Something for the dads edition
/who/- Doctor Who General
Damn, was gearing up for a NEVER DYING edition earlier but it wouldn't let me post a thread
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I was trying to do a Beyond the Grave earlier, but in these times we need the tits.
So... the latest episode...
People seem to be worshipping that episode, but I don't know why.
the Anon Babblegallifrey/gallifrey base usuals were worshipping the opener too, that's just what they do
What is it with soilennials and meta/"self aware" writing?
tfw the trailer for the Well and the fucking deaf spastic retard is speaking
To the faggot from last week that said she was gonna be non-verbal. I want an apology and I want it now.
Russel's pantheon shit? 5/10
Pajeeta armpits? 10/10
I just didn't really expect them to completely forsake Series 14/Season 1/whatever you want to call it. Aside from Robot Revolution being better than Space Babies, I wouldn't really say that this new series/season is an improvement on the first one.
So tomorrow's the litmus test for the season leaks, right?
Last week pretty much confirmed it, right? The only question is if there's any false info thrown in there like how funnily enough the Rani was an intentionally false leak with Series 8.
Lux was shit. I sincerely hope you all agree.
Yeah, the leaks are on track currently. With the Midnight twist for tomorrow's episode basically seemingly guaranteed to happen based on advertising.
Although there's now a rumour about Russel having a Tales of the Tardis episode for Mark of the Rani with McCoy and Langford going to air at some point.
Which might just be further evidence for Mel apparently dying in the finale according to the main set of leaks
Haven't watched it. Aint' gonna watch it.
When is Doctor Who going to be good again?
Do we have to wait for another 15 wilderness years?
It's going to be pretty lame to see the Midnight Entity throw people around like I saw in that BBC ad.
As for Mel, she died in Season 1's finale as well. If she dies in Season 2's finale she'll probably be brought back.
Lol Big Finish really did turn a Weevil off Torchwood into a bat
Is the Jodie big finish stuff any good? I'm not expecting Colin Baker/McGann tier transfer to audio quality, but does she actually feel like she's written like the Doctor yet?
It's not out yet. They just unveiled the cover.
I don't trust any leaks posted here since you faggots were spamming about the Colin Baker forklift shit, then with Awkwafina being in the recent season
Real leak incoming: Russel Tovey will not be playing the Master in The War Between.
He'll be playing the War Chief, who is heavily implied to be the Master (as RTD has already teased in the War Games colorization) but it won't be explicitly confirmed by the end of S1.
Mrs Flood will unzip and reveal herself to be a Pale Blue Slitheen.
How many hours until it airs? I need to know when to pause my Beetles album.
9.5 bongs.
Bad, but much better than what we've had over the past few years.
9 hours, 30 minutes until it's on Disney+/BBC iplayer.
Then airs on TV in the UK in the evening
Devil's Chord > Lux.
It was bad but not as dull as it could have been.
Was expecting CalArts Idiot's Lantern.
i made a shitepost thread about 10 years ago about the whole 'Dr Who comes into OUR world where he's a character in a TV show' thing
i know the Land of Fiction has been around since forever but i can't believe they did it
Mrs Flood is the God of Stories or something, fine, hopefully we can just get past this then either the programme gets cancelled or we just go to simple, self-contained time travel stories with a variety of writers (bonus: no special magic prophecy people)
found it
archive.4plebs.org
mad ho w i wrote this drunk and Rustle T Davies can write it sober? (talk to your GP if you suspect alcoholism)
They teased her as a regular unit character then replaced her with a midge on a segway.
Why did "meta" become so trendy lately with neckbeards who open their mouths really wide at stuff? Is it because of Deadpool?
Been a thing long before the Deadpool films came out
Red Dwarf did it 16 years ago
the lad showed up in Would I Lie To You? as well so it's clear they want him to be a 'thing' in the BBC circuit same way QI had all the old Footlights/John Lloyd set.
i have some JNT-level-dark theories about RTD and his penchant for young males. i know there's some stereotyping going on there but i'm not going to be surprised. (he'd be the first to complain about Queer as Folk nowadays.)
He was also one of the hosts for Children in Need last year
god, Back to Earth was utter wank. they even went into Coronation Street and met the 'real' Craig Charles, right?
this programme did something similar but it was a comedy special.
in the director commentary they did a lil wink wink about Mrs Flood because "is that the first fourth wall break? ha ha" and they can always refer back to Hartnell wishing us a Merry Christmas. but that's because it was a teleplay: same way there's text on-screen, or the opening narration to The Deadly Assassin, or a set wobbles.
making it part of the narrative is just grating. postmodernism is what you do when you can't write any more.
I said lately. There's a ton of >current year media that treats the audience like it's part of the show.
i know there's some stereotyping going on there but i'm not going to be surprised.
I mean he pretty transparently admits lusting over young male actors in the Writer's Tale
It doesn't come from nowhere.
It's the next step from quips that halfway break the 3rd wall. But you could see things getting meta in the few years before Deadpool as well.
i must email
some young male
to alleviate the stress on me
that book was in EVERY library i swear to god. i was interested in it for the writing stuff, but the format of actual gay emails i can't be fucked with. 18+, gay, do whatever. hell i'd even say 16+ but that might get me put on a list nowadays (AIDS isn't what it once was, consenting age males can just fuck, it's fine).
just becomes a bit worrying when you're the mentor to a teenager and go on about how fabulous he is, then suddenly he has these great jobs within the BBC. some famous cases of that, recently...
