This makes me want to watch Genesis of the Daleks even more.
I've purchased a ticket for the Monday theatrical screening of The Day of The Doctor, so I'll probably skip it on Saturday so the plot will be fresh to me when I see it in the theatre (assuming I can avoid spoilers). I'll most likely watch Genesis of The Daleks before then to gear up for the special.
So apparently the BBC just announced they are not going to do any console games any time soon for Doctor Who and stick to mobile titles. On account of the previous ones like The Eternity Clock selling badly, because goodness forbid they were clearly giving the licence to trusted secure developers and letting them get on and trusting them rather than shadowing with a will of iron.
This is why unless they give Telltale the licence there will NEVER be a truly good Doctor Who game. Hmph.
In other news, yay for the 50th! DWM are doing an awesome aniversary magazine with pullouts, interviews, collector cards for all 12 doctors and 9 exclusive free audio downloads for Big Finish Doctor Who. Sweet.
So apparently the BBC just announced they are not going to do any console games any time soon for Doctor Who and stick to mobile titles. On ac… morecount of the previous ones like The Eternity Clock selling badly, because goodness forbid they were clearly giving the licence to trusted secure developers and letting them get on and trusting them rather than shadowing with a will of iron.
This is why unless they give Telltale the licence there will NEVER be a truly good Doctor Who game. Hmph.
In other news, yay for the 50th! DWM are doing an awesome aniversary magazine with pullouts, interviews, collector cards for all 12 doctors and 9 exclusive free audio downloads for Big Finish Doctor Who. Sweet.
I would say the Adventure Games would be a decent prototype for an actual game and it did have some good ideas. I think in the end though there was this irritation by some developers on the paid stuff that the Adventure Games were tended to be more well received. That or the budget for making them was needed for other stuff like the Episode Prequels and the DVD exclusives.
What, The Adventure Games? Yeah, pretty good is not the phrase I'd use to describe them.
To this day, the only decent modern Doctor Who games are the DS 'Evacuation Earth' one (which was a kid-friendly Professor Layton rip-off) and this.
I thought they were decent. And they got better with each release. The Gunpowder Plot was a really huge step up from series one, and because of that I was really excited for the rest since the BBC said series two was going to be bigger than the first. But then they just stopped.
What, The Adventure Games? Yeah, pretty good is not the phrase I'd use to describe them.
To this day, the only decent modern Doctor Who games are the DS 'Evacuation Earth' one (which was a kid-friendly Professor Layton rip-off) and this.
Don't you love the rumor mill, folks? Based entirely on someone's word (which is how we got the "all missing episodes found in Africa, even the ones that weren't sold there" story), Marco Polo has been found and will be released next month. Pics or it didn't happen, please.
Don't you love the rumor mill, folks? Based entirely on someone's word (which is how we got the "all missing episodes found in Africa, even th… moree ones that weren't sold there" story), Marco Polo has been found and will be released next month. Pics or it didn't happen, please.
Yeah I was the same with the earlier reveal, though I am pleased as Punch that we have Enemy of the World and Web of Fear back. The latter especially for Colonel Lethbridge Stewart and the Yeti. I suspect the Marco Polo thing is fake though it is a good one so it would be nice if it were true.
I guess if you're going to spread fake rumours about found episodes, make it believable. Who'd lie about finding a historical, those weren't as popular?
Well, after sitting on it for a bit, here's my list of notes for the special.
First, the most pressing question of all... how in the world did Clara get a teaching job at Coal Hill School? Is it just different in the UK, where you don't actually have to go to school to be a teacher? Ian was supposedly name dropped on the wall of the school, did he do a favor for his buddy "Doctor Foreman"?
OK, seriously, the actual most pressing question, where did the Zygons and UNIT go? After the Black Archives, they just disappeared from the plot with no real resolution to their story. I know we had more pressing things to get to, but no resolution? Was there a throwaway line I missed? I guess it must have worked itself out if London was still there at the end of the episode, but still.
Kind of wish Tom Baker didn't advertise that he was going to have an actual cameo in the special, it kind of ruined him showing up out of the blue as "The Curator". But I guess they made up for it with the surprise "not 12, 13" Capaldi cameo.
