Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner
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That’s in the episode they’re filming next week. Probably.I hate Ncuti, guy would look good wearing an old potato sack
Even better/worse, if he were to wear an old potato sack, it would probably become the new fashion hit.I hate Ncuti, guy would look good wearing an old potato sack
I'll finally be able to fit in with the cool crowd.
Oh boy, Al .Some people are gonna freak out over this outfit...
Well, Hakuna Matata. All those years as a kid dressing like the doctor, sooner or later the Doctor was going to dress like me. My boots were better looking when I was rocking that look though. (Erm. Still do, but not the boots. Skechers are comfy.)
It’s really not very Doctorish though, and it’s a bit *hand wobble* as to how there’s no identifiably Doctorish nature to these costumes.
Don’t get me wrong, makes life easier if I ever get dressed up for a con or something, but he just looks like a normal bloke. Not a wanderer in the fourth dimension. Unless you count Arnie.
I think the Sontarans are rumored to appear this season so that would make sense!
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Leather Jacket: Check.
T-Shirt: Check.
Jeans: Check.
So what's the difference?
T-Shirt: Check.
Jeans: Check.
So what's the difference?
Leather Jacket: Check.
T-Shirt: Check.
Jeans: Check.
So what's the difference?
When this costume was designed, they talked about maintaining a ‘Doctor Silohette’ and for the most part, this is true. The Jacket is vintage — as mentioned in dialogue, that’s a German U-Boat captains jacket. It was then modified. The only thing he changed was that sometimes the long sleeved T-shirt was a different colour. As you can see, it certainly isn’t a variant on the Schotts perfecto classic ‘Biker Jacket’ and is essentially a leather suit-jacket, or sports jacket, in areas such as the lapels.
With the boots as well, they were looking in a ‘veteran’ sort of look, to go with the Time War backstory. Basically, he’s still shaped in a Doctorish manner, but he’s harder and more worn. They were also aiming at slight anachronism on closer inspection.
What is key, is that this look was *it* whether a million years in the future, or a hundred years in the past.
Ncuti is wearing something close to engineered jeans, dark, maybe a Levi 511 or something similar, your standard issue buckle biker boots, and a jacket that is very much one of the variants of the Schotts perfectos that have done the rounds since Brando made them popular. That’s an off white, very basic, Tee. He’s dressed the same as what I hear the space racist was in Rosa, as Michael Keaton in Jackie Brown, and as about a million people do every day for probably the last sixty years. Including me.
In short, he’s dressed as a Rocker.
Fundamentally, and as I raised with the other wardrobe shots released, particularly his sixties look, it appears that the Doctor changes wardrobe and possibly hair, quite significantly between episodes — worth waiting to see, as other doctors have had disguises — not maintaining one silhouette, one theme, or one style. All the other Doctors, even when there was some change, were usually within one style or theme.
You have to be able to walk into a room, see what’s on the telly and say ‘ah yes, this is Doctor Who, and there is the Doctor’ for the most part. Even if you are only passingly familiar. It’s one of the things that helps a show where the lead changes face every few years.
I won’t know how well it works till I see the episodes, but in this *one* area, there feels a mis-step. It’s a sort of Bonding-up of the character, possibly based on how photogenic they find their lead, and might be a mistake.
We will see.
Nice jacket though. Doubt his is from H&M mind you. My last one was, and it was really rather good.
Edit: and as it’s remiss of me, I shall throw in Billy in Delta and the Bannermen as well, as a reference point. Still haven’t sat through that on the screen.
Oh, and yeah, some of us did the many rings thing too… summertime off-duty goth look.
and Edit Edit, because it’s bugging me not to say it: Truth be told, the Ninth Doctors look has always been suspiciously like Angel from Buffy anyway. Not a favourite of mine, but it grew on me.
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Ncuti is joining the cast of the 'Tomb Raider' TV series.
This news gave me a start for a moment as I thought it was the live-action series that Phoebe Waller-Bridge is supposed to be making for Amazon, but apparently it's an animated series that's for Netflix that I've never heard of.
This news gave me a start for a moment as I thought it was the live-action series that Phoebe Waller-Bridge is supposed to be making for Amazon, but apparently it's an animated series that's for Netflix that I've never heard of.
