By Rob Bricken in
TV
Friday, Feb. 26 2010 @ 3:11PM
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Matt Smith debuts as the new, Eleventh incarnation of the famous Time Lord alongside a new travelling companion, the enigmatic Amy Pond (Karen Gillan).I doubt anyone is particularly surprised by the return of the Daleks -- they're far better at returning than actually exterminating, it seems like -- but I want to know if the Doctor will be solving the mystery of where his eyebrows disappeared to. Anyways, nerds, set your calendars accordingly.
"Britain has a tradition of reinventing its iconic characters, like James Bond and Sherlock Holmes - and Doctor Who. In introducing the Eleventh Doctor, writer Steven Moffat is opening the show to a whole new audience, while serving fans with an exciting mix of inter galactic, time travelling adventures. We can't wait to meet his new Doctor!" comments Richard De Croce, Senior Vice President Programming, BBC AMERICA.
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Travelling both through time and space, the new series has the mysterious Doctor and Amy Pond together exploring sixteenth century Venice, France during the 1890s and the United Kingdom in the far future, now an entire nation floating in space. The first three episodes of the 13-episode series have been confirmed as The Eleventh Hour, written by Steven Moffat, The Beast Below, also by Moffat and Victory of the Daleks by Mark Gatiss.
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MrMacMan said:
As much as i want to give BBC America credit...
Well its late, as it always is.
If they perhaps, made it a day behind perhaps i would hold out, but no.
Its super late, for no reason but to make BBC America get worse raitings.
I, like thousands (millions?) of others will be downloading this, any all future episodes because of late airtimes.
Mike said:
Looks like I'm going to be the only person actually watching, as I cannot download torrents. :P
And ten bucks says the Daleks brought themselves back by harnessing the power of The Doctor's eyebrows, but they were destroyed in the process.
DoctorSmashy said:
The Dalek episode actually sounds pretty cool. Apparently Winston Churchill has found the ultimate weapon that will win the war - a Dalek. The best thing about it is the possibilty that Daleks will exterminate Hitler onscreen.
Snoodle said:
I'm sure none of you will illegally download it and watch it early, though.
Never...
DoctorSmashy said:
One of the few upsides of being a British nerd is our front-seat viewing of Doctor Who.
Geoff replied to DoctorSmashy :
Except when us Canadians decide to leak episodes. ;-)
captain Zeep said:
I'm downloading Doctor Who on iTunes (it's 50+ bucks cheaper than the DVDs per season at 25 bucks for an entire season and I don't have to muck about re-compressing files for my phone). Same delay as BBC America, or will it be in synch with the UK release dates? The specials arrived at the same time (iTunes / BBC UK) if I'm not mistaken.
Meh said:
This will be on iplayer, the BBC's online service, within 24 hours of it going out in Britain. As I live in the UK, I have no idea if that site is watchable from the States, but the website is http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/.
Pragmatic replied to Meh:
Just checked. They're blocking ISPs not recognized as being in the UK.
Now if only there were a way to anonymize my IP address, or rather to make it SEEM as if it's one of the UK ones. :-(
Necromancer replied to Meh:
You can watch most stuff on the BBC streamed live on iplayer now rather than waiting! though my TV is always free for watching Doctor Who ;p
John Hazard said:
I hate the new Star Trek for replacing the characters with younger, blander, dumber versions. I hope I'm not going to feel the same way about junior and his girlfriend.
Chan- I am looking forward to finding out -Tho.
Anonymous replied to John Hazard:
Chan-fucking-Tho. I was glad when the Master zapped that annoying blue bitch.
John Hazard replied to Anonymous:
you mean, "blue bitch THO". Don't be rude. Tho.
Geoff replied to John Hazard:
Chan she was the only actress I thought looked cuter with the makeup on tho.
(Without it, she was just a plain-jane version of Kristen Kreuk.)
Geoff said:
As I've said before, the Daleks are the biggest dividing point between the UK and the US. They're seen as as integral to the show as the TARDIS in in the UK, whereas they're played-out and tired in North America.
That might be an offshoot of the fact that Who is viewed as more of a kids', or all-ages, franchise in the UK, but it really does seem concentrated on the Daleks.
Cityblue30 said:
What is this "illegal" downloading you speak of?
Anonymous replied to Cityblue30:
Daleks are kind of a cultural phenomenon in the UK and Australia. We grew up hiding behind the couch watching them.
demoncat said:
not only will doctor fans fans wind up seeing it any way they can. but besides the missing eyebrows. of the good time lord is why the creators have to have the Daleks in every season for surely the doctor could use a rest from the flying tanks of evil.
Chipton replied to demoncat:
You mean the wobbling pepperpots of general ineffectuality?
moonbunnychan said:
I really don't get why it's a full two weeks behind...I mean...it's not like they have to DUB it or anything. And I can't imagine they're ignorant to the fact that the vast majority of it's US fans are nerds fully aware of torrents and a philosophy that copyright law is really more of a suggestion. Or hell, within hours it will be streaming all over the internet as well.
Necromancer replied to moonbunnychan:
The reverse is also true. I keep seeing ads for True Blood season 2 "coming soon" to the UK, soon isn't that soon if I've already seen it all months ago!
Some US shows are appearing over here quicker (few days for Lost s6, though I'd seen all of s1 before it aired over here) though most still have huge delays.
John said:
I love this quote:
"Travelling both through time and space, the new series has the mysterious Doctor and Amy Pond together exploring sixteenth century Venice, France during the 1890s and the United Kingdom in the far future"
So, the series can take the lead characters literally anywhere in time and space yet the press release specifically mentions THREE European locations? Why even mention "time and space"? Just say the characters are time-travellers who visit Europe.
This is one of the things I liked about Star Trek: it's set in SPACE! There's no need to have every-other episode set on Earth.
"Deep Space Nine" and "Voyager" pretty much forgot about Earth by setting the scenes on a space station and in another part of the galaxy.
The show's about time travel first, space second. It was originally envisioned as an educational series to teach kids about history, and while that's gone by the wayside... c'mon, it's cooler to have the Doctor interacting with Shakespeare and Caesar than Random Humanoid Alien of the Week.
Not that you can't have a great pure space episode - Impossible Planet and Waters of Mars both prove that, and are better than anything Trek's put out since the TNG years - but Doctor Who is best when it's slightly biased towards earthbound stories. They goofed up on that early in the series, but in recent years, with bigger budgets, things have been better.
nick replied to John:
A lot of the episodes ARE set in space. But an announcement that goes "Travelling both through time and space, the new series has the mysterious Doctor and Amy Pond together exploring Raxacoricofallapatorius, Androzani Major and Castrovalva" isn't going to bring a lot of new viewers to the show. (and the fans, they're going to watch anyway)
