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Retaining and remixing the "hooded jacket" that Capaldi introduced in his later seasons was a very very good decision.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 01:04 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 02:24 |
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Virtually everything about this season, as information trickles in, has instilled me with confidence except the Rosa Parks thing which, to be fair, erases all of that confidence and fills me with dread.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 01:39 |
Bicyclops posted:Fanny packs are apparently in again, although it didn't occur to me until just now that of course they can't call them that in the UK. Thank you. It was taking me a while to figure out what a "bum bag" was, and I wasn't about to Google it. I wasn't even looking at where it was, I was thinking it was the jacket, or was looking for a messenger bag type...thing.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 13:49 |
thrawn527 posted:Thank you. It was taking me a while to figure out what a "bum bag" was, and I wasn't about to Google it. I wasn't even looking at where it was, I was thinking it was the jacket, or was looking for a messenger bag type...thing. Well they aren't actually filming there so it could be Jodies personal belonging for between takes and down time.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 15:09 |
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PriorMarcus posted:Well they aren't actually filming there so it could be Jodies personal belonging for between takes and down time. True, but I can also see the Doctor thinking it’s the greatest, coolest invention ever.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 23:44 |
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TL posted:True, but I can also see the Doctor thinking it’s the greatest, coolest invention ever. Eleven in particular would have loved them.
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# ? Feb 14, 2018 23:51 |
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PriorMarcus posted:Well they aren't actually filming there so it could be Jodies personal belonging for between takes and down time. I feel like I read somewhere that they're actually popular among actors on location for this very reason. I think Stephen Amell wears one over his Green Arrow suit.
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# ? Feb 15, 2018 02:53 |
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A Fred Gray (incidentally, the name of the lawyer of Rosa Parks) was spotted as a role in Doctor Who in one actor's CV, so it looks like even more confirmation Chibnall wants to go there. Really, really scared the writing team is going to gently caress it up, but let's hope they don't?
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# ? Feb 15, 2018 08:10 |
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The only way it would even approach being okay is if The Doctor & Co. are just there as observers because one of them wanted to see it happen. If they have any kind of influence on the actual events in the episode, it’ll be a shitshow.
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# ? Feb 15, 2018 08:21 |
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I reckon it would be fine if they stop an alien that's trying to gently caress it up by killing someone, like how the Master tried to prevent the Magna Carta.
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# ? Feb 15, 2018 14:22 |
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I think at this point the best that we can hope for is a sort of parallel depiction, in which we see the Rosa Parks story play out, there's an alien threat trying to disrupt it that never comes in direct contact with it, and the beats in the story kind of match up to make it feel like they're connected. Even that, though... it's going to be very, very easy to be insensitive, insulting and cringe-worthy.
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# ? Feb 15, 2018 14:59 |
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Bicyclops posted:I think at this point the best that we can hope for is a sort of parallel depiction, in which we see the Rosa Parks story play out, there's an alien threat trying to disrupt it that never comes in direct contact with it, and the beats in the story kind of match up to make it feel like they're connected. Even that, though... it's going to be very, very easy to be insensitive, insulting and cringe-worthy. Again, Zygons were photographed on-set, so we already know there will be fuckery from them.
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# ? Feb 15, 2018 17:25 |
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Timby posted:Again, Zygons were photographed on-set, so we already know there will be fuckery from them. Ugh! Why can't leave well enough alone with Zygons, and not use them beyond the scope of what they can do narratively. If only there were some catchy phrase I could use to express this sentiment - Doctor What, help me out here?
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# ? Feb 15, 2018 17:30 |
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Can't we just have a normal, non-antagonistic relationship with Zygons?
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# ? Feb 15, 2018 17:50 |
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Member when people were stoked that the Zygons were coming back?
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# ? Feb 15, 2018 18:57 |
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AndyElusive posted:Member when people were stoked that the Zygons were coming back? We were caught up in the hype of Ten being back.
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# ? Feb 15, 2018 19:08 |
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K9 has been spotted on set.
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# ? Feb 25, 2018 23:59 |
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It was a fan-made prop that someone brought along, apparently.
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# ? Feb 26, 2018 00:11 |
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cargohills posted:It was a fan-made prop that someone brought along, apparently. Wow, Capaldi just can't stay away, can he?
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# ? Feb 26, 2018 01:16 |
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cargohills posted:It was a fan-made prop that someone brought along, apparently. Dang.
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# ? Feb 26, 2018 02:35 |
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Good cover
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# ? Feb 26, 2018 02:50 |
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Good.
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# ? Mar 2, 2018 17:36 |
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Alan Cumming to play James I in an upcoming ep. Lance Parkin had this great idea about it: Lance Parkin posted:You know what would be brilliant? If they did this as a re-run of the Tennant/Elizabeth I thing, but now it's Jodie, so they do it with James I, and James I is like 'I usually go for guys' and she said 'no problem, I'm usually a guy' and then the next scene is them on their wedding night. And, I dunno, then they fight witches or the Gunpowder Plot or something, if that's not fifty minutes' worth of material.
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 20:16 |
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This Radio Times article suggests we’re getting an episode set in India’s past too, to explore the backgrounds of both companions. I did see somewhere that actually filming in India is going be on the cards, but it’s not this article.