Missy was great but her prancing about talking about being "Dr Who" and how he "dropped the 'Who'" was a bit much.
especially since Moffat already made "Doctor Who" the magic passphrase in the previous storyline.
Perish in a fluorine related chemical accident.
Let's be a bit fair here, the young male actor was Russell Tovey, who was in his mid 20s. It's not like he was going gaga over someone like the segway kid.
Wanna roundhouse kick that faggot across a football pitch like you wouldn't believe
but is it about age, or is it about power?
every NuWho series 1 male companion has been a sex pest. only the guy who played Adam was actually a nonce, i think.
i dislike feeling scorn for an actual child, but some parent/teacher told him he's 'proper funny' and 'should try acting' and they're the ones to blame.
however he 'ends up', i hope that person (rightfully) feels ashamed for their role in it.
Do remember that the whole premise of Queer of Folk is an adult gay man grooming a 15 year old schoolboy.
at some point that was edgy and progressive, in a Channel 4 kind of way. yeah they're gay and into gay nightlife, they're also variously cunts (they outright say so about Stuart).
keep in mind as well, this was still during all that Section 28 stuff. age of consent was still 18 for homosexuals at the time.
(IRL 15-year-olds go to clubs and fuck because they did and they probably still do. unless all these clickbait articles about Gen Z are to be believed.)
I find it funny that Russel picks Moffats best episode from his era, instead of the one people actually agree is Moffats best episode.
imagine explaining the plot of that particular episode to him though
i'm glad the Osgoods also accepted the mine episode was absolute wank. imagine if we got a sequel to Midnight or something, haha.
Yeah, it's a shame they didn't say The Curse of Fatal Death
Best compromise he could do. If RTD could have gotten away with it, he would have had them say Midnight.
were these actors or are they young'uns who won a competition or something? (one of them is disabled.)
is she actually disabled or just overweight
Heaven Sent is the episode for more hardcore fans, but I imagine the public still views Blink as the best.
Why did the one wearing a Meep shirt say "RIPDoctorWho"
Anyone using that hashtag absolutely would not have enjoyed those specials to the point of buying actual merchandise for it
one of them should have made an impassioned defence of Love & Monsters and how it's actually a fun, silly romp until the Abzorbaloff appears in its final form.
one day i hope the 'lite' episode is just 'A Day in the Life of a UNIT Soldier' or something.
i mean within the programme, the programme itself is still good. didn't they film a lot of these back-to-back anyway? the 'internet leak' was likely just a guess, as these things go (not some 'RTD leaked it!' masterplan).
there's probably a toy of the new Sonic Screwdriver and some people have actually bought it.
that Harley Quinn cartoon did something similar where some stereotypical neckbeards paused the cartoon to complain about how 'cucked' it is. T-shirts of '#ReleaseTheSnyderCut' and 'The Last Jedi Isn't Canon'.
writers: do not do this.
I had assumed that they were some Doctor Who youtubers, but no, they're real actors.
The leak was claiming that it was going to be MrTardis and Tharries
I guess they got that there would be a wheelchair fan right at least
He had to pick Blink because even Russel knows that hardcore MoffCHADs have moved on from the show after the Chibnall era. So now he's trying really hard to remind his remaining RTDCels of their childhood
The BBC are really pushing him as the next Warwick, huh
There should be no "next Warwick", only midge genocide.
No it didn't, it just said "fans". I'm guessing people thought it would be them because they're such blatant shills that it wouldn't be far-fetched, but there was never any confirmation.
It's probably more that he's a young face unlike everyone else. If they want him to be the next Warwick he'll have to branch out into big franchises like Warwick did.
hopefully the next time they film at Durdle Door, they give him a little 'push' there.
ratings are almost half of Season 26
Is it safe to assume this shit will finally be canceled?
I can't see how it'll not be. I wouldn't be surprised if Episode 5 dips below 1 million.
i mean with streaming and so on, what are 'ratings'?
not just being awkwardly British here but we always went by 'viewing figures' or something (for some reason when i watched The Simpsons i assumed 'ratings' meant audiences literally rated a programme out of 10, or something)
it's on iPlayer before it's on the telly. we only see how many people watch it on the telly. can you even watch it on normal telly in the US? does it have adverts? or is it just on Disney+? those numbers don't get released, from what i understand.
makes you wish there was a licence-funded public service with a mission to educate, inform, and entertain...
She looked a lot better in the catalog thumbnail.
can you even watch it on normal telly in the US?
No. That was actually a sore point with fans because the Disney deal meant it stopped airing on BBC America. The same thing happened in Australia which is especially shitty because ABC had been airing the show since Hartnell.
yeah that's absolute bullshit.
even over here, it's strange it just 'drops' on iPlayer at what, the start of the day? i'm surprised i've just watched a whole episode of Doctor Who and then there's nothing online about it, barely anything on any forums, no reviews in newspapers. like it was accidentally leaked and only i noticed, but i guess that's just how it works now.
surely the whole point of linear, broadcast television should be it's like an 'event' and you watch it there first, THEN it's on streaming? that's the 'premiere'. i guess there are time zone differences, but hell, do what they did with the Lost finale and simulcast it. obsessive Americans will watch it earlier in the day, or just wait.