And now for something completely different: Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor. I'd say this was surprisingly prescient...
Finally got the second half of the season and watched the two Very Subtle episodes wrapping up (?) the Monks arc. The American army officer character made me remember Deforrest Kelley is gone.
Watched the season-ending two-parter. Oh my, oh my, oh my, and oh my. Also, now I see where the season's SFX budget went.
Capaldi's last episode will be coming to theaters. http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/a...doctor-festive-finale-to-screen-in-us-cinemas
Awesome! I hope they screen it here as well, as they did with Day of the Doctor. That was a great night.
Day of the Doctor WAS awesome, and I'm missing John Hurt even more because he brought the idea of an older Doctor back to Who and ushered in Capaldi. What still pisses me off is that they didn't include the theme tune remix on the soundtrack - it was one of the best I've heard!
Jodie Whitaker's companions. Bradley Walsh as Graham, Tosin Cole as Ryan, and Mandip Gill as Yasmin. Source. http://www.superherohype.com/news/406571-the-doctor-who-cast-members-joining-jodie-whittaker
Yay! A TARDIS team again! Cue shouts about enforced ethnic diversity from the haters. Bet one of 'em is bi as well. Article also mentions Sharon D. Clarke joining in a recurring role: Could be Ryan's mother? Alternatively, if Jodie is keeping the blonde hair, she will look VERY similar to Kate (Lethbridge) Stewart in long shots, depending on how distinctive the costume is going to be. So perhaps Chibbers is introducing a new UNIT commander? Or she's Missy Mark Two baby!
Hmm. Not sure - mind you, I didn't like Matt Smith's initial look but it grew on me - I suspect the overcoat is my fave part. It looks a bit Romana-ish, which may be appropriate if the Doctor hasn't been female before and is basing his dress on the coolest Time Lady he knows.
Don't care for the suspenders. Some wag on FB posted that she looked like Mork and Mindy's love child.
Given the Doctor's history, this is very likely not going to be the outfit she wears all the time forever more, so
^I kinda like the trou. Loose, cool, easy to run in. Also, somebody went to the trouble of analyzing every item, from the stripes in Tom Baker's scarf to the "braces" (did I say "suspenders"?) Matt Smith was so fond of. Can't find the photo now. But if she starts wearing bow ties, I shall be very annoyed. Bow ties are not cool.
So I'm rewatching S8-10 in anticipation of the Christmas episode, and noticing little things I hadn't before. Example: How much the design on Clara's blouse in "Inside the Dalek" resembles the Dalek antibodies:
I wonder if she'll get a new control room, and a new screwdriver. I'd assume so. Once they introduced the idea of "desktop themes", the new Doctors get a redecoration.
I agree. It's kind of a stringy outfit though. Coat goes with the pants, pants go with the suspenders, suspenders go with the shirt. There's not much synergy in any other pair of those garments. Also happy about a "TARDIS team". It's a good sign after some of the CGI of the last season that the BBC are still putting money into the show, and teams allow more variety of storytelling.
Nothing is worse than Colin Baker's outfit, not even Willy Wonka. You're being dramatic for attention. Everyone ignore him. If you're married to him, divorce him. It's the only way he learns.
I like the outfit, it's like the Doctor is basing how she should now dress off vague memories of a young Sarah Jane Smith.
Maybe some of you who fans can answer some questions for me. There are a lot of episodes, and I watched a couple of seasons because it was with a friend, but there is a lot to see for a person who has not watched it for years. I would not mind a show that has a rich universe and some technical detail. I loved trek because they put thought into the detailed workings of the ship in tng and after a while in tos. You could pick up laforge's guide to the enterprise, or scotty's for that matter, and see a reasoned out tech for why things worked and the reasons things like ship design were the way they were. When I watch who they seem to have a history, but at lot of the tech seems to be in essence magic because we cannot let our powerful doctor die. Way too many predicaments were just written off because he is the doctor and can do that. Which when used that often tends to turn me off. It is not that trek didn't fudge it's way through some problems, but they tried to put a science on it. The doctor sort of seems like q a lot and it seems that he allows a lot to go on when he should be able to doctor himself out of the problem. Is this really ever explained with some decent story? I did come in in the beginning of the modern incarnation. The older episodes might contain the history I desire, but I am just sort of so so on the series and spin offs.
The new series talks a lot about the concept of fixed points in time, ie the Doctor knows when they can interfere and when they can't. Also crazy manipulation of time travel to solve problems is generally shown only being used when the situation is really dire and things are already crazy anyway. That's kind of backed up by hints we get of the Time War, where the Time Lords did unleash their full power and came close to ending the Universe.
