Doctor Who — Page 16

That's why I still have DVD; Blu's still a bit too expensive for me. Smith years still look miles better than the Tennant years, though, as far as cinematography goes...

doubleofive said:

 

Ovan Marekal said:

Hope you enjoy the rest of Smith's tenure thus far, doubleo; I know I have... :-)

I'm a few episodes into my Blu-ray set of Series 6. It's alright so far. I don't like that the Blus don't remember my place, so I can't just watch when I can, I have to either have an hour to watch an episode, or figure out what chapter I'm on to skip back to it after all the ads load. It's really annoying.

 

Is that normal for Blu-rays? Or is it just your player? I've bought a small handful of Blu-ray discs since getting my PS3, but I have actually never gotten around to watching any of them.

Surely all those people looking into it's eyes and taking photos, buying postcards etc will be in serious trouble.

Especially if they are Fringe fans.

BTW I think I've fallen a bit in love with this young lady.

Just listened to Spare Parts again.

It really is the best ever Cyberman story, possibly the best Doctor Who story, horrific stuff.

I wish the television show would return the Cybermen to their body horror roots.

That story proved that even after the Borg the idea could be terrifying on it's own terms.

greenpenguino said:

CP3S said:

I also like the idea of you changing it in your sig to discombobulate Fink. Earlier this year when Doctor Who related discussion was finding its way into several threads and everyone was changing their avatar to some incarnation of the Doctor or another, Fink kept trying to remind everyone that this was a Star Wars forum. That was fun. If you do change your sig pic to the screwdriver, I think we should plan another mass Who'ing of our avatars...

Awesome! Just don't tell him anyone....

 

Shhh!!!

Too late!

So, this is that show with the rather attractive redheaded lady, correct?

I have hundreds of hours of Big Finishes but I'm by no means up to date.

I'm not that much a fan of The Chimes Of Midnight (even though it was the first one I purchased), it has a bit of a Sapphire And Steel vibe to it but it feels rather forced at times.

I Davros is a great mini-series (not to mention a bit of a spoof on I Claudius in more than just the name).

Just finding time to listen to them underlines how stupid mortality is.

I did find the time however to morph all eleven Doctors into one face.

He looks rather interesting :

A bit like Paul (not the mind probe) Jerricho :

First Buffy Season Eight and now... MORE SPOCK!

The show is about a man who wanders around aimlessly and has been for the last five decades :-D

Yeah but it's the same pattern as the RTD era and large chunks of the JNT era too.

It's still not how I would do it but it feels (for me) more like Doctor Who than it did under big Russ and Matt feels more like the Doctor than either Chris or Dave (if that makes sense for a character that shifts around so much).

I don't think the show needs arcing storylines.

It should be just a vaguely connected series of adventures in time and space with the characters holding just enough continuity to seem like the same people week in week out.

But I'm not in charge.

As for pulling the wool over time's eyes.

The fixed point isn't his actual death in this case but history recording it.

If JFK had successfully faked his death history would have played out pretty much the same.

If some someone had successfully managed to fake JFK surviving his death history would have changed.

We have a lot of on screen evidence of the Doctor having companions we don't see and he lies.

He may not really be as old as he makes out or even older (he seems to forget he claimed to be almost a thousand years old as the Sixth Doctor when he is the Ninth. He forgets he claims to be a Doctor for thousands of years when he in his third incarnation and as for the other incarnations before William Hartnell seen in The Brain Of Morbius he forgets them too).

The Doctor has always been an unreliable narrator, which is why arc based stories don't really work when they hinge on things he says.

I don't even see why he has to keep his head down.

Now that the universe assumes he dies in his eleventh form he can wander around in much the same way he already has and everyone will assume those adventures take place before he dies.

It was a mess though.

Why bother coming up with a storyline where time has collapsed onto itself when the production team clearly don't have the budget to explore the possibilities of such a world?

A whole series could have been set in that screwed up world.

Instead we got a few moments of visual madness and then a base under siege story that could have been set anywhere and anywhen.

Prank's I haven't done yet.

The Master takes on the shape of a variety of actors, not the other way round.

Sad to read about Philip Madoc it's a shame he didn't manage to squeeze at least one more appearance into the show.

The Doctor has a new companion.

Reserving judgment until I see her intro episode.

But I will say that she's pretty much exactly how I pictured Lucie Miller in the Eighth Doctor audios (except for that sweater).