism. The ghoulish fascination of awfulness is what sells.

>>81203981

>If it stays successful
>Ratings decline since 2010
>Multiple gap-years since creation

I'm not saying that it can't happen, but Chibnall really needs to hit a home run and bring in a culture as big as Tennant and the RTD era.

>>81203763
It's Christmas. Hopefully it's a fairly un-Christmassy Christmas like Mysterio, since 12 was never really a Christmas themed Doctor.

>>81203875
>My guess is he regenerates in S10 finale
no

>>81204085
You're not wrong, desu.

I think CC will leave after 2 or 3 years anyway. He doesn't seem the type to stick with projects for too long. (I think Moff really was gunna go after the 50th, which would've been 3 years but was persuaded to stay and Capaldi helped him feel re-energised)

>>81204085
At this point even if Who is doing mediocrely in the UK public awareness it's still a cash cow. I highly doubt it's in any actual danger or that Chibnall desperately needs a breakthrough, they'll just keep tweaking until they get what they want.

>>81204085
>bring in a culture as big as Tennant and the RTD era.

Never going to happen. The show would have to go off air for a long time.

>>81202897
dammit I meant Death In Heaven

>>81204002
>Give Tennant TWO specials to regenerate in when the show was only popular in Bongland and was literally who in America/the rest of the world

>Give Smith and Capaldi a shitty 1-hour special to regenerate in when it's popular worldwide

>>81204136
Moffat just said in interview that if it was up to him he would've announced Peter's departure midseason. I can see him trying to regenerate him in S10 finale for shock value (or at least end S10 mid-regen ala Stolen Earth).

>>81204166
Exactly. Chibbers isn't a Who fanatic like JNT or RTD or Moff - it's a job for him and once he's done with the contract he's done.

>>81204174
>>81204214
It is, but I can see them not renewing Who past 2020 and take a 5 year break or something just to get another RTD-esque revival. Make it go the way of Sherlock and get 10M+ viewers every three years

>>81204502
>Moffat just said in interview that if it was up to him he would've announced Peter's departure midseason.
Reminder that this is a hint that they will announce the next Doctor midseason instead

>>81204376

Tennant is still the face of Who for many other people and the reason why RTD was successful. BBC know they can milk ratings just by the amount of fangirls watching his last goodbye.

Capaldi and Smith may be popular worldwide but they aren't the reason why majority of the fanbase likes Who.

>>81204502
>Chibbers isn't a Who fanatic
That might be for the best actually, less self-referential stuff and more appeal to new viewers

>>81204502
>It is, but I can see them not renewing Who past 2020 and take a 5 year break or something
It's a meme at this point, but 2020 and beyond might be a decent time to throw a movie out there with a huge name as the Doctor.

>>81204635
Why did they care about "milking ratings" though? How does that benefit them when they haven't got any advertisers?

>>81204635
Why did the BBC hype the show up more when it was basically exclusive to the UK?
Why don't they hype it up now that episodes air on the same day across the planet?

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>>81204502
>Chibbers isn't a Who fanatic like JNT or RTD or Moff
I mean, let's not be too generous about that...

>>81204764

>Overnight ratings placed Part One as the third most-watched programme of Christmas Day, behind EastEnders and The Royle Family with a provisional viewing figure of 10.0 million viewers. The episode achieved a 42.2% share of the total viewing audience, and an appreciation index score of 87, considered 'Excellent'.

Final consolidated ratings placed Part One as the third most watched program of Christmas Day, behind The Royle Family and EastEnders with a final figure of 11.57 million viewers. This is the highest timeshift that the show has received since its revival (the previous highest being 11.4 million for The Next Doctor in Christmas 2008). When simulcast HD figures are added to the BBC One transmission, Doctor Who actually comes out as the most watched show on Christmas Day with a total of 12.04 million viewers, narrowly ahead of The Royle Family and EastEnders.

Overnight ratings placed Part Two as the second most-watched programme of New Year's Day, behind EastEnders, with a provisional viewing figure of 10.4 million viewers (including 389,000 watching on BBC HD). The episode achieved a 35.5% share of the total viewing audience on an evening where an estimated 30 million viewers were watching TV in the UK.[56] Official BARB ratings placed Part Two as the second most watched programme of the week behind EastEnders at 11.79 million viewers; however, when the simulcast figures on BBC HD are added, an additional 480,000 viewers bring the total figure to 12.27 million. When this figure is recognised, the program becomes the most watched of the week. This makes The End of Time only the third instance in which the show has achieved such an honour in its extensive history. Additionally, The End of Time received over 1.3 million requests on BBC's online iPlayer.

