#Home for Whovians

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Doctor Who auf Disney+ - Über ein Jahr später und was sich dadurch alles verändert hat

Weihnachten nähert sich mit großen Schritten, und damit auch das diesjährige "Doctor Who"-Weihnachstsspecial - vermutlich. Zumindest die BBC wird es am 25. herzeigen, Disney+ theoretisch auch, auch wenn das auf den offiziellen Dezember-Listen im Gegensatz zum "Simpsons"-Weihnachtsspecial nicht vorgemerkt war. Und ob wir wieder so etwas "lustiges" wie keine deutsche Tonspur ohne Vorankündigung geschenkt bekommen, ist natürlich auch noch unklar. Gerüchten zur Folge soll der unbeliebte mitten in der Nacht Simulcast-Zeitpunkt verschwinden, aber so genau weiß das keiner, weil Disney+ ja leider irgendwie regelmäßig darauf vergisst, dass sie nun die internationale Heimat von "Doctor Who" sind und sich entsprechend um die Franchise kümmern sollten.

Nicht nur die Fans sind unzufrieden, inzwischen scheint auch RTD daran zu zweifeln, ob es eine längerfristige Zukunft für "Doctor Who" auf Disney+ gibt, wobei natürlich das Internet nur zu gerne Gerüchte darüber befeuert, dass es keine Staffel 3 mit Disney-Geld geben wird oder die Serie gar ganz eingestellt wird. Während Letzteres irgendwie doch sehr unwahrscheinlich ist, kommen Eheprobleme zwischen RTD und Disney nicht aus dem Nichts. Sie begannen schon bei der ersten wahren Disney+-Produktion, sprich beim letztjährigen Weihnachstspecial, als Disney verlangte in einer Serie namens "Doctor Who" den namensgebender Charakter doch auch schon eher früher als später vorkommen zu lassen, vor allem wenn man es mit dem Sozusagen neuen Pilotfilm zu tun hat. Und wie es scheint, scheinen die damals begonnenen kreativen Differenzen während der Produktion von Staffel 1 und 2 nicht weniger geworden zu sein.

Disney+ betreibt im Grunde ja auch überhaupt kein Marketing für die Serie. Die alten Folgen von New Who streamen sie bei uns ja auch nicht (wer weiß wo die sind, seit sie vor gefühlten Urzeiten von Netflix verschwunden sind, sind sie Missing in Action), von Classic Who ganz zu schweigen (da findet man ein paar auf PlutoTV), und meistens ist der einzige Hinweis auf neuen Folgen das Rechteck auf der Disney+-Startseite, wenn man lange genug wartet um alle vorhandenen Rechtecke mit den Empfehlungen durchzusehen.

Ja, ich vermisse den alten deutschen Who-Dienstag. #HomeforWhovians hat sich offenbar auf Bluesky zusammengeschlossen um trotz allem weiter am Dienstag zusammen Who anzusehen, aber die schönen Zeiten als man einfach One aufdrehen und jeden Dienstag den Doctor ansehen konnte, sind für immer vorbei. Vermutlich droht dem Sender nun auch unter anderem deswegen das Aus. Bis letztes Jahr konnten sie zumindest Dienstags ein fixes Publikum verzeichnen. Ja, sie haben es mit der Neuauflage vom "Doktor und das liebe Vieh" versucht und zeigen andere britsche Serien am Dienstag, aber letztlich dürfte ihnen das Publikum fehlen. Natürlich will das Deutsche Öffentlich Rechtliche sich nicht verschlanken, weil sie uns kein "Doctor Who" mehr zeigen, sondern aus anderen Gründen, aber dass die Einschaltquoten auf allen ihren Spartensendern nicht mehr so gut wie früher sind, ist unbestritten, und im Fall von One spielt der Verlust von "Doctor Who" da sicherlich auch mithinein. Dass diesem jetzt auch noch der Verlust von One (okay, ohne Who kein allzugroßer Verlust aber trotzdem), ZDFneo (das ist allerdings ein Verlust, Hände weg!) und sogar 3Sat (nicht so einfach wie sie denken umzubringen) und Arte (ebenfalls nicht so einfach wie sie denken umzubringen) folgen soll macht alles nur noch schlimmer. Es mag sein, dass es zu viele Spartensender für das heutige Publikum gibt, aber gerade diese Sender sind das, was noch am ehesten - abgesehen von "Tatort" am Sonntag - vom deutschsprachigen Publikum auf dem Deutschen Öffentlich Rechtlichen angesehen wird. Disney+ jetzt die Schuld zuzuschieben wäre falsch, weil es zu vereinfachend wäre, aber ...

