The Dr Who thread

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:01 am 0

Like the Daleks last year it would appear that the big Doctor Who spoiler is well and truely out of the bag and that Russell Davies is a big, gay tease

Don't click if you don't want spoilers for episodes 12 and 13

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001 ... 29,00.html

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:04 am 0

So we've got to wait until the end of the series for a decent character to turn up?

Bah and, indeed, humbug...I was looking forward to a nice, long, story arc with [him|her|it] through most of the series

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:06 am 0

There is a story arc running through series 3. It involves the word Saxon and has been mentioned in the series previously.

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:18 am 0

HGFB wrote:There is a story arc running through series 3. It involves the word Saxon and has been mentioned in the series previously.

Hang on, are you talking about a proper story arc here or just a word that keep popping up like in the last two series?

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:35 am 0

I don't know. I haven't seen it yet and they're not letting many details out. About the only thing I do know is this

Mr Saxon is Prime Minister

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:35 am 0

Ollie wrote:Hang on, are you talking about a proper story arc here or just a word that keep popping up like in the last two series?

I do hope not, I know there's the continual argument that "the show's for kids" but is it really asking too much for storys that take more than one episode to tell?

To be honest, I blame the original Who series' for my love of 'proper' serials with cliff-hangers and really wanting to see the next episode. I can't understand why shows in the 90s seemed to insist on each episode being self-contained. Props have to go to Lost for proving to TV execs that serials still work, shame the show's shit, mind. It's great to see BSG and Heroes doing the same and actually managing to tell an engaging story, too. The only thing that immediately springs to my mind that the BBC have managed recently is Waking The Dead and Murphy's Law, two of my favourite TV shows of recent years.

skybear*42* · Post by skybear*42* » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:45 pm 0

Link http://www.collectormania.com for thier next event at Milton Keynes.

Includes Peter Davidson, and a 'Monster actor' from Dr Who and Tochwood, as well as Nyssa and one of the lesser actors from Torchwood.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:18 pm 0

If Season3's "plot arc" is just another word-of-the-season, I'm leaving.

I do hope not, I know there's the continual argument that "the show's for kids" but is it really asking too much for storys that take more than one episode to tell?

Not at all.
Heck, the Xmen cartoons from the early 90's had more ongoing plots then the recent DrWho.

Rule 1: never underestimate kids.

Props have to go to Lost for proving to TV execs that serials still work,

24 had more an impact then Lost for this.
[/deja vu]

Thinking about it, seriels seem to be standard now in the US, while they are still a rarity amongst UK productions.
Tis a pitty indeed.

I been watching a lot of Prison Break, and I absolutely LOVE the dramatic cliffhangers they seem to have every other eppisode. Not a dud resolution yet, either. (or a predictable one either).

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:45 pm 0

There's a new trailer on the Doctor Who website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/

Looks fantastic

grue · Post by **grue** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:48 pm 0

HGFB wrote:There's a new trailer on the Doctor Who website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/

Looks fantastic

Indeed. It looks like they rised the budget too.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:09 pm 0

BBC4 are showing episode 1 of The Web of Fear this Sunday. Sadly the other 5 episode are missing from the archives but it's well worth watching. Yeti in the London Underground. Suck on that Primeval.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cul ... 1658.shtml

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:16 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:I do hope not, I know there's the continual argument that "the show's for kids" but is it really asking too much for storys that take more than one episode to tell?

But that's what was wrong with the last series - only about three of the episodes, including the only really good one, stood on their own. The rest were too often a confused mess of two-parters full of blah and Billie Piper and self-referential stuff, and weak for it. Not enough trying to tell a proper, imaginitive story efficiently.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:40 pm 0

HGFB wrote:There's a new trailer on the Doctor Who website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/

Looks fantastic

I can't wait.

anon76235 · Post by **anon76235** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:08 pm 0

i wonder if doctor who wipes out the entire dalek empire by picking his nose

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:38 pm 0

I've uploaded an mpeg2 version of the new trailer.

http://flub.scmgames.net/series3trailer1.mpg