Mark Watches ‘Doctor Who: The Movie’ Liveblog

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!

About Mark Oshiro

Perpetually unprepared since '09.
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1,269 Responses to Mark Watches ‘Doctor Who: The Movie’ Liveblog

  1. Hotaru-hime says:

    WHOA was that the Seal of Rassilon?!

  2. Danel says:

    Why does the tea jump?

  3. echinodermata says:

    Oh look California.

  4. Maya says:

    Sylvester McCoy has an amazing WTF face

  5. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    the master is ECTOPLASM

  6. Hotaru-hime says:

    I hate fish eyes so much!

  7. ldwy says:

    i'm lovig the smarmy music 🙂

  8. Maya says:

    OMG THE DOCTOR IS IN CALIFORNIA. COME AND VISIT ME DOCTOR!

    • anobium says:

      Sorry, this isn't the California on Earth, it's California on that planet SG-1 keeps visiting. (You know, the planet Vancouver.)

  9. Hotaru-hime says:

    Don't tell me… Chinese triads?

  10. psycicflower says:

    Are they going to dance a la West Side Story?

  11. ldwy says:

    is the master a shiny slug?

  12. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    hahahahaaha THE WAY THE GUY SHOOK WHEN PEOPLE SHOT AT HIM

  13. NyssaOfTraken says:

    I think I'm a bit behind. 🙁

  14. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    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!

  15. Idway says:

    What the hell with the shootout. Is this a chinese gangwar?

  16. ArrogantSage says:

    The whole reloading thing isn't working for me! Using recent activity isn't updating it…booo!

  17. NB2000 says:

    I never noticed the random painting of Buckingham Palace behind him.

  18. Kaybee42 says:

    Ugh… these parts are the worst bit of a TERRIBLE film. Although- DOCTOR NOOOOO! 🙁

  19. thefireandthehearth says:

    Aaaand a performance of West Side Story breaks out.

  20. Patrick says:

    why is the master goo?

  21. Sophi says:

    Okay so did he just get smushed by the Tardis or what?

  22. @amyalices says:

    …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!

  23. echinodermata says:

    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.

  24. psycicflower says:

    NOOOOOOOO!!!! SEVEN!!!!!

  25. drippingmercury says:

    GOOSNAKE

  26. Hotaru-hime says:

    Classic vworp vworp!

  27. who_cares86 says:

    RACISM. (someone had to say it.)

  28. Patrick says:

    oh hey we're in america.

  29. @amyalices says:

    >_>

    Am I ahead of everyone else?

  30. leighzzz31 says:

    What a way to die! Oh, god, I'm actually sad 🙁

  31. Maya says:

    WORST. DEATH. EVER.

  32. Hotaru-hime says:

    AHHHHHHH WHAT THE HELL WHO SHOOTS THE DOCTOR WHAT THE FUCK!?!!!!!

  33. Openattheclose says:

    Poor Seven 🙁
    <img src=http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad311/Chritter710/Doctor/2ecl0dg.gif>

  34. LOL "visit London" billboard.

  35. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    what the fuck

  36. thefireandthehearth says:

    So, is this worse or better than the way Six went out?

  37. Hotaru-hime says:

    So the Master is ectoplasm?

  38. leighzzz31 says:

    SMITH, JOHN?????YEEEESSSSSS!

  39. thefireandthehearth says:

    Oh, ew! Master, don't do that in public!

  40. NB2000 says:

    BWAHA John Smith

  41. NyssaOfTraken says:

    Well that'll teach you to check the scanner, Doctor!

  42. Seven deserved better.

  43. Hotaru-hime says:

    Did he say "Chang Lee"?
    SO MUCH JUDGING

  44. Sophi says:

    Ahh, obvious date drop. Also wtf John Smith!

  45. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    Hahaha what a lovely special effect.

  46. Windsright says:

    Why did the Master turn into ectoplasmic goo?

  47. Maya says:

    SERIOUSLY, WHO REFERS TO THEMSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON ARRRGH.

    lol Master!puddle

  48. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    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…

    • NyssaOfTraken says:

      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.

  49. GUYS I DIDN'T KNOW ALEX MACK WAS IN THIS MOVIE!

  50. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    HAHAHA WHERE ARE THEY TAKING HIM WHERE HE BETTER BE RICH.

  51. Hotaru-hime says:

    John Smith! AHAHAHAHAHA

  52. leighzzz31 says:

    DUN DUN DUN TWO HEARTSSSS

  53. Christidaae says:

    GOOSNAKE!

  54. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    ok why is it a snake

  55. echinodermata says:

    Never enough alien biology in scifi for me.