... der Verlust von "Doctor Who" ohne Wiederkehr war irgendwie der erste Hinweis auf den Anfang vom Ende. Umso mehr, wenn man bedenkt, dass die Streamingblase, die das normale Fernsehen beschnitten hat und hätte ersetzen sollen, ja bereits wieder am Platzen ist. Stellt euch mal vor die halbieren wirklich ihre Spartenkanäle, danach geht's dem FreeTV an den Kragen, und dann gibt es auf einmal keine brauchbaren Streamer außer Prime Video mit Massen an Werbung verseucht mehr bei uns. Und das in Zeiten, in denen immer weniger physikalische Medien veröffenlicht werden. Dann stehen wir alle dumm da.

Klar, dank den Folgen der Pandemie, den Kriegen und der Inflation hat keiner Geld übrig, aber was hatte die Erde davon, dass UNIT defunded wurde? Ja, genau, also bitte warum alles aufhören, beenden, abdrehen und ignorieren anstatt das zu Feiern was man hat?

Nun ja, wir können nichts gegen die Pläne vom deutschen Fernsehen tun, und auch nichts gegen Disney+s Ignoranz gegenüber "Doctor Who", aber wir können festhalten, dass beides falsch ist und uns nervt. (Und hoffen, dass Staffel 2 besser ist als Staffel 1 und Moffats Weihnachstspecial die Leute wieder mehr auf positive Art und Weise über Who reden lässt). Und das immerhin besser als alles einfach nur stumm zu schlucken.

[terranceholdsapencil]

Fighting the urge to add the entirety or the jekyll and hyde musical to my doctor who playlist now that Ive listened to Master hmmmmmmm

[hopdenerd]

"I don't like multi-Doctor episodes" respectable but please consider: I DO

[twelfth-doctors-browser-history]

Whovians be like "I really hope the Doctor comes for me so I can go on adventures and travel space and time and save worlds and make amazing friends and get traumatised and die and get resurrected multiple times and go to war and and lose everyone I ever knew and watch whole planets die and get abducted by homicidal aliens and feel the most agonising pain a human can feel so my best friend has to sacrifice himself so I can go home and forget I ever met him and continue with my mundane life if I survive that far omg it would be sooooo fun!!"

[gornwen]

A decade ago, give a few years, I knitted my dad a Christmas Stocking. My dad, being a man of a certain age and income is very good at taking care of himself, making him incredibly difficult to find gifts for and has told me not to spend my non-profit salary on him. He enjoys being a dad and enjoys being able to take care of his kids.

Which is why I knitted him the Christmas Stocking. Fresh out of grad school and working in a yarn shop on the other side of the country, I wanted to be sure to get him something he would cherish. He's a Whovian (Tom Baker, if inquiring minds want to know) and my shop carried the absolute perfect TARDIS blue yarn. Worn blue, Nine blue, not Amy Pond's front door blue. As all good folk know, both the TARDIS and Christmas stockings are bigger on the inside.

I hung it up secretly early on Christmas morning. And when he came down stairs I heard his little "Oh!" he does when he's excited. Perfection. And perfectly paired with a full day's worth of Christmas Specials.

Fast forward to this weekend, I get a call from home while planning my trip home for the holiday. Amongst other things I mention I have not been able to find my handkitted Christmas stocking for my home here in time for Saint Nick's. I hear my Mum go, "but I don't have a handknitted stocking."

And from behind her "I do!"

"No Mum, I'm looking for the ones I knit for Princess, Handsome, and I."

"But I don't have a handknitted stocking."

"I Do!"

"But I can't find the ones I made for here."

"I know where mine is!"

And Dad does, it's hung on the mantle with care. And Mum's is now... well it is a sketch in my knitting journal and will soon join Dad's there.

And I still don't know where ours are.

[petercapaldi-press]

Peter Capaldi: 'You don't just play the Doctor, you represent him' The Telegraph

INTERVIEW

12 September 2015 6:00am BST

Chloe Fox

'What do you say we have dinner in the Tardis?’ Peter Capaldi, aka the 12th Doctor, is looking at me from over the top of his Wayfarer sunglasses with a bird-like intensity; head cocked to the side, a mischievous light in his beady blue eyes.

