Series 5 trailer

[ITL]

The reason they went with a police box in the first place was because it was a cheap design.

Yup. Just like Transporter tech in Star Trek, it solves a problem in a cheap, efficient and graceful way.

An inexpensive box (with a larger interior shot on a normal stage - brilliant!) that can materialize anywhere and quickly becomes an iconic feature of the show? Sheer genius.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-police-box.html

Has the various Tardis shapes.

As for changing it significantly it's never going to happen.

I had no idea there had been so many changes. Sometimes I doubt my validity as a fan!

I knew there were many changes but I wouldn't have been able to give you details. I, too, question my validity as a fan!

 

[WillsBabe]

^ Let's hope our enthusiasm and ability to laugh at ourselves will see us through!

 

[Skellington]

Here's an in-depth shot-by-shot analysis of the trailer, thanks to IO9.

 

[Skellington]

I just think it looks too clean and new and featureless--remember, the only reason the TARDIS looks like a police box is because its chameleon circuit froze up on a visit to the UK sometime before "An Unearthly Child." As such, I'd expect it to look more weathered and grimy, both to better resemble a real box and because of all the hundreds of years of hard living it's had since the circuit went kaput.

My view is that there's nothing physically wrong with the chameleon circuit and that it turns the TARDIS into a police box of some kind every d@mn time, or at least occasionally.
In Logopolis, when demonstrating the circuit to Adric using the TARDIS screen, the Doctor tries out at least one new shape - that of a pyramid, I think; but the shape on the screen just reverts to a police box. In Attack Of The Cybermen, the Doctor actually gets the TARDIS to adopt a few new shapes - but it then reverts to a police box at the end of the story! So it would appear to be a software problem or that the TARDIS insists on being a police box for its own reasons. This would also explain the variations in the police box design.

 

[DWF]

I just think it looks too clean and new and featureless--remember, the only reason the TARDIS looks like a police box is because its chameleon circuit froze up on a visit to the UK sometime before "An Unearthly Child." As such, I'd expect it to look more weathered and grimy, both to better resemble a real box and because of all the hundreds of years of hard living it's had since the circuit went kaput.

My view is that there's nothing physically wrong with the chameleon circuit and that it turns the TARDIS into a police box of some kind every d@mn time, or at least occasionally.
In Logopolis, when demonstrating the circuit to Adric using the TARDIS screen, the Doctor tries out at least one new shape - that of a pyramid, I think; but the shape on the screen just reverts to a police box. In Attack Of The Cybermen, the Doctor actually gets the TARDIS to adopt a few new shapes - but it then reverts to a police box at the end of the story! So it would appear to be a software problem or that the TARDIS insists on being a police box for its own reasons. This would also explain the variations in the police box design.

The Doctor stole the TARDIS out of a repair dock, it was there because the chameleon circuit was being fixed and it was uncontrollable. So I do think it's alittle bit broken.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Here's an in-depth shot-by-shot analysis of the trailer, thanks to IO9.

They have that Dalek in part of a uniform. At least the utility belt part.

 

[TechnoBoY]

I was watching Coupling last night with friends and realized that Steven Moffat used GERONIMO in the episode "Size Matters".

I wonder what other quirks Moffat will bring to the table! So he is using Coupling material in Doctor Who! I wonder how long it will take until the Melty Man makes an appearance! Or maybe the entire planet gets stuck in a giggle loop or something.

I can't wait!

 

[Cutter John]

Personal theory on the chameleon circuit? Susan and the Doctors struggling over the controls during the shows very first takeoff shorted something out. I think at this poin the Doctor could fix it if he felt like it. But he's just gotten used to it by now. Its become kind of his lucky bowling shirt.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I was watching Coupling last night with friends and realized that Steven Moffat used GERONIMO in the episode "Size Matters".

I wonder what other quirks Moffat will bring to the table! So he is using Coupling material in Doctor Who! I wonder how long it will take until the Melty Man makes an appearance! Or maybe the entire planet gets stuck in a giggle loop or something.

