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kxk
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Whoopie wants to be in the Doctor, she would be an OK alien
Whoopi Goldberg is a big fan of British TV, and is practically begging the folks at the BBC to give her a role in Doctor Who.
Even though you probably know Whoopi Goldberg for her roles in big movies like Sister Act and Ghost, the daytime host has her sites set on our favorite show. She’s hoping that the Doctor Who bosses call her up next time she’s in town and give her a role.
She’s a big fan of what British television is doing right now. She told The Sun, “I always hope when I come to England the BBC will say, ‘Hey we want you to do something.’ I would love that. Maybe Channel 4 or BBC 1, 2 and 3, who knows? Maybe somebody will say, ‘Hey stick around kid’.”
She goes on to praise the production values of some of the shows in the British publication, praising them, “You have a different quality now on television. The way you guys have always done shows has always been the smartest and we’ve finally just figured it out.”
She called out a few specific shows that she admires. She mentions Black Mirror and Absolutely Fabulous are among the standouts for her, but she’s holding out for Doctor Who, as she should.
Whoopi Goldberg is a big fan of British TV, and is practically begging the folks at the BBC to give her a role in Doctor Who.
Even though you probably know Whoopi Goldberg for her roles in big movies like Sister Act and Ghost, the daytime host has her sites set on our favorite show. She’s hoping that the Doctor Who bosses call her up next time she’s in town and give her a role.
She’s a big fan of what British television is doing right now. She told The Sun, “I always hope when I come to England the BBC will say, ‘Hey we want you to do something.’ I would love that. Maybe Channel 4 or BBC 1, 2 and 3, who knows? Maybe somebody will say, ‘Hey stick around kid’.”
She goes on to praise the production values of some of the shows in the British publication, praising them, “You have a different quality now on television. The way you guys have always done shows has always been the smartest and we’ve finally just figured it out.”
She called out a few specific shows that she admires. She mentions Black Mirror and Absolutely Fabulous are among the standouts for her, but she’s holding out for Doctor Who, as she should.
oddjob
Well-Known Member
I like the sound of this, ie that Capaldi will get a good send off, @ Christmas
And it may have something to do with susan????
David Bradley set to join Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who Christmas special as he reprises his role as William Hartnell's first Time Lord
British actor David Bradley is set to reprise his role as William Hartnell's first Time Lord in this year's Christmas special of Doctor Who.
- Bradley portrayed William Hartnell, who played the first Doctor, in 50th Anniversary docu-drama about the sci-fi series in 2013
As reported by the Mirror, the 75-year-old will help the current Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, complete his last task in the TARDIS, before he regenerates in the festive episode.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...r-Doctor-Christmas-special.html#ixzz4eZbewbuD
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
I like the idea. Using other actors to play old Doctors is something I'd actually been wondering about since seeing An Adventure in Space and Time. Especially the first, since that gives a lot of opportunity to fill in some of the blanks, and Bradley did a good job I thought. It might be harder to cast a Tom Baker lookalike though.
oddjob
Well-Known Member
That's what I was getting at with my comment about the photos, you can't have a grandchild without having a child. AFAIK the rest of family has never been explained. I think in one David Tennant episode he mentions that he has been a father. Since he knows that, but hasn't had a child with River (yet, though he still could I suppose), his earlier experience of being a father can't have been with River, so must have been with an earlier partner.
inumeenu
Well-Known Member
This is exciting!
New ABC2 fan series Whovians will be unveiling a worldwide exclusive clip from the third episode of Doctor Who this Sunday night.
Join the Doctor Who after party where superfans Rove McManus, Tegan Higginbotham, Adam Richard, Steven O’Donnell and guests discuss the latest episode, answer your questions and basically geek out about Doctor Who.
As well as unpacking the most recent episode, Rove and the team will open the doors of the TARDIS and go back through the annals of time to lovingly analyse, critique, and unravel the mysteries of this much loved globally renowned series.
