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!
" I'M ALLIIIIIIIIVE!"
So cheesily dramatic.
You know I think the Master might be alive.
You think?
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ONNNNNNNN
WTF is going on…?
no idea
I'M ALIVE! I'M ALIIIIIIIIIIVE.
O HAI FRANKENSTEIN PARALLEL X2
NO SERIOUSLY WTF IS HAPPENING
I have no idea. Let's go get coffee and a doughnut.
I don't even like doughnuts and that sounds better than this.
I'll eat the doughnut. Let's just run.
It's midnight everywhere on Earth at once!
Humanian era?
I'm sorry- Humanian Era? What the fuck?
"What's a temporal orbit?"
Nobody knows, Grace, least of all the scriptwriter…
I'M SO CONFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSED.
TARDIS: FUCK THESE SHENANIGANS, I'M GOING TO TIMEWARP AND TRY TO MAKE THIS MOVIE STOP HAPPENING
Why didn't she just stand between him and the light in the first place?
The Master needs to get that sore throat sorted out.
Have a lozenge, Eric…
Why does the Master speak with an echo?
Did anyone else here the Goofy yell when Grace fell?
Doomsday take 2.
Why does the master roar?
"Neverrrrrrarrrrrrgrrrr"
WHAAAAT?I literally understand nothing that has happened.
I've seen this movie before and I still have no idea what the plot is supposed to be. WHAT IS HAPPENING?
So…the Master's what? Trapped inside the TARDIS now? I bet she'll love that.
What the fuck is wrong with the Master? SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS THIS SHIT?
Bye bye Master…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Tossing Grace should be an Olympic sport!
Whatever it was, it seems to be over.
Seriously, WHAT IS GOING OOOOOOOON.
And why does the Master always prefer death to the Doctor helping him live. WASN'T HE SUPER PSYCHED ABOUT BEING ALIVE LIKE 5 MINUTES AGO?
ok what. what.
Poor Bruce. Just doing his job, then he gets sucked into the heart of the TARDIS.
Eight does have some fabulous hair blowing in the breeze.
OK, how did they come back to life?
Look at Paul McGann's wonderfully wind-swept hair!
God bless that wig.
LOL, whatever.
They both get resurrected by the time vortex?
I… man, this is dumb.
RAWR, YOU ARE MY LIFE!
(seriously, did the Master just say that?)
"LOL, PLOT? WHATEVA, HAPPY NEW YEAR!"
This must have gone through the script writer's head!
LOL WUT
It makes about as much sense as this: <img src="http://chzupnextinsports.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/hockeywaffle.gif?w=222&h=150">
I can't stop giggling as I watch that even though I'm listening to an audiobook of a dark!fic of Sherlock at the same time… STILL CAN'T STO GIGGLING.
Wait, what was that? How are they alive?
WHAT THE HELL
Nanogens?
Magnets?
How do they work?
Muffin Button?
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication.
some things you just can't explain.
EVERYBODY LIVES
EXCEPT MAYBE THE MASTER
did gold dust just bring them back to life.
what.
What is this… I don't even…
CHANG LEE SPOKE FIRST, ADDRESS THIS STUPID KID.
What. HOW ARE THEY ALIVE.
Fuck it, I'm saying the TARDIS did it. It's not like the scriptwriter knows what's going on. Or anyone, for that matter.
"Indigestion."
Sorry, that's just terrible…
wot.
I glanced away from the video for a moment, and thought for a moment that Grace was frenching Chang.
The magical pixie dust looks eerily like the new series' regeneration effect…
'Indigestion' Did the TARDIS eat the Master?!
I love the oh-so-precise thump on the TARDIS console!
Give it another regeneration, Doctor, and you'll be using a hammer!
I do love that a pound to the console gets the TARDIS going
YOU FAIL SCREENWRITING FOREVER.
*Whack* fixes everything!!
Still the worlds shittest party.
Yeah, like you would go to Gallifrey, after the shit you'd been through.
*tardis stops*
*doctor hits it*
*tardis starts again*
best bit of the entire film??
Very possibly. The only bit that didn't make me cringe in horror at least.
I don't even know what just happened, but I'm pretty sure it was stupid.
Perfect summary of this whole movie.
That's right, just hit it. You're like the Fonz.
<img src=http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad311/Chritter710/thefonzp1.gif>
…this is so beautiful.
THAT IS THE MOST AMAZING THING I'VE EVER SEEN
Kills me ded every time.
Okay this park is really pretty. Nice choice of landing spot TARDIS (no I don't think the Doctor did it)
How is Chang Lee going to explain how he came by all that gold dust?
