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Behold The New DOCTOR WHO Logo!!
Merrick here...
BBC America has unveiled the new DOCTOR WHO logo that'll accompany the arrival of Matt Smith as the new Doctor this Spring.
Per a press release on the matter:
A first look at the new Doctor Who logo, which will accompany Matt Smith’s on-screen debut as The Doctor in spring 2010, has been unveiled and can be seen at www.bbcamerica.com/doctorwho. The logo is the eleventh to have been used on screen in the show’s history.
Accompanying the logo at BBCAmerica.com is an animated insignia of the show’s initials, which will be used as branding for the new series in conjunction with the logo.
About the new logo Steven Moffat, the new Lead Writer and Executive Producer said:
“A new logo. The eleventh logo for the eleventh Doctor - those grand old words, Doctor Who, suddenly looking newer than ever. And look at that, something really new - an insignia! DW in TARDIS form! Simple and beautiful, and most important of all, a completely irresistible doodle. I apologise to school notebooks everywhere, because in 2010 that's what they're going to be wearing.”
Maybe. But any kid owning a notebook wearing that logo will most likely have the shit beaten out of them for it, so don't expect this fashion trend to last too long.
Here's what he's talking about!
A first look at the new Doctor Who logo, which will accompany Matt Smith’s on-screen debut as The Doctor in spring 2010, has been unveiled and can be seen at www.bbcamerica.com/doctorwho. The logo is the eleventh to have been used on screen in the show’s history.
Accompanying the logo at BBCAmerica.com is an animated insignia of the show’s initials, which will be used as branding for the new series in conjunction with the logo.
About the new logo Steven Moffat, the new Lead Writer and Executive Producer said:
“A new logo. The eleventh logo for the eleventh Doctor - those grand old words, Doctor Who, suddenly looking newer than ever. And look at that, something really new - an insignia! DW in TARDIS form! Simple and beautiful, and most important of all, a completely irresistible doodle. I apologise to school notebooks everywhere, because in 2010 that's what they're going to be wearing.”
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Don't know what was wrong with the old one.
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Not viewable from the UK!!!
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IMHO
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/logo/index.shtml
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By the way, I like the old one better.
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It looks very much like the logo circa the Troughton years. And also like the McGann years. Weirdly, it looks very much like the logo that the SciFi er, SyFy channel was using to promote the show a couple years ago. It really feels like Steven Moffatt is going for a VERY classic, old-style, timeless (no pun intended) Doctor Who as his vision for the new era. I just hope that it doesn't get too fannish and lose it's mass appeal. I'd still LOVE a "10 Doctors" episode though!!!
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What does spud mcspud, the Handsome 12th Doctor, and all the others think of this change? The sky will rumble when they tell us their opinion!!!!
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I appreciate the retro effort, and I love using the D and W to make a Tardis.
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Oct 06, 2009 10:36:52 AM CDT
Why do we need it? WHy couldn't there be consistency with the ne
by mmackk
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Someone went a bit overboard with the lighting effects but whatever, I guess its okay. Wasn't really a fan of the last logo.
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you can see comic trailer for end of time. tennants last ever dr who. it gives you a small taste of the big final ep. remember when we all though davies was stringing us along and we all got annoyed. he was keeping his powder dry.
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comic con trailer
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Or is this the end?
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Damned international copyright laws!
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videos not viewable in your country/ territory.
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I don't care what others think. Its too plain and boring.
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Oct 06, 2009 10:52:37 AM CDT
Apparently, this is very much a new Era. They are referring to i
by mmackk
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I'm just sayin'...
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Doctor Who is popular, you prick. Perhaps you'd prefer Twilight? BSG?
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...it was designed by the Cybermen.
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Oct 06, 2009 11:22:25 AM CDT
Way to make good sci-fi more juvenile and stupid!
by the_maltese_vulcan
That logo alone will make me tune out.
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This looks aweful *whine* the font is all wrong *bitch* the creators are disrespecting the legacy of this series *moan* why can't it be identical to the first series, they're raped my childhood *bitch/moan* the color is all wrong! ETC ETC
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the new Doctor looks like frakkin' Skeletor. I'll be skipping Doctor Who from here on out...
