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Timelash edition. GOAT, isn't it?

Thrown into the timelash:

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Sadly, Suchet might have 5 lines and just be a landlord. Most guests are wasted, especially in single, 45 min stories.

Episode 1: Present day, likely spanning through an entire school year
Episode 2: Future, probably an alien planet
Episode 3: Regency era
Episode 4: Present day, mainly set in Bill's home

An episode will be filmed in Vancouver in October.

Looks good so far. I hope we get an original past setting like 1800s India or 1930s Los Angeles.

How would they film those convincingly and why would they bother?

Probably. I don't get why they can't get proper roles for big names. You might as well not bother at all if they're going to be in it for 5 minutes.

>I hope we get an original past setting like 1800s India or 1930s Los Angeles
you'll get a Victorian episode and you'll like it

Same way they filmed in New York for Angels Take Manhattan or Daleks in Manhattan. They could literally CGI an Indian palace and have the interior be made up in the studios. It's really not difficult.

45 min stories are a limiting factor.
Too many characters and most of the cast get a few lines and killed off. It happens again and again in new who.

fuck off back to whatever place you came from, you, fun police user and rules police user

It's not about difficulty it's about expense.
Those locations you chose are super random. What do you expect to gain from using those?

Yeah I've noticed too... but if that's the issue then they should cast no-names for the characters that don't pass the 30 minutes mark and have the big name play the surviving character or something.

>Those locations you chose are super random. What do you expect to gain from using those?
No, they're not. I'd love to have a story set in the Britain colonised India or the prohibition in Los Angeles (okay I'll give you this one, I chose one that just isn't New York because we've had enough of that city). You'd gain diversity instead of setting all your past, present or future stories in London.

>I'd love to have a story set in the Britain colonised India
What is it that makes this interesting to you? What dr who story would make this setting worth the expense of filming/faking?

I actually like Timelash. It's super fun to watch. Tardis-seatbelts, the Doctor arguing with his two companions for ten minutes at the end because they needed to fill the runtime, the climax is literally an "I'll explain later"...
It's pretty much the only classic who story I rewatch regularly.

Wew lad. That is some pretty bad b8.

Reece Shearsmith's favourite serial. He does a great Borad impression.

Best Colin Serial.

>the climax is literally an "I'll explain later"...
His ass was saved by a Clara double.

Fun facy: there was actually supposed to be a story set in India back in the very first season.

>The Red Fort
>Written by Terry Nation. Commissioned in September 1963, Terry Nation had intended for his second seven-part serial to be set during the British Raj in India (probably to have been the eighth serial), but the story was ultimately abandoned as the Daleks became a success, and demand for further science fiction adventures grew.

I'm scared the show the way I like it will die when Moffat leaves :(

This might be my last series ;_;

>This might be my last series ;_;
Don't be stupid. I mean the show probably will go to shit when Chibnall takes over but there is always the chance of it improving in the future.

Capaldi will whip Chibnall into shape.

Goodbye then, total stranger.

what about my comment was bait? What kind of response do you think I was expecting when I wrote it?

Moffat's changes to the story have been fine until Series 9.

Writing Clara in every single episode, changing the out come of the Time War and saving Gallifrey, having Clara inspire the Doctor about transforming fear into a superpower.

All of this was fine.

He really crossed the line with "I ran away from Gallifrey because I was scared of the hybrid". This was stupid. Not only does it reveal more of the Doctor's past which we should never know about, but it doesn't make any sense. Now that the hybrid prophecy is done and gone, he could just stay on Gallifrey. It baffles me.

yawn

>"I ran away from Gallifrey because I was scared of the hybrid".
That didn't happen though.

You may be right. After all I didn't notice much a difference between Series 4 and 5, but I was only 12. Now that I'm older I think I will notice it. I'm willing to give Chibnall a chance but not knowing what his vision or Doctor Who is makes it hard.

Why are there Who fans afraid of change? The show is constantly changing shit around. You should be used to it.

Idiot.

This is the first time I experience a change of showrunner. It's a bit new.

Why do people drag out this platitude about change when there is no automatic correlation between changing something and it being an improvement.
Plenty of things change for the worse.

Is it a meme at this point, or do people actually believe that he somehow has more power than an executive producer?
The most Capaldi can do is leave if he doesn't like working with the new production team like Eccleston did, and S11 will probably be his last anyway so it's not like it matters.

>not knowing what his vision or Doctor Who is makes it hard.
isn't that exciting though? Walking into the unknown, no idea what to expect next?

Yes it did.
>I didn't leave Gallifrey because I was bored! That was a lie! It's always been a lie!
>(The Veil pauses.)
>Not enough? You want more? I was scared! I ran because I was scared!

