The Giggle

[iank]

I never heard any such story.

[henshin]

I might be getting confused with this:

wegotthiscovered.com/tv/last-minute-change-doctor-who-regeneration/

[Monster X]

Dec 11, 2023 2:09:07 GMT rushy said:

Some lovely tidbits from Capaldi:

"I wanted to be a more distant and alien Doctor. Because that’s how I remember [first Doctor] William Hartnell, being a kid in Glasgow on dark winter nights when this strange figure with the white hair and slightly irate voice could open this portal to a magical world. The default now is a kind of cosmic imp. Which is great. But I wanted to touch the dark winter nights. I’m not sure whether the brand supports that any more, but that’s what I was interested in."

"I’m very thrilled to be there, every day I find it an extraordinarily privileged position to be in, to get up in the morning and go into work on the TARDIS or chase men in rubber suits down corridors and be part of all this, so I’m just happy to be there as long as people want me to be."

"Patrick Troughton was an extraordinarily naturalistic kind of actor, in this bizarre, strange, fantastical kind of show. In fact, actually playing the part now, I admire now what they all did on the show so much more. I get to work with CGI and prosthetics, you know the show looks better than it’s ever looked. Those guys were all there with bits of cardboard and fibreglass, and never for a second did their commitment to the truth of that falter. Jon Pertwee would throw the doors open and come storming in and you knew everything was going to be alright. He could read the telephone book and make it absolutely heroic. Tom Baker would always have you teetering on the edge of your seat, as to which way he was going to go, whether he would be the benevolent Time Lord, or the chaotic Harpo Marx type character. I think they all fed into my DNA as an actor."

"I love Matt (Smith) and David (Tennant) and Chris Eccleston, but I think there had been a tendency for the Doctor to be quite user-friendly. I wanted him to be more distant, more difficult to be around because I thought he was an alien. I didn’t think he was a guy. I didn’t think he was just someone you would meet somewhere. Because when I grew up, Doctor Who wasn’t like that. He wasn’t a person you would meet in the street. He was a weird alien creature. So, I think it took them a while to do that and then figure out you could do that and also be funny and be affectionate and witty and clever and all that.

So, for me he’s the same but I get why people think he’s different. I love what we did in my first season. When I look at those now, he’s really tough. And without that, the rest of them wouldn’t have existed. We couldn’t just come in and be light and friendly and all that. We had to come in and be stranger.”

"There was an actor called Robert James who plays Lesterson in Power of the Daleks, who was the scientist, who was a great, great friend of mine. I never talked to him about it. I don’t think he realised how important it was to people. It is so weird for me to see him appear in the little trailer, because he was a great friend, and to see him animated is very sweet."

"Between my first and second seasons, I said it’d be fun if the Doctor had a guitar to plug into the Tardis console. It was just an idea, I never dreamed it would happen. I imagined the Doctor might have invented the wah-wah pedal. We could’ve done an historical episode where he met Jimi Hendrix and introduced him to this piece of alien technology. I also thought there could be a great blues episode. When Robert Johnson meets the devil at the crossroads, the Doctor could discover something extraterrestrial going on."

"I always think that’s one of the most haunting moments in the show is William Hartnell leaving Susan behind, and I wish we could somehow echo that and bring it back, or do something with that."

"You know, the universe is very dark. And inevitably that is where he will wind up, inevitably the darkness he will have to fight. He will have to face terrible things. So, rather than going “oh no, I have to face something terrible…” I always think he’s a very joyful character, I think he can find the joy in just sitting in a carpark watching the sun coming up, feeling the wind. These are amazing, these kinds of beautiful things to him, and he’s impatient when people don’t get that."

"I kind of have this sack full of guilt, because I simply can’t do everything. You can’t. So I try to do what I can but to be honest, there’s probably going to be a time when I’m going to have to say I’m going to pull back because you won’t have enough time to do the show. But I stress again that I don’t think I do any more than anybody else."


"For me, obviously to get to play the Doctor, the whole things is a delight. Some of my favourite moments are when we reveal something of the Doctor’s more alien nature. For instance, in Kill the Moon when he’s able to look in to time and read it, and communicate that, I think that was fun to do."

"I wanted him to be more distant, more difficult to be around because I thought he was an alien. I didn’t think he was a guy. I didn’t think he was just someone you would meet somewhere. Because when I grew up, Doctor Who wasn’t like that. He wasn’t a person you would meet in the street. He was a weird alien creature."

My Goodness, Capaldi seems to understand the character of the Doctor far better than anyone who's worked on the show since 2005. And to think they replaced him with a giddy, gormless woman who had no idea what she was doing...

(Thanks for posting these quotes, rushy).

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Dec 11, 2023 8:37:08 GMT Monster X said:

Dec 11, 2023 2:09:07 GMT rushy said:

Some lovely tidbits from Capaldi:

"I wanted him to be more distant, more difficult to be around because I thought he was an alien. I didn’t think he was a guy. I didn’t think he was just someone you would meet somewhere. Because when I grew up, Doctor Who wasn’t like that. He wasn’t a person you would meet in the street. He was a weird alien creature."