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I suppose geeky kids will always be picked on and, at one point, Doctor Who would have been exclusively geeky. But now, in the right age range, you obviously underestimate the popularity of Doctor Who. It regularly gets over a 50% share among children.
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Terrible.
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However, what I'm actually more interested in is if they are going to tweak the theme song. I always enjoy how every few years there's a revision of the theme.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/medialibrary/images/new_logo/new_logo640x395.jpg
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Looks pretty cool to me (a lot better than that old "logo").
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that as a brit i pay for EVERYTHING the bbc produces, but i cant watch stuff on the bbc america site. no boubt its all on the general bbc site, but i paid for that shit to be made! i should get free access. and also a percentage of all the dvd profits.
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THE OLD LO-GO HAS BEEN EX-TER-MIN-ATED!! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!!!
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...let the shitstorm begin
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If the Doctor isn't going to air on Syfy anymore, don't care.
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Although I ultimately realized how silly the show was and, basically, disowned it. It was fun for a few years though. I've only seen minutes of this new stuff and there was some fart joke, so I quit watching almost immediately. Everytime there's a Who story on AICN I feel weirdly compelled to check it out, even though my appreciation for the show ran its course back in the 80s.
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Hopefully this means a new intro and an updated version of the theme too.
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Isn't he the guy in the extra long scarf who fights giant salt shakers.
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I'm fucking British! My taxes pay for this fucking show!
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They can exterminate humans, and make bad logos! They're the Turbo Ginsu, of killer robots!
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Oh, Merrick... you really have no idea how popular Doctor Who is here in Britain, do you? I don't even know if there's a similar comparison over in the USA. Imagine a show that's loved by pretty much every age range, from 3-4 year olds to 70-80 year olds. A show that transcends simply popularity to become a much-loved national institution. Trust me, no-one is beaten up in school for loving Doctor Who, and Moffat's right - expect that insignia to crop up on every schoolbook in the land come 2010! Christ, AICN's finger is getting further and further away from the pulse with every passing day, and it's getting quite sad now...
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site. but I have to say its shocking in its stupidity the whole cant play outside the uk video nonsense. I mean, what do they think that only people in the watch dr who. up untill very recently I was in Ireland and they get bbc and watched dr who since I was a very small boy. I am abroad and It still doesnt work. Its scandalous. really. stuff like that should be accessible. stinks.
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Oct 06, 2009 1:22:00 PM CDT
Fucking JJ Abrams logo is GONE! Long live the new Logo!!!
by spud mcspud
I hated the lens flare-heavy, Arial fonted blandness of the last logo - looks like something wanky a London based PR firm would dream up, which of course is why RTD loved it so much (wanky London pretentiousness being his style, of course). This does feel very Paul McGann-era ish, which is no bad thing - it looks like the Grand Moff is going old school with this Doctor, and the Tom Baker fan in me likes that. A LOT.
And Karen Gillan is the PERFECT choice for a Companion. Massively talented, virtually unknown. PERFECT.
Buuuuuuut...
It's a bit TOO retro for the current fans - and if we lose those (yes, even the ones who enjoy Slitheen fart jokes and the gratuitous RTD PC agenda) there's every chance the Beeb will axe new Who if it goes downhill fast. So, as much as I like this new logo - I REALLY hope it doesn't lose the fanbase.
I do like the TARDIS shaped doodle, though. Very kewl!
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...I don't know what kind of cultural cachet the good Doctor holds in your neck of the woods, but here in the UK, he's pretty fucking popular. Ain't no-one getting their asses kicked over here for liking him. Now, the war between those who love RTD's writing and those who hate it - that's gonna rage for a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time...
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UK viewers, go here:
www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho
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Stop whining about your taxes. Its a for-profit company that gets distribution rights because it helps pay for the shows to get made. It makes its money off ads like every other american network. Its got the name BBC in it but its not BBC.
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THE END OF TIME will suck more than the fucking denoument to LAST OF THE TIME LORDS. I didn't think they could get worse than Dobby the fucking Time Elf - and then I heard that the Master is coming back after living on a sink estate, disguised as a chav.
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Bring on more Dr. Who! And any kid whose ass is getting kicked for liking Dr. Who just call me and I'll have a chat with those tasteless bastards.
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Had to.
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Liking the logo, getting really hyped for the new series to start! Can't wait to see what Moffat will do now that he's in charge. Roll on 2010, can't come quickly enough!!!
