Lockdown Update Day 251

[elisi]

HAPPY DOCTOR WHO DAY!

57 years ago at this very moment... was the first time we heard that dum-de-dum-dum-de-dum #DoctorWhoDay 🎶 pic.twitter.com/DCRlvejr4j

— Doctor Who (@bbcdoctorwho) November 23, 2020

And then, from the Doctor Who Lockdown team - legit got choked up:

It's 5:16pm on 23 November. 57 years to the minute since Doctor Who first began ✨

To celebrate the moment, here's a special tribute to Doctor Who: 57th Anniversary Opening Titles & Credits!

VFX by @RobCamVideos
Music by @BornaMatosic

FULL VIDEO HERE 👉https://t.co/9UMh3BQDx7 pic.twitter.com/t6g5XcEZ6o

— Emily Cook (@Emily_Rosina) November 23, 2020

Watch on YouTube

Happy 57th birthday to the Doctor! 🥳✨#DoctorWhoDay @bbcdoctorwho pic.twitter.com/n0Ipps4LSB

— Clangers (@helloclangers) November 23, 2020

Happy #doctorwhoday . Thanks for giving me, basically everything. And lots to talk about with my therapist. #drwho pic.twitter.com/d3TzmNanxt

— Georgia Tennant (@georgiaEtennant) November 23, 2020

Spare a thought on Doctor Who's anniversary for Verity Lambert - the BBC's only female producer, and its youngest, having not yet scraped 30. An absolute icon. pic.twitter.com/BaxTdD7wlM

— Max Curtis (@MaxCCurtis) November 23, 2020

Captain Jack is back for Revolution of the Daleks! #JackIsBack

Read more about @johnbarrowman's return here: https://t.co/Vj77aCjPTK pic.twitter.com/5PfXmnc2rz

— Doctor Who (@bbcdoctorwho) November 23, 2020

(Direct link here, including tiny clip & poster!)

I... forget that this is a show that is actually CURRENT? And that we will get more? S12 was pre-lockdown, so it feels like decades ago.



ETA: Watched The Christmas Invasion. (Because that's where we were up to in our re-watch.) SO MUCH FUN!

The teenager's opinion: I prefer old Doctor Who to New Doctor Who
Me: This IS New Doctor Who!

*g*

Also I stand by my 'Dr Who as a metaphor for the UK' analogy. The Doctor toppled Harriet Jones and destroyed Britain's Golden Age. And here we are.

Comments

[unfeathered]

Captain Jack for Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soooo nice to have something to look forward to at last! :-D

[elisi]

Captain Jack for Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wearing a big bow and nothing else... ;)

Soooo nice to have something to look forward to at last! :-D
I honestly don't know how to feel.

[unfeathered]

Wearing a big bow and nothing else... ;)
LOL, now that's wishful thinking! (I'm sure JB would do that in a flash! :-D )

I honestly don't know how to feel.
I have to say I'm coming to this much more as a Jack fan and a Jack role-player (new canon to play with!!!) than a DW fan, so I'll be happy just to have him there, as I was last time. :-)

[elisi]

LOL, now that's wishful thinking! (I'm sure JB would do that in a flash! :-D )
He SO would. And so would Jack (let's be honest) but TPTB won't let him...

I have to say I'm coming to this much more as a Jack fan and a Jack role-player (new canon to play with!!!) than a DW fan, so I'll be happy just to have him there, as I was last time. :-)
Oh same here. And it looks like it'll be FUN Jack, whom I've missed since... I don't even know. 2010?

[unfeathered]

He SO would. And so would Jack (let's be honest) but TPTB won't let him...
Well, I don't know, I mean they did have the defabricator, once upon a time... :-D

Oh same here. And it looks like it'll be FUN Jack, whom I've missed since... I don't even know. 2010?
Well, we had fun Jack in that one ep last year but before that... Not in Miracle Day, that I can remember, not in CoE except a few glimpses, so... S2? 2009? :-(

[elisi]

Well, I don't know, I mean they did have the defabricator, once upon a time... :-D
VERY TRUE. And I have just spent WAY too long looking for this icon. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT.



Well, we had fun Jack in that one ep last year but before that... Not in Miracle Day, that I can remember, not in CoE except a few glimpses, so... S2? 2009? :-(
Aye. S2 and then the S4 DW finale.

[unfeathered]

LOL. :-D

Oh yes, the DW S4 finale, of course! See, that's the thing. On DW, Jack could be fun, because he was playing the sidekick again...

[elisi]

It's a classic.

And yes, on Doctor Who he can escape the angst!! Here's to fun!Jack.

[unfeathered]

Fingers crossed!

[elisi]

Let the snogging commence!

[juniperphoenix]

I loved seeing Delia Derbyshire's name in the credits.

[elisi]

Me too! :)

[masakochan]

I saw the new episode poster image on tumblr a couple of hours ago, and legit happy flailed so hard. <3

[elisi]

SUCH EXCITEMENT! <3

[gillo]

That DR!Clanger is way beyond adorable! And Captain Jack! (squee)

[elisi]

Isn't it just? Many many good things! :D

[sea_thoughts]

Haha, I love Georgia. Her sense of humour is amazing.

I'm happy to have Jack back, even if I'm not as fond of John I used to be.

[elisi]

Haha, I love Georgia. Her sense of humour is amazing.
She is the BEST. All hail Georgia.

I'm happy to have Jack back, even if I'm not as fond of John I used to be.
Yeah, it's nice to have him back on screen after... 10 years?

[sea_thoughts]

I know Moff wanted to have him back for A Good Man Goes To War but he was in America filming TW. And I think after that, there wasn't much chance to have him back.

[elisi]

... A five minute cameo in AGMGTW would have been better than S4 of TW, but I digress.

[sea_thoughts]

LMAO! Yeah, it would have been better for Jack to be in DW instead of THAT, but yeah...

[elisi]

Such a shame the BBC wiped the tapes and that the whole world contracted collective amnesia and that whole season is now missing...

[sea_thoughts]

I'm honestly having trouble remembering what even happened, can't have been that interesting... 0:)