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Old 24-07-2017, 01:53   #301
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Oh my. Not been excited for a Christmas episode ijn years. That looks utterly fantastic.

Bill is back and I am sure that was meant to be Captain Lethbridge-Stewart.
Maybe a push for the father of the Brigadier with some tweaks but I think that's unlikely. The uniform fits the period of the WW1 setting. The period of which Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart wasn't alive. That made me consider his father which upon digging a little revealed that back story only led to his father being a WW2 pilot but offered no other information. The captain looks in his 40's, he didnt then father a kid in the late 1920's, he's more likely to have kids at the present time. Noting the echo hint that surely leaves it at the grandfather.

I eliminated time travel via the uniform of course. Unless he dressed for the occasion before randomly appearing in the middle of a world war.
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Old 25-07-2017, 06:11   #302
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Re: Doctor Who

Bill is back then they had to get our hopes up, didn’t they

Booked another tour for the Doctor Who Experience a few days before it finally closes for good in September. Kind of feels like a very Cardiff thing, not renewing the lease on such a popular attraction that is genuinely value for money and has people visiting it from all over the world.....

If you get the chance to see it before they pull down the shutters I really recommend it :to:
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Old 25-07-2017, 18:35   #303
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I wish I could get to Cardiff to see it, but it won't be possible. too much on over next 2 months.

I was hyped to see the original console room and also Polly in the trailer.

I think this could be the best christmas episode!

Seems that when Moffat just has fun his episodes end up really good.
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Re: Doctor Who

Bradley Walsh companion rumour

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Don't take the interesting, and serious, casting of Whittaker and accompany with Bradley Walsh. That's a major red flag as to the direction of the series if they do that.
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Don't take the interesting, and serious, casting of Whittaker and accompany with Bradley Walsh. That's a major red flag as to the direction of the series if they do that.
I'd be more likely to tune in to watch him in the show than because there is a woman doctor tbh
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Re: Doctor Who

The series already raised a big red flag as far as many are concerned, this could potentially ruin it even more.

(On the other hand, Catherine Tate turned out ok, so who knows).
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Dear god no.

Don't take the interesting, and serious, casting of Whittaker and accompany with Bradley Walsh. That's a major red flag as to the direction of the series if they do that.
I think Bradley Walsh can actually be a good actor. While the thought they might have cast him because he is famous rather than a good actor (thus bringing back memories of Bonnie Langford), it’s worth remembering that when they’ve done this, it’s actually turned out well more than it hasn’t. Yes Bonnie was bad, and David Thewlis wasn’t that great, but I think most of Bonnie Langford’s stories were badly written (she is actually a good actress) and while David Thewlis’s story wasn’t badly written, it was a bit dull. David played his part well, it’s just the character was dull.

Of the other famous companions, Kylie was actually quite good (although, again, she didn’t have a great story) and Catherine Tate was brilliant, after a shaky start.

I think with good writing, Bradley Walsh could play the part well.

I’d recommend watching the new series for a few episodes. If I hadn’t have done this when Chris Ecclestone was playing the doctor, I would have not got past “Aliens Of London”
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Re: Doctor Who

Bonnie Langford's opening story was actually quite good (the "Terror of the Vervoids" segment of Trial of a Time Lord). The problem was, when they came to make season 24, Sly McCoy had been cast so late that no work had been done to establish what kind of a Doctor he would be. That had a knock on effect for the entire production, although to be fair the crew had even less to go on than usual because Mel was introduced in Terror as already being a companion. She never got an "introducing" story.

The upshot was that Mel, who was at first adventurous and enquiring (as well as a screamer) just became ... well, a screamer. A plot device there only to create peril* and give the Doctor something to do.

* Paradise Towers. She just happened to be wearing her swimmers, so she could get in the pool and then get chased by a malevolent robot crab (although in that case it was the equally useless Pex that rescued her).
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Re: Doctor Who

Paradise Towers was on the whole a decent story.

I think Bradley Walsh could make a good companion although he is pretty old.
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Paradise Towers was on the whole a decent story.

I think Bradley Walsh could make a good companion although he is pretty old.
Very few of McCoy's stories suffered from a poor original idea. Paradise Towers was a great idea. Sadly it was poorly realised.
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The budget was in tatters by the time McCoy took over and when it got to the final series you barely saw the inside of the TARDIS as the set was in a state of disrepair they couldn't use it.

I can't remember the episode but there was one late on where they managed to get the console and hung up a curtain quite close behind decorated like the walls of the console room. It looked terrible and was dimly lit to try and hide it.

The beeb were really trying to kill the show off and succeeded
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"What are you doing, Doctor?"
"Working!"
"Is that why it's so dark in here?"

Curse of Fenric, if memory serves.
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