Doctor Who Series 8

[8den]

which was the one with the rape spray. That was dark

That was Owen Harper, but he had that weird slightly melted creepy data rapey face.

 

[Dr_Herbz]

Imagine Danny Pink and the gay Welsh guy whos' name I can't remember

Yeah, imagine!

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Owen Harper? Ugh.

Not him the one in the suit

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

which was the one with the rape spray. That was dark

Is that like toning mist?

 

[8115]

I'm sure they used to film on location more. Now it all feels like it's shot in a studio which isn't very scary. I like a good location, like the hotel with the scarey rooms and the minotaur. Disappointing this series.

 

[zoooo]

Imagine Danny Pink and the gay Welsh guy whos' name I can't remember

Lovely Ianto!
Good call.

I think it hit peak geek homoerotiscism when Captain Jack kissed Spike out of buffy

That was genuinely one of my favourite moments of television ever.

 

[8den]

I'm sure they used to film on location more. Now it all feels like it's shot in a studio which isn't very scary. I like a good location, like the hotel with the scarey rooms and the minotaur. Disappointing this series.

Um the scary hotel episode aka the God Complex? Shot in a studio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Complex#Filming_and_costumes

 

[8115]

Um the scary hotel episode aka the God Complex? Shot in a studio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Complex#Filming_and_costumes

Ok, well, it was a big studio.

 

[DotCommunist]

Fuck, he really does look like him there.

just came across this- sean dressed as his old man for halloween!

 

[spanglechick]

just came across this- sean dressed as his old man for halloween!

he's too young as yet, isn't he?

 

[DotCommunist]

he's too young as yet, isn't he?

yeah, he's got his dads face but not the years as when his was doc 3 (he has mentioned tin interview that he would never play the Doctor because nobody can do Doctor Who better than his father.Debatable!)

 

[ruffneck23]

I posted that yesterday but just the link grrrrr

 

[DotCommunist]

I posted that yesterday but just the link grrrrr

You can have my likes then *magnanimous*

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

he's too young as yet, isn't he?

yeah, he's got his dads face but not the years as when his was doc 3 (he has mentioned tin interview that he would never play the Doctor because nobody can do Doctor Who better than his father.Debatable!)

Jon was 51 when he first played The Doctor. Sean is 50. *speculates about better nutrition/lack of war*

 

[ruffneck23]

You can have my likes then *magnanimous*

I'll take those three

 

[Vintage Paw]

Tangent:

Ianto's actor - Gareth David-Lloyd - is voicing a main elven character called Solas in BioWare's soon-to-be-released Dragon Age: Inquisition. Gwen's actor - Eve Myles - voiced a main elven character called Merrill in their Dragon Age II. Suzie's actor - Indira Varma - is voicing a main human character called Vivienne in Inquisition. If Merrill gets a cameo in the game, I expect the three of them to meet up at some point and talk about this enigmatic pirate they happen to know called Captain Jack.

Ferdi from This Life is playing the fabulous gay mage called Dorian in Inquisition. No word yet on whether he'll get his cock out.

 

[belboid]

I thought the dead little kid bit was a misstep though - didn't sit well with the arch attitude of almost everyone else, particularly Addison, to the 'afterlife'.

It was necessary to push Danny into pressing the delete button, I assume.

Very good episode, yet more cracking lines (they [volcanoes] are just leaky mountains - might well have been my favourite), a solid, well developed plot, Missy being someone only kaka tim (on here) had guessed, despite the fact that, on hindsight,it's obvious - which is just what the best twists are - and enough spookiness to unsettle the children. And of course, that scene with the cybermen strolling down the steps of St Paul's.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I thought the dead little kid bit was a misstep though - didn't sit well with the arch attitude of almost everyone else, particularly Addison, to the 'afterlife'.

The whole afterlife thing is just a scam to get people to let go of their memories and emotions so they can be turned into cybermen. The kid was clearly sent to Danny to make him want to forget his life. The kid doesn't even say anything, he's probably just a projection plucked out of Danny's memories rather than a real live, er, dead child.

 

[belboid]

Interesting fact from the Grauniad, considering the discussions of Moffat's problems with women:

Matt Smith’s Doctor never spoke a word written by a woman and Capaldi hasn’t yet.


According to the wiki list, women have only written, or co-written, 8.5 stories in the last fiftyone years. And one of those is dubious. Only one woman has written more than one story on her own.

 

[zoooo]

I wonder if they have a better ratio of female directors? Probably not. But I know this week's was directed by a woman.

 

[belboid]

I wonder if they have a better ratio of female directors? Probably not. But I know this week's was directed by a woman.

the first in four years, apparently (unless there was another one earlier in the season). Blink was tho. As were another dozen or so stories, by 9 women.

 

[ginger_syn]

really enjoyed the episode, best first half of a finale so far.

 

[danny la rouge]

just came across this- sean dressed as his old man for halloween!

Why is he carrying a tiny leather sofa in his right hand?

 

[Chz]

I wonder if they have a better ratio of female directors? Probably not. But I know this week's was directed by a woman.

The Beeb's not too bad on women in senior management roles (Who has Verity Lambert, after all!), but not so much on the creative side. I expect there's still a lot of old boys' club nonsense there.

 

[danny la rouge]

The Beeb's not too bad on women in senior management roles (Who has Verity Lambert, after all!), but not so much on the creative side. I expect there's still a lot of old boys' club nonsense there.

She left Who in 1965, and has been dead for 7 years.

As to your second point, she went to Roedean School and the Sorbonne.

 

[SpookyFrank]

really enjoyed the episode, best first half of a finale so far.

Certainly the least plot holes of any first half of a finale so far...

 

[belboid]

Under Moffat, then - no writers, and only two directors (one of whom got two episodes) have been female

 

[SpookyFrank]

That's a pretty disastrous statistic isn't it? Especially considering some of the incompetent male writers they have been able to find work for.

 

[Awesome Wells]

So The Master appeared in New Who during the 10th Doctor's adventures and turned the Dr into a cross between Tweety Pie and that pervy old man from Family Guy. Consequently Martha had to walk the earth like Kwai Chang Kane and tell everyone to send the Dr happy thoughts to heal him. Then, when the Master got shot he willed himself not to regenerate. To resolve the mess the Master had made of the Earth he travelled back in time and everything was ok.

Yet Danny Pink gets hit by a car and the Dr can't travel back and say 'look left, look right, look left again'?

I would have preferred a corrupt Romana, that would have been ballsy.

 

[belboid]

So The Master appeared in New Who during the 10th Doctor's adventures and turned the Dr into a cross between Tweety Pie and that pervy old man from Family Guy. Consequently Martha had to walk the earth like Kwai Chang Kane and tell everyone to send the Dr happy thoughts to heal him. Then, when the Master got shot he willed himself not to regenerate. To resolve the mess the Master had made of the Earth he travelled back in time and everything was ok.

Yet Danny Pink gets hit by a car and the Dr can't travel back and say 'look left, look right, look left again'?

I would have preferred a corrupt Romana, that would have been ballsy.

Yawn