Sunday 27 December 2009
The End Of Time - Part 2
For Gallifrey!!! Yes folks, the Time Lords are back at last! You can catch Part 2 of The End Of Time on BBC 1 on New Year's Day. It looks like it's going to be epic!
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Steven Moffat talks 'Doctor Who' future
"He’s the best one of course! In a new, different, strange way. Considering he’s so young he comes across as surprisingly ancient. He’s not going to be the youthful doctor that people might expect – he’s a proper grown-up. The Doctor has to be played not just by someone with great acting ability but someone who you can’t take your eyes off and you can’t take your eyes off Matt Smith when he walks into a room. His presence just screams ‘alpha male’ – but in a really odd way. If he walked through here now you would immediately get it. He walks like a drunk giraffe!"
Click here to read the full interview!
Click here to read the full interview!
Friday 23 October 2009
Green Tea & Fendahl
+++RANT WARNING!+++
I am sitting here with a full stomach after dinner...a cup of green tea & watching The Image Of The Fendahl and thinking 'why can't they write Doctor Who like this for Series 5?' Please, Mr. Moffat, get Chris Boucher or Terrence Dicks back for one last outing to write a classic story. This isn't a review, this is just me rambling after dinner...whilst watching the story.
Anyways, back to the story.......
A combination of gothic horror/science fiction....in the vein of H.P.Lovecraft. Alien interference in human evolution has always been a persistent theme in the show, this story pulls it off with style & atmosphere that i'm sure even HPL would have been proud of! (If he was a Doctor Who fan....)
An 8 million year old glowing skull as the embodiment of death? BRILLIANT! A nice Quatermass feel to this story too...which is apparently what inspired the story.
A nice combination of occult themes & gothic horror...I hope we see more stories like this in the show's future!
I am sitting here with a full stomach after dinner...a cup of green tea & watching The Image Of The Fendahl and thinking 'why can't they write Doctor Who like this for Series 5?' Please, Mr. Moffat, get Chris Boucher or Terrence Dicks back for one last outing to write a classic story. This isn't a review, this is just me rambling after dinner...whilst watching the story.
Anyways, back to the story.......
A combination of gothic horror/science fiction....in the vein of H.P.Lovecraft. Alien interference in human evolution has always been a persistent theme in the show, this story pulls it off with style & atmosphere that i'm sure even HPL would have been proud of! (If he was a Doctor Who fan....)
An 8 million year old glowing skull as the embodiment of death? BRILLIANT! A nice Quatermass feel to this story too...which is apparently what inspired the story.
A nice combination of occult themes & gothic horror...I hope we see more stories like this in the show's future!
Thursday 15 October 2009
Re: How about injecting some magic and surrealism back into the show?
Gallifrey Base: How about injecting some magic and surrealism back into the show?
When it comes to Doctor Who, I prefer hard science fiction with lots of technobabble, since this is originally the subject the program was supposed to deal with when it started (alongside history) as educational entertainment...the word of quantum physics is all about possibility, a lot of strange things can (& do) happen on a sub-atomic scale which opens up a lot of room for stories set in a fantasy setting to be explained (i.e; the weeping angels have a quantum lock on them, taking in to account the act of observing in quantum physics and it's effects on what is being observed).
I don't think RTD appreciates Science Fiction at all, he's more of a 'Family Drama' guy, whereas I think Moffat is a little more clued up, judging from his stories so far. You just have to look at the terrible ending of The Last of the Time Lords with it's RTD cliche 'Jesus-supehero' ending, wrapped up too quickly with no proper explanation as to how the human race chanting the Doctor's name could give him his powers back...that borders on mysticism not science. I do seem to recall the Third Doctor in The Daemons mentioning that all magic (or 'magick' for you occultists) has a scientific explanation. Or maybe after the Time War that with no higher authority like the Time Lords that the universe has become a stranger place?
I think we need more hard sci-fi themes, but with a degree of silliness to keep it fun.....hey, the universe by nature is absurd anyway, and I think Doctor Who & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy have dealt with this better than anything out there! Peace.
When it comes to Doctor Who, I prefer hard science fiction with lots of technobabble, since this is originally the subject the program was supposed to deal with when it started (alongside history) as educational entertainment...the word of quantum physics is all about possibility, a lot of strange things can (& do) happen on a sub-atomic scale which opens up a lot of room for stories set in a fantasy setting to be explained (i.e; the weeping angels have a quantum lock on them, taking in to account the act of observing in quantum physics and it's effects on what is being observed).
