Doctor Who Omnibus Thread

[The Natural]

Cool new stills (in spoiler tags for size).

 

 

 

 

 

[Bustronaut]

Holy fun! THE NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR  was really neat!

 

[Matt D]

I'm easily the biggest fan of 8 on the board and I'm very happy with it.

[Bustronaut]

Dude, spoilers!

[Matt D]

I said nothing that hasn't been rumored for months. But I'll tag it. There was maybe a 6% surprise factor in the first few seconds of .. "Oh, wow, they actually did that instead of being complete dicks about this."

[Leonidas]

Well that was awesome and pretty much confirms what everyone already thought.

[odessasteps]

I guess we were all right or mostly right

[Craig H]

That was pretty damn cool.

[Bustronaut]

I have to admit, I'm a little sad that it didn't make it into the actual episode.

 

Oh well, I am now actually looking forward to the 50th Anniversary!  Better late than never, eh?

[Bustronaut]

Man, they had their chance to call it the Four Doctors and everything

[Matt D]

I feel like this was almost a better showcase than if it had gotten in, since the constraints were less.

[The Natural]

That was great. Paul McGann deserves this.

 

[Ace]

I may have squeed a bit in my office.

[Craig H]

I wonder how in the hell they kept Paul McGann a secret for this long.

[Ace]

Interesting side effect. Due to one line, the 8th Doctor audio adventures are now canon.

[Craig H]

The more I think about it, the more confused I get. Why couldn't the Doctor just regenerate on his own like normal? Those women whose names escape me at the moment were pretty confident he wouldn't regenerate again, but they also had the technology to give him a regeneration and be able to choose if he would be a man, woman, warrior, etc. So, does the Doctor drinking that elixir bypass the regeneration rules? Not only that, but at some point, 8 dies and becomes 9, so I wonder why 9 wasn't a warrior.

 

Also, John Hurt is a fucking warrior Doctor. How bad ass is that?

[Ace]

He could. He just hadn't done so yet. He died in the crash, but was reanimated to choose his regeneration.

[odessasteps]

Im wondering: would he have died in the ship crashwd while he was in the tardis?

[Raziel]

He wasn't in the TARDIS.  He was still trying to convince the girl to run away.

[The Natural]

It's also Paul McGann's 54th birthday today.

 

I've watched The Night of the Doctor twice now and honestly I enjoyed it more than nearly all the last series, if not all of it.

[odessasteps]

He wasn't in the TARDIS. He was still trying to convince the girl to run away.

I know. Thats why i asked, if he had been IN the tardis when the ship crashed, ...Also, there is another Brain of Morbius referwnce in the episode in adsition to thr sisterhood.

[Matt D]

I will add that a friend of mine had sent it to me RIGHT after I had watched the Eddy Guerrero Hurt video, so i was already in a pretty out there emotional place. 

[Craig H]

He could. He just hadn't done so yet. He died in the crash, but was reanimated to choose his regeneration.

 

Ah ok, that makes sense.

[The Natural]

Shame Paul McGann never got a series.

[The Natural]

Steven Moffat on The Night of the Doctor:

 

Question: How did The Night of the Doctor come about?

Steven Moffat: Well, we had our new ‘hidden mystery’ Doctor and I was thinking, what else can we do for our anniversary year… I thought… Why don’t we get Paul McGann in and regenerate him into John Hurt? I’d like to see that! I’d love to see that! And we had this possibility that we could do it as a surprise, so we got in touch with Paul who was dead keen and I’m delighted to say he was so happy to join in with the idea of keeping it secret. He was childishly excited about it! Paul came along and shot it – it was the last two days of the shoot for the fiftieth, actually. He did a wonderful job. It was great! We designed a new costume for him based on his old one. Howard Burden did a fantastic job with that.Q: It was a well-kept secret! How important was that for you, and what measures did you go to, to ensure this regeneration was kept under wraps?

SM: We were phenomenally secret with the making of it! And I’m sure some people are a bit cross that we were so secretive but the fact is, there is only one way to ensure you keep a secret, and that’s to keep it! So, we kept it very tight and we hope it all came as great surprise to everyone.Q: For those that don’t know him, could you describe the Eighth Doctor?

SM: The Eighth Doctor is perhaps the first of the sexy, romantic Doctors. I don’t mean he’s the first sexy Doctor – he’s not. But he’s the first one who kisses a lady, for example. He’s obviously dashing, terribly handsome and quite romantic. I always found it hard to imagine him fighting in the Time War. I’d always imagined the ‘Time War Doctor’ would be more grizzled, somehow, you know?

Paul only played the Doctor onscreen once before, in the TV Movie. He gives a wonderful performance in it. It’s a terrifically exuberant performance and it anticipates the later performances, particularly of Matt and David. He’s a dashing, romantic, very funny and very affecting Doctor! Of course, Paul is not only known for the telemovie but for all his wonderful audio adventures. I’m always telling the Doctors and companions, as they come through the show, that they’ll never be quite done with it – Big Finish is expecting them.Q: It’s an interesting spin on the Time War – the Time Lords becoming this hated race, as bad as the Daleks in some people’s eyes. Will we see that play out with John Hurt’s Doctor and so on?

SM: We will see some of that play out. We’ve already seen some of it play out on the show, in The End of Time, where the Doctor reveals the Time Lords got as bad as the Daleks towards the end, and he was as worried by them as anything else. And we know the Doctor wiped out his own people. He wouldn’t do so unless things had got pretty bad. Genocide is a big decision for anyone!Q: People seemed delighted when they heard the Sisterhood of Karn was returning. Did that surprise you?

SM: A little bit! I was terribly excited about having the Sisterhood of Karn coming back which is why I did it! But I should probably learn to have a little more faith in the fact that what gets me excited as a sad, old fan will get other people excited as well! And okay, the Sisterhood are unknown to the kids, but I was a kid when I first saw the Sisterhood and I thought they were great! So I’m hoping other people will like them!Q: And the character the Doctor encounters in the mini episode… Is that supposed to be Ohica, from The Brain of Morbius?

SM: No! If you look at the credits you’ll see I called her Ohila so it suggests she’s in some way connected to Ohica. Instead of having that confusion in having it the same person, I thought we’d just imply they were connected.Q: Finally, running a show like Doctor Who is always going to be hard work… But how much fun was it? Bringing back the Eighth Doctor?

SM: Oh, it was a complete treat! It was always frustrating that we never got to see more of him! The completist in me… the ‘box set man’ in me wants every box ticked and I wanted every regeneration scene! And we get to see the Paul McGann Doctor regenerate into the John Hurt Doctor! I love regeneration episodes – there’s nothing more exciting! And in the anniversary year we get to see two regenerations… That’s pretty cool!

 

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