OH HELL YES. It’s back! We haven’t done a liveblog in a while and I’m told that perhaps this is the only way we can all survive the only appearance of the Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann. Let us all suffer and rejoice while watching Doctor Who: The Movie.
For some of you, this may be your first chance to participate in an event like this, so stick around if you’re unfamiliar with a liveblog. You will soon learn the true beauty of such a thing!
Our liveblog of Doctor Who: The Movie begins at 11:00am PDT. What time is that where you are? Well, the lovely nanceoir created this nifty time zone guide to determine precisely what time YOU will start the movie in your respective place of watching!
At that exact moment, you may press play from the main DVD menu or on your digital file or WHATEVER. We may all be a second or two out of sync, but that largely doesn’t matter. During the liveblog, treat the comments below as your blank canvas of livebloggy goodness. Yell at the screen. Respond to others. Include appropriate GIFs and screenshots. In general, it’s a chance for all of us to experience this film at the exact same moment!
This is my first introduction to both the Seventh and Eighth Doctors, so I’m rather excited. I will watch past serials dealing with the Doctors I’ve yet to see in the coming weeks, but I thought it would be fun for all of us to do this as a liveblog! My review of the TV movie will go up on Monday at the normal review posting time.
See you tomorrow!
WHOA was that the Seal of Rassilon?!
Why does the tea jump?
Because it saw the salad dressing?
Oh look California.
Sylvester McCoy has an amazing WTF face
the master is ECTOPLASM
I hate fish eyes so much!
i'm lovig the smarmy music 🙂
LOL the 90s.
OMG THE DOCTOR IS IN CALIFORNIA. COME AND VISIT ME DOCTOR!
Sorry, this isn't the California on Earth, it's California on that planet SG-1 keeps visiting. (You know, the planet Vancouver.)
Don't tell me… Chinese triads?
Quick, see if there's a one night only circus in town!
Are they going to dance a la West Side Story?
is the master a shiny slug?
hahahahaaha THE WAY THE GUY SHOOK WHEN PEOPLE SHOT AT HIM
I think I'm a bit behind. 🙁
Hello San Francisco! You may recognise some stock footage, Mark. The rest is Canada…
Hello crazy Asian people with your crazy weird fish and your big chopper. You're so strange and exotic!
Hello Asian gang! You Asian youths are all so wild and feisty!
What the hell with the shootout. Is this a chinese gangwar?
The whole reloading thing isn't working for me! Using recent activity isn't updating it…booo!
I never noticed the random painting of Buckingham Palace behind him.
Ugh… these parts are the worst bit of a TERRIBLE film. Although- DOCTOR NOOOOO! 🙁
Aaaand a performance of West Side Story breaks out.
why is the master goo?
Okay so did he just get smushed by the Tardis or what?
…Whoa, that's a fairly goth… shrine to the Master you have there, Doctor?
But the TARDIS interior looks GREAT.
EATING JELLY BABIES AND READING H.G. WELLS ILU DOCTOR.
…Aw. Bye, Seven!
Okay, I've seen this movie before, and can I just say my first thought was that oh look Asian people are restaurant owners and gang members. 😐
Also, shitty way for 7 to go out.
NOOOOOOOO!!!! SEVEN!!!!!
GOOSNAKE
Classic vworp vworp!
RACISM. (someone had to say it.)
oh hey we're in america.
>_>
Am I ahead of everyone else?
What a way to die! Oh, god, I'm actually sad 🙁
WORST. DEATH. EVER.
AHHHHHHH WHAT THE HELL WHO SHOOTS THE DOCTOR WHAT THE FUCK!?!!!!!
Poor Seven 🙁
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LOL "visit London" billboard.
what the fuck
So, is this worse or better than the way Six went out?
Better of course but still pretty lame. Still they needed 7 out of the way quick.
Well it's better last words than Carrot juice, Carrot juice, Carrot juice!
Better, I'd say. Marginally, but still.
So the Master is ectoplasm?
SMITH, JOHN?????YEEEESSSSSS!
Oh, ew! Master, don't do that in public!
BWAHA John Smith
Well that'll teach you to check the scanner, Doctor!
Seven deserved better.
Did he say "Chang Lee"?
SO MUCH JUDGING
LOL
Ahh, obvious date drop. Also wtf John Smith!
Hahaha what a lovely special effect.
Why did the Master turn into ectoplasmic goo?
SERIOUSLY, WHO REFERS TO THEMSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON ARRRGH.
lol Master!puddle
Worst. Doctor. Death. Ever.
(actually, second worst…)
Can you imagine watching this on Fox in 1996 as you first Who experience and it making any sense at all?
Apart from anything else, you've seen the TARDIS from the inside first…
Yeah, you don't get the connection that the console room is actually *inside* the Police Box. That's a fail on a very basic level.
GUYS I DIDN'T KNOW ALEX MACK WAS IN THIS MOVIE!
Ha.
Alex Mac is the Master???? Holy crap I need to rewatch that series!
