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Post by K-Box on Jun 3, 2009 18:46:51 GMT -8
Interesting. The more I hear about Moffat's plans (especially knowing what I already do about his style), the more I see him being an unapologetic nostalgic for a very specific era of Classic Who ... |
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Post by K-Box on Jun 3, 2009 20:37:41 GMT -8
Life, Doctor Who & Combom: New Sarah Jane Adventures Photographs Taken In Llandaff, Cardiff (31-05-09)Showing that Sarah Jane still has a sex life, even if only in an all-ages-approved way, SHOULD fill me with squee, but at this point, I simply don't trust Russell T. Davies' skanky gender issues not to fuck this up. I don't want it retroactively established that Sarah Jane basically became a nun after the Doctor dumped her, nor do I want her hookup with this mysterious new man to be presented as OH NOES HER LAST CHANCE AT HAPPINESS, because that plays far too heavily into the Miss Havisham undertones that dampened my enthusiasm for "School Reunion" and "Invasion of the Bane." If her new beau is secretly an evil alien, I don't want her easily duped by him as a result of some spinster-ish desperation on her part, and if he's not ... well, I'm sorry, but even if he's just Joe Nice Guy, I'd really rather not see her married off at all, unless it's to the Doctor or Alan Jackson, or both, especially if it's just RTD's way of "tidying up" the character in order for her series to end (since it does seem at least as likely as not that S3 of SJA will be its last, given that the CBBC is well-documented as being almost as self-destructively penny-pinching as the Sci-Fi Channel, not to mention Moff's rumored desire to make a "clean break" from all aspects of RTD's era). Even if Sarah Jane's series is going away, her character doesn't need to be saddled with a future invisible husband. Let Sarah Jane stay single, so she can have casual no-strings sex with the Doctor and Alan and Jack Harkness in fanon.
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Post by paulpogue on Jun 4, 2009 8:57:50 GMT -8
Holy frak, SJA is in a skirt? What IS this guy doing to her???
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Post by jarddavis on Jun 7, 2009 11:38:01 GMT -8
Initial thoughts so far on Doc #11:
I agree with Jens. He looks way too much like Crispin Glover.
However, what's scary is that in the interview he sounds like a cross between Crispin and Matthew Waterhouse.
If I was a series writer, I already know where I'd take this particular Doctor. I'd make this the darkest Doctor of all. Because I have a feeling that this kid will excel at he whole 950 year old time lord and I will make you utterly miserable in a heartbeat. I would make this guy the most manipulative and devious Doctor yet. Because it's there. It's right there. There's that almost psychotic glint in Smith's eyes.
Not sure about some of the things I'm seeing coming out of Moffet's camp so far. Returning the face to the credits, redesigning th Tardis control room... But the new companion is right up my alley.
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Post by jarddavis on Jun 7, 2009 11:38:55 GMT -8
You know it's funny, by my all time favorite outfit of Sarah Jane's was the victorian style dress she wore in Pyramid's of Mars.
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Post by jessebaker on Jun 7, 2009 11:55:33 GMT -8
Initial thoughts so far on Doc #11: I agree with Jens. He looks way too much like Crispin Glover. However, what's scary is that in the interview he sounds like a cross between Crispin and Matthew Waterhouse. If I was a series writer, I already know where I'd take this particular Doctor. I'd make this the darkest Doctor of all. Because I have a feeling that this kid will excel at he whole 950 year old time lord and I will make you utterly miserable in a heartbeat. I would make this guy the most manipulative and devious Doctor yet. Because it's there. It's right there. There's that almost psychotic glint in Smith's eyes. So you agree with me that they need to bring back the Colin Baker asshole version of the Doctor? |
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Post by jarddavis on Jun 7, 2009 14:54:47 GMT -8
More manipulative, more devious, yes. But not the Colin Baker version, which was loud and obnoxious. This kid is anything but.
This is Ozymandius in the shell of the Doctor here. This is Adrian Veidt as a Time Lord. This is the machinactions of the Sylvester McCoy version taken up to the power of ten.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 15, 2009 22:24:03 GMT -8
HOLY SHIT CASTING SPOILERS I'm still convinced that Rusty will fuck this up somehow, but it's hard not to get psyched when I see photos like this, from the remaining specials ...  ... Starring John Simm as Eminem, David Tennant as the Riddler, and Timothy Dalton as "Borusa ... James Borusa." |
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Post by paulpogue on Jun 16, 2009 9:10:37 GMT -8
Yeah, as soon as I saw this I started thinking, "Well, that's ten more points in favor of Kirk's Borusa theory right there."
