I have not looked at those pictures or the clip but I will say two things:
1. While I don't know what the new sonic design is, I would find it hard to like it any less than the current one. The current one has to be the least ergonomic design of any piece of hand-held equipment ever. Just looking at it makes my fingers hurt. Ten's was the best, and Eleven's got points for (initially) being of-a-piece with the TARDIS interior.
2. I will watch those clips out of spite if, as has been rumoured, they do another Comicon exclusive trailer this year (and yes, I am aware of how pathetic that sounds, but I can only be myself). I hate Comicon exclusive DW trailers with a retina-searing intensity. A new series trailer should be something for fans everywhere to enjoy at once, but instead it's reserved only for those people who can fork over for flights and accommodation and tickets, and all the other fans in the world who may not have the funds or the time can go suck eggs.
Oh, and given that Captain Grumpy is still three regenerations away for me, here's something a bit more positive: A rundown of Tom Baker's first season, in promotion of the recent blu-ray release of that year's episodes.
I have not looked at those pictures or the clip but I will say two things:
1. While I don't know what the new sonic design is, I would find it hard to like it any less than the current one. The current one has to be the least ergonomic design of any piece of hand-held equipment ever. Just looking at it makes my fingers hurt. Ten's was the best, and Eleven's got points for (initially) being of-a-piece with the TARDIS interior.
Opinions warning: I have the toy release of Twelve's second sonic and as un-ergonomic as it looks, I bloody love holding that thing. The toy made me love the prop (instead of the usual other way around - 'I love the prop, give me the toy'). Out of all the sonics I have, it's actually my favourite to hold and dick about with.
I do have a big weakness for the War Doctor's sonic, though. Something about its simplicity really appeals to me. (Bonus: On the toy War sonic, one of the sounds is actually the sound of Three's 'door handle' from Inferno.)
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I love how Hurt’s sonic is just the handle from Baker’s with the top cut off, a cap glued to the bottom, and a red led added.
I have not looked at those pictures or the clip but I will say two things:
1. While I don't know what the new sonic design is, I would find it hard to like it any less than the current one. The current one has to be the least ergonomic design of any piece of hand-held equipment ever. Just looking at it makes my fingers hurt. Ten's was the best, and Eleven's got points for (initially) being of-a-piece with the TARDIS interior.
Opinions warning: I have the toy release of Twelve's second sonic and as un-ergonomic as it looks, I bloody love holding that thing. The toy made me love the prop (instead of the usual other way around - 'I love the prop, give me the toy'). Out of all the sonics I have, it's actually my favourite to hold and dick about with.
I do have a big weakness for the War Doctor's sonic, though. Something about its simplicity really appeals to me. (Bonus: On the toy War sonic, one of the sounds is actually the sound of Three's 'door handle' from Inferno.)
yes i am a grown adult woman
I am a grown adult woman too, and have a sonic salad spork in the 11th doctor's design. I love it. :P
Oh, and given that Captain Grumpy is still three regenerations away for me...
Do you mean the War Doctor? Because Sadface McRainMeme is four regenerations away if you don't count War Doctor, and the 9th Doctor was the smiling-est modern Doctor there was. He geeked out over things constantly, and had the biggest damn smile. Three of his most notable moments also had him smiling:
1. "Everbody lives!"
2. The announcement that he's going to rescue Rose from the Daleks in the penultimate episode.
3. His regeneration
Captain Grumpy is what Eleven called the War Doctor. It was only once though, in Time of the Doctor, when he was explaining to Clara why he was (at the time) out of regenerations.
Nine just seems more compassionate and empathetic than pretty much any other Doctor
Even Ten, with his "I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." didn't come off as warm as Nine could. Nine was always completely present in a situation in a way that Ten and Eleven often came off as holding things at arms' length to me.
hey guys did you know that in the episode Robots of Death, Leela throws a robot's severed hand at another robot and that robot says "please do not throw hands at me"
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Neat. Butts tho the story went, Lie of the Land was a very cool looking episode. The "regeneration" scene was good enough to have been the real deal, IMO.
