/who/ - Doctor Who General

SOMETHING CONTROVERSIAL

>>81207302
I generally disliked the EDAs but admit To the Death was kino.

>>81207302
>the story that was never made
>it would have been death in the family tier goat and it NEVER happened

>>81207363
To the Death and the first Dark Eyes tricked me into thinking Briggs was a GOAT writer.

Fuck you OP it was my turn

>>81207417
lol, exact same thing happened to me the exact same way. little did we know he'd quickly devolve into "muh particles"

>>81207433
Sorry anon ;--; you can have next go

>>81207360
I DISAGREE

>>81207417
The Audio Visuals convinced me Briggs was a GOAT writer. And I still believe it.

But nobody can oversee 69105 stories per year, write a quarter of them and direct a quarter of them, while running the company, and also being its public face, all at the same time.

Take the greatest writer of all time and make him do that, and you will get hack work.

>>81207360
ur openion is gud

>>81207553
WRONG. KYS.

>>81207433
Get stuffed faggot. go back to re ddit. we don't take turns being op. don't be a bitch

>>81207597
>hack work

What, you don't like "muh particles" x "muh daleks" a dozen times a year?

>>81207611
rude :(

>>81207611
hey man. Get stuffed is sort of my thing. I mean, it's cool if you wanna say it, I guess, but, like..

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>>81207632

>>81207604
NO U

I like doctor who

>>81207302
Question for Who fans.

I stopped watching when Matt Smith left and Capaldi took over. I've never liked Capaldi, buuut, I'm dying to watch Dr Who again. Seeing this thread everyday is like a knife in the eye.

So... Is the Capaldi era worth watching?

>>81207754
It's legitimately the best the show has ever been in my opinion, but it is divisive. Many dislike it. But many, particularly here, think it's hitting heights the show has literally never hit before. Worth trying out at least.

>>81207597
That's why I don't agree with people saying Briggs should be replaced to improve Big Finish. He's the guy running most of the operation, the one who was able to get all of these old actors back thanks to filming Myth Maker documentaries with them years back, and the voice of all the monsters. Pulling him out of Big Finish would leave a huge gap in the production team that would be impossible to fill with anybody else.

>>81207754
Yeah it just gets better and better

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>>81207754
Yeah. Some episodes the writing gets a bit ropey, as always, but he does a good "angry Scotsman Doctor".

>>81207754
Go for it.

Reminder that the BBC now has an official page where they encourage you to post Doctor Who fanfiction.
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/doctor-who-fanfiction

>>81207795
It's not called Briggs Finish for no reason

>the one who was able to get all of these old actors back thanks to filming Myth Maker documentaries with them years back,

Can you expand on this?

>>81207754
S8 and S9 are legitimately fantastic television, Who or no Who, but a lot of Dr Who fans don't like that sort of focus. It's very character and theme based but without being particularly explict or expository, so you have stuff like a clear statement being made in the S9 finale being missed by the majority of the fandom and stuff like that.

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>>81207795
>huge gap
>impossible to fill

>>81207754
It's trash.

>>81207791
>>81207816
I'm gonna put my dislike of Capaldi aside and give it a go. I feel I'm missing out. I fucking miss my Clara senpaitachi.

Cheers my fellow whoians

>>81207944
Why do you dislike Capaldi?

>>81207859
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Myth_Makers

Back in the 80s and 90s, Briggs did a series of video interviews with tons of old Who actors. Some of them are really comfy to watch, and helped Briggs network his name across all of the Who cast. Part of the reason all these actors are working on audios is probably because of their friendship with Briggs (Tom Baker refused to do 4 audios when Gary Russell was running the show, and Briggs was the one who convinced him to finally put the scarf back on).

>>81207865
Which is why I don't think Ian Levine would work, because by all accounts, he's an asshole who wouldn't be able to build anything resembling a good work environment or camaraderie with his cast and crew the way Briggs has managed to. Any fan production he's done with old actors has simply been because he's rich and eccentric. He'd probably wonder why Toby is making the Big Finish lunches and fire him for producing unnecessary luxuries.

>>81207754
It's kino.

>>81207795
I agree with you. Briggs is essential, not the problem.

The problem is just that they're putting out way too much. The writers who aren't overworked and doing pure hackery are drowned out by the ones who are.

If they'd expanded more slowly, and found ways to bring in more new blood, the current schedule might be sustainable, I don't know. But the way they did it, it's not. And unfortunately, they can't go back and redo the expansion better without losing half their sales.

>>81208153
It's no coincidence that their best writer only gave them like three stories (Shearman)

>>81207956
I've seen him on TV before and I just instantly disliked him for some reason. When Matt Smith was leaving I'd assumed John Hurt would be the next doctor. Then Capaldi popped up and I just dropped it there and then.

I'm just a dick desu senpai. I didn't give him a chance.

