Seriously, Confidential was awesome. Although that article doesn't mention whether Confidential will be properly returning. Instead of just a one off "The New doctor is...Bruce Forsythe!".
I find it a bitter pill (or, indeed, a Krop Tor*) to swallow that they may announce the next Doctor in a Doctor Who Confidential, when they cancelled that show a couple of years ago. Be a bit of a kick in the teeth.
*Go rewatch The Impossible Planet. And yes, I am a nerd.
I find it a bitter pill (or, indeed, a Krop Tor*) to swallow that they may announce the next Doctor in a Doctor Who Confidential, when they cancelled that show a couple of years ago.
You know what anoys me when Matt Smith, Colin Baker and other people who worked on Doctor Who say that they would like a female Doctor and all the comments on the articles are "NO NO NO!" "Don't say that it would kill the show! "NO NO NO THERE JUST BEING PC" ect
like no one is aloud to have a differing opion on the matter even if you worked on the damn show!
I thought it would be time for a new, more generalised Doctor who thread!
As long as The Doctor is mad brave genius roaming about space and time saving the world and making jokes then The Doctor can be male, female, Asian,white,black, or anything else.
The Doctor's body has changed over the years and each one has different personalty quirks but the character has stayed the same and if a woman can keep the character the same then more power to her!
If it were only 6 minutes, they could have released it on YouTube, making it to more than 200 countries simultaneously! Of course, the plot would have to be a bit compact.
If it were only 6 minutes, they could have released it on YouTube, making it to more than 200 countries simultaneously! Of course, the plot would have to be a bit compact.
Even shorter than the thirtieth anniversary story (although I still hold out hope the episode will indeed be "Dimensions in Time 2: Temporal Boogaloo")
Even shorter than the thirtieth anniversary story (although I still hold out hope the episode will indeed be "Dimensions in Time 2: Temporal Boogaloo")
No, that's what Big Finish's special is. It's a crossover with The Archers.
It's Ian Levine's official "trailer" for his private/pet "Dr Who" projects. At almost an hour long, I've not watched it through yet, but it gives you an idea of the kind of thing he's put together.
And, unfortunately, just on the bits I've watched so far, why the Beeb aren't interested.
Still, it keeps people interested, and that's the main thing. Incidentally, the new issue of DWM's most interesting feature is that NEXT month's issue will have a big preview of "The Light at the End".
Shada - the animation was fine, but the art style was lacklustre. The Evil of the Daleks - practically no animation at all, and the whole lip-synching was hilariously bad. Mission to the Unknown - very much reminded me of a flash cartoon. Actually seemed very watchable. The Dalek's Master Plan - awful. Animation was basic (at best), William Hartnell was barely recognisable and it felt very cheap. Ugh. PLEASE tell me he's not doing the whole story like this. Gallifrey - they've morphed actual photos of actors to give the 'illusion' that they're talking, then cut-pasted them rather awkwardly onto a few generic backgrounds. Hilarious in its ineptitude. And then they threw in possibly the worst Colin Baker impression in the history of the universe. It's not even remotely close. Hell, I could do better.
