It's a rebuild/mod of the last one we saw...
Series 12 News & Spoilers
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It's a rebuild/mod of the last one we saw...
Time to bring back the Mechonoids i think.
Yeah, I noticed some similarities. I imagine it'll be more of them down the road, and all radio controlled for "realism". Maybe they'll build a better script to use them in, but I somehow doubt it. After "Resolution", it made drek like "Destiny" far more intelligent by comparison.
Props to him for trying new creations other than the ones the show had made popular with in the past and even the popular ones were new creations at one point. A shame most weren't memorable in any good way, but that is a separate issue and some baddies did have solid potential.
Judoon were an interesting choice. Based on Sontarans but given a life of their own, how they are used will be key - I'd hope they would be chasing the Doctor for some reason and not be yet another "let's go to Earth for no reason" affair that most of NuWHO is celebrated for.
A proper redesign of the Cybermen have been due for a long time. But recalling the episodes "Age of Steel" and "Cyberwoman", along with long overdue changes to that take on the iconic look, also get a better scriptwriter to use them. Heck, if people want to get the most pedantic, even calling them "Telosians" or "Mondasians" (as they came from Mondas but migrated to Telos, as was told reasonably well enough in "Attack of the
"Resolution" unintentionally made the Daleks a laughing stock while forgetting why they're stuck in the machines to begin with - yes, various features have been added over the years but they're no longer survival capsules and one can survive for centuries while in an unpowered case as well as mind-control beings and hijack their bodies directly.
I loved the multi colored Daleks, easily my favorite NuWho Dalek design. I have no idea what Chibnail's Daleks look like since I refused to put myself in a coma by watching the horrid last special for more then a few minutes, so I don't know if his Dalek looked different then normal (although based off his fetishization of Cybermen I'm betting it was a "Sexy Female" Dalek with heels...), but I thought that the candy colored ones were an improvement over seeing hundreds and hundreds of bronze ones for years, and I would like to see more variety in Daleks, like when the 12th Doctor confronted Davros and we had a bunch of different Dalek eras all in one place.
Nah, but she was wearing a kinky cop costume.
I have no idea if you're kidding, but thinking about it Chibnail would probably refuse to do something even remotely interesting at this point, and its scary to realize that the old trashy, terrible Chibnail from Torchwood would probably be better then the mediocre Chibnail that exists right now (because a trainwreck of a show is almost always better then a boring one).
That is really stupid. If they need to show a Dalek using a human body (which is what I assume is happening), at least have the eye stock come out of her head like the other possessed/puppet human bodies (even if its not the same nanobot dalek thing). Just having a woman hold a dalek weapon prop is cheap as fuck, even for Doctor Who. But, I guess what I sugested would require Chibnail to have watched episodes of Doctor Who that he didn't write or produce, and I doubt he's ever done that.
It's puppeteering her, she's not dead or irretrievable.
You're also going off one shot with the gunstick - those tentacles get used a LOT before the Dalek gets its gun back.
You're also going off one shot with the gunstick - those tentacles get used a LOT before the Dalek gets its gun back.
You know, its been now a solid year without Who, and I have to admit, this series is the weakest Who has been in the revival phase. Without, like, a shadow of a doubt. At least all the previous ones had something going for them. This one doesn't have a single solid classic for me. Sorry.
I also, am afraid, not overtly fond of Whittaker's Doctor. Thanks to Kerblam, her Thirteenth Doctor is a frickin' establishment figure, in a way the Third Doctor never was, and she's not at all the anarchic spirit that causes mayhem in order for social justice to prevail. But that's part of the problem with the making of the show, which quantifies Rosa Parks' acceptenance by the establishment as the reward to her actions in Rosa, instead of showing how her actions have had real consequence to the overall society structure. And it doesn't help that Whittaker simply plays her Doctor as a variation of Tenannt's. And unlike every other Doctor since Tom Baker, she never once finds a consistent voice in her portrayal. Even the aforementioned Tennant, who found hIs Doctor reasonably later because of him being a hurried replacement of Eccleston's, still found how to play him by Moffat's The Girl in the Fireplace.
I also, am afraid, not overtly fond of Whittaker's Doctor. Thanks to Kerblam, her Thirteenth Doctor is a frickin' establishment figure, in a way the Third Doctor never was, and she's not at all the anarchic spirit that causes mayhem in order for social justice to prevail. But that's part of the problem with the making of the show, which quantifies Rosa Parks' acceptenance by the establishment as the reward to her actions in Rosa, instead of showing how her actions have had real consequence to the overall society structure. And it doesn't help that Whittaker simply plays her Doctor as a variation of Tenannt's. And unlike every other Doctor since Tom Baker, she never once finds a consistent voice in her portrayal. Even the aforementioned Tennant, who found hIs Doctor reasonably later because of him being a hurried replacement of Eccleston's, still found how to play him by Moffat's The Girl in the Fireplace.
