New Animated Dr. Who Series 182
smak writes "To celebrate the doctor's fourtieth anniversary, the BBC and Cosgrove Hall Films are webcasting a fully-animated adventure starring Richard E. Grant. You can watch the first episode of Scream of the Shalka and new episodes will be launched every Thursday. Enjoy." It requires Flash 4, but also looks pretty damn cool.
Who's influence on the Matrix films... (Score:5, Interesting)
It occurred to me the other day that there was a 4th Doctor story ("Deadly Assassin") involving a computer-generated world called the Matrix. One sat down, put some gear on one's head, then appeared inside this world using a virtual body. If one's Matrix body dies, one's real self dies as well. The lone hero struggles against an enemy who can take advantage of the fact that the "laws" of physics, well, aren't.
No bullet dodging, but given that the BBC's special effects budget was about the price of a cheeseburger, that should come as no surprise.
The theme! (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Which doctor is this? (Score:3, Interesting)
(Amusing trivia note: Grant actually already has played the Doctor in live-action...for about thirty seconds, in the Comic Relief charity benefit spoof episode The Curse of Fatal Death
What if we never saw the 1st? (Score:2, Interesting)
BBC owns the Net (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I heard about it... (Score:3, Interesting)
of course the 4th and 7th are most memerable to me. maybe the 2nd one was good too.
Marshal: 'How can we have peace until we have the ultimate deterrent that will ensure a lasting peace?'
Doctor: 'Tell me Marshal, if you had this ultimate deterrent, what would you do?'
Marshal: 'Use it of course, make sure it works.'
Doctor: 'Yes... You have a true military mind, Marshal.'
Marshal: 'Thank you.'
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k9 rocks the casbah too:
Drax: 'Blimey, it's a dog! Who's a little tin dog, then?'
K9: 'Your silliness is noted.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/episodeguide/
also i have tonnes of pirate dr who. if anyone has a nice ftp or collection of torrents i would be happy to trade.
Re:Why FLASH? (Score:4, Interesting)
Flash is vector based graphics with some code to make it all move and some sound. It has the added benefit of being both animation studio and viewer of the final product, which makes it a perfect choice for animation like this, so much that there is a whole genre of (entertaining) flash mini-series out there on the 'net.
Get off your righteous high arse, download Flash, disable it if you must, and enable it when you want to view things like this. Personally, Flash ads are offensive and annoying, but I find I can quickly ignore them -- filter them out, or turn them off within an instant when the need arises. Flash itself isn't bad, just like HTML itself isn't bad. That doesn't mean I am going to uninstall my web browser because I can't stand the latest X10 (HTML) ad.
Re:Wow (Score:2, Interesting)
After that, things just got better. The new Doctor's first contact with humans in the pub was glorious, then he turned on the charm and kindness, and back at the house he was definitely back into the swing. What I think I loved most was the way Paul Cornell managed to recreate the atmosphere of 1970's Who.
Re:I heard about it... (Score:5, Interesting)
There is a story behind the music. It was written by Delia Derbyshire [guardian.co.uk], who was working for the BBC Radiophonics workshop. She was an absolute pioneer in electronic music, who worked by physically cutting, pasting, splicing and stretching pieces of tape to creat some real groundbreaking noises.
Her work was hugely influential on modern music - you can see her influence in The Beatles, and many fashionable young electronics gurus cite her (e.g Aphex Twin, Autechre).
I guess this is one of the things that makes a cult program - all the stories and folklore that enshroud it.
Meanwhile, the *REAL* Dr. Who 40th Anniversary... (Score:3, Interesting)
There's a wonderful set of pictures [doctorwho.co.uk] from the recording sessions available. Yes, the various doctors are getting old, and only McGann could probably reprise his role on screen...but on the radio/audio, the voice and your memories and imagination make it all work.
Re:BBC owns the Net (Score:3, Interesting)
Rupert Murdoch of the UK's SKY, and the US's Fox is out to crush the BBC's website [guardian.co.uk], along with others, strangely and disturbingly including the respected Left-Wing Guardian Newspaper. Here's one of their hatchet articles [guardian.co.uk].
These companies want to ruin it for everyone, to serve their own selfish interests.
A recent review by the UK government took place. Let's hope they aren't swayed by these bodies, and leave the BBC's internet arm alone.
I know that much of my license fee's value comes from the BBC website, their news, features [like this Dr.Who thing] and radio, rather than tv (of which I seem to watch less and less.) Any reduction in it's scope would be a Bad Thing(TM).