Though Dalton looks less like Old James Bond and much more like Youngish Captain Picard. But I will never, ever have a bad word to say about a Dalton performance; he's been pure gold in everything he's in, even if the rest of the movie sucks. (Fran Drescher trying to remake "The Sound of Music" in "The Beautician and the Beast" being a particularly egregious example -- the movie was horrible, I'm not even sure half the production staff was aware how much they were ripping off/homaging/whatevering "Sound of Music," but right there in the middle is Dalton, doing his absolute best to channel Christopher Plummer.)
Even after seeing the Golden Compass movie, with a reasonably strong Daniel Craig performance, I can't see anyone but Dalton as Lord Asriel.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 16, 2009 12:29:34 GMT -8
You have to admit, with Simm and Tennant chorusing what look like Three Stooges-style "HELLO!"s to the camera, Dalton's smile looks like nothing so much as the expression of an indulgent but slightly exasperated teacher, when dealing with two prize pupils who also happen to be class clowns.
And I still remember seeing Dalton's Errol Flynn-style turn in The Rocketeer, and thinking to myself, "You know, this guy would actually make a really good James Bond - oh, wait ..."
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Post by K-Box on Jun 16, 2009 12:34:42 GMT -8
Yeah, as soon as I saw this I started thinking, "Well, that's ten more points in favor of Kirk's Borusa theory right there." Here's another one - Rassilon already MADE HIM IMMORTAL. Even if the rest of Gallifrey got blown up to shit, Borusa is one of two Time Lords who has an automatic "out" for that shit, without even needing a fob watch to hide his presence from the Doctor (the other being Romana, who, as soon as Gallifrey passed the point of no return, was forcibly removed from her post as president by a loyal crew of Tharils, who weren't about to let the captain go down with her ship, and from there, they just went to another universe, since as Rose proved, that impassible barrier really isn't so impassible after all). |
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Post by jkcarrier on Jun 16, 2009 14:15:59 GMT -8
Here's another one - Rassilon already MADE HIM IMMORTAL. Even if the rest of Gallifrey got blown up to shit, Borusa is one of two Time Lords who has an automatic "out" for that shit IIRC, there were already several other "headstones" in Rassilon's tomb when Borusa got zapped. So there's a few more Time Lords they can pull out if they wish. I suspect we're well on our way to Gallifrey being the equivalent of pre-Crisis Krypton... i.e., we'll be hard-pressed to name anyone who actually died there. |
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Post by paulpogue on Jun 16, 2009 18:43:04 GMT -8
You have to admit, with Simm and Tennant chorusing what look like Three Stooges-style "HELLO!"s to the camera, Dalton's smile looks like nothing so much as the expression of an indulgent but slightly exasperated teacher, when dealing with two prize pupils who also happen to be class clowns. And I still remember seeing Dalton's Errol Flynn-style turn in The Rocketeer, and thinking to myself, "You know, this guy would actually make a really good James Bond - oh, wait ..." Ha! That's a great image. I always smile when I think about "The Rocketeer," which is one of the most underrated comic-book movies of that era. You can actually draw a direct line from some of the uncontrolled-flying cinematography all the way to the flying sequences in Iron Man. And of course, the whole movie bodes extremely well for the upcoming "Captain America." |
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Post by paulpogue on Jun 16, 2009 18:45:34 GMT -8
Here's another one - Rassilon already MADE HIM IMMORTAL. Even if the rest of Gallifrey got blown up to shit, Borusa is one of two Time Lords who has an automatic "out" for that shit IIRC, there were already several other "headstones" in Rassilon's tomb when Borusa got zapped. So there's a few more Time Lords they can pull out if they wish. I suspect we're well on our way to Gallifrey being the equivalent of pre-Crisis Krypton... i.e., we'll be hard-pressed to name anyone who actually died there. To be honest, given Oracle Lady's "It is returning" line in "Planet of the Dead," I suspect it's going to be less a matter of the resurrection-creep that infected Krypton, and more a flat-out return of the whole damn thing. Probably connected to the Doctor's impending death, and probably also involving some kind of ironic twist that the Master is responsible for saving it all. |
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Post by jessebaker on Jun 16, 2009 19:54:22 GMT -8
Or Romana; part of me wishes for them to say "fuck it" to the expanded universe and reveal that, from E-Space, Romana managed to mass teleport her entire planet's population to her new universe. Which would, when you think about it, let them have the best of both worlds: The Time Lord race is alive and well, but living in a parallel universe, allowing the Doctor to still be the last of the Time Lords in his universe.
(Hell, they could just say that the Romana from the novels who became Time Lord President was an imposture/Dalek creation or her Valeyard counterpart to keep Romana's E-Space fate intact while not gutting the expanded universe)
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