Fresh from the set (a nearby solar-panel factory in Cardiff that has been dressed up as the kitchen of a spaceship where a monster has been trying to eat everyone in his path), dressed in skinny black jeans and a T-shirt, with his trademark Dr Martens boots, Capaldi crackles with exactly the same combination of fierce intelligence and nervous energy as his Doctor – a darker, edgier, slightly more unpredictable version of what has come before.

This will be Capaldi’s second season at the helm of a sci-fi television show that, now in its 52nd year (with a 16-year hiatus from 1989 to 2005), is the longest-running in history. Distributed to more than 200 territories worldwide, viewed in the UK alone by an average of six million per episode, adored by its legions of obsessive ‘Whovian’ fans, Doctor Who is nothing short of a global phenomenon.

Capaldi, 56 at the time of casting (he’s 57 now), was the oldest Doctor to debut since the very first doctor, William Hartnell, did so aged 55 in 1963. To some, his was a slightly left-field casting. His immediate predecessors, David Tennant and Matt Smith – 34 and 26 respectively when they got the job – were younger, twinklier, more user-friendly versions of the Time Lord. And yet, Capaldi’s older, more volatile incarnation – who shows zero tolerance towards all things romantic – very quickly won his way into Whovian hearts across the spectrum. ‘A class act’, declared The Daily Telegraph. ‘A fantastic, fascinating lead performance,’ said Digital Spy.

By the time series eight (his first) ended – with a thrilling denouement in which the Doctor was made President of the World and his arch-nemesis, the Master, was reincarnated as a woman (brilliantly played by Michelle Gomez as a sort of malevolent Mary Poppins) – Capaldi’s rightness for the role was established.

‘What I wanted to do, I suppose, was remind people of the alien-ness of the Doctor,’ Capaldi says. ‘Doctor Who isn’t a human being, you see. He’s a creature of the cosmos. His social skills aren’t great. He doesn’t care very much if people like or dislike him, because people aren’t his thing, you know?’

We are now sitting in the Tardis – surely the most thrilling interview location of all time – where Capaldi, who is nearing the end of nine months of filming series nine, looks touchingly at home. Often, between thoughts, he gazes reverentially up at the ceiling as if it were the vaults of a church. Long legs crossed, jacket off, vampirically pale, thin hands wrapped around the pot of Wagamama noodle soup that is his supper, you can see glimpses of the boy who penned endless fan letters to the show’s producers and who applied for presidency of the Doctor Who Fan Club aged 14.

In person, Capaldi is a much gentler, more rarefied presence than you might expect, especially if you were a fan of his brutally funny spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker, in Armando Iannucci’s Bafta-winning political satire The Thick of It. He speaks quietly, with an elegant Glaswegian drawl. Questions are answered thoughtfully and with a real interest, even though they are probably questions he has been asked dozens, if not hundreds, of times before. ‘Am I enjoying myself? Hmm, let me see… Am I enjoying myself?’ he says, looking around a set that has been specifically customised to suit the personality of his more retro, 1960s-style Doctor – a glass table here, a hexagonal window effect there. ‘Well, just look at this place,’ he says, with a sweep of a long arm. ‘How on earth can I not be enjoying myself?’

Capaldi concedes, however, that the first season was ‘terribly nerve-racking for me because not only was the job new, but I was also getting a level of attention that I simply wasn’t used to’. And in filming the second series, the challenges, he admits, have morphed – in true Doctor Who style – into something else.

‘I don’t feel I’ve nailed it yet – from an acting point of view, I mean,’ he says. ‘I don’t yet feel that I know how to do this. Quite who the Doctor is remains mysterious to me – which is of course as it should be – but one of the biggest challenges that I’ve found, and am finding, is that you have to sort of be able to spin on a penny. You have to be able to go from pantomime to tragedy, from domestic to epic, within a single scene. You have to keep the ball in the air, and you have to remember,’ – and here he grins wryly – ‘that The X Factor is on the other channel. You have to remember that there are people watching in America, you have to remember that, as much as you want to apply your mature acting instincts, there are actually lots of children watching. You’ve got to cover all these bases, and make it exciting and interesting too. It’s a great challenge – and, by the way, I really don’t say that lightly – and one which I care very much about getting right. Because it’s big, isn’t it? It’s really big.’

When Capaldi speaks of the weight of responsibility that comes with such an iconic role, he shifts imperceptibly into the second person, as if distancing himself from its magnitude. ‘It can be quite intimidating when you look down, do you know what I mean? Because Doctor Who exists on quite a big scale, in terms of its importance to the BBC and to its fans. You don’t just play Doctor Who; you represent him. You represent the 50 years in which he has meant an awful lot to an awful lot of people. And the weight of it – and I really would never want to seem ungrateful – is that it is continual. It is very, very nice because people always greet you with a certain affection, but it is basically every day, everywhere you go.’

