tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post7763788857072561271..comments2023-04-06T22:01:07.239+10:00Comments on YOA's Blog Of The Unusally Pointless: Ten Down!Youth of Australiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-44294489568240280292008-10-30T19:02:00.000+11:002008-10-30T19:02:00.000+11:00Not a big enough Seachange fan to get the refernec...<I>Not a big enough Seachange fan to get the refernece, I'm afraid...</I><BR/>Quiet, contemplative, can never tell when he's joking or what he's thinking. Basically Troughton without the slapstick.<BR/><BR/><I>Brilliant!... was this a snide dig at Briggsy?</I><BR/>Well, when the Eighth Doctor returns from the grave, he DOES save the entire universe inside an episode.<BR/><BR/><I>Yeah, they got Trevor Martin back for that, didn't they?</I><BR/>He's very good, too. Apart from the bit where he tries to kung fu the monsters into submission.<BR/><BR/><I>Also, how does Briggsy play it? Is he doing AV-doc or is he attempting a Perters impression?</I><BR/>It's honestly hard to say. He falls out of the TARDIS, shouts "Dying!! Help me someone! Into the TARDIS what I just fell out of! Argh!" and then he changes.<BR/><BR/>It turns out he was shot in the back in a pathetic ambush and he shouldn't even been so weak as to regenerate.<BR/><BR/><I>A truly mind-blowing idea when it hasn't already happened once this season!.</I><BR/>Well, on the bright side they don't try it again still C'Rizz.<BR/><BR/><I>That I concede but I probably like Coburn more than Briggs. Yes, there you go, it's on record.</I><BR/>You're right. On character/actor stuff, with the audios irrelevent, Jeff beats Nick hands tied behind his back.<BR/><BR/><I>He and David Segal are on a level playing field. (Man, attempting a career in DW would be interesting if Briggsy read this, eh?)</I><BR/>What's he going to do? Play Minuet in Hell in a court to prove he was brilliant? "Yes, Nick, you were. Now arrest him for breach of copyright and throw away the key."<BR/><BR/><I>Oh, yeah... what was it, about twelve minutes? Also, is my memory playing tricks or were his first words really "Shoooooes!"...</I><BR/>Rob Holmes originally wanted you not to even see his face until part two, hence that rather big shot where the Brig rolls him over... despite us already seeing his face earlier on.<BR/><BR/><I>I loved those first words. Set it all up wonderfully. Provoked that great "That's not OUR Doctor!" feel from the audience.</I><BR/>Yes, hurl abuse at the girl you just died for. A real mark for the "individual incarnations really do die" argument.<BR/><BR/><I>Unfortunately, the show needed to stop provoking that feeling sometime over the next year.</I><BR/>Oh, in some reality my version of Twin Dilemma was made and all was well.<BR/><BR/><I>Yes, but I like to think that fans were less rabid and impatient then. Also, wasn't it closer to a year-and-a-half with Davison?</I><BR/>So, you're STILL beaten.<BR/><BR/><I>Hee, I like that one.</I><BR/>It's probably funnier out of context, as he died in the arms of his companion, guts blown away. So she bursts into tears and sobs and then ZAP - new guy is screaming at her, the end.<BR/><BR/><I>Another one for the conspiracies file..</I><BR/>DT SAYS he was going to use it on Patrick Stewart, but I notice he had bodyguards at the time.<BR/><BR/><I>Hey, that's kind of cool.</I><BR/>Never got broadcast though. Something about a plane crashing into a world trade centre or something...Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-62528736519139221552008-10-30T18:46:00.000+11:002008-10-30T18:46:00.000+11:00Of course I always thought a Diver Dan style Docto...<I>Of course I always thought a Diver Dan style Doctor would be good.</I><BR/><BR/>Not a big enough <I>Seachange</I> fan to get the refernece, I'm afraid...<BR/><BR/><I>Even in the comic strip which he dominated for six months, he just sort of stood around as the bad guys destroyed everything living thing in outer space. It was later revealed that Briggs was an imposter who chose that particular body/personality so the bad guys would never suspect he was up to something and just accept he was a useless twat.