The Newly Regenerated Doctor Who Thread

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by coolsome

I think the cot said Sweetie that's why when Melody showed him what it said he realized who she was with out it saying anyone's name on it.

No. It had The Doctor's name. However, River could read it, which means she's a time lord, and she said she hadn't seen it in a long time, in what may have been hundreds of years since she was a baby inside it. It was sort of simple. This also rectifies the whole how she knows his name thing. Unless the Doctor's real name is sweetie.

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by Friar

Wow. I just had to post this. (A good man goes to war minor spoilers)
It seems Moffat was an avid fan back in the 90's and participated in online discussions. Here's him talking about what became a plot detail on saturday's episode.

So that awesome speech of River's was 16 years in the making.

It's the little things like this that make me love Doctor Who so much.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Ribs

The funny thing is they moved it literally nowhere. They moved it to somewhere barely different. It's like the Time Lords accidentally nudged it just a little bit. From TV Tropes: Sci-Fi Writers Have no Sense of Scale - Probably the most spectacular example in is in this story, where Earth was apparently hidden by moving its entire solar system several million miles, which is the celestial equivalent of hiding from your date in an empty movie theater by leaning an inch to the left. For scale, Mercury never comes within 28 million miles of our Sun, despite being its closest planet.

As far as I could tell some evil or good person stole Time Lord secrets then went to Earth to hide. And the Time Lords decided the best action would be to move the Earth cos that will be bound to kill him. At lest that's what I think they did it for. Which would make it the ultimate braking a nut with a sledgehammer moment.

[FitzoliverJ]

Roy Skelton, voice of both the Daleks and Zippy from Rainbow, has died. And this video neatly encapsulates both!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmL-i...mbedded#t=260s

[Friar]

I saw that earlier today, and was slightly annoyed when only Zippy was trending, not "Zippy and the daleks".

Oh yeah, Manchester is getting an interactive doctor who experience type thing for some festival. Unfortunately, there's an age limit (6-12), so the only way the majority of us would get in is to pinch someone's kids!

I listened to "The marian conspiracy" today, and it's pretty awesome. Or at least it would have been if my ipod had synced all of Part four, instead of missing the first 8 minutes!

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by Friar

I saw that earlier today, and was slightly annoyed when only Zippy was trending, not "Zippy and the daleks".

Oh yeah, Manchester is getting an interactive doctor who experience type thing for some festival. Unfortunately, there's an age limit (6-12), so the only way the majority of us would get in is to pinch someone's kids!

I listened to "The marian conspiracy" today, and it's pretty awesome. Or at least it would have been if my ipod had synced all of Part four, instead of missing the first 8 minutes!

Ah, that's a shame. I quite liked the ending of Episode Three, it's a well-done cliffhanger that isn't OH GOD HES GOING OT KILL THE DOCTOR like 90% of classic cliffhangers are.

I also listened to the Spectre of Lanyon Moor. It was really, really unsettling. Especially what happens to one person in the final episode. Urgh. It's also a lot like Puzzle Agent, what with the evil gnomes running around seemingly killing people.

And, I started and listened to half of Primeval (the Traken one). It has a very Davison-era feel, which is nice, but I really do not care for the majority of the Davison era based on what I've seen and it's not Traken enough to make it feel like a sequel to the original story (which is probably my favorite classic story I've seen, now that I'm thinking about it). Nonetheless, I'm excited for the Six story being done for the Lost Stories next year that's a sequel, because it's by the original writer, despite it being done in the evil 2x45 format.

And did I comment on the Third McCoy lost story? It was really okay. Andrew Cartmel is good at the dialogue, but all his monsters seem too designed for audio to seem like true Lost Stories.

Also: it is really annoying when BF doesn't label downloads with proper titles ie 1a,1b, or Part One, Track 01 and so on. I'm trying to find the timings for Neverland but dear lord the chapter names are spoilery.

Double also: It's a two parter for no real reason. Boo!

Triple Also: Finished Primeval. That was really, really, really good. The conclusion is like a happier version of Spare Parts' big shocking revelation, based on what I've heard about that story. It made me like Five again, something I haven't felt truly and sincerely since I saw Earthshock nearly nine months ago. Bravo!

Quadruple also: BBC America says the series will be back starting the 3rd of September and ending the Eighth of October, followed by SJAs in November and the Special in December. Yay? Interestingly, Episode Ten will be airing on a Monday according to this schedule, which may be a typo.

