Dr Who: Oh, dear

Crapaud
Crapaud Posts: 2,483
edited March 2010 in The bottom bracket
In an interview with The Herald, Steven Moffat said ...
[url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/more-arts-entertainment-news/doctor-who-writer-fled-show-s-studios-1.1016160]the herald[/url] wrote:
“I’ve changed everything,” he said. “You literally won’t see a single familiar thing. The Tardis is different inside and out, there’s a new cast, new title sequence, new music. It’s what Doctor Who does.”
I hope he hasn't gone too far, particularly the theme music.

I guess we'll find out on Sat.
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill

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  • JackCB
    JackCB Posts: 92
    Reviews seem to be good - those that I've read at any rate. It's important that they change some things; the new Doctor and the new produced need to stamp their own identity on the show. It would be the worst thing if they simply tried to replicate David Tennant's Doctor. I'm sure Moffat is exagerating when he says "everything's changed". I'm cautiously optimistic, although - like you - I hope he hasn't done anything too drastic with the music.
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Crapaud wrote:
    In an interview with The Herald, Steven Moffat said ...
    [url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/more-arts-entertainment-news/doctor-who-writer-fled-show-s-studios-1.1016160]the herald[/url] wrote:
    “I’ve changed everything,” he said. “You literally won’t see a single familiar thing. The Tardis is different inside and out, there’s a new cast, new title sequence, new music. It’s what Doctor Who does.”
    I hope he hasn't gone too far, particularly the theme music.

    I guess we'll find out on Sat.

    Hopefully no one will notice the next episode of Dr Who will actually be a re-run of an old Blakes seven episode.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Frank the tank wrote:
    Hopefully no one will notice the next episode of Dr Who will actually be a re-run of an old Blakes seven episode.
    I would. A cardboard Tardis on a stick is not on! :evil:
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    Hang on there. Blakes's seven wasn't all bad as those of us of a certain age and gender can well recall. :oops:


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  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Oh pedylan now your talking,I found Jacqueline Pearce to be a very sexy woman and i still do,corrr.
  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    Ahhh, Servalan

    Haughty, cruel and contemptuous, utterly assured and self contained.

    What the hell she would have needed with, or done to, an insecure adolescent doesn't bear contemplation. And yet there were legions of us out there - wondering...............

    :oops:
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  • JLM74
    JLM74 Posts: 108
    William Hartnell should never have left the show. It's been rubbish ever since.....
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    You do all know it's a kids show, don't you? Please don't tell me you read Harry Potter too....
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  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    I'd bite on Passout's trolling but I'm too tired :)

    pssst I watched Harry Potter at the weekend, quite a good film.
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  • Mr_Cellophane
    Mr_Cellophane Posts: 690
    JLM74 wrote:
    William Hartnell should never have left the show. It's been rubbish ever since.....

    No Patrick Troughton was the best Doctor ever. It was so dark while he was in it. Then they spoilt it by having that clown Pertwee camp it up. :evil:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Mr_Cellophane wrote:
    JLM74 wrote:
    William Hartnell should never have left the show. It's been rubbish ever since.....

    No Patrick Troughton was the best Doctor ever. It was so dark while he was in it. Then they spoilt it by having that clown Pertwee camp it up. :evil:

    Nice cup of tea and a slice of cake ?
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    I hardly remember the older ones, but I do remember being scared out of my witts as a youngster. Sat on the arm of my grandad's chair knowing full well what was coming, but still screaming like a wuss behind the settee when that snake zoomed at the screen.

    I like Tennant, at first he seemed a bit of a 'meh', but I soon grew to like him. The new guy looks a bit 'fopish' in a Hugh Grant kind of way, just hope he isn't.
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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    passout wrote:
    You do all know it's a kids show, don't you? Please don't tell me you read Harry Potter too....
    Blasphemer!!! Kill the heretic - Burn Him!

    Regards,

    Crapaud,
    aged 44 and 11/12 ths
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    Crapaud wrote:
    passout wrote:
    You do all know it's a kids show, don't you? Please don't tell me you read Harry Potter too....
    Blasphemer!!! Kill the heretic - Burn Him!

    Regards,

    Crapaud,
    aged 44 and 11/12 ths

    Blink. Silence in the Library. Kids? These episodes were grown up sci fi the likes of which doesn't exist anywhere else on British produced TV.
    Where the neon madmen climb
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    passout wrote:
    You do all know it's a kids show, don't you? Please don't tell me you read Harry Potter too....

    Yaay, at last, +1 on both counts. No point in reading Harry Potter for me now, I have read most of the books that she based it all on.

    Tom Baker was the best Dr Who 8) .
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Stewie Griffin wrote:
    [Tom Baker was the best Dr Who 8) .

    +1
  • stage_fright
    stage_fright Posts: 218
    Pedylan mentions Blink above - if you watch the trailers BBC are running under the red button, you get a split second shot of a stone angel.

    So they are back, which means don't blink, don't look away...
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  • pst88
    pst88 Posts: 621
    What I don;t understand is how the inside (and now apparently outside) of the TARDIS keeps changing.
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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    pst88 wrote:
    What I don;t understand is how the inside (and now apparently outside) of the TARDIS keeps changing.
    IIRC, there's more than 1 Tardis control room because it's seriously huge inside.
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • JLM74
    JLM74 Posts: 108
    pst88 wrote:
    What I don;t understand is how the inside (and now apparently outside) of the TARDIS keeps changing.

    In the Children In Need short scene a couple of years back, the Doctor refers to this as "changing the desktop setting".

    Apparently, the upcoming change in the Tardis interior and exterior is explained in the upcoming series, rather than just being one of those things (presumably) the viewer isn't supposed to notice.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I think Mingmong should spend his £100 on taking the Dr Who fans out for half a shandy and a knee trembler. :wink:
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    One for the Dr Who fanboys: Sculptress of Sound: The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire
    The broadcaster and Doctor Who fan MATTHEW SWEET travels to The University of Manchester - home of Delia Derbyshire's private collection of audio recordings - to learn more about the wider career and working methods of the woman who realised Ron Grainer's original theme to Doctor Who. ...
    I heard bits and bobs of it at the weekend - it's really quite interesting.
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill

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