Doctor Who

[Talavar]

So the new Doctor Who was announced today.  Taking over as the 11th Doctor is...

Spoiler

Some guy I've never heard of!  Seriously though, his name's Matt Smith.  He's been in almost nothing and he's 26.  I'm not impressed.

[deano_ue]

honestly it was more of a meh, really.i'll give him a chance but even when we got tennant, i didn't know who tennant was but i was excited about the idea of him as the doctor

this guy just was a case of huh this is the way there going


also to announce it like this was a really stupid move by the bbc when eccleston became tennant it was a big impact it was a shock, yes we knew it was coming but that should have waited and just had the new guy show up

[Glitch Girl]

More on this guy

Link with interview clip
what he's done

[Bujin]

After watching the Doctor Who Confidential on YouTube, I'm optimistic.  I have a lot of faith in Moffett, so I'm sure he would make a good pick.

[Volsung]

Yup, with Moffat in command , I'm serene

[deano_ue]

please guys i'm a moffet fan as like the rest of you, but this is the guy that also said in a interview that he seen the doctor and the masters as star crossed lovers

[Mahu]

Tennant sold me on the Doctor. I wasn't a fan until he came on the scene, so the new doctor has 3 episodes to impress me.

Which I will be able to see in a couple of years! 

[B A D]

Not Happy.

I would like to have a Doctor who appears old enough to drive a freaking car, much less a Tardis. This kid makes Tennant look  positively grandfatherly.

Ill be on the wait and see list with  this one.

[AfghanAnt]

While I don't know how I feel about the kid just yet, I do understand why they chose someone younger (but maybe they should have picked someone more handsome but whateverz). I was really hoping Patterson Joseph would be the new Doctor.

[detourne_me]

The best quotation I heard of to describe this Matt Smith guy was... "What if Frank Quitely drew A Flock of Seagulls?" that is what the dude looks like.

[Talavar]

The first of this year's "season" aired in Britain this past weekend: Planet of the Dead.

Spoiler

The episode begins with a woman doing a fairly cliched museum robbery, then while the cops close in she makes her getaway aboard a city bus - that the Doctor also boards.  While driving the bus goes through a wormhole and ends up stranded on another planet, a desert.

Overall, I thought it was a servicable, but light episode.  Tennant is great as always (he will be missed), but the plot overall, I'd describe as a cross between Pitch Black (minus the blackness) and Flight of the Phoenix.

[bredon7777]

Not to be overly nitpicky, but I was under the impression that "The Next Doctor" began the 2009 'Season', and that this season would consist of 4 episodes (The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars, and ?) before the 2010 season kicks off with a Christmas special starring the new guy.

[Talavar]

The Next Doctor doesn't count as one of the 4 specials they're doing in place of a regular season.  At least according to the Wikipedia page on the subject and the Doctor Who website; both say there'll be 4 specials in 2009.  One of them - the last - will probably be this year's Xmas special.

[B A D]

It was an ok episode. I have much more hope for "Waters of Mars."  That looks downright creepy.

[Talavar]

Doctor Who is always better when creepy - which is why I have high hopes for Steven Moffat's tenure as showrunner.

[Volsung]

Doctor Who is always better when creepy - which is why I have high hopes for Steven Moffat's tenure as showrunner.

So do I But he may have some restrictions, like keeping the show overall "family friendly".
My gf and I will still cry when Tennant will have to pass on the torch .

[Kommando]

I case anyone is interested, as of July 31 Outpost Gallifrey is shutting down for good.

Link

[marhawkman]

Hmm... this looks promising. when is it scheduled for US broadcast?

[bredon7777]

New companion is a major hottie.  Nothing wrong with that, per se, but I hoped we were done with the UST.

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/we-love-telly/2009/06/karen-gillan-and-the-windy-car.html

[deano_ue]

the only problem i have the look of the 2 new stars screams twilight bah

[Kommando]

the only problem i have the look of the 2 new stars screams twilight bah

I had no idea vampires wore tweed jackets with a bowtie.  Matt Smith on set in costume.

Also.  Tom Baker to reprise his role as the Doctor in five audio adventures.

[marhawkman]

Hehe, this will be amusing.

[Volsung]

OMg! George Mcfly   ^^

Wait?! tennant COuld play Bilbo baggins?!!!

[Kommando]

BBC audio has released an Audio Trailer.

[Avalon]

Somehow I got hooked on this when they showed it on PBS the last year. I don't why but I am.
I will be more hooked when that redheaded companion shows up.

Side note: About time Tom Baker sold out. He waited too long.
Side Side Note: Tom Baker wants to play The Master!!! How cool would that be?

[Avalon]

If you look at the whole history of the who has been playing Dr. Who, each one keeps getting younger and younger (sort of). Ironic.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

I just found out who the Doctor's companion for 10th Doctor's last showing will be.

Spoiler

While Donna will appear in the episode, her grandfather Wilf will actually be serving as the Doctor's companion.  This I like.

[marhawkman]

Grandfather? This should be amusing...

[B A D]

It would be horribly ironic if  in the last episode everyone makes an appearance and still somehow the Doctor manages to die alone.
It would be the perfect end for Ten.

[Talavar]

I just saw the most recent Doctor Who special, the last before the allegedly 2-part Xmas special, Waters of Mars.

Spoiler

And I didn't care much for it at all.  Most of the episode is fine, if nothing special: the Doctor arrives at the 1st human Mars outpost, not realizing it is the first.  When he does, he remembers that they die tragically, self-detonating to prevent an unknown contamination from spreading.  He knows he should leave because the deaths are very important to humanity's future, but when the unknown contamination starts becoming known, his curiosity keeps him staying around.  Finally he decides that being a time lord means cheating fate, and the uninfected members of the crew moments before the nuclear detonation.

And that's where it goes stupid.  It'd be perfectly reasonable to save the people and retain the same future by simply taking them to live on another planet, or in the future, or the past, but instead, he takes them back to Earth on the very same day.  Two crew members freak out & run off, but the Captain, having already been told of the importance of her death to her immediate descendants, gets awfully irate at the man she's only met that day for saving her life, goes into her house & kills herself, supposedly to preserve the timeline.  Which is also grossly stupid - there's no way a heroic sacrifice on Mars plays them same to her daughter & granddaughter, not to mention the world at large, as a suicide does.  And if the Doctor had really decided to start playing god in a serious way, he has a time machine.  The moment he heard the gunshot he could have gone back in time 5 minutes and been waiting in the Captain's house for her.  Throw in a little heavy-handed foreshadowing, and we're done.

So a mediocre episode with a terrible ending.  Seriously, I've seen pieces of cheesecloth with less holes in them than this ending.