Update Sun 28 8:35pm: the finale episode has now aired in NZ and Oz, so SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! in the comments – BEWARE! This can be the basic discussion thread for the final three episodes of Season 4, just so… Read More ›
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celebrating all things Whoniverse
Whoydensday: the perennial question
The Guardian’s got a casting thread for the 11th Doctor! […] It was suggested in comments to the Guardian article that the casting probably needed to be a bit left-field, pointing out that neither Ecclestone nor Tennant were the obvious choice to play the Doctor at the time they were cast. So, any more out-field ideas?
Whoydensday: teh Doctor’s wimminz edition
It’s time again for: Marry, Shag or chuck off a Cliff? As usual, you may match one and only one of the characters below to each fate. Remember, the Doctor didn’t want to lose any of them – so what… Read More ›
Whoydensday: movie speculation
I suppose the rumours had to start. From GallifreyOne: Doctor Who has been named the show that people would most like to see adapted for the cinema. A Radio Times online poll in July and August saw some 2,300 readers… Read More ›
Whoydensday: hey, who turned out the lights?
THIS THREAD CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR SEASON 4 EPISODE SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY. PLEASE NO SPOILERS FOR FUTURE EPISODES ON THIS THREAD. Well, the spoiler warning simply had to be done properly for this one, didn’t it? Wait until next week,
Whoydensday: Hugohugohugo! Moffmoffmoff!
Can’t believe that we didn’t mention/celebrate this news last week. Steven Moffat won his third consecutive Hugo for his work on Doctor Who, this time for the Season 3 episodeBlink (previously he won for Season 1’s The Empty Child/The Doctor… Read More ›
Whoydensday: Old vs New, strengths and weaknesses
As part of an excellent essay on the role of the Nostalgia Factor in the Russell T. Davies (RTD) era of Doctor Who, Iain Clark makes many excellent points about both the new and the old series of Who, why Sarah Jane Smith was really the only choice as a returning former-companion for the new generation of Who-watchers, and the differing emphasis paid to character vs story in each.
Clark is writing what purports to be merely a review of the one episode of the second RTD season, yet by the end he’s engaging in an analysis of the entire Rose Tyler era in counterpoint to what we see of the characters in School Reunion.
Whoydensday: when fans attack edition
NOTE: Spoiler Free Zone for later episodes of the Doctor Who 2008 Season – Australia has only just seen the Sontaran Double Episodes 4.04 The Sontaran Stratagem and 4.05 The Poison Sky. Everything prior to that is fair game. Torchwood Season 2 is entirely off limits for spoilers here too, please (We can always have another fans attack edition later in the year) – we do have a thoroughly spoiled Season 4 Finale thread still open though – feel free.
So, it keeps on happening (the image below recurs in various adaptations all over the ihasatardis LJ community):
What’s been your most jarring WTF moments? Conversely, what’s only crept up on you later, upon reflection or reading someone else’s take? On the gripping hand, what fan-attacks have struck you as totally unwarranted?
Whoydensday quickhit: Nine or Ten?
I’m working on a long post which is being a tad recalcitrant, so talk among yourselves. Which Doctor do you prefer, and does that preference extend to other work from the same actors? Or did you not know either Christopher… Read More ›
Spoiler thread: DWS4 finale
Just to contain any spillover from today’s Whoydensday post, which will remain spoiler-free. *Begin Spoiler Space* *Don’t click if you are avoiding spoilers for Season 4 and especially the finale* *Torchwood S2 too*
Hoyden About Town 