Doctor Who

Not many, but more than I thought there would be.

I'd actually be pretty interested to see that list.

Out of interest, what story did Helen Raynor write?

edited 6th Oct '12 10:17:46 AM by MusikMaestro

Daleks in Manhattan (terrible) and The Sontaran Stratagem (pretty good).

I enjoyed Strategem, but the Sontar-Ha! thing was very narmy.

I liked Daleks in Manhattan. :/

Daleks in Manhattan mainly suffered from some awesome Special Effect Failure.

The scripts themselves weren't too bad (for a first Who script).

edited 6th Oct '12 10:44:50 AM by Bluesqueak

They were her second, after her work on Torchwood.

Which was her best work by far, it must be said.

Her work on Who is consistently godawful.

I'll get around to it.

First Who script, I said. I did not say first script.

Torchwood is in the same universe (sometimes) - but it's not the same type of writing. In Who you're continually having to bear in mind that some of the fans are only four years old. In Torchwood you only have to worry about the adults watching.

I could have sworn that I heard that Russel T. Davies was homosexual. I mean, maybe he's bi but has only had male parters, or I at least don't know about him having male partners.

I also heard that Moffat is the first heterosexual showrunner for Doctor Who in a while. Again, not sure if that is true.

edited 6th Oct '12 11:11:30 AM by unnoun

John Nathan Turner (although he wasn't a writer, he was a showrunner), Russel T Davies, Chris Chibnall and Mark Gatiss are/were all openly gay.

I'm sure there are more that I'm ignorant of.

RTD is definitely gay.

I assumed "Sontar-Ha!" was an import from the Classic series.

Somebody commented that in the early days of the show, they had to reuse the film right after the episode.

1. Film is single-use. I'm assuming you meant tape.
2. It was a BBC-wide thing, not a Doctor Who thing.
3. I thought the tapes stayed in the archive for a few years before policy said the BBC had to reuse tapes.
4. I thought this because there were fans who begged the BBC to give them the old tapes in exchange for new ones just so the old shows wouldn't be destroyed, which the BBC did not take them up on.

Kenneth Branagh played the most infamous man in the Nazi Party outside of Hitler himself and Himmler.

Reinhard Heydrich. The architect of the Final Solution himself.

The role was played by him in the 2001 HBO film, "Conspiracy",

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/

based on Adolf Eichmann's minutes of the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, which basically set in motion the Holocaust. And the performance was shudderingly matter of fact, no histrionics whatsoever. Brutally straightforward and convincing.

So, the idea of him being the Doctor sort of makes my skin crawl. Irrational, yes, but that's the way I feel.

Ah, I see. You don't want him to be the Doctor because he's a good actor, yes?

Nope. Because he makes me uncomfortable. And stop trying to put words in my mouth. Not appreciated. At all.

Yes, Branagh was terrifying, wasn't he? So charming and friendly when he told people that they either went along with his plans or got a piano wire necklace.

Agree - he'd make an excellent Who villain, but as for playing the Doctor - only if you wanted an actor who was really good at playing the Doctor's 'psychopath' moments.

edited 6th Oct '12 11:34:07 AM by Bluesqueak

I think Kenneth Branagh is too busy (and too expensive) to play the starring role in an ongoing TV show like Doctor Who.

Now, as a villain or other supporting character for a few episodes, you might have something.

Also, the policy of re-using the tapes wasn't a result of BBC having a small budget, it was a result of tapes being very expensive back then. I mean, of course it was both to an extent, but since this was before re-runs were a thing, it simply didn't make an economical sense to keep expensive equipment locked up in a vault indefinitely just because you used it once.

According to our Trivia Page, Steven Moffat is the first heterosexual male to be a producer/showrunner for Doctor Who since 1979.

No idea whether or not that's true.

edited 6th Oct '12 1:48:39 PM by unnoun

Mary Whitehouse would flip her shit upon learning that.

I think he has made a few jokes about being the token straight person.

...JNT was gay?

Because keep in mind Who's only had two producers between 1979 and Moffat.

Script editors are another matter.

edited 6th Oct '12 2:06:04 PM by Wackd

I dunno. JNT could have been Bi. The only thing our Trivia page says is that Moffat was the first straight guy to Produce for the show since 1979. So, the producers before Moffat after 1979 could have been gay or bi. We know RTD was homosexual.

According to his wikipedia article, JNT was in a relationshop with Gary Downie, one of the production managers on Doctor Who at the time.

So we know he was in at least one homosexual relationship.

edited 6th Oct '12 2:13:26 PM by unnoun

all the showrunners are gay sans steven moffat? that explains a the lot really

edited 6th Oct '12 3:29:20 PM by joeyjojo

I seriously doubt that, that seems to implausible. I only know that JNT and RTD were certainly gay.