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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 14:40:08 GMT
Matthew Baynton's twitter has had all tweets featuring swearing deleted since last night Ooh now I'd be proper excited by him (er in more ways than one...nope be quiet it's a kids show) |
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Post by Marwood on Jul 15, 2017 14:41:27 GMT
I haven't bothered watching it since David Tennant left(I used to love watching it up until about the time Peter Davidson left) but I would like to see Richard Ayoade as the Doctor (maybe with Chris O' Dowd or Matt Berry as the Master?)
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Post by d'James on Jul 15, 2017 14:52:41 GMT
Matthew Baynton's twitter has had all tweets featuring swearing deleted since last night I like him. Although I was still holding out hope for a second series of You, Me and the Apocalypse (yes I know it's been officially cancelled). |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:04:35 GMT
Betting has Jodie Whittaker in dramatically to evens favourite from 5/1 yesterday. Kris Marshall stable odds as second favourite.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:13:07 GMT
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Post by glossie on Jul 15, 2017 15:14:01 GMT
Am I the only person in the world who doesn't get all the accolades for Pearl Mackie? I don't dislike her, she just hasn't made any impression on me at all as a companion. Hmmmm...must be just me then...
I adore Peter Capaldi and have done for some time and I'm really sorry to see him go, he's been fabulous. I don't even mind Matt Lucas and Michelle Gomez has been brilliant. My only hope is that whoever it is brings something special and unexpected to the role.
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Post by d'James on Jul 15, 2017 15:16:04 GMT
Pearl Mackie is my favourite companion since it came back in 2005.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:22:34 GMT
I feel obliged to support Pearl as she's a West End alumni, she's one of very few TV stars to be plucked directly from the West End, I mean there was even a period of a few weeks between her being announced as the new companion and her finishing her contract in Curious Incident where Doctor Who fans would turn up to stage door every night in increasingly large droves.
She was quite a good companion I thought, she didn't have that much room to shine as she was only around for one series and she kept taking backseat to others, especially in the monk 3-parter and the finale, but I enjoyed her time on the show a lot, far more than I did Jenna Coleman's excruciatingly long tenure in which Steven Moffat waited until her final 3 episodes to bother to give her a personality.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:27:27 GMT
I adored Pearl. Though frankly I'd have adored a mop on a stick instead of another season of Clara (no disrespect to Coleman who I loved from back in her Emmerdale days I just was SO SICK of Clara by the end)
But Pearl had an awkward season filler and as much as I loved him sharing companion duties with Matt Lucas didn't help her establish herself. But I thought she did a great job and I hope they bring her back one day.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:29:06 GMT
Not-quite side note. I went back (inspired by John Simm's return) to watch 'Utopia/The Sound of Drums' last week, and my God, for me nothing will ever top the Russell T Davies/Tennant era for writing and performance brilliance. I know it's so subjective, and that's when I properly became a Who fan but it's just all beautiful.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:33:56 GMT
Not-quite side note. I went back (inspired by John Simm's return) to watch 'Utopia/The Sound of Drums' last week, and my God, for me nothing will ever top the Russell T Davies/Tennant era for writing and performance brilliance. I know it's so subjective, and that's when I properly became a Who fan but it's just all beautiful. I completely agree. Russell is my favourite TV writer of all time, and I honestly think around Series 3/4 the show was at its best. At the end of both of those series they managed to have 6 iconic episodes in a row, Human Nature 2-parter, Blink, the 3 part finale and then Silence in the Library 2-parter, Midnight, Turn Left and the 2 part finale, we've never had anything quite like that since. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:38:14 GMT
Not-quite side note. I went back (inspired by John Simm's return) to watch 'Utopia/The Sound of Drums' last week, and my God, for me nothing will ever top the Russell T Davies/Tennant era for writing and performance brilliance. I know it's so subjective, and that's when I properly became a Who fan but it's just all beautiful. I completely agree. Russell is my favourite TV writer of all time, and I honestly think around Series 3/4 the show was at its best. At the end of both of those series they managed to have 6 iconic episodes in a row, Human Nature 2-parter, Blink, the 3 part finale and then Silence in the Library 2-parter, Midnight, Turn Left and the 2 part finale, we've never had anything quite like that since. Oh now that list is just like Dr Who Porn to me. (not THAT kind, that's elsewhere online). I adore RTD, since Bob and Rose and later finding Queer as Folk. He's also probably the most influential on me as a writer. I just adore that big ole' Welshman. But not just the writing the team he assembled around him seemed so tight and everyone he picked was just so on the money. And I know Moffat is a Whovian of old too but there was just something gleefully childish in the best way about Russell's love for the show that shone through. Funny enough I was tweeting about discovering that Andrew Garfield was in Who back in the RTD day and he aparently said at the time 'one day people won't believe Andrew Garfield was in Doctor Who'. How right he was, and how smart he is as a showrunner casting actors like that. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:42:38 GMT
