Doctor Who IV - Everything Whovian - Would you like a jelly baby?

[ChrisIII]

Watching season 12 recently it's interesting how Harry is used. I know he was originally intended as an Ian Chesterton or Steven Taylor type, being the more physically active member of the cast while the Doctor was intended to be a Hartnell-type.

Instead he's kind of more of a kind of opposite to Sarah in terms of his political views in some dialogue exchanges, often is the butt of the Doctor's jokes (Sort of like a proto-Mickey) and instead of being the physically active one he's falling down, causing a rockfall or getting his foot stuck in a giant clam instead. He really shines in Genesis of the Daleks I think where he spends most of the story with the Doctor without Sarah though.

I think we lost Ian way too young, he of course co-wrote the Scratchman screenplay and several Target novels. Also did some work for Disney too.

Kind of wonder what a "What if" season 12 would've been with say, an older Doctor.

Seems kind of unlikely that there would be a similar situation in the future, with an older actor taking over and the companion doing more of the heavy lifting with the action. Capaldi for example was the same age of Hartnell but much more healthy and could do a lot of action stuff. Colin Baker of course was intended to reflect Hartnell's grumpiness but was very physical active in his stories.

Ace did do a lot of the action in the McCoy stories though so I guess that might count as a similar situation classic-wise.

[Jokerz79]

Capaldi resisted having any men as regular companions for a long time out of fear he'd get the Hartnell treatment, and the young guy would do all the fun stuff.

[ChrisIII]

Funny thing is, in his final story he pretty much becomes the man of action next to the First (Also Smith and Tennant to Hurt in DOTD).

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Time Lord Immemorial cover reveal.

[ChrisIII]

Kind of nice to have David Warner one last time. I was kind of disappointed by his live-action appearance on the show in Cold War, I know he's played eccentric professors before (TMNT for example) but I'd rather they gave him a role with more gravitas like a time lord or a villain, although maybe he felt typecast as a villain since a lot of his roles were...

[ChrisIII]

New photos, Tennant interview from EW's fall preview issue: https://ew.com/tv/doctor-who-60th-an...VhVfYwYgWQLLXc

[ChrisIII]

So I read the comic story "The Wolves of Winter" and I think it sort of had a similar problem to "Childhood's End" (Which revealed that Fenric used a middleman for the Time storm stuff instead of doing it himself from the flask) in that it kind of cheapened Curse of Fenric a bit by kind of tacking on Ice Warriors and The Flood to it in addition to Fenric and the Haemavores. It also seemed like too many storylines happening at once, which I think RESSURECTION OF THE DALEKS, ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN and END OF TIME had similar problems.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Once and Future: the Martian invasion of Planetoid 50 comes out today.

[Digifiend]

Tom Baker's lost a lot of weight!
https://twitter.com/DailyTomBaker/st...68757597901081

[Jokerz79]

Tom Baker's lost a lot of weight!
https://twitter.com/DailyTomBaker/st...68757597901081

That's not good at his age losing weight is rarely a good sign. Also, on a double Who note he kind of looks like Hartnell now.

[ChrisIII]

Like the chemistry with Ncuti and Millie in the little mini-interviews they're putting on social media.

Would be nice for this to be one of the classic teams like Pertwee/Manning, Baker/Sladen, McCoy/Aldred, Eccleston/Piper and Smith/Gillian but we'll see.

[ChrisIII]

Watching the E-space trilogy and it's interesting that Full Circle and State of Decay are kind of similar in plot structure-crashed spaceship, survivors not what they appear to be, stagnant civilization held back by a ruling triad etc. and a bit of a throwback to the gothic horror/Hammer tributes of Tom's earlier years (With Full Circle dealing with Creature From The Black Lagoon type creatures, State of Decay with Vampires) yet are totally different in tone.

Of course the Deciders seem mainly somewhat naive and misguided and quickly realize the error of their ways compared to the outright evil of the Three Who Rule.

I think it's kind of intentional on Bidmead's part, with him perhaps re-writing part of Dick's script (originally intended to open season 15) to reflect that theme.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Trailer for Big Finish's "Doom's Day" boxset "Dying Hours".

[Nate Grey]

Coming in November...



I don't know how to make it smaller...but anyway, $175 on Amazon in November.

I don't own any physical Who media yet, so I'm probably gonna save up now for this.

[Mister Mets]

Years ago, Doctor Who magazine had a train wreck interview with actor Clive Swift.

https://twitter.com/wearecultonline/...20450342715838



He was best known as the husband in the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. He played Professor Jobel in Revelation of the Daleks and Mr Copper in "Voyage of the Damned."

And he doesn't seem to like it when interviewers don't know shorthand.