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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2022 6:29:36 GMT -5
I haven’t enjoyed DW in recent years. With some exceptions, the stories seem to be style over substance. Nothing leaves a lasting impression. The threat always has to be monumental, e.g. it can’t be a threat to a solar system, it has to be something threatening a galaxy/the universe/the multiverse/time. I preferred the more intimate historical tales.
In fact, it’s been like clockwork: when an episode is historical, I’ve enjoyed it immensely. When it’s a battalion of Daleks threatening an entire galaxy, it just seems like a CGI-fest.
I’ll carry on tuning into the historical tales.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 9, 2022 19:58:58 GMT -5
I saw the announcement, though Gatwa is not the first Doctor Who of color.... Sort of... I'd watch the hell out of that. Back in the 90s, for Comic Relief, they did the special Doctor Who: The Curse of the Fatal death, with Rowan Atkinson as The Doctor, and Julia Sawalha, as his assistant/fiance. Jonathan Pryce played The Master. Over the course of the special, he regenerates into Richard E Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley. The VHS release of it included excerpts of the Lenny Henry sketch, one with French and Saunders (as extras who won't shut up, during filming), and Jim Broadbent, from a sketch (I think from Victoria Woods' show). The special was written by Stephen Moffat, who took over as show runner, after Russell T Davies; but, this was back when the show was off the air (though is often cited as wetting the appetite for the revival). I bought the VHS, from Sun Coast, as well as the VHS of Atkinson's stage show, done with HBO as a co-broadcaster (several of the sketches were later used in Mr Bean).. Atkinson could have been a pretty good Doctor, even in a serious piece. Pryce played the Master as a combination of Robert Delgado (in appearance) and Anthony Ainley (in over-the-top cackling). This is the behind-the-scenes piece, included with the video.... |
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Post by spoon on May 11, 2022 21:29:45 GMT -5
Man, I haven't watched Doctor Who in forever. My wife's the really big fan, but we both loved the David Tennant run and always enjoy going back to those along with the Sarah Jane Adventures. Tom Baker too of course. Made it through Matt Smith and early Peter Capaldi, but neither of us could take much more of the writing and haven't watched anything newer since. Anything later that was worthwhile catching? Not really. I liked the first Capaldi season, but not really the second one. Capaldi's third season rebounds slightly, but I don't want to overstate the improvement. I think I remember liking the episode "Smile" which was early that season. Whittaker is fine, as are the Companions during her run, but the writing isn't any good. Although I've watched her whole, sometimes I haven't watches episodes until days or weeks after they premiere. I kept hoping it would turn a corner, but it never did. |
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2022 7:49:31 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2022 23:45:37 GMT -5
Nice twist!
Just saying.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 28, 2022 15:58:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I had heard rumors about him resuming the role but I never thought they'd be true. All in all it was a pretty fantastic episode, probably Jodie's best which is a bit sad since it was her last. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 17:13:33 GMT -5
I feel that when it comes to the Who episodes of the last several years, the historical episodes have been solid and well-written, with lots of time for characters/situations to breathe, but the alien episodes are pretty much following the “Scooby-Doo formula”. Every episode featuring an alien threat pretty much merges into another, with little to distinguish them. Just my view.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2022 11:32:02 GMT -5
VWORP VWORP! is a DW fanzine which I believe focuses on the Doctor’s comic exploits. I am not a subscriber, but I do see their covers via social media. Here’s one coming in 2023: 
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2022 14:24:46 GMT -5
Omega vs Sutekh by writer/artist Scott Gray (who often works on the DWM comic strip):  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2022 8:40:30 GMT -5
Watched Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. last night. Haven’t seen it in years.
You know, the robotisation process in that film scares me as much as it did when I was a kid. Utterly terrifying, right up there with the Star Trek episode (“By Any Other Name”) where a security woman was reduced to a chalk-like cuboctahedron and crushed. Sci-fi is horrific at times!
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 27, 2022 9:09:41 GMT -5
A trailer for Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary Specials next year aired on BBC1 on Christmas Day, and while most of the mainstream audience have been talking ever since about the impending return of the tenth Doctor and Donna Noble, a select few of us were much more excited by the glimpses we were given of the upcoming villains. It seems that 43 years after their creation in the pages of Marvel UK's Doctor Who Weekly comic, none other than cuddly psychopath Beep the Meep and his arch foes the Wrarth Warriors are finally making their TV debut! What's more, while the Meep himself admittedly looks more like Baby Yoda from what little we've seen, the Warriors actually look 100% comics accurate! I actually can't remember when I was last this excited by Doctor Who...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2023 6:47:38 GMT -5
John Freeman is a former editor of Doctor Who Magazine (and Star Trek Magazine!). The latest issue of the Judge Dredd Megazine featured an interview with him, and I thought it’d be worth sharing the middle paragraph:  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2023 13:42:46 GMT -5
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Post by Calidore on Feb 6, 2023 20:29:19 GMT -5
If Rowan Atkinson had played the Doctor: Ask and ye shall receive. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2023 9:40:52 GMT -5
If Rowan Atkinson had played the Doctor: Ask and ye shall receive. Thanks. You know, for some reason, that passed me by, so I didn’t see it until you shared the video. |
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