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!
How is money being well spent when their main operating theatre has a skylight/upper viewing window? And why would they show donors an operation that's a bit dodgy to begin with?
Most terrifying words: "Let my try something."
Breaking scrub is one thing, but making everything else in the OR unsterile is ANOTHER FUCKING THING WHAT THE FUCK
"I want to see his x-rays now!"
Umm… wouldn't it have been smarter to look at them BEFORE cutting him open?
Chang Lee, you're good at running off…
I think you must be a gang member lite.
ok DID SHE JUST KILL HIM. I MEAN. ARE THEY IGNORING THAT.
Why is she still in the opera gown. Does she not have a spare set of clothes at the hospital? Or some scrubs?
Cleavage is baaaaack oh god must focus on plot. There is plot right here.
WHY IS SHE STILL AN OPERA DRESS!!!!!
She's a born companion – look at her, running in inappropriate clothing like a pro!
HOLY FUCK GHOST SNAKE WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT.
Her boobs are coming out of her dress!!!
Also, WHAT THE FUCK SHE SHOULD BE IN SCRUBS
And now he runs…
Really badly…
But still gets away.
WHY IS SHE IN THE DRESS STILL I'M SURE THERE'S A SPARE PAIR OF SCRUBS SHE COULD PUT ON FOR REAL.
FFS CHANGE OUT OF THAT DRESS
Pretty skyline, tho
People sleeping + ominous music. Never a good sign.
Stock footage again!
Last year was the first time they actually did principal photography in the US.
It's the snake-Master again! Somehow I prefer John Simm 😀
The master is a rubbish snake!
Damn, this regeneration's taking it's sweet time.
he snores. just get rid of him. or send him to a sleep clinic or something.
Bloody snake!master again! Gah!
Hah. Space clock. Because it's sci-fi. Gettit?
Comedy morgue!
HAHAHAHA THAT EFFECT WAS AWFUL
What. The. Shit. Just.
The mortician in so creepy!
He's disrespecting the Doctors corpse!
Are we getting the 1999 theme yet?
Funny how that seemed significant until it happened.
You know, doesn't the Doctor have a snake-like enemy? I can't remember her name, but I could have sworn…
ORDERLY, STOP HARASSING THE DOCTOR'S CORPSE.
Are you thinking of the Mara?
The Mara! Yes, that's it! Genderless embodiment of hatred and greed and evil that possessed… Tegan? The Mara could have been a fun villain.
Will Sasso!
Oh look it's mad TV guy and the other one looks familiar too!
Stargate flashbacks for me.
Yes!
What the hell just happened.
That's what you get for snoring. Snake!Master down the throat.
Hur hur stupid fat guy hur hur
What the fuck is this honky tonk background music?
Time lord snakey evil will cure your snoring though.
Good job, completely flippant fratboy morgue workers!
What is it with bad films being set in San Francisco. First this, then The Room?
O HAI MASTER!SNAKE
HOLY SHIT ATTACKING SNAKE. And she is just oh dear that noise. I will tape my mouth tonight out of fear that an extoplasmic Master will crawl in it
Have to say, I rather like the parallel imagery with Frankenstein.
okay, the next time someone suddenly stops snoring, guess what i'm seeing in my mind?
CAN A TIME LORD POSSESS SOMEONE. WHAT.
THEY CAN IF THEY'RE THE MASTER.
Ah Frankenstein! Could we be in for some heavy handed imagery?
Shit is this how the doctor regenerates??
Also, the master slug has escaped.
You're a mortician watching Frankestein??Dude, you're asking for it…!
LOL WHY DID THAT SEEM LIKE THE DOCTOR IS JESUS OR SOME SHIT
LOL Frankenstein's Monster parallel.
WE SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.
Regeneration!
EIGHT! HEY THERE!
lol lightning regeneration is lolsome
THAT WAS THE REGENERATION? LAME. WHERE WAS THE GLOWING AND STUFF?
See, if you had taken your husband to a pulmonologist, you would have gotten a CPAP machine for his snoring and the Master wouldn't have possessed him in a really creepy as fuck fashion.
Also this scene was pretty much pastiched in Aliens of London with the space pig and Toshiko Sato.
Goodbye 7 you certified bad-ass.
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Poor Seven..if only Ace had been there
I love that scene. `I've just caused a massive explosion to blow up the bad guys, and I don't need to run because it's All Under Control!`
With that badass umbrella. I need to watch all of his serials.
"Cool guys don't look at explosions
They blow things up, then walk away
Who's got time to watch an explosion?
There's cool guy errands that they have to walk to!"
Sylvester McCoy has my eternal respect for that moment (note I haven't actually seen the serial it's from yet, I've only read summaries).
weak regeneration.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is an absolutely horrible regeneration!
And doesn't the Doctor need to rest afterwards!?!?!?!?!
Would you stop to rest if you were locked in a fridge?
Hello eight!
I'm late! I didn't think I could make it. What minute are we at?
Roughly twenty-three.
Thanks!
IT'S ALIIIIIIIVE!