Good news is.. I've got 2 seasons to catch up on. 2 xmas specials. 2 finales. That's my TV sorted for the next few weeks.

>>81208153
Maybe if they just diversified their ranges a bit by setting a main writer for each. Have Guerrier run the 1st Doctor audios, Fountain run the 6th Doctor audios, Dorney run the 8th Doctor audios, etc. Just so there can be more focus instead of having Matt Fitton work on six ranges a year.

>>81208260
Hope you enjoy anon (:

>>81208067
Gary, and Mark Gatiss, and a few others from the AV/BBV/RT stable, had very good relationships with some of the actors, but yeah, I don't think they could have ever expanded it to nearly everyone who's ever been on the show.

I think what makes Briggs work so well is that he comes across as saying "Making Doctor Who audios is the most fun thing in the world, and I'm offering to let you share in the fun because I like you" instead of "I'd like to hire you for something" or "We're mates now, do me a favour".

>>81208260
>When Matt Smith was leaving I'd assumed John Hurt would be the next doctor
What?

>>81208352
Definitely will.

Cheers for persuading me, anons.

>>81208390
I think he means that he didn't know who John Hurt was playing and assumed it was the next Doctor rather than a previous hidden one

>>81208342
I think they just need a separate storyline editor for each range. The way Gary Russell talked about doing all those years ago.

The storyline editor would commission the scripts, with the overall Doctor Who producer (or executive producer Briggs, if they can't find anyone for that job) advising and having veto power but mostly leaving it up to them (a la Dicks or Cartmel on TV). If he wanted to do a big arc story, he'd write up a pitch and sell the producer on it.

If some of them want to be more like a lead writer and commission half the scripts from themselves, that's fine. If others only want to write one or two scripts per year, and write just as many for other people's ranges, that's fine too.

>>81207553
fucking contrarian tripfags

>>81208390
When Smith announced he was leaving there was a lot of speculation about who the next dr would be, Hurt was one of the names, and since he'd appeared in the Special most people assumed he would be next. Then Capaldi popped up from nowhere.

Anyway, here's S8 and 9 if anyone wants them..

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>>81208342
>Fountain run the 6th Doctor audios
One more thing: I don't know that breaking up the monthlies would be a good idea.

I think it's because the monthlies had that odd mix of 8 "new adventures" (Five/Peri/Erimem, Six/Evelyn, Seven/Ace/Hex, Eight/Charley), 1 "sidestep" (Frobisher or Benny), and 3 "standalones" (TV combinations like Five/Nyssa) that nobody thought of the standalones as bad trad PDAs, and that's part of the reason we got stuff like Spare Parts instead of stuff like the audio equivalent of Empire of Death. The monthlies were where most of the cool stuff was happening, and they were all run as one thing by Alan Barnes (or Gary before him), and the standalone monthlies had to be part of that.

r8 my discette collection /who/
>The Beginning
>The Tenth Planet
>Robot
>Genesis of the Daleks
>Terror of the Zygons
>Pyramids of Mars
>The Deadly Assassin
>Image of the Fendahl
>Destiny of the Daleks
>Logopolis
>The Five Doctors Special Edition
>Resurrection of the Daleks Special Edition
>Revelation of the Daleks
>Remembrance of the Daleks Special Edition
>Series 1 DVD
>Series 2 DVD
>Series 3 DVD
>Series 4 DVD
>Series 4 Specials Blu-ray
>Series 5 Blu-ray
>Series 6 Blu-ray
>Series 7 Blu-ray
>The Day of the Doctor Blu-ray
>The Time of the Doctor Blu-ray
>Series 8 Blu-ray
>Series 9 Blu-ray

>>81208970
I don't think most people, or even many people, assumed Hurt would be next.

You'd have to be more than a casual viewer to be speculating in the first place, but not much more to miss the fact that when he was introduced in the special, he was described as the secret that 11 doesn't like to talk about, "the one who broke the promise", which makes it pretty obvious he's a past Doctor, not the next one.

Meanwhile, Capaldi did come out of nowhere, but the speculation wasn't about Hurt before him, it was people making lists of other candidates, or watching the betting—bookies shut down betting twice, once for Paterson Joseph, once for Rory Kinnear—or talking about whether we're ready for a black Doctor like Joseph, or… basically, the exact same kind of stuff we're seeing this time (and that we saw for 11, too).

>>81209593
Noice.

>>81209593
>r8 my discette collection /who/
Whether those discettes are 8", 5¼", or 3½", I don't know how you fit a whole Doctor Who story on a floppy without some pretty ridiculous compression. :P

>>81209568
And it sucks, because I listened to the BF podcast a while back about whether or not 8 would come back to the main range, and Briggs just said the main range was no longer their top priority.

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>>81210183
>main range
>not the top priority

>>81210088
You obviously knew more about it than I did, I just read the papers. I'm just a casual fan since Ecclestone desu.

