Doctor Who

[El Pibe]

A spoilery rumour about this has me excited.

Spill the spoiler beans!

[Huz]

Just adding my thanks for your reviews, Sprite Machine! I've only discovered this thread relatively recently (why haven't I been in Film and TV before?!) but even in the short time I've been following along, your reviews have made me go back and rewatch a few stories and sometimes see them in a new light. Who knew that Vengeance on Varos is actually pretty awesome? Well me, since your blurb and the happy coincidence of it being on Sky soon afterwards made me give it another try.

Wot, no Talons of Weng-Chiang? No Brain of Morbius? No Genesis of the Daleks? Ah well, I suppose if you're trying to balance your list across the Doctors, that's fair enough. Wot no Ghost Light? Fair enough, it makes no sense until you've seen it 500 times and made up bits of it yourself. It's really quite difficult to come up with a top ten or top twenty list.

About Dimensions in Time: does the 3D effect work on YouTube? The glasses are very simple - one clear lens, one shaded - so you can probably improvise by wearing shades over one eye or something. I still have an official pair of the glasses (not with me to test sadly!) and Dimensions in Time on VHS, and the 3D effect is actually quite nice. Entirely dependent on horizontal movement to work, hence the continual spinning and panning, but I remember it being pretty impressive at the time!

Edit - just checked my own top-ten list that I prepared years ago for some reason. I also added a "bottom three" section and The Sontaran Experiment is in it. There's no accounting for taste...

[Fireproofradiator]

Spill the spoiler beans!

Weeell, the rumour is

that Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor is in it.

[Death's Head]

Got this link from Neogaf

Jesus, i'm completely in fucking love!

[Sprite Machine]

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-11-12/doctor-who-50th-anniversary-prequel-the-night-of-the-doctor-to-screen-via-bbc-red-button

ARGH IT'S NOT A PREQUEL, CRETINS!!! *rageface*

[Professor Puzzles]

PROLOGUE! (Police Squad)

[MDY]

Night of the Doctor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01lhhv4/Doctor_Who_Mini_Episode_The_Night_Of_The_Doctor/

[Teabag]

Well I didn't see that coming.

[Professor Puzzles]

I guess that the John Hurt Doctor has been around for a while seeing as that face at the end was rather young.

[Space Gibbon]

That was short, unexpected and amazeballs!

[CarloOos]

Night of the Doctor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01lhhv4/Doctor_Who_Mini_Episode_The_Night_Of_The_Doctor/

[Swainy]

Shame that wasn't a full episode really.

[Davros sock drawer]

That was pretty awesome actually.

[Space Gibbon]

I wonder if there's any chance we'll see Christopher Ecclescake at the end of Day of the Doctor.

[Darren]

Sprite!

Don't watch Night of the Doctor* until you've watched the TV movie. It's perfect timing. Timey wimey!

*unless you've already watched NotD of course

[CarloOos]

I'm just a bit gutted that means he won't be in the actual episode, but still that's some of the finest fan-service I've ever seen.

[zxcvbnm]

Fantastic, didn't expect that at all.

[SeanR]

[MDY]

"Will it Hurt?" is actually quite an appropriate question

[gospvg]

Really enjoyed the mini, looking forward to the 23rd. Kids can't wait to see Tenant back.

[El Pibe]

Amazeballs.

[cassidy]

Holy shitballs I wasn't expecting that. That was FANtastic.

[Space Gibbon]

I wonder what portion of the casual viewership have any idea what that was about.

[Sprite Machine]

Sprite!

Don't watch Night of the Doctor until you've watched the TV movie. It's perfect timing. Timey wimey!

Duly noted, so long as nobody talks about it any more.

Ah, feck it. I'll leave the thread for a while I think...

[Flub]

I squeed hard.

[Meh]

That was awesome.

[CarloOos]

Please bring him back for more adventures.

He deserves a full episode, at least.

[Fireproofradiator]

Ah, that'd be grand. 'From tiny acorns/minisodes...' and that.

[scottcr]

and here was me doubting the massive price I'd spent on those tickets to see DotD in the cinema.

PUMPED.

[RikC]

Please bring him back for more adventures.

He deserves a full episode, at least.

Agreed. Couldn't fault that, it was amazing! Makes the fact that he didn't get his own series rankle all the more.