Tuesday, 23rd November 2010
Doctor Who's Birthday
Arc of Infinity - Episode 2 Tweetamentary Transcript
Stand by for #ArcOfInfinity Episode 2 Tweetamentary for #DoctorWho47
Play NOW! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Colin Baker's revenge #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
I love how elaborate the robes they wear are, even without the collars #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Baker playing with TARDIS console. Nice foreshadowing. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Love how The Doctor doesn't drink from a glass with a curly straw. The indignity! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Love the location sound recording. Bit of a harsh jump when they go into studio but still. Nice reality. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Tegan's return! After one episode away... If memory serves. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Is that a pregnant Time Lady in the background? #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
For pity's sake, start acting man! The man with Tegan really bugs me #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
I think I love the politics of Gallifrey a little too much! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
One of my bug bears: actors not finding their light. Well done Fielding, lean right out of the light. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
The Gallifrey Council scenes feel like full on theatre. I love it! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
The 5th Doctor being doing anger is lovely. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
I'm puzzled. There's a bad guy trying to use The Doctor, so to save the day, let's kill him? That makes sense. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Baker is brilliant in this. Seems Davsion has really upped his game for this. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
They've lit the TARDIS better too. Not so harsh. Is it in Power Down mode? #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
The stuff with Tegan is nice, but it really slows it down. It's almost like this story is trying to be too much. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Love seeing snatches of roundels in corridors. Nice mention of Leela. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
A strip of lighting gel and a few tipex streaks proves traitourous activity? Ah, right. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
New component without a recall circuit! Nice! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Setting up plot later? Nyssa noticing weaponry in the computer room? #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Castellan's office is nice and simple, but moody. Shall ignore the rumpled vinyl flooring. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Back reference to Morbius. Lovely. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Jump cut from Neg FX shot to real shot. Not sure if I like it. However Green TARDIS is cool. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Reveal of monster physically but saving back who he is. Nice tactic. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Mmm The Comfy Chairs of Rassilon. Oh, and The Ikea Lighting of Rassilon. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Baker in his plumage. Classy. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Would the guards consider marching rather than meandering? #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Borusa is moustachioed. You can tell he'll be a wrong-un one day. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Termination Chamber is yet another really nice set. Cheap, simple but effective. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Could you have made finding your mark subtler Davison? lol #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Doctor's execution is how I'd want to do the transformation in Beauty and The Beast. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
What a cliffhanger? Can they get better? #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
End of episode 2! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Tuesday, 23rd November 2010
Doctor Who's Birthday
Arc of Infinity - Episode 1 Tweetamentary Transcript
Rod Henderson is looking forward to the #TwimeTeam later tonight but to start the day off I'll be dipping into Arc of Infinity. Hashtag #ArcOfInfinity
Just remembered my AoI dvd is signed by Cmdr Maxil AND The Doctor. EPIC WIN! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Episode 1, playing NOW! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
My Doctor. How I have missed you. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Dark shadowy Time Lord robes. Cool. Negative effect shot, REALLY cool #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
What's up with the very late 60s/early 70s fashions in The Matrix room? #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Stuff behind the roundels always good. Adds an extra element to the set #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Location footage! Lovely normal looking street. Nice difference from a UK street pretending 2 b something else. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Location filming such a simple thing to do to make a story feel really different. Is Amsterdam a gimmick though? #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Pre 5 Doctors TARDIS Console. Looks so blank. Nothing to do on it. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Shadow work and now POV camera work? We're being spoilt! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Love the detail of the TARDIS hatstand lying on floor to show they've been on a bumpy journey. So simple. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Really creepy time bending effects. So easily done, but quite effective. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
No! Not a possession! Though Davison falls beautifully. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Really hideous socks. Who chooses hi vis yellow socks to wear? Students apparantly. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Ergon or Myrka. Which is worse? #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
The Doctor listening to a companion. I <3 <3 Doctor 5 and Nyssa #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
The special effects in this are fairly decent. Just enough to suggest. Council meeting. I want some robes! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
The Arc of Infinity is a lovely sci fi spacey name. Pity it's not done justice in this. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
COMMANDER MAXIL! My hero! So loyal, so smug, so nasty! Adore Colin Baker. Such a lovely actor. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
The recall circuit. Only used twice before. Both with The Doctor. Coincidence? I think not. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
I really like that the motto or ths story seems to be simpler the better.#ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Purple and blue helmet plumage? Classy but inpractical surely? #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
What a really relaxed hotel checking in system. What's your name? Some name. How long? Meh. Ok, have keys. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Random anger outburst. If only the actor showed any build up to it. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Davison doing directional comedy. Act like he's going one way, then go another. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
When did Nyssa have the abilities of Diana Rigg? #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Possibly one of the most famous cliffhangers ever! Maxil Versus The Doctor! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Quite a large cast for episode 1 of a serial. Really nicely cast with maybe one or two exceptions. #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Break for now given that it's half 2 in the morning! More later! #ArcOfInfinity #DoctorWho47
Thursday, 28 October 2010
The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith - Part One Tweetamentary Transcript
Part One Transcript follows with some corrected spellings and grammar and shiz!
