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metacrisisdoctor · 5 months
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Does it need saying?
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aq2003 · 6 months
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this bit of commentary. chewing glass
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shemalesallday · 1 year
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Julie Gardner
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Putting the band back together
David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson, and Jane Tranter
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Doctor Who - The Ballad of Russell and Julie - David Tennant, John Barrowman, Catherine Tate
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variousqueerthings · 7 months
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some things about s2 doctor who confidential + david tennant's video diary
mvp of season 2 goes to nicholas briggs for voicing all the daleks and cybermen (as he did in s1 and continued until today -- also judoon, jagrafess, zygons, nestene consciousness, ice warriors)
also at this point need to shout out to everyone who got stuffed inside a robot suit -- first actually to the guy who played the ann-droid back in s1, but my goodness did the cybermen do a lot of fun background choreography work to become uniform, led by a very small delightful movement teacher
david tennant fangirling over elizabeth sladen. david tennant fangirling over anthony head. david tennant fangirling over K9. david tennant fangirli-
goooosh the whole bits about the last couple of episodes -- the emotions everyone's going through, especially with regards to billie piper of course. quite happy they cut almost immediately post-filming the goodbye scene, because I heard she wasn't doing too great for a bit, and yeah, that performance was Intense. would have liked to have heard some final words on her part on the experience of doctor who, but that's me wanting more billie
last actual filmed episode was satan pit and the last two scenes filmed was the doctor and rose reuniting in the TARDIS and then "who are you?" "oh... the stuff of legends." -- followed by "that's a wrap" and billie and david immediately hugging each other very very hard :(((
ofc I also heard the rtd let her know early on that she was coming back for s4
very sweet to see the david tennant video diary for season 2 and him being a tad nervous about how people will feel about his portrayal -- flash forward 17 years and....
julie gardner talking about first meeting to develop torchwood, and how she right off the bat went, "right, the things we need to establish is how much violence and nudity we're going to do" because it was totally untrod ground until now
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'Sixty years is but the blink of an eye for a time-traveller like The Doctor. But for a television series, a Diamond Anniversary is an extremely rare and impressive occurrence.
BBC’s Doctor Who recently celebrated such a milestone with three one-hour specials which, for the first time, streamed globally on Disney+.
Russell T Davies, fresh from his success on ’80s AIDS miniseries It’s A Sin, returned to the show he brought back so successfully in 2005 to the BBC. Bolstering his team are returning producers Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson, and Jane Tranter, the woman who was instrumental in bringing back Doctor Who in 2005. Bad Wolf, the company founded by Tranter and Gardner in 2015, currently produces the show with BBC Studios.
Another big returning name return was David Tennant, who played the 10th Doctor from 2005-2010 and who also returned for the show’s 50th Anniversary in 2013. Beloved by fans and audiences alike, Tennant’s Doctor was a big ratings draw.
Though, it’s not all returning past glories for Doctor Who. There is a new actor portraying the Time Lord, Ncuti Gatwa, who is taking over the titular role with the the forthcoming season 14, and who made his debut with the specials. The Rwandan-Scottish actor made a name for himself as gay teenager Eric Effiong in the Netflix comedy series Sex Education and recently starred as “Artist Ken” in Barbie. His first full season debut in the TARDIS will come in spring 2024, with a premiere date yet to be set.
Not only that, powerhouse streamer Disney+ is now on board to broadcast these new episodes across the world (with the exception of the U.K. and Ireland, where it still airs on BBC)...
What Happened in the 60th Anniversary Specials?
Showrunner Davies brought Tennant back with a cosmic bang and a galactic-sized nod to fan service with an adaptation of a Doctor Who Weekly comic strip first published in 1980.
The first of the three specials, “The Star Beast,” was a 60-minute romp that wonderfully evoked the Tenth Doctor-era, complete with cutesy alien The Meep (think The Mandalorian’s Baby Yoda, but bigger and hairier) and the return of much-loved companion, Donna Noble (played by Catherine Tate, The Office).
Last seen in the Tenth Doctor’s finale in 2010, Donna’s return posed a fatal conundrum for the Doctor: If she remembered her past with the Doctor, she would die. Thankfully, writer Davies had a workaround, meaning that the 60th anniversary celebrations did not result in the death of a companion but, in fact, allowed Donna to live unharmed and enjoy some further adventures in time and space with her best friend.
The main question, though, was just why the Fourteenth Doctor, played by Tennant, had the same face and body of the Tenth Doctor, also played by Tennant. This was an unprecedented move in the history, or Whostory, of the show. Special number two, “Wild Blue Yonder,” traveled to the end of the universe and delved into the uncanny, but still posed the query as to why that particular face returned. (It’s a good face, we weren’t complaining).
Fans would have to wait until the third and final special, “The Giggle,” before the mystery was finally revealed. And it was all down to Donna. She surmised that he changed his face and then found her to “come home.” The Doctor commented, “I’ve never been so happy in my life,” as he sat with the Noble family, not fighting aliens and enjoying a spot of lunch.
The Final Special Had More Up Its Intergalactic Sleeve
Aside from the return of fan favorite Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and ’80s-era companion Melanie Bush (Bonnie Langford), there was an even bigger returnee waiting in the wings.
Making an all-singing, all-dancing return to Doctor Who was the formidable villain, The Toymaker. Played by Neil Patrick Harris (best known for portraying Barney Stinson on the CBS series, How I Met Your Mother), the Toymaker made his debut opposite the First Doctor (William Hartnell) in the 1966 four-part serial, “The Celestial Toymaker.”
The character was originally played by English actor Michael Gough, who would go on to play Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred in the four Batman films directed by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher. Though, it’s hard to picture Gough pulling off NPH’s manic routine to The Spice Girls’ 1997 hit, “Spice Up Your Life”.
And then there was the first appearance of the new Doctor, Gatwa. But this was no simple regeneration, as seen in Doctor Who so many times previously. Just as the return of a previous actor to play a new regeneration of the Doctor was unprecedented, Davies debuted another new element in the show’s mythology: “bigeneration.” This left fans shocked as the Fourteenth Doctor, seemingly regenerating as per usual, actually split into two, revealing Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor and Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor standing, looking at one another just as surprised as the millions of Whovians watching across the globe.
What is Bigeneration and What Does it Mean for the Future?
As is explained in the behind-the-scenes show Doctor Who Unleashed, “instead of a new body taking over from the old body, the new body separates from the old body, and both are left alive.”
This means that there are two distinct Doctors roaming the universe at the same time. While it might take some time for Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor to pick up the keys to his TARDIS and start planet-hopping, as he seems quite happy to kick back in England for a while, it’s possible — nay, highly likely — that the Gatwa and Tennant Doctors will meet again.
For the time being, though, Davies has stated that there are “no plans” for a Fourteenth Doctor return, adding that he’s “parked” on Earth with Donna Noble for a “happy life.”
Interestingly, Davies has also suggested that this has even bigger implications for Doctor Who. This bigeneration has created a new timeline where all previous incarnations have been affected, with every Doctor continuing to exist after their own regeneration. Davies may be joking when he refers to this as a “Doctorverse,” but he has established “The Whoniverse” (bringing in previous spinoffs such as Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures) so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that audiences could witness various team-ups featuring Gatwa with previous Doctors at any moment. Or, perhaps more spinoff series could be on the way featuring the past Doctors on their own...'
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casasupernovas · 1 year
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this john barrowman situation is still going on. i don't feel too bad for a man who proclaimed he could do whatever he wanted and people would love him for it in front of a crowd of fans. i do 100% understand people wanting other cast members to say something. his behaviour has been an open secret for well over a decade now. and a lot of them all appeared to joke along with it. take the ballad of julie and russell for example.
in any other situations john would have been fired. doesn't matter if they are friends. especially as he keeps saying no one complained despite the fact that people DID. and i feel like he doesn't speak on that because it's heavily implied that the people who complained were production staff rather than the actors themselves. he was literally told off for the behaviour by a producer.
i personally think everyone's silence speaks volumes because what is there to defend? people clearly know that they shouldn't have encouraged or joked about it either. but knowing he allegedly continued on the cw makes it all null in terms of his apology.
i think he thinks because he's a gay man that it's not predatory but it is. it's also completely disrespectful to the show. tapping your penis on the tardis console? are you serious? putting it on camille codori's shoulder? that's sexual harassment there is no way around that.
this is all personally the reason why i haven't ever really engaged with his work outside of doctor who, or watched his cons or people speak about him at cons, especially the torchwood ones, because i honestly thought the behaviour they talked about was appalling.
actions have consequences.
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Doctor Who Magazine 586
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Pam Downe Revealed as New Doctor Who Costume Designer
Pam Downe Revealed as New #DoctorWho Costume Designer
It appears that Pat Downe will be the new Costume Designer on Doctor Who. Downe is set to take on the role from the show’s 60th anniversary special(s), working alongside showrunner, Russell T Davies, and producers, Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson, for Bad Wolf, the new production company. The series was listed on Downe’s online CV last week, although the credit has since disappeared (so…
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Beyond his art, Neal Adams is rightfully remembered as an eternal champion of creators’ rights and for the part he & his work played in the Comics Code revision of ‘71 but his contribution to John Stewart’s creation is -- I think --  a rather underrated aspect of his career, especially as it’s such a great reminder of the kind of person he was. Taken from an interview conducted and transcribed by Allen W. Wright over at the Green Arrow: Bold Archer fansite, here’s Neal discussing John’s beginnings (x).
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girloftheisland · 5 months
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This is the primary AG holiday decor in our house. Seemed unlikely that we could afford to collect all the historical holiday outfits, so this is the next best thing.
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pleasantsamantha · 5 months
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The gang is ALL here dressed in their best for December ❄️
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