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Daemos

TheIrishGrover

Maybe should be in the 50th anniv thread but thought this pic looked great:

Daemos

Morag

flazio

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Maybe should be in the 50th anniv thread but thought this pic looked great:

Christopher Eccleston has aged really badly.

flazio

I'm having way too much fun with this.
https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWho/app_171759299684291

http://www.savethedaywhoiscoming.com/invite/4af98a

Sleepy

Little girl dressed up for halloween as all 11 doctors!



http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/little-girl-dresses-up-as-all-11-doctors-from-doctor-who-is

TheIrishGrover

Sleepy

Just spotted this on hukd: the Key to Time Collection for £16.99. Thought it might interest some fans of the original run:

http://www.base.com/buy/product/doctor-who-the-key-to-time-collection-1979/dgc-bbcdvd2754.htm?awc=2694_1384345188_99a1410ec8b3e6c8696e09f53bf6ca9c

pixelburp

http://io9.com/the-only-book-you-need-about-the-history-of-doctor-who-1465464309

io9 have an interesting article on a new book charting the history of the show, along with various tales that spun from its production. It has some intriguing nuggets of info...

Challenging the idea of Who as a children's show:
"BBC researcher Samantha Beere did a study in 1990, which looked at past audience research — and found that the earliest figures, from 1976, showed Doctor Who watched by 44.1 percent children and 55.9 percent adults. This went up to 78 percent adults in 1986 — contradicting the notion that Who was always primarily a children's show."

I've always had a problem with new-Who's audio and soundtrack; this bit feels like validation that it wasn't just my imagination & bias, and was a deliberate & creatively awful policy
"Russell T. Davies designed the new series to be "really noisy". Because when the new Doctor Who came on the air in 2005, it was up against variety shows on the other channels, which always had a lot of loud music and over-the-top talking. So Davies wanted people flipping channels to hear equally loud, brassy music and sounds on Doctor Who, so it could compete."

Killer_banana

pixelburp wrote: »

I've always had a problem with new-Who's audio and soundtrack; this bit feels like validation that it wasn't just my imagination & bias, and was a deliberate & creatively awful policy
"Russell T. Davies designed the new series to be "really noisy". Because when the new Doctor Who came on the air in 2005, it was up against variety shows on the other channels, which always had a lot of loud music and over-the-top talking. So Davies wanted people flipping channels to hear equally loud, brassy music and sounds on Doctor Who, so it could compete."

At least there was logical(ish) reasoning behind it. I was expecting something like JJ. Abrams reasoning for lens flare which was 'The future's bright.' :rolleyes:

Das Kitty

...took me a while to spot the note.

ahem.

What note??

Patty O Furniture

Das Kitty wrote: »

...took me a while to spot the note.

ahem.

Noted

Art_Wolf

A load of t-shirts are on sale on woot.com

http://shirt.woot.com/plus/doctor-who-nniversary

Basq

Art_Wolf wrote: »

A load of t-shirts are on sale on woot.com

http://shirt.woot.com/plus/doctor-who-nniversary

Love the "Things Waiting In The Darkness" shirt.. although from their FAQ:

Why isn't my state/country/province listed; do you ship internationally?
No, we do not ship outside of the United States at this time, and certain sales may not be shipped to certain states. We do not ship to Canada, Mexico, nor to Maggie's Nipples, Wyoming or Assinippi, Massachusetts at this time.

flazio

:P:D;):p:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfK8y7KVADo

Daemos

Not their best work, but I am looking forward to the next Super Café

aidan_walsh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2swVic8KxY

Stark

Now this a tone to the show I'd like to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Blf073f2Lc

Lord TSC

Stolen from YLYL

herisson

I love this, you can get it on a tshirt too

http://www.redbubble.com/people/crocktees/works/9633263-doc-in-a-box?p=sticker&ref=shop_grid

cython

Stolen from YLYL:

pixelburp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYPgggN28_o

aidan_walsh

Syfy's Blaster is reporting that Peter Jackson is apparently in "serious discussions" to direct, which will presumably start as a single episode script and turn into a "Trial of a Time Lord" like saga.

Daemos

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Syfy's Blaster is reporting that Peter Jackson is apparently in "serious discussions" to direct, which will presumably start as a single episode script and turn into a "Trial of a Time Lord" like saga.

Bring RTD in to write it so he can turn his Harry Potter-themed idea into a Lord of the Rings-themed one. They already have the dragon

Sonics2k

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Syfy's Blaster is reporting that Peter Jackson is apparently in "serious discussions" to direct, which will presumably start as a single episode script and turn into a "Trial of a Time Lord" like saga.

I'm really really not sure how I feel about this...

On the one hand, the nerdy side of me loves this completely and utterly.
On the other hand, Peter Jackson hasn't directed or written anything truly great since the Frighteners. Lord of the Rings doesn't really count.

Wibbs

TBH I'm sorry a film director like him didn't do the 50th.

pixelburp

Sonics2k wrote: »

I'm really really not sure how I feel about this...

On the one hand, the nerdy side of me loves this completely and utterly.
On the other hand, Peter Jackson hasn't directed or written anything truly great since the Frighteners. Lord of the Rings doesn't really count.

Why wouldn't it count? He may not have written the adaptation, but he knocked it out of the park with the direction. Even the extended editions added much. Admittedly I haven't see The Lovely Bones, but King Kong just suffers from the absence of an editor's scissors, with The Hobbit being the first case where he's has gone all Lucas on things imo.

If anything, the compressed schedules and reduced budgets of TV might remind him of the value of brevity. He's still a good director, just one that has lost the run of himself a little...

Sonics2k

pixelburp wrote: »

Why wouldn't it count? He may not have written the adaptation, but he knocked it out of the park with the direction. Even the extended editions added much. Admittedly I haven't see The Lovely Bones, but King Kong just suffers from the absence of an editor's scissors, with The Hobbit being the first case where he's has gone all Lucas on things imo.

If anything, the compressed schedules and reduced budgets of TV might remind him of the value of brevity. He's still a good director, just one that has lost the run of himself a little...

Oh no, please do not misunderstand me. I absolutely love Peter Jackson and grew up reading Tolkein, in fact I first read the Lord of the Rings when I was 9!

I was simply saying he didn't write the Lord of Rings, which is all I meant. Whilst he did a great job directing it, especially from a visual stand point he also has a massive tendency to drag things out. The end of the Return of the King is a great example.
But as you said, he's lost the run of himself and I fear this would impact on an episode of Doctor Who if he were to do it.

Many episodes of Doctor Who manage to get lots and lots of stuff done in a 40 minute slot, and I'm not certain Jackson can really do that. Not without at least 15 minutes of panoramic shots of New Zealand :pac: