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Post by Miisa on Nov 24, 2013 15:27:20 GMT
At several points I was bemoaning Eccleston not doing it and how that would make more sense, but then it would also have influenced the chemistry, perhaps not for the better.
Did you catch the glimpse of Capaldi there with all the others?
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Post by Miisa on Nov 24, 2013 15:41:17 GMT
Peter Davison and some others made this little film about NOT being in the special, it's hilarious. Is on the BBC's page, but appears to be visible at least for me without IP modification, so likely also elsewhere: The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
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Post by JoeP on Nov 24, 2013 15:48:01 GMT
Did you catch the glimpse of Capaldi there with all the others? Just his eyebrows, I think. "Thirteen!"
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Post by Miisa on Nov 24, 2013 15:52:01 GMT
Still in the middle of the video I posted (watching it between work calls), and more and more people are turning up and being amazing! John Barrowman, Moffat, Ian McKellen, Peter Jackson...
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Post by JoeP on Nov 24, 2013 16:09:08 GMT
Same here except I'm not supposed to be working at the same time
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Post by JoeP on Nov 24, 2013 16:11:23 GMT
"You lean on it - it doesn't wobble at all! I used to like the old wobble!"
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 24, 2013 17:40:24 GMT
I think she has. I will need to see it again soon, though. I found the IT crowd too annoying, which is surprising, as I essentially do the same job those guys do. I assume you meant the UK one? I saw the US pilot attempt and it went the same way as Red Dwarf US. They took something fundamentally British and took the Britishness out of it, leaving a hollow shell!
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 24, 2013 17:42:07 GMT
...nearer to the subject, that was the main problem with the Paul McGann original episode (not the recent one)... the Americans made it!
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Post by Kye on Nov 24, 2013 19:00:59 GMT
Being faceblind made the watching of the 50th anniversary maddening. Apart from Matt Smith and David Tennant and the girl who plays Clara, I didn't know who anyone was.
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Post by Miisa on Nov 24, 2013 19:39:11 GMT
I knew John Hurt and Billie Piper as well, but not really anyone else, not sure one needed to? You could recognize the other doctors from their clothes, though.
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Post by JoeP on Nov 25, 2013 10:51:28 GMT
Did you recognise Tom Baker? Not dressed in his Doctor clothes and much older, so no clues.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2013 12:40:37 GMT
Only found this thread today. We went to the cinema on Saturday night where they showed the movie - in English. Funny enough, there were lots of fans there and they showed the movie at least twice that night. Usually, I never run into Dr. Who fans here in Germany, so I wonder where they have all been hiding.
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Post by Miisa on Nov 25, 2013 15:10:30 GMT
Did you recognise Tom Baker? Not dressed in his Doctor clothes and much older, so no clues. I gathered from the context that he must be a former Doctor, but never having seen the older ones I don't have those faces imprinted on my brain.
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Post by Kye on Nov 25, 2013 15:11:55 GMT
Like Miisa, I never watched the older Doctor Who, so a lot of the nostalgia is lost on me.
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Post by tangent on Nov 25, 2013 21:07:58 GMT
The older Doctor Who episodes were nothing special (with the very occasional exception). We would have the programme on for the children but we would ignore it because it was boring and predictable.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2013 23:13:54 GMT
Frank told me he watched the old episodes when he was a little child and back then, he was really scared of the Daleks.
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Post by tangent on Nov 25, 2013 23:56:19 GMT
Indeed, children used to hide behind the sofa.
We had visitors one day (my sister and her family). While we were having our tea, the children were watching Doctor Who. Colin, my sister's husband, admitted he never watched it and asked what it was all about. I think I summed up the previous episode in one sentence, adding that Doctor Who wins in the end, and we went back to having our tea.
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Post by Kye on Nov 26, 2013 1:16:03 GMT
I saw my very first episode of Doctor Who at Jo's place in 2008. It was Blink. I was hooked.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2013 7:41:12 GMT
Frank introduced me to Dr. Who. I was hooked as well after that.
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Post by charliebrown on Nov 26, 2013 9:09:52 GMT
I also watched at jo's and on Polish channel once (a special episode). I believe I would be hooked if I could watch it regularly here.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 26, 2013 9:51:39 GMT
I used to hide behind the sofa.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2013 11:28:25 GMT
I also watched at jo's and on Polish channel once (a special episode). I believe I would be hooked if I could watch it regularly here. We can't watch it regularly here, but we are slowly making our way through the DVD sets.
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Post by tangent on Nov 27, 2013 17:59:43 GMT
We can't watch it regularly here... Shame
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 29, 2013 21:30:21 GMT
Watched it last night... thoroughly disappointed at the heavily disjointed plot, trying to be too clever again and thick with contrivances. Will not be rushing to watch it again. If they had taken out the name reference, Billie Piper could have been replaced by absolutely anyone! I'm not even going to start down the paradox route...
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Post by juju on Nov 30, 2013 8:36:27 GMT
Watched it last night... thoroughly disappointed at the heavily disjointed plot, trying to be too clever again and thick with contrivances. Will not be rushing to watch it again. I was a bit confused the first time I watched it (although I still enjoyed it) but I watched it again and it fell into place. I really loved it the second time round.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 30, 2013 9:18:39 GMT
I understood it and many aspects did work well. I thought it had a lot more potential, but they were too busy trying to make it an event. 30 minutes in, it was still adding plot threads and nothing significant had happened. I very nearly turned it off at that point; almost 40% of the way through and the Doctor(s) still hadn't shown any sign of meeting up.
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Post by kingedmund on Dec 29, 2014 15:10:59 GMT
Watched some old reruns yesterday of Dr. Who.
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Post by Mari on Sept 17, 2016 6:32:00 GMT
I loved the anniversary episode. Finally some of the old sense of humour was back. The thing about the last couple of seasons was that it lost a lot of the light-heartedness that I loved in season one to four. Yesterday I finally finished season 9 with capaldi. The last 4 episodes sucked big time and we're completely weird and inane, but before that I enjoyed myself, thinking I might actually get back into the series.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 1, 2019 3:27:16 GMT
So, Whovers, what do you think?
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