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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2023 5:29:01 GMT
It was a terrible idea. The more we hear, the dumber it all sounds. A million percent agree. RTD wants to get new fans into the show, but what are they gonna think when there's a bunch of middle-aged women waddling around in starring roles? That it's the lamest thing in the world, probably. Like I said, silly. |
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Post by zarius on Oct 30, 2023 7:59:29 GMT
I think it's a great idea, it keeps the show better connected to it's past, it allows several old companion guest spots per series, it gives future, younger companions somewhere to go when their time is up, and the backlog of production means the older companions can have something in the can to possibly air in the event that they too die off (we might see an instance of this with Bernard Cribbons)
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 30, 2023 10:13:22 GMT
I think it's a great idea, it keeps the show better connected to it's past, it allows several old companion guest spots per series, it gives future, younger companions somewhere to go when their time is up, and the backlog of production means the older companions can have something in the can to possibly air in the event that they too die off (we might see an instance of this with Bernard Cribbons) I'm a bit torn myself. On the one hand I am working with a classic era companion. I won't say who as it may not go through yet, and I don't want to be against her comeback if it does, or sound like sour grapes if it doesn't LMAO. However I will say I don't think it's a very good idea long term. Their age isn't a problem for me personally. The actresses are in great shape, and these days you get guys playing Batman into their 70s. (Okay maybe not the best example to use as the Flash bombed, but pretty much the only thing people liked about the movie was Keaton. Indeed had it been just a Keaton movie then it probably would have done quite well.) It's more just that it makes DW look like it can't move on and is in danger of stepping on the new companions shoes. You know the best way to keep the show connected to its past? Write the Doctor in character! Make it actually believable that he is the same MAN under the new faces, and similarly write the villains who you only use now and again in character. IE don't turn the Master into an ovesexed Mary Poppins, don't write him as a Joker knock off with a completely new and contradictory origin story, don't have Cybermen from another universe etc. If they had done all of those things and not dismissed people who wanted them as "frightened of change" they wouldn't have to wallow in the past to such an extent. Also keep the very basic continuity, like don't have the earth get publicly invaded in the 21st century, or if you do follow on from that when you have too. Similarly if you're going to dump 20 million Zygons on earth, follow through on that, don't just forget they're there. Also by all means have little links to the past, like a companion whose parents were killed in a previous incursion. (Again I know I'm biased but Osgood who RTD hates would have worked that way. Her dad is from the original, and her mother could have easily been Laird the girl from Resurrection of the Daleks who looks EXACTLY like Osgood and is killed by the Daleks. That could have been why she admired the Doctor because he destroyed the Daleks that killed her mother. Obviously though you don't have to use Osgood for that, you could come up with other companions that have links to the classic era that way, it's just ironic that the one they had wasn't used. Hell in my alternate sequel I am using the girl from Remembrance of the Daleks all grown up as the companion.) Constantly crowbarring companions whose stories were kind of done and who as Yak pointed out in a lot of cases they only really worked at the age they were, is pointless. It also I feel robs characters like the Brig or even Romana of their special status. The Brig is someone who is employed to fight aliens and monsters, so it makes sense he would bump into the Doctor in multiple incarnations, Romana is a time lady, his equal, where as now someone like Mel who he only travelled with for like two seasons is someone that will keep coming back all the time? Also again I can't tell you how bitter I am LOL, that me the guy who was banished from forums, called an old conservative 100s of times on the grounds that I couldn't accept change, that I was limiting the show, is now having to see the in crowd crowbar potentially every classic companion they can into the revival as regular characters! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2023 11:18:47 GMT
I think it's a great idea, it keeps the show better connected to it's past, it allows several old companion guest spots per series, it gives future, younger companions somewhere to go when their time is up, and the backlog of production means the older companions can have something in the can to possibly air in the event that they too die off (we might see an instance of this with Bernard Cribbons) And I think it makes NuWho fans go, "wow, I like this Ace character. Maybe I'll check out some of her stories" which I think is wonderful. If classic series stuff is getting expose on modern TV I don't see how that's an issue. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2023 11:36:20 GMT
Saying that though, this is an interesting and solid article with a rare point of view from the media: collider.com/david-tennant-fourteenth-doctor-who/"social media buzz around Doctor Who has also died down over the past few years. What was once a massive fandom that even had its own name - Whovians - was reduced to a handful of aficionados still religiously following every outing in the TARDIS. It is not hard to come across posts and videos by former fans that claim to have dropped the show entirely when Whittaker and Chibnall came along." "It feels as if the BBC is saying that trying to move the show forwards by casting a female Doctor was actually a setback, as they were forced to go back in time to the most popular Doctor to course correct." " In lieu of teaching an old horse new tricks - and we’ll never know if that is possible until we try it — it is just showing us the same old tricks over and over again." "The way it currently is, with Tennant shoved between Whittaker and Gatwa, it is as though the BBC (and Davies, perhaps) doesn’t trust the quality of the show’s writing and its actors’ performances anymore" |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2023 11:47:25 GMT
Carole Ann Ford is credited in IMDB's cast list for The Giggle.
