The Doctor Who Thread - Page 1723

iank · #**17221** 16th February 2025, 08:17 AM

Continued season 15 with The Invisible Enemy. Definitely a comedown from Fang Rock, this starts off well with part 1 being pretty good and creepy, but the trouble really starts with the Fantastic Voyage homage/parody/ripoff, which is just dumb and dull. Part 4 improves but is severely let down by the ludicrous Nucleus costume. It's not awful and there's stuff to like like K9 arriving and Leela's hilarious "I've found out how to stop them - knife them in the neck!" but it's a bit ho hum. Still better than the modern show, obviously...

Susan Foreman · #**17222** 16th February 2025, 09:29 AM

Apparently 'Fear Her' is back on i-Player, with Huw Edwards having been edited out

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi...ed-newsupdate/

"The Doctor Who 2006 episode Fear Her is now back on BBC iPlayer after being removed from the streaming platform last year.

In the original episode, Edwards made a cameo appearance as himself, briefly presenting BBC News about the events in the episode, where people were vanishing due to the powers of a possessed young girl, Chloe Webber.

Now, the Doctor Who episode has been redubbed to remove any trace of Edwards, being replaced by actress Becky Wright, who has previously worked on the Doctor Who podcast series.

In terms of what has been changed within the episode, the main story of course remains the same, but certain pieces of dialogue have been changed.

Within the original episode, Edwards can be heard narrating coverage, saying: "My God, what's going on here? The crowd has just vanished, right in front of my eyes. It's impossible. Bob, can we go to you in the box? Bob? Not you too?"

After the crisis is resolved, he is heard again saying: "They've reappeared! It's quite incredible. And a mystery man, we've no idea who he is, has picked up the flame. It's more than heat and light, it's hope and it's courage and it's love."

Now, the lines have been replaced with: "My God, what's going on here? The crowd has vanished, they?re gone, everyone has gone. Thousands of people have just gone, right in front of my eyes, it?s impossible. Bob? Bob, can we join you in the box? Not you too Bob."

As well as Wright narrating: "Just look at this, utterly incredible scenes at the Olympic Stadium. 80,000 athletes and spectators, they disappeared, they've come back. They've returned, they've reappeared. It's quite incredible."

The episode now features the iPlayer disclaimer: "This programme has been edited since broadcast. There are a number of reasons why a programme may have been edited including legal, contractual or technical issues."

Previously speaking on archive material, a BBC spokesperson told RadioTimes.com: "As you would expect we are actively considering the availability of our archive.

"While we don't routinely delete content from the BBC archive as it is a matter of historical record, we do consider the continued use and re-use of material on a case-by-case basis.""

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**17223** 16th February 2025, 11:18 AM

The pop art cover of the forthcoming re-release of Andrew Cartmel's book, Script Doctor, in which the former Doctor Who script editor offers a frank and revealing view of his time on the program from 1986-89.

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**17224** 17th February 2025, 11:08 AM

Paul McGann is the Doctor, as seen in Doctor Who (1996)

iank · #**17225** 18th February 2025, 07:07 AM

British tabloids saying Gatwa's out and the show is on the cusp of cancellation. BBC denying the latter but not the former.

Course, they denied it in 89 too...

Susan Foreman · #**17226** 18th February 2025, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iank

British tabloids saying Gatwa's out and the show is on the cusp of cancellation. BBC denying the latter but not the former.

Course, they denied it in 89 too...

It's The Sun !!

To quote Tom Robinson*

"It's there in the paper, it must be the truth"

* That's Tom Robinson the singer and not Tommy Robinson the fascist Nazi ... although there are many people who would love to hear him sing 'Glad To Be Gay' !

Susan Foreman · #**17227** 18th February 2025, 07:57 AM

In memory of Julian Holloway (1944 - 2025)

Appeared as Sergeant Paterson in the 1989 story 'Survival'

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**17228** 18th February 2025, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

It's The Sun !!

To quote Tom Robinson*

"It's there in the paper, it must be the truth"

No, it's more than that wrag. It's a story reported by all.

The BBC have issued a statement saying it's not cancelled but have kept quiet on Gatwa's departure.

Personally i hope it's true. He's a decent actor but he's ill fitting for the role of the Doctor. That may partly be due to his scripts - although Davies seemed to write TennaNt fine - but from the episodes i've seen (all of them) he seems less of a fit in the role than all that came before. And i mean ALL.

iank · #**17229** 18th February 2025, 10:43 AM

They never said the original was axed. They just stopped making it.

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**17230** 18th February 2025, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iank

They never said the original was axed. They just stopped making it.

I'm not particularly bothered if they do stop making it.

For me 21st century Who ended in 2017 with The Doctor Falls - There have been a few enjoyable re-imaginings since but not many and pretty much none at all since R2D2 became showrunner again.

I'll still watch it and probably enjoy the odd episode but it feels like most of the time i'm watching it because of the name and not the content. I've not bought a series box set since Capaldi left. (Quite sad really)