Series 11 News & Spoilers

[Captain Crow]

Ooh. I like that they made the dimensional gateway between the interior and exterior the back of the Police Box this time. During the original run of the show that's where I always imagined the gateway was with the back wall of the box being a hologram of same sort. Kind of wish they'd quit having the Police Box being part of the set though. I wish they'd do something similar to the first version of "An Unearthly Child" and have proper console room doors with the box right behind them.

 

[David cgc]

Oh, certainly. I keep harping on the Smith/Capaldi set being the first true 360-degree rendition of the TARDIS, and it shows in Smith's first one despite it actually having a "fourth wall". Said wall, while present, was a nearly featureless, two-storey grey metal wall that was incongruous with the rest of the set, and really existed for the crew to mount their cameras and lighting to. It didn't even physically connect with the actual set walls either (or to the ceiling, but that's a whole other gripe).

The big metal wall that makes it look like they were just catching the soundstage in the background and hoping to get away with it was bad, but the way the set was all unstructured really gets me. The walls are all cattywompus and don't connect to each other or anything else, the door is just shoved off into a corner behind the bizarre giant round projection TV, and, worst of all, the floor looks like plain poured concrete. Like a garage or something. The whole assemblage looks very stagey, as if it's just a collection of wacky parts that can be trucked out and set up in any given warehouse to suggest a TARDIS. It's doesn't look structural, it looks like a warehouse with a bunch of wacky crap in it.

I like the two radial console rooms because they have a very definite sense of geography and structure (like they're compartments, and not decorations inside of a room), and they both use the space under the floor to give a sense of depth and busyness. Now, they're not perfect. In season 3 and 4, the coral set was so over-lit it was like the Doctor lived inside a basketball (but the subdued, atmospheric look of season one and the Moffat years was great), and the most recent one started off way too sterile (and really needed that third staircase), but once they added all the brick-a-brack to motivate people going to the perimeter, and especially the extra rondel lights on the lower half, it sang.

 

[Samurai8472]

Tardis interior revealed!

https://imgur.com/APJJqky.jpg

(Marlon Brando/Jor-el not included)

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Tardis interior revealed!

https://imgur.com/APJJqky.jpg

(Marlon Brando/Jor-el not included)

Do they think if they make an apocalyptically ugly console room that all the female Doctor haters will get distracted?

 

[Redfern]

Tardis interior revealed!

https://imgur.com/APJJqky.jpg

(Marlon Brando/Jor-el not included)

I wonder if those Kryptonian styled "pillars" will be illuminated?

 

[Professor Zoom]

Do they think if they make an apocalyptically ugly console room that all the female Doctor haters will get distracted?

Apocalyptically? It’s not even lit properly in the photo. This isn’t a real representation of what it will look like on tv.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Apocalyptically? It’s not even lit properly in the photo. This isn’t a real representation of what it will look like on tv.

True, and at first I thought it was a fan made model, but they've done the TARDIS up a bit and I don't like it.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Tardis interior revealed!

https://imgur.com/APJJqky.jpg

(Marlon Brando/Jor-el not included)

"They could be great people, The-Doctor, they wish to be. They only lack the light (of the Sonic Screwdriver) to show the way. For this reason above all (and other pressing reasons, at the time), for their capacity for good (or lack thereof), I sent them you. My only whatever-you-are-right-now."

 

[Professor Zoom]

True, and at first I thought it was a fan made model, but they've done the TARDIS up a bit and I don't like it.

Yeah, I hear you. But, sets always look fake and terrible under real lighting. So, I would caution about having to strong of an opinion. Doesn’t mean it will be your taste under the proper lighting, but at least it will be how it was meant to be seen.

 

[dahj]

It looks smaller on the inside.

 

[Butters]

Looks a bit like the fortress of solitude with those white pillar things, though they also remind me of candles with long tracks of wax melt down the sides. I’m sure it it’ll grow on me, like they always do, but I am regretting not waiting for the episode and getting the benefit of the proper reveal,

 

[OCD Geek]

It looks smaller on the inside.

Thirteen's been getting TARDIS tips from Iris Wildthyme.

 

[StCoop]

If that's really a photo it seems to have run through a ton of Photoshop filters, so I'm highly doubtful of how much it represents what will be on screen. Especially since in the unaltered photo from the other week that showed the doorway it was brown not purple.

 

[The Wormhole]

Kind of meh about that Console Room, to be honest. I like the Classic era vibe, but I don't care much for the Fortress of Solitude thing it's got going on. Hopefully it looks a lot better in the show itself.

 

[Mr Awe]

It looks a bit cheap in the photo but the proper studio lighting can perform wonders. I'll wait and see!

 

[Redfern]

Someone took that "candid" shot and adjusted it in an image editor, "illuminating" the crystal elements with a hue similar to that of the recently revealed sonic screwdriver...

https://i.imgur.com/D8LAsoC.jpg

...assuming they might glow with roughly the same color.

The recent shot through the doors with the cast chairs seemed to reveal blue glowing Gallifreyan glyphs wrapping around the dais, so the artist took that into account.

 

[Gepard]

The "coral" look of the 9th/10th console room was always my favorite and I'd hoped for a return to something like it. This is certainly alien and weird. I like it better than the 12th console room already.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Well, I for one, even without proper lighting and so forth, love it. Just from that one image, it feels alien.

 

[Qonundrum]

Tardis interior revealed!

https://imgur.com/APJJqky.jpg

(Marlon Brando/Jor-el not included)

Yeah, the Doc went to Krypton and/or the North Pole behind Lex Luthor's back for inspiration, as well as a public loo to cop those copper pipes with. Maybe Beneath the Planet of the Apes since the photo reminds me of the great revered bomb room as well.

Nice to see a new center column that doesn't go beyond the roof (1996-2017, may it be gone for good). But do not ask if the new and overly large center column goes up and down. Seriously, look at that thing - the 2nd Doctor would look in awe and tell Jamie how big it is. Just like with space station Chimera and the Emperor Dalek but for the latter reference it was an off-screen joke and not on-screen actual dialogue like how the former was. And for a really dirty look, film the new set upside down. Seriously, if it doesn't take much to think outside the box then the designers were being conscious about something. Or less subconscious than they realized. Still love the multilayered blue/gray hex/roundel look, but the steampunk fad surely ended a decade or more ago??

At least they hid the steel beams with the fake crystal motif, unless it's an entirely new set where even the four crystal side-arms go up and down at those joints as they glow teal or orange or red or ultraviolet or something while the ship is in flight. That still seems extravagant, and dirty for right-minded individuals even more suspicious than any passing Vervoid on the cover of a DWM...

Honestly, another big empty soundstage for another wannabe-360 degree set. DS9's Promenade was said to be the first and it's got far more that's appealing and detailed than any NuWHO console room set so far.

And yet, actually, the new design has grown on me rather a lot - which is saying something since I loathe the idea of a TARDIS being "grown" like any old turnip in a garden row. So, yeah, I'm intrigued as to how much of it all is mechanical or glowing or whatever.

But why not a 360 of a Hartnell or Davison-era TARDIS? More rooms, more corridors, actual things of interest instead of an empty Colosseum? Make it feel real. Instead of really sparse.

 

[Marc]

Sorry not a fan of the new console room though I can't say I've really liked any of them since the series returned in 2005. Miss the whirr\humm, the white, the roundels and the hexagonal console.