The Dr Who thread

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:22 pm 0

Fuck off. Fuck Off. Fucking fuck the fuck off. Fucking bastards. Cunts. Fuck off.

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:25 pm 0

Davison was your proper Doctor Who of course.

The acting was better, the assistants cuter, and the stories more real and exciting.

Or, I could be remembering that incorrectly, and in fact it was complete shit. I did see a Tom Baker episode repeated on some cable channel once, and OMG, it was rubbish.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:31 pm 0

Gah, gits.

I do agree about McCoy - towards the end he was a great Doctor.

Purple Grapefruit · Post by **Purple Grapefruit** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:33 pm 0

Jedburgh wrote:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Cunts.

That's completely irresponsible of the BBC.

Don't they know how easy it is to make a
letter bomb nowadays!

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:33 pm 0

Mind you it could be worse. This is what happens when you fuck about with the time slot

1 CORONATION STREET (MON 1933) - 10.53 - ITV1
2 CORONATION STREET (MON 2030) - 10.29 - ITV1
3 CORONATION STREET (SUN 1929) - 9.81 - ITV1
4 CORONATION STREET (WED 1930) - 9.73 - ITV1
5 CORONATION STREET (FRI 1934) - 9.42 - ITV1
6 EASTENDERS (MON 2000) - 8.96 - BBC1
7 KINGDOM (SUN 2102) - 8.55 - ITV1
8 EMMERDALE (MON 1902) - 8.08 - ITV1
9 THE ROYAL (SUN 2000) - 8.08 - ITV1
10 NEW TRICKS (MON 2100) - 7.95 - BBC1
11 EASTENDERS (TUE 1929) - 7.77 - BBC1
12 EASTENDERS (FRI 1959) - 7.71 - BBC1
13 EMMERDALE (WED 1858) - 7.42 - ITV1
14 EASTENDERS (THU 1929) - 7.41 - BBC1
15 EMMERDALE (TUE 1902) - 7.32 - ITV1
16 EMMERDALE (THU 1902) - 7.15 - ITV1
17 EMMERDALE (FRI 1903) - 6.85 - ITV1
18 DOCTOR WHO (SAT 1836) - 6.69 - BBC1
19 CASUALTY (SAT 2034) - 6.57 - BBC1
20 EMMERDALE (SUN 1901) - 6.43 - ITV1

That's the final ratings for Daleks in Manhattan. The context though is that it was still the top show on Saturday.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:34 pm 0

Some Sarah Jane news from Outpost Gallifrey

The Sarah-Jane.tv blog are reporting that Daniel Anthony has been confirmed as a new regular in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

The actor will play Clyde, a 14 year old who attends Maria and Luke's school. He replaces the character of Kelsey, who has been dropped from the series following her solo appearence in the pilot episode Invasion of the Bane. The new character is introduced in the first adventure of the forthcoming series.

seibu · Post by **seibu** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:36 pm 0

I'm just watching Paradise Towers again on YouTube. It's all on there if you fancy a look.

It's pretty hard to watch in places, definitely. Mel is incredibly, erm, well, bad really, let's face it. In fact almost all the performances are horribly stagey. McCoy, I have to admit, despite being good sometimes is also rubbish in a few spots. Richard Briars is good. There's the beginnings of something pretty cool in the concept, but the execution is lacking, no doubt.

But then...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO5Hl9GqRfM

Col · Post by **Col** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:38 pm 0

The BBC value a shitty talent show and the fucking Eurovision over Doctor Who? Cunts! And they'll wonder why audience figures will be down this season.

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:38 pm 0

McCoy was probably my favourite twentieth century Doctor. His first season was marred by an undefined character, JNT's garish colours and Bonnie Langford but in his next two seasons I think that his portrayal of a cosmic manipulator was near perfect (aside from his tendency to spit as a substitute for portraying anger).

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:54 pm 0

The Virgin New Adventure novels took the 7th Doctor in the direction he was going to go if the show hadn't been cancelled (And then some) so that by itself makes the 7th one of my faves

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:07 pm 0

And, of course, Ben was involved in creating that direction (as well as writing the first story of McCoy's first good season).

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:11 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Oh for fucks sake. It was an episode I was really looking forward to.

EX-TERM-I-NATE the bastards!

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed May 02, 2007 11:29 pm 0

Can't go blaming Eurovision though really given that:
a) they always show it.
b) they've know the date and time for months now.

Post by **Snakey** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:37 am 0

HGFB wrote:Mind you it could be worse. This is what happens when you fuck about with the time slot

Of course that could also just be because it was a bit shit

benedictw wrote:Just watched the first Veronica Mars episode - and that seemed to be very long compared with any random 'new' doctor who episodes. The Who episodes seem to be very 'short' in perceived time. Any ideas why?

Possibly because the first episode of Veronica Mars was pretty damn dull. The show is OK but it does take a bloody long time to get interesting.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:37 am 0

Jedburgh wrote:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Cunts.

Well that is the first rule of TV sci-fi isn't it? Sci-fi must be cancelled for any mainstream audience shit, whether it be a special episode of a soap, the Euro vision, the finals of "<anything> with the Stars" or something sports related (preferably football, but even synchronized swimming will do). No matter how high the ratings are. Notice that a reality show that probably only draws in 3 million viewers does get shown, whilst Dr. Who with more than double the viewing rate is postponed.

The second rule of TV sci-fi is that they must constantly change the scheduling and show each episode at a different time and preferably also change the viewing day often. The first has already happened, the second is bound to happen.

The third rule of TV sci-fi is that they will use dropped viewing figures because of application of the first two rules as an excuse to cancel the show.

Expect the fourth Doctor Who series to be the last.

Sci-fi just isn't normal, it often requires too much thinking and the TV bosses just don't understand it. The average person in the street doesn't like it (or if he does he SHOULDN'T like it) so that's why it has to go. It is also too expensive to produce and it doesn't neatly fit into a demographic category which advertisers like. That has been a fact of life for decades. It explains why shows like Firefly are cancelled when shite like Friends went on for 10 years.