I'm not sure you can say every Doctor found a consistent voice. I mean S10 Capaldi is radically different to S8 Capaldi.
The thing that bugs me is that I can't quite see any other Doctor in there. People make comparisons with Tennant but in some ways she's closer to Davison, except Peter put some of the irascibility of Hartnell in there, and did (like Matt) play an old man in a young man's body. Jodie feels like a 30 something woman, though in fairness at first I thought something similar about Tennant (not that he was a 30 something woman
). For me she just fades into the background too often. In part that's down to the writing, in part that's down to a full Tardis and in part, sadly, I think it's down to Jodie being a good actress but perhaps not having the presence to play a larger than life character. I look at actors like Suranne Jones or Jodie Comer, or Michelle Gomez and they just own the screen.
I'm hopeful S12 will be better, I didn't really start to like Tennant until his second season, and you can argue it maybe took even longer for me to really like Capaldi (and in the end I didn't want him to go!). I do think swamping her with guest stars(Chibnall really likes his guest stars doesn't he!) and three companions was a mistake, and I also feel like maybe a companion lite episode or two wouldn't be a bad idea either.
The thing that bugs me is that I can't quite see any other Doctor in there. People make comparisons with Tennant but in some ways she's closer to Davison, except Peter put some of the irascibility of Hartnell in there, and did (like Matt) play an old man in a young man's body. Jodie feels like a 30 something woman, though in fairness at first I thought something similar about Tennant (not that he was a 30 something woman
). For me she just fades into the background too often. In part that's down to the writing, in part that's down to a full Tardis and in part, sadly, I think it's down to Jodie being a good actress but perhaps not having the presence to play a larger than life character. I look at actors like Suranne Jones or Jodie Comer, or Michelle Gomez and they just own the screen.I'm hopeful S12 will be better, I didn't really start to like Tennant until his second season, and you can argue it maybe took even longer for me to really like Capaldi (and in the end I didn't want him to go!). I do think swamping her with guest stars(Chibnall really likes his guest stars doesn't he!) and three companions was a mistake, and I also feel like maybe a companion lite episode or two wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Yes, I agree she doesn't have the commanding presence that any of the previous Doctors had. Even Davison, who as you mentioned was a fairly mild and, IMO, "confused" Doctor (wanting to be nice but not always succeeding), was still a fairly good actor to command his presence through his acting (he's easily one of the best-ever cast Doctors, full stop), and thus you noticed him and his efforts. Plus, he was putting some actual effort, whereas I don't think Whittaker does as much. And it doesn't help her companions don't really exemplify her at her best so far.
PS: I don't disagree about Capaldi's inconsistency, but I fault Moff for this than Capaldi, who was visibly having a ball and dominated every single episode he was in, despite some times being a total prick, character-wise.
PS: I don't disagree about Capaldi's inconsistency, but I fault Moff for this than Capaldi, who was visibly having a ball and dominated every single episode he was in, despite some times being a total prick, character-wise.
Honestly, the last series was so mediocre that not only did I not bother to watch more then a few minutes of that New Years special, but I haven't really missed the show while its gone. I was hyped for Whitaker to come in (although I would have liked a bit more of Capaldi, since he seemed to have settled into the role), I think the show needed something like a female Doctor, and I think she could be a great Doctor. She just needs better material, period, and I dobut she'll be getting it during her run. I just hope that Chibnail leaves with her.
https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/st...0?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
I didn't see this being discussed anywhere around here yet, so I'll post here. On Thursday, the official BBC Doctor Who twitter feed tweeted that image of the Doctor's shadow emerging from the TARDIS with the caption "Watch this space." But since then, there's been no update at all.
I didn't see this being discussed anywhere around here yet, so I'll post here. On Thursday, the official BBC Doctor Who twitter feed tweeted that image of the Doctor's shadow emerging from the TARDIS with the caption "Watch this space." But since then, there's been no update at all.
It was brought up a page or two ago and I suggested it's probably hinting a trailer is coming soon.
I literally thought that's how his name was spelled. That said, I wish I'd been doing it on purpose (because fuck him), and I may accidentally do it later because I'm not going to put much effort into remembering the correct spelling, but up to this point I just thought that's how is name was spelled
You could say that I put about as much effort into remembering his name as he does into producing Doctor Who.
So yeah. Expect a trailer on November 23rd
https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1193543839295819777
https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1193543839295819777
Huh. So they were waaay premature with the "watch this space!" notice. 