</I><BR/><BR/>Brilliant!... was this a snide dig at Briggsy?<BR/><BR/><I>Mind you, he's great in Seven Keys to Doomsday... where he dies and turns into someone competent.</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah, they got Trevor Martin back for that, didn't they?<BR/><BR/>Also, how does Briggsy play it? Is he doing AV-doc or is he attempting a Perters impression?<BR/><BR/><I>ROFLMAO. Sounds a lot like The Last, actually.</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah, I was really getting that vibe. I also feel the need to point out that his current companion seems to be transforming into an ethereal being with near-godlike powers. A truly mind-blowing idea when <I>it hasn't already happened once this season!</I>.<BR/><BR/><I>Better than DWADs.</I><BR/><BR/>That I concede but I probably like Coburn more than Briggs. Yes, there you go, it's on record.<BR/><BR/>He and David Segal are on a level playing field. (Man, attempting a career in DW would be interesting if Briggsy read this, eh?)<BR/><BR/><I>A) I think Jon Pertwee beats all </I><BR/><BR/>Oh, yeah... what was it, about twelve minutes? Also, is my memory playing tricks or were his first words really "Shoooooes!"... <BR/><BR/><I>Only Colin Baker got any halfway decent first words.</I><BR/><BR/>I loved those first words. Set it all up wonderfully. Provoked that great "That's not OUR Doctor!" feel from the audience.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, the show needed to <I>stop</I> provoking that feeling sometime over the next year.<BR/><BR/><I>Like Tom Baker and Peter Davison did?</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, but I like to think that fans were less rabid and impatient then.<BR/><BR/>Also, wasn't it closer to a year-and-a-half with Davison?<BR/><BR/><I>"I'm - not - dead - yet!" </I><BR/><BR/>Hee, I like that one.<BR/><BR/><I>But seriously, Phil didn't look "Ah, damn, lost," but "You are a fucking dead man". Yet, five seconds later our hero is wielding a switchblade screaming, "OK! I QUIT! STAY AWAY FROM ME!"</I><BR/><BR/>Another one for the conspiracies file..<BR/><BR/><I>No. I convinced a Channel 9 film crew I cheated on my HSC exams and was willing to sell the answers to the highest bidder, though.</I><BR/><BR/>Hey, that's kind of cool.Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-16393679485808236502008-10-30T17:41:00.000+11:002008-10-30T17:41:00.000+11:00No. But it'd be good if they did.Heh. True. Of cou...<I>No. But it'd be good if they did.</I><BR/>Heh. True. Of course I always thought a Diver Dan style Doctor would be good.<BR/><BR/><I>To clarify, a Doctor who doesn't go out to get noticed and expect people to bend to his authority just when he shouts at them. The sort of Patrick Troughton model I was thinking of. I don't mean a Doctor who does sweet F.A.</I><BR/>Ah good. It was starting to sound a little bit... Sawardian.<BR/><BR/><I>On that topic, does the Nick Briggs Doctor do anything good, ever? He just sucks. He really, really sucks.</I><BR/>I was struggling to find a case against (maybe Cyber-Hunt?) but you're right. Even in the comic strip which he dominated for six months, he just sort of stood around as the bad guys destroyed everything living thing in outer space. It was later revealed that Briggs was an imposter who chose that particular body/personality so the bad guys would never suspect he was up to something and just accept he was a useless twat.<BR/><BR/>Mind you, he's great in Seven Keys to Doomsday... where he dies and turns into someone competent.