Hurt was mentioned as the doctor a few times, though I can't remember if it was just tabloid speculation based on news of his Finale appearance or just me putting 2 and 2 together. Probably both.

Either way, I was wrong, Capaldi got the job, and history was made.

>>81210183
When you've got 20-odd Doctor Who ranges going (plus spinoffs), it's pretty hard for any one range to be the top priority.

Having someone whose job was storyline editor for the monthly range wouldn't completely fix that, because he'd still have to compete for writers (and ideas) with the other ranges, from a stable of writers that's definitely not 20x as big as it was a decade ago…

But I think it would help. At least it would be someone's top priority that way.

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>>81210183
>Briggs just said the main range was no longer their top priority
FUCK

>>81210427
>>81210234
Well, it does explain why 8's been gone for ages, and 4 hasn't shown up in the main range at all.

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Because the thing is, it's like my friend Vicky.

>>81210480
From a business point of view, it makes sense.

The junkies who'd been buying the monthlies for 15 years at this point will keep buying the monthlies, with or without 4. And some of them will buy the 4DAs on top of the monthlies.

Meanwhile, new customers who came for Tom aren't going to start subscribing to the monthlies just because 4 is there, but they might subscribe to the 4DAs.

Of course diluting their writing is bad for business in the long run, but how long a run? I mean, I'm still buying the monthlies, even if I complain about them, and I'm sure Briggs knows people like me sat through the Saward years without quitting the show, so he knows what our complaints are really worth in sales…

>>81210675
And I realise that I sound less like a junkie and more like an enabler, one of those annoying people who goes to Nar-Anon meetings and constantly talks about how "I know I'm not helping Nick with my loyalty, but making him worse, and that self-awareness is the first step" whether anyone wants to listen or not, but then doesn't actually change his behaviour.

why the fuck is 80% of classic who out of print in america?

>>81211017
Because for the most part, casual DVD buyers aren't looking for a copy of Ghost Light. So most fall out of print because of low sales. I learned the high way when I paid more than I should have for a copy of The War Games.

>>81211017
Probably low sales which sucks because I'd like to complete my collection but these OOP prices are ridiculous. I might just have to start importing region 2 releases at this rate.

>>81211071
>I learned the high way when I paid more than I should have for a copy of The War Games.
That's why you shouldn't browse amazon unless you're sober.

>>81211017
>>81211071
It would cost them next to nothing to publish everything print-on-demand, and only rotate the ones that are delivered to stores (which are an ever-shrinking fraction of total sales anyway).

But 2|e believed that having everything available at once would "glut the market", and people would actually buy less, and BBCDVD apparently hasn't rethought the policy since then.

It gets dumber every year, as they face more competition not just from piracy, but from used sales of now-out-of-print stories, which is money someone would be giving BBCDVD but are instead giving to some collector.

So I was just reading Love and Monsters and I got to the part where Death talks about how 7 birthed himself by sacrificing 6. How does that work? are all the future regenerations just concepts already existing in the Doctor, waiting to be born, like the Valeyard? Was it some kind of time travel paradox bullshit that was explained in a different VNA that I haven't read?

>>81211017
It's frustrating but DVDs just aren't selling like they used to because
>2017
>physical media
so putting together a complete collection is a challenge (and is only going to get harder)

>>81211320
Oh shit I mean Love and War

>>81211320
>are all the future regenerations just concepts already existing in the Doctor, waiting to be born, like the Valeyard?
Basically, this. But…

>7 may be a special case because he's destined to become Time's Champion, so she could help him to do things that are impossible for normal mortals (and not care if the causality goes the wrong way, what with her being Time and all).

>According to Head Games and Room With No Doors, his prior incarnations may have actually been responsible, thinking they were preventing the Valeyard, so if potential-7 did anything, it was just subtly manipulating memory-1-through-5.

>Or, according to Room With No Doors, 7 may he imagined the whole thing.

>Or, with the version of 6's death from either Spiral Scratch or The Last Adventure (which are themselves incompatible), the question doesn't really come up in the first place.

Capaldi is so good, he's ruined the other Doctors for me, Capaldi is the Doctor.

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>>81211810
and this was his best companion

>>81211810
um Tennant is the Doctor ;)

>>81211810
Capaldi would probably kick your ass for liking anyone more than the first two Doctors, even if it was him.

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>>81212000
nice numbers

>>81212146
12-12 a zero-zero-zero compared to Hartnell confirmed by digits.

Peter would be happy.

>>81211810
I guess if their's one thing that the audience and River share in common it's that we all have that one incarnation of the Doctor that we hold as our Doctor

Is Martha the only nuwho companion that wasn't a total whore at this point? Maybe Clara?

>>81212300
Also, most of the audience has seen at least the first few Doctors out of order.

How good is 6 in big finish? The huge gaps in his continuity are really compelling.

>>81212427
Big Finish is the reason people like 6.

