Series 11 News & Spoilers

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Yes, it is too bad.

Bad spelling and grammar is a pet peeve but I'm also guilty of it. It's a struggle to restrain myself from correcting people when they use "it's" instead of "its", for example. There must be a protocol for doing this without offending people - but if there is, I haven't discovered it. What really gets my goat is when people correct my British spelling for American spelling.

Gosh. Imagine if one of those massive Crystal pillars cracks and falls on the passengers! Or if the doc regenerates and blows up another console room, then crack splat! During mid regen..horrible!
That just looks like a deathtrap! Keep the TARDIS away from bangs and weapons. Cause those pillars look dangerous. Now that I've had a chance to think the design thru. Kinda scary to be in the center there.

If you hide under the console, would you burn yourself on those steam pipes or whatever they are?

 

[Nightowl1701]

Gosh. Imagine if one of those massive Crystal pillars cracks and falls on the passengers! Or if the doc regenerates and blows up another console room, then crack splat! During mid regen..horrible!

That just looks like a deathtrap! Keep the TARDIS away from bangs and weapons. Cause those pillars look dangerous. Now that I've had a chance to think the design thru. Kinda scary to be in the center there.

Maybe that's the idea. "If you want to make it through in one piece next time, don't you DARE regenerate in this room again! Take it outside!"

 

[Professor Zoom]

Yes, it is too bad.

SNAP!!

I’m always outraged by my inability to get that right. Sigh.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

SNAP!!

I’m always outraged by my inability to get that right. Sigh.

I wasn't sure if you were serious or kidding. Ridiculous English language.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I wasn't sure if you were serious or kidding. Ridiculous English language.

I suspected I was wrong and knew it would be ironic if I was. I rolled the dice.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I suspected I was wrong and knew it would be ironic if I was. I rolled the dice.

Did you really need more than one die?

 

[Professor Zoom]

Did you really need more than one die?

They were both 10 sided, too

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Neil Gaiman wants to write an episode for Jodie Whittaker.

"If you examine my DNA and you go in deep enough, with a good enough microscope, you're gonna see a TARDIS, with a little light blinking on the top!" Gaiman said.

"So the idea of writing for Jodie, or for her successor, whoever she / he / they happen to be, is... yeah, it's Doctor Who! You can't say no."
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Plus, it turns out Gaiman wanted to write an episode for Peter Capaldi and was in discussions with Moffat about doing one, but scheduling didn't work out because of Gaiman's work on Good Omens.

"The Doctor's Wife" remains one of my favorite episodes of modern-day Doctor Who and "Nightmare in Silver" is quite good (I enjoyed it a lot more the second time around). I love all things Gaiman, so this clearly needs to happen. The more Gaimain writes for Doctor Who, the better off the universe will be.

 

[Tom]

It hasn’t been 2000 years since Attack of the Cybermen. The Doctor fixed the chameleon circuit then, but either it failed again or he decided to keep the Police Box look.

I think it is still faulty since Donna mentions to the Doctor how to fix it in 'Journeys End'.

 

[Captain Crow]

It hasn’t been 2000 years since Attack of the Cybermen. The Doctor fixed the chameleon circuit then, but either it failed again or he decided to keep the Police Box look.

I think it is still faulty since Donna mentions to the Doctor how to fix it in 'Journeys End'.

It's always been faulty. Six's "fix" in "Attack of the Cybermen" unjams the TARDIS's exterior form but it incorrectly picks new forms that make it stick out like a sore thumb rather than blending in. There actually was a scene in the very next story "Vengeance on Varos" but it got cut (It's in the DVD extras for that story) that explained why the TARDIS was a Police Box again. The scene had Peri making a few snide remarks about the TARDIS's lack of being able to blend in with the Doctor more or less saying that she'd relocked the exterior. So at this point it's a Police Box by choice. Eight and possibly one of the 2005-onwards Doctors (Eccleston maybe?) actually make a comment about liking it as a Police Box.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

As long as its no Nightmare in Silver, I'm in. Its too bad he didn't write for Capaldi, he'd be perfect for that Doctor.

 

[ClayinCA]

God, he'd have been so great to write for Capaldi. Maybe if they ever get him to do another Doctor Who novella one day, he can do his Capaldi story idea...?

 

[Professor Zoom]

Gaiman writes the 60th. He gets to write them all!

 

[The Nth Doctor]

While I'm bummed out he didn't get the chance to write for Capaldi, I rather have him work on Good Omens, which from all indications looks like it's going to be amazing. Besides, he finally got the chance to work with David Tennant.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I wonder if those Kryptonian styled "pillars" will be illuminated?

Oh, I seem to have missed stuff while on holiday in the 15th Century...

Very Fortress of Solitude...