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I think that's fucking stupid. Every movie and Tv show title these days seems to be initialized. We're too busy to read the whole thing? Too lazy? What's the fucking problem?
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dont love it, dont hate it, definitely ready for the rest of the specials
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Everything!!!
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Bring on 2010 and the smoking hot Karen Gillan as Amy Pond!
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for a boring company like "Dilbert Wainwright Incorporated." Honestly, it ain't very inspiring for a classic science fiction series. The original "ghosty" lettering was the best.
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will be in diapers
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he was the best dw to wear the overcoat. no one's gonna top pinstripes and chuck taylors.
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The previous one was so boring and evocative of nothing at all. This one is classy, echoes some of the older versions, and I love the TARDIS-ness of it. It's not quite as cohesive as the classic Pertwee and Tom Baker designs, but I like it a lot, and was prepared not to after recent poor graphic design from the series.
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...in my opinion. The newer shows are smart and well-produced, but are too self-aware and suffer from a crippling need to undermine the Doctor for the sake of empowering the somewhat bland supporting casts. Say what you will about the low-budget effects and screaming girls in the old series, but they were packed to the gills with imagination and made the Doctor funnier, more capable, and more alien than anything we see these days. Plus, they weren't so timidly bound by fashion and trying to be cool as the newer shows are. Young Doctors with mod haircuts and present-day fashions = compromise.
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In the UK, yer average kid viewer of Doctor Who is most likely to decorate their school jotter with this logo is probably under 13, in primary school and all their mates have Dr Who pencil cases and school bags. And anyone who does decide to give a battering to said kid is a cunt and a bully.
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Moffat is the show runner. The same man who has written the absolute best episodes of Doctor Who in its long storied history. The same man who said seeing his "written by" credit in the opening sequence was the greatest thrill he had ever achieved. Trust me, internet message board backlash participants, this show is in very good hands. Also, isn't Doctor Who one of the highest rated (if not the highest) scripted tv show in England?
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I hope you enjoy the new logo. I know I do!!!
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I hope you, (And everyone else) enjoys the last 3 David Tennant, RTD Doctor Who Specials, I already know I will.
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Yes, I do!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You knew I had to say that , didn't you?
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TRUE STORY, THAT.
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spud mcspud is 100% correct with what he said about the future of the series.
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...not particularly impressed but ho hum. Looking forward to Who under Moffat control but still not convinced by a 12 year old Dr with a 10 year old assistant. Time will tell I guess...
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And I really like how we're given a dedicated talkback just to talk about a new logo. It's an insignificant topic really, but still it's great to be able to pop in and say "Ain't Doctor Who cool" again.
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Oct 06, 2009 5:19:01 PM CDT
Oooooooooooooooooo, The Handsome 12th Doctor....................
by axcel1
Insignificant topic??????????? As we say in America, "Thems fightin' words!!!!!" Not me, everyone else, of course!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oct 06, 2009 5:23:50 PM CDT
Oh, and, to tide me over until the next fantastic DW Special....
by axcel1
I'll be watching "The Sarah Jane Adventures", another brilliant RTD production.
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I only mean 'insignificant' in the grand Moff scale of things. There are bigger Who-related topics that we could be discussing. The photos of Karen Gillan in the policewoman uniform for instance.Where's the talkback for that???
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Dr Who is absolute garbage. You know it to be true. Considered a complete joke in Britain by all but the most simple of yokel. Irresponsibly bad.
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Doctor Who street cred depends on the producers' ability to walk that line between nostalgia and modernity. When the show departs too far from its roots (as it arguably did the most during the Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy years) by fiddling too much with the aesthetic elements that make the show "Doctor Who", it becomes painfully obvious that the producers aren't actually fans of the show.
But of course the producers have to bring The Doctor into the 21st century.
When Russell Davies launched the reboot, he was very smart in the way he wrestled with the classic Doctor Who aesthetics and continuity.For example, his version of the theme song was MORE like the classic theme than the late 1980s versions were, even though it was also very moderized (You could say he "post-modernized" it, eh? RIGHT?!)
He also managed to bring in classic foes and characters without making them look too cheesy (within budgetary limits, of course).
