Doctor Who

For being somewhat speedier than me, you are now my mortal enemy.

Well, actually, due to a convenient lab accident, I'm really your immortal enemy.

By the hoary hoary hosts of Hoggoth, I need to talk to the guild about this matchup.

I'm mostly a dude that cracks wise and can materialize annoyance into duck-shaped bath soaps. An immortal guy is waaaaaaaay out of my challenge rating.

edited 12th Jul '14 6:40:29 PM by Bocaj

Oh yes, def—wait, did you say soap?! No! My one weakness! *flees*

Well.

Huh.

Truly a win for the record books.

The thing is that immortality doesn't actually make you that great in a fight, by itself. Unless you're very committed to making it a fight to the death, it doesn't actually matter that much.

I've seen varying depictions of people using it very effectively and people using it not very effectively.

And Mr. Immortal falls under both extremes but usually on the latter.

Well- if they have speedy regeneration- or even agelessness- that's one thing, but those are add-ons that you don't get in the basic immortality package unless you make a deal with the salesman.

Mr. Immortal has agelessness but it usually takes him a bit of time to get up from a death. Plus side, he's destined to outlive anyone he would ever love or care about and be the last living soul doomed to witness the dying splutters of the universe.

There's always immortals like Mokou though who do get speedy regeneration, agelessness and also phoenix theming.

Or that loser from Drakengard 2 who was immortal by means of trading his Life to Death but still managed to die when a dude killed him so hard it killed Death.

Also, Jack Harkness. Who doesn't seem to have particularly speedy regeneration (faster than normal healing anyway) or agelessness and is destined to turn into a big head and hand out the worst secret in the history of things being said to people.

So, like, there are good immortalities and bad immortalities.

edited 12th Jul '14 6:56:09 PM by Bocaj

Well, it would appear that the entire first episode has leaked online. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-07-12/peter-capaldis-first-doctor-who-episode-appears-online-6-weeks-ahead-of-broadcast

I tried to resist the temptation...for about 5 seconds. I'm totalling watching today.

Holy shit, the BBC's security is atrocious.

Apparently it's incomplete, black&white, and missing most special effects. I reckon there must be someone on the inside leaking them. Hopefully they'll get tracked down and stopped, and meanwhile everyone keeps hushhush about spoilers.

At this rate I expect sooner or later Moffat will throw in a joke about leaks and terrible BBC security in some upcoming episode.

I expect that one Tumblrite will once again blame Moffat for this somehow.

This is all a part of his sexist agenda, obviously.

Yes, the bbc should excecute him and bring back rtd and david tennant. Doctor who has just been bullshit since they left

edited 13th Jul '14 5:45:05 AM by Oboeplum

I really wish they had stuck with the first Doctor, actually. Christopher Eccleston was so good.

I watched it. Without giving away spoilers, it's really good, it is black and white, the special effects are very obviously not finished, the background music isn't Murray Golds (there's a track from The Dark Knight Saga at one point).

It's a great episode for Capaldi. He's very different from Matt Smith and is still going through the regeneration trauma.

The whole black and white-ness of it and the unfinished special effects made it feel like an old Hartnell episode. Can't wait to see the finished version next month.

Speaking of Capaldi, Doctor Who Magazine seems to be implying there were a trailer (or something) during the BBC's World Cup Airing tonight.

Well, if they want lots of people to see the trailer, it'd be a good time...

I won't be watching, hopefully it'll be thrown on youtube pretty soon after.

If they're serious about catching the leaks, they could try some sort of canary trap type thing. From now on I'm taking every leaked rumour with a pinch of salt, it could be a deliberate false one.

Never mind, I managed to catch the trailer just now. iT LOOKS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING AND I CAN'T WAIT AND CAPALDI LOOKS PERFECT AS THE DOCTOR AND I JUST SPENT QUITE A WHILE SUIRMING IN EXCITEMENT!

Ahem. there are gifs on bbc's tumblr here

And I didn't even have to watch more than a minute of the football!

Can't wait. Finally solid material to get excited for.

You know I thought it'd get old. Nah. Still funny.

Sure is. Anyone else think that they should film two versions of the show with Capaldi? One for the normal audience and one for those that loved his turn in "The Thick Of It"? Because him going on one of those Tuckeresque rants against the Daleks would be priceless.