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Can someone, anyone confirm or deny this rumor? I'll be heartbroken if its true.
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“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
skyjedi2005 said:Are all the Tom Baker episodes going to ever be remastered and released?
That was the Doctor Who i loved as a kid, the one they used to show on pbs around the mid to late 1980's.
Yes he wears a funky scarf and is dressed like a hippie, but this show was really cool when i was a kid. I used to pretend time travel based on this show, using a telephone booth because that is what the doctors time machine looked like, lol.
I still find it funny that Peter Cushing aka governor tarkin played dr who in a movie. Which i read somewhere not entirely sure that it was not canon.
Cushing is awesome in those old hammer horror films as DR Frankenstein, Van Helsing etc. Also funny how Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) played Dracula.
The DVD releases have been through various restoration processes (as were the VHS ones back in the day).
http://www.restoration-team.co.uk
They are released in a rather piece-meal fashion (you can't get all of any of the Doctor's adventures yet other than McGann and Eccleston).
There are still many missing episodes (sadly most of them from the Patrick Troughton era and I love Pat's Doctor) some of them turn up now and then.
Here is a list of what is missing (as original video though some has since been returned in other formats) :
http://www.lostshows.com./default.aspx?programme=d6488108-4abb-42c8-810e-8f98536258e5
The soundtracks for all of them exist (thanks to fans who taped them of the television back in the day) so there are fans working on animating the missing episodes :
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/09/who-recon/
The DVD set for The Invasion was completed with animation from Cosgrove Hall (of Dangermouse fame) and works really well.
There have been some fun attempts to add colour to some of the monochrome episodes :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YhTGyfLDU4&feature=channel_page
First official photo of the new Doctor in costume: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/medialibrary/images/wide-screen/karen_matt_1440x900.jpg#
Whoa, he looks like a younger Peter Davison in that one! Awesome!
When I first saw his picture I wasn't sure how I felt about him in the role, but then I watched an interview with him, and his mannerisms gave me the impression that he was just right.
Nuts! I used to wear an outfit just like that (I just sent the jacket and waistcoat off to the charity shop where no doubt some nuWho fan will construct an 11th Doctor costume).
The TARDIS has had a make-over too (no pictures of the inside yet but the exterior looks more like a Police Box now) :
http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/2009/07/series-5-filming-begins.html
I'm looking forward to the Moffat/Smith era, I've not really enjoyed what RTD has done since 2005 on the whole (the odd moment of brilliance surrounded in a sea of hmmm...with the occasional turdberg of awfulness).
Who is the actress in these pictures? Haven't been following the show for a while.
The newer doctor whos are some of the best new science fiction that has been on television. Amazingly well written and casted, well most of the time anyway.
Too bad they could not have given the same love and attention to detail to star trek on tv.
They half assed enterprise all the way up to the final episode.
Restoring or reshooting these missing episodes and sequences of doctor who reminds me of the lost spider pit sequence in king kong being recreated on the dvd. Also reminds me of serial squadrons reshoots of a lost movie serial,lol.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
Karen Gillan is the actress, Amy Pond is the character, we don't know anything about her yet because she's the 11th Doctor's companion and we still have a bit to go before the song for ten ends. Here's the wiki article about her (sorry that as much as I have) :
skyjedi2005 said:The newer doctor whos are some of the best new science fiction that has been on television. Amazingly well written and casted, well most of the time anyway.
Well, pretty much all the ones that Russell T. Davies DIDN'T write were awesome. :P
Nanner Split said:skyjedi2005 said:The newer doctor whos are some of the best new science fiction that has been on television. Amazingly well written and casted, well most of the time anyway.
Well, pretty much all the ones that Russell T. Davies DIDN'T write were awesome. :P
I have to agree with you there Tooth And Claw, Turn Left and Midnight were great and the recent Torchwood thing was good too even if it was largely pinched off The Space Traders and The Quatermass Conclusion.
He does write nice little character moments but give him anything that requires Science Fiction ideas or an epic finale and he gets lost, most of those stories seem to based on playing early platform games, only Russell can take a joke from Galaxy Quest and take it seriously.
Basically he is John Nathan Turner with too much money to spend and the BBC behind him, not trying to trip him up.
Hopefully a change of lead writer will herald a higher level of story telling.
I'm just hoping that Moffat isn't going to be Gordon Brown to RTD's Tony Blair.
Of ALL the writers to work on the new Who, Moffat has most consistently demonstrated that he understands what the show is about - the pathos, wit and great science fiction ideas in his episodes have been pitch perfect throughout.
He'll do ok.
Agreed but he does have a very recognisable formula that could become a bit stale if he sticks to it too rigidly.
I hope that Moffat is a bit more daring and open with chosing stories from other writers than RTD was.
RTD tended to pick a writing team (who were much of the same mind as him or they didn't last long) and if they didn't tow the line he freely admits to rewriting the whole episodes (we may never know how many he actually did write).
The show used to be at it's best when it had an open house style and picked stories rather than writers.
And I wish they would drop the Doctor in love thing, he's a bit old for all that hair pulling and running around.