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 30, 2023 12:57:50 GMT
Saying that though, this is an interesting and solid article with a rare point of view from the media: collider.com/david-tennant-fourteenth-doctor-who/"social media buzz around Doctor Who has also died down over the past few years. What was once a massive fandom that even had its own name - Whovians - was reduced to a handful of aficionados still religiously following every outing in the TARDIS. It is not hard to come across posts and videos by former fans that claim to have dropped the show entirely when Whittaker and Chibnall came along." "It feels as if the BBC is saying that trying to move the show forwards by casting a female Doctor was actually a setback, as they were forced to go back in time to the most popular Doctor to course correct." " In lieu of teaching an old horse new tricks - and we’ll never know if that is possible until we try it — it is just showing us the same old tricks over and over again." "The way it currently is, with Tennant shoved between Whittaker and Gatwa, it is as though the BBC (and Davies, perhaps) doesn’t trust the quality of the show’s writing and its actors’ performances anymore" f*cking spot on in every way. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2023 13:38:02 GMT
Janet Fielding revealed at the Timelash convention that the companion support group will have larger roles to play in the anniversary and series beyond, and that Bonnie Langford's involvement is directly connected to that. She wasn't supposed to blurt this out, just shows why she's the mouth on legs More Yaz please. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2023 14:21:02 GMT
Saying that though, this is an interesting and solid article with a rare point of view from the media: collider.com/david-tennant-fourteenth-doctor-who/"social media buzz around Doctor Who has also died down over the past few years. What was once a massive fandom that even had its own name - Whovians - was reduced to a handful of aficionados still religiously following every outing in the TARDIS. It is not hard to come across posts and videos by former fans that claim to have dropped the show entirely when Whittaker and Chibnall came along." "It feels as if the BBC is saying that trying to move the show forwards by casting a female Doctor was actually a setback, as they were forced to go back in time to the most popular Doctor to course correct." " In lieu of teaching an old horse new tricks - and we’ll never know if that is possible until we try it — it is just showing us the same old tricks over and over again." "The way it currently is, with Tennant shoved between Whittaker and Gatwa, it is as though the BBC (and Davies, perhaps) doesn’t trust the quality of the show’s writing and its actors’ performances anymore" Are they expecting us to be impressed? They've been vilifying us for taking this stance for years. This is just like COVID all over again |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2023 14:21:50 GMT
Carole Ann Ford is credited in IMDB's cast list for The Giggle. Doesn't mean much considering anyone can edit IMDb pages |
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Post by rushy on Oct 30, 2023 14:47:59 GMT
They've been talking about her for ages though. Seems likely.
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Post by burrunjor on Oct 30, 2023 14:52:48 GMT
Janet Fielding revealed at the Timelash convention that the companion support group will have larger roles to play in the anniversary and series beyond, and that Bonnie Langford's involvement is directly connected to that. She wasn't supposed to blurt this out, just shows why she's the mouth on legs More Yaz please. More Yaz's mom she's got it going on. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2023 15:42:01 GMT
I forgot Yaz was a police officer.
She can arrest me any time aka cliché comment of a sexual nature 7,587.
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Post by zarius on Oct 30, 2023 18:14:28 GMT
Some secret specials have been revealed Tales of the TARDIS, a retrospective series where some of the classic Doctors and companions reunite IN-CHARACTER to discuss past adventures www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/welcome-to-the-whoniverse-and-tales-of-the-tardisSadly, there is no representation for Tom Baker's era, and rather bafflingly, The Three Doctors has to be represented by Katy Manning (fair enough, she was in it) and Clyde from Sarah Jane Adventures (wtf) |
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Post by iank on Oct 30, 2023 20:43:32 GMT
"Roll up, roll up, see all these crumbling oldies we've decided to reveal the fate of even though they were never our characters to begin with!"
This doesn't interest this "Classic fan" at all. Making the show and the central character as they should be would be more likely to appeal to me but nah can't have that.
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