Why is the Doctor's regeneration like the shifters changing face in Fringe only with a bit less face smushing?
Oh, please tell me it will be a HE'S ALIIIIIIIIIIVE moment!!
I am under the impresson it is bad news for the doctor to end up in a hospital.
oh, i was wrong it's a snake not a slug.
boooo that regeneration WAS NOT SO AWESOME.
Well for 1996 cgi on a tv budget it ain't so bad. They could have showed it in a better way but still…
Damn sight bigger budget than any Who prior to that, and look what they managed with Five -> Six in Caves of Androzani in 1984. This should have been better.
Wait. The regeneration is the only bit I've seen of this movie.
Does he actually regenerate… IN A MORGUE?!
I'd always assumed it was a super secret government testing facility or something… Count me disappointed.
FOREVER CREEPED OUT BY THE TWISTY FACE THING FOR REAL.
PAUL MCGANN OMG HAIIIIIIIIIIII ILU
SUFFERING MESSIAH!DOCTOR
"It's alive! It's alive!"
"OH MY GOD"~~~
Hospital. So fracking unbelieveable.
First off, every doctor I've ever known doesn't go to the opera when they're on call. They don't go anywhere they can't get away from quickly.
Second, OMG stuffing the opera …
OMG! FrankenDoctor! Hee!
OH MY GOD! GOD NO! This is your reaction mortician-dude???
Did you know Paul McGann's hair in this movie was a wig? He had previously cut off all his hair for another role and they thought the Doctor needed hair. He was amused when Eccleston appeared without hair in the revived series.
Comedy morgue guy in comedy fainting with comedy music…
IT"S ALIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Haha, DOCTOR PAWNCH!
I have to say that the photography is pretty great in this though…
Shame there's not really a story to go with it.
Dude, what? How did the Doctor DENT THE FUCKING DOOR?!
PS: Hi Paul. You're pretty, and I know you didn't care for it but I very much like your silly wig.
That fat guy is no actor.
Also, what the fuck, since when is the Doctor that strong?!
It's Will Sasso from Mad Tv. He's a comedian.
Eiiight! He's lovely.
what feisty outfit will this Doctor choose to wear??
Where the HELL is he? What's with the mirrors?!
Why would a corpse get a whole closet in the morgue? I thought it was supposed to be a drawer?
This is TV Land. The elevators are all really spacious, too.
You have a point.
And that dude has green eyes!
Why is the Doctor in shock and doesn't know who he is? It obviously contradicts 2005 and on, but does this jive with classic Who at all?
Yeah, a bit. The Doctor's often a bit muddled after a regeneration, but how much and in what specific way varies from Doctor to Doctor.
It's varied. Sometimes it has, sometimes it hasn't.
*CRACKS THE FUCK UP*
WHO. AM. IIIIIIII?!!!
Trivia: Paul McGann had long hair when he auditioned, but between then and filming he had to get a crew cut for his role in 'The Monocled Mutineer', so the Doctor's long hair in this movie is actually a wig. (But then, so was the Doctor's long hair back in the first three seasons.)
I get SO mad when people leave their phones (or pagers, this is the past) on at the theatre. I shoot them evil looks. And angry faces.
oops i feel bad, she's an on call doctor.
Then she should have consideration for others and stay away from the theatre?
But the tickets could have been booked months ago. I've just been to a show that I booked in January 2010.
Then she could have changed her "on call" hours to some other doctor who went to the opera some other night.
Or left her beeper with the box office with instructions to come get her if an emergency occurs.
I do agree, this would have been the best way to go.
The way on-call doctors who are actually polite handle this sort of thing is by leaving their cell phones (or back then, beepers) with the front-of-house staff with instructions to come get them if an emergency occurs.
awwww eight! hugs?
Why does Doctor/Jesus not remember who he is? :\
Who Am I?!
I Am Who!?
I am He Who is Who!
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Why is the Doctor acting like Frankenstein?
Hahaha, I think the hospital needs to call a building inspector. I am pretty sure that is not up to code WHAT IS WITH THAT BABY DOLL WHAT
Hello brief stock footage!
And then back to Canada.
WHO. AM. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.
THAT WILL NEVER NOT BE FUNNY.
PAUL MCGANN NEVER CHANGE PLS
WHO IS HE YELLING AT
NO ONE 😀 !!!
Well, the Master seems to hear him, so…
LIFE
"WHO AM I~!"
*cracks the fuck up*
lolol Nixon omg. Spoilers.
why is the master american ("STOP BEING A BIGOT KASPER THE MASTER IS FROM GALLIFREY") but i mean just why
It was one of the network's conditions. "We'll let you cast some English guy as the lead, but the villain has to be someone Americans have heard of."
The Doctor stealing his clothes from hospitals is a bit of meme now – three, eight and eleven have all done it.
Is the Doctor Jesus? Because I am getting some serious Jesus imagery.
stealing clothes from hospitals AGAIN,doc? hope this doesn't turn into a habit!
Guys I was distracted and thought for a second they were flashing back between the Master and his body's wife. Whoops, no, that's the Doctor.
AHHH that kid has a fob watch!