"Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off"
That is a comment to a YouTube video Best of Malcolm Tucker. Peter Capaldri has the role of new Dr Who. The person who uploaded the video has no idea the traffic his new role brings to their old uploaded video.
Apparently the new Dr Who has a potty mouth and Glaswegian accent. I'm glad the wearisome Matt Smith is gone his homiletic Pecksniffian sanctimony was annoying, but then that was the script. Besides, who needs a gun when you have a sonic screwdriver that does whatever you want or a robot dog written into the script who zaps foes for you or an American come along with no such qualms or restrictions.
And nobody throws guns down like that. They say, "throw down the gun," and they do, like something that's hot, something distasteful anyway, something to get rid of, so toss, clickity clink, like the prop is made of hollow plastic, an obvious toy. There is only so much of that pedantry and issue indoctrination a viewer can take.
13 comments:
I heard he was on First.
Peter Capaldi
Hmm. He played the father in the Pompeii episode, as well as the dweeby government guy in Torchwood: Children of the Earth. Also saw him as the station manager in The Hour.
In short -- an old guy.
I'm not saying that we need to stay with someone young, like Matt Smith, who was OK, but no 9 or 10. But I've been watching those ancient episodes of Doctors 1-6 (so far) for the 50th anniversary and, I have to say, I would have never been interested in the show if the Doctor had been one of those geezers.
First saw Capaldi in Local Hero in the early 1980s; he's a good actor with low-key charm. I think he'll be a terrific Dr. Who.
Maybe they can return to a darker Doctor. Matt Smith would try to suggest a dark side, but they played up his frivolous side too much for him to pull it off. Both Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant could be both light-hearted and dark, but not Smith.
Darker is more interesting. But they might need Russell Davies back for that too.
No. 4 is The Man.
That's when I got hooked on the show. I started to think he was real and was going to come along and solve my problems for me.
Ah ha ha ha ha
I remember watching and taping a Doctor Who Marathon.
I thought that was a big coup.
I only came on board with the reboot. Thought Eccleston great, was suspicious about Tenant at first, then thought he was superb. Matt Smith intrigued me at first, but I never really got to liking him in the character.
That they're going old is interesting. I'm intrigued. Are we going to see Maggie Smith or Helen Mirren as a companion?
Sarah Jane Smith is no more, so she's out. Even Rose's mum would be too young.
Besides, they need to resolve the situation with Clara. If she were to stay on, I should think the dynamic would shift to more father-daughter, rather than romantic or flirty.
So I was looking at some lists of 50-plus actresses.
At first I was taken back that Elle McPherson is over 50. Then I was totally shocked to see that Jennifer Jason Leigh is also over 50, and little Samantha Micelli (Alyssa Milano) is over 40!
They could have gone back to River Song (50), but been there, done that. And besides, I never bought their romance anyway.
Ummm. He started OLD. If you have Amazon Prime (Maybe on Netflix? Don't have that.) go back to the very very beginning (the phone box is even black and white and 20 shades of grey). I am trying to wade through those...
Has (will) the Rose problem been resolved? She was there with Matt and Clara in the crowd ...
No. Don't tell me.
Was stationed in the UK Dec 68-Sept71 so got in on the very beginning of the series--have been hooked ever since. Went thru some withdrawal the first few years back in CONUS in 71 as PBS didn't carry the series at that time. And, yes, the young Sara in her first incarnation was the best..
Everywhere I look people are aching for the insulting Tourette-afflicted Malcolm Tucker version if only just a little bit. They're hoping he ad libs. A lot. But I do not see that happening. No way will bbc risk damaging the franchise just for that indulgence. No, they're going to stick with their droning discourses about how best to get on without weapons of any kind, and not be so xenophobic about immigration policies, always best to leave things to benevolent human-like aliens that happen along at the just the right moment. The suspension of disbelief is weighted with bbc political concerns, pedantry that applies to one English-speaking country above others, I notice. Or else what is the point? The other English-speaking countries are already a sealed deal, their gun laws are already changed. I'm sensitive to that. Whenever I sense it, every episode, I become quite rude instantly and blurt out, "Fine, Dr Who, you can just suck my
lemon.
I don't even care about the things being preached about, it bugs be being subversively and overtly preached to through entertainment. That the impulse cannot be resisted is annoying.
My sister, who is one of those I-Know-All-About-The-Doctor people says
the character for which he had the potty mouth has already been banished.
Sorry Chip.
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