New Doctor Who

NO, I missed it:tear: . But it's repeated on Saturday:)

 

Welcome to the thread Don. Just park your TARDIS over the side there with the rest of them ;)

I think these last 3 seasons would have to be right up there as one of the best runs of stories ever (excluding Love & Monsters of course)...

 

Don't forget Fear Her, if only for that wretched, wretched line near the end when the Doctor picks up the Olympic Torch.

A lot of fans are down on Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks, and I agree it's not strong. But, if my prediction about the S4 season finale is right, that story will be seen in a different light. It will be seen as a necessary bridge from Doomsday to Davros.

BTW, how brilliant is it of RTD to be thinking that far ahead and have the Sycorax slice off the Doctor's hand in Christmas Invasion?

Somebody on Scifi came up with the following and I'd like to hear what you think. In Aliens of London, the Doctor thinks he's brought Rose back 12 hours after she left in Rose, but it turned out to be 12 months. I think we all wrote it off as the TARDIS doing quirky things like it would in DW Classic. I offer you a different explanation.

For us who've seen Sound of Drums, and to Don and other lurkers, who've seen the previews, you know when and where the Master goes with the Doctor's TARDIS. The first time we saw a reference to Mr. Saxon was Love&Monsters. Of course, this means that he was on Earth for a few months before that. Is it possible that we can pinpoint when the Master came back, and that he came back right before Aliens of London? Maybe the reason that the Doctor was so far off in time was because the TARDIS piloted by the Master had already arrived in London and was pulling the TARDIS piloted by the Doctor to itself? What do you think?

 

cc, you couldn't feel the olympic love? :eek: :smilewinkgrin: It's just a shame that last 5 min of Fear Her wasn't up to standard of first 40, was reasonably solid until then, especially the thought of the drawing of daddy coming down the stairs...

I think even with a few weaker stories (and the shocker L&M), generally in these last 3 seasons Chris and Dave have had enough instant classics between them to make even Jon & Tom jealous.


Did RTD have that in mind from the start with the hand trick cc? Standing ovation for him if he did :applause:


Just cheated and had a look at the episode list from the CE season and might be able to sink that TARDIS theory. While in Rose the Doctor re-materialised from where he left about half a minute before, in The Unquiet Dead it was the TARDIS of old as he landed in Cardiff 1869 and not Naples 1860.

 

I'll have to watch one of the Confidentials again, but I think RTD said that he had decided about 18 months prior to Sound of Drums to bring the Master back. They probably filmed Confidential at the time they shot SoD, which was sometime in January. Even if it were 18 months before the airing of SoD, that puts us at December '06 when RTD decided it.

I don't think RTD knew exactly how it would play out, but it's apparent to me that he lets nothing happen on DW that doesn't have a purpose, so, yeah, I think he thought that far ahead. Brilliant. :applause:

Let's consider the theory sunk. :)

 

[Pedantic geek hat on]A few miles further west aong the Bristol Channel: Swansea to be precise (although it was filmed in Cardiff)[/pedantic geek hat off; as you were]

 

The TARDIS - Perfect piloting, pitiful plodding, or perhaps pure plot pressure? ;)

Season 27:

Rose - Perfect - the Doctor returns dead on target to say "Did I mention it travels in time?"
The End of the World - Perfect - The Doctor takes Rose to see end of world.
The Unquiet Dead - Pitiful - off by 9 years and 1783 km / 1108 miles (source)
Aliens of London - Both - at the start he is off by a year, had the right place though. Later he does perfect landing at hospital, followed up by a perfect return.
World War Three - NA - Most of episode in #10.
Dalek - NA - TARDIS followed Dalek SOS
The Long Game - Perfect - at start lands in Satellite 5 at time of Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire, at end parks it at Adam's to drop him off.
Father's Day - Perfect - Lands on the day of Rose's father's death twice.
The Empty Child - NA - Follows the Chula ship.
The Doctor Dances - Perfect - Rescues Capt Jack at end of episode.
Boom Town - Perfect - parks on the rift to recharge TARDIS
Bad Wolf - NA - Doctor, Rose, Jack placed in games by The Controller.
The Parting of the Ways - Perfect - Doctor charges at Dalek fleet and materialises around Rose, ok, not quite perfect, got 1 Dalek in there. Return trip to Game Station was spot on.