While I don't universally enjoy Davies' vision of Doctor Who (many episodes do, indeed, suck) I have to give credit where credit's due when it comes to the show's art direction and the effort the producers made to find the correct "spirit" of the show.
So, with Davies gone and the show being subjected to yet another "reimagining", it shouldn't be surprising that fans should scrutinize every scrap of information regarding where the new mucka-mucks are taking it.
Sure, it's "only a logo". But it's a clue to the overall aesthetic of the new show.
And I, for one, do not see ANYTHING of the classic Doctor Who aesthetic in this new logo. Here's hoping it's not a bellwether for the overall aesthetic of the show.
FYI: Here are all the logos compiled together in one jpg, for comparison:http://tinyurl.com/ybegpdx
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I recognize that Moffat has been a shining light amongst Doctor Who writers, but that doesn't necessarily mean that his vision for the show's art direction will enjoy the same success.
Final Plea: Do something about the Tardis' interior. Sure, you don't have to go back to the THX-1138 all-white design, but I remember fondly the episodes from the Tom Baker/Peter Davison years where they explored the Tardis' vast back corridors, which even The Doctor had never explored fully! I'd love to see an episode with dialogue like, "Hey Doctor, what's back there?" "You know, I'm not really sure..." -
If it turns out that Matt Smith sucks, don't throuw good money after bad. Kill him off immediatey and let him regenerate into Rupert Grint. Grint was BORN to play The Doctor.
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Terrible. Looks like it was grabbed from a t-26 type catalog in 1998. The letterform TARDIS is a cute idea, but the typeface is just unforgivable. At least the previous, orange-oval one looked like money had been spent on it.
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*Clean my taint!*
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Despite Grand moff at the helm I am hating everything I'm seeing. younger actors - CHECK Trendy new logo to make it easier to brand the dog shit toys - CHECK They are bringing my favourite british sci-fi shows down to the level of fucking sarah-jane chronicles. It will be shown on CBBC next.
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Tennant was just ok, but the production values in the current series (including half baked hollywood scoring) have failed to even vaguely capture the whimsical fun of the Pertwee and Baker era's.
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At least, that's the current rumor. If the buzz is actually true, it'll be blue-ish (which would go with the new logo) and have more than one level. And given the new/old TARDIS exterior and Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor costume, the new interior will probably be a bit retro Hartnell/Troughtonesque in design as well.
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As a Brit, you don't pay for EVERYTHING the BBC produces.
Everything the BBC distributes outside the UK is handled by BBC Worldwide, and brings in money to subsidise your licence fee.
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BEST TO NOT-QUITE-SO-BEST (Because they're splendid chaps, all of them)
1) David Tennant
2) Tom Baker
3) Patrick Troughton
4) Peter Davison
5) Jon Pertwee
6) William Hartnell
7) Christopher Eccleston
8) Sylvester McCoy
9) Paul McGann (Would be higher because of the Big Finish CD audio adventures but only had one televised story)
10) Colin Baker (Also much better in the Big Finish audios)
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And what an era that was. A one-and-a-half-hour TV movie.
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Would make a terrible Doctor.
He would, however, make a great assistant.
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IT'S TIME, IS IT NOT?
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I hope the new Doctor isn't always going on about how great he is.
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the vengeful god Doctor and that's where we are right now
And he's damn good at it
Really can you imagine TB doing what Tennant did to the family of blood?
All of them are Magnificent in their own time
And The Doctor is one of the greatest characters in fiction
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barring magnificent stupidity the potter money will never run out.
You'd have to have a combination of the worst lawyers and agents on top of being a fucking moron, to burn thru that cash
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Peter Davison and Christopher Ecclestone deserve way more love than that!
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Every character will have to be gay, or at least bi-curious. From now on the Doctor will have to enter the Tardis through the back door, and the companions will all be 19 year old lads with sixpacks and fair hair. You just wait and see if I'm wrong. Look to The Bill for proof. Not that there's anything wrong with it. Well, except for the gayness obviously.
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Every doctor since the original got their own logo and their own version of the theme. It's a tradition. Its an immediately identifiable branding of a new era for the show. It has been repackaged because it is a new product. During its lifetime, Doctor Who has changed its entire cast, crew and writing staff many many many times. Each era has felt different from the one before it. Each has had its own relative values and drawbacks. I have seen every single episode of Doctor Who ever to air, and I eagerly await the discovery of what this next era will be like.