It just... it's an AWFUL piece of animation. It really is. Stay the hell away. Yellow Fever - more photos, but no laughably bad attempt at lip-syncing, so a tad more tolerable. The animations still rubbish and it's hard to tell who's speaking at a given time though, so it's not THAT much better. It still has the awful Colin Baker impression, and adds bad Nicholas Courtney AND Anthony Ainley ones as well. Just... no. Lost in the Dark Dimension - Same photos, same lack of lip-synching, different bad Nicholas Courtney impression. A not-awful Sylvester McCoy copy and a pretty good Sophie Aldred mimic make this somewhat tolerable, though the final scene - where lots of people die - isn't particularly good. The Eight Doctors - more still photos. Voice acting for this one seems pretty good, and as a result the visual approach seems to work. Sort of. It's not bad, anyway. Downtime - I... it's hard to explain. It LOOKS like they've taken clips of Sylvester McCoy and kind-of put them together to form this scene (though it's obviously new footage shot for this). It doesn't quite work - the editing is poor and the shots don't flow into each other - and the scene itself just doesn't match with the other, already existing version of Downtime with its more static visual style. Death Comes to Time - this takes the existing visuals from the official release and uses morphing to add basic movement and lip synching. To say it doesn't work is an understatement - it's almost comical how bad it is. The original version, while basic, was fine. These changes just ruin the whole thing. And on top of all this, the scene with George W Bush is BADLY out of synch. Tut tut. Destiny of the Doctors - it's more badly cobbled together footage of Sylvester McCoy spliced into another scene from god-knows where. It doesn't even remotely match up - McCoy even clips through someone at one point. Editing's still awful, and the acting's even worse. Ugh. Music of the Spheres - CGI cartoon. It's not bad animation or voicework, but the whole concept is completely insane and utterly unnecessary.
There you go - my thoughts on all the projects. Aside from the recreations of missing episodes, which have a reason to exist, my overriding thought on the others was simply "why?". There's very little reason for any of them to exist, and none of them are really any good.
So in short - yeah, I can see why the BBC wants nothing to do with them as well.
Some, at least of these are brand new. Ian Levine hired the seventh Doctor actor to create framing sequences for some material from "Downtime" and "Destiny of the Doctors" and whatnot... afterwards McCoy "discovered" it wasn't an official project (although it's not clear whether he'd genuinely been under a mistaken impression, or was hurriedly back-tracking to save face).
It LOOKS like they've taken clips of Sylvester McCoy and kind-of put them together to form this scene (though it's obviously new footage shot for this).
Yeah, it becomes fairly obvious as the scene goes on that this is all-new footage.
Doesn't mean it works though. Because it doesn't. I blame the poor editing. (Also, why is McCoy wearing his glasses? I don't recall the Seventh Doctor having any on screen.)
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Seriously, Confidential was awesome. Although that article doesn't mention whether Confidential will be properly returning. Instead of just a one off "The New doctor is...Bruce Forsythe!".
*Go rewatch The Impossible Planet. And yes, I am a nerd.
No, it isn't. You've just converted a rumour into a "fact". That's how insane rumours about missing episodes and the like spread. :rolleyes:
It doesn't mention it returning at all. It mentions a rumour that *one* episode *might* be made. Stop waving your hands in excitement. :mad:
What he said.
Am I the Doctor or the Silent?
Also, I totally missed your post on the previous page. Woops.
like no one is aloud to have a differing opion on the matter even if you worked on the damn show!
As long as The Doctor is mad brave genius roaming about space and time saving the world and making jokes then The Doctor can be male, female, Asian,white,black, or anything else.
The Doctor's body has changed over the years and each one has different personalty quirks but the character has stayed the same and if a woman can keep the character the same then more power to her!
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/07/25/looks-like-paul-mcgann-has-filmed-a-new-doctor-who-something-but-what/
I'm taking it to mean he's filmed 6 entire seasons of doctor who. Maybe even 7.
Or probably some interviews for that "Doctor who Revisited" thing airing in the states. After all, it's his turn next month.
6 minutes would have been a tad short.
It could just be these scenes together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imV0xFIDeaQ&list=FLCvHcXJ2XUq3kkzPlLlCfZg&index=41
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDxPGQQyD4g
Even shorter than the thirtieth anniversary story (although I still hold out hope the episode will indeed be "Dimensions in Time 2: Temporal Boogaloo")
No, that's what Big Finish's special is. It's a crossover with The Archers.
Ha ha the UK cover is cooler.
But that episode sucked so it's all good.
It's Ian Levine's official "trailer" for his private/pet "Dr Who" projects. At almost an hour long, I've not watched it through yet, but it gives you an idea of the kind of thing he's put together.
And, unfortunately, just on the bits I've watched so far, why the Beeb aren't interested.
