Speculation on Series 11 Console Room
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A radical departure?
Green screen the console room and just have the console as a physical prop.
Green screening could provide a unimaginably big console room
Green screen the console room and just have the console as a physical prop.
Green screening could provide a unimaginably big console room
For unimaginably big, why not go for infinite? The control console is on a smallish platform with a catwalk to the TARDIS entrance. The engines float in mid-air above it, the supports hidden by the greenscreening. All around is just open outer space, like you can step off the platform into infinity. Ditch the LCD flat screen and use the Timelord display tech we saw in the Gallifrey war room in "Day of the Doctor," where the 2D image just floats in mid-air. That would be very inexpensive to composite in with CGI nowadays, since it doesn't need to be rendered in 3D. Either way, with LCD screen or mid-air screen, you'd have to generate the graphics to be displayed anyway, and just applying it to a flat virtual plane to change the perspective and making it translucent would be a piece of cake, adding almost nothing to the production budget. Or better yet, project it into that "outer space" around the platform to make it look like a gigantic image. The Doctor can see the heads of people he's communicating with in enormous size, sort of like when Xur delivered his ultimatum to Enduran at Starfighter Command in The Last Starfighter. Forget "bigger on the inside." Go for "infinite on the inside."
No thanks. Isn't that borderline of using female gender stereotypes, the sort of thing they're trying to get away from?
Sounds like the stellar cartography room in Generations.
Did that ceiling have a point? It's not like they could use it to really look at what's going on outside the TARDIS. They basically used it twice to see Gallifrey and then that the universe was being destroyed in a CG wave of fire (or something). Otherwise it looked like the default ceiling was an undefined misty darkness, though that could have just been the VHS copy I was watching. :P
The last two console rooms had dual monitors, but IMO neither was used very effectively. Obviously the next iteration will have a smaller screen on or attached to the console (as it has been since the 2005 revival and arguably since the 1996 version). But I do miss the classic monitor in the wall for proper looks outside.
Mark
The last two console rooms had dual monitors, but IMO neither was used very effectively. Obviously the next iteration will have a smaller screen on or attached to the console (as it has been since the 2005 revival and arguably since the 1996 version). But I do miss the classic monitor in the wall for proper looks outside.
Mark
I dunno. It depends if you consider the seventh and eight Doctors female. Their console room in the TVM had a comfy chair, and was decorated in late nineties new age bric-a-brac style. I think there was a piano.
And nine and ten had a sort of battered beige leather comfy chair.....Colin baker dragged a neon eighties monstrosity in at the opening of Vengeance on Varos.
Beyond an overt desire for painting everything pink, floral borders, and a doily on every flat surface going...a stereotype I base on various little old ladies living rooms I have seen throughout the extended family...I am not sure you can really gender interior design that much unless you are really trying.
I'll chip in here.
I'll be annoyed if it's another orangey organic looking TARDIS. I echo the sentiments by many here and would like a more traditional, minimalist, white TARDIS. As the Doctor's outfit looks a bit 80s, as many have said, a slightly 80s TARDIS would be nice. Whether it's based on the aesthetics of the classic series TARDIS or something more like the TNG Enterprise, I'd like something more in the vein of one of those looks. Maybe something like this but with a flat floor and maybe a bit smaller. Also maybe stick with the Police Box Tardis door.
This is basically the NA era seventh doctors Tardis from DWM. It changed after interfacing with his ring (that he lost during his first regeneration, and I think we see fall off Capaldi too...) and the interior dimensions get reconfigured. It was a Tardis special issue, and the strip was in continuity with the novels back then. Till they changed their mind.
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