I agree. I'm NEVER that guy that hates something based on a picture. But, I sorta hate this. It looks like Matt Smith went and visited a Doctor Who fan's garage set.
I hope that's a balcony around the back in front of the blue-LED roundels. It'd be a narrow walkway, but it'd be fun to see Eleven repairing a panel back there while other actors do stuff in the foreground.
Compared to what they've done in the past on nuWho it looks cheap and cheesy, as if they've had their budget slashed tremendously (which I'm sure isn't the case). A fan could have designed and built that console.
I think there's an issue with how the image was shot (something is off with the resolution because it looks photoshopped), but I do like the general idea of the TARDIS design. I'm going to wait and see how it looks in the actual episode before I judge, but it looks potentially very interesting. I've said this before and I'll say it again: I always want more interior TARDIS and I'm absolutely thrilled that we're going to get even more!
Wait till we see it in action. I didn't love the 11.1 set until I did, and I'm expecting the same here. Interesting notes: - There's a steep stairway up from the bland main floor to the balcony in the background. You can just see it just behind the greenscreen monitor. We know that there is an upper level door from the earlier picture. - Looks like there's at least two sets of stairs down to the lower level. One is visible on the very right of the picture, the other isn't visible but you can see lower railings underneath the auxilliary console. - Those lower railings suggest that there are TWO levels below the one the consoles are on, not unlike the previous set. This in turn suggests that there is one lower level that the external door opens onto, and from there you step UP to the consoles or DOWN to the lowest level. - The auxiliary console is a first for the new series - a place besides the main console where people can push buttons! The very first console room set had a various extra banks of computers and such, which were barely used. This is a neat way to pay tribute to that and also allow for more dynamic action around the room. - There's a red lever just to the right of the Doctor. Dare I wonder - an inner door lever? - The rightmost visible console is quite possibly the exact same one from the previous console, featuring a glass circle with brass greeblies sticking through it. - While it's interesting that there are now two smaller monitors (I'm guessing River wanted her own), I hope there's still a larger one around somewhere on one of the opposite walls. Set's growing on me, and fast. If only they went with a grated floor, or frosted glass - anything but plain metallic grey! Mark
Jesus. So I guess the money finally ran out. It's nice to have a more traditional looking console again but the rest of it looks like something a fan knocked together in their garage. It must have made it easier to shoot the "Journey to The Centre Of The TARDIS" episode in a set-dressed factory, though.
I'd like to assume that Moffat and Skinner knew they were going to need to spread the cost of the new console room standing set at Roath Lock across all 14 episodes in the current commission. However, if they knew they were going to need to build a new standing set, then why sink money into building the back wall for the now-abandoned console room? (Or was that season six that they built the back wall?) It's possible they thought the existing set would be transportable, in which case they didn't allocate the budget for the console room set. If so, they built what they could (on the cheap) and I'd expect an upgrade on the console room with the anniversary special, much as Davison's console room got an upgrade with the budget for "The Five Doctors."
or they are really getting back to the old days and it's the control for the outdoors Anyone else think the main doors are directly behind Matt Smith and could it mean a return to old doors and the whirrr as they open?
You can see the doors in the recent BBC America trailer and they're the same as ever. (Or go back a few pages to where I posted a screengrab.)
Yuck on a stick. This show descends further and further in Mighty Morhin' Doctor Who. Cheap. It looks cheap and cartoonish. My opinion doesn't reflect the desired aesthetic change, but the actual result. I don't care if they want a TARDIS set that looks Classic, or Coral, or Steampunk, and like a Magpie's Toy Store, but I do care about the quality of the result and this looks like a cheap Power Rangers set. Yuck.
Ok.. Some observations... I'm loving the overall feel of it so far. It's minimal, but at the same time, expanded... Yes, the nice organic touches are pretty much gone, but I think there's a purpose here... This is about removing traces of Amy and Rory.. Exercising demons if you will... No clue if this is what SM had in mind, but the Doctor is going back to what he's familiar with in the past, just like we throw on an old familiar sweater because it comforts us... I don't give a lick about the glass floor being gone.. It was nice for some cool shots from below, but really, it's just a floor... The size hasn't really changed that much.. It's still an upper platform, so who knows what the ground floor looks like now. Regarding the clothes, I'm thinking that just for the Christmas episode, befitting the time period he's in... Looking forward to seeing her in action, to be sure..
Horrible, just horrible. It looks cheap and hopelessly generic. The previous set was fantastic and impossible and wonderful. This looks like complete and utter garbage. Booo. Edit: Moffat is on record, in the article linked above, stating that the TARDIS is a machine and shouldn't look whimsical, which is completely wrong, wrong wrong. Did he even watch 'The Doctor's Wife?'
It looks cheap but then so do a lot of sets until you see them lit properly in the show/movie. In that picture the green light looks bad, bad, bad.
The console looks old and battered, at least as far as I can tell with the dim lighting. I'm wondering if it's actually (within the show) supposed be an older control room that he retreats to rather than a newly created one that follows a classic design, if you see what I'm saying. Mr Awe
This is my thought as well. I especially like the classic vibe of the console itself. They could have done something a little more interesting with the floor - grating of some sort, perhaps - but otherwise I like it and look forward to seeing it "in action" as others have said.