<BR/><BR/><I>Minuet in Hell would have worked if he isn't just a worthless, blubbering sack of apologies and clumsiness week in and week fucking out, but as it is it's just another day in the life of a total loser. I've been trying to listen through Blood something (forgotten the title) in and out for about THREE MONTHS. I thought I'd got to a good part, but no the insane evil bitch who's a baffling pre-requisite in all Nick Briggs stories for some reason kills the interesting character and forces the Doctor at gunpoint to take them away from the interesting planet and the Doctor accordingly reveals the secrets of the TARDIS to her. And then a scene that, essentially, goes like this:<BR/>BRIGGS: I can't break down these crystals to fix the TARDIS.<BR/>BITCH: Is the machine not working?<BR/>BRIGGS: No, I'm taking the high moral ground. These aren't just crystals - they're eggs! Sentient beings trapped inside that I could never murder. To help illustrate the point I placed them inside my egg-destroying engine as you can clearly see, and then decided to sit here obstinately NOT pressing the activation button. That one three from your right - the blue one. Ha! NOW what are you going to do?<BR/>(Bitch presses the button)<BR/>BRIGGS: ..I can't believe that you did that!<BR/>BITCH: I killed like six people in cold blood already.<BR/>BRIGGS: Oh, that was YOU. Right. Now I feel like a right melon.</I><BR/>ROFLMAO. Sounds a lot like The Last, actually.<BR/><BR/><I>So, in short, the AVs suck.</I><BR/>Better than DWADs.<BR/><BR/><I>Lmao. If anyone at all in the BBC thought that Keeley would be a good Doctor, I think the suggestion coming from LM would have taken away all it's legitimacy.</I><BR/>Thank God for that...<BR/><BR/><I>Ah-ha I have actually thought about this... but I don't know. See, I wanted to have a record for the longest a new Doctor has been silent, given the big deal made over the 'first words' thing lately.</I><BR/>Well, A) I think Jon Pertwee beats all and B) first words, 9/10 suck. Only Colin Baker got any halfway decent first words.<BR/><BR/><I>So I'd regenerate, ideally around a sizeable group of people, tumble around the room a bit, trying to get my balance, look around at all the people, then stand really straight, clear my throat bashfully... and topple over again. Leaving everyone staring at my prone body gobsmacked just before the credits role.</I><BR/>Sorta like a Mr. Bean version of Castrovalva or TCI?<BR/><BR/><I>Leaving all the fans to wait for A YEAR until they hear me talk.</I><BR/>Like Tom Baker and Peter Davison did?<BR/><BR/><I>I came up with that a while ago and still think it'd be brilliant.<BR/>Especially for the furore on OG. Straight to the bottom of the favourite Doctor polls for me.</I><BR/>Always a good sign.<BR/><BR/>Mind you, my fic Doctors' new words pretty much boiled down to "Oh, no, not AGAIN!!" and "I'm - not - dead - yet!" Which are probably too Monty Pythonish for a mainstream audience.<BR/><BR/><I>It is a headscratcher.</I><BR/>It's always baffled me, like when Parkinson wanted to show Billie Piper in action by showing the 'turn of the Earth' bit as Rose. SEE! Her hold a hand! HEAR! Her say nothing! BE AMAZED! As Dr. Who tells her to piss off and stop following him!<BR/><BR/>Yes, Bill, your talent summed up in a nutshell there. I woulda decked Parky if he did that to me.<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>Yeah, would not like to be on Philip Glenister's bad side. Look at all those blokes in Sharpe and LoM/ATA he saw too. Hornblower only got away when he got him onside...</I><BR/>Yeah. But seriously, Phil didn't look "Ah, damn, lost," but "You are a fucking dead man". Yet, five seconds later our hero is wielding a switchblade screaming, "OK! I QUIT! STAY AWAY FROM ME!"<BR/><BR/><I>What? You've never been an extra in a baffling film-insert in a Japanese game-show?</I><BR/>No. I convinced a Channel 9 film crew I cheated on my HSC exams and was willing to sell the answers to the highest bidder, though.<BR/><BR/><I>I assumed it was a rite of passage for an Australian youth..</I><BR/>You know me, never take the well-trodden path.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-37739789994017253652008-10-30T17:14:00.000+11:002008-10-30T17:14:00.000+11:00You really think they're going to do that? No. But...<I>You really think they're going to do that? </I><BR/><BR/>No. But it'd be good if they did.