Doctor Who *Spoilers Abound! We've lost Containment*

Ah so I am. I even checked out Def's IMDB page before posting that...should have caught it.

I try not to think of 16 Blocks. Ever.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Unfortunately, when I think of Mos Def, I usually think of 16 Blocks.

Yeah, but that wasn't his fault. He's following a director there, and if the director tells you to act a certain way you've got no choice but to follow that direction. For Doctor Who, I'd imagine he'd be more like his role in Hitchhiker's Guide. I think he's got the ability to capture the necessary mix of charm, intelligence, weirdness and arrogance.

I totally get he just was playing a character. Still, that's the character I can't help but think of when I hear/read his name.

I just noticed Netflix instant watch service has a bucketfull of old Doctor Who series available. That service just keeps getting better.

Someone my wife mentioned a long time ago (pre-Eccleston) and again last week: Callum Blue
I had totally forgotten about him since Dead Like Me went off the air, but we had previously discussed that he might make a good Doctor. She still feels the same, but says he now reminds her too much of Tennant and isn't sure they would go with someone resembling the previous Doctor.

I could just see the following exchange in a DW episode...

Companion X: "Doctor? What's wrong? Why are you sweating?"
Doctor: "I've got illegals in my bottom!
Companion X: "Why do you do this to yourself?!?"
Doctor: "I don't know!"

Good stuff.

The SFTV Schedule listed the Christmas episode schedule this week.

In the run-up to this year's Christmas episode, The Next Doctor, the BBC's
Doctor Who page has their Doctor Who Adventure Calendar up again at
bbc.co.uk/doctorwho. Most videos are not visible to systems outside the
UK, however, this YouTube user does appear to be making them available
http://www.youtube.com/user/DoctorWh... . In addition to the Christmas
episode, the BBC will also broadcast The Doctor Who Proms concert that
happened earlier this year as a special broadcast on BBC1 on January 1st.
For the 45th Anniversary of Doctor Who in late November, the BBC made
available some documents on their online archive dating back to the
genesis of the series at bbc.co.uk/archive/doctorwho .

[...]

Here in the U.S., BBC America will be airing the first three Doctor Who
Christmas episodes on Christmas Day, airing them starting at 12:30 pm ET/
9:30 am PT with additional airings of The Christmas Invasion and The
Runaway Bride that evening starting at 8:00 pm ET/PT.

Funkenpants wrote:

I just noticed Netflix instant watch service has a bucketfull of old Doctor Who series available. That service just keeps getting better.

Pyramid of Mars and Curse of the Fendahl FTW!

Well we know who the next doctor is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVT6L...

Shades of Peter Davies.

It's the Christmas Special, though. Weird things happen during the Christmas special...

I must admit I will be downloading this ASAP once it airs. I hate waiting for Sci-fi to show it here in the states.

Mordiceius wrote:

Well we know who the next doctor is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVT6L...

That feels like a fake out. Maybe I'm wrong.

Atomicvideohead wrote:

That feels like a fake out. Maybe I'm wrong.

I tend to agree. Seems that if the other guy was the Doctor from a different time, one of the two should have recognized the other, like he did in Time Crash from last year.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Atomicvideohead wrote:

That feels like a fake out. Maybe I'm wrong.

I tend to agree. Seems that if the other guy was the Doctor from a different time, one of the two should have recognized the other, like he did in Time Crash from last year.

I'm going with the fake Doctor Theory. Might even be a Timelord, but not our doctor. Moreover, its what I might consider doing If i was in charge of the show --everyone is expecting a new doctor? Well lets give 'em one, then take him a way to keep 'em guessing. Of course I may have to eat these words in 2 weeks.

Vague but still Spoiler-ish. Read David Morrisey's wiki entry here. About halfway down it talks briefly about the DW episode.

That would be horrific if true. I haven't been able to find anything from the BBC or any other "reputable" news source, so I'm not hyperventilating about this.

I checked my sources and I say this is false.