My understanding is the animated one was finished some time back, before the Amazon/PWB deal, and while it was still a Squarenix property.
Worth remembering that this isn't a new thing. We were all treated to Capaldi's Pertwee inspired look but then how many times did he actually wear it?
As I've said before I suspect there will be a default look that he wears more frequently, even if just at the start of an episode before he goes "Ah 1960s, better change." But I could be mistaken.
The Doctor is about more than a look of course, it's about attitude and I get the feeling Ncuti has that aplenty.
As I've said before I suspect there will be a default look that he wears more frequently, even if just at the start of an episode before he goes "Ah 1960s, better change." But I could be mistaken.
The Doctor is about more than a look of course, it's about attitude and I get the feeling Ncuti has that aplenty.
Prepare yourself. I started the Chibnall era with so much hope. Look where that went. I started the Capaldi run with so much hope — and to be fair, it got better. Mostly.
Could go either way.
So, the Doctor has joined the T-Birds?Oh boy, Al .Some people are gonna freak out over this outfit...
Gonna be racing the vortex for pinks with the Master.
The jeans and t-shirt look is the first thing we've seen that feels like something anyone could wear. Other outfits we've seen still seem very doctorish
Thing is Ncuti looks more comfortable in every single one of those outfits than Jodie did in her 'iconic' look.
Thing is Ncuti looks more comfortable in every single one of those outfits than Jodie did in her 'iconic' look.
Jodies look was terrible. Knocked Purple Tom and Colin’s Coat of Many Colours down the charts it did. It was so CBeebies, that there are actual CBeebies characters that look more like the Doctor. Damnit, *Missy* looked more like the Doctor.
I know I'm in the minority but I love Jodie's look and I probably always will.
Hell, Colin's outfit has grown on me over the years...although I'm still partial to the blue variant used in Big Finish's Real Time flash animation story and some covers.
The only defining trait for The Doctor's outfits is eccentricity. Well, also lapels for most of the original run and the ?s during JNT's run. Otherwise, there's literally no rule book to follow.
No one thought capes or scarves or umbrellas or bow ties or celery or frock coats or hats (from big-feathered absurdities to fedoras to fezes) were Doctor-like until their respective Doctors wore them. That will always be true.
With that in mind, I can see that being a reason for not liking this one outfit of Ncuti's we see out context and we don't even know for how long.
Hell, Colin's outfit has grown on me over the years...although I'm still partial to the blue variant used in Big Finish's Real Time flash animation story and some covers.
I don't know what CBeebies, nor do I care, but what does "looks more like the Doctor" even mean?
The only defining trait for The Doctor's outfits is eccentricity. Well, also lapels for most of the original run and the ?s during JNT's run. Otherwise, there's literally no rule book to follow.
No one thought capes or scarves or umbrellas or bow ties or celery or frock coats or hats (from big-feathered absurdities to fedoras to fezes) were Doctor-like until their respective Doctors wore them. That will always be true.
With that in mind, I can see that being a reason for not liking this one outfit of Ncuti's we see out context and we don't even know for how long.
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I mean, Capaldi had a whole era where he just wore a Doctor-ish coat over sweat/pajama pants and a random shirt, literally nothing will be less Doctor-like or, quite frankly, look as shit as basically letting the actor wear their weekend at home casual wear while playing The Doctor. Now its totally possible that come of Ncuti's outfits will be terrible, I'd be lying if I said the few we've seen so far were all great, and i wish we went back to one costume for The Doctor and not a weird variety pack. But unless he shows up in a pair of jorts and a ketchup stained Rush T-Shirt, I think everything will be fine in the end even if this Doctor has occasionally goofy outfits.
Then again I love Colin Baker's costume, so my taste is obviously twisted
Then again I love Colin Baker's costume, so my taste is obviously twisted
CBeebies is the BBC younger age children’s channel, and content provider, and anyone who has had to sit through enough of it will know Justin’s House alone will provide.
As to ‘lapels and question marks’ it’s actually both simpler and more complex than that, but you don’t need me to run through it again — not least as there’s on the record notes, interviews, and design material going back a good fifty years that explain what goes into designing a costume for the main character. Only *three* Doctors ever regularly wore a hat for example, and only really one with a great amount of consistency. (I think it’s only Ghost Light where Sylv is mostly without his.)