 

[Qonundrum]

It's always been faulty. Six's "fix" in "Attack of the Cybermen" unjams the TARDIS's exterior form but it incorrectly picks new forms that make it stick out like a sore thumb rather than blending in. There actually was a scene in the very next story "Vengeance on Varos" but it got cut (It's in the DVD extras for that story) that explained why the TARDIS was a Police Box again. The scene had Peri making a few snide remarks about the TARDIS's lack of being able to blend in with the Doctor more or less saying that she'd relocked the exterior. So at this point it's a Police Box by choice. Eight and possibly one of the 2005-onwards Doctors (Eccleston maybe?) actually make a comment about liking it as a Police Box.

Eccleston had. I think it was "Boom Town" when he mentioned it all...

Wish the Varos scenes weren't cut, I vaguely recall the original scene being better than what was re-filmed. Time for a rewatch...

As long as its no Nightmare in Silver, I'm in. Its too bad he didn't write for Capaldi, he'd be perfect for that Doctor.

Wasn't fond of "Nightmare in Silver" (far better than "Closing Time", but what isn't...) And "Doctor's Wife" has aged poorly, in spots. Nothing "Sexy" about that or how the show went from the Doctor stealing the craft to explore the unexplored to a sentient machine having sexual attraction to its eventual occupant, or was it the other way around, or both... Embarrassing either which way, the story's apparently big intellectual moment is suggesting it could be both... Especially as the story otherwise HAD a lot going for it, including multiple control rooms, other TARDISes, the anthropomorphizing of the TARDIS as a person - complete with bickering between it and the Doctor that was and still remains quite engaging... the overly long cube thing was far more annoying than any AOL email announcement as well... and, yes, the most audiences can infer from the story is that the Corsair probably has two dozen STDs and burned through regeneration cycles faster than the Master as a result. And yet the same story is brilliant and should be a hallmark. But they have less than 3 hours so let's all sit and watch 'em bicker and fritter away the time as if they were married and there's no divorce option. All the makings for an all-time great are right there. (Hint: No, they're not but nowadays audiences want that dddddrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaammmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaa.)

Nitpicking aside, getting rid of the crass attempts at humor and he would have hit a home run for the Capaldi era that wouldn't have gone rusty so quickly.

 

[David cgc]

It's always been faulty. Six's "fix" in "Attack of the Cybermen" unjams the TARDIS's exterior form but it incorrectly picks new forms that make it stick out like a sore thumb rather than blending in. There actually was a scene in the very next story "Vengeance on Varos" but it got cut (It's in the DVD extras for that story) that explained why the TARDIS was a Police Box again. The scene had Peri making a few snide remarks about the TARDIS's lack of being able to blend in with the Doctor more or less saying that she'd relocked the exterior. So at this point it's a Police Box by choice. Eight and possibly one of the 2005-onwards Doctors (Eccleston maybe?) actually make a comment about liking it as a Police Box.

There's also the minisode from the season 5 DVDs where the Doctor explains to Amy the circuit is completely functional, it just always decides that a police box is the most inconspicuous possible shape to assume.

 

[Captain Crow]

Eccleston had. I think it was "Boom Town" when he mentioned it all...

I thought it was Eccleston in "Boom Town".

I haven't seen series 1 in a while so I wasn't sure if my muddled brain was misremembering.

There's also the minisode from the season 5 DVDs where the Doctor explains to Amy the circuit is completely functional, it just always decides that a police box is the most inconspicuous possible shape to assume.

The minisode is actually restating that the circuit is faulty. In it the Doctor gleefully technobabbles the landing scan for the outer shell, then dejectedly states "And then it disguises itself as a Police Telephone Box from 1963". Amy asks why and the Doctor tells her it's a fault.

I'd hazard a guess that the minisode was meant mainly for newer audience members at the time who were unaware of why the TARDIS was a Police Box. I wouldn't be surprised if we get a similar reminder for newer audience members in the upcoming series.

 

[David cgc]

The minisode is actually restating that the circuit is faulty. In it the Doctor gleefully technobabbles the landing scan for the outer shell, then dejectedly states "And then it disguises itself as a Police Telephone Box from 1963". Amy asks why and the Doctor tells her it's a fault.

I'm drawing a subtle distinction between "broken" and "stuck." If my computer always types "e" no matter what key I hit, it's broken. If it just shows "e" on the screen and doesn't respond to any keypresses, it's stuck. I appreciate it for walking right up to fanwanking a reason why the TARDIS isn't always the same police box.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I'm drawing a subtle distinction between "broken" and "stuck." If my computer always types "e" no matter what key I hit, it's broken. If it just shows "e" on the screen and doesn't respond to any keypresses, it's stuck. I appreciate it for walking right up to fanwanking a reason why the TARDIS isn't always the same police box.

Day Of The Doctor and Twice Upon A Time clearly showed different looking and sized TARDII next to each other.