Not the actress, to clarify.
HAHAHA WHERE ARE THEY TAKING HIM WHERE HE BETTER BE RICH.
John Smith! AHAHAHAHAHA
DUN DUN DUN TWO HEARTSSSS
GOOSNAKE!
ok why is it a snake
Because the Master is a Slytherin.
That's why it's green too!
Never enough alien biology in scifi for me.
Eric Robers just said "as if." Oh 90s slang.
Surely they'll notice the double hearts after the X-Ray.
man i love when americans in british films are like, POWERFULLY AMERICAN.
I think this IS an american film, well it's 50/50
yeah, it's a co-production. A FAIR POINT. but still, it's like DOCTORDOCTORDOCTORDOCTORLOLAMERICANSBEINGREALLYAMERICAN
Culturally speaking, though, it's not quite 50/50, because the writer and director are both expat Brits. And the actors in this scene are all Canadadians. So the amount of authentic Americanness in this scene is quite low.
SINGLE PERFECT TEAR
*insert Dean single tear montage gif I don't have time to upload.*
Uggggggh as if I needed another reason to be afraid of snakes.
LOOK! TWO HEARTS!
Great acting we've got going on here.
One perfect tear for the opera! So many lols!
AS IF!
Is this Sassy Gay Doctor?
Of course, the American health care system kills the Doctor.
Why is the Master goo?
'Amazing Grace' Haha, it's funny because her name is Grace and there's a song by the same name.
LOOK TWO HEARTS
AS IF
what is this dialogue
If a timecard dies too fast to regenerate, then they die period! They don't turn into ectoplasmic-snake-things
Slow-motion running in a dress!
You don't turn your beeper on vibrate when you're at the opera?
You said beeper. lol
I used to work at a Beeper place…
I do not understand why we needed to cut to random opera. Slow moooooo skiiiiiirtsss. Also cleavage I am now immensely distracted.
This is a 100% accurate depiction of San Francisco, by the way.
Doctors, guys, they never take time off! How frustrating. Can't even sit through a whole opera.
LISTEN TO HIM GRACE!
NO FUCKING WAY WOULD SHE OPERATE IN A FUCKING OPERA DRESS.
*HEADDESK*
IF YOU'RE ON CALL YOU DON'T GO TO THE OPERA WTAFFFFFFFFF
DUMP BRIAN. JUST AN FYI.
You can only argue double exposures so much…
Is she a cardiologist or a cardiothoracic surgeon?
IS SHE GOING IN THE OR WITHOUT SCRUBS?!?!
WHEN DID SHE CHANGE FROM THE DRESS INTO SCRUBS? HOW DID SHE DO IT WITHOUT HAVING TO REWASH HER HANDS? WHY AM I IMPOSING LOGIC ON THIS FILM?
She put the scrubs over the gown.
HOLY SHIT JUST DO A FUCKING ECHO, DON'T CUT HIM OPEN!!!!
hahaha i'm sorry CAN YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN TO CLASSICAL MUSIC WHILE OPERATING
Who cares it's awesome.
According to Holby City you can, lol.
Actually yes, I asked a friend of mine who is a nurse.
Yeah you can, someone who isn't scrubbed in can work the stereo in the background.
My dad, who is a surgeon, totally listens to 70's rock while he operates I AM NOT KIDDING.
People watching a surgery like it's a MOVIE!
To be fair, I've watched surgery videos online just because I thought they were interesting.
Rich assholes looking on….
Will blast it.
With lasers.
Uh, why did he need an atomic clock? Is that part of the plot? So used to ignoring it.
He'll explain later, when they give him a chance.
just… wtf. HOSPITALS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!
Of ways to go out, this borders on the horrific. Begging, and killed by people who just DON'T UNDERSTAND. ugh.
WAY TO KILL THE DOCTOR GRACE!
DON'T DIE SEVEN!!!! lol at the dramatic opera music though.
Somehow I don't think this man's name is John Smith…yuck yuck yuck
Seven's death scream is just HILARIOUS! The Doctor's `death` should not be funny. This is wrong!
MAJOR WTF AT THE DOCTORS!WHAT ARE YOU DOING???
SHE'S ~LOST~
WAY TO KILL THE DOCTOR. WHAT IS GOING ON I DON'T REMEMBER THIS PLOTLINE.
OOOWWW
This is upsetting. Why are you killing the Doctor?
How are they visualizing individual blood cells? Why aren't they cardioverting him or at least trying to control the rhythm?!?!?!
THESE PEOPLE ARE CLEARLY NOT MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
HERE YOU GO RICH WHITE PEOPLE. THIS IS WHAT YOUR MONEY DOES
It's all so operatic and overwrought!!
Oh the humanity!
Bye bye seven. That was a shitty way to go, but at least you got a big US paycheck.
*salutes* You were amazing, Seven.
ok seriously that whole hospital bit was really painful in a bad way and made me feel very strange and not ok
Can someone please stop the opera music?! Why are they trying to murder him with the paddles? WTF, mate?