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Post by J.A. Prentice on Oct 23, 2017 6:03:38 GMT
Amy? Surely since RTD left, London and SE England companions have been the exception rather than the norm? Only Bill, really for one year out of seven. The other six years have been Scottish or Northern accents for the main companion. See now I'm going to be inconsistent because Bill is easily my favourite companion of the entire new series! Plus Nardole, of course, but he's - different (and still not sure how!) Yes, you're right, I am thinking of RTD's era because I drifted off during the Matt Smith years (mea culpa) and couldn't work out what was going on in those complex arcs when I dropped in occasionally - although I liked his Doctor when I saw him. So Amy/Rory mostly passed me by. For me new Who (pre-Capaldi) is Rose / Martha / Donna and all the 'family background' they brought with them, which I disliked, though I expect it was good for ratings and I liked Donna. And seemingly every other story set in modern London. And later, Danny Pink, who seriously got on my nerves with the unconvincing 'class friction' with the Doctor ('I don't like soldiers' 'I don't like toffs'). The Doctor is beyond all that. Which has left me with a strong aversion to any return to that kind of London-centric show. Probably they won't, but the last season was so magical I'm worried the easy route might be taken again. ('The Pope in my bedroom!', 'The house tried to eat me!' - that's the sort of Earth background I like in 'Doctor Who' ) The London-centricity of the RTD era was one of my biggest problems with it. I'm thrilled with the racial/gender diversity so far, but I hope to see diversity of backgrounds as well. Not everyone should be from present day London. I'd like to see at least one from a different time period as well. I'm also not surprised to see three companions based on Chibnall's track record of ensemble casts and the "team" he introduced in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. I've not been a fan of some of Chibnall's past work, but all his decisions so far seem to be positive signs.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 7:25:26 GMT
Might be good, might be awful, I'm not really bothered anymore I'm not on-board with the direction Chibnall, I'm sorry i can't share the love of a female Doctor & now we have Bradley Walsh , i loved Pearl Mackie as Bill in fact she possibly my favourite companion of the NuWho era & wanted her to continue as i felt her character had more to do, seems like overcrowding in the Tardis may affect character build up & overshadow Jodies debut but who knows? I'm a analogue signal in a digital age & that's how i roll whether you like it or not. Thank God for Big Finish.
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Post by shutupbanks on Oct 23, 2017 9:59:07 GMT
They're still longer than what we've had before.
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Post by mark687 on Oct 23, 2017 10:20:57 GMT
They're still longer than what we've had before. Not really the range has been actually ben 44-48 minutes for a standred post 2005 EP going by my DVR and DVD Runtimes so only just.
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Post by number13 on Oct 23, 2017 10:48:07 GMT
One thing I do love about Walsh is that people saying Capaldi was "too old".....Bradley as the companion is 2 years older than Capadli was when cast as The Doctor. I'm all in favour of some age and experience in the TARDIS. Peter Capaldi was the perfect age - older than me. The Doctor's earthly persona should always be older than me! If we can't have that, then at least one companion should always be older than me. I have the illusion of my vanished youth to hang on to... (There was a bad moment a few years ago when I realised that I was older than the Doctor and the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition and... The current personnel situation is therefore perfect and I will enjoy it while it lasts and feel younger again... )
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 10:49:57 GMT
Yeah the whole 'less episodes but they'll be an hour long, so you'll end up with just as much Who overall' spiel was clearly just spin. Which is a shame, as one of the things that the show could actively benefit from is more room to breathe as far as episode running times go. Ah well...
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Oct 23, 2017 10:57:54 GMT
I’m really chuffed about Bradley and Mandip, as I love them both so to me there couldn’t have been better choices. Though I’m not entirely sure on Tosin at this point as it could be one companion too many and he didn’t really wow me in Hollyoaks, so I’ve not got much to say about him until the series actually airs. I honestly didn't remember him in Hollyoaks lol
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Post by mark687 on Oct 23, 2017 11:13:25 GMT
I’m really chuffed about Bradley and Mandip, as I love them both so to me there couldn’t have been better choices. Though I’m not entirely sure on Tosin at this point as it could be one companion too many and he didn’t really wow me in Hollyoaks, so I’ve not got much to say about him until the series actually airs. I honestly didn't remember him in Hollyoaks lol He was the Teen in the Maddie, Tilly. George, Adam, Esther Group that never had any storylines, Maddie left him to die when a van they were all travelling in ploughed into a marquee at a Wedding reception, flipped over and exploded, karma got Maddie though cause 1 of the van doors ended up crushing her!
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Oct 23, 2017 11:19:50 GMT
I honestly didn't remember him in Hollyoaks lol He was the Teen in the Maddie, Tilly. George, Adam, Esther Group that never had any storylines, Maddie left him to die when a van they were all travelling in ploughed into a marquee at a Wedding reception, flipped over and exploded, karma got Maddie though cause 1 of the van doors ended up crushing her!
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I remember now. He asked her for help but she left him.
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Post by bobod on Oct 23, 2017 12:14:02 GMT
They're still longer than what we've had before. Not really the range has been actually ben 44-48 minutes for a standred post 2005 EP going by my DVR and DVD Runtimes so only just.