During Sunday night’s episode, watch an exclusive Doctor Who Ep 2 behind-the-scenes clip AND a world-wide exclusive sneak peek from Doctor Who Ep 3. Plus another Australian celebrity will audition for the role of the 13th Doctor.
8:30pm Sunday on ABC2.
New ABC2 fan series Whovians will be unveiling a worldwide exclusive clip from the third episode of Doctor Who this Sunday night.
Join the Doctor Who after party where superfans Rove McManus, Tegan Higginbotham, Adam Richard, Steven O’Donnell and guests discuss the latest episode, answer your questions and basically geek out about Doctor Who.
As well as unpacking the most recent episode, Rove and the team will open the doors of the TARDIS and go back through the annals of time to lovingly analyse, critique, and unravel the mysteries of this much loved globally renowned series.
During Sunday night’s episode, watch an exclusive Doctor Who Ep 2 behind-the-scenes clip AND a world-wide exclusive sneak peek from Doctor Who Ep 3. Plus another Australian celebrity will audition for the role of the 13th Doctor.
8:30pm Sunday on ABC2.
...ha!... I'm playing 'Mass Effect Andromeda' at the moment on Xbox One and it has it's own 'Gallifrey' look-alike in it... haha!... I was stoked when I first saw it lol!... here are some pics... now to attack it... cheers.
...I've done some 'Sherlock Holmes type of investigating' into The Doctor's 'grand daughter' Susan as I am want to do at times... these two websites go into some great detail to try and explain it all... especially in the 1st website... the 2nd website has a lot of opinions and theories from some of the fans on it all and... some sound quite feasible too...
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Susan_Foreman
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3115/is-susan-foreman-actually-the-doctors-granddaughter
...just to throw some 'conspiracy theory' into it... (as I am also want to do on occasions)... I'm calling it now...
Theory #1:... when Capaldi's Doctor unlocks that 'vault' in the University he awakens the John Simm's version of 'The Master' who gets the hots for 'Missy' who in turn repays his advances which in turn creates Susan... meanwhile Susan as a newborn baby ends up on Gallifrey somehow in William Hartnell's time as The Doctor and he in turn abducts her from the baby crib of John Simm's Master and Missy (who fled there to escape Capaldi's Doctor of today)... Hartnell's Doctor did it to keep her away from the evil John Simm's 'Master' and the evil 'Missy' in order to bring her up in a 'good' environment because Susan... if put to 'bad' use has the hidden potential to destroy all of the other Time Lords and Gallifreyans if she wanted to...
...(but wait!... there's more!... are you all still with me?... lol!)...
...and then after hiding her for 16 years John Simm's Master and Missy suddenly found William Hartnell's version of The Doctor and Susan back on Gallifrey back in that time and hence... the real reason for Hartnell's Doctor and Susan fleeing from Gallifrey in the first place and THAT is when the original episode started back in the 1960's!...
...OR...
Theory #2:... Susan was William Hartnell's real little sister... NOT his grand daughter... (don't worry about the age differences
... lol!)......OR...
Theory #3:... Capaldi's version of The Doctor and River Song trip the light fantastic in a spare bedroom on The Tardis which results in Susan being born 9 months later and because John Simm's Doctor (after being released from the vault of course) and Missy want to get their grubby mitts on Susan as a baby to bring her up as 'evil' like themselves Capaldi's Doctor whooshes the baby back in Time to an earlier Gallifrey so that they can't find her and Capaldi's Doctor begs Hartnell's Doctor to bring Susan up as his 'grand daughter' so that he can go back to present time and battle it out with John Simm's Doctor and Missy until his eventual death and ultimately his new re-generation?... somehow he defeats John Simm's Doctor and Missy in the process therefore hiding Susan from them forever!... which also brings it all back to the original first episode back in the 1960's yet again!...