Very constructive, thanks.

>Not only does it reveal more of the Doctor's past which we should never know about
Not really. It's still impossible to actually say why he ran away or what the Hybrid actually meant, it could be anything and they deliberately suggest multiple possibilities.
>Now that the hybrid prophecy is done and gone, he could just stay on Gallifrey.
But he prefers travelling now, that's sort of the point.

We don't find out what he was scared of.

I think if Capaldi stays he may get exec producer status and the promise of directing an episode as part of the deal.
If he has a good agent.

it's ok, user.
I can hold your hand if you want me to

>he may get exec producer status and the promise of directing an episode as part of the deal.
When has Capaldi indicated any desire to helm an episode of Doctor Who? Just because he has directed things doesn't mean he wants to direct everything, let alone be a fucking executive producer.

In fact, I swear someone asked him this once upon a time and he said he wouldn't want to.

Yeah, but still we know he ran because he was scared and that's a big deal.

It's not really specified he prefers travelling but I get it.

Of the hybrid.
>ASHILDR: By your own reasoning, why couldn't the Hybrid be half Time Lord, half human? Tell me, Doctor, I've always wondered. You're a Time Lord, you're a high-born Gallifreyan. Why is it you spend so much time on Earth?
>(Because in the Movie, the Master worked out that the Doctor's really half-human - on his mother's side.)
>DOCTOR: That's your best theory? I'm the Hybrid? I ran away from Gallifrey because I was afraid of myself? That doesn't make any sense.
>ASHILDR: It makes perfect sense, and you know it. Am I right? Is it true?
>DOCTOR: Does it matter?

She accuses him of being the hybrid and he says "I ran away from Gallifrey because I was afraid of myself?", implying he did run away because of the hybrid but dismissing the idea that he is.

>implying Chibnall will have any of the power that Moffat did

Once Broadchurch Series 3 bombs they're gonna let Capaldi do whatever he wants.

Only if you are Rami Malek

It means more money for him you fucking moron. It happens all the time in the US.
It's a way of sneakily increasing his pay beyond any potential cap the BBC may enforce.

But by the time it bombs, Chibnall will likely already have had written the series and made irreversible changes.

>Yeah, but still we know he ran because he was scared and that's a big deal.

>Susan and I are cut off from our own planet - without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day.

Scared actually makes a bit more sense with the original start of the show. The idea that he was just bored was something that formed later.

Change for better or worse is not the point, change happens in the show all the time and is nothing to be 'afraid' of, it's just a fucking TV series. And it's always had variable quality from episode to episode. Main cast changes seem to make a bigger difference than the showrunners imo and that happens every few years.

I like a lot of what Moffat's done but it's time he left now. Doctor Who existed before him is gonna be fine without him. The only people who don't get this are likely new Who fans only and are just as bad as the RTDfags who refuse to accept Moffat era to this day. Which frankly wasn't hugely different from RTD's era anyway.

woah...

Chibnall's era won't be any different from Moffat. It'll be better than RTD but not as good as Moffat. It'll just become an okay show.

>implying Capaldi hasn't already time traveled to the future and prepared the scripts for later

>It'll be better than RTD
I'm really not certain of that.

>It'll just become an okay show.
>become
>implying Dr. Who hasn't always been an okay show with a chance of GOAT here and there

>okay show
>not shit show
NON TRUE FAN PLEBIAN SPOTTED

This fake argument is super lame.

fuck off back to the hive old man

Reminder that Capaldi praised the script for In the Forest of the Night. Reminder that Capaldi is already overworked as the lead actor and has no time to be the script editor as well. Reminder that you are a stupid semester.

I was just funposting. Sorry m8

Hello, Its me showrunner/episode writer of Doctor Who.

I am on this website for a secret ama.

Ask me anything.

I'm sorry too m8. I'm just PMSposting.

Why did you fire Gareth?

PHUCK YOU, WHY HAVE YOU RUINED DOCTOR WHO YOU PHUCKING HACK?

I did not fire him.

I rewatched Series 7a recently. I liked Chibnall's episodes (DoaS was a bit cringey at times though) and it makes me rather hopeful. He can at the very least make fun stories. I hope he'll give us some comfy companion life moments like he did when he wrote Brian.

I'm not scared of this future. I don't expect GOAT stuff from Chibnall himself but we can still be surprised by other writers.

>ruined
You mean enhanced it. Face it, the show became popular because of me.

Who's the most attractive Doctor?

I'll answer that if I'd may.

Matt Smith. His sexy bowtie suit, that smirk, that sense of manliness in a childish adult.