It's not entirely because 6 himself is so good. He got Evelyn, the best of Big Finish's new regular companions, and Frobisher as a "sidestep" companion works even better than you'd hope, and he had some of the best writers… But 6 himself is very good.

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>>81212316
What about Bill?

>>81212316
At least Nardole is pure.

>>81207363
>I generally disliked the EDAs

Really? They're the only BF audios I could get into at all and I liked them as much if not more than the TV show.

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>>81212623
>Nardole
>pure

>>81212427
6 is great in Big Finish, particularly the stuff with Evelyn.

>>81212427

Big Finish redeemed the Sixth Doctor.

>>81212316
No, it's most of them. Basically only Rose, Jackie, and Jack are whores.

Maybe Amy, but really, other than trying to bang the Doctor as part of her pre-wedding jitters, we never saw her hit on anyone else except for future versions of herself, and that's just masturbation.

For the rest of them:
>Mickey was desperate for monogamy.
>Martha, you already mentioned.
>Donna clearly wasn't getting any until she got married.
>Wilf may have sowed plenty of oats after the War, but nowadays?
>Rory only looked at anyone besides Amy once in his life, and she turned into a monster so I doubt he ever did it again.
>The Patermonster couple seem to be monogamous.
>Strax is sexless.
>I don't see Nardole going out cruising.
>Bill is a lesbian in a relationship.

>>81212822
>we never saw her hit on anyone else except for future versions of herself, and that's just masturbation.
She flirted, but she never pulled a future version of herself, so it's… attempted masturbation?

Pretty sad when you can't even score with yourself.

Did the doctor ever put earth back in its original place and fix what the timelords did in Trial?

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>>81213012
I'm sure he towed it through space with his TARDIS right after he took off at the end.

>>81213182
So Ravolox is never mentioned in any novel or big finish/etc?

>>81213012
Someone must have restored it by "the 57th segment of time", or humans couldn't have abandoned it again. Not to mention the whole The End of the World thing.

But I'm pretty sure we never see it happen.

>>81213312
>So Ravolox is never mentioned in any novel or big finish/etc?
We learn Ravolox is the name the vampires used for Earth in their ancient prophecies, and I think that gets mentioned a couple times. But that's it.

>>81213312
If you really want to fanwank it, I think you can.

There's a K9 kiddie book from the early 80s where a far future human mining company colonizes a planet and then it disappears and they hire K9 to find it, and they never realize it was Earth. K9 finds out that it's fallen into an alternate dimension, which has somehow restored it to preindustrial purity, and the miners are living in a virtual Garden of Eden. So he agrees to keep their secret, and will come up with some other way to make the mining company happy.

Fanwank 1: The reason nobody knew it was Earth is that it was 2 light years away from where Earth should have been, and if it was in the charts, it was as Ravolox.

Fanwank 2a: The miners seemed to be all male. K9 could have just come back in 70 years or so and towed it back to Earth's original location.

Fanwank 2b: What did K9 do to make the mining company happy? It's not explained. Maybe he found some other junk planet in the alternate dimension to tow over to replace Tellus. And maybe he missed by 2 light years. So it turns out that it wasn't actually Earth that was restored, just some other planet in the same place Earth would have been. By the time the Earth National Trust got to it billions of years later, after Tellus' mining and who knows what else, how could they have told the difference anyway?

>>81214460

Was this written by an 8 year old who speaks English as a third language?

>>81214594
No, it was written by a grown man with an AA degree (from a diploma-mill arts university), who thinks the only thing stopping him from making an American version of Doctor Who that's even better than the English one is that the internet won't buy him a $75000 3D camera.

>>81207852
>The Writing Challenge #1
>Write a mind blowing opening to a Doctor Who story. Make the reader desperate to find out what happens next!

>>81214460
The Doctor is collecting magic puzzle pieces to find to get the Tardis to work properly. This is important, he has been doing this all season. My idea does not work otherwise, so please do it!

Suddenly he regenerates!

He becomes a mildly autistic and mildly retarded Latino-American who is very good with 3D technology! Please see attached photos.

He looks in the Tardis viewscreen, and sees there are Daleks outside. But they are transformer super robots!

"Why are you transformer super robots?"

"We believe everything else is inferior". And then they try exterminate the Tardis. But it is no good. Defenses hold.

But the Doctor must go outside and meet the transformer super robot Daleks, because he cannot stay in the Tardis forever. He lost the food dispenser many years ago.

Now what? You will see after the commercial!

Also, there is a new, very exciting companion, but no spoilers!

>>81214594
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2033983624/doctor-who-pilot-as-a-american-version

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2033983624/american-version-of-a-doctor-who-pilot

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2033983624/american-version-of-a-doctor-who-pilot-episode

http://julpuma512.wixsite.com/raritythatisme

>>81214460
Remember kids, the most important part of life is picking the best Brands for all your products. That's the real treasure.