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Maybe it'll be the same here - aiming for a specific length but with some leeway for varying a bit longer if still in flexible weekend scheduling.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 12:40:09 GMT
It really is magical, Doctor Who. We can look at that pic - four new, fresh faces ready to take us into a bold dawn and yet our next episode is a completely different cast, completely different premise, completely different crew...no show reinvents itself like Doctor Who. Other shows can change up the cast a bit or change locales maybe but no show just completely - pardon the pun - regenerates like ours. It's a terribly exciting time.
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Post by shutupbanks on Oct 23, 2017 13:34:27 GMT
They're still longer than what we've had before. Not really the range has been actually ben 44-48 minutes for a standred post 2005 EP going by my DVR and DVD Runtimes so only just.
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Last I checked, 50 was bigger than 44-48, but ok, point taken: with 10 eps we're getting less Who than last year.
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Post by mark687 on Oct 23, 2017 13:37:40 GMT
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Post by number13 on Oct 23, 2017 13:41:43 GMT
It really is magical, Doctor Who. We can look at that pic - four new, fresh faces ready to take us into a bold dawn and yet our next episode is a completely different cast, completely different premise, completely different crew...no show reinvents itself like Doctor Who. Other shows can change up the cast a bit or change locales maybe but no show just completely - pardon the pun - regenerates like ours. It's a terribly exciting time. And change not only between incarnations but continually - the three Capaldi seasons, the four distinct styles of the Tom Baker years for example. Change is so constant a feature of the show that perhaps we only properly wake up to it when it's a really obvious 'reset button' event like 'Spearhead from Space', 'The Ark in Space', 'The Leisure Hive', 'Rose', 'The Eleventh Hour' and again now. If 'Doctor Who' didn't have that ability to change easily, we probably wouldn't be discussing the show now and we certainly wouldn't be waiting for the next season to start in 2018, 55 years after the first - magical indeed. But I would argue that the premise has stayed exactly the same since the original team developed it: the Doctor travels in Space and Time in the TARDIS with human(oid) companions, meets good people in need of help, defeats monsters and evil beings and works for freedom and peace (with remarkable levels of violence and destruction, let's admit it - he is The Oncoming Storm!) I think that was equally true on Skaro in 1963 and the Colony Ship in 2017 and it is the eternal spirit of 'Doctor Who'.
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Post by escalus5 on Oct 23, 2017 14:12:51 GMT
I had a feeling they would pack the TARDIS with male companions as a way of softening the blow for fans who would have a more difficult time accepting Whitaker as the Doctor.
I'm onboard with Whitaker's casting, and I'm onboard with this group, but maybe I'm just glad we won't have another season of Capaldi flailing around confused (trying to make junk material work) with a woman not even half his age.
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Post by mark687 on Oct 23, 2017 14:27:39 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Oct 23, 2017 14:38:40 GMT
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Post by jasonward on Oct 23, 2017 15:24:26 GMT
I'm always baffled as to what it is that people like that actually like about the series. It's not as if it wasn't utterly liberal and left-wing before now. I have often wondered what racists or homophobes see in the show myself. It happens in Trek fandom too - Roddenberry aimed for diversity in 1966 yet in 2017 I read "there's hardly any straight white men on Discovery...." - what do fans like these get out of Trek and Who? I think they close their minds to things they don't like, and just get with the adventure, they see their hero as enduring and adapting to the world/universe around them, but of course not actually liking or being part of that, but enduring like real men do when up against it. But if it's not that, if it's not that they see their hero as separate from the universe around them... then, yes, I am totally lost as to what they see in it.
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Post by aztec on Oct 23, 2017 16:25:08 GMT
I thought: 'oh, I wonder what the reaction on the DW facebook page is like' forgetting the horror that is that comment section. Don't go there people, don't. I don't think I'm brave enough to read the reaction, the comments there are terrible on a average day anyway, most of the 'fans' (who are often grown adults) who post there seem to spend all their time arguing about who was better Tennant, Tennant or Tennant, blaming Moffat for everything possible short of Global Warming/WW2, threatening each other over who loves a children's show more, posting pictures of their Who themed socks, asking ''When is this on TV?'' to every Big Finish announcement (despite the posts clearly stating it's an audio drama and linking to BF's website...) or moaning that the 'series isn't as good as it used to be' when they only watched it for the 10/Rose romance nonsense
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Post by ljwilson on Oct 23, 2017 16:51:21 GMT
I thought: 'oh, I wonder what the reaction on the DW facebook page is like' forgetting the horror that is that comment section. Don't go there people, don't. I don't think I'm brave enough to read the reaction, the comments there are terrible on a average day anyway, most of the 'fans' (who are often grown adults) who post there seem to spend all their time arguing about who was better Tennant, Tennant or Tennant, blaming Moffat for everything possible short of Global Warming/WW2, threatening each other over who loves a children's show more, posting pictures of their Who themed socks, asking ''When is this on TV?'' to every Big Finish announcement (despite the posts clearly stating it's an audio drama and linking to BF's website...) or moaning that the 'series isn't as good as it used to be' when they only watched it for the 10/Rose romance nonsense Best advice ever, just go to Facebook aand click DELETE ACCOUNT. You won't miss it one bit.
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