Speaking of surprise cameos, was that actually Christopher Eccleston, or was that stock footage? I assume stock footage, because he didn't show up in Hurt's regeneration scene.
So, Gallifrey isn't destroyed anymore. Yeah, I kind of figured that would have to happen eventually. Does that mean Timothy Dalton is going to try destroying all of creation again?
Silence will fall? Didn't we just go through this in "The Name of the Doctor"?
Well that was pretty awesome, how do you add to that? Oh, first teaser for Orphan Black season 2, and it's coming back in April to boot and not this time next year with Doctor Who.
i was wondering about a bit of the story when mat became the doctor. the master tried to pull the planet from the time lock. but if there was no time lock and the planet was never there then what in blazes did he try to pull? bleah time travel is confusing... good show though.
@multicolt The Bad Wolf Entity / The Moment specifically let the Doctors through the time lock, the lock remained in place. All the events from The End of Time has already happened by this point in Gallifrey's timeline, and of course it didn't work.
A combination of physic paper, the Doctor's natural charm and (probably) a hand from Ian/Barbara.
Good question, and one I echo. I guess they worked things out?
Agreed about Tomb Baker's comments, but more importantly, who the hell was he playing? coolsome says it's implied to be a future Doctor who took Tom Baker's face, but that just seems silly.
Stock footage, sadly. Was disappointed he couldn't spare an hour to do the regeneration, that would have been amazing. Speaking of - why did John Hurt regenerate?
Presumably these events took place AFTER Dalton tried to do that, since The Moment was what ended everything.
We did. looks like we're doing it again though. -sigh-
John Hurt regenerated for the same reason William Hartnell did. As he said in the episode, he spent so much time in that form, it was "wearing a little thin".
I don't think Tom Baker is supposed to be a future Doctor, but I think he might be a Time Lord to point the Doctor towards wherever he stored Gallifrey.
The Day of the Doctor? That's old news. It's time for the Christmas special, titled "The Time of the Doctor". What'll happen? Who knows! Well, Moffat knows and Moffat says that Matt Smith is the final, 13th life of the Doctor. Of course, Moffat's not going to end the show at the height of popularity, so the pressing question is "how are they going to break the regeneration limit and not have it come off as incredibly cheesy and forced?"
The Day of the Doctor? That's old news. It's time for the Christmas special, titled "The Time of the Doctor". What'll happen? Who knows! Well,… more Moffat knows and Moffat says that Matt Smith is the final, 13th life of the Doctor. Of course, Moffat's not going to end the show at the height of popularity, so the pressing question is "how are they going to break the regeneration limit and not have it come off as incredibly cheesy and forced?"
The two biggest theories I've seen on how they can pull off breaking the rules are "no more Time Lords, no more regeneration limit" and "the Doctor got extra regenerations back in Let's Kill Hitler", both of which make sense yet both have kind of big flaws.
The questions of how many regenerations the Doctor has been a thorny issue for years, back in The Brain of Morbius a holo screen suggested that the Doctor had previous regenerations before One, and I recall someone suggesting in The Caves of Androzani that the Time Lord interfered in his fifth to sixth one because it was actually his last and it explained the Valeyard and... ugh, it was all pants really. Ultimately I think Moffatt has suggested the Time War stripped the limit of the number of regenerations before, but now that's in the air...
My theory: 13-life limit is biological, but time lord science is able to overcome that, with permission from the government. So "no more time lords" means "no more exceptions" rather than no more limit. That, of course, will make the search for Gallifrey all the more pressing as the Doctor reaches the end of his final life.
I don't think River gave the Doctor any extra regenerations. She just had to use up all of hers to save his life once.
Also, how do they come to the conclusion that Matt Smith is the last incarnation? Even by the new count, Frobisher-Doctor is 13. Are they counting Ten's semi-regeneration or is there something else I missed?
Spoiler alert: I really hate that I can't just partial spoiler a post anymore. Why is this better?
Anyway, yes. The Meta-Crisis Doctor counts as a regeneration. It gets overlooked because the Doctor didn't change his appearance, but he DID use up a regeneration in creating the Meta-Crisis Doctor.