Brace yourselves! For the next little while, Twitter will go all #SJA as I do an unplanned Tweetamentary on Temptation of SJS #TemptationSJA
Here goes. A #SJA story I've not seen too! Play NOW! #TemptationSJA #SJA
It's Harry Potter! #TemptationSJA #SJA
You're not staring into time, you're staring at a green screen. #TemptationSJA #SJA
An anomoly in time. Where are the Reapers? #TemptationSJA #SJA
The Trickster! That bald faced bastard of Time! #TemptationSJA #SJA
Cool lighting on the actors faces to show the time rift and lack of #TemptationSJA #SJA
Let's shoehorn young and hip cultural references into the script. Unless Steve Wright is a villain from Classic Who #TemptationSJA #SJA
Where does the other door in Sarah Jane's attic lead to? #TemptationSJA #SJA
Is that the photograph we've never seen before until, oh wait, the last episode where they realised they hadn't seeded it? #TemptationSJA #SJA
Very unconvincing? Like your acting then? Ooh burn! lol #TemptationSJA #SJA
Mugged by your own son! #TemptationSJA #SJA
Who are they? Actors we hired to be photoshopped. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Aunt Lavinia for the win! #TemptationSJA #SJA
See? Asbo families existed back before this generation. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Careful Sarah Jane, you don't want to sonic your face off. Oh wait. You own real lipstick. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Go on Lukey Boy. Explain the Blinovitch Limitation Effect to the kids. #TemptationSJA #SJA
How did they not see The Trickster just standing there? Not even appearing. He's just standing next to them! #TemptationSJA #SJA
Who Do You Think You Are? with Sarah Jane Smith in 3D #TemptationSJA #SJA
The kid can't be Harry Potter. He's not annoying enough. Yet. There's still time. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Is there anything Clyde can't use his name to describe? Clydey sense? #TemptationSJA #SJA
Mr Smith opening/waking up never gets old. Alexander Armstrong ftw! #TemptationSJA #SJA
Clyde's script analysis. : I don't like how that sentence ended. Why? Grammar seemed fine. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Clyde forshadowing Matt Smith with a lovely mispronunciation of Graske! #TemptationSJA #SJA
Bloody hell! Sarah Jane was a massive baby! How is that possible on rationing? #TemptationSJA #SJA
Oh right, cos Luke keeps pre decimalised currency in his pocket. What's that, a hobby? #TemptationSJA #SJA
Well, it seems allowing odd stuff is in the Smith DNA. SJ's mum allows odd money. Is her dad the guy from Basil Brush? #TemptationSJA #SJA
Ewww! Luke and Sarah Jane are married! #TemptationSJA #SJA
Harry Potter Kid is really nicely sinister. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Ah ha! It's SJ's fault for single parent families. She introduced the concept in 1951! #TemptationSJA #SJA
With that degree of stalkage, what would Eddie Smith have done with Twitter? #TemptationSJA #SJA
Argh! Autons! Oh wait, stand down. Real dummies. And I don't mean Rani. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Jumanji indeed. Robin Williams just earned 2 pence then. #TemptationSJA #SJA
I like SJ's dad but her mum is a litle odd. Glad they wrote in a line about moving there to explain her accent. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Excellent location work for this story. Wonder how much work they had to do to make it look old? #TemptationSJA #SJA
It's convenient that the nearest car in the village is the one needed in the story. I want one. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Bit of a jump. Peladon and nothing until Bubbleshock? Meanie SJ! #TemptationSJA #SJA
Engine damage effect looks uncannily like someone shagging in a car, albeit briefly. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Bad Harry Potter Kid. #TemptationSJA #SJA
It's flibbly headed Graske Man! Woo! How stupid must that kid have felt thrashing about? #TemptationSJA #SJA
Awesome CGI of post apocalyptic London. Didn't realise Sarah Jane lived on Westminster Bridge however. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Is Greenford really an underground station? Why make one up? Ealing is a real place, unlike Walford. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Well, you messed that one up Sarah Jane. I would say oops, we all make mistakes, but you just destroyed my house. #TemptationSJA #SJA
Very cool 'Sontaran Experiment' type location feel to the 'Next Time' Trailer #TemptationSJA #SJA
Part 1 finished! #TemptationSJA #SJA
There you are. Part Two will be appearing on Twitter at some point in the near future.