...so technically speaking... William Hartnell's Doctor could be legitimately classified as her 'grandfather!... AND... just before Capaldi's Doctor dies and regenerates he tracks down Susan as a 75 year old woman now to have some 'family time' with her before his regeneration?... this could possibly explain John Simms return as The Master/the return of William Hartnell's Doctor with Bradley playing the role and Carole Ann Ford's possible appearance all happening this year before Capaldi's regeneration?... (and Capaldi's grand finale)... and also adding in the fact that Hartnell's Doctor allowed Susan to leave him and live on Earth in anonymity because he was scared that John Simm's Master and Missy were very close to tracking them down at the time could explain why Hartnell's Doctor allowed Susan to leave his Tardis forever in the first place perhaps?...
...TA DAAAAAAAAH!... it's now all explained!... my pleasure folks!... no need to thank me...
......OR...
Theory #4:... I'm dribbling in complete shit in all the above scenarios lol!... (ooh!... my brain is numb now lol!)... oh dear... I'm really overthinking this aren't I?... I'll shut up now peoples... I think that I need to take a Bex powder (are they still around?) and have a lie down now after all of that... lol!... cheers.
...what the hell?... plus ANOTHER Australian will audition?... who was the first one?... colour me intrigued...
...oh thank god that she's not going to be on it anymore... she was useless on it... so it looks like a regular panel of those left with a different guest each week... I'll probably be able to handle that lol!... cheers.
...aw man!... that sounds soooooo friggin' awesome doesn't it?... just imagine being in the middle of the same room with all of them brilliant souls!... (minus Colin Baker of course... I'd probably punch that idiot in the mouth for what he did as The Doctor... grrrrr!)... I would probably just freak out methinks!... lol!... cheers.
Columbo
Never again
...I've done some 'Sherlock Holmes type of investigating' into The Doctor's 'grand daughter' Susan as I am want to do at times... these two websites go into some great detail to try and explain it all... especially in the 1st website... the 2nd website has a lot of opinions and theories from some of the fans on it all and... some sound quite feasible too...
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Susan_Foreman
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3115/is-susan-foreman-actually-the-doctors-granddaughter
...just to throw some 'conspiracy theory' into it... (as I am also want to do on occasions)... I'm calling it now...
Theory #1:... when Capaldi's Doctor unlocks that 'vault' in the University he awakens the John Simm's version of 'The Master' who gets the hots for 'Missy' who in turn repays his advances which in turn creates Susan... meanwhile Susan as a newborn baby ends up on Gallifrey somehow in William Hartnell's time as The Doctor and he in turn abducts her from the baby crib of John Simm's Master and Missy (who fled there to escape Capaldi's Doctor of today)... Hartnell's Doctor did it to keep her away from the evil John Simm's 'Master' and the evil 'Missy' in order to bring her up in a 'good' environment because Susan... if put to 'bad' use has the hidden potential to destroy all of the other Time Lords and Gallifreyans if she wanted to...
...(but wait!... there's more!... are you all still with me?... lol!)...
...and then after hiding her for 16 years John Simm's Master and Missy suddenly found William Hartnell's version of The Doctor and Susan back on Gallifrey back in that time and hence... the real reason for Hartnell's Doctor and Susan fleeing from Gallifrey in the first place and THAT is when the original episode started back in the 1960's!...
...OR...
Theory #2:... Susan was William Hartnell's real little sister... NOT his grand daughter... (don't worry about the age differences
...OR...
Theory #3:... Capaldi's version of The Doctor and River Song trip the light fantastic in a spare bedroom on The Tardis which results in Susan being born 9 months later and because John Simm's Doctor (after being released from the vault of course) and Missy want to get their grubby mitts on Susan as a baby to bring her up as 'evil' like themselves Capaldi's Doctor whooshes the baby back in Time to an earlier Gallifrey so that they can't find her and Capaldi's Doctor begs Hartnell's Doctor to bring Susan up as his 'grand daughter' so that he can go back to present time and battle it out with John Simm's Doctor and Missy until his eventual death and ultimately his new re-generation?... somehow he defeats John Simm's Doctor and Missy in the process therefore hiding Susan from them forever!... which also brings it all back to the original first episode back in the 1960's yet again!...