D'aaaaaawwwwwwwwwww, Gareth!
SECURITY GUARD IS THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE WHOLE MOVIE
Apart from the Doctor, I'm sure you meant to say.
I AGREE
but never as good as Rawry the security guard.
I feel like that guy at the party who's just sitting there, all sad and dumbfounded.
YEAH YOU BETTER RUN CHANG LEE
MOAR KISSING! WITH FIREWORKS!
Doctor, this is the woman that killed you, do you REALLY want her as a companion?
Big romantic kiss + Big music crescendo + fireworks.
Nope, no cliches here!
Okay there has to be 1000 comments before the film ends, right?
Just passed that. 🙂
"You come with me!"
Was the American series, if it got picked up, supposed to start the next Christmas?
No wait, this movie takes place three-four years in the future from when it was made…
IDGI.
Well, that's no problem. The RTD era was set 1 year ahead from AoL/WW3 onwards. Contemporary episode could have been 3 or 4 years ahead, and that's assuming (a) Grace returned and (b) there would be any kind of attempt at grounding the series. It could have all been off into to space and time. We'll never know.
OH LOOK THEY'RE KISSING DURING FIREWORKS.
HOW ORIGINAL.
well it is the …early 90's? I don't think it had been done to death yet.
1996
And the audience starts singing the theme to "Love, American Style." 🙂
Chang Lee just runs off with the gold and more Timey-Wimey bullshit from the Doctor.
And Grace doesn't buy his "come with me" schtick either.
Still gets a snog, though (and, lets face it, who wouldn't?)
"I know who I am. And that's enough."
Hello there, well-written line. There aren't enough of them around.
DOCTOR, DON'T KISS HER
I WILL HAVE A SAD
NOOOOOO
Chang Lee is probably the worst character in this whole thing. I can't.
Doctor, why are you so fast and loose with your kisses!?!?
Poor Eight. Off to fight the Time War and commit the genocide of two species.
Poor Eight. The Time War was probably better for him than this movie.
Seriously. It makes the end of this really sad.
And now I feel really sad. Poor Eight indeed.
WHAT EVEN WAS ANY OF THIS
I FEEL LIKE MY BRAIN CANNOT BRAIN
Your brain's fine. MOVIE CANNOT MOVIE.
TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN.
I like how the credits music starts with the less well-known part of the theme song, since it's my favorite bit.
What a cheesey, crack-filled mess. Oh Eight you really deserved better.
I just love his furniture~
"Where to next? "
The wilderness for another nine years and then you kill your own people…
"Oh no! Not again!"
Worst last line ever!
TARDIS: Fuck this scene, man, let's hit the road and blow up Gallifrey.
EIIIIIIIGHT DON'T LEEEEEEEAVE ME.
POOR EIGHT. TOTALLY NEEDS TO COME BACK.
I ALMOST feel bad for being snarky. Eight was actually pretty good.
It's a testament to McGann that he's only got screen time in this shitty movie and he STILL comes out a likeable, proper Doctor.
Oh well at least there's like a gazzilion audio adventures.
With 2 of the greatest companions EVER.
MOAR EIGHT, PLEASE.
Still holding out hope for an epic multi-Doctor story which had better include Eight.
Agreed. We need moar Eight.
I think he should probably throw out that record. Seems like it's a problem-maker.
Or get a new one- it's not like it would be hard to acquire.
THEME SONG I LOVE IT~
If there are nanogenes in the Eye of Harmony, why don't they come up later, like when the Doctor is dying the TARDIS?
Oh hai again, Gordon Tipple!
(Normally, you wouldn't get a credit just for standing in a shadow for three seconds, but the Old Master actually had lines that were edited out of the final version – originally, *he* was going to be delivering the opening ramble.)
The original, with rubbish Dalek voice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqeplwhNStQ
Remade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXNbtrWln5k
(worth checking out his other videos as well)
Finished. I may never be whole again. Someone hold me.
ARE YOU NOT RELIEVED? XD
and shortly after http://comics.shipsinker.com/?id=483
Final assesment: Paul McGann was awesome. And totally deserved better.
ON THE OFF CHANCE MOFFAT EVER READS: MAKE A MULTI-DOCTOR STORYLINE AND BRING BACK MCGANN. HE SAID HE'S DOWN WITH THAT, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T MAKE HIM WEAR A WIG.
C'mon, doesn't anyone else want to see Eight show up in the TV series?
But I like him with that wig! Will he grow luscious locks? I wouldn't mind that.