Funny enough I was tweeting about discovering that Andrew Garfield was in Who back in the RTD day and he aparently said at the time 'one day people won't believe Andrew Garfield was in Doctor Who'. How right he was, and how smart he is as a showrunner casting actors like that. Ditto Billie Piper! |
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 15, 2017 15:44:21 GMT
Matthew Baynton's twitter has had all tweets featuring swearing deleted since last night Not sure what that tweeter is on about, still loads of tweets containing swearing on Baynton's Twitter. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:46:13 GMT
Funny enough I was tweeting about discovering that Andrew Garfield was in Who back in the RTD day and he aparently said at the time 'one day people won't believe Andrew Garfield was in Doctor Who'. How right he was, and how smart he is as a showrunner casting actors like that. Ditto Billie Piper! Indeed! And how sceptical people were! Also actually Freema who may not be 'superstar' status but is having a steadily good and varied career. And then there's Barrowman. But we're all entitled to a little indulgence aren't we?* * I bloody love Barrowman, I cannot lie. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:47:16 GMT
Matthew Baynton's twitter has had all tweets featuring swearing deleted since last night Not sure what that tweeter is on about, still loads of tweets containing swearing on Baynton's Twitter. Um I'm no detective-of- Moffat-fame but I think 'that tweeter' 's identity is fairly clear  |
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Post by Jon on Jul 15, 2017 15:49:23 GMT
Oh now that list is just like Dr Who Porn to me. (not THAT kind, that's elsewhere online). I adore RTD, since Bob and Rose and later finding Queer as Folk. He's also probably the most influential on me as a writer. I just adore that big ole' Welshman. But not just the writing the team he assembled around him seemed so tight and everyone he picked was just so on the money. And I know Moffat is a Whovian of old too but there was just something gleefully childish in the best way about Russell's love for the show that shone through. Funny enough I was tweeting about discovering that Andrew Garfield was in Who back in the RTD day and he aparently said at the time 'one day people won't believe Andrew Garfield was in Doctor Who'. How right he was, and how smart he is as a showrunner casting actors like that. RTD is a great writer, i did like his cameo in The Fiveish Doctor Reboot taking the piss out of himself. I think RTD had a strong producing team around him with Julie Gardner and Phil Collison and I think although he was a fan, he understood he had to make it more mainstream and I think Moffat got a bit too self indulgent. |
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Post by glossie on Jul 15, 2017 15:49:48 GMT
To be fair to Pearl, I think it's more the character I haven't taken to rather than the actor. I take the point that she hasn't had much of a chance to shine.
And I have to admit, it did pop into my mind during a certain scene in the final episode that the Doctor was going to regenerate into Bill...but dismissed it as being too 'out there'!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 15:53:23 GMT
I've preferred the more recent companions to the earlier reboot ones, Mackie, Gillan and Coleman more than Piper, Agyeman and Tate. It was a shame that Eccleston didn't carry on (anyone watching him in The Leftovers can see what they missed), Tennant was a bit too emotional for me so I liked Smith's more cerebral take. Capaldi has been very good, too. Overall I preferred Moffatt to Davies but both were fine.
My childhood Doctor was Pertwee, after Baker (Tom, that is) the original never seemed the same and quality went downhill until it got canned. I don't understand those who pine for the original, the production was shoddy (even for then) and it was often difficult to see the connection with the times it was broadcast in, in the way that the best science fiction does.
Favourite adversary? Davros, both from the earlier version and the reboot (terrific performance from Julian Bleach who some might remember as being terrifying in Shockheaded Peter).
P.S. I miss Torchwood....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 16:00:34 GMT
I haven't watched Matt Smith or Peter Capaldi (except for the start of each of their first episodes) and am highly unlikely to return unless it's Eddie Ladd.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 16:03:35 GMT
Favourite adversary? Davros, both from the earlier version and the reboot (terrific performance from Julian Bleach who some might remember as being terrifying in Shockheaded Peter). And much more recently in new musical The Grinning Man last autumn. |
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Post by crowblack on Jul 15, 2017 16:54:52 GMT
I just adore that big ole' Welshman. Another reason why I loved the play Wish List so much was that during the post-show discussion in Manchester (at the Studio space at the Royal Exchange) I heard a booming voice behind me and lo it was RTD declaring that a scene in it (I presume Meatloaf) was one of the best things he'd ever seen on stage. It's lovely that he's supporting new young writers and presumably came along that night specifically to listen to the talk as well (something I see David Mamet wants to ban from his plays!) - he's now a Bruntwood Prize judge and is getting back into playwriting himself. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 16:56:46 GMT
For what it's worth, the betting markets appear to have been suspended for the last hour or so.
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Post by d'James on Jul 15, 2017 17:22:00 GMT
For what it's worth, the betting markets appear to have been suspended for the last hour or so. What does that mean? (No idea about gambling!) |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 17:34:53 GMT
For what it's worth, the betting markets appear to have been suspended for the last hour or so. What does that mean? (No idea about gambling!) Either to change the odds to reflect new information or because they've noticed a lot of money going on the same person, suggesting that someone kniws something. Or someone pressed the wrong button. |
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