...so technically speaking... William Hartnell's Doctor could be legitimately classified as her 'grandfather!... AND... just before Capaldi's Doctor dies and regenerates he tracks down Susan as a 75 year old woman now to have some 'family time' with her before his regeneration?... this could possibly explain John Simms return as The Master/the return of William Hartnell's Doctor with Bradley playing the role and Carole Ann Ford's possible appearance all happening this year before Capaldi's regeneration?... (and Capaldi's grand finale)... and also adding in the fact that Hartnell's Doctor allowed Susan to leave him and live on Earth in anonymity because he was scared that John Simm's Master and Missy were very close to tracking them down at the time could explain why Hartnell's Doctor allowed Susan to leave his Tardis forever in the first place perhaps?...
...TA DAAAAAAAAH!... it's now all explained!... my pleasure folks!... no need to thank me...
...OR...
Theory #4:... I'm dribbling in complete shit in all the above scenarios lol!... (ooh!... my brain is numb now lol!)... oh dear... I'm really overthinking this aren't I?... I'll shut up now peoples... I think that I need to take a Bex powder (are they still around?) and have a lie down now after all of that... lol!... cheers.
Theory three would probably be the most likely. I mean it does sound insane but it would most likely be the one that Moffatt would write.
...haha!... thanks reepbot... when I wrote that scenario 'off-the-cuff' during one of my usual insane babblings I really just wrote it for the fun value at the time but now that I think about it #3 does sound a tad bit feasible now that I've read it during one of my more 'sane' moments lol!... it does actually explain where Hartnell's Doctor/John Simm's Doctor and Susan could fit into it all doesn't it?... then again... we are talking about Steve Moffatt... Moffatt is Moffatt after all so I'm most likely completely wrong lol!... (as per usual
)... cheers.
oddjob
Well-Known Member
That was the bit with the unfunny Book Show cross promotion.
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
Doctor Day - I love Sundays
I cut off the phones before 7.30pm, and I should put a do not disturb on the front door - but everyone I know wouldn't dare, so easily ignore any door knockers.
Another Aussie, hmm, a good choice might be Rake, Richard Roxburgh or whatever his name is, but they want someone younger.
I cut off the phones before 7.30pm, and I should put a do not disturb on the front door - but everyone I know wouldn't dare, so easily ignore any door knockers.
Another Aussie, hmm, a good choice might be Rake, Richard Roxburgh or whatever his name is, but they want someone younger.
...oh wow... I've just stumbled across across this on 'ABC IView' and also on the 'Gizmodo' website that explains all... on these links below...
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/doctor-who-the-power-of-the-daleks/ZW1012A001S00
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/11/power-of-the-daleks-is-an-amazing-moment-in-doctor-whohistory/
...to let you know what it is all about I'll post some of the blurb from the Gizmodo website first... it says...
...how good is that?... only audio tapes survive of those episodes so the BBC have recreated the shows using animation so tht we can watch the actual stories unfold... this is what the Gizmodo website wrote...
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'Power Of The Daleks' Is An Amazing Moment In Doctor Who History
James Whitbrook
Nov 22, 2016, 2:00pm
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Half a century has passed since the "Power of the Daleks" storyline aired on Doctor Who, arguably the series' boldest moment — the first test to see if the show's wild idea to rejuvenate its star with a new actor would work (spoilers: it did). But re-watching it this week has given me an altogether different appreciation for the story.
The reason I can rewatch it is because the BBC has released a fully animated recreation of "Power of the Daleks" using recordings of the original audio from the episodes. The original video was lost to time, along with 97 other episodes from early Doctor Who history scrubbed from BBC archives and potentially lost forever.