When Capaldi got the job, one of his first actions was to pick the brains of his predecessors. ‘I knew David a little bit but I didn’t know Matt at all,’ he explains. ‘They were both very kind, very generous and refreshingly honest. They both made it quite clear to me that the role would bring, shall we say, a greater visibility, and they gave me very good advice as to how to handle it.’

First and foremost, retain a sense of humour at all times. ‘It’s all showbiz silliness really,’ he says, laughing. (On the day his casting was announced on a prime-time BBC special hosted by Zoë Ball, he was given a codename – Houdini – and bundled, gangster-style, into a chauffeur-driven car with a blanket over his head.)

‘Peter has a large anti-bullshit-ometer inside him,’ says his friend, the actor Richard E Grant (who starred in the short film Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life, which Capaldi wrote and directed and for which he won an Oscar). ‘And because his fame and recognition have come relatively late in his career, his hilarious cynicism about the yo-yo nature of showbusiness abides.’

Take Comic-Con, for instance. A couple of weeks before our meeting, Capaldi – along with his co-stars and the Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat – flew out to the convention in San Diego for a promotional event. For the two days before the convention started, Capaldi was doing press in his hotel. Wherever he went, he was accompanied by six security guards. ‘Six! Can you believe it?! And they all kept telling me that I couldn’t leave the hotel because, if I did, I’d be mobbed. And then I’d look out of the window and all I’d see would be this little Yoda walking down the street. So eventually I’d had enough and I said, “Come on, guys, you’ve got to let me go,” So they did – although the heavies came with me, of course. And, do you know what? Not a single person recognised me. Not one.’

Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t to last. The group sat down for dinner and, before long, queues were forming for selfies. Which was when Capaldi’s second code for coping came into play: ‘Just enjoy it.’

He understands the obsessed fans, because he himself was one of them. Teased at school for being a sci-fi geek – he was given the derogatory nickname Moon Man because of his obsession with the moon landings – the young Capaldi was far from cool. Not that he cared too much, because he was also very loved. ‘It was very safe, full of delights,’ he says of his early childhood in a tenement block in the Springburn region of Glasgow. His parents – Italian-born Gerry and Irish-born Nancy – ran a cafe in the bottom of the tenement, from which they operated an ice-cream-delivery business.

Family were everywhere: both grandmothers, plus uncles, aunts and cousins all lived in the same block. There was lots of noise, laughter, spaghetti, a Beatles soundtrack and, of course, Doctor Who. ‘To me, it was like a fairytale,’ he explains of his childhood obsession. ‘It had that quality of darkness that you find in a Grimm’s fairy tale: this strange creature of a man who takes you on all these adventures, but who always keeps you safe. That’s absolutely what I want the children who watch my version to feel.’

For Capaldi, Doctor Who is inextricably linked to his childhood. ‘It will always be a part of me,’ he says. Earlier this year, just before he was due to start filming the current series, Capaldi’s beloved mother – who had sent him the Doctor Who annual every year, well into his adulthood – died. It was a source of great pride to her that his visits to her hospital bedside were always accompanied by the happy squeals of just about every nurse in the hospital, coming to catch a glimpse.

Growing up, he didn’t really know what he wanted to be; he just knew he didn’t want to join the grey ranks of ‘depressed-looking souls standing at the bus stop in the rain every morning’. In those days there was only one place to go if you didn’t want to be like everybody else: the Glasgow School of Art.

Submerged in an ethos of creativity, Capaldi embraced the beginnings of punk. He was lead singer of a band called the Dreamboys – who mercifully changed their name from the Bastards From Hell (and whose members included Craig Ferguson, of The Late Late Show fame) – and he also began to harbour dreams of becoming an actor. One night, in 1983, he got home drunk to his Glasgow flat to find his costume-designer landlady chatting to the film director Bill Forsyth, who saw enough promise in Capaldi’s innocent charm to cast the 25-year-old opposite Burt Lancaster in his Scottish seaside fable Local Hero.

A decade, and a few bit parts later – most notably as John Malkovich’s manservant in Dangerous Liaisons – Capaldi wrote and directed the aforementioned short (in which his actress wife, Elaine Collins, co-starred with Richard E Grant) and, totally unexpectedly, won an Oscar.

For a brief, glittering moment, Hollywood beckoned (the couple bought a house in Crouch End, London, with the proceeds from a Miramax option on a feature-film idea) but then, as so often happens in Hollywood, the lights went off again.

