Doctor Who - Not a Hugging Type of Thread - Part 19

[Gold Samurai]

To celebrate 500 issues of Doctor Who magazine they're doing retro covers


Here's the covers for the McGann era, the hiatus, and the McCoy era.

They're all based on previous milestone issues. The lozenge logo one was issue 400:

McGann's is 300:

The hiatus one was issue 200, originally with Tom Baker on the cover:

The McCoy one was issue 150:

 

[hopeless]

Isn't that what all new companions are? They represent the new viewer just jumping into the show

That's how it's been since the relaunch in 2005 and even in the old seasons.

And then there was Amy taking it all in in this dvd clip

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I'd forgotten how much I loved Amy!

 

[AnneFan]

Tenth Doctor big finish audio's are out

https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/released/doctor-who---the-collected-10th-doctor

First review

http://www.cultbox.co.uk/reviews/bo...audio-review-tenth-doctor-adventures-volume-1

Brilliant. I'm more excited about the 10th Doctor audios than the ongoing Capaldi series.

 

[Gold Samurai]

http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/a...-debut-in-2017-her-name-and-when-s-she-s-from


Bill is from 2017.

She'll ask questions that have never been asked before

She'll meet the doctor in an unusual way

She'll premiere in season 10. Not in the Christmas special

 

[Lord Valumart]

£10 says the questions have been asked before.

 

[Teelie]

So she is from 2017, does this make her a hipster? Going by her clothing style and all.

 

[Gold Samurai]

ooh! A record shop!

Maybe have the doctor be a street performer with his guitar.



Employee- That man has been trying to make money in front of our shop for weeks now.

 

[Matt]

£10 says the questions have been asked before.

Moffat actually clarifies a bit in the interview:

Bill is someone who asks the questions that nobody has asked for 53 years.

… irreverence and cheek to ask all the questions you’re not supposed to ask on Doctor Who. ‘How different is it having two hearts? Is one a back-up? Do you have very, very high blood pressure?’

About time someone asks these crucial questions.

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

Does anyone know why the Doctor Who Weekly comic strips were published in black and white? I find it really intriguing. Was colour more expensive or something?

 

[DarkShadow10]

Does anyone know why the Doctor Who Weekly comic strips were published in black and white? I find it really intriguing. Was colour more expensive or something?

Yes, colour is definately waaaay more expensive than Black & White. See also 2000AD's Judge Dredd.

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

Yes, colour is definately waaaay more expensive than Black & White. See also 2000AD's Judge Dredd.

Interesting. I wonder why?

 

[wobbly]

Interesting. I wonder why?

4 colors (black, magenta, cyan & yellow) vs one (just black).

4 color printing requires (or used to back when I was working in that game) 4 separate screens to be made up by the printer as each color on the page uses a % of the base 4 to make them, ie: 'warm red' was 100% magenta and 100% yellow.

B&w printing uses just one screen so it was far less work for the printers.

Today with printing screens sorted by computers I'd imagine the cost difference isn't nearly as much.

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

4 colors (black, magenta, cyan & yellow) vs one (just black).

4 color printing requires (or used to back when I was working in that game) 4 separate screens to be made up by the printer as each color on the page uses a % of the base 4 to make them, ie: 'warm red' was 100% magenta and 100% yellow.

B&w printing uses just one screen so it was far less work for the printers.

Today with printing screens sorted by computers I'd imagine the cost difference isn't nearly as much.

It's a shame they didn't decide to reprint the Doctor Who Weekly comics in colour. Don't mind black and white but colourisation could have worked well for them.

 

[Lord Valumart]

It's a shame they didn't decide to reprint the Doctor Who Weekly comics in colour. Don't mind black and white but colourisation could have worked well for them.

They did several times. There's at least three different colour version of the first Tom Baker story kicking around. I believe DWM did a version, Marvel did reprints, and IDW did a new set of reprints. Most of Tom's run and some of Davison's run I think are in colour somewhere. Essentially all the Gibbons drawn stuff, plus some crap written by Grant Morrison.