My Goodness, Capaldi seems to understand the character of the Doctor far better than anyone who's worked on the show since 2005. And to think they replaced him with a giddy, gormless woman who had no idea what she was doing...

( Thanks for posting these quotes, rushy).

It also seems to defy RTD's thesis, which was that the Doctor should be a man in the street, hence why he gave Eccleston his leather jacket and working-man persona. Moffat definitely leaned away from this in his run so it's interesting to see the contrast between these two ways of presenting the Doctor.

[burrunjor]

Agreed when we look at what we could have had with Capaldi, an actor who understood the show to such an extent and had such a love for it What a damn shame.

[Monster X]

Dec 11, 2023 8:42:03 GMT @theyakemperor said:

Dec 11, 2023 8:37:08 GMT Monster X said:

"I wanted him to be more distant, more difficult to be around because I thought he was an alien. I didn’t think he was a guy. I didn’t think he was just someone you would meet somewhere. Because when I grew up, Doctor Who wasn’t like that. He wasn’t a person you would meet in the street. He was a weird alien creature."

My Goodness, Capaldi seems to understand the character of the Doctor far better than anyone who's worked on the show since 2005. And to think they replaced him with a giddy, gormless woman who had no idea what she was doing...

( Thanks for posting these quotes, rushy).

It also seems to defy RTD's thesis, which was that the Doctor should be a man in the street, hence why he gave Eccleston his leather jacket and working-man persona. Moffat definitely leaned away from this in his run so it's interesting to see the contrast between these two ways of presenting the Doctor.

Good points, The Yak Emperor. "Moffat definitely leaned away from this" is one of the reasons why I prefer the Moffat era over the Davies years ( but only just - I can't abide either of them).  I simply think the idea of trying to turn the alien Doctor into a more down-to-earth, relatable, working class hero is ludicrous and a betrayal of who the character is supposed to be (which is probably why I disliked Eccelston's Doctor so much).

[burrunjor]

It's nice to see he was really focusing on the things that matter. 

x.com/DrWhoMoment/status/1733592152884617572?s=20

BTW anyone who goes on about cultural appropriation is a clown. 

[mistressrani]

Another great episode that has garnered great reviews in the media. Tennant and Tate superb and a wonderful performance by Patrick-Harris as The Toymaker. The tension was great in the middle part of the episode which had a real sense of mavity to it. The bi-generation isn't to my personal taste, would rather just a straightforward regeneration but I can live with this. Overall 8/10.

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Dec 11, 2023 12:44:44 GMT burrunjor said:

It's nice to see he was really focusing on the things that matter. 

x.com/DrWhoMoment/status/1733592152884617572?s=20

BTW anyone who goes on about cultural appropriation is a clown. 

I thought the slight racism was a nice touch. It's somewhat relieving that it's acknowledged slightly rather than just presented as normal that Indian people roamed London in the early 20th century without facing any sort of persecution; unlike in Capaldi's run with with the Thin Ice episode and that horrible speech he gives about it "not being so different from your time".

[iank]

He doesn't mind culturally appropriating our show to push his deranged worldview.
Oh I forgot, it's always one rule for us and another for them.

[Deleted]

We? We are the Hive. As in Gospel Truth. You see? No NuWho simps. While the rest of the world downloads from Disney and the BBC, we, we have got freedom. You're talking to Gallifrey Base's Most Wanted, but target Number One is Davies, and we are going to bring him down.

[Genkimonk]

Have you guys seen the Goblin song from the upcoming Xmas show.My god, you can see how much Disney is involved here.

And it sounds like we are getting more yanks in DW. f*ck me.

[Deleted]

Dec 12, 2023 0:13:29 GMT Genkimonk said:

Have you guys seen the Goblin song from the upcoming Xmas show.My god, you can see how much Disney is involved here.

And it sounds like we are getting more yanks in DW. f*ck me.

Honestly Americans would be a nice break from the usual chavs that sound like they have sea urchins in their mouths

[rushy]

Dec 12, 2023 1:11:35 GMT @theyakemperor said:

Dec 12, 2023 0:13:29 GMT Genkimonk said:

Have you guys seen the Goblin song from the upcoming Xmas show.My god, you can see how much Disney is involved here.

And it sounds like we are getting more yanks in DW. f*ck me.

Honestly Americans would be a nice break from the usual chavs that sound like they have sea urchins in their mouths

Man, remember BBC English? BBC English was cool. 

[Genkimonk]

No, American culture is what has destroyed western culture, and we should not pander to them anymore. I want to see Europe break away from those c*nts and remember that we have our own culture, style, and ways, and should celebrate that. Americanisation is the worst thing to happen in modern history. f*ck everything American.