Doctor Who Big Screen Move?

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join the online fb partition to stop the movie or at least let them know how many people say no.

ouch.

the problem with "the big screen" is that they always use something "huge", "big" etc. guns
blazing, spaceships exploding, worlds burning, suns turning into black holes. nothing like saving a
boy from his nightmares or something little like that. heck, they'll probably have to kill the
companion and blow up the tardis to make things "interesting", or what they'll think is "interesting".

plus, they'll have to add all those "introducing things to a new audience" bullcrap, which probably
means they won't introduce 30+ seasons of doctor who, they'll just strip everything down to nothingness.

i didn't even like torchwood miracle day. even more so since they didn't really finish it.

now, special effects. compared to the old doctor who, the new one does just fine in that department.
it could use a bit more work here and there, but i'd say there's no real problem, even more so if
you consider that they change sets and stuff "a lot", they are on a tv budget, and they have to do
more than just a big explosion. i mean, we're talking about what -- the doctor, a companion or two,
plpus 1-4 important characters for the story at hand. no big armies or anything. i'd say it's more
about those people than it is about big explosions or animated monsters appearing for 30 seconds and
eating more money than an entire tv season.

take the money, secure more seasons :-) you can tell better stories on tv simply because you don't
have to introduce characters and a problem and save the world in an impressive endeavour, all
cramped into 1.5 hours. on a tv show, you might be spending an entire season and still not know what
the actual problem might be.

i remember watching the two earlier films at christmas on tv when i was younger. i wasn't around in
the 60's but they re-broadcast later on and were taped for me (yep, tapes) . even though very young
i understood they weren't linked to the tv series, but still liked them as a separate re-imagining of the
show, i managed to get a few tapes of the early episodes (in 6 parts) and even have a copy of one of
the earliest doctor who episodes. yes the early ones had dodgy sets and the like, but i was a kid and
none of that mattered, all i cared about was the story and could let my imagination run wild with it all.

so when this was announced i immediately thought, "if i'd only started watching doctor who a year
ago, would the movie ruin it?". i'm sure it'd be picked up my everyone in exactly the same way as i saw
those earlier films, as a totally separate entity of the show. will it ruin the tv series? no. will it be a
flop? probably.

i can't see the british public looking upon the film with fondness when it's released with little
resemblance to the tv version. worldwide is a different matter. i can already see the removal of the
look of the tardis as a phone box, the stories are more likely to be less 'fun & friendly' and more gritty
(which i'm not entirely opposed to tbh), and yes we're probably going to be 'treated' to
explosions/action galore. those changes, and you could bet on there being many many more, would
make the show more appealing to a global audience while at the same time diminishing the warm
reception it'd get over here purely because the tv show would probably be airing at the weekend.

i can't recall many tv shows transferring well to film while being completely rebuilt from scratch. people
will have to help me out on that one. on a similar note about rebuilding from scratch, the video game ->
film transfer rate is particularly appalling because they often veer away from the game's portrayal thus
alienating the game fans and leaving it with very little else to offer.

the cushing movies are still considered doctor who, though they're not canon or part of "true"
continuity.



tranter is hardly outsider, as stated she oversaw the series reboot for bbc. and as for the
suggestion of davies and moffat together... the last thing you want is for moffat to have two
continuities of dr who in his head, and davies will just want some guys to kiss (which they're quite
free to do if they wish but davies can't seem to make an episode w/o it).

i don't see the problem with this .. it's not a continuation of the series and it has nothing to do
with it, it's just going to be a standalone story about doctor who, they will probably start with
the origin of doctor who and where he came from then continue with whatever terrible thing he is
trying to save universe from, along the way he will pick up some humans and aliens to help..

stop saying stupid things like " omg it's going to kill the series", why the hell would the fans of
the series stop watching dw if the movie that had nothing to do with it sucked?? be real.. nothing
is gonna happen to the series if the movie sucked, there is only 1 outcome for the movie, be it good
or bad, it will get the show new interested viewers..