Snippets from DWM 438
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thisbluespiritDear flist, do not faint, but a non-icon related post about Doctor Who! Current Doctor Who! Minorly spoilery!
I have been meaning to type up some interesting things/snippets from old DWMs (as typing up practise and general altruism and stuff), as I have them going back to the 1990s. I did not intend to start with the current issue. However, it arrived yesterday and made me laugh twice on a brief glance through, so I thought I would share three things.
(Also, I still have only watched The Impossible Astronaut, so if you want to be more spoilery, please kidnap these quotes and take them back to your own LJ, thank you. Sorry, but I am working hard on being an ostrich.)
First, Steven Moffat quote on the story-arc this season, that I thought some people might find of interest/reassuring. (DWM is generally a reliable from-the-horse's-mouth source):
"That's what you should do with a first episode - funny, accessible sci-fi. The Impossible Astronaut was a departure from the norm, and that's good, that makes it exciting, but that's never going to be the paradigm. Never, ever. The fact that we're making people wait weeks for the story to play out is exciting to do once, but not every year."
And, under the cut: minor spoiler (the quote DWM have chosen as a teaser from Let's Kill Hitler), something else amusing, and a thought I had on the upcoming episode.
Let's Kill Hitler teaser quote:
AMY: We can't have saved Hitler!
DOCTOR: See? Time travel - never goes to plan.
HITLER: But this box - what is it?
DOCTOR: It's a police telephone box from London, England. That's right, Adolf - the British are coming!
[This made me laugh]
This from the editorial amused me, because I also enjoy Allo Allo as well as DW, and generally I'm the only one I know who tries to combine the two:
Let's face it, only Doctor Who could get away with something as breathtakingly bonkers as this [Let's Kill Hitler]. (Oh, and possibly Allo Allo. But only Doctor Who would do it with a time-travelling telephone box. Although Allo Allo would probably do it with a waitress disguised as a nun carrying an exploding knockwurst sausage. Oh, okay. Allo Allo wins. Then again, Allo Allo isn't on telly any more. So Doctor Who wins.)
[Beautifully silly crossovers happen in my mind.]
My thought on Let's Kill Hitler after seeing the two-page preview: I really like the look of that top Amy is wearing. ;-p
More DW excitement to come in between icons! (Well, maybe exciting is over-selling it, but I have found some interesting things.)
I have been meaning to type up some interesting things/snippets from old DWMs (as typing up practise and general altruism and stuff), as I have them going back to the 1990s. I did not intend to start with the current issue. However, it arrived yesterday and made me laugh twice on a brief glance through, so I thought I would share three things.
(Also, I still have only watched The Impossible Astronaut, so if you want to be more spoilery, please kidnap these quotes and take them back to your own LJ, thank you. Sorry, but I am working hard on being an ostrich.)
First, Steven Moffat quote on the story-arc this season, that I thought some people might find of interest/reassuring. (DWM is generally a reliable from-the-horse's-mouth source):
"That's what you should do with a first episode - funny, accessible sci-fi. The Impossible Astronaut was a departure from the norm, and that's good, that makes it exciting, but that's never going to be the paradigm. Never, ever. The fact that we're making people wait weeks for the story to play out is exciting to do once, but not every year."
And, under the cut: minor spoiler (the quote DWM have chosen as a teaser from Let's Kill Hitler), something else amusing, and a thought I had on the upcoming episode.
Let's Kill Hitler teaser quote:
AMY: We can't have saved Hitler!
DOCTOR: See? Time travel - never goes to plan.
HITLER: But this box - what is it?
DOCTOR: It's a police telephone box from London, England. That's right, Adolf - the British are coming!
[This made me laugh]
This from the editorial amused me, because I also enjoy Allo Allo as well as DW, and generally I'm the only one I know who tries to combine the two:
Let's face it, only Doctor Who could get away with something as breathtakingly bonkers as this [Let's Kill Hitler]. (Oh, and possibly Allo Allo. But only Doctor Who would do it with a time-travelling telephone box. Although Allo Allo would probably do it with a waitress disguised as a nun carrying an exploding knockwurst sausage. Oh, okay. Allo Allo wins. Then again, Allo Allo isn't on telly any more. So Doctor Who wins.)
[Beautifully silly crossovers happen in my mind.]
My thought on Let's Kill Hitler after seeing the two-page preview: I really like the look of that top Amy is wearing. ;-p
More DW excitement to come in between icons! (Well, maybe exciting is over-selling it, but I have found some interesting things.)
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Date: 25 Aug 2011 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 25 Aug 2011 06:45 pm (UTC)Part of me would love to get a subscription to DWM, but I would hate the spoilers, so I would probably have to lock it away so as to not look at it until the upcoming episodes had aired, which would drive me crazy. So your plan to share old issues is perfect for me! Feel free to start back in the 1980s if you like. *g*
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Date: 25 Aug 2011 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 25 Aug 2011 07:03 pm (UTC)Actually, DWM are very good at not being spoilery. The only thing that ever comes out pre-showing of the episodes are these episode preview pages (and in the production run-up there'll be some casting news/episode titles in the news section), and even they don't give any real plot stuff away - and you can not read them till after quite easily - I usually do that. If that's your only reason for not subscribing, I wouldn't worry about it. They'll often let all the press steal a march on them, and even hold back publication to protect their readers from spoilers. It's only if you're like me it's going to be a problem - behind when they assume everybody's seen stuff you're in danger of spoilers! And I think there's quite a delay in it getting to the US - you'd be more in danger of being underinformed by the time it arrived, heh!
(Sorry, edited for incoherency again.)
Sadly, these lines did not appear in the episode.
Date: 27 Aug 2011 10:05 pm (UTC)Doctor: I kiss waitresses now. Kissing waitresses is cool.
Re: Sadly, these lines did not appear in the episode.
Date: 28 Aug 2011 08:04 am (UTC)Amy: Doctor, why are you dressed as a nun?
Doctor: I wear a habit now. Habits are cool.
Amy: Fine, but why the moustache? Very nun-like, I don't think.
Doctor: Well, all the other nuns had one... Anyway, the important question - the really important thing around here - is why are you dressed as an undertaker?
Amy: Isn't that obvious?
Doctor: With that lipstick?
:-D
Re: Sadly, these lines did not appear in the episode.
Date: 28 Aug 2011 02:03 pm (UTC)And doubtless Rory is forced to disguise himself as a temporary female stenographer of the opposite sex...