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Someone forgot to create a new thread. Actually, everyone did. In particular, Chibnall did, because he's too lazy to start work on Doctor Who yet.

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>Chibnall did, because he's too lazy to start work on Doctor Who yet.
You can't blame him, he's got more important things to think about right now. Like his next play.

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>Just this once

>You can't blame him, he's got more important things to think about right now. Like his next play.
I could blame him, but I'm too busy to do it, because I need a vacation after blaming him for Broadchurch, and I'm already planning how I'm going to blame him for his next play.

Out of curiosity, if that's your nyssa_2, what's your nyssa_1?

I thought someone would ask

But that's not every frame in the animated GIF.

I just took screenshots whilst watching The Visitation

>8 will never be the time war doctor
I'm upset by this desu

will never be the time war doctor
Didn't 8 have enough time wars? Let him share one with another Doctor.

Plus, he's the one who actually got to blow up Gallifrey, even it it got better. All War got to do was fool the Daleks and himself into thinking he blew it up.

Wasn't it War who blew up Gallifrey (except not really) though?

Or are we in a parallel universe now or something?

Catherine Tate for 13th

>Wasn't it War who blew up Gallifrey (except not really) though?
War blew up Gallifrey but not really to end the Last Great Time War.

8 blew up Gallifrey really to end the Second War in Heaven. The last novel makes it pretty clear that he's going to fix it soon, but it was definitely blown up, and that fucked up the universe.

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WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SERIES NINE OST

Happy Belated Birthday Christopher Eccleston!
53yrs old, yesterday!

Reminder the cardinal should be on the tunnel, pushed by a Weeping Angel.

You ruined it all. I'm gonna fix this.

>Man with chips but no Pigbin Josh

Almost as old as you!

Is not! He's 14 years my senior ya goof. Go back to maths class, dingus.

Here.

;_;

HOLY SHIT, so this is what he's been doing since Capaldi took his job!

>so this is what he's been doing since Capaldi took his job!
getting plastic surgery to look like eccles?

Was Tennant the worst thing to ever happen to Doctor Who?

>happen

hap

pen

pretty much, yes.

Would you be a completely different person today, had you never watched Doctor Who?

I think I totally would be.

but his doctor was one of the comfiest ones

Fans who can't stop complaining about Tennant after seven years are the worst thing to ever happen to Doctor Who.

His Doctor was terrible. He's a good actor but Ten was just shit.

t. newfag from Tumblr

>He's a good actor

>i-if I call him Tumblr it means I'm right

yeah probably

>typical Phil meme used by newfags
Thanks for confirming your identity.

Doctor who is fucking garbage.
It can tell any story in all of time and space and it always ends up a shitty looking celebration of mediocrity.
It's a predictable, safe formulaic children's show where the Le wacky man saves the day with some 'witty' banter and a 'clever' scheme.
The Doctor never goes anywhere in his development, just going from dark to light or dark to light depending on the incarnation.
It has no love for science or history, it just boils everything down for lowest common denominator. It's a waste of time and effort,
why don't you losers mature and watch some grown up television for a change.
You shouldn't watch doctor who unless it's with your own children but I really don't want you plebs procreating.

Chibnall will get the show cancelled and you know it.

>Would you be a completely different person today, had you never watched Doctor Who?
If nothing else, I suspect I wouldn't have kept pitching things as "kind of like Doctor Who" to Americans in the 90s, which means I might have actually had a career as a TV writer instead of having to go into software.

So I'd make less money. And I'd have to live in LA. But, on the other hand, from what I remember of industry parties vs. tech parties, the naked people in the hot tubs tended to be a lot fitter, and a lot less hairy, and they weren't stepping out of those hot tubs into freezing fog (which does odd things to even the best of anatomy). So… tough choice.

Missy won't be the villain again, I'm betting there will be a more dangerous Time Lord of creature that will cause both the Master and Doctor to regenerate by xmas.

FUCKING NORMAL FAGS GET OUT OF MY BOARD REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

So how about that Tilda Swinton?

>Doctor Who fan writes the best Star Wars fanfiction
>it's a time travel story

I always got a giggle out of the kid eating chicken in that episode

>but it was definitely blown up, and that fucked up the universe.
In retrospect it should have been obvious that Gallifrey didn't really go boom in RTD's war, since voodoo and sex magic didn't suddenly start working again without the Time Lords to enforce the rules of reality.