The press release for "Time of the Doctor" is up now. No real new information, just reinforcing what we know, but it does seem to suggest that Orla Brady is getting a starring role.
Bad news, season 8 is not slated to start until August 2014. Good news, when it DOES start, it won't be split up into spring/fall seasons like 6 and 7 were.
The press release for "Time of the Doctor" is up now. No real new information, just reinforcing what we know, but it does seem to suggest that Orla Brady is getting a starring role.
Well the season split never bothered me, but it is nice having Who in the Autumn. Going to be odd to have the Season and the Christmas Special so close together though.
Also the Christmas Special looks insane in terms of monsters - we have Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and the Silence all in the same story.
Bad news, season 8 is not slated to start until August 2014. Good news, when it DOES start, it won't be split up into spring/fall seasons like 6 and 7 were.
Anyone else get the feeling that the purpose of the entire 50th anniversary season was for Steven Moffat to press as many reset buttons as he could? We started way back in Asylum of the Daleks where the reset button took the Daleks back to their pre-Genesis view of the Doctor. Then we have Day of the Doctor, not only does the reset button bring Gallifrey back, but it resets the Doctor to the man he was before the war. And now, Time of the Doctor presses the reset button once more to give the Doctor another batch of regenerations.
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This makes me want to watch Genesis of the Daleks even more.
I've purchased a ticket for the Monday theatrical screening of The Day of The Doctor, so I'll probably skip it on Saturday so the plot will be fresh to me when I see it in the theatre (assuming I can avoid spoilers). I'll most likely watch Genesis of The Daleks before then to gear up for the special.
From a BBC Email Survey:
So, it's pretty much The Walking Dead with a Doctor Who coating. That sounds cool.
So apparently the BBC just announced they are not going to do any console games any time soon for Doctor Who and stick to mobile titles. On account of the previous ones like The Eternity Clock selling badly, because goodness forbid they were clearly giving the licence to trusted secure developers and letting them get on and trusting them rather than shadowing with a will of iron.
This is why unless they give Telltale the licence there will NEVER be a truly good Doctor Who game. Hmph.
In other news, yay for the 50th! DWM are doing an awesome aniversary magazine with pullouts, interviews, collector cards for all 12 doctors and 9 exclusive free audio downloads for Big Finish Doctor Who. Sweet.
The BBC HAD an episodic Doctor Who game, and it was pretty good. But it was cancelled to work on The Eternity Clock.
What, The Adventure Games? Yeah, pretty good is not the phrase I'd use to describe them.
To this day, the only decent modern Doctor Who games are the DS 'Evacuation Earth' one (which was a kid-friendly Professor Layton rip-off) and this.
I would say the Adventure Games would be a decent prototype for an actual game and it did have some good ideas. I think in the end though there was this irritation by some developers on the paid stuff that the Adventure Games were tended to be more well received. That or the budget for making them was needed for other stuff like the Episode Prequels and the DVD exclusives.
I thought they were decent. And they got better with each release. The Gunpowder Plot was a really huge step up from series one, and because of that I was really excited for the rest since the BBC said series two was going to be bigger than the first. But then they just stopped.
Don't you love the rumor mill, folks? Based entirely on someone's word (which is how we got the "all missing episodes found in Africa, even the ones that weren't sold there" story), Marco Polo has been found and will be released next month. Pics or it didn't happen, please.
Agreed - pics or I ain't biting.
Yeah I was the same with the earlier reveal, though I am pleased as Punch that we have Enemy of the World and Web of Fear back. The latter especially for Colonel Lethbridge Stewart and the Yeti. I suspect the Marco Polo thing is fake though it is a good one so it would be nice if it were true.
I guess if you're going to spread fake rumours about found episodes, make it believable. Who'd lie about finding a historical, those weren't as popular?
New Doctor Puppet!
Oh yeah, and Google is doing some sort of game thing, too.
So... no-one got anything to say about Day of the Doctor?
...hmm.
Can we talk about it without spoiling it? Probably not.
i just got done watching it. just. wow. silence will fall?
Well, after sitting on it for a bit, here's my list of notes for the special.
i was wondering about a bit of the story when mat became the doctor. the master tried to pull the planet from the time lock. but if there was no time lock and the planet was never there then what in blazes did he try to pull? bleah time travel is confusing... good show though.
