Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 I like Bonnie Langford, and I like Mel. 4 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said: Interesting, as seems to often be cited as classic Who's most irritating one. Wha'?????!!!!!!!! One word, Sweep: Adric!!!!!! 10 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said: ...for this man of a certain age... How old are you, Sweep? Don't be shy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 46 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: How old are you, Sweep? Don't be shy. If "wanting things where they belong" means "old guy" then I've been in my 50's since my 20's. And I can't say it's getting any better now that I AM in my 50's. Star Wars movies are supposed to come out in MAY. I probably don't care when Doctor Who is on because as far as I'm concerned Doctor Who comes on at 4:30pm every weekday on PBS. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docteur Qui 1,544 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 15 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said: I get that the notion of a scheduled timeslot for a programme might seem like a terribly antiquated idea and yes, a lot of my viewing is via catch-up services these days. But for this man of a certain age there's something nicely comforting about things being where they 'belong', if you like ... especially since a lot of the UK's terrestrial TV programming on a Saturday evening now consists of gameshows and 'reality' talent shows. It's good to have a bit of sci-fi/fantasy like the Doctor in there, like a bit of a 'spanner in the works' (I didn't want to use the phrase 'disruptor', seems to be far too popular with absolute dickheads these days). Even in the streaming era, if something drops on a particular day then it becomes ritual viewing for me and many people I know. Monday nights over the past 8 months have been brilliant in our household with the stellar HBO lineup of House of the Dragon, White Lotus, The Last of Us and Succession. It became a regular thing for us to have friends over and have small viewing parties for those shows, and it's something I value quite highly. Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 11 hours ago, Tallguy said: Star Wars movies are supposed to come out in MAY. Ahem (folds arms, and taps foot, irritability) Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 12 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: I like Bonnie Langford, and I like Mel. Wha'?????!!!!!!!! One word, Sweep: Adric!!!!!! How old are you, Sweep? Don't be shy. 52. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO1711 32 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Do you think The Star Beast will continue from the end The Power Of The Doctor because some of Russel T Davies episodes have continued that way or do you think in The Star Beast it will just have a recap or both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 There's a comic strip in Doctor Who Magazine, and (for the first time in its history, its stories are usually 'separate entities') from the TV ones) back in November, the strip picked up directly (it's a Dalek story) from the end of The Power Of The Doctor and it is due to run until the issue before the anniversary specials this November ... presumably the end of it will tie in with the beginning of the specials but probably not to the extent that people who don't read the mag feel left out. So, strictly speaking ... the Fourteenth Doctor's first adventure is on the page, as opposed to the screen. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 5 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Ahem (folds arms, and taps foot, irritability) Really? May 25th 1977, May 21st 1980, May 25th 1983. And then something something 1999, 2002, 2005. This was unchanged until the coming of the JJ. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 I know that, but I was tapping my foot at yet another thread appropriation by Star fucking Wars Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said: I know that, but I was tapping my foot at yet another thread appropriation by Star fucking Wars Oh good. Well, sorry about that. Bow ties are cool. Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. One day I shall come back. All that. Carry on. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 And while we're about it - Allons-y! Would you like a jelly baby? Geronimo! Brave heart, Tegan. Oh my giddy aunt! Fantastic! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Sweeping Strings said: And while we're about it - Allons-y! Would you like a jelly baby? Geronimo! Brave heart, Tegan. Oh my giddy aunt! Fantastic! Don't... don't... don't do that. Ohhhhh I'm sorry. I'm so so SO sorry. Anyway it passes the timey-wimey. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 It's the end, but the moment has been prepared for. Is this death? What happened? Change, my dear, and it seems not a moment too soon. Where am I, who am I, and who are you?! Come on, Ace, were leaving. Somewhere in the universe, the tea is getting cold. Fancy a dance, Brigadier? That's kind of you, Captain Yates...I'd rather have a pint. Jenkins? Chap with the wings, there. Five rounds rapid. Jamie, when I say run, run. Run! You're right, Jo; there is magic in the world, after all. You know what, Doctor? You were my Doctor. To days to come. All my love to long ago. Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 16 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: You know what, Doctor? You were my Doctor. To days to come. All my love to long ago. Sniffle. (Because Davison WAS my doctor.) I will always remember when the Doctor was me. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,286 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 33 minutes ago, Tallguy said: I will always remember when the Doctor was me. Matt Smith's delivery of that line plus Murray Gold's music... gets me every time. Perhaps the most beautiful and poignant regeneration. Tallguy and DarthDementous 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 29 minutes ago, Tom Guernsey said: Matt Smith's delivery of that line plus Murray Gold's music... gets me every time. Perhaps the most beautiful and poignant regeneration. Tenant and Smith's regenerations are the only ones that made me cry. (Although if you count whatever The Doctor Falls is, then Capaldi too.) Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 3 hours ago, Tallguy said: Sniffle. (Because Davison WAS my doctor.) I will always remember when the Doctor was me. Peter Davison was, is, and always shall be, my Doctor. Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 27 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Peter Davison was, is, and always shall be, my Doctor. I met him once. But I actually got to have lunch with Colin Baker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Tell us, all about it. Tell us...tell us, now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted June 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2023 17 hours ago, Tallguy said: Tenant and Smith's regenerations are the only ones that made me cry. (Although if you count whatever The Doctor Falls is, then Capaldi too.) Loved the callback to Tennant's last line in An Adventure In Space And Time, when David Bradley's William Hartnell responds to the news that the Doctor is being recast with the same words. When Smith imagines seeing Amy again ... 'Goodbye, raggedy man'. Big beardy bloke reduced to a blubbering mess, right here. Tallguy, Tom Guernsey and Naïve Old Fart 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 "Before I go, I just want to say: 'You were fantastic'...and you know what? So was I". This. Grown man; puddle of tears, instantly. Tom Guernsey and Sweeping Strings 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 15 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Tell us, all about it. Tell us...tell us, now! Um... It was at the 1985 Doctor Who TARDIS 22 in Chicago. They had a lunch and you got to have a table with one of the guests. (I don't recall it being stupidly expensive either.) I was only 16 (!!!) and had only seen a few of his episodes (at the convention, actually). Nice fellow. He was having a good time playing the Doctor and we talked about the TARDIS console and the fact that most of the buttons on the "new" (post Five Doctors) console didn't actually move. "Guests include Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Janet Fielding, Louise Jameson, Elisabeth Sladen, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton, Terry Walsh, Lalla Ward, John Nathan-Turner" So I have a photo of Jon Pertwee vandalized by Partrick Troughton. It's in a fairly well autographed copy of Doctor Who - A Celebration. That was a hell of a weekend. I actually bought a ton of Star Trek stuff at the dealer's room. I got to see Baker again briefly at an appearance in Arizona in 1987. We got the news on the same day that Baker was fired and that Troughton had died. He was very gracious to us but obviously and understandably upset about the state of events. I was dumb enough to ask him about coming back for the 30th anniversary. (Which of course, we never got to.) He said politely and firmly he didn't think he "would be in the mood". Naïve Old Fart and Tom Guernsey 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO1711 32 Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 I Don't Wanna Go Laugh Hard. Run Fast. Be Kind, Doctor, I Let You Go Tallguy and Naïve Old Fart 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 Bit of merch I treated myself to. The packaging has the Whittaker era version of the logo, so I don't think it was meant as a 60th anniversary thing ... but then the back of it kinda does make it count as same, I think. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 Great, Sweep, but...er what is it? Yes, I did hide behind the freakin' sofa. I love the shot in "The Power Of Three", where The Doctor hides behind the sofa. Very meta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 It's a mug, ya mug! A heat-sensitive (the Daleks appear after the addition of hot water) one in the shape of an old telly, to be precise. Pieter Boelen and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 Ah, yes! I see it, now. DAY OF THE DALEKS Daleks. Nice. Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO1711 32 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 What do you think of Murray Gold doing a different opening theme for each episode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 1 hour ago, TBO1711 said: What do you think of Murray Gold doing a different opening theme for each episode? Wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO1711 32 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 i think it will the same but different version for each episode probably Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 Saw on-set pics of Gatwa and Bonnie Langford on a scooter, and he's in yet another outfit. I'm wondering how much of the 'signature' outfit we're actually going to see. Am also wondering if this Doctor is more of a cool 'fashion plate' type, will there be no kinda 'geeky goofball' side to him? A shame, if so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,200 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 5 hours ago, TBO1711 said: What do you think of Murray Gold doing a different opening theme for each episode? I wouldn't mind that, but it might away from his time to write proper underscore and lead to more tracking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 Of course Gold will do a new arrangement of the theme (maybe even a new one for the anniversary specials and then another for Gatwa's first series) but a different one each episode seems unlikely. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 The arrangement that references Peter Howell, the one for series 4...er...series 30...er...oh, fuck it; you know what I mean, is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO1711 32 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 " A while back – quite a while back – Russell hinted that he wanted “the 2006 theme tune but bigger, with more piano”. I mention this to Murray, whose eyes widen as he reaches for a pencil. “Oh, I’m glad you told me,” he says, pretending to make notes. Wait, he is making notes. “Must… rewrite… theme… That’s it, yup,” he laughs, “you’ve got it. Rumbled.” He’s teasing us, isn’t he? “What I would say is, we might be talking about more than one main theme. I don’t see why it can’t be a different one every week.’ He’s definitely teasing us." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 A different theme arrangement for every episode. AND HE WON'T RELEASE ANY OF THEM!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 Is it confirmed Gould will be back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,694 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 2 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said: I wouldn't mind that, but it might away from his time to write proper underscore and lead to more tracking. Yeah, they started doing that in Tennant's later episodes and now they have three series and a load of specials' worth of his music. There may be a temptation to reuse some of that if they're going for Tennant nostalgia. One of Smith's specials albums even released a track that's entirely tracked from series 7 because it filled a narrative hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 18 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said: Is it confirmed Gould will be back? I don't know about Gould, but Murray Gold is definitely returning Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 5 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: I don't know about Gould, but Murray Gold is definitely returning Sorry... My brain got mixed up with Morton Gould. My bad. And that's good news! Murray did some stellar work! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,200 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 45 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said: And that's good news! Murray did some stellar work! I wasn't hyperboling when I posted this: Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted June 28, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2023 Here's an arrangement that's definitely 'different', courtesy of comedian Bill Bailey. Pieter Boelen, Naïve Old Fart, DarthDementous and 4 others 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 28, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2023 Bill Bailey is a genius. English: It's him, in the night Doctor Who He travels in the TARDIS, the fantastic space phone box The inside is much bigger than the outside And that is the mystery of the Doctor Who The enemy, his name is Davros Captain of the Daleks He's half Dalek and half man — amazing! He wants to control the world Always control the world He gets up in the morning, he wants to control the world After breakfast, he wants to control the world But he never controls the world! It is not very realistic With the Daleks, the Doctor is Superior Exterminate yourself! Exterminate Yourself Again! Ah, damn it! We are lost! Uh! The doctor won, he laughs "Ha, ha, ha! I won because I am Doctor Who!" Tom Guernsey, DarthDementous and Sweeping Strings 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBO1711 32 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 Russel T Davies has said the background in this pic is this pic is a placeholder because the real background in the 60th is a spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 2 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said: Let's not forget the fantastic arrangement, and conducting, by JWfan's very own Anne Dudley. Possibly the most joyous few minutes on the entire internet. 2 hours ago, Tallguy said: Bill Bailey is a genius. English: It's him, in the night Doctor Who He travels in the TARDIS, the fantastic space phone box The inside is much bigger than the outside And that is the mystery of the Doctor Who The enemy, his name is Davros Captain of the Daleks He's half Dalek and half man — amazing! He wants to control the world Always control the world He gets up in the morning, he wants to control the world After breakfast, he wants to control the world But he never controls the world! It is not very realistic With the Daleks, the Doctor is Superior Exterminate yourself! Exterminate Yourself Again! Ah, damn it! We are lost! Uh! The doctor won, he laughs "Ha, ha, ha! I won because I am Doctor Who!" You forgot the bit about The Daleks not being able to go upstairs. 2 hours ago, Tallguy said: He's half Dalek and half man. Wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 5 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Wrong. Dude! I just posted the translation I found. Am I not wrong often enough on my own?!? Pieter Boelen and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,541 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 You're just fine, as you are, @Tallguy Actually, I meant that Davros is not half Dalek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docteur Qui 1,544 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 10 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said: Here's an arrangement that's definitely 'different', courtesy of comedian Bill Bailey. I love this routine, it's where I got my username from! Bill Bailey should've been in more Who. He was wasted in that Christmas special (the only Moffat ep I haven't rewatched, it was so bad) - I'd have loved him in a Nardole-like companion role. Tallguy and Sweeping Strings 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 43 minutes ago, Docteur Qui said: the only Moffat ep I haven't rewatched, it was so bad Wut? Which one is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tallguy 3,398 Posted June 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2023 18 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said: Wut? Which one is that? Oh! He was in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. I liked that one. The only one I never revisit is The Next Doctor. And actually I've only watched The Return of Doctor Mysterio once. I'll watch Voyage of the Damned and The Husbands of River Song as many times as you want to show me. Docteur Qui, Tom Guernsey and Pieter Boelen 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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