<BR/><BR/>To clarify, a Doctor who doesn't go out to get noticed and expect people to bend to his authority just when he shouts at them. The sort of Patrick Troughton model I was thinking of. I don't mean a Doctor who does sweet F.A.<BR/><BR/>On that topic, does the Nick Briggs Doctor do <I>anything</I> good, <I>ever</I>? He just sucks. He really, really sucks. <B>Minuet in Hell</B> would have worked if he isn't just a worthless, blubbering sack of apologies and clumsiness week in and week fucking out, but as it is it's just another day in the life of a total loser. I've been trying to listen through <B>Blood something</B> (forgotten the title) in and out for about THREE MONTHS. I thought I'd got to a good part, but no the insane evil bitch who's a baffling pre-requisite in all Nick Briggs stories for some reason kills the interesting character and forces the Doctor at gunpoint to take them away from the interesting planet and the Doctor accordingly reveals the secrets of the TARDIS to her. And then a scene that, essentially, goes like this:<BR/><BR/>BRIGGS: I can't break down these crystals to fix the TARDIS.<BR/><BR/>BITCH: Is the machine not working?<BR/><BR/>BRIGGS: No, I'm taking the high moral ground. These aren't just crystals - they're eggs! Sentient beings trapped inside that I could never murder. To help illustrate the point I placed them inside my egg-destroying engine as you can clearly see, and then decided to sit here obstinately NOT pressing the activation button. That one three from your right - the blue one. Ha! NOW what are you going to do?<BR/><BR/>(Bitch presses the button)<BR/><BR/>BRIGGS: ..I can't believe that you did that!<BR/><BR/>BITCH: I killed like six people in cold blood already.<BR/><BR/>BRIGGS: Oh, that was YOU. Right. Now I feel like a right melon.<BR/><BR/>So, in short, the AVs suck.<BR/><BR/><I>Anyone as long as it isn't Keely Hawes, as Alex Drake makes the Tenth Doctor look like a recluse.</I><BR/><BR/>Lmao. If anyone at all in the BBC thought that Keeley would be a good Doctor, I think the suggestion coming from LM would have taken away all it's legitimacy.<BR/><BR/><I>What would your first words be in the role? :D</I><BR/><BR/>Ah-ha I have actually thought about this... but I don't know. See, I wanted to have a record for the longest a new Doctor has been silent, given the big deal made over the 'first words' thing lately. So I'd regenerate, ideally around a sizeable group of people, tumble around the room a bit, trying to get my balance, look around at all the people, then stand really straight, clear my throat bashfully... and topple over again. Leaving everyone staring at my prone body gobsmacked just before the credits role. Leaving all the fans to wait for A YEAR until they hear me talk. I came up with that a while ago and still think it'd be brilliant.<BR/><BR/>Especially for the furore on OG. Straight to the bottom of the favourite Doctor polls for me.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, returning from fantasyland..<BR/><BR/><I>Why do these award ceremonies always choose ridiculously inappropriate clips?</I><BR/><BR/>It is a headscratcher. Ian McKellen's Oscar nomination for <I>Lord of the Rings</I> they showed the bit where he was yelling at Bilbo. Yeah, good one - it's a film morons decline to take seriously because it's too special-effects heavy... and you choose to show the bit where his character is transformed through special effects. Grr...<BR/>Jim Broadbent beat him, too. Man, that pissed me off. His clip was basically him going "Ooh, Iris, you want another cup of tea?" MINDBLOWING STUFF.<BR/><BR/><I>Oooh, the look he gives Tennant when he wins, though. I think maybe DT left for his own safety...</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah, would not like to be on Philip Glenister's bad side. Look at all those blokes in Sharpe and LoM/ATA he saw too. Hornblower only got away when he got him onside...<BR/><BR/><I>What the fuck are you on about?