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"The Doctor's Wife" Wins Hugo Award

Brendan Moody

Brendan Moody

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Unsurprisingly, the combination of Neil Gaiman and Doctor Who was irresistible to Hugo voters. "A Good Man Goes to War" and "The Girl Who Waited" were also nominated in the Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) category.

Apparently a live stream of the awards ceremony included clips from the episode, accidentally triggering the feed provider's copyright protection service and shutting the stream down in the middle of Gaiman's speech. The #hugos tag on Twitter is currently full of fan rage about it.
 
Brendan Moody said:
Unsurprisingly, the combination of Neil Gaiman and Doctor Who was irresistible to Hugo voters. "A Good Man Goes to War" and "The Girl Who Waited" were also nominated in the Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) category.
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Fantastic! :techman:

Apparently a live stream of the awards ceremony included clips from the episode, accidentally triggering the feed provider's copyright protection service and shutting the stream down in the middle of Gaiman's speech. The #hugos tag on Twitter is currently full of fan rage about it.
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Fantastic. :rolleyes:
 
It may have been the clip(s) from the nominated Community episode that triggered the shutdown rather than the Who. Either way, Twitter is still pissed.

More significantly, Gaiman confirmed during his speech that he's currently on his third draft of another Doctor Who script. Presumably he's the writer in a "foreign land" Moffat mentioned as doing one of the last episodes of this season.
 
The official statistics for the award show that "The Girl Who Waited" came in second in the category, with "A Good Man Goes to War" in third.
 
I can understand the Twitter rage. Protecting copyright sis understandable. But not when we get paranoid BS like this.

Still, great news!
 
Brendan Moody said:
More significantly, Gaiman confirmed during his speech that he's currently on his third draft of another Doctor Who script. Presumably he's the writer in a "foreign land" Moffat mentioned as doing one of the last episodes of this season.
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Yeah, that one was pretty obvious.

Of course, the question is, will it actually make it into this series or get bumped?
 
The Doctor's Wife was actaully my least favourite episode of the series lol :/
 
I'm delighted to hear that, "The Doctor's Wife" is by FAR the best episode of the Moffat Era!
 
Brendan Moody said:
Unsurprisingly, the combination of Neil Gaiman and Doctor Who was irresistible to Hugo voters. "A Good Man Goes to War" and "The Girl Who Waited" were also nominated in the Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) category.

Apparently a live stream of the awards ceremony included clips from the episode, accidentally triggering the feed provider's copyright protection service and shutting the stream down in the middle of Gaiman's speech. The #hugos tag on Twitter is currently full of fan rage about it.
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Oh it is worse than that. It was a bot that flagged the copywrited material and shut it down. The worldcon folks appealed it immediately, and because they dared to appeal - and showed proof they had permission to show the material from the rights holders - ustream chose to ban them entirely. The same ustream that streams the Oscars. The WC folks here were furious last night.

I'm happy I was here when Gaiman announced he is working on a second DW episode.
 
I'd actually have preferred TGWW to have won, but am glad AGMGTW didn't.

TBH thought, Game Of Thrones winning the long form is more exciting to me, since DW wins every year!
 
As happy as I am that Gaiman won the Hugo (I figured he would), I'm even more thrilled that he's writing another episode! I can't wait! :D
 
Hated the doctors wife and the girl who waited. Can't renember a good man goes to war. Is that the finale?
 
Its the mid series finale; Demons Run, lesbian lizard ladies, lactating Sontarans, headless monks, fat gay men, thin gay men, Colonel Runaway...it's kinda hard to forget, no matter what you think of it.

The finale is the Marriage of River Song...equally barmy!
 
Lonemagpie said:
I'd actually have preferred TGWW to have won, but am glad AGMGTW didn't.

TBH thought, Game Of Thrones winning the long form is more exciting to me, since DW wins every year!
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That's true, it does win a lot but I recently realized that since 2009, when the last non-Doctor Who thing won, there's really been no competition. No BSG, Stargate, Star Trek, Whedon series, Abrams series, etc. SyFy's had some stuff going, and Warehouse 13 especially seems to have been ignored, but it's really not been on a high level recently.
 
Fringe is an Abrams series, and in fact it had two episodes get an appreciable number of votes toward a nomination this year. And Dollhouse, a Whedon series, got a nomination in 2010. But it's certainly true and possibly telling that in the last couple years the nominees other than Doctor Who have been a music video, a short film, a Hugo acceptance speech, and a sitcom episode. (Had Game of Thrones not been nominated in Long Form, though, it would have had two nominees in the Short Form category, displacing "A Good Man Goes to War" and the Hugo acceptance speech.)
 
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