Rx
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Turn Left Transcript
What follows is a transcript of all my tweets on the episode 'Turn Left'. This does not include replies to other people, just my literal thoughts as it unfolds:
Since we've had no more votes, Turn Left gets your vote. In 10 mins we'll start (15:10) using hashtag #turnleft unsurprisingly.
#DoctorWho #TurnLeft Press Play now!
Whole planet of Chinatown. Omnomnom #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
No I don't want to buy your tat. I have to go do a reference to Planet of The Spiders #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Chan She looks like Chantho Tho. Odd that. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
You would have thought the Chancellor Flavia music would make Donna shut up #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Epic space opera coupled with a soap. Like Blake's 7 meets Brookside. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
I have a beetle rucksack. What a liberty! #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Longest most unnessasary pre credits sequence. But Billie Piper's name in the credits so, yum. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Donna had been getting good up until this point but so far she's chanelling her sketch show. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Really pleased to see the same events as before from a different perspective. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Yay! Greyhound 15! Pity he has to break the news of The Doctor's death #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Tyler's back! And this time she's not sobbing... Yet. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Does anyone know what Cliff does all day? #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Oliver Morgenstern! He was awesome. The Doctor, Martha, it's turning into the last episode of Blake's 7. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
NO! Not Sarah Jane! Anyone but her. NO! Clyde and Maria die as well? Nooooo! #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Tyler, you are so subtle. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Spose Rose adjusting the timeline won't make too much difference after all the mess so far. Love the refs. to Mr Noble. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Guinevere range of satellites. I love the ref back to The Christmas Invasion and Voyage of the Damned #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
This really should have been a special or a xmas special story. Bit too big a concept for normal series #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Bernard Cribbins is such a legend and a hero. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
RTD carrying on his US are amazingly fat storyline. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Credit to RTD, this is one of his most political stories. Handled so sensitively. And dramatically. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Wilf squaring up to UNIT. Brilliant! Donna accepting Rose will help even though she doesn't know her is great. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Torchwood sting under dialogue. Great stuff. Just Rose left now. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
This was the perfect place to put Rose. Forget her later appearance. This is perfect. Tate finally being believable. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Really nicely handled WWII references. RTDs finest hour. Cribbins at his most beautiful. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Leaving a camera on Sylvia and just letting her act is brilliant. Graeme Harper you genius. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Nice reversal of how Donna first discovered the TARDIS . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
TARDIS set looks so beautiful. I miss it so much. Hurts seeing it so unwell. Seeing it die... #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Finally, Rose Tyler does get character development. And the most difficult news she has to deliver. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
UNIT and Torchwood joining forces to save the universe. Donna Noble, hero. Hero music and my favourite sound effect. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Seeing someone realise that they have to die is so heart breaking. Like Pete Tyler in Father's Day . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Running. Always with the running. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Last Chance Saloon music. Left or Right. Left or Right. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Donna, not one of my favourite companions but it still destroys me seeing her die. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Never have I been so pleased to see The Doctor. The Trickster's Brigade. #SJA reference ftw! #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
The Doctor's setting up the specials series! #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Bad Wolf . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
I love the Cloister Bell. Petrifies me, but I love hearing it. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
It's the end of the Universe and for once, there's no exaggerating. It actually is. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Harriet Jones, UNIT, Torchwood and The Shadow Proclamation all in one story! RTD you did brilliantly. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Turn Left is such a beautiful story. Tragic, dramatic, terrifying and powerful. How TV should be! #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
Really need to rewatch more NuWho. Had forgotten how brilliant that story is. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft
That's all for now. Hope you enjoyed it. Look forward to your feedback!
