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Re: Doctor Who
First two episodes drop at midnight 11 May on iPlayer and Disney plus elsewhere. Broadcast episode at 7 pm before Eurovision song contest.
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16-03-2024, 14:21
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Re: Doctor Who
I see fans bleating on social media about having to avoid spoilers during Saturday daytime presumably because they want to watch it as-broadcast at 7pm. Others moaning at the principle of east-coast US audiences getting the luxury of the 7pm Friday drop because this means Disney has taken over.
Who fandom is possibly the most negative community on the entire planet, never satisfied, permanently paranoid and totally unable to simply enjoy anything (or understand that Disney is the thing that has most effectively future-proofed Doctor Who as a TV series for the foreseeable future).
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16-03-2024, 14:28
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Re: Doctor Who
My mate was moaning to me about it last night. Blaming dosney etc and shame on the BBC.
However iplayer have been getting shows and series before airing for a while now. Its a non issue really.
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16-03-2024, 15:08
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However iplayer have been getting shows and series before airing for a while now. Its a non issue really.
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Absolutely. Great strategy to get a buzz going.
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16-03-2024, 15:47
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It sure is. I think they might even put the weeks estenders on iplayer at the start of the week.
I know they did it for silent Witness last series. Each part aired Monday amd Tuesday nights but at 9am every Monday both parts were put on iplayer. I preferred it as could watch anytime and not wait for 9pm.
I think they may get better viewer numbers doing it on iplayer at midnight and then aorong later in evening. I'll watch before bed or as soon as I get up on Saturday.
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16-03-2024, 22:06
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Yep, iPlayer has been getting stuff before it airs for quite a while now. I think ITV do the same.
Its rather curious they are doing two episodes on the same day, when they only have eight to air.
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11-05-2024, 20:02
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The two being shown may be due the Euro 24 games in June. Anyway off to a great start...
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11-05-2024, 20:47
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Only watched the first one, but it seemed like sentimental Disney bilge to me ! Money can spoil things.
When are they going to bring the Chumblies back? Or even better, the Quarks?
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11-05-2024, 21:15
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Disney didn't write or have an influence though. This was all RTDs idea.
Personally I liked Space Babies but Devils Chord was much better. The villain being linked to the Toymaker and putting actual fear in to the Doctor was really well done. I'm guessing a few of the villains will be linked in to that too.
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11-05-2024, 23:14
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Re: Doctor Who
No interest in it. I used to love Dr Who but this flogging a dead Doctor.
It reminds of the Sylvester McCoy tenure, you knew the end was nigh.
If this survives it will be purely because of the Disney money, and it won’t last.
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12-05-2024, 00:42
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Of course it will continue. Its not dead or dying
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12-05-2024, 04:04
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I havent watched either of them yet, which is a sign of how bad its become.
There was a time when myself and my wife would always make sure we could watch it as it aired.
Jodie almost killed that off completely, and RTDs woke nosense over xmas was the final nail in the coffin.
We'll get round to watching them eventually, but we have other shows to catch up on first.
Oh, and more Disney nonsense, they have forced the BBC to call this Doctor Who 2023 (or 2024) season/series 1. Utter stupidity.
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12-05-2024, 11:11
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Disney didn't force anything. RTD also wanted this to be season 1 as its a new beginning for the show.
It's a fresh new era. Just like 2005 was seris 1.
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12-05-2024, 19:39
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Re: Doctor Who
I watched Space Babies last night and saved The Devil’s Chord for this evening. The one thing the two episodes had in common for me is that I grinned like an infant throughout them both. Whatever it is RTD is doing with it, it’s really rather good. In the past the show has had definite ‘eras’ - you can detect a distinct vein of gothic horror running through mid-Tom Baker for example. This present version of the show is leaning towards science fantasy with a definite fairytale influence. I can see it’s going to really annoy hardcore fans who still think everything should be judged against Genesis of the Daleks but I think Davies has pitched it well for the modern audience, especially as Disney’s involvement guarantees it a bigger international reach.
And I absolutely loved that they did the Austin Powers ending. Magical.
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12-05-2024, 20:50
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Exactly that, I loved both stories and how they were presented to us, the viewer. I knew from the 60th specials that the fantasy and fairytale elements were coming. So had a vague idea of what we would get.
You then have those angry 'fans' who just moan about wOkE rubbish and oh the show has failed and is nothing like it used to be. However the show has always changed and evolved, thats how it has lasted 60 years.. No two eras were ever the same, stories evolved within the times they were made and what the writers wanted to convey. How the companions were and how they behaved. That is also very notable since it returned in 2005. Different writers had very different ideas and different directors interpreted those stories and made them work wonderfully.
Whether it was the silly Adipose, or the terrifying, the wire with the faceless ones. There has been history, sci-fi, fantasy, drama, comedy, horror, mystery and also many mixes of those different genres over the decades.
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