>>81204803
>banana yellow necktie
What goes through a man's head to make him wear that?

>>81204785

They learnt from S9 mistakes. It's been a pretty good ad campaign for S10 so far with the Bill reveal, the short teasers on Twitter, and brodcasting the trailer in beteween football matches.

>>81204929
Isn't he a faggot ?
Most people in charge of the series since 1979 have been.

>>81204635
>>81204764
In truth, it was RTD/Julie G who suggested the idea of a two-parter for Tennant to bow out in. In RTD's book, he talks about it in more depth. It was purely to make it a big event for the show and the most popular Doctor. It certainly worked, grabbed millions, sold shit loads of merch, probably helped Series 5 in the sense that it had a huge audience and most would stick around, plus DT appeared on UK TV about 75 times over the Christmas 2009 period to help promote it. That's insane but that's how popular he and Who were here then.

>>81204803

Yeah, but Chibbers contributed nothing during the wilderness years (unlike Moffat and RTD) and only wrote for Who becase he worked with Julie Gardner.

>>81192536
Hopefully he survives long enough for the 75th anniversary. 12 around any Doctor, old or future, would be GOAT

>>81205050
It was so popular that the BBC thought S5 was impossible without RTD and Tennant and nearly axed the show after EoT.

This might explain why RTD was so self-indulgent in writing those episodes.

>>81205138
It's partly because they saw "Doctor Who" as a show that belonged very much to RTD, Tennant and Julie G at the time. It was their baby. I think RTD had to persuade some execs that the show would thrive and do just as well without them at the helm.

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>>81204996
It's not particularly flamboyant or "fabulous" though, just tacky. I feel like a gay man would know better.

>>81204996
>>81205302
Wikipedia says he's married to Madeline Chibnall

>>81205458
>I am hoping Capaldi will be like Malcolm Tucker and shout and swear at me a lot. But no, he talks very quietly and diffidently, and never loses his temper, though there is a rather steely glint when I ask whether he ever sees Chris Langham, who starred in the first series of The Thick of It, then went to prison for downloading child pornography. No, he doesn't, he says. End of subject.
Er, that's a bit intense.

>>81205598
wtf kind of question is that?

>>81205458
>he once described the moment he met his wife, Elaine Collins, as the moment in time he'd most like to travel back to
Awwwww

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NEW COSTUME FOR 12 REVEALED

>>81205686
>tfw no episode where 12 has to disguise as a clown and infiltrate a circus group

that would be kino

>>81205642
Shit interview.

>>81205516
>it looked wrong
wtf looked "wrong" about peter and jenna? this lady is a shit.

>>81205598
I always feel bad for chris
he was a victim, he was abused and had CP of himself made as a child. As part of his adult life coming to terms with it he downloaded images of himself along with some others. They explicitly determined he is not sexually attracted to children and he was using the images as a means to come to terms with the abuse he experienced as a child, but he's still registered as a sex offender and had his career ruined because CP laws don't care about intent

12 should have been more like rick

>>81205458
>starts by saying she has no connection to doctor who at all
why was she picked for the interview then? She's not going to have good questions if she isn't familiar with the subject material

>>81206206
Nah, I hate that show.

>>81206286
because /tv/ told you to?

How did everyone forget that Name of the Doctor shows/implies a 2/8 (Troughton/McGann) join adventure?

Literally nobody ever brings it up. Why!?!?!

>>81206253
Maybe they wanted it to be more of a 'mature' interview so she could ask edgy questions like >>81205598 (because that went so well. Daft wee shites.)

>>81206206
>>81206309
Finale literally had me shaking. This season of the Walking Dead was better than series 9 and I'm not afraid to say it.

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Posting template next for anyone interested

>>81206309
Because I watched it.

>>81206398
Because a lot of people aren't even aware of it. I didn't realize that 8 was even in that shot until someone pointed it out to me. It happened so fast.

Wonder what it was about.

>>81206398
Because deep down everyone knows it's just an artifact of a chaotic editing and direction shambles and we don't really find out enough to give a fuck.

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>>81206430

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>>81206411
>the walking dead

>>81206430
How is Dormer gonna play a teenager?

>>81206508
Eh, she can still sell it.

>>81206430
Harmonica would be pretty based actually since it's tiny and could be taken around anywhere.

Sonic Harominca

>>81205559
>wouldn't he find [going to fan conventions] a bit shameful?
wew

How did everyone forget that Name of the Doctor shows/implies a 2/8 (Troughton/McGann) joint adventure?

Literally nobody ever brings it up. Why!?!?!

