whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
It's amazing that the Doctor planned everything that happened, the entire season. Kind of like a more benevolent 7th. This is in contrast with tenth's spur of the moment-type brilliant ideas.
We knew this was coming. It's long been stated in Doctor Who lore that our favourite Time Lord gets twelve regenerations in his life, before time finally comes to an end for him. And while there have been hints over the years about how this will be circumnavigated when the time comes, we're getting ever closer to the point where it needs to be addressed directly. After all, we're on Doctor number eleven so far, Matt Smith, and that leaves two actors to take the role before the number's up.
And even that's if you overlook The Valeyard from The Trial Of A Time Lord, implied to be a future iteration of the Doctor towards the end of that particular saga.
Most of us suspected for some time that something akin to the Master being given more regenerations in The Five Doctors would be employed in the end, as this clearly set down the idea that a Time Lord's life could be extended by other Time Lords. But then there weren't any Time Lords left in the revival of the show. And now there are again. Which surely left a door open somewhere.
As has been reported, however, there's a line coming up in The Sarah Jane Adventures which might just lay the path for an easier way out. In the episode concerned - Death Of The Doctor - Matt Smith's Doctor is asked by Clyde just how many times he can regenerate. The Doctor tells him that there's not a limit. Then they just get on with the episode.
It's thus being speculated that the Doctor is now immortal, that because of the demise of the Time Lords themselves he's got a free pass to a longer existence. I'd wager that there's going to be more to it than that, though. It could, after all, be that the Doctor is lying to Clyde. It would also mean that, if they dismissed the regeneration question here, they're missing out on a far more substantive narrative arc for the 13th Doctor, whoever that's likely to be (the aforementioned Valeyard, in theory).
It's a week or two yet before Death Of A Doctor screens (although one or two of our number did catch it at the BFI screening this week, and confirmed the line concerned), but we'd wager that the BBC has just managed to pump up its viewing figures when it does go out...
The Sherlock Holmes movies are very good! Went an ordered them right away when they were mentioned here a bit back in the thread. PBS is also going to be running them later on this month.
Damn, Katy Manning has NOT aged well. I wonder what possessed them to bring her back for this? Rumors are that Jo has a son now, and that he will be joining the cast full-time. That might be a cool angle to play with, I don't know...
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
... Damn, Katy Manning has NOT aged well. I wonder what possessed them to bring her back for this? Rumors are that Jo has a son now, and that he will be joining the cast full-time. That might be a cool angle to play with, I don't know...
Considering that she's over 60 I think she looks pretty good. I was surprised though that Elizabeth Sladen is actually bit older than Manning.
Yeah, but Sladen hasn't had any work done. Katy just ballsed-out her face years ago trying to maintain her "30s". Now she just looks like she escaped from the Secret of Nimh...
... Damn, Katy Manning has NOT aged well. I wonder what possessed them to bring her back for this? Rumors are that Jo has a son now, and that he will be joining the cast full-time. That might be a cool angle to play with, I don't know...
Considering that she's over 60 I think she looks pretty good. I was surprised though that Elizabeth Sladen is actually bit older than Manning.
In all honesty, she was never really that good looking. There are numerous companions that were much better looking just in the original era. Sladen. Jameson. Bryant. Tamm. Shit. I just realized how much prime tail Tom Baker's Doctor was pulling.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
I was reading the Wiki entry on the Canadian animation company Nelvana today and found out that they had been in talks with CBS in the 80's to do a Doctor Who animated series that didn't materialize (no pun intended). They did have some conceptual artwork made up.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
That would have been a fun series. Nelvana produced some holiday specials that I remember being pretty good. They almost went belly up making the animated movie "Rock and Rule" that had Blondie and Cheap Trick doing the sound track.
I've been trying to download Rock and Rule since March. It's been at 99% since July. I am kind of curious as to what it would of been like, especially looking at the obvious 4th Doctor with white hair and those crazy Dalek ships. It may have been able to do for Doctor Who what the Star Trek cartoon did for Trek by increasing the scope of the stories. Though it being on network TV in the 80's would probably have had it too kiddie.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
Try some of the holiday specials Nelvana aired. I think "The Devil and Daniel Mouse" one is all up on utube. That was one of their first and better ones.
By the 80's, though, they were trying to keep afloat after Rock and Rule got a bad run in the US due to no support from American distributors and doing a lot of licensed stuff. Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, and that kinda bull. The best they did was the Star Wars cartoons which I personally don't remember being all that good. I don't know. It would have been interesting to see at any rate.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
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