But there's so much lovely artwork from the late 80's through to the strip turning to colour that would just be ruined by colouring it. There's some fantastic aliens in the McGann strips that look so good in B&W. plus there's amazing drawings of McGann himself in full wonderful detailed splash pages. Adding colour to these would ruin them.

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

Missy will return in series 10:

http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/michelle-gomez-confirms-missy-is-returning-to-doctor-who

I'm so glad Michelle Gomez will definitely be returning. She's the definitive new series Master in my view and the closest to Roger Degaldo's incarnation as of current.

Wonder if we'll find out what her 'clever idea' is? Perhaps she will form an alliance with the Daleks and start a second Time War on Gallifrey? She knows where Gallifrey is after all...

 

[Teelie]

I like Missy. Michelle Gomez really makes that character work. She's so Master/Mistress like that she's just perfect for the role.

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

I like Missy. Michelle Gomez really makes that character work. She's so Master/Mistress like that she's just perfect for the role.

Agreed. She's a perfect foil for Peter Capaldi's Doctor.

 

[RetroNaz]

It's great to have a Master (Missy) that's consistently in the story again. She's brilliant with Peter and I wouldn't have been sad if she was announced as his companion prior to Bill.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Why can't I get a mega episode that features Missy/River/Jack

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

It's great to have a Master (Missy) that's consistently in the story again. She's brilliant with Peter and I wouldn't have been sad if she was announced as his companion prior to Bill.

I wish she had been made a companion in series 9. That would have made for an interesting dynamic with 12 and Clara.

Why can't I get a mega episode that features Missy/River/Jack

I'd love to see that. In fact, I'm annoyed that Captain Jack hasn't returned yet. His return is long overdue; John Barrowman had more right to be in Day of the Doctor than Jemma Redgrave.

 

[Manic]

But arguably, UNIT had more right to be in Day of the Doctor than Torchwood, and Jemma Redgrave does play both the British commander of UNIT and the daughter to a Classic Who companion.

I want Captain Jack to come back too, but Kate Stewart was introduced as a bridge between Classic Who, New Who, and those unofficial Reeltime videos made in the 90's.

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

But arguably, UNIT had more right to be in Day of the Doctor than Torchwood, and Jemma Redgrave does play both the British commander of UNIT and the daughter to a Classic Who companion.

UNIT, yes. The bland and rather forgettable Kate Stewart? No.

If you took away Kate being a daughter to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart she'd be nothing. You don't need to show the current Brigadier to feature UNIT involvement. Everybody tends to forget UNIT were in Aliens of London/World War Three and they didn't show a Brigadier then.

I want Captain Jack to come back too, but Kate Stewart was introduced as a bridge between Classic Who, New Who, and those unofficial Reeltime videos made in the 90's.

But not a very good one. Captain Jack, on the other hand, is a brilliant character and one of the most beloved of the new series.

 

[Manic]

I like Kate. I wish they'd show her doing something remotely scientific, though. Isn't she supposed to be a scientist? Like, wasn't that the point in UNIT being brought back in "The Power of Three"? That they're now a scientific organization with military support instead of the other way around?

 

[Pink Ranger]

I like Kate. I wish they'd show her doing something remotely scientific, though. Isn't she supposed to be a scientist? Like, wasn't that the point in UNIT being brought back in "The Power of Three"? That they're now a scientific organization with military support instead of the other way around?

It makes sense though. You take someone like a doctor or a scientist, and put them in charge of a government ministry or corporate department, basically their love of knowledge goes out the window and they become administrators.

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

I like Kate. I wish they'd show her doing something remotely scientific, though. Isn't she supposed to be a scientist? Like, wasn't that the point in UNIT being brought back in "The Power of Three"? That they're now a scientific organization with military support instead of the other way around?

Yeah, it was. Personally, I think UNIT worked better as a military led organisation than one led by science.