When, after the best part of 15 years spent taking whatever hand-to-mouth acting jobs he could get – a Ruth Rendell Mysteries here, a Foyle’s War there – Capaldi got the call to audition for Armando Iannucci, he didn’t get his hopes up. In fact, the whole audition experience was so turgid and long-winded that, by the time he actually met Iannucci himself, Capaldi was simmering with rage; a rage that was to change his life by landing him the part of Malcolm Tucker.

Contrary to common belief, Malcolm Tucker was not based on Alastair Campbell. He came instead from Hollywood, from the American agents and producers – ‘malevolent forces in Armani suits’ – that Capaldi had witnessed, first-hand, barking foul obscenities down the phone at people. His ‘failure’, it turned out, had not been for nothing.

If the success of The Thick of It was a door opening for Capaldi, Doctor Who has been a floodgate from which there is no going back. ‘Would I have appreciated it as much if it had happened 20 years ago?’ he muses. ‘Almost definitely not.’

Happily, the timing of his success suits Capaldi’s life. With his wife now working as a television producer (she gave up acting for a more financially reliable line of work) and their daughter, Cecily, at university, Capaldi can be based in Cardiff from Monday to Friday and return to family life at weekends. ‘And it’s a shock when I do,’ he jokes. ‘Because I’m certainly not allowed to be number one on the cast list there. Here I spend all week with people taking me everywhere I need to go, checking I have everything I need, driving me the three minutes to and from my lovely waterside apartment to the studio, making me endless cups of coffee, loving me wherever I go; and there I am expected to have my feet on the ground. But I don’t want my feet on the ground, goddammit!’

He is too gracious to say it, but Capaldi is definitely tired and homesick. With 13 episodes a year, not to mention the promotional whirl, being the Doctor is more than a full-time job. He has even developed the same knee complaint that had Matt Smith – ‘who is about 12, for God’s sake!’ – on crutches at their first meeting. ‘It’s something to do with running down corridors and turning round very quickly to deliver lines,’ he says, laughing.

Nevertheless Capaldi is uncomplaining. ‘All this will come to an end, you see,’ he says, looking around him at the Tardis. ‘It might just be my Scottish melancholia, but the very first day I found out I’d got the job, I started to feel sad that one day I would not have it; that there would come a day, in the not too distant future, that I wouldn’t be Doctor Who any more. And that is why I try really hard to get as much out of it as possible. Because one day I’ll just be an overweight has-been, trying to get a meeting with Jenna Coleman [Clara, the Doctor’s companion] and being ejected from a Doctor Who Convention in Bolton for being drunk and disorderly. I mean, this is surely my high point, isn’t it?’

Doctor Who returns to BBC One on September 19

[kottekonst]

Part 8 of my sharing Whovian coffee paintings 😊

We have reached the 12th Doctor, depicted in a familiar pose. Someone at a convention had the excellent idea to buy a print and put it in their home library 😂

Painted with instant coffee on smooth, heavyweight paper.

I especially enjoyed this WIP-snapshot when he was looking very demonic 😂

[kyriefae]

Being a Whovian is sincerely so much fun.

This show is so many different things to so many people but what I think truly makes it special is not just the change it forces on us as an audience but the way it pushes us subconsciously to give up on purism.

"Your Doctor" was <insert amiable character traits> but the current one doesn't represent that same persona? Pity. Almost like we can be different people all throughout our lives...

You ever hear someone say like..."it's fine it's just not for me"?

I wonder how many people who say that about the newest Doccy Who seasons genuinely think in their heart of hearts "actually this is garbage and you should agree with me that it is garbage" because those two are not the same thing at all! 🤭 Ugh, I can't help my incredulity sometimes. Maybe the internet adds to the expectation of toxicity. ...or I just spent a lot of time growing up around cynical assholes that hated fun. *shrug*

More to the point! 😅

Pick an era of this show; pick a doctor and you'll be transported to a world more or less unique to them. That's pretty cool if you ask me. They still have that silly multidimensional blue box; they still have two hearts (even if it didn't become canon until their 3rd incarnation)...and yes they still pick up stray humans (...usually young, petite British women from whatever decade said Doctor conveniently and sequentially visits).

But maybe to really hit home on what I mean about this show tackling purism in its audience's mind...it's always been a silly sci-fi show meant to elicit joy and wonder out of children. Additionally so, to help adults retain that same joy and wonder in their own lives by reflecting on the excitement that comes from infinite possibilities only possible when traveling with a genderfluid space alien that wears extraordinary clothes and hands out candy like it's already gone out of style. Oh and you become the universe's only hope the moment you step into another time or location lol.

