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side_burned posted:Am i the only one hoping for Tilda Swinton to be cast as the next doctor? She's too big at this point. Kind of like how Simon Pegg was on the radar but he got too famous.
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Jan 31, 2017 04:09
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side_burned posted:Am i the only one hoping for Tilda Swinton to be cast as the next doctor? Well I didn't mention that because I thought it was just taken as read that everybody wants Tilda Swinton to be the Doctor 
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Jan 31, 2017 04:33
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I'm so pissed. I adore Capaldi and it feels like he just got here (and yet this hiatus feels like ages.) And the following season will probably be flung off into 2020.
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Jan 31, 2017 04:42
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What's that? The entire cast of Bletchley Circle, you say? (I've said it before, but dammit I can keep dreaming.)
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Jan 31, 2017 04:44
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This is also another golden opportunity to get Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig to play the Doctor, Master and Companion. Which plays which? Well they alternate between the roles not just from episode but scene to scene (sometimes they change roles DURING scenes)
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Jan 31, 2017 04:48
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Jerusalem posted:This is also another golden opportunity to get Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig to play the Doctor, Master and Companion. Fraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan?
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Jan 31, 2017 04:51
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CobiWann posted:Fraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan? "Do you want me to come? I'll come Fran! Fran I'll come!" Welp gotta rewatch all of Black Books again now. On the plus side.... that doesn't take very long to do 
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Jan 31, 2017 04:53
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I've just started rolling Rob Brydon around in my head as a possibility. I'm not sure though, as I haven't seen much of him outside of The Trip and A Cock And Bull Story, but there's something about how he can be self-absorbed and blase, which could be fun for The Doctor. --Doctor! Doctor! The Daleks are exploding the supermassive black hole in the centre of the galaxy! --(in Michael Caine voice)You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
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Jan 31, 2017 04:59
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Jerusalem posted:"Do you want me to come? I'll come Fran! Fran I'll come!" It's $99 bucks on Amazon...at least you CAN watch it.
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Jan 31, 2017 05:03
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After The War posted:What's that? The entire cast of Bletchley Circle, you say? Hattie Morahan (on the far left) has already played the Doctor's companion. on audio 
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Jan 31, 2017 05:07
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I am so glad that I came here to post something about the Capaldi news and the first two posts that I could see, without even really reading them, were Jeru and Cobi, obviously responding to the point already having been made long ago (I was close - I figured the entire cast just playing the Doctor, but the rotating idea is better).Jerusalem posted:
This may actually be the ingredient which was missing from my soothing balm of MST3K. I'm actually not sad it was over so quickly - they really just hit their sweet spot and then let it go, plus it makes it so easy to go back and binge (I owe this thread for making me discover it originally). CobiWann posted:It's $99 bucks on Amazon...at least you CAN watch it.  drat. I hope Netflix doesn't drop it.
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Jan 31, 2017 05:07
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Jerusalem posted:"Do you want me to come? I'll come Fran! Fran I'll come!" Doctor, help me! I've swallowed The Little Book of Calm!
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Jan 31, 2017 06:43
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You know who'd be an awesome Doctor? Sally Hawkins would be an awesome Doctor. I've been a fan of Capaldi's since the 90s. (anyone else see Chandler and Co.? Looking back it may well have been crap. I haven't tried to rewatch it. But in my teens I was a sucker for literally anything British.) But as excited as I was for his casting, as much as I adore Gomez as the Master and as much as I think Moffat is great at his best, I just got bored with one of my all time favorite shows ever and never made it past the beginning of The Witch's Familiar. I keep meaning to catch up... But binging Black's Books or Spaced for the umpteenth time holds more appeal. I don't know why. So I'm hopeful for the impending changes. "Change, my dear, and not a moment too soon."
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Jan 31, 2017 07:32
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That's not fair Spaced is near perfection
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Jan 31, 2017 07:34
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Oh God now I gotta watched all of Spaced again (this is the opposite of a problem).
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Jan 31, 2017 07:48
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Spaced is very of its time, I fee. I caught an episode recently on tv and it felt very dated in a way that Black Books doesn't (considering they were contemporaneous is impressive).
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Jan 31, 2017 09:34
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CobiWann posted:How about the one guy who is always on those quiz shows that people really seem to like? David Mitchell is a little too meek and flustered-seeming to be a good Doctor. Brian Webb would be pretty good, though. side_burned posted:Am i the only one hoping for Tilda Swinton to be cast as the next doctor? I'd be very on board with this, partly because after I started transitioning I've gotten a couple comments that I resemble her. I'd be cosplaying as Swinton-Doctor forever and be totally okay with that.
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Jan 31, 2017 09:52
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The_Doctor posted:Spaced is very of its time, I fee. I caught an episode recently on tv and it felt very dated in a way that Black Books doesn't (considering they were contemporaneous is impressive). Some of the pop-culture stuff is definitely like that.