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implies a darker direction for the new series, which seems obvious when you consider Moffat's track record like Blink etc. I don't Matt Smith has been chosen just for his age, watch an interview with him. He couldn't be more Doctor like if he tried.
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I was never a fan of the "eye-shaped" logo. It was probably my least favorite part of New Who.
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Oct 06, 2009 8:23:03 PM CDT
I see something classic...look at the first Doctor Who logo ever
by brainbite
Your URL wit all logos http://tinyurl.com/ybegpdx is proof, Royston Lodge.
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Hmm, I hope they don't completely abandon the steampunk control room. I liked the IDEA of the steampunk tardis. I just didn't like they way they implemented it. It was too obvious that the knobs and levers weren't attached to anything. The controls needed some satisfying clickety-clack sound effects. More like the dashboard of the time machine in Time After Time.Plus, the control room was too big. Why would the timelords design a control room like it was a ballroom? Sure, the interior's supposed to be bigger than the exterior, but making it that big just reinforced that it was really just a soundstage!
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He'd be an excellent Jamie-type. But having an older Doctor would help. Though something tells me that very young Matt Smith will have a bit of precocious Harry Potter in him. I like his slightly more classic look, hopefully that's a sign of more love for the Who tradition and less PC nonsense to come.
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Stairs, and a passel of Daleks clustered helpless on the landing! Sounds-GOOD!
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When you say "who" it sounds like "hoo" in your brain so it's thinking "DH," which of course would be a very 'tarded way to go but when you see "DW" ur brain doesn't automatically think Doctor Who. Anyway, this is the first to use initials. I always preferred the 3rd iteration, the one in red & orange with the bold WHO over a diamond.
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"Who Are You" ... emits awesomeness to balance the excessive geekage of DW in general and it would help erase that CSI Miami connection that it has grown in recent years (tho' probably not in England ...)
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1) Give us more cool historically-plausible stories set during neato periods of Earth's past.I really enjoyed the Agatha Christie episode, and the Queen Victoria episode, and stuff like that.
The original series dwelled so much on sci-fi and outer space (trying to capitalize on Star Trek and Star Wars and stuff like that, I guess) that they neglected to explore the possibilities for laying a little historical education on the kiddies.
Seems like a pretty big oversight, considering that the show revolves around a freakin' time machine!
But I digress...
This new season should strike a nice balance between stories about the Doctor Who mythos (daleks, cybermen, Gallifrey, The Master), cool new future/galaxy far far away stories (I wanna see the Face of Bo one more time!), and historically-plausible (if not completely accurate) stories in earth's past.
2) I think getting The Doctor to repair the Tardis' camouflage abilities would be a decent idea. At worst it could provide for a few cheap laughs. At best it could be used for some interesting plot points. The police box really is quite conspicuous when the Tardis materializes in 2009 London. Repairing the camouflage wouldn't mean saying good-bye to the police box completely, since it would still be an appropriate disguise whenever they touch down in post-war Britain. But coming up with interesting disguises for the Tardis on other planets or in future settings could be an interesting exercise for the writers and the art direction team.
3) Could we have a male companion again? I liked that kid from Coronation Street. And/or a companion from a different time period, like the Second Doctor's highlander pal Jamie.
4) Bring back Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT. Screw Torchwood.
5) I just read that Moffat's favourite Doctor is Peter Davison. That gives me a lot of hope for the new season! I loved Peter Davison.
(I still say Rupert Grint would have a damn good Doctor. They seem to be following the apocryphal convention that the Doctor gets younger with each regeneration, and I think Grint would jump at the chance to play a character that's hundreds/thousands of years old but looks like he's in his teens/twenties. Of course he wouldn't play the character like a Ron Weasly wuss. His delivery would be mature and "Doctor-like" but his appearance and movement would be more Ron-like. I really think it would work! He would be way too much of an obvious cliche as a companion.
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... has always been Eddie Izzard.
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...would be Tom Baker.
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John Tesh, Stephen Morris of Joy Division/New Order fame, and Boris Karloff.
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to use a proxy server.
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"...cannot be viewed from your current country or location."Fuck these restrictions! This is the fucking INTERnet, not an INTRAnet. Censorship sucks donkey balls.