So this animated version allows Doctor Who fans new and old to experience a profoundly important moment in the show's history, a wonderful bit of time-travel quite appropriate for a show like Doctor Who — although one admittedly experienced through some rather basic animation. This was made on a BBC budget, not a Pixar one, after all — but the relatively stark and simple nature of the animation suits the retro roots of the material it is recreating in a way that isn't really any more off-putting than watching classic TV in the modern day is anyway. (Keeping it black-and-white was a nice touch, too.)
Animated or not, "Power of the Daleks" is still important as a moment of huge change for the show, showing how Patrick Troughton slipped into the role of the Doctor, the first "rejuvenation" that would become one of Doctor Who's hallmarks. The transformation isn't particularly sad or played for humour, but is altogether more petrifying and alien at first. His first real scene with companions Ben and Polly isn't friendly or mysterious — it's tense and hostile in a way that is weirdly gut-wrenching to see play out, despite having 50 years of hindsight to reassure us that this is indeed the same Doctor, and will continue to be over 10 more such radical changes.
If any nuance in Troughton's performance was lost in the animation process, it doesn't seem evident; the rejuvenation is disorienting and it's scary to watch the Doctor grapple with his new persona now, just as it must have been in 1966. Even if by the end of the six-part story we are reassured and convinced that this is still the Doctor — he's warmed up, he's got Ben and Polly back on his side, and of course, he's saved the day — it is still a fascinating moment to witness this key moment in Doctor Who history unfold.
But the real joy of "Power of the Daleks" is found in its titular foes, which were picked specifically to reassure viewers that new lead actor or not, this was still Doctor Who. "Power" shows the Daleks in a fascinating light that had yet to be really examined at this point in the show, and for the most part has since been forgotten. Usually Daleks are pepperpot rage machines; simple, faceless soldiers, an endless sea that inspires fear through their sheer strength of numbers. They invade in swarms, they never stop, and for every Dalek defeated, 10 more can glide into its place with a chilling cry of "Exterminate!"
But "Power" knows Daleks are much, much scarier than just mindless, angry weapons. Daleks are clever. They are cunning and ruthless, and they will do everything they can to undermine their foes until the perfect time to strike. Writer David Whitaker focuses on this truly fearsome aspect in the serial, in which human colonists on Vulcan have discovered and are experimenting on a group of deactivated Daleks they believe they can control as their own servants.
David Whitaker's script is a master class in tension, as the Doctor slowly realises they aren't deactivated at all, and have been secretly building up a new army to take over the colony. The moment the Daleks finally reveal that they have been in charge of the situation the entire time, rather than the human scientists experimenting on them, is still one of the most satisfying surprises in all of Doctor Who's lengthy history.
Regardless of its importance in Who canon, "Power of the Daleks" is considered a masterpiece, and it turns out for good reason. It's not seeing the arrival of the new Doctor that makes this story one you must watch; it's because it's one of Doctor Who's best adventures ever, as well as an excellent exploration of his oldest foes. Now that you finally have a chance to see it — albeit animated — you shouldn't miss it.
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...you can watch the entire 30 minute episodes right here thanks to ABCIview... on this link below... there are 6 episodes... I love it!... cheers.
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/doctor-who-the-power-of-the-daleks/ZW1012A001S00
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/doctor-who-the-power-of-the-daleks/ZW1012A001S00
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/11/power-of-the-daleks-is-an-amazing-moment-in-doctor-whohistory/
...to let you know what it is all about I'll post some of the blurb from the Gizmodo website first... it says...
...how good is that?... only audio tapes survive of those episodes so the BBC have recreated the shows using animation so tht we can watch the actual stories unfold... this is what the Gizmodo website wrote...
