New Series of Dr Who

[Shippou-Sensei]

i always wondered how much of the books made it into the new series ... i kinda stopped reading 8th doctor books as i felt less and less into them.... pluss around 2000 is when i really ramped up my anime intake

 

[elevendayempire]

i'm hoping that someone's got an even more geeky collection than that

I don't have a complete collection of Targets (only got a few, tbh), but I've got complete runs of the Virgin New and Missing Adventures, the Bernice NAs (none of the Big Finish stuff though), and the BBC Eighth Doctor/Past Doctor stories. Oh, and the Telos novellas. And all the new series spin-off books, though most of them aren't on a par with the best of the Virgin/BBC novels.

 

[strung out]

i think we've got a few of the bbc novels, though not all of them. my bro gets a load of freebies but tbh, i'm not even sure he bothers keeping (or even reading) most of them anymore

 

[elevendayempire]

i think we've got a few of the bbc novels, though not all of them. my bro gets a load of freebies but tbh, i'm not even sure he bothers keeping (or even reading) most of them anymore

I keep plugging away at them in the hope they'll get good. Lance Parkin's one was excellent, as was Gareth Roberts'. And Justin Richards is pretty good when he has the bit between his teeth (The Burning, for instance) - it's such a shame that the stuff he's done for the Ninth and Tenth Doctors isn't on a par with his better work.

 

[elevendayempire]

Anyway, this thread is rapidly plunging into nerdvana. Let's talk about the telly series, shall we?

 

[danny la rouge]

Anyway, this thread is rapidly plunging into nerdvana. Let's talk about the telly series, shall we?

Please!

(Lol at 'nerdvana', btw).

 

[kyser_soze]

So, we've missed about 5 eps cos of holidays. Worth watching, or is it all gone shit?

 

[TrippyLondoner]

So, we've missed about 5 eps cos of holidays. Worth watching, or is it all gone shit?

Worth it.

 

[danny la rouge]

So, we've missed about 5 eps cos of holidays. Worth watching, or is it all gone shit?

Not shit at all. Watch them.

 

[krtek a houby]

So, we've missed about 5 eps cos of holidays. Worth watching, or is it all gone shit?

It's improved, for sure. It's always worth watching anyway. If even only to pick holes (or cracks) in it

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

my shelf of nerddom

 

[Captain Hurrah]

My nerdy interests are slightly different, but could post up a similar pic.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

that is just my DW shelf..... i have many shelves of nerddom

in fact untill recently these shelves were full of DW VHS
http://ithinkihavethatmanga.com/forum/images/upload/Shippy.DISPLAYAREA.jpg

but now all my DW videos are consigned to a box and my models reign supreme

 

[Kaka Tim]

The new silurians look shit - the original ones look far more scary with their wierd nose things and third eye. The new one just look 'human with reptile skin'.

and the sea devils were even more disurtbing - the bit in the 1972 story where they emerge from the sea is burned into my memory - an absolute classic who sequence.


Quite enjoyed the episode all the same. The moffat who is more scary and far less stupid than RTD.

Agree about matt smith being great as well.

And is it me or does the camera shamelessly linger all over karen gillians bod? Or is that just me?

 

[CNT36]

my shelf of nerddom

Please put them in the right order and take another photo.

 

[elevendayempire]

Please put them in the right order and take another photo.

Publication or narrative order?

One of my fave Who books is Lance Parkin's The Infinity Doctors - the Doctor in it could be a younger version of the Hartnell Doctor, or an older version of the McGann Doctor, and the author won't tell anyone which it's meant to be. Which drives the fans mental 'cause they don't know where to put it on their shelves.

 

[strung out]

we've got all our missing adventures books in publication order. no arguing about that

 

[elevendayempire]

we've got all our missing adventures books in publication order. no arguing about that

When I was a teenager, I tried putting mine in narrative order like a proper mental geek, then gave up on that. Now they're piled up in boxes in the parents' attic.

 

[CNT36]

Publication or narrative order?

One of my fave Who books is Lance Parkin's The Infinity Doctors - the Doctor in it could be a younger version of the Hartnell Doctor, or an older version of the McGann Doctor, and the author won't tell anyone which it's meant to be. Which drives the fans mental 'cause they don't know where to put it on their shelves.

Publication. I'm a reasonable kind of guy.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Please put them in the right order and take another photo.

no... because then all the gaps would be more obvious


actually they were all in publication order untill they got debunked to a shelf of lesser importance due to my ever expanding manga collection

 

[DotCommunist]

Cold Blood tonight. Will re-watch hungry earth later to get reacquainted with the plot details as I am invariably slightly refreshed by 6-7 on a saturday.

Eyes peeled for cracks people.

 

[Santino]

Eyes peeled for cracks people.

Is Amy wearing a thong in this one?

 

[strung out]

just to reiterate, this episode is utterly fantastic (imo) so if you can, make sure you watch it!

cracking end to the episode

 

[Leafster]

just to reiterate, this episode is utterly fantastic (imo) so if you can, make sure you watch it!

cracking end to the episode

Is that a clue?

 

[DotCommunist]

if strung out doesn't reply it is The Silence catching him up

 

[AverageJoe]

Very positive review here.

Spoilers in it btw.....


http://www.beehivecity.com/television/preview-doctor-who-cold-blood17400909/

 

[strung out]

Is that a clue?

it wasn't intended as a clue, but i did realise that's how it might look after i wrote it. take it however you like

 

[strung out]

and yeah, massive spoilers in that link up there, so don't read it if you don't want to know what happens!

 

[DotCommunist]

I have to say I like the titles this series. Brit sci fi writers seem to be able to reign in the US tendency to apologise for sci fi writing to themselves by giving episodes mad poncy titles often referencing Classical mythology etc.

 

[strung out]

my favourite ever sci-fi title for an episode was ds9's In the Pale Moonlight, which is a line from the joker in the original batman film - "have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"