Rose herself is a topic that has to (really, really has to) be addressed - being a big glaring fuck up of a companion that plays so central a role in RTD's plot arcs and his characterization of the Doctor. It's a shame, because her initial conception and characterization was quite an efficient way to introduce the revived series and bounce off the post-Time War Doctor.

The biggest issue is that she has absolutely no positive character development sans her initial discovery of "hidden talents" and establishment of self-worth in her first three or so adventures with the Doctor. This is soon undone when Rose noticeably regresses into emotional immaturity and narcissism in Series 2, and quite annoyingly we are still expected to like her. Her and the Doctor's childish irreverence for the lifestyles of others, often laughing and mocking ordinary people for being less informed or worldly (most obnoxiously in Tooth and Claw and The Idiot's Lantern), and her attitude of being "above" the normal lives of her family and friends turn her into either a vessel for the audiences contempt - or a (probably) unhealthy outlet of escapist feelings.

Her romance with the Doctor is disgustingly immature too, and unhealthy. She holds him above all other elements of her life to a degree that is selfish, rather than selfless, because her affection for him appears to stem from the opportunities of grandeur available to her through her adventures with him. She wants the Doctor all to herself and her infatuate jealousy at his interactions with other women is a recurrent source of humour. And even if you throw all that shit out, it's primarily annoying because of how it affects THE DOCTOR. He treats her like a Disney princess and, upon her exit from the show, gets angsty about her for two whole fucking series. Most of all, this relationship just doesn't make sense. She's barely an adult and he's almost a millenia old, and yet it seems that they have equal (not just in terms of quantity, but quality) emotional dependence on each other for their individual happiness. It was unnecessary and trite.

All these negative traits would be acceptable and welcomed if they were ever addressed properly and redeemed. Instead, Series 2 ends with Rose dragged kicking and screaming into an alternate dimension. This hilariously isn't the end of Rose's displays of poor character, because when she finally returns in the finale of Series 4 she STILL hasn't moved on from the Doctor and even reacts with jealousy upon seeing Martha. Still pining for the Doctor by the end of the finale, she still doesn't have to grow as a character. Instead, RTD conveniently gives her a perfect fucktoy Doctor to satiate her unhealthy emotional dependence.

What lesson are we meant to learn here? Deus ex machina, in the more literal sense of the phrase in that an outside source solves all the character's woes, should never fucking end their involvement in the series. Rose displays no feats of self-advancement or heroism in her final appearance. Everything is given on a plate to her by mere circumstance.

Undoubtedly, the worst thing about Rose though is her legacy. Since her, every single companion bar Martha has been subject to MOST IMPORTANT COMPANION syndrome. It worked for the Bad Wolf plot arc, but it cheapened the charming kitchen sink characterization of Donna and made Clara into an insufferable narcissist. Worst of all, it defeats the believability and relatability of the human element in the Doctor/companion relationship. No doubt this lingering problem was sewn by Davies' general inability to properly express the alien-ness of the Doctor's character at all - manifested most appallingly in the characterization of the Tenth Doctor.

They will regenerate holding hands

Yeah, and the Moff haters will somehow find a way to blame Moffat.

She'd be perfect as a first female Doctor, because she's kinda androgynous anyway.

However, if she's interested in the role (and that's a big IF), the Beeb couldn't afford her. The woman's won so many acting awards, she probably needs a separate room to store them in at home.

Doctor Who will get cancelled in 2019 after Series 12 airs and ratings have plummeted once again.

Then they bring Moffat back for the 2023 anniversary episode, relaunching the show and starting a new Diamond era.

She looks like that woman who was wired up to satellite 5 in Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways

>assuming series 11 will air in 2018

doctorwhotv.co.uk/chibnall-13th-doctor-will-be-cast-in-the-traditional-way-83179.htm

What did he mean by this?

>I will be taking a holiday before starting Doctor Who
>I expect 'Doctor Who' is going to take over my life to a CERTAIN degree
>But I'm just thinking at the next play I'll do after that

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Wonder who the actor was who texted him
I'm guessing Andrew Buchan

>hilarious text from an actor he [Chibnall] worked with a long, long time ago.

Probably an actor from Born and Bred. Or John Barrowman.