David Tennant appears to be fine, thankfully. I was suspicious when the only place I could find that story was bittorrent sites, and a bit of googling brought me here: http://tennant-online.net/

David is appears to be recovering well from recent surgery, and has been spotted out and about. He has, however, been confirmed as absent from Hamlet until at least 3rd January, in order to recover properly. Russell T Davies has confirmed that filming on the Doctor Who specials will commence on 19th January 2009, with David expecting to start then too.

Nim, if you don't get a link, it's probably not true. The BBC site has no mention of it.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Nim, if you don't get a link, it's probably not true. The BBC site has no mention of it.

Agreed, but it was a little too detailed for me not to wonder if it was true.

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Atomicvideohead wrote:

That feels like a fake out. Maybe I'm wrong.

I tend to agree. Seems that if the other guy was the Doctor from a different time, one of the two should have recognized the other, like he did in Time Crash from last year.

Did anyone watch the Christmas episode? It was the best i've seen in a long time.... perhaps since season two.

Duoae wrote:

the best i've seen in a long time.... perhaps since season two.

Agreed.

Someone tell me this is a joke... Please...

BBC wrote:

BBC London - 25 December 2008
DAVID TENNANT OF DOCTOR WHO AND HAMLET DEAD AT AGE 37

-- snipped for space --

EDIT *Appears to be a hoax*

Duoae wrote:

Did anyone watch the Christmas episode? It was the best i've seen in a long time.... perhaps since season two.

I am planning on watching it tonight. I have high hopes since this is Tenant's last appearance as The Doctor so I hope he goes out with a great episode.

farley3k wrote:
Duoae wrote:

Did anyone watch the Christmas episode? It was the best i've seen in a long time.... perhaps since season two.

I am planning on watching it tonight. I have high hopes since this is Tenant's last appearance as The Doctor so I hope he goes out with a great episode.

..I thought he has 4 more specials through 2009?

Desram wrote:

..I thought he has 4 more specials through 2009?

You are correct! I was wrong - which in this case is great! I love him

[quote]There are five specials between the end of series 4 and the start of Steven Moffat's series 5. There will be no full tv series in 2009, but between the episode 'Journey's End' and the start of series five in 2010, there will be four one hour Doctor Who Specials in 2009. All will star David Tennant as the 10th Doctor.

MikeSands wrote:
Duoae wrote:

the best i've seen in a long time.... perhaps since season two.

Agreed.

Thirded

It was a great, great episode. After last Christmas with the Titanic almost plowing into the queen's residence, and the angel flying the Doctor upwards my expectations were not great. However this one managed to wrap up a huge plot quite nicely.

David Tenent is my favorite Doctor now. I grew up on Tom Baker but he never had to do any emotional range. David does some scenes which are just bitterly sad and powerful while still staying light and warm overall. I wish he would do the show for a few more years.

I didn't like the Christmas special as much as the rest of you seem to. I mean, David Tenent was great, and the setting and premise were good, but it just didn't grab me. Maybe it's just because I'm finding the whole "Who's going to be the Next Doctor" meta-narrative distracting, or perhaps I'm not filled with a sufficient degree of Christmas-sy joy, but I didn't buy in to the family sub-plot and the episode left me kind of cold.

farley3k wrote:

David Tenent is my favorite Doctor now. I grew up on Tom Baker but he never had to do any emotional range.

That's what was brilliant about his doctor. He was human enough to fit the character, but also retained an ethereal, otherworldly weirdness that made him seem not quite human. Tenant plays the Doctor as a very smart, very clever human with the full range of human emotions. He's good at it, but all good actors can do that.

4dSwissCheese wrote:

I didn't like the Christmas special as much as the rest of you seem to. I mean, David Tenent was great, and the setting and premise were good, but it just didn't grab me. Maybe it's just because I'm finding the whole "Who's going to be the Next Doctor" meta-narrative distracting, or perhaps I'm not filled with a sufficient degree of Christmas-sy joy, but I didn't buy in to the family sub-plot and the episode left me kind of cold.

I wasn't too keen on the family sub plot either. I was kinda hoping that they'd finally found a way to have a male companion and not make it weird. The family angle kinda nixed that.