Series 7 FINALLY Starts Shooting
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Given that the big robots seen in the Trailer have been repurposed from a CBBC show, budget is still an issue, overseas trips aside. (One of which will have been subsidised by BBC America.)
Could be CGI'd. That would be substantially less expensive than building sets.
Pity. I guess I'm the only one whos hated all the NuWho console rooms.
Just never been a fan of the 'built from random bits we found in a scrap pile' look.
Or maybe because its just a constant reminder that I need to declutter my room.
nope - don't like it either - more specifically the console I don't like.
Also miss the whirrr as the doors open.
I like the current console room with 11. The 9/10 console room never really appealed to me.
DigitalSpy is confirming that episode 5 getting set to start filming. Weeping angels are being set up
Now Moffat's just taking the piss. According to the new DWM Chris Chibnall has written both Episode 2 (the theory about Mark Williams is confirmed BTW) and Episode 4 as well.
So for those of you keeping count at home, in the Moffat era that's Paul Cornell/Rob Shearman/Howard Overman/101 Other Good Writers: Zero Episodes.
The man who wrote Cyberwoman: Four episodes.
I'm starting to get horrible nightmare visions of the words "Executive Producer - Chris Chibnall" appearing on our screens in 2014...
So for those of you keeping count at home, in the Moffat era that's Paul Cornell/Rob Shearman/Howard Overman/101 Other Good Writers: Zero Episodes.
The man who wrote Cyberwoman: Four episodes.
I'm starting to get horrible nightmare visions of the words "Executive Producer - Chris Chibnall" appearing on our screens in 2014...
If one bad episode was enough to doom a writer, surely "Love & Monsters" should have done so for RTD, or anything after "Flesh and Stone" for Moffat?
He was the "lead writer", for lack of a better term ("showrunner" doesn't fit, I don't think - my understanding is that he was only involved on the creative end, not the production end) on the first two seasons of Torchwood... I know I'd be interested in seeing what he would bring to the table.
Leaving aside that L&M is a work of genius let down in its last few minutes by a child-designed monster, we also have the Silurian abominations, 'Countrycide' and all of Camelot waiting to testify.
Eh...I've never understood the Silurian 2 Parter bashing, I enjoyed it, and I thought Countrycide was great, it was a nice change of pace.
I never had anything against the Silurian 2-parter. It was nice to see them back in a modern story that was miles ahead of what happened in Warriors of the Deep in 1984.
And the paving stone. And pretty much every scene before the monster showed up too. (ELO concerts & sight gags aren't why I watch the show.
)Haven't seen Camelot, I liked "Countrycide", and - at least from my have-only-seen-two-pre-2005-stories perspective ("The Five Doctors" and the TV movie) - "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood" was pretty good.
Maybe the latter stomps all over continuity - but if so, that's a matter to take up with the person who commissioned and approved the scripts (one Steven Moffat), not Chibnall. For all we know, that's what SM asked for.
ETA: Oh, and Law & Order: UK was pretty good too. Yes, they had the US scripts to start from, but as someone who is enough of an L&O fan that he recognized most of the source episodes, they did a lot more rewriting than just search/replace on the names. Sometimes half or more of the episodes were newly-plotted material.
Agreed. I didn't mind the Silurian episodes once I got over the shock of their more humanoid appearance.
And I never got the hate for L&M either. It was a fun little episode, even though I still have nightmares of Peter Kay chasing me down the street painted grey and wearing a diaper.
As for the console room, I was kind of lukewarm on 9/10's as well. I think we have the makers of the movie for introducing the junkie look to the Tardis.
Really as far as I'm concerned, the post-Five Doctors room from the 80's was my favorite. I like the idea of having a clunky police box exterior with a shiny high-tech control room inside.
And as far as writers are concerned, I'll give a writer two chances before I write them off. Helen Raynor's dalek two-parter was pretty weak. But she more than redeemed herself the following season with her Sontaran story.
As for Moffats eventual replacement, I do worry about the possibility of Mark Gatiss getting the job. While he does a good job acting in the show, I think the only DW story of his I've liked was The Unquiet Dead.
And I never got the hate for L&M either. It was a fun little episode, even though I still have nightmares of Peter Kay chasing me down the street painted grey and wearing a diaper.
As for the console room, I was kind of lukewarm on 9/10's as well. I think we have the makers of the movie for introducing the junkie look to the Tardis.
Really as far as I'm concerned, the post-Five Doctors room from the 80's was my favorite. I like the idea of having a clunky police box exterior with a shiny high-tech control room inside.
And as far as writers are concerned, I'll give a writer two chances before I write them off. Helen Raynor's dalek two-parter was pretty weak. But she more than redeemed herself the following season with her Sontaran story.
As for Moffats eventual replacement, I do worry about the possibility of Mark Gatiss getting the job. While he does a good job acting in the show, I think the only DW story of his I've liked was The Unquiet Dead.
I think Gareth Roberts is probably more likely, given his experience on SJA and comments that RTD made in The Writer's Tale.
I would like to think that, when it comes time to replace Moffat, the BBC would cast their net wider than people who have written for Doctor Who.
I'd be curious to see what Michael Hirst would do with Doctor Who, for instance. Julian Jones would be a good choice, too, but after five or six years of Merlin he may not want to dive into another series. Or Howard Overman.
I will say that I have no objection to Chibnall as Moffat's successor. Chibnall-driven Who would likely be very retro. Gatiss Who would not interest me. Whithouse I have no opinion of.
It's going to be interesting to see who the BBC hands the reins to next because I think it will say a lot about how the BBC sees Doctor Who, who it's for, and how it works.
I can see wanting to cast the net wider than the writers who have been writing a script a year since 2005. But at the same time, I can't imagine the BBC being willing to turn the show over to someone who hasn't written at least one episode, to show they know the format and aren't going to destroy the brand they're making $$$ from.
winter what? winter quay?
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