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| Verity Lambert |
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30 | 15.31% |
| Barry Letts |
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7 | 3.57% |
| Phillip Hinchcliffe |
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32 | 16.33% |
| John Nathan-Turner |
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6 | 3.06% |
| Russell T Davies |
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33 | 16.84% |
| Steven Moffat |
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50 | 25.51% |
| Chris Chibnall (I am from the future) |
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38 | 19.39% |
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Cerv posted:apart from a bit about not brining Sally Sparrow back, there's not much here but apparently Moffat said something silly about not doing a woman Doctor before because of Brexit Something to the effect of, "I thought about having a female Doctor before we cast Peter, but I decided not to because not everyone who watches the show is as progressive or enlightened as I am," and cited people voting for Brexit as evidence.
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Dec 5, 2017 14:41
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On one hand, it's too bad they didn't have Terry Molloy back, but on the other, Julian Bleach as Davros was enormously fun. The "It's too late -- I'm regenerating!" cliffhanger and the big "TO! BE! CONTINUED!" were also great (even though the next episode was never going to live up to them, which was a problem common to both RTD and Moffat).
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Dec 6, 2017 11:02
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Here's an interview RTD did with the NME the other day about how he got into screenwriting and his career in TV.
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Dec 20, 2017 12:16
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Pesky Splinter posted:The series has been going down hill since It was a perfectly competent series about a policeman walking through the fog then it went downhill when it turned into all this rubbish about some schoolteachers and some teenager and some old geezer with white hair.
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Dec 23, 2017 19:41
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My assumption is that audience expectations have changed for this kind of programme, combined with how the Doctor's relationships with his companions sometimes varies compared with the classic series (most particularly Ten and Rose). I feel like writers (especially someone who's as keenly aware of fandom as Moffat appears to be) probably worry that if they don't definitively give a reason for why the Doctor can't just go and meet up with his friends after In the case of RTD's companions, I think the problem was that there was never any reason they'd want to leave the Doctor voluntarily (other than Martha, who I like as a companion both in the show and in a meta sense). Moffat has the opposite problem; his companions always have a "hub" and don't really travel with the Doctor on a "full time" basis so there's not usually a good reason in-story for them to just stop travelling with him when they can go home whenever they like (Amy and Rory could've and should've had that; just "We'll always value our time with the Doctor and he'll always be welcome in our home, but we want to settle down now" would've been a perfectly good ending for them).
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Dec 23, 2017 20:06
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The_Doctor posted:Watching Sacha Dhawan in The Tractate Middoth, a horror short on BBC4. He would make a great Doctor. Remember when the bookies had decided, "It's probably not going to be a woman," and the betting narrowed to Dhawan or Luke Treadaway?
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Dec 24, 2017 23:47
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It had bits I liked and bits I wasn't as keen on. On balance, I enjoyed it while I was watching it, but it didn't leave a huge impression on me beyond the regeneration itself. I'm looking forward to seeing what Chibnall does. Hopefully it will be different if nothing else.
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Dec 26, 2017 01:58
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Soothing Vapors posted:Yeah speaking of is there any way to inoculate myself to that horrible accent in the next year or so, short of stabbing my eardrums out Well, if you dislike it that much, the best I can suggest is to repeat to yourself, "At least she's not from Belfast."
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Dec 26, 2017 19:03
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Davros1 posted:I remember Troughton's Doctor being sexist at the beginning. "Go make the tea, Polly" The First Doctor did that as well, but only when Richard Hurndall was playing him. ("I sometimes used to get a bit tetchy; fortunately one mellows with age.")
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Dec 26, 2017 21:12
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thrawn527 posted:Unless he already had a kid at home. He referenced a family, so I’d say there’s a good chance. He mentioned his wife and his boys.
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Dec 29, 2017 02:14
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Fil5000 posted:If we're talking fantasy Who writers, I'd love an episode by Charles Stross. He'd have to tone it down a bit, but I think the way he can mix sci fi-horror stuff with utterly mundane British bureaucracy would be sweet. Kim Newman.
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Dec 29, 2017 14:34
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Davros1 posted:Didn't care much for his Doctor Who novella though I haven't read it, though I've read most (not all) of his other fictional stuff.
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Dec 29, 2017 15:36
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How much of The Adventures of Tintin was Moffat and how much was Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish?
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Dec 30, 2017 17:41
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Burkion posted:Not only was Moffat only the third guy to those two, Stephen Speilberg was the director who could and would excise poo poo from a script if he wanted. I watched it yesterday and there was a lot of dialogue that felt very Moffat. A lot of the speeches Captain Haddock makes feel a lot like stuff he wrote for Capaldi.