I kinda liked his silly hair, too. But McGann literally said he'd come back as long as he "didn't have to wear a wig". So maybe he could grow out his hair? He's still pretty foxy with shot hair, though.
<img src="http://staff-look-a-likes.synthasite.com/resources/paul%20mc.jpg"/>
Well, if he's going to look like that… *swoons*
50th Anniversary. Make it happen Moffat.
YES! THIS! Eight needs more screentime!
He even has a new costume ready to go (http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2010/10/new-eighth-doctor-costume-revealed.html)! Come on!
Grr, proper URL: http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2010/10/new-eighth-d…
… is that foreshadowing? I don't want to hope, but…
OH GOD WHAT IF
=( Unfortunately that costume was made in a very unofficial capacity. It's probably a bit of an uphill battle for Big Finish to adopt it for their audio covers, let alone make it into on-screen canon. But the sonic is very pretty and steampunk and I am also hoping by some miraculous means it can all come together.
🙁 Alas. Still, it would be nice to see it on the audio covers.
Hmm, I'm not digging that one, it doesn't feel Doctor-y enough to me. I like the screwdriver, though.
Agree. I'm not a fan of that costume. And is the Doctor really going to be carrying a man bag around with him?
YES! Multi-doctor HAS to happen in 2013, and bringing back a Doctor that only appeared once on TV would be a lovely gift to fandom I think. Plus, his character is brilliant, as the audio adventures (mostly) show. The new 8th Doctor Adventures series that have been made have been brilliant (just finished series 3) and just imagine Paul McGann AND Sheridan Smith making an appearance. I've heard there might be licensing issues with using audio characters but I'm sure they can get around that.
My dream theory? 2013 sees 11 and River Song travel back to the Time War somehow, where they slowly realise THEY have to stop 8 from doing something or other. 8 never meets River, but she ends up killing him for his own good, maybe through making a choice of pushing a button or something so they never meet, I don't know it's vague OKAY!
Anything to get McGann back on screen just once, him, Eccles, Tennant, Smith, all dealing with a threat at different points in his timestream. Even it was just an Ecclestone cameo for an 8-9 regeneration I'd be content. I don't ask much!
I liked Mcgann. Can we have him back as a guest?
YOU KNOW.
That wasn't as awful as I expected?
I mean, it was BAD, but it was not quite the atrocity I anticipated.
It's not exactly bad, it just could have been so much better. And I seriously have no idea what was going on with Lee and the Master. WHAT WAS THAT.
At the time, the Doctor didn't kiss people, so some fanboys took issue with Grace.
I've said it elsewhere, but it now it just seems like a weird and amusing diversion. Back then, it looked like how the series would end.
inorite? I was expecting Mortal Instruments: The Movie from what I've heard about it.
Low expectations can give a higher outcome. Happens quite often, I find.
Bad, but in a fun way!
I just don't understand the half-human bit. And the TARDIS liking the Lee kid. It has better taste than that.
I feel conflicted because:
1) pants
2) Eight is awesome and this is it for him! They better bring him back in the future.
Moffat and Davies!! MAKE A TIME WAR MOVIE AND PUT THIS BRILLIANT MAN IN IT.
Paul McGann needs more screen time as the Doctor!! I COMMAND IT.
Now that this movie is just a weird and cheesy wrong turn, it's not so bad. But remember, back when it was released, it seriously seemed as if this would be the show's final end.
Still, it could have been much, much worse. An awful lot of the early plans for the film would nothing so much as half-digested Hero's Journey cobblers.
According to TV tropes one of the early plans was to have the Doctor and the Master be brothers.
As somebody said there, it's amazing how much worse the movie could have been.
For more on these early plans, see:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thebatgranny/mcg.htm
And thank God we got this movie instead!
I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or not, because I wasn't really expecting much to begin with.
I'M WATCHING THE 'SEVEN YEAR HITCH' DOCUMENTARY.
So am I. Is that narrator who I think it is?
WHO DO YOU THINK IT IS
…okay, I skipped ahead to the credits. No, it isn't Judi Dench. Oh, well.
I want an End of the TIme War movie done by Moffat and Davies with Mcgann in it
I think I'd rather a beginning of the Time War movie with Eight. The war itself is probably best left unwritten.
I'm pretty sure I would have given up on the movie like twenty mins in under normal circumstances. Everybody's WTF'ing made it so much more enjoyable.
Loving the "WTF in STEREO" effect you get with this liveblog.
"You can't miss me – I'm the guy with two hearts."
Turns out this is not a totally infallible guideline. Just ask Romana.
LOVE that comic!