</I><BR/><BR/>What? You've never been an extra in a baffling film-insert in a Japanese game-show? I assumed it was a rite of passage for an Australian youth..Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-21327883064111774682008-10-30T16:48:00.000+11:002008-10-30T16:48:00.000+11:00Where was I? Right here 30 seconds ago. Man, I was...<I>Where was I? Right here 30 seconds ago. Man, I was hoping he'd have another year in him. I mean, I thought that was the idea of the gap year, giving him a break so he could do other stuff (like Hamlet) Understandable, though.</I><BR/>Seems to be the specials are going to be the War Games that wipes the slate clear.<BR/><BR/><I>The next Doctor needs to be totally different, though. Tennant was 50/50 similar/different. We need, IMHO, more of a backseat, stays in the background Doctor. One who doesn't proclaim himself to the room and yearn to be the centre of attention. Just because otherwise the role's in danger of being caricatured and the scope of what the Doctor can be will be narrowed.</I><BR/>You really think they're going to do that? Beyond Doctor Lite eps? I can't say how Moff will take the show, since his entire body of work consists of the Tenth Doctor, a painfully out of character Ninth, and a comedic parody of the NA Doctor.<BR/><BR/>So, yeah. I have no idea.<BR/><BR/>Anyone as long as it isn't Keely Hawes, as Alex Drake makes the Tenth Doctor look like a recluse.<BR/><BR/><I>And of course I'm not just saying that because that's how I'd play the part if, by some freak circumstance I got it.</I><BR/>What would your first words be in the role? :D<BR/><BR/>What with the internet being unfathomably slow for some reason, I've only just managed to see the footage per se. Why do these award ceremonies always choose ridiculously inappropriate clips? DT gets the Two Doc/Rose farewell scene, so basically he gets next to no dialogue and just snogs Billie Piper who gets all the focus of the scene. Mind you, Catherine Tate gets her 'super Time Lord' scene which, well, doesn't quite strike me as an obvious scene. Pretty much every other scene she's ever done as Donna would work better IMO. Even Smiffy from the Bill gets a raw deal as he's shown standing around while some crim yells at him for five minutes.<BR/><BR/>Philip Glennister does all right, clip wise, but you'd be hard pressed to find a Gene Genie scene that doesn't do him justice. With "I Fought The Law" in the background. Awesome. But 80% of it is Raymondo saving the day!<BR/><BR/>Oooh, the look he gives Tennant when he wins, though. I think maybe DT left for his own safety...<BR/><BR/><I>Man, my prediction's looking slim even if I got the season right. Unless RTD looks at a certain episode of a certain Japanese gameshow and notes the inherent Doctor-ly qualities of a bandaged extra who slams into a doorframe..</I><BR/>What the fuck are you on about?Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-65787724194949881102008-10-30T16:24:00.000+11:002008-10-30T16:24:00.000+11:00Where was I? Right here 30 seconds ago. Man, I was...Where was I? Right here 30 seconds ago. Man, I was hoping he'd have another year in him. I mean, I thought that was the idea of the gap year, giving him a break so he could do other stuff (like <I>Hamlet</I>) Understandable, though.<BR/><BR/>The next Doctor needs to be totally different, though. Tennant was 50/50 similar/different. We need, IMHO, more of a backseat, stays in the background Doctor. One who doesn't proclaim himself to the room and yearn to be the centre of attention. Just because otherwise the role's in danger of being caricatured and the scope of what the Doctor can be will be narrowed.<BR/><BR/>And of course I'm not just saying that because that's how I'd play the part if, by some freak circumstance I got it. <BR/><BR/>Man, my prediction's looking slim even if I got the season right. Unless RTD looks at a certain episode of a certain Japanese gameshow and notes the inherent Doctor-ly qualities of a bandaged extra who slams into a doorframe..Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.com