I can't wait!

Oh, nice catch. I haven't watched Coupling in a few years, so I've completely forgotten about that.

As I've said before, I hope we'll see either Jack Davenport or Gina Bellman on the show in the near future. Okay, any of them would be great, but especially Davenport or Bellman.

 

[captcalhoun]

Davenport's probably a tad busy with FlashForward atm.

Ace said Geronimo in Battlefield when she jumped into the vortex with the silver bullets...

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^Isn't Gina Bellman busy with Leverage too?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, but I can't imagine FlashForward having a long shelf life. I haven't heard about Leverage so I can't comment there. Still, a man can hope, right?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Yeah, but I can't imagine FlashForward having a long shelf life. I haven't heard about Leverage so I can't comment there. Still, a man can hope, right?

I believe it's on TNT and it's kinda like an American Hustle type series.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

I just think it looks too clean and new and featureless--remember, the only reason the TARDIS looks like a police box is because its chameleon circuit froze up on a visit to the UK sometime before "An Unearthly Child." As such, I'd expect it to look more weathered and grimy, both to better resemble a real box and because of all the hundreds of years of hard living it's had since the circuit went kaput.

My view is that there's nothing physically wrong with the chameleon circuit and that it turns the TARDIS into a police box of some kind every d@mn time, or at least occasionally.
In Logopolis, when demonstrating the circuit to Adric using the TARDIS screen, the Doctor tries out at least one new shape - that of a pyramid, I think; but the shape on the screen just reverts to a police box. In Attack Of The Cybermen, the Doctor actually gets the TARDIS to adopt a few new shapes - but it then reverts to a police box at the end of the story! So it would appear to be a software problem or that the TARDIS insists on being a police box for its own reasons. This would also explain the variations in the police box design.

I like this theory. It fits in with the idea, deftly and subtly conveyed, that the TARDIS is a wise, benevolent, loving but profoundly neurotic entity. She's a police box not because she can't change but because she won't. Poor girl needs therapy: maybe they should do an episode where the Doctor gets Freud--better still, Jung--to try and psychoanalyze her.

 

[Starkers]

I was watching Coupling last night with friends and realized that Steven Moffat used GERONIMO in the episode "Size Matters".

I wonder what other quirks Moffat will bring to the table! So he is using Coupling material in Doctor Who! I wonder how long it will take until the Melty Man makes an appearance! Or maybe the entire planet gets stuck in a giggle loop or something.

I can't wait!

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=111540



Funnily enough I've started rewatching Coupling and watched the very same episode last night!

Doctor Who and the Lesbian Spank Inferno...?

 

[davejames]

I like this theory. It fits in with the idea, deftly and subtly conveyed, that the TARDIS is a wise, benevolent, loving but profoundly neurotic entity. She's a police box not because she can't change but because she won't. Poor girl needs therapy: maybe they should do an episode where the Doctor gets Freud--better still, Jung--to try and psychoanalyze her.

I thought the Tardis-being-sentient-thing didn't start until the new series?

I do like the idea though.

 

[Skellington]

I like this theory. It fits in with the idea, deftly and subtly conveyed, that the TARDIS is a wise, benevolent, loving but profoundly neurotic entity. She's a police box not because she can't change but because she won't. Poor girl needs therapy: maybe they should do an episode where the Doctor gets Freud--better still, Jung--to try and psychoanalyze her.

I thought the Tardis-being-sentient-thing didn't start until the new series?

I do like the idea though.

No, it was hinted at a few times in the old series. It's been described as "semi-sentient", having a "mood" and generating a low-level telepathic field. It has "telepathic circuits" that handle the translation of languages and seemingly it can choose destinations based on the Doctor's thought patterns.

 

[Kelso]

I like to think that's also why the Doctor so often gets his landings wrong- the TARDIS notices something more interesting going on and lands there instead.

 

[bigdaddy]

THE END IS JUST THE BEGINNING!

Everyone, run for office and let's ban that horrible stupid over done phrase once and for all!