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Well FUCK YOU then BBC. Don't worry about making your license payers happy.
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...when the website doesn't own the rights to the video in your country.
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You quit too soon. The first episode was absolutely terrible but you've missed some great episodes: The Unquiet Dead, Father's Day, The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, Human Nature/The Family of Blood, Blink, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead and Midnight.
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You moron. Do you think the 8 million people that watch Who every week consider it a complete joke?
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is a self confessed control freak. he will only do tv if it means that he is promoting something or being interviewed. or if the script is decent. izzard cannot act. his performances have been uniformally dreadful. on the big screen. small screen is a different matter. he now lives in the us. so the chances of him ever returning to uk are very small. unless he is touring. and his last show got very luke warm reviews.
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RTD is the box ticker. I don't think there'll be as much of that from the Moff. And for those Brits complaining they can;t see it, use yer fuckin' heid and go to the BBC website. Cuz it wouldnae ever be there, would it? Fuck's sake.
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of smith in tattered version of the suit worn by the previous dr. and great photo of gillan in police uniform. disguise?
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I mean, it's a great show for kids, for the family. But in a world where there's episodes to watch of THE SOPRANOS, THE WIRE, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA,MAD MEN, DOLLHOUSE, FIREFLY, THE SHIELD, VERONICA MARS, WONDERFALLS, BREAKING BAD and so on and so on - in this world how do you guys find the time to watch third rate pantomime shit like this?
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Was fucking awful. He was passable in MYSTERY MEN, but considering everyone else around him was a comic genius, he'd have to work VERY hard to look bad.
Basically, I don't think he's enough of an actor for The Doctor. A villain?? Hell yeah. But not The Doctor. We need a REAL actor for that. And Matt Smith will do just fine.
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hey here's a whacky idea - how about, instead of some embedded flash movie that for a lot of people will simply say THE VIDEO YOU ARE TRYING TO WATCH CANNOT BE VIEWED IN YOUR CURRENT COUNTRY OR LOCATION...
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Remember when he was cast in 24? He filmed scenes, and was so terrible that they recast his role!!!! Not funny, and cannot act! Sam Neill for the master!!!!
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i only hope they are not going to take the Rose route again,and make them the relationship a love story.
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after watching him in Dark City, that Rufus Sewell would make an EXCELLENT Doctor!
watch a couple episodes of Eleventh Hour and tell me some other TV executive didn't have the SAME idea? All he needs is a TARDIS in that show, and he's a Timelord! -
and with every regeneration her boobs become bigger.
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But ya gotta look.
http://tinyurl.com/y8mrh6v
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Can't see it happening though, he's too big an actor. Plus the show itself is way to kiddified and weak. If they rebooted it as a dark and serious sci-fi...which the material really supports when you think about it - then he would be utterly perfect. Never going to happen though, unfortunately. And Dark City rules dude. Speaking of which, his Dark City colleague Richard O'Brien would make probably the greatest Doctor ever.
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this video cannot be viewed in your current location. Thanks for giving me a link to nothing!! Job Well done!
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i should go to london and get arrested by one of them
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Dammit. Knew I should have declared an embargo on innuendo based on: handcuffs, being arrested in a sexy way, policemen's helmets, truncheons, "on the beat","banged up", etc.And I wouldn't bother coming over, most policewomen here are about 3 times as wide as that and about a foot shorter.
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I can't believe you watch THE WIRE or MAD MEN when there's episodes of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, SMALLVILLE and GARY UNMARRIED to watch!Yeah, I can compare a bunch of wildly different tv shows too.Thanks for your contribution to this talkback and have a nice day, sir.
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WTF? I'm in Britain. We GAVE you this motherfucking show and you hide shit from me?!
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Oct 07, 2009 7:44:43 AM CDT
for those who can't see it, here I am to save the day..
by chronicallydepressedlemming
http://tinyurl.com/y8hzeca
Enjoy. From a site that has a fucking clue. -
YOU ARE A COMPLETE TWAT.
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Away and watch Human Nature/The Family of Blood and Blink, then come back here and aplogise for talking out of your ass.
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You are out of your fucking mind, but for once I agree. MR GORILLA, YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!