____________________________________________________
'Power Of The Daleks' Is An Amazing Moment In Doctor Who History
James Whitbrook
Nov 22, 2016, 2:00pm
⋅ Filed to:
Share
Half a century has passed since the "Power of the Daleks" storyline aired on Doctor Who, arguably the series' boldest moment — the first test to see if the show's wild idea to rejuvenate its star with a new actor would work (spoilers: it did). But re-watching it this week has given me an altogether different appreciation for the story.
The reason I can rewatch it is because the BBC has released a fully animated recreation of "Power of the Daleks" using recordings of the original audio from the episodes. The original video was lost to time, along with 97 other episodes from early Doctor Who history scrubbed from BBC archives and potentially lost forever.
So this animated version allows Doctor Who fans new and old to experience a profoundly important moment in the show's history, a wonderful bit of time-travel quite appropriate for a show like Doctor Who — although one admittedly experienced through some rather basic animation. This was made on a BBC budget, not a Pixar one, after all — but the relatively stark and simple nature of the animation suits the retro roots of the material it is recreating in a way that isn't really any more off-putting than watching classic TV in the modern day is anyway. (Keeping it black-and-white was a nice touch, too.)
Animated or not, "Power of the Daleks" is still important as a moment of huge change for the show, showing how Patrick Troughton slipped into the role of the Doctor, the first "rejuvenation" that would become one of Doctor Who's hallmarks. The transformation isn't particularly sad or played for humour, but is altogether more petrifying and alien at first. His first real scene with companions Ben and Polly isn't friendly or mysterious — it's tense and hostile in a way that is weirdly gut-wrenching to see play out, despite having 50 years of hindsight to reassure us that this is indeed the same Doctor, and will continue to be over 10 more such radical changes.
If any nuance in Troughton's performance was lost in the animation process, it doesn't seem evident; the rejuvenation is disorienting and it's scary to watch the Doctor grapple with his new persona now, just as it must have been in 1966. Even if by the end of the six-part story we are reassured and convinced that this is still the Doctor — he's warmed up, he's got Ben and Polly back on his side, and of course, he's saved the day — it is still a fascinating moment to witness this key moment in Doctor Who history unfold.
But the real joy of "Power of the Daleks" is found in its titular foes, which were picked specifically to reassure viewers that new lead actor or not, this was still Doctor Who. "Power" shows the Daleks in a fascinating light that had yet to be really examined at this point in the show, and for the most part has since been forgotten. Usually Daleks are pepperpot rage machines; simple, faceless soldiers, an endless sea that inspires fear through their sheer strength of numbers. They invade in swarms, they never stop, and for every Dalek defeated, 10 more can glide into its place with a chilling cry of "Exterminate!"
But "Power" knows Daleks are much, much scarier than just mindless, angry weapons. Daleks are clever. They are cunning and ruthless, and they will do everything they can to undermine their foes until the perfect time to strike. Writer David Whitaker focuses on this truly fearsome aspect in the serial, in which human colonists on Vulcan have discovered and are experimenting on a group of deactivated Daleks they believe they can control as their own servants.
David Whitaker's script is a master class in tension, as the Doctor slowly realises they aren't deactivated at all, and have been secretly building up a new army to take over the colony. The moment the Daleks finally reveal that they have been in charge of the situation the entire time, rather than the human scientists experimenting on them, is still one of the most satisfying surprises in all of Doctor Who's lengthy history.
Regardless of its importance in Who canon, "Power of the Daleks" is considered a masterpiece, and it turns out for good reason. It's not seeing the arrival of the new Doctor that makes this story one you must watch; it's because it's one of Doctor Who's best adventures ever, as well as an excellent exploration of his oldest foes. Now that you finally have a chance to see it — albeit animated — you shouldn't miss it.
____________________________________________________
...you can watch the entire 30 minute episodes right here thanks to ABCIview... on this link below... there are 6 episodes... I love it!... cheers.
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/doctor-who-the-power-of-the-daleks/ZW1012A001S00