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>>81214794
Holy shit if you pledge just $100 you get picture 4. Is it worth it? Has anyone seen pictures 1-3 yet so I know what I'm getting?

>>81214910
I don't know. He only got $57/$200000 the first time, and $1/$200000 the second time, so nobody got to find out. But this time he's already up to $1/$200000 again, so I think he's going to make it!

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Scroll down to "Prize", the pictures are all labeled. Picture 4 is pic related.

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>be me
>be halfway through collecting all the classic dvds
>2017
>physical media

This looks like authentic Mexican knock off stuff that you used to be able to buy on the border before it was dangerous. Otherwise, I wouldn't even believe it was real. If he lowered his goal and release his work to the public then I'm sure many would pay handsomely for this "masterpiece."

>>81215136
Pirate them. Burn your own DVDs. And don't feel bad about hurting BBCDVD, because they're getting the same $0 they'd get if you did it legally by buying a used copy on eBay/Amazon/etc.

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>>81215136
What are you doing using DVDs instead of video wire in 2017?

I'm not ready for a world of digital media anons, I like my physical media ;(

>>81215242
You're interest in Doctor Who is really unfortunate then as it will suck you dry

>>81215269
Doubtful

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>>81215136
Reminder that books

>>81214823
I can't believe he really said that.

>>81212668
Yeah. Don't get me wrong, I liked Lucie the character, and I thought the Susan stuff worked well, but I just hated the format of the EDAs. ~6 rushed filler eps saved only by some good 8/Lucie bantz, ~2 arc episodes with Auntie Pat. That's basically the first three seasons. There's no ambition until you get to S4. Meanwhile, 8s monthlies seriously push things to their limits, the divergent arc was enormously ambitious, the romance arc was fresh at the time, there were lower lows but higher highs. Dark Eyes felt much more purposeful and creative and new too.

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Holy shit guys, the new Doctor was just announced!

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Change my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon

>>81215977
Dubs never lie

I don't plan on reading any comics. Would The Ratings War still make sense or should I skip it?

He's been reading tumblr hasn't he?
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-04-02/peter-capaldi-is-fed-up-with-everyone-criticising-doctor-who-showrunner-steven-moffat

>>81208260
Please drop back in when you're done and let us know how you got on! :)

>>81214460
>ICE WARRIOR QUEENS

confirmed for gaypiss in disguise

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Change, my dude. And it's about bloody time!

>>81216693
You really don't need to know much about Beep the Meep to follow it.

I suppose it might help to know that in one of his appearances, he tried to take over everyone's minds via TV… but now you know that, and you're ready.

That being said, you won't miss much by skipping it. The satire is out of date, there's no character development or anything, the only reason to listen to it is if it makes you laugh. Which is a matter of taste—some people find it funny, some find it annoying.

So put it on, wait until you get to the part that's a solid wall of parody, and if you aren't laughing, turn it off.

https://twitter.com/edwardrussell/status/848800564402061312

ep titles are rubbish confirmed

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSYR1x7B5OC/

brand manager apparently ok with that bitchy journalist talking shit to capaldi

https://whosfx.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/genesis-of-the-cybermen-part-one/

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/doctor-who-new-assistant-pearl-mackie_uk_58e20dbde4b0b3918c84a732

Mackie out

>>81217902
what the fuck are you talking about, anon

>>81217980
I mean, it's pretty likely that she will just be for S10 but
>According to reports
come on

>>81217987
piss off ed

>>81217980
>http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/doctor-who-new-assistant-pearl-mackie_uk_58e20dbde4b0b3918c84a732
Why would you post an article that has literally no content, even if it hadn't already been posted and discussed?

Seriously, this is the big "insider" news they quote:
>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.

Wow. So it hasn't even been decided whether Chibnall will get his own choice, much less what that choice will be. But some unnamed person thinks—just like everyone else in the universe—that it makes sense that he probably will get a choice, and, if so, it makes sense he probably won't keep Bill.

The rest of the article is just a list of women—presumably women the writer would like to see as the Doctor, but he forgot to tell us and just gave us the list with no segue and no introduction.

>>81218170
>why they post this?

because click through and ad revenue

>>81218170
Actually, that article wasn't already posted earlier. The original completely contentless (and already poorly edited) Sun article was posted before.

But this HuffPoUK article that rewrites that Sun article like a school kid rewording stuff out of a textbook in hopes of evading automated plagiarism detection and then clumsily attaches half of another article for no apparently reason, that's new. And I'm sure Daniel Welsh's journalism professors are proud.

NO SOUND BUT WATCH TIL THE END

https://twitter.com/ArchangelNews/status/848855379752759296

NEW TRAILER WITH SOUND

https://twitter.com/ArchangelNews/status/848857501802082304

NOT A DRILL

https://twitter.com/ArchangelNews/status/848857501802082304

>>81218357
SHIT SON

CAPALDI REGENERATING AT THE END

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What did she mean by this?

