The 8th Doctor

[Redfern]

I also like the font used for the words "Doctor Who" in the McGann film...which were originally created for the Pertwee era. Yep, even more than the "diamond" logo used for 6 of the 7 series in which Tom Baker starred (my "first" Doctor). It's just such a "clean" design and distinctive.

Of course, on the near impossible chance that font would be used again, the words would probably appear side by side rather than "Doctor" on top and "Who" underneath...given the proportions of today's wide screen TVs.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Stevil2001]

There doesn't always seem to be that much imagination used when reworking the theme, but I do like the Big Finish theme created for the McGann audio series.

The David Arnold theme? The one that sounds like sewage moving through rusted pipes in a rundown tenement? That theme? It's one of the worst versions of the Who theme I've ever heard.

Bah! I like it. Mysterious and vortexxy.

 

[CaptainMatt]

Thank you.

 

[Relayer1]

vortexxy.

Is that a word ? It certainly should be...

 

[CaptainMatt]

I have to say the Tom Baker titles and theme are possibly my favorites. Classic Who at its most...classic-y.

 

[Christopher]

vortexxy.

Is that a word ? It certainly should be...

The actual word is vortical (compare cortex/cortical and vertex/vertical), but that doesn't sound as fun.

 

[Relayer1]

vortexxy.

Is that a word ? It certainly should be...

The actual word is vortical (compare cortex/cortical and vertex/vertical), but that doesn't sound as fun.

Vortical is a good word, but it's well, just not as, er, vortexxy !

 

[Christopher]

Vorticky-worticky?

 

[CaptainMatt]

Let's discuss the difference between the Charley Pollard audio series and the ones with Lucie Miller. Which set works well for the McGann Doctor? Which series is your favorite? Why do you like said companion? Go.

 

[Worf2DS9]

I really liked the run of longer audios with Charley. She worked really well with the Doctor. I've only listened to one season with Lucy, but while she was also fun I never really warmed to the current shorter stories, made to mimic the format of the current TV series.

 

[Stevil2001]

I prefer Charley to Lucie, and the Charley stories to the Lucie stories, but they're all good.

 

[CaptainMatt]

I really liked the run of longer audios with Charley. She worked really well with the Doctor. I've only listened to one season with Lucy, but while she was also fun I never really warmed to the current shorter stories, made to mimic the format of the current TV series.

I absolutely hate that the stories being released nowadays are mimicing the current TV run. I miss the old format.
After seein a site dedicated to voice actress India Fisher, I was completely smitten with Ms. Pollard in the audios I listened to, which were several.

I just hate how they tried to kill her off only to have her survive and travel with a previous Doctor. That was so contrived!

 

[Allyn Gibson]

absolutely hate that the stories being released nowadays are mimicing the current TV run.

I have never felt that the four-part-with-cliffhangers format was ever appropriate to the eighth Doctor because, had the Segal movie gone to series, the eighth Doctor's era would not have been like that. It would have been like The X-Files (roughly 42 minute episodes in five acts for commercial breaks), not like "The Caves of Androzani" in its format. The format of the Lucie-era stories and not Storm Warning is what a McGann television series would have been like, and so I've always found the imposition of the four-part episode structure of McGann's early stories to be an artificial and fannish anachronism that was wisely discarded years later.

 

[Zeppster]

I disagree because the audio format of using the classic DW formula is better for audio then it even was for TV.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I disagree because the audio format of using the classic DW formula is better for audio then it even was for TV.

But that's a different argument than what I made, which was that the 4-parts-with-cliffhangers format for Big Finish's eighth Doctor stories wasn't authentic to what the eighth Doctor's stories would have been. The reason that matters is because Big Finish was attempting to recreate the past, only when it came to the eighth Doctor, they were recreating a past that not only never-was but also in a way that never-would-have-been.

 

[CaptainMatt]

It would have been much easier on the brain had Doctor No. 8 been given a proper series that lasted a few years.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I disagree because the audio format of using the classic DW formula is better for audio then it even was for TV.

But that's a different argument than what I made, which was that the 4-parts-with-cliffhangers format for Big Finish's eighth Doctor stories wasn't authentic to what the eighth Doctor's stories would have been. The reason that matters is because Big Finish was attempting to recreate the past, only when it came to the eighth Doctor, they were recreating a past that not only never-was but also in a way that never-would-have-been.

Does it matter? If you take that logic to its extreme, why even bother doing anything with the Eighth Doctor, whether books or audios?

 

[Iamnotspock]

But that's a different argument than what I made, which was that the 4-parts-with-cliffhangers format for Big Finish's eighth Doctor stories wasn't authentic to what the eighth Doctor's stories would have been. The reason that matters is because Big Finish was attempting to recreate the past, only when it came to the eighth Doctor, they were recreating a past that not only never-was but also in a way that never-would-have-been.

Does it matter? If you take that logic to its extreme, why even bother doing anything with the Eighth Doctor, whether books or audios?

Indeed. The eighth Doctor series didn't get made so does it really matter?

 

[CaptainMatt]

So how many times has everybody seen the TV Movie?

 

[Worf2DS9]

^ For me, I'd say once when it originally aired in '96, a couple of times when I bought the UK version of the DVD, then a few more times when it was finally released in North America. Grand total: 6-ish.