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!

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1,269 Responses to Mark Watches ‘Doctor Who: The Movie’ Liveblog

  1. Danel says:

    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."

  2. Hotaru-hime says:

    Breaking scrub is one thing, but making everything else in the OR unsterile is ANOTHER FUCKING THING WHAT THE FUCK

  3. MsPrufrock says:

    "I want to see his x-rays now!"

    Umm… wouldn't it have been smarter to look at them BEFORE cutting him open?

  4. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Chang Lee, you're good at running off…

    I think you must be a gang member lite.

  5. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    ok DID SHE JUST KILL HIM. I MEAN. ARE THEY IGNORING THAT.

  6. psycicflower says:

    Why is she still in the opera gown. Does she not have a spare set of clothes at the hospital? Or some scrubs?

  7. Sophi says:

    Cleavage is baaaaack oh god must focus on plot. There is plot right here.

  8. Wind'sright says:

    WHY IS SHE STILL AN OPERA DRESS!!!!!

  9. @amyalices says:

    She's a born companion – look at her, running in inappropriate clothing like a pro!

  10. Patrick says:

    HOLY FUCK GHOST SNAKE WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT.

  11. Hotaru-hime says:

    Her boobs are coming out of her dress!!!
    Also, WHAT THE FUCK SHE SHOULD BE IN SCRUBS

  12. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    And now he runs…

    Really badly…

    But still gets away.

  13. Maya says:

    WHY IS SHE IN THE DRESS STILL I'M SURE THERE'S A SPARE PAIR OF SCRUBS SHE COULD PUT ON FOR REAL.

  14. thefireandthehearth says:

    FFS CHANGE OUT OF THAT DRESS

    Pretty skyline, tho

  15. echinodermata says:

    People sleeping + ominous music. Never a good sign.

  16. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Stock footage again!

    Last year was the first time they actually did principal photography in the US.

  17. leighzzz31 says:

    It's the snake-Master again! Somehow I prefer John Simm 😀

  18. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    The master is a rubbish snake!

  19. @amyalices says:

    Damn, this regeneration's taking it's sweet time.

  20. carma_bee says:

    he snores. just get rid of him. or send him to a sleep clinic or something.

  21. Kaybee42 says:

    Bloody snake!master again! Gah!

  22. anobium says:

    Hah. Space clock. Because it's sci-fi. Gettit?

  23. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Comedy morgue!

  24. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    HAHAHAHA THAT EFFECT WAS AWFUL

  25. What. The. Shit. Just.

  26. Wind'sright says:

    The mortician in so creepy!
    He's disrespecting the Doctors corpse!

  27. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Are we getting the 1999 theme yet?

    Funny how that seemed significant until it happened.

  28. thefireandthehearth says:

    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.

  29. ArrogantSage says:

    Will Sasso!

  30. Oh look it's mad TV guy and the other one looks familiar too!

  31. echinodermata says:

    Stargate flashbacks for me.

  32. doesntsparkle says:

    What the hell just happened.

  33. psycicflower says:

    That's what you get for snoring. Snake!Master down the throat.

  34. Danel says:

    Hur hur stupid fat guy hur hur

  35. Hotaru-hime says:

    What the fuck is this honky tonk background music?

  36. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Time lord snakey evil will cure your snoring though.

  37. Good job, completely flippant fratboy morgue workers!

  38. Maya says:

    What is it with bad films being set in San Francisco. First this, then The Room?

    O HAI MASTER!SNAKE

  39. Sophi says:

    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

  40. NyssaOfTraken says:

    Have to say, I rather like the parallel imagery with Frankenstein.

  41. Diarda says:

    okay, the next time someone suddenly stops snoring, guess what i'm seeing in my mind?

  42. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    CAN A TIME LORD POSSESS SOMEONE. WHAT.

  43. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Ah Frankenstein! Could we be in for some heavy handed imagery?

  44. ldwy says:

    Shit is this how the doctor regenerates??

    Also, the master slug has escaped.

  45. leighzzz31 says:

    You're a mortician watching Frankestein??Dude, you're asking for it…!

  46. keepthepunkrock says:

    LOL WHY DID THAT SEEM LIKE THE DOCTOR IS JESUS OR SOME SHIT

  47. @amyalices says:

    LOL Frankenstein's Monster parallel.

    WE SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.

  48. echinodermata says:

    Regeneration!

  49. NB2000 says:

    EIGHT! HEY THERE!

  50. Kaybee42 says:

    lol lightning regeneration is lolsome

  51. Patrick says:

    THAT WAS THE REGENERATION? LAME. WHERE WAS THE GLOWING AND STUFF?

  52. Hotaru-hime says:

    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.