>>81218357
The end of that hit me hard, I'm not ready

>>81218370
oh shiiiii

Hopefully it's another fakeout like the 10000 ones 11 had and they haven't given away some sort of big surprise

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AAAAAAAAAAA

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>>81218357
MFW

>>81218416
Big surprise? What, did you think they were going to do a 6->7 and not show his regeneration until after he leaves and make the next actor play both roles?

>>81218454
they haven't filmed xmas/the regeneration yet

hence we're surprised

Best guess: he starts to regenerate in the finale, but holds it off til Xmas

>>81218380
This is why we trash talk Moffat, Peter.

Xmas will be set in Dr Who's mind palace between incarnations 12 and 13 kek

Im going to assume Capaldi will start regenerating at the end of Series 10 but will hold it off until Christmas. Or Moffat could be using his unused Series 5 storyline...

Cant see him regenerating in the finale if Moffat is writing Christmas and nor can I see Chibnall's first episode being a Christmas one...

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What if the new Doctor is Marilyn Manson and that's why SAY10 isn't out yet

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>>81218513
That was my guess too. If the Bradley thing is true it would certainly help thematically- two Doctors talking over their lives and differences as one prepares to regenerate.

>mfw Capaldi regenerates in the arms of the First Doctor

Peter Capaldi will regenerate INTO DAVID BRADLEY so Steven can spend Xmas rewriting the entire First Doctor era

SCREENCAP THIS

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>>81218627
>Capaldi regenerates in the arms of the First Doctor
I'd fucking cum

>>81218513
Worst guess: He triggers a regeneration, but then cancels it by chopping off his right hand, which he then stuff down his pants, and repeats it with his left hand. They grow into two Meta-Crisis Capaldis, which he uses to outwit the Flood, but first he makes a comment about how they'd better not go one all grumpy and the other all Tigger, just to please the Caerdroia fans.

DON'T SCREENCAP THIS

Adam Orford as the Watcher

CAPALDI REGENERATING!!!

>>81218141
get stuffed

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Missy in the TARDIS?

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Fucking anti-TV license brigade complaining on social media that they have to "pay for Moffat's crap".

When will they realize that Doctor Who makes more money than it costs? Hence REDUCES the TV license. Plus it's part funded by BBC America anyway.

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>81218869
so, which costume is he in and which episode is this from

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>>81218869

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>>81218888
Looks like this one which I think is from episode 8.

>>81218339
>>81218357
>>81218421
>>81218869
>showing the Doctor regenerating in the trailer
what the fuck, that's so weird

>>81218920
>regenerating
>in a trailer
>for normal people

>>81218888
He has it in the three parter, but we haven't seen the Doctor's costume from the finale yet so it could also be from that

>>81218920
probably some kind of fake-out

nice cocktease, will get people excited

>>81218944
that's a point: have we seen any Capaldi with Cybermen (aside from that initial promo pic)

>>81218945
Missy is in this story, so maybe he does actually die but she gives him a regeneration, thus causing herself to regenerate. There have been rumours about her regenerating

he looks so shocked and frail ;_;

this is very confusing though, they can't have filmed the regeneration scene yet or else we'd know who 13 is. and they haven't even started on the christmas special yet, have they?

i guess the speculation that he spends this season holding off his regeneration are true

Episode 12 is called A New Body

>>81219028
No, it's called Wearing Thin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbJqNa0_Oz0
Proper version of that new trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbJqNa0_Oz0&feature=youtu.be

>>81219028
A New Booty

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>>81218421
I DON'T WANT HIM TO GO

>>81219127
>Booty
>Booty-os

A NEW DAY

can you imagine if they hadn't announced capaldi was leaving and this is how we found out

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will it be kino?

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love this shot. proper doctor whoish vibes

>>81219181
more HQ screencaps pls anon

>>81218944
He visited Cardiff uni the day after the Cybermen announcement and I'm pretty sure he was wearing the same costume when taking pictures with fans

>>81218357
>>81218869
We artron energy now?

>>81219217
You're right, I remember now, he was wearing the grey costume. So he's going to 'die' in the finale and hold it off til Xmas? Or is the 'surprise regeneration' thing actually going to happen?

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>tfw a kind of Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs story of derring-do, which you've always loved

>This is the gateway to everything that ever was, or ever can be.
Anybody think there's a chance this line isn't about the TARDIS, and is actually the big scary door under the uni?

fucking GOAT trailer
this is gonna be capaldis best series

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Also >>81207302
>50/50 edition
it still hurts...

>>81219253
My guess is that this >>81219182 is the "gateway"

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>>81219110
Missy in TARDIS confirmed

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KINO
I
N
O

Much better promo this year compared to S9

AsBill introduction clip last year
Various different trailers
Heroes Corridor trailer
VFX teasers by John Smith

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Pyramids. Did we already know about pyramids?