  56. doesntsparkle says:

    Eric Robers just said "as if." Oh 90s slang.

  57. Hotaru-hime says:

    Surely they'll notice the double hearts after the X-Ray.

  58. keepthepunkrock says:

    man i love when americans in british films are like, POWERFULLY AMERICAN.

    • Kaybee42 says:

      I think this IS an american film, well it's 50/50

      • keepthepunkrock says:

        yeah, it's a co-production. A FAIR POINT. but still, it's like DOCTORDOCTORDOCTORDOCTORLOLAMERICANSBEINGREALLYAMERICAN

      • anobium says:

        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.

  59. echinodermata says:

    SINGLE PERFECT TEAR

  60. Maya says:

    Uggggggh as if I needed another reason to be afraid of snakes.

    LOOK! TWO HEARTS!

    Great acting we've got going on here.

  61. leighzzz31 says:

    One perfect tear for the opera! So many lols!

  62. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    AS IF!

    Is this Sassy Gay Doctor?

  63. Hotaru-hime says:

    Of course, the American health care system kills the Doctor.

  64. Penquin47 says:

    Why is the Master goo?

  65. psycicflower says:

    'Amazing Grace' Haha, it's funny because her name is Grace and there's a song by the same name.

  66. thefireandthehearth says:

    LOOK TWO HEARTS

    AS IF

    what is this dialogue

  67. Windsright says:

    If a timecard dies too fast to regenerate, then they die period! They don't turn into ectoplasmic-snake-things

  68. @erinpuff says:

    Slow-motion running in a dress!

  69. Openattheclose says:

    You don't turn your beeper on vibrate when you're at the opera?

  70. Sophi says:

    I do not understand why we needed to cut to random opera. Slow moooooo skiiiiiirtsss. Also cleavage I am now immensely distracted.

  71. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    This is a 100% accurate depiction of San Francisco, by the way.

  72. Doctors, guys, they never take time off! How frustrating. Can't even sit through a whole opera.

  73. NB2000 says:

    LISTEN TO HIM GRACE!

  74. Maya says:

    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

  75. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    DUMP BRIAN. JUST AN FYI.

  76. Hotaru-hime says:

    You can only argue double exposures so much…
    Is she a cardiologist or a cardiothoracic surgeon?
    IS SHE GOING IN THE OR WITHOUT SCRUBS?!?!

  77. Maya says:

    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?

  78. Hotaru-hime says:

    HOLY SHIT JUST DO A FUCKING ECHO, DON'T CUT HIM OPEN!!!!

  79. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    hahaha i'm sorry CAN YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN TO CLASSICAL MUSIC WHILE OPERATING

  80. Windsright says:

    People watching a surgery like it's a MOVIE!

    • echinodermata says:

      To be fair, I've watched surgery videos online just because I thought they were interesting.

  81. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Rich assholes looking on….

  82. Personification says:

    Will blast it.
    With lasers.

  83. Uh, why did he need an atomic clock? Is that part of the plot? So used to ignoring it.

  84. thefireandthehearth says:

    just… wtf. HOSPITALS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!

  85. Danel says:

    Of ways to go out, this borders on the horrific. Begging, and killed by people who just DON'T UNDERSTAND. ugh.

  86. NB2000 says:

    WAY TO KILL THE DOCTOR GRACE!

  87. psycicflower says:

    DON'T DIE SEVEN!!!! lol at the dramatic opera music though.

  88. ArrogantSage says:

    Somehow I don't think this man's name is John Smith…yuck yuck yuck

  89. NyssaOfTraken says:

    Seven's death scream is just HILARIOUS! The Doctor's `death` should not be funny. This is wrong!

  90. leighzzz31 says:

    MAJOR WTF AT THE DOCTORS!WHAT ARE YOU DOING???

  91. Maya says:

    SHE'S ~LOST~

    WAY TO KILL THE DOCTOR. WHAT IS GOING ON I DON'T REMEMBER THIS PLOTLINE.

  92. ArrogantSage says:

    OOOWWW

  93. Openattheclose says:

    This is upsetting. Why are you killing the Doctor?

  94. Hotaru-hime says:

    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

  95. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    HERE YOU GO RICH WHITE PEOPLE. THIS IS WHAT YOUR MONEY DOES

  96. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    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.

  97. thefireandthehearth says:

    *salutes* You were amazing, Seven.

  98. keepthepunkrock says:

    ok seriously that whole hospital bit was really painful in a bad way and made me feel very strange and not ok

  99. ArrogantSage says:

    Can someone please stop the opera music?! Why are they trying to murder him with the paddles? WTF, mate?

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