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# ? Mar 17, 2018 17:44 |
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The_Doctor posted:Alan Cumming to play James I in an upcoming ep. Alan Cumming is in Who and he's NOT the Master? The gently caress are you doing Chibnall?!
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# ? Mar 17, 2018 18:48 |
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Gaz-L posted:Alan Cumming is in Who and he's NOT the Master? The gently caress are you doing Chibnall?!
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# ? Mar 17, 2018 21:37 |
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Gaz-L posted:Alan Cumming is in Who and he's NOT the Master? The gently caress are you doing Chibnall?! Are you sure? Rearrange James the First... and you get Master (something)! That's probably good enough for the Master!
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# ? Mar 17, 2018 22:27 |
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thexerox123 posted:Are you sure? Master Fist. (With a J, an H and an E left over.)
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# ? Mar 17, 2018 22:46 |
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You can also get "JF is the Master"
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# ? Mar 17, 2018 23:00 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:Master Fist. or "Is The Master" with a J and an F left over. E:FB
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# ? Mar 17, 2018 23:24 |
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Alan Cumming is a good get. I can't wait so see him ham it up. This and the idea of a colonial India episode with a modern budget have immediately compensated for "Rosa Parks fights the Zygons".
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# ? Mar 18, 2018 02:19 |
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"Hmm, yeah... Sorry, Chris, but we can't give you as much money as you'd asked for. Maybe instead of going to India and recreating a British Raj setting, the characters could just go back to 1984 and debate whether The Jewel In the Crown is better than A Passage To India?"
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# ? Mar 18, 2018 02:54 |
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I’m hoping this actual worldwide travelling/filming leads to a proper Japan-set story.
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# ? Mar 18, 2018 04:46 |
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The_Doctor posted:I’m hoping this actual worldwide travelling/filming leads to a proper Japan-set story. Finally, the much anticipated release of the unmade classic, Yellow Fever And How to Cure It. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Mar 18, 2018 |
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Mameluke posted:Alan Cumming is a good get. I can't wait so see him ham it up. This and the idea of a colonial India episode with a modern budget have immediately compensated for "Rosa Parks fights the Zygons". It fills me with dread, personally. If they’re deluded enough to think Rosa Parks is a sensible setting for a BBC show with a white protagonist, why won’t they gently caress up British colonialism in India? (Or worse, whitesplaining India’s internal class issues, whether Britain’s in there or not.) I’ll be glad if I’m proven wrong and these are both handled sensitively, but I have a hard time seeing what that looks like in either case, let alone both in the same season. Even the decision to take them on feels entitled.
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# ? Mar 18, 2018 07:37 |
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The main hope, I think, is that since India and Britain have a far more Personal History They'll know better than to gently caress it up. Rosa Parks and the American Civil Rights stuff? That's about as in their wheel house as the Russian Revolution
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# ? Mar 18, 2018 07:39 |
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pgroce posted:It fills me with dread, personally. If they’re deluded enough to think Rosa Parks is a sensible setting for a BBC show with a white protagonist, why won’t they gently caress up British colonialism in India? (Or worse, whitesplaining India’s internal class issues, whether Britain’s in there or not.) Dread? Really? Are people so terrified that Doctor Who will do something racist and they will have to BOYCOTT IT FOREVER that the show can no longer depict Earth history at all because the actor and showrunner are white? Do you have zero confidence that white writers and actors can show any culture but their own without being devastatingly racist? If this is the case then the show should just be cancelled now.
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# ? Mar 18, 2018 14:04 |
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Astroman posted:Dread? Really? You're doing a lot of straw manning recently over people being concerned about whether a Very White BBC programme can handle issues of historical racism with class and poise. The reasons people are concerned are pretty obvious - a poor history of (British) television (and, recently, Doctor Who in particular) with racial issues either historical or contemporary; the rise of far right views being acceptable to present in a public forum; Chibnall's personal lack of nuance when writing for the Doctor Who universe. Furthermore, being unoptimistic is a very very different statement to "I will boycott it forever if Doctor Who does anything racist" - especially because (as intimated above) anyone who boycotted the show forever if it was racist wouldn't still be watching it after The Zygon Inversion. Please try to approach this issue with a bit of nuance, rather than flying off the handle like an entitled child. In addition, I'll note that your sniping about this has also appeared in the main thread - would it hurt you to keep your toys in the spoiler thread pram, rather than talking obliquely about spoilers in the non-spoiler thread?
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# ? Mar 18, 2018 14:30 |
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What a surprise, Astroman is throwing a cringe-worthy tantrum over the fact that a lot of people think involving a white, British alien and the Zygons in a hallmark moment in the American Civil Rights movement is a thunderously bad idea. A bunch of posters are going to tell him that the vicarious embarrassment of watching him try to talk about this is worse than watching The Twin Dilemma on a loop, but he'll double down and continue arguing with a kind of smug vitriol that his uninformed opinion doesn't earn, until, finally, he gets tired of everyone piling on to tell him to shut up and accuses everyone else of "derailing" the discussion.
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# ? Mar 18, 2018 17:25 |
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I'm tired of this derail because I want more spoilers.
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# ? Mar 18, 2018 17:34 |