>>81219346
WE Dab now.

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who's this cheeky fella

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Threadly reminder that this is Heather, Bill's girlfriend which one anon disbelieves.

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>>81219207

>>81219448
CGI was a mistake

>>81219437
oh look, that bland sci fi corridor AGAIN

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Missy actually looks hot this series.

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I am so hyped for Missy

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>>81219182
BEHIND THE ILLUSIONZ

>>81219433
how come your screenshot looks slightly better than mine?

pretty wild we posted almost the exact same frame 10 seconds apart

>>81219437
Looks like a prototype Cyberman. Kinda reminds of the Turk.

based hickman
https://twitter.com/claytonhickman/status/848873871285604352

capaldi's best series confirmed

https://twitter.com/GirlyLetters/status/848874349360795648

i rly hope they change all the episode titles just to fuck with these people

>>81219529
Even Gareth thinks so
I haven't had such a good feeling about Who since series 5

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>>81219529

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I'm going to be really upset if when S10 is a disappointment, because this is the first time in a long time that I've let myself get my hopes up. It looks really good

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>Capaldi won't get a series of specials leading up to his regeneration

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>>81219493
>this series

>>81219182
anyone got a HD cap of this?

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>>81219181
Reminds me of Knightmare a bit

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>tfw the rumors that 12 spends this season holding off his regeneration are true and starts to regenerate in multiple episodes but holds it off

>>81219622
YES
GOAT SHOW

I hope Capaldi's regeneration episode is genuinely good and dramatic and not a clusterfuck like the last to have been. He deserves it

>>81219693
Hope it's Heaven Sent-tier

>>81219693
Matt's regeneration scene was great at least, even if Time of the Doctor wasn't.

>>81219708
My hopes aren't that high, but that would be amazing.

>>81219711
Yeah, Matt got some good last words.

I'm not really ready for Capaldi to leave. It feels like not very long ago that Matt left. And now I have to see another favourite go. Doubt the next one will make me forget about Capaldi as quickly as Capaldi made me forget about Matt.

even the emoji robot episode might not be that bad

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>>81219617

>>81219760
I kind of suspect they're going to do the Black Mirror "familiar tech thing suddenly goes super dark" routine on that one. Just a hunch.

>>81219807
thanks anon!

>>81219812
yeah those black swarms look like something's afoot

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>>81219636
tfw been holding in a regeneration for weeks

>>81219760
Emoji robots never really seemed like a bad idea to me, to be honest.

>>81219760
It looks like a fun, kid friendly episode, with cutesy yet somewhat sinister monsters - like the Adipose

>>81219834
>tfw he holds the regeneration in all series and completely rips the TARDIS apart

>>81219843
Yeah a lot of people seem to hate the idea just because of the word "emoji" but I like the robot design really

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The only reason they haven't announced who the next Doctor is yet is due to how they want it to be a surprise at the end of the finale. Every other time we've waited for an announcement about the new Doctor is has always come within two months of the leaving announcement.

Watching 11 eps on BBVA.

Eleven and Amy have great chemistry. Amy was a legitimatey comfy companion.

>>81219963
I'd love it if they did this

>>81219963
If they do that it'll leak somehow and wont be much of a surprise

anyone know the music used in the trailer?

i want to watch classic who can someone recommend me some good episodes maybe some from every doctor?

>>81220171
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J40WhxnkC1I

I want to watch classic who can someone recommend good episodes maybe from all the old doctors ?

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>>81219868
>>tfw he holds the regeneration in all series and completely rips the TARDIS apart
>moffat fucking obliterates the TARDIS so that chibnall has nothing to work with

they mostly come at night, mostly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kufG7VmffFg

Why is this track so GOAT? I heard it in a podcast and didn't recognise it - I though it was some kind of retro 50s horror music pastiche and used midomi to track it down. I didn't know Marigold had it in him.

>>81220227

First: The Time Meddler
Second: The War Games
Third: Inferno
Fourth: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Fifth: Earthshock
Sixth: Vengeance on Varos
Seventh: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

My personal favourites, anyway.

>>81220227
An Unearthly Child (part 1)
The Mind Robber
The Three Doctors
City of Death
The Five Doctors
Vengeance on Varos
Remembrance of the Daleks

I think the multi-Doctor specials are underrated as introductions - they're some of the first I watched and I think they gave me a good sense of nearly every classic Doctor.

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>>81220522
>The Mind Robber

mah nigga

>>81219599
Oh those crazy eyes...

>>81220227
>>81220441
>>81220522
Are good picks, I'd add The Aztecs, The Sensorites and Pyramids of Mars.

>>81219346
memes have gone too far

Aren't they blowing their load on that trailer a bit early?
If they're happily giving away that mondas cibbers are coming back in the finale they can't be a particularly important part

>>81220190
What do you like in New Who episodes?

