The Doctor Who Thread

[hivemind]

I thoroughly enjoyed tonight's Dr Who story.

The Doctor was serious

His companion was about as non-PC as you can get. A feisty female companion if there ever was. No need for a feminist bent.

A millionaire with green fingers that made the the capital in V stand out in villain.

Depth and creative use of story, mixed with threat and green fingered humor.

Krynoid's on the loose and the Doctor back to his usual self. No time for silly behavior

No more inclusion or diversity, but science fiction to die for

And then I weep many tears whilst I type/reflect on what a sad state of affairs Dr Who has become.


But I also look on the bright side, cos next Sunday is The Brain of Morbius.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Utter shite! Kermit would of made a more menacing and realistic looking frog!

Do you ever have anything positive to say about Parody Who trebor?

[gag]

Tonight episode has split people been reading on net some loved it others thought it was garbage ,you can't please everyone but last couple episodes have improved from the first 3\4 episodes. At end of the day its down to the writers directors producers etc not the actors fault they are only doing their job they can only do with what they been given and told to.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by gag

Tonight episode has split people been reading on net some loved it others thought it was garbage ,you can't please everyone but last couple episodes have improved from the first 3\4 episodes. At end of the day its down to the writers directors producers etc not the actors fault they are only doing their job they can only do with what they been given and told to.

Yes no fault of the actors, they can only work with what they are gving, the whole writing staff needs to be fired, Chibnall needs to go at th end of the season,for a man who says he's a life long fan of the show you would think he hadn't seen a single episode going by this season.

[Susan Foreman]

December 3rd: Today in WHO-story

Births
1908 - Edward Underdown (Zastor in Meglos)

1924 - Robert Keegan (Sholakh in The Ribos Operation)

1928 - Gerald Blake (director of The Abominable Snowmen and The Invasion of Time)

1930 - Henley Thomas (Tarron in The Keys of Marinus)

1940 - Rod Beacham (Corporal Lane in The Web of Fear)

1983 - Elizabeth Croft (Vampire Girl in The Vampires of Venice)

Deaths
2006 - Craig Hinton (writer of several Doctor Who-related books and audio adventures) aged 42

2009 - Richard Todd (Sanders in Kinda) aged 90

2016 - Johnny Dennis (Murray in Delta and the Bannermen) aged 76

Episodes
1966 - The Power of the Daleks, Episode Five: 8.0 million viewers
1977 - The Sun Makers, Part Two: 9.5 million viewers
2006 - Torchwood: They Keep Killing Suzie (BBC Three): 1.12 million viewers
2016 - Class: The Lost (BBC Three)

Departures
2016 - Conclusion to the first and, so far, only TV series of the Doctor Who spin-off Class

Releases
1992 - Transit and The Fourth Doctor Handbook (Virgin Books)

2009 - Hornets' Nest, Parts Four and Five ('A Sting in the Tale' and 'Hive of Horror') (AudioGO); issue 144 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 82 (Big Finish Productions)
2015 - The Sins of Winter (BBC Audio)

Behind-the-Scenes
2011 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Many Happy Returns took place

2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Library of Alexandria took place

[Roughale]

I liked the episode very much, ok, the ending was a bit weak, but I regarded it as Discworld-esque and it was acceptable ;-)

Is it really only 10 episodes this year? Weird...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Yes no fault of the actors, they can only work with what they are gving, the whole writing staff needs to be fired, Chibnall needs to go at th end of the season,for a man who says he's a life long fan of the show you would think he hadn't seen a single episode going by this season.

Yes the writing is weak, very weak, but even with some utter shite Eccleston, Tennant, Smith and Capaldi made any episode watchable. I really can't say the same for Whitaker. She adds to the problem rather than eases it.

Bradley Walsh is easily the best thing about this series.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Can you imagine the stick Moffat would have got if the crack in the walls arc in his era had ended up being a frog on a chair.

What's trying to enter into our world? Not Gallifrey, not the Daleks, not Omega's portal from an anti-matter universe, no. A frog on a chair.

Or the penultimate episode of series two. The Void ship slowly opens...the Doctor and the Cybermen watch in amazement as it reveals... a frog on a chair.

Come on. This is garbage!

[hivemind]

And to think the BBC are keeping Chris Chibnall on for another series, after destroying everything that Doctor Who built up over 55 years with some incredible backstory and history, and now we've come to this. The BBC is just as guilty for getting a total hack to do the job he was paid to do. Destroy Dr Who.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by hivemind

And to think the BBC are keeping Chris Chibnall on for another series, after destroying everything that Doctor Who built up over 55 years with some incredible backstory and history, and now we've come to this. The BBC is just as guilty for getting a total hack to do the job he was paid to do. Destroy Dr Who.

The thing is one or two episodes have been genuinely good. The Witchfinders last week for example. Arachnids in the UK, although flawed, felt like classic Doctor Who.

This series has been an entire series of what we'd describe as filler / Doctor Lite episodes, rather than anything else.

It's been like a full series of 42, Fear Her and Boom Town.