HNNNGGH, am I right guys?

Russell, is that you? Stop impersonating Moffat.

My top 3? McGann, Ecclescakes, Capaldick.

Cool

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>PMSposting
What?

That person is trying to pretend he is a girl online

NEW WRITER

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Psychotic mongolian shit

>implying the writer could just casually reveal on twitter they're writing an episode

>implying she is writing an episode and the BBC won't tell her to delete the tweet

Juno Dawson - author of "This Book is Gay" and used to be bloke who has now had his cock cut off and some fake tits put on.

no thanks

a transexual author of porno books

nah

McGann, Tennant, Capaldi, Davison, Smith

I knew something was off with her face.

Also those supiciously hairy balls.

"working on it" doesn't mean she's literally working on doctor who already
it could just mean she's working on getting the job
alternatively it could mean it's an aspiration she has that she isn't putting any effort into achieving

could go any of those ways

I am the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer,
I've information on all things a Gallifreyan holds most dear,
I've linked into the Matrix through its exitonic circuitry,
I understand dimensional and relative chronometry.

I'm very well acquainted too with matters of the Capitol,
I'll give you verse and chapter on Panopticonian protocol,
I've been into the Death Zone and I've played the Game of Rassilon
With pestilential monsters that I got a lot of hassle from!

I understand each language and I speak every vernacular,
I'll conjugate each verb obscure, decline each line irregular,
In short in every matter that a Gallifreyan holds most dear,
I am the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer.

I've tackled shady Castellans with devious behavior,
I've sparred with Time Lord chancellors like Thalia, Goth, or Flavia.
In fact on some occasions I've held office Presidentially,
Though maybe I won't mention I was ousted out eventually.

I know just how it feels to be a wanted man and on the run,
But wouldn't leave the carefree buccaneering life for anyone,
Though sometimes my adventures seem absurdly operatical,
With ups and down and twists and turns and incidents piratical.

I've sailed the seven seas of Earth and all the oceans of the Moon,
My trusty true Type 40 is my Gallifreyan picaroon,
But is this really what the average Gallifreyan holds most dear?
I wonder what they think about this Gallifreyan Buccaneer.

I've defeated evil robots such as Daleks, Quarks, and Cybermen,
I've overthrown dictators from Tobias Vaughn to Mavic Chen,
I've rescued helpless maidens from the devastating Viking hordes,
Vanquished Autons, Axons, Daemons, Krotons, Monoids, Vampires, Voords.

I've liberated planets and delivered them from total war,
Saved Earth, Manussa, Dulkis, Skonnos, Earth, Tigella, Earth once more,
In short I know I am the truest Rassilonian legate,
And so to Time Lords all I say remember me to Gallifrey!

I'm not content to just observe, I am a bold adventurer,
Though other Time Lords mock this Gallifreyan interventioner,
I know in every matter that a Time Lord really should hold dear,
I am the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer.

Bored, cats? Not getting enough attention?

He gets no love at home desu.

>tfw the Time Lord Victorious was all Donna's fault because she asked him to save Caecillius

Reading the currently finished Shit Trips contributions. I'm in the middle of The Hybrid and it's a very nice read, even though the beginning looks like the author pasted random lines from the TARDIS Eruditorium together.

chronological user here,

up next is divided loyalties.

Can't say I've been looking forward to this. I've heard some really bad things about it.

It's also got the laziest cover I've ever seen on a doctor who novel.

The literally opened up a picture of the toymaker in microsoft paint and hit ctrl+I.

Fucking Gary Russell.

there are one or two good ideas in that book
but it's mostly shit

So you're reading all the books again? Or do you just pick and choose?

I find it really baffling, in a good way, that no one saw the confession dial twist coming in Heaven Sent.

Which twist? The castle being the dial?

Yep.

So the Time Lords indirectly caused Clara's death right? Bitches could have tried saving her.

Sorry but it was suggested on GB quite early on, although no one could work put the sense of the Doctor having it in his pocket so it was kind of dismissed.
To be fair, it still doesn't make much sense why he had it in his pocket or why he passed it around or why it was lying on Gallifrey in the open.

Which is hilarious given the interior of the dial was shown in a design leak a couple of months prior

I mean, it is pretty out-there and doesn't entirely make sense. Did the Time Lords literally teleport the dial to a random point in space in 2015, and then leave it lying around - open to the air - for 4.5 billion years until it wound up in the deserts of the restored Gallifrey?

>So the Time Lords indirectly caused Clara's death right?
Explaining the Time Lord's plan or the details of the deal with Ashildr is practically impossible.
What was meant to happen?