Quintuple also (wowee): They confirmed that The Talons of Weng-Chiang is coming to North America as our Special Edition re-release for the year. If it sells well enough, we'll get the other eight (we already have the movie).

[coolsome]

In Genesis of the Daleks a badly dressed Time Lord said that The Time Lords envisage a time when the Daleks will be the supreme power in the Universe. And then sets him on his task of stopping them before there created. Does this mean there's still going to be a time when Daleks are the supreme power over all life forms like the Time Lords predicted?

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by coolsome

In Genesis of the Daleks a badly dressed Time Lord said that The Time Lords envisage a time when the Daleks will be the supreme power in the Universe. And then sets him on his task of stopping them before there created. Does this mean there's still going to be a time when Daleks are the supreme power over all life forms like the Time Lords predicted?

Or The Time Lords lie, much like River and the Doctor.

Paul McGann's 1996 Audition Video

Also: I'm considering listening to Master next. It seems like a really good concept. It's like the basic concept of Human Nature, but with the Master. So it's this innocent man finding out he is pure evil and has killed tons of people. Fun fun fun fun.

[Pony Bone]

David Tennant for me!

[Darth Marsden]

Originally Posted by coolsome

In Genesis of the Daleks a badly dressed Time Lord said that The Time Lords envisage a time when the Daleks will be the supreme power in the Universe. And then sets him on his task of stopping them before there created. Does this mean there's still going to be a time when Daleks are the supreme power over all life forms like the Time Lords predicted?

They could have been, if not for the Doctor altering the Dalek's history in Genesis. Which resulted in the Time War, and that pretty much decimated both Time Lords and Daleks.

[coolsome]

Couldn't the Doctor become John Smith and make a Ganger of him then turn back to Tenth Doctor so both can live?

[Darth Marsden]

1) The 10th Doctor is dead. Long live Matt Smith, etc. He may be John Smith, but it would be a different John Smith.

2) That would be interfering in the Doctor's own history, which Father's Day showed is a very bad idea.

3) Stop trying to be clever. It doesn't suit you.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

3) Stop trying to be clever. It doesn't suit you.

I'm more then just a pretty face!

[Ribs]

I still hope that the Master does the whole 'A NEW BODY AT LAST' thing on the Meta Crisis Tenth Doctor, complete with cheesy effect and suddenly pitch black beard. It'd be neat. Especially if he killed Rose.

[Friar]

Originally Posted by Ribs

Or The Time Lords lie, much like River and the Doctor.

Paul McGann's 1996 Audition Video

Also: I'm considering listening to Master next. It seems like a really good concept. It's like the basic concept of Human Nature, but with the Master. So it's this innocent man finding out he is pure evil and has killed tons of people. Fun fun fun fun.

Aw, cute.

I was never a fan of "Master". It just seemed to drag on. And nothing really seemed to happen. It seemed a bit like an extended version of a cluedo (that's clue to you USians), with a nice (but probably contradictory now) piece of backstory to the doctor/master.

I other news, my second audio didn't sync to my ipod properly. Parts 2/3/4 of "the spirit of Lanyon Moor" and "The Apocalypse element" were missing the start. I'm thinking my ipod just hates Colin Baker. So I listened to "The eye of the scorpion" instead, which was pretty decent. It was closer to the old type of historicals (for the first three parts anyway) where the threat was based on the people of the time, not some alien invaders.

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by Friar

Aw, cute.

I was never a fan of "Master". It just seemed to drag on. And nothing really seemed to happen. It seemed a bit like an extended version of a cluedo (that's clue to you USians), with a nice (but probably contradictory now) piece of backstory to the doctor/master.

I other news, my second audio didn't sync to my ipod properly. Parts 2/3/4 of "the spirit of Lanyon Moor" and "The Apocalypse element" were missing the start. I'm thinking my ipod just hates Colin Baker. So I listened to "The eye of the scorpion" instead, which was pretty decent. It was closer to the old type of historicals (for the first three parts anyway) where the threat was based on the people of the time, not some alien invaders.

Well, that's odd. I'm incredibly picky about my iPod keeping things synced, right down to naming all files in proper order (Part One, Track 01 or bust) and ensuring they're all synced.