Still, it keeps people interested, and that's the main thing. Incidentally, the new issue of DWM's most interesting feature is that NEXT month's issue will have a big preview of "The Light at the End".
Shada - the animation was fine, but the art style was lacklustre.
The Evil of the Daleks - practically no animation at all, and the whole lip-synching was hilariously bad.
Mission to the Unknown - very much reminded me of a flash cartoon. Actually seemed very watchable.
The Dalek's Master Plan - awful. Animation was basic (at best), William Hartnell was barely recognisable and it felt very cheap. Ugh. PLEASE tell me he's not doing the whole story like this.
Gallifrey - they've morphed actual photos of actors to give the 'illusion' that they're talking, then cut-pasted them rather awkwardly onto a few generic backgrounds. Hilarious in its ineptitude. And then they threw in possibly the worst Colin Baker impression in the history of the universe. It's not even remotely close. Hell, I could do better.
It just... it's an AWFUL piece of animation. It really is. Stay the hell away.
Yellow Fever - more photos, but no laughably bad attempt at lip-syncing, so a tad more tolerable. The animations still rubbish and it's hard to tell who's speaking at a given time though, so it's not THAT much better. It still has the awful Colin Baker impression, and adds bad Nicholas Courtney AND Anthony Ainley ones as well. Just... no.
Lost in the Dark Dimension - Same photos, same lack of lip-synching, different bad Nicholas Courtney impression. A not-awful Sylvester McCoy copy and a pretty good Sophie Aldred mimic make this somewhat tolerable, though the final scene - where lots of people die - isn't particularly good.
The Eight Doctors - more still photos. Voice acting for this one seems pretty good, and as a result the visual approach seems to work. Sort of. It's not bad, anyway.
Downtime - I... it's hard to explain. It LOOKS like they've taken clips of Sylvester McCoy and kind-of put them together to form this scene (though it's obviously new footage shot for this). It doesn't quite work - the editing is poor and the shots don't flow into each other - and the scene itself just doesn't match with the other, already existing version of Downtime with its more static visual style.
Death Comes to Time - this takes the existing visuals from the official release and uses morphing to add basic movement and lip synching. To say it doesn't work is an understatement - it's almost comical how bad it is. The original version, while basic, was fine. These changes just ruin the whole thing. And on top of all this, the scene with George W Bush is BADLY out of synch. Tut tut.
Destiny of the Doctors - it's more badly cobbled together footage of Sylvester McCoy spliced into another scene from god-knows where. It doesn't even remotely match up - McCoy even clips through someone at one point. Editing's still awful, and the acting's even worse. Ugh.
Music of the Spheres - CGI cartoon. It's not bad animation or voicework, but the whole concept is completely insane and utterly unnecessary.
There you go - my thoughts on all the projects. Aside from the recreations of missing episodes, which have a reason to exist, my overriding thought on the others was simply "why?". There's very little reason for any of them to exist, and none of them are really any good.
So in short - yeah, I can see why the BBC wants nothing to do with them as well.
Some, at least of these are brand new. Ian Levine hired the seventh Doctor actor to create framing sequences for some material from "Downtime" and "Destiny of the Doctors" and whatnot... afterwards McCoy "discovered" it wasn't an official project (although it's not clear whether he'd genuinely been under a mistaken impression, or was hurriedly back-tracking to save face).
Doesn't mean it works though. Because it doesn't. I blame the poor editing. (Also, why is McCoy wearing his glasses? I don't recall the Seventh Doctor having any on screen.)
Oh, and congrats on a thousand posts.
As one of the few people who actually seemed to like Adric, him being reunited with 5&co is great news. Even if it is only for a couple of audios.
Mark "Turlough" Strickson's been working with Big Finish from the beginning.
Only for the 50th movie special then he will be replaced with no Regeneration.
At lest that way we would get Colin Baker with good scripts.
Don't tell the BBC I leaked this.