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Are you sick to death of hearing about how AN EDUCATION is making a huge star out of unknown actress Carey Mulligan - when all true WHO fans knew how AWESOME this chick was when she played Sally Sparrow in BLINK??
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I really like the logo.
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Are some of the weakest episodes of the newer series's, who wants to see the doctor roaming around as a confused human? I prefer the doctor being in charge and superior.
I hate that the final episodes of Tennant's rule will also tie back to this poor two parter.
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what an absolutely asinine thing to say !!!! for one thing,in the UK, Dr Who is as big as Star Wars.... here in the US, I've noticed it getting WAY more popular. my nephew even took his sonic screwdriver toy to school for show & tell. Stop posting out of ignorance !!!!!
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"2) I think getting The Doctor to repair the Tardis' camouflage abilities would be a decent idea."
RETARDED ! are you serious ????
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Human Nature/Family of Blood was incredible !
"who wants to see the doctor roaming around as a confused human?" an audience who likes to be entertained. it was SUPPOSED to be excruciating dumbass !
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one of the luminous actresses i have ever seen. she is beautifull. i could look at her all day.
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I'M GOING TO NAME MY NEXT POOPY AFTER YOU.
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Yeah exactly. Carey will always be Sally Sparrow to me.
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Why can't us Brits see it? Seeing as we paid for it, and I don't mean through watching ads I mean actually literally paid for it through the pathetic License Fee. I have the bank statement that shows my TV license direct debit. Fuck the BBC.
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He really does, even though your endless bemoaning of his writing is starting to wear as thin as the Daleks annual appearances. I did not like the logo at first but it has grown on me, it sets out what to exect in a graphic (groan) way and even though I am a little worried about next year, I like RTD eisodes, I am excited to see what BDSM does to the show.
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and take it from there
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I like it's retro feel. I am really looking forward to seeing the show evolve under Moffat. I grew up on Who and I love it dearly, but while I would not have done some of the things RTD did, most of it sicne the relaunch has been great and it's just good to have it back. Plus, when you go back and watch the old stuff (which I do plenty) there was some great swathes of shit at times! Memory does wear rose tinted glasses!
And to my fellow Brits who can't see it: just go on the British BBC site and look it up you whiney gits! -
He thinks I'm a ming-mong. SFX forums say so...
Still, fuck it, he's gone. On with the Moff!! -
Oct 07, 2009 4:50:52 PM CDT
"Repair(ing) the TARDIS' camouflage ability would be a decent id
by spyguy
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that Royston has never seen the Colin Baker story "Attack of the Cybermen."
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I am just watching through the Colin Baker stuff, it's not great, but mostly for the production values (the beeb was chopping it's budget year on year by then). There are some good ideas in there sometimes that never get realised. And I like the idea of of a Schizo slightly arsehole Doctor, Hartnell's Doctor had an arsehole streak in him early on.
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...enough with the slick monikers already! If it's quality, no one cares how it's spelled!
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I continue to be extremely nervous re Who now davies and Tennant have left. I know Moffat is hugely talented and have loved his stories but virtually every choice he's made since he took over ive hated..from Matt smith,the ridiculous costume,the new logo,the newer looking tardis..the list goes on. Russell T Davies was no joss whedon but he did embue the series with 2 great doctors and some smart choices along the way. Ive seen nothing from Moffat so far anywhere near as good. Nervous nervous nervous.
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Ah yes, but you see the usage of the logo as part of the title sequence was changed to some degree even if the font and graphic were not. Each title sequence was unique, either because it contained the face of the current doctor, the music had been changed, or the logo had been utterly revamped. The least changed logo would have been the second doctor.
Here is a link to a nicely done history of the title sequence...nifty info...
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I'm ready to get into Dr Who, don't think I've ever seen more than a few glances. Where would a perfect starting point be? Not at the beginning, not enough time. What's this Russell Davies reboot I saw mentioned above?
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I remember when I got my first Camcorder, and I hooked it up to the tv, and pointed it at the screen, replicating the early Who opening titles. Cool effect!
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I'm cool with it.
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Oct 07, 2009 11:12:14 PM CDT
I never got beaten up specifically for liking Doctor Who.
by johndillingers20inchseveredcock
But I was getting beaten up anyway for nerdery in general. Nobody else in my neck of the woods knew what Doctor Who was back in the 80's.