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Dec 30, 2017 19:09
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Starring PETER WYNGARDE as THE DOCTOR with DONALD SUTHERLAND as THE MASTER Produced by ITC Entertainment
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Jan 1, 2018 22:02
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Payndz posted:Would watch the gently caress out of that. Imagine if Doctor Who had been an ITC show. I imagine it would've gone like: First Doctor: Patrick McGoohan Second Doctor: Roger Moore Third Doctor: Richard Bradford Fourth Doctor: Peter Wyngarde Fifth Doctor: Kermit the Frog Sixth Doctor: Jason Robards (only appeared in the 1980 feature film Raise the TARDIS) Seventh Doctor: Ian Ogilvy
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Jan 1, 2018 22:46
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The_Doctor posted:The estate of the Brig's creator is thinking of suing the BBC for creating his grandfather in TUAT. Bit of a legal grey area I'd have thought. I think it would depend on the nature of the writer's legal relationship with the BBC when he created the character.
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Jan 10, 2018 17:25
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SiKboy posted:Yeah, I'm excited for Whittaker and wary of Chibnall. I'm just hoping that he concentrates on running the show and commisions good scriptwriters instead of, y'know, writing episodes himself. Obviously one of the big announcements we've heard is that he wanted to move towards having a collaborative American-style writers room for the show, but another rumour I heard was that he was going to write every episode of season 11 himself (which is why it has fewer but longer episodes). At the same time, he's said he has a five-year plan for the series and the BBC have committed to letting him go with it, so that will hopefully be interesting to see.
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Jan 12, 2018 15:25
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corn in the bible posted:Davison has the best reactions to things Except, perhaps, to the Doctor being a woman.
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Jan 15, 2018 11:19
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Zaroff posted:He was paid in scripts, pre-broadcast edits of episodes and old props. Yeah, he was fairly well-established as a songwriter and producer in the burgeoning Hi-NRG scene by the time he got involved in Doctor Who. He didn't lose his money until later in the decades when he ploughed most of his fortune into a plan to found a new record company which he'd use to record all his favourite old Motown stars doing songs he'd written for them, which (perhaps predictably) flopped.
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Jan 15, 2018 14:06
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It's like how Paul McGann is the same age as Peter Capaldi but you wouldn't think so if you saw them standing next to each other.
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Jan 15, 2018 21:44
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2house2fly posted:That episode had some really funny bits despite how dumb the plot was. I remain unsure whether the Reverend shouting angrily at the guys stealing from his church and interspersing his rant with "BZZT! BZZT!" like a wasp was meant to be funny or dramatic.
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Jan 18, 2018 01:35
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It's like how Frank from "Daleks In Manhattan" grew up to become Spider-Man.
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Jan 18, 2018 11:34
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He would've made an entertaining Doctor himself. Behold, pictured here alongside the Master: 
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Jan 18, 2018 14:34
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Rhyno posted:Don't apologize, B5 fans are terrible. If not for Firefly and GoT they would still be the worst genre fandom. To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand all of those shows. Also: has Levine explained why he's opposed to the Doctor being a woman or is it the generic reason (sexism)?
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Jan 18, 2018 23:30
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Payndz posted:Great new av, BTW. I was due a change anyway. I like to imagine all my posts being read in Peter Wyngarde's voice now.
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Jan 19, 2018 22:14
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I don't know if Doctor Who has had any profound or particular impact on me, at least not to the extent that others have described, but I've watched enough of it that it must have done in some fashion. There are episode that I'll watch and think, "I would like to be able to write a story like this!" so it has influenced me in that sense. If nothing else, it has entertained me for an hour or so on Saturday evenings and that's generally been good enough for me.
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Jan 22, 2018 13:46
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The holey sweater was better than the Noel Edmonds shirt.
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Jan 23, 2018 10:31
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The_Doctor posted:Interesting that the default James Bond looks just like Archer. Jack Ryan is just Ben Affleck, isn't he? There's not a whole lot of Harrison Ford there anyway.
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Jan 25, 2018 10:13
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cell posted:Chris Pine has played the part as well. Indeed, and Alec Baldwin played him first, but I think if you asked someone, "Who played Jack Ryan?" they'd probably say it was Harrison Ford (since Harrison Ford played him more than once). Patriot Games is the best one, by the way.
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Jan 25, 2018 11:12
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He's Tom Clancy's self-insert character.
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Jan 25, 2018 16:29
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I can't think of Soldeed without smiling.  And to think Graham Crowden was almost the Fourth Doctor.
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Jan 30, 2018 15:38
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Personally I want a DW Halloween special. If I knew how to photoshop I would put upside down K9 on top of the TARDIS.
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Feb 4, 2018 00:45
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Good grief.
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Feb 4, 2018 11:54
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Yvonmukluk posted:I'm sorry, but if you didn't enjoy Faye Marsay dancing past a bunch of monsters to Merry Christmas Everybody then you have no soul! I remember being very surprised that people thought Faye Marsay was being set up as the new companion because I didn't get that impression at all; if anything, I was sure that Natalie Gumede's character (Ashley) was being set up as the new companion.
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Feb 4, 2018 11:56
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Doctor Who continuity doesn't work
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Feb 8, 2018 11:06
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