Sometimes when we love something, we take it very seriously no matter how absurd it truly is at its core. We may not even notice we're doing it but any criticism of Doctor Who really ought to be taken with a grain of salt (and spread out at the very edge of creation...just for good measure). No need to get all salty over a television show. 🧂

So yeah. Being a Whovian, for me, is having the freedom to dive head first into an ocean of lore whenever I desire and really explore storytelling from several perspectives. Albeit many of the early years were written and directed and produced from the perspectives of white, straight men in the U.K. and stories with misogynist stances that heavily limited the functional roles of women in the context of said stories and were also affirmed by narratives and protagonists that failed to question any of it. *clearing throat* Oof, there was a frog back there!

All the same, our heroes of yesterday battled styrofoam monsters breaking through plywood walls built on cardboard sets represented by painted miniatures dangling on strings over a starlit portrait meant to look like space. Even when they couldn't help but be a bit cringe, they were still a silly lil sci-fi show playing at games of the imagination. Like children at play.

Now, we have this beautiful and talented man standing at center stage:

He is all the play; all the heart(s); all the joy we have known in this character but decorated in his own unique way.

My love for this show has evolved and I intend to allow it to continue doing just that. Hopefully we can continue to see the Whoniverse do just the same...instead of getting too caught up in the past. 🫣

Anywho, that's all for now.

Kisses 😘

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Would any of the Animoprhs and related cast be fans of Doctor Who?

I imagine getting really uncomfortable when the episode where Tegan gets possessed by Mara comes up.

What about Stargate? I think Stargate would be canceled because it's way to close to home.

What about a Stargate crossover with animorphs??

Another crossover idea is that series already have their concept of mind control and body jacking and when a Yeerk tries to possess an already “occupied” vessel the first “guest” goes GTFO or vice versa.

Sorry but this is my meat puppet. See Yugioh

I am not up on my sci fi classics! Any folks with Whovian/Stargate/Yugioh feels willing to weigh in?

[clearwingedmaven]

Hello, I'm back with a side fic that I've been working on alongside my original fic on Fanfiction.net! This one is an immense honor for me, as this fic is inspired by the 'Watson is a Time Lord' series by @fruitviking, @jabbage, and @jeremys-come-to-bed-eyes. Once again: Thanks, y'all, for come letting me play in your sandbox for a bit. :) I was wondering what 'The Speckled Band' would look like in that universe, so this fic came about. A two-shot, because I want to give the case the justice it deserves, and the proper Whovian twist. https://archiveofourown.org/works/62004397/chapters/158563504 Please, check out the original story, as well. It's been one of my favorite stories to read of 2024 and 2025, and the world of 'A Picture of Home: Invaded' could not exist without it. https://archiveofourown.org/works/47533717/chapters/119793907 Thank you again! :) Cheers, Clear

[13thdoctorposts]

Michelle Gomez Panel

Please note this IS NOT word for word, but so you can get a general gist of the panel. Both Michelle and Sacha were hilarious.

Whovians of all ages got to ask Michelle questions.

This post is just Michelle’s panel I’ll make separate posts for them together and Sacha’s panel soon!

How’s your New Zealand accent?

Bad I only have one and it’s Scottish I’ve been working on it my entire life… so 27 years. Lol

What was your favourite episode of Doctor Who to film?

I went to set and there was an army Daleks of every variety, and I stuck my 8 year old son in one and they started filming and I didn’t know were he was just that he in was in a Dalek.

Would you like to be in the new series of Doctor Who?

Hell yes, I’m just waiting for the call.

In Who and Sabrina you play a define feminine who was wronged by others what was your motivation to play these kind of villains?

With my face it’s hard not to plays witches and bitches and I long to play a character called Alison but Madam it is. I want to make sure I’m not just playing bad, I believe people are the way they are because of their experiences, so what makes them bad? That’s what interests me in the characters.

Did you like sitting on the throne of hell in Sabrina?

I loved sitting on it and wish I could have taken it home, I would have made room for it.

Did you Ad lib much in Doctor Who?

Steven Moffatt is a phenomenal writer so there’s not much you could add to it. But sometimes on the day something would fit. But Moffatt wrote to my strengths so I didn’t feel I needed to.

Why did you want to help the Doctor?