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Oct 07, 2009 11:13:54 PM CDT
I hope we get an old school opening theme.
by johndillingers20inchseveredcock
Please dispose of the silly electric guitars they added last season.
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Tom Baker IS the Doctor.
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However, "The Waters of Mars" looks scary as hell - at least as scary as "Blink." Brrr. God, I'm going to miss Tennant. And in this ep. he's teamed with Servillia! No romance, just a bad-ass woman. YES. Not looking forward to Smith's tenure. He's a pisher.
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The British are so low-tech.
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Where the hell can I get it, or is it a one-off?
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"The video you are trying to access cannot be viewed outside ... blahblahblah ..." When will you guys learn to use a service which actually WORKS???
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But I have high hopes that the new guy will be able to do some good stuff that at least equals RTD's greatness. The show probably won't get any better though. Cool new logo.
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The British are dweebs who think they deserve everything because the government suckered them into paying for television. You guys all sound like 70 year olds.
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The old logo was pretty ugly, this one is simplistic and emulates the TARDIS. I just hope the show gets better. I love the concept of Doctor Who, but the execution has been pretty terrible. I do not blame the actors as I loved both Eccleston and Tennant as the Doctor but the writing (save about 6 or 7 episodes from the recent series) and production value has been atrocious. Hopefully the new season will be a step in the right direction.
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you can get to design a tardis console. the winner will be chosen by matt smith and cryptically the console will be in keeping with the show. so I think this is a new modern dr who. with a twist.
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in the show.
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We love you!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Doctor Who Fan-ish sort of way, of course.
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Oct 08, 2009 5:37:01 PM CDT
My previous positive comments on RTD notwithstanding...
by royston lodge
...I've been rewatching a few episodes over the past few days, and paying closer attention to who writes each episode.
I started to get the impression that RTD doesn't really LIKE Doctor Who. He seems to get pleasure from killing classic characters!
I mean, all the other Time Lords are dead, Gallifrey has been destroyed, K-9 was blown to pieces, and The Master refused to regenerate, making him dead-dead instead of just mostly-dead.
Steven Moffat seems to be way more of an actual Doctor Who fan, as evidenced by the "Time Crash" mini-episode where Tennant meets Davison and says, "you're MY Doctor." -
For much of it's history, Doctor Who received much criticism from the usual suspects for being much too violent for children. There was a study done which showed that Doctor Who was the most violent program to ever be broadcast in the UK, according to the average number of violent-acts-per-episode.
From Wikipedia: "It has been said that watching Doctor Who from a position of safety "behind the sofa" (as the Doctor Who exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in London was titled) and peering cautiously out to see if the frightening part was over is one of the great shared experiences of British childhood. The phrase has become commonly used in association with the programme and occasionally elsewhere."
I remember being scared shitless by one episode where people were being killed horribly by some sort of tree creature. The visual wasn't so bad, but the screaming really got to me.
I will concede that the new series doesn't QUITE pull off the suspenseful/scary moments of the classic show.
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I keep telling myself that, one of these weekends, I'm going to set up my old Super8 camera and figure out how to create the old-school Doctor Who/2001 Space Odyssey wormhole effect.
I just think it would be fun to create the effect the traditional way instead of throwing it together on my Mac. -
Oct 08, 2009 5:50:08 PM CDT
SpyGuy: As a matter of fact, I DO remember that episode!
by royston lodge
In fact, I was thinking of that episode when I wrote the suggestion.
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I don't get the idea of casting him as the Doctor. Glad it hasn't happened.
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Hi Royston Lodge, I don't know if it could be done with a super8, or any other film camera, it's a video feedback effect. The way I did it was to run the video camera out to the video in on the tv set to aux in, then point the lens at the screen. It looks alot like the Who openings from the first 4 Doctors. If you twist the camera around, it gets a wicked vortex like effect.
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tennant goest back to where he meets rose tyler. waters of mars sets up tennants regeneration. it seems to be a two month two parter. november is waters on mars and december is when tennant leaves the tardis.
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the end of time ep features the dr's most power adverseries. the master, the rani and the meddling monk. donna noble and rose tyler return. if you watch the trailer for waters you know that his regeneration is near. and he says something about a fixed point in time and this event was meant to happen.
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