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Jan 31, 2017 10:16
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Bicyclops posted:
Oh drat it's on Netflix? I know what I'm doing once I beat Resident Evil 7.
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Jan 31, 2017 10:45
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Can anyone recommend something with Richard Ayoade in it; I ask because the four names I am seeing the most on wish list are Swinton, Ayoade, Rupert Grint (yeah I can see that) and Hayley Atwell ( ) and out of the four the only actor I don't know is Ayoade.
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Jan 31, 2017 11:01
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side_burned posted:Can anyone recommend something with Richard Ayoade in it; I ask because the four names I am seeing the most on wish list are Swinton, Ayoade, Rupert Grint (yeah I can see that) and Hayley Atwell ( 'The IT Crowd' is the most obvious suggestion, but 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' is the best one.
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Jan 31, 2017 11:06
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side_burned posted:Can anyone recommend something with Richard Ayoade in it; I ask because the four names I am seeing the most on wish list are Swinton, Ayoade, Rupert Grint (yeah I can see that) and Hayley Atwell ( IT Crowd is probably his biggest thing. He's also in Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, and Nathan Barley a bit. He's also just signed on to host new eps of The Crystal Maze, so he's probably going to be a bit busy.
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Jan 31, 2017 11:07
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Jerusalem posted:This is also another golden opportunity to get Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig to play the Doctor, Master and Companion. Look, I jussgotta fix ta ting with da thing, stop bleatin at me for five seconds about bloody Daleks and go have a jelly baby or something.
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Jan 31, 2017 11:22
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The_Doctor posted:Spaced is very of its time, I fee. I caught an episode recently on tv and it felt very dated in a way that Black Books doesn't (considering they were contemporaneous is impressive). It feels very much like the last vestige of a happier time to me. It's an idealised daydream of the late 90s/early 2000s. EDIT - One of the reasons I can tell that this is the case is because I try to show it to people five or six years younger than me and they just don't get it at all. It's not just the dated pop culture references. The whole atmosphere of it just doesn't make sense to them. That and the fact that everyone uses landlines to call each other, and everyone smokes in pubs. Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Jan 31, 2017 |
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Jan 31, 2017 12:13
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The_Doctor posted:IT Crowd is probably his biggest thing. He's also in Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, and Nathan Barley a bit. He's also just signed on to host new eps of The Crystal Maze, so he's probably going to be a bit busy. He also hosts Gadget Man, which is pretty fun. He's definitely not someone who would be a good actual Doctor, especially since he seems to have settled into more non-acting entertainment roles, but if they ever did a new Curse of Fatal Death-style non-canon comedy Doctor Who thing, you could do a hell of a lot worse than Ayoade. Fun nerd fact: He was actually the first casting choice for Wheatley in Portal 2. Originally, Portal 2 was going to have you led by multiple personality cores, one of which was the first version of Wheatley written with Ayoade in mind. I think he was still intended to voice him when it was first rewritten to make Wheatley a more leading role, but around then was also when they started using Stephen Merchant's character from The Office as inspiration. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Jan 31, 2017 |
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Jan 31, 2017 12:21
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Cleretic posted:He also hosts Gadget Man, which is pretty fun. He's definitely not someone who would be a good actual Doctor, especially since he seems to have settled into more non-acting entertainment roles, but if they ever did a new Curse of Fatal Death-style non-canon comedy Doctor Who thing, you could do a hell of a lot worse than Ayoade. Oh man I would've loved Portal 2 with Richard Ayoade, I'm not a massive Merchant fan to be honest. I think I used to be, but then I watched 'hello ladies' which was just really bad, the worst, and fell off him and Gervais a bit. Merchant was still amazing in Portal 2 and definitely made that character great, but I reckon Richard Ayoade would've done an amazing job too, maybe better. Also, unrelated question. How does everyone feel about the main character on this show, who's name is "Doctor Who"? You know, the character who is called "Doctor Who", my friend Doctor Who, the doctor guy who's name is Doctor Who?
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Jan 31, 2017 12:32
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Megaspel posted:Oh man I would've loved Portal 2 with Richard Ayoade, I'm not a massive Merchant fan to be honest. I think I used to be, but then I watched 'hello ladies' which was just really bad, the worst, and fell off him and Gervais a bit. Merchant was still amazing in Portal 2 and definitely made that character great, but I reckon Richard Ayoade would've done an amazing job too, maybe better. I think I like the idea of Ayoade-Wheatley more than I would've liked the reality, personally. I love what he does, and I think his awkwardness would've been good for a lot of Wheatley's scenes (especially early on), but I don't think he'd have been able to sell the occasional moments of (awfully-manifested) rage and fury as well as Merchant.