@multicolt The Bad Wolf Entity / The Moment specifically let the Doctors through the time lock, the lock remained in place. All the events from The End of Time has already happened by this point in Gallifrey's timeline, and of course it didn't work.
@Gibbeynator - Let's run through that.
John Hurt regenerated for the same reason William Hartnell did. As he said in the episode, he spent so much time in that form, it was "wearing a little thin".
So, have any of you seen The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot?
I don't think Tom Baker is supposed to be a future Doctor, but I think he might be a Time Lord to point the Doctor towards wherever he stored Gallifrey.
And no, haven't seen the "reboot" yet.
The Day of the Doctor? That's old news. It's time for the Christmas special, titled "The Time of the Doctor". What'll happen? Who knows! Well, Moffat knows and Moffat says that Matt Smith is the final, 13th life of the Doctor. Of course, Moffat's not going to end the show at the height of popularity, so the pressing question is "how are they going to break the regeneration limit and not have it come off as incredibly cheesy and forced?"
i thought at one point they said that the doctor wasn't limited to 13. i feel like i heard that somewhere i just cant remember where.
The two biggest theories I've seen on how they can pull off breaking the rules are "no more Time Lords, no more regeneration limit" and "the Doctor got extra regenerations back in Let's Kill Hitler", both of which make sense yet both have kind of big flaws.
The questions of how many regenerations the Doctor has been a thorny issue for years, back in The Brain of Morbius a holo screen suggested that the Doctor had previous regenerations before One, and I recall someone suggesting in The Caves of Androzani that the Time Lord interfered in his fifth to sixth one because it was actually his last and it explained the Valeyard and... ugh, it was all pants really. Ultimately I think Moffatt has suggested the Time War stripped the limit of the number of regenerations before, but now that's in the air...
If the Master can come back after running out of regenerations, I'm sure the Doctor can too.
Also, I asked Cleverbot who is the best Doctor...
My theory: 13-life limit is biological, but time lord science is able to overcome that, with permission from the government. So "no more time lords" means "no more exceptions" rather than no more limit. That, of course, will make the search for Gallifrey all the more pressing as the Doctor reaches the end of his final life.
I don't think River gave the Doctor any extra regenerations. She just had to use up all of hers to save his life once.
Also, how do they come to the conclusion that Matt Smith is the last incarnation? Even by the new count, Frobisher-Doctor is 13. Are they counting Ten's semi-regeneration or is there something else I missed?
Spoiler alert: I really hate that I can't just partial spoiler a post anymore. Why is this better?
Anyway, yes. The Meta-Crisis Doctor counts as a regeneration. It gets overlooked because the Doctor didn't change his appearance, but he DID use up a regeneration in creating the Meta-Crisis Doctor.
if telltale make doctor who game
i think it gonna be awesome.
Doctor Who: Legacy is now out and... it's OK. I mean, it's Bejeweled, it's very hard to screw up.
Speaking of Doctor Who games, I did a video for the 50th anniversary where I play some old Doctor Who games.
The press release for "Time of the Doctor" is up now. No real new information, just reinforcing what we know, but it does seem to suggest that Orla Brady is getting a starring role.
Bad news, season 8 is not slated to start until August 2014. Good news, when it DOES start, it won't be split up into spring/fall seasons like 6 and 7 were.
Orla Brady is amazing
Well the season split never bothered me, but it is nice having Who in the Autumn. Going to be odd to have the Season and the Christmas Special so close together though.
Also the Christmas Special looks insane in terms of monsters - we have Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and the Silence all in the same story.
Who wants a promo? Do you want a promo? Well you're getting a promo!
Anyone else get the feeling that the purpose of the entire 50th anniversary season was for Steven Moffat to press as many reset buttons as he could? We started way back in Asylum of the Daleks where the reset button took the Daleks back to their pre-Genesis view of the Doctor. Then we have Day of the Doctor, not only does the reset button bring Gallifrey back, but it resets the Doctor to the man he was before the war. And now, Time of the Doctor presses the reset button once more to give the Doctor another batch of regenerations.
You forgot the reset that the Daleks now know who the Doctor is again.