  53. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Also this scene was pretty much pastiched in Aliens of London with the space pig and Toshiko Sato.

  54. who_cares86 says:

    Goodbye 7 you certified bad-ass.

    <img src="http://i39.tinypic.com/m90sd2.jpg"&gt;

    • Miyuko says:

      Poor Seven..if only Ace had been there

    • NyssaOfTraken says:

      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!`

    • Hotaru-hime says:

      With that badass umbrella. I need to watch all of his serials.

    • thefireandthehearth says:

      "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!"

    • NB2000 says:

      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).

  55. doesntsparkle says:

    weak regeneration.

  56. Wind'sright says:

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    That is an absolutely horrible regeneration!
    And doesn't the Doctor need to rest afterwards!?!?!?!?!

  57. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Hello eight!

  58. Calimie says:

    I'm late! I didn't think I could make it. What minute are we at?

  59. NB2000 says:

    IT'S ALIIIIIIIVE!

  60. psycicflower says:

    Why is the Doctor's regeneration like the shifters changing face in Fringe only with a bit less face smushing?

  61. Hotaru-hime says:

    Oh, please tell me it will be a HE'S ALIIIIIIIIIIVE moment!!

  62. ldwy says:

    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.

  63. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    boooo that regeneration WAS NOT SO AWESOME.

    • who_cares86 says:

      Well for 1996 cgi on a tv budget it ain't so bad. They could have showed it in a better way but still…

      • NyssaOfTraken says:

        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.

  64. Personification says:

    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.

  65. Maya says:

    FOREVER CREEPED OUT BY THE TWISTY FACE THING FOR REAL.

    PAUL MCGANN OMG HAIIIIIIIIIIII ILU

  66. keepthepunkrock says:

    SUFFERING MESSIAH!DOCTOR

  67. anobium says:

    "It's alive! It's alive!"

  68. Penquin47 says:

    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!

  69. leighzzz31 says:

    OH MY GOD! GOD NO! This is your reaction mortician-dude???

  70. Hotaru-hime says:

    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.

  71. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Comedy morgue guy in comedy fainting with comedy music…

  72. thefireandthehearth says:

    IT"S ALIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

    Haha, DOCTOR PAWNCH!

  73. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    I have to say that the photography is pretty great in this though…

    Shame there's not really a story to go with it.

  74. 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.

  75. Hotaru-hime says:

    That fat guy is no actor.
    Also, what the fuck, since when is the Doctor that strong?!

  76. Albion19 says:

    Eiiight! He's lovely.

  77. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    what feisty outfit will this Doctor choose to wear??

  78. Wind'sright says:

    Where the HELL is he? What's with the mirrors?!

  79. ArrogantSage says:

    Why would a corpse get a whole closet in the morgue? I thought it was supposed to be a drawer?

  80. echinodermata says:

    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?

  81. @amyalices says:

    *CRACKS THE FUCK UP*

    WHO. AM. IIIIIIII?!!!

  82. anobium says:

    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.)

  83. ldwy says:

    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.

    • ldwy says:

      oops i feel bad, she's an on call doctor.

      • anobium says:

        Then she should have consideration for others and stay away from the theatre?

      • sabra_n says:

        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.

  84. Kaybee42 says:

    awwww eight! hugs?

  85. leighzzz31 says:

    Why does Doctor/Jesus not remember who he is? :\

  86. NyssaOfTraken says:

    Who Am I?!

    I Am Who!?

    I am He Who is Who!

  87. Openattheclose says:

    <img src=http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad311/Chritter710/Doctor/11ilv2c.gif>

    Why is the Doctor acting like Frankenstein?

  88. 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

  89. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    Hello brief stock footage!

    And then back to Canada.

  90. Maya says:

    WHO. AM. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.

    THAT WILL NEVER NOT BE FUNNY.

    PAUL MCGANN NEVER CHANGE PLS

  91. xpanasonicyouthx says:

    WHO IS HE YELLING AT

  92. thefireandthehearth says:

    "WHO AM I~!"

    *cracks the fuck up*

  93. echinodermata says:

    lolol Nixon omg. Spoilers.

  94. keepthepunkrock says:

    why is the master american ("STOP BEING A BIGOT KASPER THE MASTER IS FROM GALLIFREY") but i mean just why

    • anobium says:

      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."

  95. maccyAkaMatthew says:

    The Doctor stealing his clothes from hospitals is a bit of meme now – three, eight and eleven have all done it.

  96. Hotaru-hime says:

    Is the Doctor Jesus? Because I am getting some serious Jesus imagery.

  97. Kaybee42 says:

    stealing clothes from hospitals AGAIN,doc? hope this doesn't turn into a habit!

  98. 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.

  99. @amyalices says:

    AHHH that kid has a fob watch!

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