I don't think RTD appreciates Science Fiction at all, he's more of a 'Family Drama' guy, whereas I think Moffat is a little more clued up, judging from his stories so far. You just have to look at the terrible ending of The Last of the Time Lords with it's RTD cliche 'Jesus-supehero' ending, wrapped up too quickly with no proper explanation as to how the human race chanting the Doctor's name could give him his powers back...that borders on mysticism not science. I do seem to recall the Third Doctor in The Daemons mentioning that all magic (or 'magick' for you occultists) has a scientific explanation. Or maybe after the Time War that with no higher authority like the Time Lords that the universe has become a stranger place?
I think we need more hard sci-fi themes, but with a degree of silliness to keep it fun.....hey, the universe by nature is absurd anyway, and I think Doctor Who & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy have dealt with this better than anything out there! Peace.
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Doctor Who RPG Stuff Announced!
Link: Aliens And Creatures Coming For The Doctor Who RPG...
Cubicle 7 has today revealed, via ICv2, its forthcoming boxed set supplement for the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game, which should hit shelves in December - a month after the main game.
New Doctor Who Logo Revealed!
From the BBC Website:
When the new series of Doctor Who begins in 2010 there'll be a new Doctor, a new companion and a new logo - as seen above.
Before that we have three fantastic specials to look forward to, beginning with The Waters of Mars.
Friday 25 September 2009
Matt Smith in costume!
Sorry I haven't updated in a while.....more news to come soon on the specials & series 5! Matt Smith is looking brilliant as the Eleventh Doctor! Lookin' good in Moffat's hands...glad the show is going back to it's roots with the old-style TARDIS & costume. Apparently the TARDIS interior is getting a make over too.
More to come soon folks!
Tuesday 6 January 2009
Torrent Watch: Terror Of The Zygons
Doctor Who - 080 - Tom Baker - Terror Of The Zygons [DVD (PAL) TRBLE]
+++Click here to download torrent!+++
I am uploading the whole of Doctor Who on DVD, in order. Where available these will be the official BBC DVD's. Where there isn't a DVD it'll be my own, USUALLY from a BBC VHS release. As we get further into the colour era more are encoded from AVI's. All of my DVD's are in PAL format. As soon as someone else is seeding I'll do the next one. If no one seeds them they'll die 'cos I haven't got the bandwidth to seed more than one at a time. At roughly one a week this is going to take a couple of years!
This is encoded from AVI's (I think!).
(I have added the letters TRBLE to the end of the torrent name - from now on that should make it easier to search for my torrents)
+++Click here to download torrent!+++
I am uploading the whole of Doctor Who on DVD, in order. Where available these will be the official BBC DVD's. Where there isn't a DVD it'll be my own, USUALLY from a BBC VHS release. As we get further into the colour era more are encoded from AVI's. All of my DVD's are in PAL format. As soon as someone else is seeding I'll do the next one. If no one seeds them they'll die 'cos I haven't got the bandwidth to seed more than one at a time. At roughly one a week this is going to take a couple of years!
This is encoded from AVI's (I think!).
(I have added the letters TRBLE to the end of the torrent name - from now on that should make it easier to search for my torrents)
Sunday 4 January 2009
Re: The Eleventh Doctor's Costume
Doctor Who Forum - Re: The Eleventh Doctor's Costume
Originally Posted by Mr Chimpey
Fairly plain. More like the Ninth Doctor than the Tenth.
Whilst I have no problems with the casting & think Matt Smith will make an excellent Doctor (similar to Peter Davison) I think that he needs a less plain costume to make him seem older & fit into the role more - maybe a Jackson Lake/9th Doctor-style costume, which I think would suit him. We can't keep having Doctors in leather jackets, there's nothing original about it anymore - what next, hoodies & joggers? Bear in mind this is a 900 year old from an alien world, maybe even an alien costume would suffice......how about a Draconian robe anyone?
Originally Posted by Mr Chimpey
Fairly plain. More like the Ninth Doctor than the Tenth.
Whilst I have no problems with the casting & think Matt Smith will make an excellent Doctor (similar to Peter Davison) I think that he needs a less plain costume to make him seem older & fit into the role more - maybe a Jackson Lake/9th Doctor-style costume, which I think would suit him. We can't keep having Doctors in leather jackets, there's nothing original about it anymore - what next, hoodies & joggers? Bear in mind this is a 900 year old from an alien world, maybe even an alien costume would suffice......how about a Draconian robe anyone?
And we all thought Peter Davison was young!!!
MATT Smith has been announced as the new star of Doctor Who.
At 26, the History Boys actor is the youngest star ever to be cast in the role.
He takes over from David Tennant in 2010 when he will become the 11th Doctor.
He said: "I've got this wonderful journey in front of me where I've got these six months to build this Time Lord - and that's such an exciting prospect.”
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