50 Years of Doctor Who

[BossMark]

Going to watch last nights episode a bit later when I sober up

[STEED]

BBC3 19:10pm

Coffee beans for BossMark..raw coffee beans that is. Spoon them down and your be on cloud nine.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

Yes he is, all ex-police officers are..jim is the high duke of the freemason order of the secret curry.

BossMark is the freemason Knight of the big strong pint and STEED is the grand freemason wizard of the secret order of the fish & chips.

[Sailor Steve]

Didn't get to see the episode itself, but I did manage to watch An Adventure In Space And Time. Beautiful show. Made me laugh. Made me cry.

[Cybermat47]

Did anyone else see the 50th Anniversary Special at the movies?

Because I saw it at the movies.

In 3D.

The 3D was pretty useless, but it was still awesome seeing the **** *** on the big screen!

[Sailor Steve]

I was not tempted to spend money to see what I'll see for free soon enough. Spoilers? They don't bother me a bit. By the third time I've seen it I'll know what's coming anyway. I still watch every episode from every season at least once every two years, and have done so (at least the ones I had at the time) since 1984.

[Sailor Steve]

I just saw The Day of The Doctor, and I must admit it was brilliant! Pretty much everything a fan could ask for. My only complaint is that like everybody else I had always thought that Paul McGann turned directly into Christopher Ecclestone, and I would love to have seen McGann in the special, even though I love John Hurt. Still, they gave us The Night of The Doctor, so we got to see #8 one more time.

Good story, good filming, good acting, good effects and a couple of great easter eggs. I'm satisfied.

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I just saw The Day of The Doctor, and I must admit it was brilliant! Pretty much everything a fan could ask for. My only complaint is that like everybody else I had always thought that Paul McGann turned directly into Christopher Ecclestone, and I would love to have seen McGann in the special, even though I love John Hurt. Still, they gave us The Night of The Doctor, so we got to see #8 one more time.

Good story, good filming, good acting, good effects and a couple of great easter eggs. I'm satisfied.

Yes, the canon history of the Doctor was rewritten a bit!
I have a comic book, The Forgotten, with the 10th Doctor, action pass soon after the end of his 3rd season. He begins to lose the memories of his past incarnations and each story showed is with one of the Doctors.
The 8th story is during the Time War and he his going for a device to end the war. And even if the comic book is not canon, I and possible several others always thought that the Doctor who fight on the war was the 8th!

I do not know if they thought of Ecclestone for this (and also thing a great homage to The Three Doctors) but since he always cut himself of anything to do with Doctor Who, Moffat may had a great idea and did something quite good with it!

Spoilers:

not to mention the several Time Children, the battles (the weapons, the beams that could be like the stasers [prevented the regeneration] and the lack of time capsules/ships/battleships against the Dales fleets)!

[Cybermat47]

An Adventure in Time and Space made me cry

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

I have a comic book, The Forgotten, with the 10th Doctor...

You mean the 11th?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

An Adventure in Time and Space made me cry

I'll tell you what made me laugh though: The security guard who wanted to see Sidney Newman's pass? That was William Russell - original companion Ian Chesterton.

And you have to admit, Hartnell's flubbed line in the Edge of Destruction scene was just about the funniest thing I've ever seen in Doctor Who.

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You mean the 11th?

Don't get wise on me Steve, but if you want that kind of courtliness, yes, the old 10th, new 11th! But in my defence, at the time of the book, Tennant was the 10th!

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I'll tell you what made me laugh though: The security guard who wanted to see Sidney Newman's pass? That was William Russell - original companion Ian Chesterton.
And you have to admit, Hartnell's flubbed line in the Edge of Destruction scene was just about the funniest thing I've ever seen in Doctor Who.

About the Hartnell lines, I once read that, do to his forgetfulness of the lines, they did have the text on holders, suspend above the set, the reason (or one of ) that he normally was looking up when acting. But the special they didn't show that.
I love how he was a precision person, that he need to know what the buttons/switchs do and use always the same for the same action. "The kids would know!" and how he activated the TARDIS, after the new production team come up!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

Don't get wise on me Steve, but if you want that kind of courtliness, yes, the old 10th, new 11th! But in my defence, at the time of the book, Tennant was the 10th!

I'm just glad you got the joke. I was half afraid you'd be thinking "What in the world is he talking about?"

and how he activated the TARDIS, after the new production team come up!

I loved those bits too. One of the running bits I liked was the presentation of the actors to the press each year. It also annoyed me a bit when they did the one for Season 4, with Hartnell, Anneke Wills and Michael Craze. The actor portraying Craze towers over the other two, when in fact he was famously quite short. Watch any of those episodes and you'll see that the top of Ben's head is about on a level with Polly's eyes.

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I'm just glad you got the joke. I was half afraid you'd be thinking "What in the world is he talking about?"


I loved those bits too. One of the running bits I liked was the presentation of the actors to the press each year. It also annoyed me a bit when they did the one for Season 4, with Hartnell, Anneke Wills and Michael Craze. The actor portraying Craze towers over the other two, when in fact he was famously quite short. Watch any of those episodes and you'll see that the top of Ben's head is about on a level with Polly's eyes.

Of course I got the joke, but for a few time, people will still refer to Ecclestone, Tennant and Smith as the 9th, 10 and 11th!

Well, I only notice the mini skirt, legs and face of the actress, not the size of the male actor...!

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It also annoyed me a bit when they did the one for Season 4, with Hartnell, Anneke Wills and Michael Craze. The actor portraying Craze towers over the other two, when in fact he was famously quite short. Watch any of those episodes and you'll see that the top of Ben's head is about on a level with Polly's eyes.

My reaction to that bit was: 'No no no no no no no no!'

Later, I realised that he looked like the XO from [I]Das Boot[/I.