Bit late here to think about the next two seasons :) Maybe tonight :)


*looks at post times....*

You mean I've been fiddling with this for 50 min? I need a life :laugh: (ok, I've been doing other things too, but I'm trying for Whovian geek title here too)

 

I thought the title of BB Whovian Geek was already mine all mine. I mean, somebody who admitted to dreaming up Doctor Who stories when he was in high school doesn't get the title by default? What else must I do?

:tonofbricks:



:smilewinkgrin:

 

Sell all your belongings, give the proceeds to the poor and then...oh, hang on, that's something else, isn't it?

 

Did anybody here love Star Trek TNG as much as I did? I was so bummed in 1994 when it closed out its run with All Good Things. It's been 13 years, which just amazes me because 1994 seems like yesterday, and I still miss that show. Anyway, Patrick Stewart carried the show, especially during season 1. As much as I liked DS9 and Voyager, they were never as good, mostly because they lacked an actor like Stewart.

The point of all this is to show you this link, where Patrick Stewart has said that he'd love to be in Doctor Who. What fan wouldn't love to see that? Can you imagine RTD bringing Davros back and having the option of asking Ben Kingsley or Patrick Stewart to play him?

 

*gets an image of Patrick Stewart saying "Nobody asked me!" in a Stephanie Tanner voice and cracks up*

 

:laugh:

Wait...um... what? :confused:

Who's Stephanie Tanner?

 

Steph = the middle girl in Full House

"Steph, why didn't you tell us XYZ?"

"Nobody asked me!"

 

I loved Blink....although it was a widdle bit frightening...hate fright fests.....

The last episode was .....interesting.....I felt the doctor was a bit messianic.....and well it was pretty corny...I was rather disappointed actually........oh well you get that sometimes.......

 

All I can say is "OHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

I hope the page's disclaimer is one of few things right on there.....


*fast forward to this time next year to see if RTD can pull it off*

 

Hmmm...Axons; that's one enemy I wouldn't have thought of bringing back. I think - hope - it's all largely speculative.

 

Some of this is known to be true. Some of it is rubbish.

What's known to be true
The Doctor and Donna will visit Pompeii. There was a pic posted on the Skiffy DW forum showing DT and CT in a scene with other actors wearing period costumes.

The Doctor and Donna will visit Agatha Christie. Did you know that she wrote a book called The Man in the Brown Suit?

They are going to the planet Ood. No known reason why.

What I think is rubbish
If any American lurker read the site, yes, the Master dies in Last of the Time Lords. That really shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, but how it happens is a surprise. RTD has said that he did the end of LotTL the way he did for a future producer. I simply don't believe that the Master is coming back in any way in S4.

That statement makes absolutely no sense. What would the Doctor do to him? To change anything that happened in Last of the Time Lords would mean he would cross his own timeline, wouldn't it?

Finally, Rose and Mickey? If Rose comes back, that will be the clue that the show has jumped the shark. I've seen nothing about Billie Piper being signed and I find it impossible to believe that they're filming S4 and haven't signed everybody who's going to be in it yet. I really believe the Time War needs to be left as it is, something that is talked about, and something that drives some of the drama, but something that is never shown.

What I think might be interesting
Joanna Lumley as the Master? I have a better choice. How about Joanna Lumley as the Rani? That's not only a better choice, but makes far more sense.

I can only hope that most of what I read on that site is rubbish.

 

I think that Billie has been induced to return for the last three stories of S4

 

I saw the link about B. Piper this morning. I'm just not sure what to make of it.

However, I also saw this link, which is about the Sontarans making a return, and nothing on the S4 "spoiler" page mentions the Sontarans.

And this article contradicts the Fires of Vulcan storyline as noted in the S4 "spoiler" page.

 

Just saw Last of the Time Lords. I'm a little saddened. The actor played the Master much more gleefully (and maniacally, I might say) than in the older series with Pertwee and others. He had fun with the role.

But I absolutely loved the line: "they called me the face of Bo." Beautiful.