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News RUMOR: Whittaker potentially leaving
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Wasn't Geronimo ad-libbed by Matt Smith and hated by Moffat?
I hadn't heard that?
Actually, reversing the polarity of the neutron flow was... :-)
Tom writing in his acknowledgements in the novel that Ian Marter was "a good egg" got me choked up, because I could "hear" Tom saying it with great affection and great sorrow, and I imagine that Tom was choked up writing it.
True. Said Moffat: "This is a ridiculous thing for me to say in particular, but I don't like catchphrases very much. They always happen by accident! I never put one in for Matt [Smith]. Matt just liked the word Geronimo, so [he] started shoving it into different scripts where I hadn't put it. And 'bowties are cool' was just my nervousness of him wearing a bowtie."
I imagine that Moffat did write "Geronimo" into "The Day of the Doctor," though, because I can't imagine that scene without it, and the War Doctor's, "Oh, for god's sake," response would be Moffat's own feelings on the catchphrase.
Regardless of my own feelings on his work I can't help finding myself feeling sorry for Chibnall. While there are plenty of people sad that Jodie is leaving, even among people who liked the past two series nobody seems to be too upset about his departure. And any new showrunner will want to make their own mark on the show, so even his big series-changing ideas will just drift away and be forgotten.
(On TV anyway. Big Finish will no doubt start pumping out the Jo Martin box sets as soon as their contract allows.)
(On TV anyway. Big Finish will no doubt start pumping out the Jo Martin box sets as soon as their contract allows.)
I try to. I really do. But he’s always seemed so… barely committed. And then I remember ye olde clip from the eighties.
He has become his own nemesis, more like JNT than JNT was.
Edit: I bet John Bishop never envisaged being the new Bonni Langford.
JNT! Wow. I haven't seen those initials in *ages*!
Given that most people blame him for how mediocre and a waste of talent the last couple of seasons have been that's not surprising.
Really for me the War Doctor's "for god sakes" seems more out of place because where would aliens have a concept of God?
Lots of planets have a god.
Yes but I really don't see Galifrey as a place where they cling to religion that much.
Remember the 70s hulk transformation?
Every week Feringo would shred Bixbys clothes.
They could have made a show of this when Davison morphed into Baker, but they just let the cricket suit out, which is how old man Davison fit his threads 30 years later for that special with Tennant.
Every week Feringo would shred Bixbys clothes.
They could have made a show of this when Davison morphed into Baker, but they just let the cricket suit out, which is how old man Davison fit his threads 30 years later for that special with Tennant.
You pickup a lot of colloquialisms over several centuries of lives. Seriously, you don't have to be a believer to use God's name. ( in vain or otherwise)
Fair enough
Yeah, you never get the feeling he wanted the job in the first place. I don't know if it was a case that he felt he couldn't turn it down, whether it was the money or whether the BBC blackmailed him into it by saying he was the only man for the job and they might have to cancel it if he said no...
Talking of which I don't know how innocent the BBC higher ups are in all of this. They chose Chibnall, in fact it seems they pinned all their hopes on him, begged Moffat to keep making the show while they waited for CC to become available. Let's hope they make a better decision next time.
I wouldn't be surprised if Chris had wanted the job, he has worked in that universe before.
I liked his work on broadchurch, mostly series 1 though. I would have liked it if he'd tried to really serialise his first series on Doctor Who, like his work on broadchurch. That would have been interesting, hopefully his final Doctor Who series will be like that.
I liked his work on broadchurch, mostly series 1 though. I would have liked it if he'd tried to really serialise his first series on Doctor Who, like his work on broadchurch. That would have been interesting, hopefully his final Doctor Who series will be like that.
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