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Jan 31, 2017 13:08
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An Ayoade Wheatley would have been great, and now I'm sad for what could have been. Megaspel posted:Also, unrelated question. How does everyone feel about the main character on this show, who's name is "Doctor Who"? You know, the character who is called "Doctor Who", my friend Doctor Who, the doctor guy who's name is Doctor Who? This guy? 
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Jan 31, 2017 13:31
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Barry Foster posted:It feels very much like the last vestige of a happier time to me. It's an idealised daydream of the late 90s/early 2000s. Yeah, a lot of late-90s stuff (ie up to September 11) has a sense that everything's going to be okay, or that everything is going to be boring. Stuff like Fight Club or American Beauty falls into the latter category, with The Matrix kinda trying to play it both ways (the 90s are the peak of human civilisation).
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Jan 31, 2017 13:38
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The_Doctor posted:An Ayoade Wheatley would have been great, and now I'm sad for what could have been. Now there's an idea. Disney's got that video game cut scene reject Cushing from Rogue One laying around on a hard drive somewhere. Maybe the Beeb could buy it off them and give Peter another tilt at the role. Go super meta -- instead of having Capeldi regenerate just zoom out from the end of his final adventure and show Doctor Who watching Doctor Who on TV and tutting at the inaccuracy of the portrayal before traipsing off to battle some In any event, I can't miss a chance to repost this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPK7raS8Mos
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Jan 31, 2017 15:02
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King Plum the Nth posted:
Whoa. Cool. I was expecting this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=josI9YR45dI
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Jan 31, 2017 15:24
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Beeb has some suggestions. As usual, some fairly unlikely names proposed (Emma Watson? Andy Serkis? Bit busy doing movies these days, I imagine!) but nothing as bad as the Daily Mail suggesting Catherine Zeta-Jones was a very likely possibility to succeed David Tennant.
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Jan 31, 2017 16:00
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Do people actually consider CZJ a good actress?
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Jan 31, 2017 16:27
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Still wanting a Patterson Joseph Doctor someday, maybe this'll be the day. Preferably with David Mitchell and Robert Webb as his companions. "Oh Doctor. I'm in love you, Doctor!" Also thanks for forcing me to once again rewatch Spaced and Black Books, thread.
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Jan 31, 2017 16:27
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Tim Burns Effect posted:Hattie Morahan (on the far left) has already played the Doctor's companion. Hey, I'm only up to August 2011! 
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Jan 31, 2017 16:45
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I'm depressed at losing Capaldi, but I have a vague spark of hope that a fresh start on the show in terms of both showrunner and primary lead might possibly regenerate the show a bit. It's a pretty small hope, given I really really liked Capaldi and Chibnall has been more miss than hit overall, but maybe it'll shake some poo poo loose and we'll get something amazing again. I feel the last couple of seasons were only carried by the strength of Capaldi himself and fell more into the "good" to "didn't hate it" range than a show that got me excited for each new episode, minus one or so episode a season. Hopefully this has all been known behind the scenes enough that Chibnall and crew have been planning with a fresh Doctor in mind. On the other side of the coin, I feel this still strongly hints at the behind the scenes stuff being an utter clusterfucking train wreck (still). Capaldi has always been a superfan and always wanted to play the Doctor, and is suddenly bailing after just getting the fires stoked. That's like three actors in a row that have said something to the effect to breaking Tom's record and then suddenly moving on to bigger and better things. British TV is different than American where most actors over here hope for the holy grail of a long-term show and it's not like Capaldi isn't a guy that can move on to other things, but drat this feels like the behind the scenes poo poo just grinds the actors down until they hate being there. So just give me Haley Atwell as the Doctor and I'll be happy for another few seasons.
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Jan 31, 2017 18:32
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Mortanis posted:That's like three actors in a row that have said something to the effect to breaking Tom's record and then suddenly moving on to bigger and better things. That's because you don't go into early publicity going "yeah I'll be out the door in 18 months". Tennant, in addition, was working under a completely different production team (that he really enjoyed being a part of, by all reports). You're reading a lot into random PR fluff, I think.
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Jan 31, 2017 19:11
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I would do anything for Hayley Atwell to be the next Doctor.
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Jan 31, 2017 19:38
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Doctor Who is loving hard work, to be fair. It's a shame, and I hope that he has some cracking episodes this series. I did 5 of series 10 before leaving, but you can actually never really tell what scripts are going to work out that well - Heaven Sent didn't read particularly brilliantly on first pass. As I've mentioned before (tediously) I've never been much of a DW but I am a fan of the idea of the show, and an even bigger fan of Capaldi, and when he was 'on' - doing his lines to himself, running around the set making himself understand the controls and levers - he was just electrifying to watch. He loved it, and he was a delight to talk to on set. Actually really quite sad to see him go.
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I don't remember Capaldi ever mentioning wanting to break Tom Baker's record, to be honest. But yeah, I'm really happy with the work he's done and excited to see his final year. Plus, there's always the hope he might be back for some special or something like that.
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