Old Doctor Who - Part 4

[A Hat Like That]

Just War is a pure historical and that one's quite good.

[A Hat Like That]

Where do I put my thoughts on rewatching old new Who from the start?

I've just spotted Perry Benson in the Eleventh Hour. That's made my Sunday.

[Norton Canes]

Where do I put my thoughts on rewatching old new Who from the start?

Some kind of register, at this rate

[pigamus]

Where do I put my thoughts on rewatching old new Who from the start?

I've just spotted Perry Benson in the Eleventh Hour. That's made my Sunday.

That's amazing that, you wouldn't have thought an LA defence attorney would even fit in the storyline

[Ambient Sheep]

Where do I put my thoughts on rewatching old new Who from the start?

I do think we need an "Old New Doctor Who" thread, as I've said before.  Maybe I should just make one.  Failing that, I'd prefer the current New Who thread to this one... but that's just me.

Some kind of register, at this rate

That's going in the Guffaw thread! :-D

[Replies From View]

Failing that, I'd prefer the current New Who thread to this one... but that's just me.

New Who threads are labelled after the most current series and I don't think a committed rewatch of any previous series would suit them.

A dedicated thread called something like 'Doctor Who:  a 2005-2017 rewatch' would be best.

[daf]

Here you go :

Doctor Who 2005-2017 : The RTD & Moffat Years

[Ambient Sheep]

Excellent, thank you daf!

Only problem I have now is where to put the damn thing next time I post the big thread list!  Might make a new category to cover the handful of other new-Who rewatch threads there have been (like madhair's and Fry's).

Actually, I suppose I should post the revised list in that thread, shouldn't I?  No time now, bother.

[JamesTC]

The Mirror seem to think Galaxy 4 is getting the animation treatment. Apparently the journalist who reported it has been reliable with Who need in the past.

Odd choice given some of the Troughton stories still available to be animated. But I guess if they wanted to test the waters with a Hartnell, Galaxy 4 is the most straightforward.

[Replies From View]

Yes that is a strange one.  But I suppose if they want to tackle season 3 they need to start somewhere, and where better than the first story?

[Malcy]

They've decided that they are animating the easiest episodes first. A lot of the historicals are harder to animate due to all the different costumes apparently.

[Deanjam]

But a lot of them aren't shit like Galaxy 4.

[purlieu]

Season 24 box and Galaxy 4? They really are spoiling us this year.

[Replies From View]

Oohh I didn't know the first Doctor ever got fossilised in Pompeii.  Which episode was it in?

[The Roofdog]

When is that S24 box dropping? I have an Amazon preorder but still no date on it. Any word on the next one? Reckon we're probably due another Davison

[jenna appleseed]

Hartnell does a poo.

[purlieu]

Doctor Who and One That Looks a Lot Like That David Tennant One Human Nature by Paul Cornell


I don't really know how to review this one, because I couldn't help but read it from the perspective of having seen the TV version. So I suppose I'll mostly compare it to that. Actually, I was amazed at how different the two are. The main beats of the story are the same - the Doctor as human, the boarding school on the eve of WWI, the family seeking him, most of the characters - but loads of it is different. Benny and The Doctor barely interact for the first half of the book; The Doctor has become human as a kind of holiday; the Family have slightly different intentions, and are generally a lot funnier than on TV; prominent roles are given to a suffragette, a gay museum owner, and a Labour politician, as well as a bunch of soldiers acting as UNIT (specifically like those in The Daemons); a nuclear bomb turns the school to glass; most of the family - here referred to as Aubertides - end up dead. There are numerous other subtle differences: names, jobs, etc. There are no scarecrows.
On the whole, I think the book is definitely the better version of the story. The nuke kind of undermines the unexpected horrors of WWI, but otherwise everything is given more room to breathe, the characters mostly feel more rounded, and ultimately, Tennant's Doctor is the most human-like of all his incarnations, meaning the difference between him and John Smith is nothing compared to McCoy's distant, alien portrayal - especially at this stage in the New Adventures. After all The Doctor's been through in the last few books, Smith's discoveries and decisions take on a lot more weight. 10 cried all the bloody time, but having 7 cry feels more dramatic. Plus, at this point, Benny is a far better companion than Martha.
I can completely understand why it was so well received on publication. It's a type of Who story that had never been told before, and yet managed to be so without gratuitous body horror or mind-bending nonsense. I wish I'd been able to read it without any expectations.

[Deanjam]

When is that S24 box dropping? I have an Amazon preorder but still no date on it. Any word on the next one? Reckon we're probably due another Davison

June 21st.

[JamesTC]

The next set is rumoured to be Season 20 as Davison and co recorded some stuff at a convention for it but that might be delayed until they can finish that feature.

[Malcy]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mTFFl9VndC8

Trailer for S24.

[Norton Canes]

Nice. Appropriately self-deprecating. The slip into

Spoiler alert

the out-take

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is sublime.

The next set is rumoured to be Season 20 as Davison and co recorded some stuff at a convention for it but that might be delayed until they can finish that feature.

I've not been keeping track of these. Will S20 include The Five Doctors?

[JamesTC]

I've not been keeping track of these. Will S20 include The Five Doctors?

It is considered part of Season 20, so it will be included.

Likewise The Twin Dilemma with Season 21 and The Savages/The Tenth Planet with Season 4. No story will be moved.

[Gurke and Hare]

Ooh, I hope one of the extras is a long documentary exploring the background of

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The Ergon

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.

[jamiefairlie]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mTFFl9VndC8

Trailer for S24.

Looks as embarrassingly cringeworthy as I remember. So brash and gaudy.

[Norton Canes]

I guess The Five Doctors would have to feature heavily in a season 20 trailer. Can't think of much else that would provide a compelling hook. 'At Home with Kari and Olvir'?

There could be a hilarious bit where they play fetch with the Garm.

[samadriel]

I just watched the Raston Warrior Robot vs Cybermen scene from The Five Doctors. When I was a kid, I thought that scene was cool as fuck.

And it still is! I always wanted more of that robot.

[Bad Ambassador]

Brendon School reunion? Tegan's cousin having flashbacks during Sunday lunch?

[Gurke and Hare]

I guess The Five Doctors would have to feature heavily in a season 20 trailer. Can't think of much else that would provide a compelling hook. 'At Home with Kari and Olvir'?

Maybe they can get Clunes to dress up again? He's the federator in his own right now, presenting a promotional Manussa Tourism promotional video or some such?

[daf]

Looks as embarrassingly cringeworthy as I remember. So brash and gaudy.

Now that definitely looks like it was aimed squarely at the kids (and little kids at that) - makes Chibnall's stuff look like Berlin Alexanderplatz!

That said, I ordered it the instant it was available! :)

[Norton Canes]

Brendon School reunion? Tegan's cousin having flashbacks during Sunday lunch?

Maybe they can get Clunes to dress up again? He's the federator in his own right now, presenting a promotional Manussa Tourism promotional video or some such?

A spoof episode of Naked Attraction featuring the Ergon, Martin Clunes, Ibbotson, the Garm, Leee John and Kamelion