Deep Breath Cardiff premiere August 7th

[The Wormhole]

[far more so, I suspect, than will be the case with Paramount and Trek's upcoming anniversary...

Oh, I have such a bad feeling Paramount is going to drop the ball so bad with Trek's 50th. Hell, Trek XIII doesn't even have an official release date yet, and with 2016 filling up with a major genre movie already slotted into the major release dates, well...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

And while they're both rather fantastic (especially Adventure), the BBC should've done more. I

But the BBC did. Through Big Finish, IDW, and the novels. This poll I conducted gives a good idea of the level of coverage for the 50th anniversary, most of which was done by BBC, directly or indirectly (really, the only exception is the Whodle that Google did).

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

The BBC had almost nothing to do with the way BF celebrated DW. They didn't commision any of the above mentioned stories, and surely didn't promote them. As for actual coverage, really, its only during November that they did anything. I remember visiting this very forum, where the very lack of actual celebration leading up to the 50th was talked about.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

[far more so, I suspect, than will be the case with Paramount and Trek's upcoming anniversary...

Oh, I have such a bad feeling Paramount is going to drop the ball so bad with Trek's 50th. Hell, Trek XIII doesn't even have an official release date yet, and with 2016 filling up with a major genre movie already slotted into the major release dates, well...

Things look extraordinarily grim for a celebration, I agree. The only possible way they can amend that would be with the premiere of a new TV show... but if it were set in the Abrams-verse, forget about it.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I suspect part of the problem was that Moffat wanted to keep Smith around for the 50th but Smith was unwilling to go beyond a 3rd season. So the relative dearth of new TV episodes in 2013 was largely the fallout of splitting the last season between 2012 & 2013. Hopefully that will be the last time that that happens for a while.

Personally, I'm more disappointed with the reduced level of original prose novels in the last few years. It's great to see some of the older stuff back in print, like "Ten Little Aliens," "Festival of Death," & "Illegal Alien." But I think there were only 4 new novels last year, rather than the usual 6. (Oddly enough, "The Shroud of Sorrow" may go down in history as the one and only 11th/Clara novel.)

BTW, someone mentioned that first stories for new Doctors are usually weaker. I suppose that generally shakes out to be true. But since "The Eleventh Hour" was one of the best episodes of Smith's entire run, I'm hoping that Capaldi's debut continues the trend. While Moffat's stories are often a mess, he's got a great knack for establishing strong characters right off the bat. "The Eleventh Hour" very quickly gave a clear idea of what the 11th Doctor & Amy would be like. I hope we know Capaldi nearly so well so early. (So far, all I know is that he has unreasonable expectations about the color of his kidneys.)

[far more so, I suspect, than will be the case with Paramount and Trek's upcoming anniversary...

Oh, I have such a bad feeling Paramount is going to drop the ball so bad with Trek's 50th. Hell, Trek XIII doesn't even have an official release date yet, and with 2016 filling up with a major genre movie already slotted into the major release dates, well...

Things look extraordinarily grim for a celebration, I agree. The only possible way they can amend that would be with the premiere of a new TV show... but if it were set in the Abrams-verse, forget about it.

I remember a few years ago, Paramount said something about making a bunch of direct-to-video movies based on some of their big properties like Tomb Raider, Mission Impossible, Top Gun, and Star Trek. I always wonder what happened to those. It seemed to me that DTV would be a great way to keep the prime universe going while the theatrical features developed the Abrams-verse.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

For Star Trek, I'm surprised they don't go with a kids cartoon based on the movie-verse, but I suppose the split ownership could complicate things.

 

[The Wormhole]

For Star Trek, I'm surprised they don't go with a kids cartoon based on the movie-verse, but I suppose the split ownership could complicate things.

Actually, Orci has constantly talked about such a show being "talked about." But nothing ever comes of that.

 

[Green Lantern]

The Day of the Doctor itself was great, same with An Adventure in Time and Space, but other than those episodes, as a year I did feel short-changed. For a start the main series was basically just half a full series because Moffat has a delusion that "Doctor Who should be event television!" and most of the episodes weren't even that good because they were too short and the stories often sucked. I can't comment on the merchandise because I've not brought any since when I was younger, at the beginning of the Smith era (plus the whole era dampened the show for me) but the amount of merchandise seemed sensible. I just wish there was more. Personally I would have probably gone for a full feature film for the main special with a budget to match, as well as An Adventure in Time and Space I'd probably do another pre 2005 special, probably a full hour special with McGann and maybe something to do with Hartnel and the Daleks (prequel to An Unearthly Child perhaps but obviously the daleks couldn't be involved, at least not directly. For the record, I originally thought An Adventure in Time and Space was actually a prequel and was about the Doctor and Susan escaping Galifrey). Oh an a full series to top things off, one with decent episodes well thought out and to avoid large numbers of fans not liking it (say some RTD fans not liking it because it's typically Moffat), I would have a couple of episodes in different styles (some episodes resembling Moffat Who, some resembling RTD Who, some resembling classic who, an episode or two for each decade and writer). I'd probably use different writers, producers and directors for each of these episode/s too, that way it would be harder to run out of ideas, and it would give a variety of different styles which in turn would mean at least one episode strongly appealing to most viewers, instead of people like me only liking a handful of episodes, but other than Day of the Doctor none of them were amazing and worthy of celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who (although I did really enjoy Cold War, had some slight vibes similar to "Dalek", but yet again it needed to be longer).