I listened to The Chimes of Midnight. Everyone says no need to listen to Storm Warning because all you need to know that Charley was supposed to die, but knowing that it played a role sort of let me piece together the mystery a few minutes into part four, before we find out it's significance. And it was good. Not 'Stones of Venice' or 'Marian Conspiracy' good, though.

And, awe in my organization:

[Friar]

What program is that you're using?
I would show you my library, but it's incomplete (missing about 60%, as I haven't redownloaded and sewn together the audios I lost when My computer was wiped, including a series of EDA, and all the mcGann 1-50 releases, two davison and two colin baker releases. I'll make that a project for the weekend.). Actually, I may post it when I've finished the current batch I'm doing from today's sale.
As for the things not syncing, I'm very confused as to why/how it happened. I sew the tracks together into 4 parts, and those files were all complete. And yet when they synced to my ipod, they were missing the start. Curious. I've re-edited those ones today anyway, just to make sure. And they've synced fine.

Oh yeah, and a tip you might find useful for organisational purposes. I changed the Album Artist/composer etc details to that of the doctor in the audio (or in the case of multi-doctor audios, either what ever doctor's timeline the audio is, or whatever doctor I have the least of). That way I can filter the stories a bit.

*edit*

It still needs some work though. I may add the numbers in to re-order them, but seeing as most of them can be listened in any order, I may just make some playlists of any arcs.
Also, there's a man named colin brockhurst who made some awesome alternative covers for a few of the early covers, to bring them in line with later releases. Unfortunately his site seems to be down, so here's one of his covers.

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by Friar

What program is that you're using?
I would show you my library, but it's incomplete (missing about 60%, as I haven't redownloaded and sewn together the audios I lost when My computer was wiped, including a series of EDA, and all the mcGann 1-50 releases, two davison and two colin baker releases. I'll make that a project for the weekend.). Actually, I may post it when I've finished the current batch I'm doing from today's sale.
As for the things not syncing, I'm very confused as to why/how it happened. I sew the tracks together into 4 parts, and those files were all complete. And yet when they synced to my ipod, they were missing the start. Curious. I've re-edited those ones today anyway, just to make sure. And they've synced fine.

Oh yeah, and a tip you might find useful for organisational purposes. I changed the Album Artist/composer etc details to that of the doctor in the audio (or in the case of multi-doctor audios, either what ever doctor's timeline the audio is, or whatever doctor I have the least of). That way I can filter the stories a bit.

*edit*

Also, there's a man named colin brockhurst who made some awesome alternative covers for a few of the early covers, to bring them in line with later releases. Unfortunately his site seems to be down, so here's one of his covers.

I use iTunes, heh. I use the MP3s and that's in one of those views, which I use to quickly select something and then go to cover flow. And that cover is quite amazing. But there's something really nice about the covers for some of the older ones, with Seasons of Fear being a particularly great one. And I change the album title of all my things to put it in order of proper release/range, thus the Doctor Who - Number you can see above, and the Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles. For example, Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles 4.03: The Prisoner of Peladon. The problem with this system, however, is that the album title requires scrolling on the iPod itself if it's a long title like The Time of the Daleks is.

So I decided to pass on The Pirates, Omega, and Creatures of Beauty for no particular reason. I'm looking at picking up Ace/Hex's arc soon, but only ones with a higher rating then a 7 on time scales or the trilogy ones, so pretty much like four of them before they go to trilogies.

Using my sleuthing, I found all of the cover art guy's covers here.

[Pony Bone]

When I met Sylvester McCoy I had no clue that he had been a Dr. Who (talk about embarrassing)

[Friar]

Ah, I didn't know you could change the colour of the background!

I'm still debating whether or not to add numbers in, as most of the audios are stand alone, provided you know the companion. I may do what I did with the EDA's and the McGann series, and just make play-lists of individual series/arcs. That solves the problem of having to remember the order, and having to scroll to read the title. Have you set them as audiobook files, or kept them as music files? Putting them as audiobook files lets you rewind them by 30 seconds at a time (or any amount with the slider) which is handy, if someone comes and talks to you, whilst you fumble around to get it out of your pocket. Plus, it can remember your position in the audio if you stop playing it, or switch to other stuff like music.

As for the sales, I decided to miss the McCoy stuff. It's a safer bet to spend a fiver on something I'm 90% certain I'll enjoy. Instead, I bought "Omega" and "The one doctor". I'm looking forward to listening to "and the pirates", simply as it has colin singing.

@Pony Bone: You met Sylvester McCoy? Where?