WATCH ALONG | Doctor Who: The Movie
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your short little review immediately after it ended was spot on lmao. i love this movie for the gorgeous tardis aesthetic, the frankenstein regeneration scene, the campy over-the-top acting, the ridiculous plot and completely out-of-left-field additions to dw lore, and, most importantly, paul mcgann. I love him in 'withnail & I' and I love him as the eighth doctor nomatter how odd his stories are. and, as others in the comments section have said, the "These shoes! They fit perfectly!" line makes me melt. he's just so sweet. thank you for reacting even if it's not your cup of tea <3 hope you feel better soon !!
Otso Casey-Stewart
2023-04-22 01:29:34 +0000 UTC"I'm not a fan of unnecessary things in movies or tv shows" ah.... well.... hm...
Otso Casey-Stewart
2023-04-22 01:05:25 +0000 UTCWhile the story is at best average it still enjoyable to watch. Mainly because of McGann who is fantastic as the Doctor. The Tardis console room looks great. There are some nice scenes and imagery. I love the scene with the Doctor regenerating mirroring Frankenstein. Also the 'these shoes, they fit perfectly' is very Doctorish. There are some things that connect with classic Who in this but I'm not going to say what because of spoilers.
Jade Ellis
2023-04-22 00:06:45 +0000 UTCnervous to watch this because, though this movie is one of my favorite pieces of doctor who media ever, I'm aware of how genuinely batshit weird it is lol can't wait to watch your reaction :,)
Otso Casey-Stewart
2023-04-21 23:47:54 +0000 UTCSuch a weird canon plaster at the end lol. I can't help but find it so funny that people invent explanations for that particular inconsistency.
Steve Combs
2023-04-21 23:35:42 +0000 UTCWhile there is a lot of good info there, I feel the discussion about the Doctor's encounter with the Master in Classic Who leans a bit too much into spoiler territory, as Britany tends to want to watch these things without any foreknowledge.
Malcolm Wolf
2023-04-21 23:23:41 +0000 UTCIt's always interesting to see the TV movie through the eyes of someone who's coming to it primarily from the modern series. It was judged fairly harshly at the time, since its failure to lead into a full series starring the Eighth Doctor seemed to put the final nail in the coffin of Doctor Who's chances of coming back to television after the end of the classic series seven years before. Now that it's no longer "the end of Doctor Who" but merely a way-station in the middle of the "wilderness years", I find I enjoy it a lot more even though its flaws remain obvious. The decision to dump a huge pile of back-story on the audience right from the opening moments, even to the extent of bringing back the Seventh Doctor for the first third of it so we can see him regenerate, is just bizarre for a movie whose most important job was to appeal to new viewers. When Russell T Davies launched the new series with "Rose" in 2005, he took precisely the opposite approach -- no back-story at all, we stay firmly with Rose's point of view throughout, and we only know (and only need to know) as much about the Doctor as Rose does. Information about the Doctor's past comes out only very gradually -- the name "Gallifrey" wasn't even heard in the modern series until "The Runaway Bride", more than two full seasons in. Regarding the half-human thing, frankly you can just ignore it. It makes no sense at all, goes flatly against basically everything established about the Doctor in the classic series, and went down like a lead balloon with fandom back in 1996. Certainly, the modern series completely disregards it. As for why the Master is a weird slimy snake-like creature, that's tied in with the whole 13-lives business, which you're now meeting for the first time. At a point in the classic series you haven't reached yet, there was a story in which the Doctor and the Master clashed on Gallifrey -- the first time the Doctor's homeworld was shown in detail, complete with the Time Lords in their outrageously campy outfits like the one Eric Roberts swans around in in this movie. (Trivia tidbit: those Time Lord costumes, toned-down versions of which are still used in the new series, were designed by future three-times Oscar winner James Acheson.) For that story, the Master had to be re-cast, since the actor who originally played him had tragically died in a car accident some years before. So the writer came up with the concept that Time Lords can only regenerate a certain fixed number of times (i.e. 12), and that the Master had now used up all of his lives, leaving him in a decayed and dying state, desperately searching for a way to stay alive. The snake-creature in this movie is an extension of the same idea. Of course, at that time the Doctor was in only his fourth body, and the possibility of the show lasting long enough for such a limit to matter was not remotely a consideration... Even though the actual plot is pretty thin and not properly developed (especially the ending, with its inexplicable resurrection of Grace and Chang Lee), there's plenty to like about this movie, not least its lovely production design. Even after 27 years, this remains the most expensive episode of Doctor Who ever made, and the huge TARDIS interior is still spectacular. I thought Daphne Ashbrook was very good as Grace, and would have liked to see more of her. And the one thing just about everyone agrees on is that Paul McGann did astonishingly well, establishing a whole new personality for the Doctor with only about an hour of screen time to work with. I particularly enjoyed the "These shoes... they fit perfectly!" moment -- that's the point at which, for me, the Eighth Doctor finally arrived.
Steven Cooper
2023-04-21 17:31:32 +0000 UTCAn American production of a British show & shot in Canada. It was definitely international. The Fox network licensed Who with the intention to make it a full series. From the start there were fights, Fox didn't want to continue on from classic who & just wanted to start from scratch with a new Doctor but the writer/producer was a fan & wanted it to be connected & eventually a compromise was made that it starts with 7 & he would regenerate pretty quickly There was also a fight as the network wanted an American to play the Doctor but again the writer/producer said it has to be British. At one point Tom Hanks was a name Fox wanted but there was no way they were going to afford him nor get him to commit to a TV series at this stage of his career The show did outstanding ratings in the UK but here in the US the ratings were fairly low, so Fox opted not to pick it up for a full series. From what I've heard if this did continue, I think Grace was supposed to return in the next episode & this time would join The Doctor who would be on a quest to find his father, a Timelord named Ulysses as an overarching series goal. Obliviously as you did, when Russel T Davies brought Doctor Who back in 2005 he picked & chose what carried over & opted to ignore parts of this though I've seen fans try to come up with explanations for the half human thing such as it's only 8 that's half human because in the hospital when they were working on 7 they possibly gave him a blood transfusion of human blood & it mixed in with his regeneration so 8 came out half human
Retro Tom
2023-04-21 16:04:05 +0000 UTCThere are aspects of this movie that are canon, some are not. The Doctor being Human was widely rejected as part of canon.
Tommy
2023-04-21 14:47:35 +0000 UTC