Rec me the depressing Who from any medium except nuwho but including classic. I've listened to a lot of the most tragic audios so you'd have to dig a bit deeper.

Looking good.

The girl who thinks Capaldi is her Twin Flame just posted this.

youtube.com/watch?v=vqgpWJDdD5U

I thought she was just mentally ill but no, apparently the twin flame thing is like a whole subculture or spiritual conspiracy theory or something. There seem to be a LOT of these lunatics.

The cybermen did nothing wrong
Prove me wrong
You can't

Threadly reminder

Nothing is wasted and life is worth living.
Heaven is nowhere, just look to the stars.
There is a day that is yours for embracing
Everything's nothing, and nothing is ours.

William Shatner says that Misha Collins is being considered for the new Doctor.

How the hell would Shatner know?

Looking at him, actually, he'd be better than some of the retarded suggestions so far. Perhaps he's friends with the guy? He is American though...

Tilda Swinton, aka the most uninspired, unimaginative possible Doctor Who casting choice perhaps ever.

Also, she appears every single time as a "bookies favourite".

There's more chance of Gareth Roberts being the next Doctor than Tilda bleeding Swinton.

She looks great for her age though. 56!

youtube.com/watch?v=3gceu0jsEMs

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Perhaps because he's spent half a century building connections in the television industry, user.

The real next Doctor.
Post yfw you realize you are Jelly.

We need to send him Chibnall's palm to read so he can tell us if Doctor Who gets canceled again

True.

They want the Tumblr Superwholock audience back so badly that they're willing to cast an American actor?

I'm sick of the same old choices being suggested. "Ooh, how about Idris Elba, or Patterson Joseph. What? Of course I know of more than two black British actors"

Simm!Master used his magic wand to make the Doctor 100 years older in the Sound of Drums. He looked like a old man in 100 years.

How did Matt manage to age much slower?

the master was talking in time lord years

it should be really why did 10 age so fast in 100 years rather than why 11 did so slow. the doctors in the classic series lived for longer time spans and barely aged

Is 10 the youngest lived Doctor out of them all? He only lived for 4 or 5 in-universe years, whereas 11 lived for over 1,000, 9 is unknown but probably longer, 8 was longer, 1 lived a while etc...

Yeah. I suppose it's a decent in-universe explanation for why he was so reluctant to regenerate.

The 7th Doctor claimed he was 953.

The Doctor's claims about his age are completely meaningless.

I enjoyed Missy being a semi-ally in Series 9 but if she's not reestablished as a major threat and the Doctor's archenemy in Series 10 her character will be ruined and the people currently crying "Missy isn't the Master" will be right.

I honestly kind of agree. They essentially want to rid the universe of suffering.

RTD forgot that the Doctor was supposed to be an alien

But if we don't suffer, we can't truly be happy either... there are no other colours without the Blues.

If you say so. I for one would opt for life being an unending orgasm if that was an option.

Cybermen are the best villains in the respect that they think they are the good guys, like Davros. Unfortunately, they were reduced to typical shitty villains in the 80s and this continued in 2006, when they started randomly killing all those people at the dinner party

Doctor who is fucking garbage.
It can tell any story in all of time and space and it always ends up a shitty looking celebration of mediocrity.
It's a predictable, safe formulaic children's show where the Le wacky man saves the day with some 'witty' banter and a 'clever' scheme.
The Doctor never goes anywhere in his development, just going from dark to light or dark to light depending on the incarnation.
It has no love for science or history, it just boils everything down for lowest common denominator. It's a waste of time and effort,
why don't you losers mature and watch some grown up television for a change.
You shouldn't watch doctor who unless it's with your own children but I really don't want you plebs procreating.

>watch some grown up television for a change

What, like Game of Thrones? The show with a USP of basically "Lord of the Rings but with titties and incest!"

She does!

They seem to follow David Icke, and think the world is, in reality, ruled by reptilian aliens.

i-i-is she right?

twitter.com/Tegan_Jovanka/status/826333671355461632

Was she a bookies' favourite last time? All I remember is Peter Capaldi appearing from nowhere in the last few days before he was announced.

>she's gonna be ok and will help a lot of people

Based Jenna has a palm as beautiful as the rest of her.

Yes. Capaldi is the worst of the modern era. FACT.

>Simm!Master
Not canon.
>Sound of Drums
Not canon either.