There’s a thing called a frenemy, keep your enemy’s close. They were originally friends and like all relationships they go through good times and bad times and sometimes they go their different ways. The master went to the dark side and the Doctor went to that other side. I was trying to bring in the nuance to that relationship

If you make it to the new series will you still help the Doctor?

No

If you put Missy and Lilith in a room together would they plot world domination or try to kill each other?

I think they would try each others costumes on. Once I wanted to bust of of Missy’s costume and it was hot so I took the top layer off and thought I’d just wear the petty coats in the scene, and Steven Moffatt was like… what are you doing? This is a children’s show, put your clothes back on. Lol. Lilith got lots of incredible costumes.

Being the last of the Timelords do you think the Master and the Doctor ever had a child?

Wow, I don’t know, I’m not sure the Doctor and the Master have those bits. They’re like Barbie and Ken. The first thing you do with a figurine of yourself is check.

What would you have changed about Missy’s costume?

I don’t think it could have been more Missy, it was a phenomenal image. It sent the message that Mary Poppin’s was the most evil woman in the Universe. There was a corset and after lunch I did hate the costume.

How did you get the role of Missy?

I was offered another part but I was doing psycho bitches at the time so I wrote to Steven Moffatt if you need a villainess I’m your man. Then a couple months later my agent called, said to sit down and that Steven was offering me the role of the Master, I was blown away. I might have planted the seed, I’d like to take credit for it.

If you could travel with any other Doctor and torment them who would it be?

Tom Baker

Do you like being the villain of Doctor Who?

I do. If anyone is listening I do, I would like to come back, stop fucking around, I’m available.

There’s episodes with multiple Doctors why can’t we have multiple Masters?

Because there’s only one! Although Sacha is quite good, I like Sacha.

Were you nervous the first time you were on TV?

Yeah, that was a long time ago on a show called The Bill and I played a ticket warden. The director said to do a banana around the car and slap a ticket on the window. I didn’t know what a ‘banana’ was so I acted like I was slipping on a banana, landed on the ground, the crew looked at me and I just jumped up and they told me what I actually needed to do.

What was your favourite part of being chaotic and fun with your Missy?

They let me piss about with focus, I could be physically free, I could dance and bounce a lot.

Can you share a funny moment on Doctor Who?

I was nervous, it was my first day, Peter and Jenna were there, when I get nervous I over compensate so I grabbed Peter, it’s like I go into some kind of black out, I threw him against the wall and snogged him, had my hand behind my back, because I knew that would make a nice visual, Jenna Coleman took my hand, that was my first 5 mins, it was weird.

What was it like being on set with Peter?

When I was younger I’d see Peter around and he was so cool like the David Bowie of paisley. And I looked up to him. When we started working together I felt like I already knew him, we had an instant short hand, so we crack each other up.

Shouting from the back…

Sacha: Oh so boring!

Michelle: SECURITY, SECURITY!

*Coming soon… there will be a part 2 with both of them and 3 with Sacha… I just don’t have time to post now.

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So, my recently indoctrinated Whovian friend and I were watching Stolen Earth/Journey's End, and were discussing the 60th specials (they looked up spoilers even though I told them not too, but I'm not mad) Anyway, we decided that Fourteen will NOT be able to sit still. He's watching the news on telly, and hears about some alien invasion, and turns to Donna all pouty, asking her is he can go, and she grabs a little spray bottle, and sprays him like a cat. This is the No Alien Invasion Doctor bottle. When she has to work, she entrusts the spray duties to Shaun. She left the bottle with Sylvia once, and came home to the Doctor looking like he had a fight with the garden hose. (Wilf cannot be trusted, he would encourage the Doctor far too much)

[the-doctors-tardis]

Credit Goes To: @bigfinishprod

The Fourth Doctor is fifty! On 28 December 1974, Tom Baker made his debut on television in part one of the Doctor Who story, Robot

Slides:

1. Recording at home (pic by Sue Jerrard Baker)

2. With Louise Jameson

3. Proudly holding a vinyl copy of Wave of

Destruction

4. With Annette Badland

5. With Matthew Waterhouse

6. With Philip Hinchcliffe

7. With David Troughton and David Warner

8. With Nicholas Briggs and David Richardson

9. With John Leeson

10. A BBC publicity photo from 1974 (colourised by

Clayton Hickman)

#BigFinish #Audiobook #AudioDrama #Audiophile

#AudioPlays #DoctorWho #DrWho #TheDoctor

#TimeLord #TimeVortex #Whovian #Whovians

#Gallifrey #TARDIS #DrWho #ScienceFiction #SciFi

#BigFinishProductions #TomBaker #FourthDoctor

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HOA Characters and Fandoms they are in