>>81219493
>>81219497
she's in the fucking tardis

>>81220693
>If they're happily giving away that mondas cibbers are coming back in the finale they can't be a particularly important part
That's not true. They can have a significant role in the finale without it being some sort of super-amazing surprise (kindly remember that most viewers won't give a shit about them). More to the point, they could never have really kept it a secret because they were filming out in the open, so they might as well

>>81220800
Normally they don't even show much of the second half until the mid-series trailer

>>81220742
Maybe its her TARDIS and they're doing what they did in the classic series: using the same set but dressing it up a bit to make it look different

>>81220826
S9's second trailer contained clips from Heaven Sent and Face the Raven

>>81220902
I feel like Missy's TARDIS would probably have a different lighting state to 12's warm orange glow.

>>81220717
i dont like filler episodes

>>81220937
but you like classic who

>>81218380
She meant that the fat Scottish cunt known as Steven Moffat should stop trying to be down with the kids because it's mainly 20-35 year olds watching his retarded show anyway.

>>81220937
well if you're looking for season arcs, don't bother with classic who lol

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>>81220902
Imagine Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS but instead they're trapped in Missy's TARDIS and being chased through the corridors by a demented Michelle Gomez.

>>81218380
I don't know why Moffat keeps trying to stay relevant, by the time an episode airs he's already behind the trends

Reminder that Sandifer singled out his Pokemon line as an example of good writing.

>>81220937
Right. Other people have already told you that Classic Who doesn't have "arcs" so to speak but there are still filler episodes I guess.

I'd go with the following for each Doctor:

>1: The War Machines (4 episodes) - not your typical First Doctor story but it's pretty fast-paced.

>2: The Mind Robber (5 episodes)

>3: Terror of the Autons (4 episodes)

>4: City of Death (4 episodes)

>5: The Caves of Androzani (4 episodes)

>6: Vengeance on Varos (2 episodes)

>7: The Curse of Fenric (4 episodes)

>>81221216
I'm surprised nobody called him out for racism by stereotyping japanese culture

S8 was the golden age
S9 was the platinum age
S10 will be the ??? age

>>81221216
the pokemon line was funny though

>>81221301
diamond m8

>>81221301
Praseodymium age

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>>81221301
Azbantium

>>81221216
He called it a 'decent line'.

>>81221301
Transuranium age

>>81220924
I imagine it'd be blacks and purples.

Series 10 will be the best of NuWho

>>81221301
Dalekanium

>>81221301
The Age Of Steel

>>81221301
Dwarf star alloy

>>81221301
Glitter age, we've been through this.

>>81221667
That's Chibnall.

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>>81221301
Death of Capaldi age

can a dalek be a gf?

>>81219497
>>81219493
SHE'S IN THE FUCKING TARDIS

Series 4 > Series 1 > Series 5 > Series 10 > Series 3 > Series 2 > Series 6 > Series 7 > Series 8 > Series 9

>>81219364
They actually look pretty good.
Also
>no blue "look they have no emotions" filter

GOAT

>>81221799
10 > 9 > 8 > 5 > 1 > 4 > 3 > 6 > 7 > 2

>>81221838
This. Maybe 5 over 8 though.

>>81221838
What the fuck are you me?

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>>81221799
>Series 9 that low
>Series 4 that high

Series 5 > Series 1 > Series 4 > Series 8 > Series 7 > Series 2 > Series 6 > Series 9 > Series 2

10 > 5 > 4 > 8 > 7 > 6 > 9 > 3 > 1 > 2

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>>81214460
>daleks into transformers
too late

5>9>1>8>3>4>6>7>2

>>81221878
>Series 8 that high

Series 2 > Series 6 > Series 3 > Series 5 > Series 1 > Series 4 > Series 7 > Series 8 > Series 10 > Series 9

Reminder that when Capaldi regenerates it will be a close up of his eyes like the shot in DoTD and they will be replaced by 13s eyes before the camera pulls out to give a full shot of her face. Then there's a short sequence before the credits.

>>81221799
4 > 3 > 1 > 5 > 2 > 8 > 6 > 7 > 9

remember when the doctor was haxing the interwebs

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>>81219437
It's the crossover we've all been waiting for

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Reminder that Capaldi has already filmed his regeneration into Cara Delevinge and here is proof.

>>81221930
>Series 2 that high

>>81221956
>her face.

>>81221964
Is there anything like this for the other seasons?

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NEW THREAD:

>>81222030

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>>81221964
>Rise Of The Cybermen/Age Of Steel
>GREAT

>>81221964
I just noticed this misspells 'Watermark' as 'Wartermark'. lel

>>81218801
*Missy's TARDIS

>>81219493
>gomez will never gag violently on your gobstopper while you grab her by her sick covered hair?

WHY LIVE?

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>>81222304
>Clara will NEVER piss silently in the cupboard under your stairs while you watch series 9 in the living room

>>81222304
>>81222363
Never say never