Set between The War Games and Spearhead in Space, it features a Two-and-a-Halfth Doctor right before the regeneration into Pertwee finishes. Basically the whole basis of this thing was that someone said the main guy kinda looked like a cross between Troughton and Pertwee, and then they went all-in on that idea.
Filming started in 1991 and included scenes filmed with Pertwee in 1995 (one of his last filmed appearances as the Doctor). A cut-down version was included on one of the Who DVDs a few years back, but they've actually got Episode 1 together.
Bonus: You might recognise the Devious TARDIS Console and Dalek props from their later use in The Curse of Fatal Death.
So, what can viewers expect from Whittaker’s Doctor when the show returns to BBC America this fall?
“Well, I would say that it’s hopeful and fizzing with wonder,” Whittaker said, when EW visited the set of Doctor Who in Cardiff, Wales, earlier this year. “I have absolutely shot myself in the foot for any ADR, because I get in there, and realize I speak at a hundred miles an hour. If a plane goes over I’m like, ‘Are you kidding?’ I’ve got to try and match that speech of ‘Di-didda-di-didda-di-didda’? But essentially I think the big theme is hope.”
Whittaker’s assessment of her Doctor was echoed by both showrunner Chris Chibnall and by the actress’ costar Mandip Gill, who plays Yasmin, one of the titular character’s new companions, and compared the Thirteenth Doctor to Matt Smith’s version of the part.
“She’s incredibly lively, she’s funny, she’s warm, she’s inclusive, she’s energetic,” said Chibnall. “She’s the greatest friend you’d ever want to have as your guide around the universe.”
“She has a similar energy to Matt Smith’s Doctor,” said Gill. “Very high energy. Jodie has that about her Doctor.”
Set between The War Games and Spearhead in Space, it features a Two-and-a-Halfth Doctor right before the regeneration into Pertwee finishes. Basically the whole basis of this thing was that someone said the main guy kinda looked like a cross between Troughton and Pertwee, and then they went all-in on that idea.
Filming started in 1991 and included scenes filmed with Pertwee in 1995 (one of his last filmed appearances as the Doctor). A cut-down version was included on one of the Who DVDs a few years back, but they've actually got Episode 1 together.
Bonus: You might recognise the Devious TARDIS Console and Dalek props from their later use in The Curse of Fatal Death.
Holy balls. Twenty-seven years. The Doctor has regenerated eight times since they started filming this.
27 years later, the first episode of the Doctor Who fan film Devious has actually been completed:
Set between The War Games and Spearhead in Space, it features a Two-and-a-Halfth Doctor right before the regeneration into Pertwee finishes. Basically the whole basis of this thing was that someone said the main guy kinda looked like a cross between Troughton and Pertwee, and then they went all-in on that idea.
Filming started in 1991 and included scenes filmed with Pertwee in 1995 (one of his last filmed appearances as the Doctor). A cut-down version was included on one of the Who DVDs a few years back, but they've actually got Episode 1 together.
Bonus: You might recognise the Devious TARDIS Console and Dalek props from their later use in The Curse of Fatal Death.
Holy balls. Twenty-seven years. The Doctor has regenerated eight times since they started filming this.
I've lived my whole life since they started this (just).
CBR is suggesting with an article that this week's release of Doctor Who: The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor #1 from Titan Comics may have introduced a possible antagonist (or the primary antagonist) for the 13th's first season.
Whitaker auditioned for Chibnall and the show’s executive producer Matt Strevens, reading specially-written script pages designed to see if she could handle the many different emotional sides of the eccentric Time Lord. The pair then asked the Broadchurch star to self-tape herself spouting what Whittaker describes as “sci-fi gobbledygook,” something she found surprisingly enjoyable. “I had an iPhone, wires, in a box,” she says. “I pretended to defuse something, and I loved it.”
Strevens reveals that he and Chibnall “saw a few actresses for the part,” but couldn’t stop thinking about Whittaker. “She was just so compelling,” says the EP. “In a way, it was a no-brainer. The fact that we were casting a female Doctor disappeared really quickly from our minds. We were just casting the Doctor and she felt like our Doctor.” Chibnall says that casting Whittaker “was the easiest decision I made in my whole career.”