**NOTE: Second headcanon type post lets go! Love reading peoples responses (Sorry for the Alfie rap erasure you're so right baes) but anyways, thought of this while driving home from college for Easter weekend so enjoy! Also, some of these fandoms I am not even in but they make sense for the characters so**

Nina

-> Harry Potter fandom or Potterhead

-> I mean with the amount of times she mentions Harry Potter in the first episode it just would make sense that its because she's a fan of the books and movies

-> Definitely brought her entire Harry Potter book series to Anubis House with her when she first moved in (but maybe hid it at first because of Patricia)

-> Favorite character is probably Hermione Granger (she loves a strong and intelligent female main character)

-> Dressed up as a Hogwarts student for her first Halloween at Anubis (Fabian dressed as Harry for her <3)

Amber

-> Twilight. Enough said.

-> Girlie has a huge Jacob poster in her room. No like seriously, its in the show

-> I know she had a heart attack during the last movie (I did to)\

-> Obvi Team Jacob

Fabian

-> Doctor Who Whovian

-> This is where we start to get to things I am of little knowledge of

-> Space, time travel, monsters (i think?) it just sounds right up his alley

-> Has one of those TARDIS t-shirts... and a poster...and maybe a keychain... and maybe a secret plethora of Doctor Who merchandise under his bed, but keeps enough out so people know he likes it but not enough to know he is obsessed with it

Patricia

-> Like I stated in my post about the characters music taste, she had a FallOutBoy and PANIC! At the Disco phase

-> I feel like she's read FallOutBoy fanfiction here and there IDK IT MAKES SENSE

-> I feel like she probably had a Twenty One Pilots phase as well

-> All of those fandoms together, she was DEEP in alternative fangirl culture

Alfie

-> HOT TAKE: Alfie watches anime

-> I haven't watched much but I feel like he would watch like One Piece or maybe Dragon Ball Z

->Have you seen all of his costumes in the show, the boy cosplays for sure

-> Puts on cosplay either to watch his shows or just puts it on for the hell of it and then goes about his day (all the housemates have candid photos of him doing the most mundane things in the most ridiculous cosplays)

Jerome

-> This one was hard ngl

-> I feel like he would be more in like Youtuber type fandoms

-> Pewdipie.

-> Ok hear me out, JSclatt. I MEAN THINK ABOUT IT! DOESNT IT MAKE SENSE IN A WAY???

Joy

-> As I stated in my music post, she was a One Directioner

-> Was a Harry girl

-> She wrote and read fanfics on Wattpad (valid)

-> Along with Amber, she is a Twilight fan

-> Unlike Amber, she is Team Edward

-> Her and Amber have had some HEATED discussions at dinner over this topic to the point where it has been BANNED from the dinner table

Mara

-> Ok I know Mara is all books or whatever in the show BUT, I can see her being a cozy game fan

-> Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, The Sims, honestly anything that is a cozy management type game

-> Hunger Games fan for sure.

->Is in love with Peeta

Mick

-> Fortnite.

-> Does Fortnite dance emotes when he scores a goal during soccer/football (whichever you call it)

-> This is a Mick Campbell hate page.

[demigodofhoolemere]

Fellow Whovians, please take a moment to appreciate the Richard Franklin signature and Mechonoid pin I just found and took home from comic con today

[fortunelowtier]

I can't wait for when media starts being made with the same nostalgia goggles for the 2000s as media now has for the 80s/90s

I wanna watch a supernatural/mystery movie set in 2009/10 about a group of social misfits trying to become famous with the rapidly rising popularity of YouTube by making a fake series "solving" mysteries like it's scooby doo and investigating online urban legends, but one day they end up finding that one of the legends they investigated is entirely true and the rest of the movie is them trying to figure out wtf to do

Like its not like one of those movies where "OOOO THEY UPSET THE SPIRIT AND NOW ITS TRYING TO KILL THEM!!!", it's just like something really mundane, like they discover Mothman is real and just chillin in the woods eating berries n shit and now they have to grapple with the fact that they now know cryptozoology and the supernatural are real and wtf to do with this knowlege

the cast consists of like a Kripke-era Supernatural fan who uses their love of the show to reference it while on their fake stakeout, a Tennant-era Whovian who acts as the tech person, and then the one adult of the group who acts as the straight man archetype whos a 7th gen console gamer who just wants to go back home and 100% the new Fallout 3 DLC