WHEN WILL BIG FINISH COVER THIS

>>81203180
Especially since the quote literally says:
>It’s yet to be formally decided but it makes sense to give Chris his own choice of actor to play the Doctor and his companion.

So, everyone knew it made sense to give Chibs his own choice, and assumed he'd probably replace her.

Now we know that…it makes sense to give Chibs his own choice, and he hasn't made the choice yet, but we assume he'll probably replace her.

In other shocking breaking news, we've heard that Chibs hasn't formally decided to ask to keep the show on BBC1 but if he wanted to move it to BBC2 he probably could but it makes sense that he wouldn't.

>>81206430
If there absolutely had to be a sexy female Doctor Dormer would be a good pick.

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>>81205458
>The first thing that strikes me is that he has aged an awful lot since he played Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It and that he seems terribly tired
Is it true? Is series 10 going to be the series where Capaldi is un-un-JUSTed?

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Good Evening /who/! Did you turn on your blue lights today? Happy Autism Awareness day! Been a busy day, missed you /who/!
I just realized that AAD and AFD are adjacent. That might be racist...

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>>81206750
not going by promo pictures
but he's likely also wearing makeup which hides it all a bit

Big Finish 2+8 story when?

>>81206750
In the show Capaldi often looks like a very handsome older man. Other times he looks ill and older than he really is. I don't know if that's inconsistent makeup or lighting or what.

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hello do you have any puzzle pieces for me

>Steven wanted to reveal Capaldi's departure at the midway point to achieve a RATINGS SPIKE.
>Steven was very "upset" when Peter revealed it on the radio

Great. Steven hasn't even got confidence in how fucking good his storytelling ability is. Piece of shit should've stepped down three years ago.

It just makes me so angry how you take responsibility for something so precious and beloved but can't even give it your all. Bastard had to focus on Sherlock, too. Pick one thing. ONE thing.

It was Peter's boyhood dream to be the Doctor. He was so perfect for the part. But Steven couldn't give him what he deserved.

I used to love Steven. I'm not here to hate blindly. It's a hard job. And it's hard to keep going after a while.

But that's why he should've left with Matt.

>>81206852
Looks like Christel Dee has finally made the transition.

>>81204502
>It is, but I can see them not renewing Who past 2020 and take a 5 year break or something
Why? BBC Studios are not idiots. The BBC's value as a worldwide-sellable brand at this point is something like this:
>40% Doctor Who
>30% Top Gear
>20% period piece dramas
>5% the original versions of shows that America and every other country in the world has made their own adaptation of and nobody wants to see the original of
>3% people's vague association with the name "BBC"
>2% everything else

>>81206851
It depends on if the story is good. You can tell when he's having fun and when he's not.

For example, in Mummy or Heaven Sent, he looks like an elderly yoga instructor who performs magic tricks for his great nieces and nephews.

In Kill the Moon and Sleep No More, he looks like a senile drunk who plays super-sized checkers outside of Cracker Barrel every Sunday.

>>81206897
He should've left (along with Jenna) after Series 8 imo. Sure the stories weren't all great but it was a decent introduction to a more serious Doctor and tone with a LOT of potential ahead.

>>81206430
Pretty cool

>>81206897
>Steven hasn't even got confidence in how fucking good his storytelling ability is.
What? How do you connect this to him wanting to keep big news a secret?

new thread pls

>>81207109
Did you not read what I said? He specifically wanted to drop the bomb to achieve a ratings spike.

>>81207189
And that's bad? If I were a showrunner, I'd want to keep a regeneration secret for as long as possible instead of letting everyone know about it months before the season airs.

>>81207189
To counteract the entirely explicable phenomenon of mid-series episodes not getting as much attention as premieres and finales. Shocker. This is a recurring trend that he's noted before. It's not borne out of some belief that the middle episodes will be shit.

>>81207113
Here
>>81207302
>>81207302
>>81207302

NEW
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>>81207340
>>81207340

>>81207354
idiot

>>81207319
OH COME ON

>>81207372
Only a minute apart, it happens

>>81204764
The BBC has been obsessed with ratings for well over a decade now.

Their annual reports to Parliament on how they're using the licence fee are public record. And you can see how for a long time, every year, it gets more and more about viewing figures and vague American-TV-industry buzzwords and less and less trying to explain how they're performing a public service, until by 2010 their top bullet points are all about how much money they made from negotiating overseas sales of Doctor Who and Top Gear.

And that's even before the Tories came into power and started demanding that they think more like a business. (Which actually makes no sense, because if they were really thinking like a business, they'd realise that licence fees are the majority of their budget and advertising is $0…)

>>81207393
If you were the same person who tried to do it yesterday and this happened then too, then just stop doing it from now on.