Also, I just watched that first part of Devious. It's... okay? They seem to have put enormous amounts of effort into parts of the story that don't need to be there. We get big, very pretty, sweeping shots of a CGI mega-TARDIS (?) orbiting the Earth, but we see nothing more of its interior than two cramped console rooms and half a corridor before it gets blown up. We're also shown a flashback to a big medieval set-piece battle, but ultimately it doesn't tell us anything about what's happened to the Doctor or why he's travelling with these two guys.
It did get a bit more interesting towards the end though, and the monster design was pretty cool. I like it better than the creature from The Lazarus Experiment in season 3 anyway.
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1. While I don't know what the new sonic design is, I would find it hard to like it any less than the current one. The current one has to be the least ergonomic design of any piece of hand-held equipment ever. Just looking at it makes my fingers hurt. Ten's was the best, and Eleven's got points for (initially) being of-a-piece with the TARDIS interior.
2. I will watch those clips out of spite if, as has been rumoured, they do another Comicon exclusive trailer this year (and yes, I am aware of how pathetic that sounds, but I can only be myself). I hate Comicon exclusive DW trailers with a retina-searing intensity. A new series trailer should be something for fans everywhere to enjoy at once, but instead it's reserved only for those people who can fork over for flights and accommodation and tickets, and all the other fans in the world who may not have the funds or the time can go suck eggs.
Opinions warning: I have the toy release of Twelve's second sonic and as un-ergonomic as it looks, I bloody love holding that thing. The toy made me love the prop (instead of the usual other way around - 'I love the prop, give me the toy'). Out of all the sonics I have, it's actually my favourite to hold and dick about with.
I do have a big weakness for the War Doctor's sonic, though. Something about its simplicity really appeals to me. (Bonus: On the toy War sonic, one of the sounds is actually the sound of Three's 'door handle' from Inferno.)
I don’t think the problem is it looking dumb, the problem is it
Do you mean the War Doctor? Because Sadface McRainMeme is four regenerations away if you don't count War Doctor, and the 9th Doctor was the smiling-est modern Doctor there was. He geeked out over things constantly, and had the biggest damn smile. Three of his most notable moments also had him smiling:
2. The announcement that he's going to rescue Rose from the Daleks in the penultimate episode.
3. His regeneration
Well glue me to a whale then because he's great
Even Ten, with his "I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." didn't come off as warm as Nine could. Nine was always completely present in a situation in a way that Ten and Eleven often came off as holding things at arms' length to me.
because that definitely happens
Set between The War Games and Spearhead in Space, it features a Two-and-a-Halfth Doctor right before the regeneration into Pertwee finishes. Basically the whole basis of this thing was that someone said the main guy kinda looked like a cross between Troughton and Pertwee, and then they went all-in on that idea.
Filming started in 1991 and included scenes filmed with Pertwee in 1995 (one of his last filmed appearances as the Doctor). A cut-down version was included on one of the Who DVDs a few years back, but they've actually got Episode 1 together.
Bonus: You might recognise the Devious TARDIS Console and Dalek props from their later use in The Curse of Fatal Death.
Holy balls. Twenty-seven years. The Doctor has regenerated eight times since they started filming this.
I've lived my whole life since they started this (just).
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Also, I just watched that first part of Devious. It's... okay? They seem to have put enormous amounts of effort into parts of the story that don't need to be there. We get big, very pretty, sweeping shots of a CGI mega-TARDIS (?) orbiting the Earth, but we see nothing more of its interior than two cramped console rooms and half a corridor before it gets blown up. We're also shown a flashback to a big medieval set-piece battle, but ultimately it doesn't tell us anything about what's happened to the Doctor or why he's travelling with these two guys.
It did get a bit more interesting towards the end though, and the monster design was pretty cool. I like it better than the creature from The Lazarus Experiment in season 3 anyway.
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