The Doctor Who Thread

[ZeppoAndFriends]

Um...no, it's the latest episode written by Mark Gatiss (The Unquiet Dead, The Idiot's Lantern, Victory of the Daleks). Silence in the Library was written by current show-runner Steven Moffat.

 

[newsmanfan]

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Thanks! I really need to get hold of the Matt ones. I feel far behind again.

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[ZeppoAndFriends]

I just realized that I forgot a question (word) that I meant to put in in the first post:

What is your LEAST favorite Doctor, companion, etcetra, etcetra, etcetra...?​

 

[newsmanfan]

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Hmm...

Least fave Doc: Colin Baker. Just awful. The actor AND the character!
Least fave companion: Adric. Dying is the only thing he did worth a darn.
Least fave monster: the original Sontarans were pretty boring, and during the Pertwee years there were a number of really fake-looking critters involved which just ruined the suspension of disbelief for me...but I don't know that there was any one I disliked so intensely as to give them this title!
Least fave eps...would have to give serious thought (and scroll through a Wiki, it's been decades since I've seen the old ones!).
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[ZeppoAndFriends]

I've been debating this for a while, so I figure now is as good a time as any.

So, I've been in and out of a bout of writer's block on a novel I'm writing and as a sort of palate cleanser, I've been plunking out a screenplay for a Doctor Who movie (weird technique, I know) and it made me wonder.

Which direction would you go if you were put in charge of writing a Doctor Who movie? Pure Sci-Fi? Nightmare inducing? Historical? What would your plot be? What monsters would you use? Would you create a new Doctor and, if so, what would he be like?

 

[newsmanfan]

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I'd probably stick with whomever the current Doc was, and try for continuity with existing storylines if needed. As to theme...I have a soft spot for the really creepy ones. Probably something paranoia-inducing for the characters which even the Doctor gets creeped out by, though off the top of my head I have no idea what that might be. I'd love to drag back in past one-shot characters, such as Jake (from the alternate Cyber-earth) or the cat-pilot from New(16?)York. I always loved the idea on "Max Headroom" that they were our world, but "15 minutes into the future" and might do something along those lines for setting: a recognizable earth, but a little more sci-fi...and darker. Monsters? No idea. Something new...although the Swarm was pretty darned cool (from "Silence in the Library").

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[newsmanfan]

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It's been a while, I see...

Have finally caught up with most of Matt's first season now. (I will watch "The Pandorica Opens" tonight!) I was hesitant to get into him because I really, really loved Tennant...and the very first ep changed my mind. What an adorkable character! And Amy reminds me a LOT of Jo and Sarah Jane...just so wonderfully perkily indomitable.

Now I have to budget some cash for the next series...

VERY curious about River. No, no, don't tell me anything!
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[newsmanfan]

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A friend sent me this. I want it on a shirt now:

 

[AlittleMayhem]

What, what?! Why haven't I seen this thread before?!

 

[newsmanfan]

What, what?! Why haven't I seen this thread before?!

Now now...keep calm and keep running!
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