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Thread: Doctor Who: (again) Winter 2012
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Pyx_e
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Yes!
edit to add for Peter Capaldi!
[ 04. August 2013, 18:28: Message edited by: Pyx_e ]
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balaam
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The bookies were right.
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Ariel
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# 58
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Good, someone older. Let's see how this one pans out.
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Adeodatus
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Excellent choice. I watched The Fires of Pompeii earlier, picking up on all the "is it him" stuff going on.
He's going to be good.
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Good choice. Old enough for gravitas, young enough for action.
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Capaldi is a fantastic actor and so a good choice - but I would have loved a 'different' choice with some fantastic black actors in the bookies' frame (though they may not have been available in reality)
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Ariel
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# 58
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I might start watching the series again. What on earth happened to Matt Smith's head? Appalling haircut.
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Penny S
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There's a rather rude tweet going round, starting "Oi Dalek, stuff your lollipop..." originated by a guy called Nathan Gowan, transposing Malcolm Tucker into the role.
He looks good - but there is a similarity in build developing, which was not there in Old Who, isn't there?
And I have suddenly realised I had not thought about, not only why not black, but why not South Asian, why not Chinese - there's a lot of why nots.
And the way Moffat is talking - the last Dr - he seems to be building up to a Reichenbach moment, or more so.
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Sparrow
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Excellent choice.
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Trudy Scrumptious
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I'm so happy the Doctor is going to be older than I am again!! I had trouble buying Matt Smith in the role of an ancient alien who'd seen it all. As I mentioned before he looked a bit like one of my former students which really destroyed the illusion for me. Don't know anything about Peter Capaldi but I'm excited for a new face in the role!
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An excellent choice, I think. He is a talented actor, and will do the role justice.
Definitely some hints that there is a conclusion coming, which would be interesting, although I suspect that they will still pull something out of the hat.
Of course, it may be that they will just decide to conclude the series. It would not be unknown, but it would be a shame.
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Pine Marten
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quote:
Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
Let's all fall silent and reflect on the fact that I was the first to suggest him:
16th June:
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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
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Peter Capaldi for Twelve?
I hope he keeps his accept for the role.
Respect, Rosa Winkel ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) .
I'm very happy - Peter Calpaldi is an excellent actor, and what's more is a fan of the show. I'm getting all tingley with anticipation ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) .
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The Rogue
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Well done, Rosa.
I must admit I don't particularly know him although I do remember him in Pompeii. And that has been the case for every new Doctor so I have no expectations and will just look forward to finding out how it goes and how he plays it.
ETA Fortunately, nobody had him in this year's death pool.
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Adeodatus
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His list of credits is very impressive - Peter Capaldi. I thought his performance in Torchwood: Children of Earth was absolutely brilliant.
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Children of Men is now going to look a bit different.
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Sparrow
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Originally posted by Dafyd:
Children of Men is now going to look a bit different.
So will Fires of Pompeii!
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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
Thanks you two.
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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
I hope he keeps his accept for the role.
Obviously, I meant accent.
I agree. I think it was a great shame that David Tennant spoke RP as the Doctor. Especially coming after Christopher Eccleston: after all, lots of planets have a north.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Angloid:
I think it was a great shame that David Tennant spoke RP as the Doctor.
YMMV, but I found it less distracting and easier to understand. The Doctor's an alien, he doesn't hail from a particular region of Britain and IMO shouldn't be associated with a particular locality.
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M.
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Brilliant choice.
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Rosa Winkel
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Originally posted by Ariel:
quote:
Originally posted by Angloid:
I think it was a great shame that David Tennant spoke RP as the Doctor.
YMMV, but I found it less distracting and easier to understand. The Doctor's an alien, he doesn't hail from a particular region of Britain and IMO shouldn't be associated with a particular locality.
Such as south England?
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Ariel
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# 58
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Quite. He spends altogether too much time in London, and there are other places on this planet. How about investigating a lost city in the desert or a monastery in the mountains, or something?
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Sparrow
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Quite. He spends altogether too much time in London, and there are other places on this planet. How about investigating a lost city in the desert or a monastery in the mountains, or something?
He spends altogether too much time on Earth - in old Who he was on other planets much more than Earth.
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Pine Marten
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From what I've heard in interviews Capaldi's real accent is softer than Tennant's, which is very...well, Scottish. I do find broad Scots accents hard to decipher, but if Capaldi uses his own as the Doctor that's fine.
