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Post by zarius on Dec 1, 2021 15:23:44 GMT
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Post by iank on Dec 1, 2021 20:28:10 GMT
Sony now co-owns Who. This got weird real quick.
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Post by burrunjor on Dec 1, 2021 20:48:43 GMT
So have the BBC finally given it away then? And to that hack. God this is so depressing.
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Post by iank on Dec 1, 2021 21:06:27 GMT
For the 50th time, Bad Wolf is not RTD's company. They've just employed him, basically.  |
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Post by fredjones on Dec 1, 2021 21:31:35 GMT
Why is everyone sad about this? I know its got doctor who in the title but well its not really is it? The damage was done yonks ago.
Basically as soon as the new series came out, one felt like Tony Hancock in Fred's pie stall or Robinson Crusoe in that version where he stays on the island
It's rather like if you are a conservative (and not a liberal or neo liberal) and being sad at the destruction of the conservative party.
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Post by zarius on Dec 2, 2021 9:34:03 GMT
The Beeb retain the rights to Who, it's just Sony will get a cut of the licence when the merch hits.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2021 10:29:59 GMT
Why is everyone sad about this? I know its got doctor who in the title but well its not really is it? The damage was done yonks ago. Basically as soon as the new series came out, one felt like Tony Hancock in Fred's pie stall or Robinson Crusoe in that version where he stays on the island It's rather like if you are a conservative (and not a liberal or neo liberal) and being sad at the destruction of the conservative party. On that we both agree. I think it’s less about nuwho, and the ever disappearing hope that Doctor Who may evrr have a chance to be what the classic was again. Many held on to the hope that nuwho would just crash and burn, then maybe in the future it could restart and possibly be better. Now instead of being cancelled, it’s being handed off to the show runner who made it this way in the first place. Also it is the hands company who is far from likely to treat it well |
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Post by fredjones on Dec 3, 2021 17:29:11 GMT
I'll tell you what Nuwho reminds me and this should put the thing in its broader cultural context.
What it reminds me of, referring to the first season in particular, where a very talented actor unfortunately had to emote and gurn was the six o'clock news when it was presented by George Alagiah.
You might recall BBC news in the 1980s and the 1990s where a presenter just say behind a desk and calmly and more or less impartially told us what the news was and did not presume that the viewer was an idiot.
Where Mr Alagiah presents the news he emotes and talks down to people as if they have a brain injury or as if he is presenting a children's program and the viewer is a baby he has to gurgle at. I state children's programs but childrens programs in the 1970s and 80s presumed some form of intelligence. It's embarrassing.
They have to stand and walk about for some reason or to have a correspondent explaining things which are entirely obvious.
NuWho part of dumbing down essentially and the prioritization of emotion at the expense of anything half way intelligent.
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Post by Monster X on Dec 3, 2021 18:22:35 GMT
the prioritization of emotion at the expense of anything half way intelligent. I like that sentence - its expresses exactly how I feel about the horrible BBC Wales series. Thanks!!  |
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Post by RobFilth on Dec 4, 2021 7:58:20 GMT
I'm not even wound up by this news because I'm completely past caring.
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Post by fredjones on Dec 7, 2021 16:03:14 GMT
the prioritization of emotion at the expense of anything half way intelligent. I like that sentence - its expresses exactly how I feel about the horrible BBC Wales series. Thanks!! You're welcome. It's a trend which Who is part of. And if you look at French television or indeed most other nations, things have gone the other way. Give me ARTE over the BBC any day. You sort of have "low" culture and "high" culture mixed up unlike the BBC but its all high quality and costs a fraction of what the BBC does The avengers (in French or German) and then an opera by Verdi and then a program about some people walking around the edge of a volcano and then the sex pistols is what the schedule usually looks like. The BBC is just rubbish now. |
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Post by zarius on Dec 22, 2021 13:49:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 15:16:40 GMT
Well we’re out of any hope, if that interview he did a while back was anything to go by. If I recall it was so horrible to the classic that it made the fan next to him look very uncomfortable. While I want it to fokk up royally, I have a horrible feeling it will do well enough to keep this shite show going. It all depend on how out of touch he is with the current state of things and how much of his shite the herd will swallow befor their sick of it. |
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Post by iank on Dec 22, 2021 21:00:23 GMT
What did he say? I haven't heard anything about this.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2021 19:48:07 GMT
What did he say? I haven't heard anything about this. I heard it mentioned here, I think it was some new thing for one of the blu-rays. I had not seen it myself They interviewed him and classic fan who works on the series in some form, and his goes on a little speech that constantly putdown the classic, nothing new from what I recall just all his usual bs. The guy next to him didn't say anything but just look more and more uncomfortable, which is understandable given he's a true fan of the classic and knows it's bullshite. I picture it being like the those Marvel interviews that had Brie Larson along side the other actors and they do not look pleased to even be in the same room as her. |
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