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Tom Bakers post on the new year (covers some bits about the 50th anniversary special)

http://www.tom-baker.co.uk/pages/conten ... PageID=159

A touch late to the party, but whilst I enjoyed the Christmas Special whilst watching it, I couldn't help but get the feeling that the part of my brain that simply *wants* to enjoy it because it's Doctor Who was engaged fully the whole time. I wasn't so keen when I thought back on it. The overriding plot with the Doctor protecting that village for hundreds of years was total bobbins, I hated how easily they resolved the regeneration limit and I detested the fact that little bit of story-telling was even felt necessary. I still don't really understand why Ten was considered to have had two regenerations - I mean I get the whole "shot by Dalek, used severed arm to regenerate into his existing form" thing (which was shit when it happened, but I digress), but it was the sort of thing that could've been ignored, leaving Capaldi as the Doctor's final form. It would've made far more sense with 'that' scene in the 50th anniversary. It would've meant that scene involved every incarnation of the Doctor (until the regeneration limit was truly resolved), which would've been far more poignant instead of how now it's been shown to have simply have been an arbitrary number of incarnations present.

People seem really down on Clara and I don't really get it, but then I never understood the dislike for Martha either. We never saw any of Amy Pond's family and she never had much back story beyond being "the girl who waited" and yet people seemed to love her.

I think overall I prefer the Moffat era to the RTD one, but I'm getting pretty tired of him now too. I re-watched The Pandorica Opens the other night and it struck me as being a decent way to wind up that series, but the series that followed it, with the Silence and the Impossible Astronaut and all that shit confuses me even now. He's really gone off the boil.

Another thing I thought about recently was how much I used to detest the constant gay/bisexual references in RTD-era Who. I appreciate that's possibly a rather controversial thing to say, but every single episode seemed to make a massive deal of at least one gay/bi couple in it. It even grated on some LGBT friends of mine to be fair. But now it's gone totally the other way in the Moffat-era, and I don't feel to happy about that either. Every major female character in it seems to want to sex up the Doctor.

I'm hoping that this will be alleviated slightly by having an older Doctor.

Filming until August - I guess that means no new series until the autumn at the very earliest then.

In other news, I've been rewatching the whole of NuWho recently. Series 4 with Catherine Tate is pretty much solid gold all the way through. Good job really, as apart from about three episodes, series 3 was largely terrible.

Found The Deadly Assassin and Visitation on DVD in a local charity should for a couple of quid each, either worth watching?

I have fond memories of The Deadly Assassin , but dont remember anything about Visitation and looking it up on Wikipedia reminds me that its not one i liked very much however I've not seen either of them in a long time.

Watched The Deadly Assassin earlier, and very enjoyable it was too. The 'wordiness' of the first two parts in particular and earnest performances from the supporting cast were a pleasant change from modem DW, I must say.

You should get a job where I used to work. You'll be able to use that daily.

September's the target, I have that on the best possible authority. Someone's got another series which needs a lot of international promotion in the interim, or they'd have been underway already.

<3 Stroppy Tegan.

One hundred portrayals of The Doctor

http://imgur.com/a/ScydI#0

Aye, The Deadly Assassin is cracking stuff. And funnily enough my suspense was so entirely suspended that the climactic final act bit seemed full of danger and excitement, despite it being all just camera tilting and rumbly sound effects and not-actually-convincing wrestling about.

But the dialogue is the jewell in the crown. Lots of fun banter and happily not the point-scoring kind which tends to overwhelm nu-Who from time to time. Plus the 'dream sequences' are ace.

Thinking of picking up Pyramids of Mars cheap. Any good?

Pyramids of Mars is excellent.

I remember really liking the end , and the baddies in it but its been a very long time since i've seen it

The Twelfth Doctor.

DM's ?

Is he trying to do a spiderman pose?

Malc

*edit* and of course its the new page so i'll include this here for comparison

Those DMs are way too shiny.

I'd watch it if he danced around singing this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZy7vEWeTFY

I cannae listen to this without hearing Get Lucky now :/

Oh, hello. Who's this?





Took these during my lunchbreak, after a tip-off from Lord Rixondale who saw them prepping on the way to work. There were two takes. The first I was on the other side of the Tardis. I saw them leave the scene on the far side, nipped across by barging politely through crowd during the short gap between takes and placed myself in the exact right spot which was inexplicably far less crowded. Taken with a really wide angle fixed lens, so no zooming for me!

Rejigged my website, btw.

That second one is a fantastic shot. Caught excellent expressions.

Nice one Pete!

Wow! I thought they were BBC promo shots at first glance! Good work Pete.

Great stuff. How far did you have to zoom in?

Shame on you for not reading it properly

Glad they're sticking with the tartan skirt, too

Lots of pictures of them both around the internet this morning but none look as good as yours Pete



From the other side probably a few seconds before yours ?

Most of them seem to just been camphone pics

Good point. I normally just read the articles in gentlemen's magazines...

JBR's looking a bit old.

Got to say, love these. Dead jealous you got to see them filming

Excellent pics.

Heh, third filming I've seen in Cardiff. You wouldn't believe how tedious it is in practice. Bring a book to it, like I do, that's my advice.

I felt good when I asked people around me if I was in anyone's way, and a cute girl thanked me and said there weren't many gentlemen around nowadays who'd think of asking. Take that papparazzi ethos!

Zaphod, yeah, that's a split second before and from someone a little to the side of me. There was ComicBookGuy with a DSLR next to me, which amused me. I'm glad I got a nice expression and shot (even if Clara was a little out of depth-of-field, oooh, that eats me up, still, kinda cute) - I honestly couldn't have posted a fudged or far-away pic. Not ego, its just that...

... okay, it's ego.

Wander round the Tardis

https://www.nerdist.com/2013/08/explore ... ogle-maps/

A very interesting tweet from Mr McGann

https://twitter.com/pauljmcgann/status/ ... 9969644544

Maybe he means he's visited the Dr Who Experience?

An 8th Doctor miniseries would be amazing.

There are two rumors which are going around at the moment - both in spoilers below and i'd be happy with either

Random 'special guest' spoiler which makes me wonder since they dont normally care much on who the guests are do they ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26566092

I thought you meant Keeley Hazell for a minute, and was mightily confused.

Another cast picture from twitter

I really hope he's good. I don't want him to be the David Moyes of Doctor Who

Gazchap Doctor Who

Keeley's character sounds like a dreadful pantomime villain. Looks like one too. OH NOES SHES A BANKER! ALL TEH EVOLS!

I suspect she'll be almost exactly the same as Dervla Kirwan's pantomime villain character in The Next Doctor.

Or any female villain in recent Who.

Frances Barber, Sarah Lancashire etc...

Indeed.