Tennant's done several voiceovers for various documentaries, and I did find that at times I was listening to his actual accent rather than what he was saying. So clarity should be important - and less gabbling, which Matt (much as I love him as the Doctor) was guilty of quite often.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
God's own country is fairly well represented in the modern Doctor Who.
Really? I hadn't noticed they were mostly set in Scotland.
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Pine Marten
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# 11068
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God's own country is Yorkshire, surely?
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Ariel
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# 58
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Originally posted by Sparrow:
He spends altogether too much time on Earth - in old Who he was on other planets much more than Earth.
You're right! The Doctor needs to get out more.
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The Revolutionist
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Originally posted by Sparrow:
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Quite. He spends altogether too much time in London, and there are other places on this planet. How about investigating a lost city in the desert or a monastery in the mountains, or something?
He spends altogether too much time on Earth - in old Who he was on other planets much more than Earth.
There's always been a fairly high ratio of stories set on Earth. In the Hartnell era, it was roughly half-and-half between earth-bound historicals and future/alien adventures. The Pertwee era saw the Doctor exiled to Earth for budgetary reasons. Though in Tom Baker's time he'd sometimes only pop to Earth once or twice a series.
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Robert Armin
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I was hoping that the time had come for a Doctor who was fat, short, balding and old. Once again I've been cruelly overlooked by the BBC.
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Firenze
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Ha! Join the entire half of the human race that's been overlooked.
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Popping in belatedly to say that he does seem like a good choice from what I know of him. Certainly seems capable of playing the slightly weird/alien qualities of the character.
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Barefoot Friar
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We shall see. The Tenth Doctor is still "my" Doctor. Here's hoping the Twelfth upsets him!
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balaam
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Originally posted by Ariel:
The Doctor's an alien, he doesn't hail from a particular region of Britain and IMO shouldn't be associated with a particular locality.
"Lots of planets have a north." — The Doctor.
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Jengie jon
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However the North is a big place with lots of accents. Exactly which one were you expecting the Doctor to have.
Jengie
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Ariel
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# 58
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Why not a North Gallifreyan accent, then?
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Jengie jon
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Admittedly there is Northern Educated. Its a nebulous sort of accent spoken by teacher, librarians, doctors and lecturers etc who work and were raised and educated in the North. It is definitely not a Southern Accent and it is not RP, tends to have the harsh northern vowels but few dialect words and other clues to location. It is sort of the lingua franca of the Northern Chattering classes.
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Admittedly there is Northern Educated. Its a nebulous sort of accent spoken by teacher, librarians, doctors and lecturers etc who work and were raised and educated in the North. It is definitely not a Southern Accent and it is not RP, tends to have the harsh northern vowels but few dialect words and other clues to location. It is sort of the lingua franca of the Northern Chattering classes.
I'll try not to take that as an insult.
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Jengie jon
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Hey its my own accent and most the people I know, well those who do not have educated Scots.
Jengie
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Og: Thread Killer
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Here's hoping that this 50 year old type of Dr. does not have somebody fall in love with him.
Unless its to a Mark Knopfler soundtrack. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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The Rogue
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Arthur Dent wasn't 50.
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Adeodatus
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Some of the Doctor Who fan sites that are mostly frequented by Young People have been going mad over Capaldi's age. Clearly the Youth expect anyone over 50 to be permanently confined to a hospital bed, or, better still, decently dead.
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The Rogue
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Perhaps he will be in a hospital bed. He would have to widen the doors of the Tardis so that his assistant(s) can wheel him in and out, though. And he will have to adopt some Dalek technology so that stairs aren't an issue.
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Ariel
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# 58
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Will he make it to a second episode?? Place your bets now.
If you think back to when you were a Young Person, 50 was probably totally unimaginable and completely past it. 40 and 30 weren't much better either. It's only when you reach these incredible ages that you realize that they aren't actually very much in the grand scheme of things. Capaldi will be fine and hopefully there will be less frantic rushing about and more storyline.
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Rosa Winkel
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Originally posted by The Rogue:
Perhaps he will be in a hospital bed. He would have to widen the doors of the Tardis so that his assistant(s) can wheel him in and out, though. And he will have to adopt some Dalek technology so that stairs aren't an issue.
Which gives me the vision of the Doctor being a wheelchair-user. I haven't seen a call for that.
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Ariel
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It's... it's bigger on the inside than...
Woo hoo! Who's up for lunch at Milliways? Oh, and by the way, can anyone fly this thing?
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