*Matt Lucas.
Not sure why I typed Ryan. Cut me a break it's like 5am where I am.
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Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker announced as the 13th Doctor!
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*Matt Lucas.
Not sure why I typed Ryan. Cut me a break it's like 5am where I am.
Jodie will be paid the same as Capaldi: http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/c...the-same-as-peter-capaldi-after-a3592211.html
Good. I watched her in Broadchurch, and she definitely deserves good pay. The fact that the BBC have bridged the gap in male/female pay is only a good thing.
lastplayed
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Yeah Nardole was great. He was one of the few companions that actually knew what was going on most of the time.
If you want to get a taste of the sort of bombastic speeches we might hear from her role as the Doctor, watch this vid.
I'm so excited!
I'm so excited!
funkystudent
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And if they ever do a multi doctor story she already has practice arguing with Doctors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgsYfRPmNDs
I wonder what accent they are going to go with. I do love her natural accent but maybe they will go with something less distinct like how they had Tennent lay off his natural Scottish accent..
i miss Bill, i hope we see her again in the future. i was glad she was just a companion and didn't have some prophesy around her like claire, donna and rose.
Adam Scott Aukerman
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She's from Yorkshire.
From a story perspective, I'm not sure I'm going to be happy with this yet.
From an entertainment perspective though, it's going to be fresh and a lot more interesting. Might as well be positive about it since it's happening. I'm no where near as excited as I was for Capaldi as the Doctor but that would probably be true for whoever would be picked.
Now would be the best time to bring back Captain Jack. Maybe even for a series, not going to be happen but it would be less odd than the Doctor suddenly picking a male companion.
From an entertainment perspective though, it's going to be fresh and a lot more interesting. Might as well be positive about it since it's happening. I'm no where near as excited as I was for Capaldi as the Doctor but that would probably be true for whoever would be picked.
Now would be the best time to bring back Captain Jack. Maybe even for a series, not going to be happen but it would be less odd than the Doctor suddenly picking a male companion.
Spectromixer
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Just give me one Captain Jack episode and I'll be happy.
tonysidaway
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One thing I miss is the audio commentary that used to be put up on the BBC website during the Davies/Gardner period. Unlike Doctor Who Confidential, which was big enough to be vulnerable to cost cutting, this was a straightforward commentary from those involved in the production of each episode.
Kris Marshall just can't catch a break
You don't mess with the Yorkshire accent, GOT had to bend to it 😁
So in a shock move, as a result of Doctor Who having a woman as the lead, she is Boycotting the show.
SlipperyFishes
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Oieeeee yooouuuu watch your tone misteeeeerrrr krane
WadiumArcadium
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Especially when she tries to say "sure" in an American accent.
ClivePwned
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Let's not throw shade at Frasier. The Moons all having different accents despite being from the same area and no one ever mentioning it was always genius.
It was like this weird thing which turned Frasier into a Twilight Zone sporadically.
I DUNNO YES MAYBE I JUST WATCHED BROADCHURCH AND I WAS LIKE WHY DOES THAT VOICE SOUND FAMILIAR AND I REMEMBERED I HAD BEEN WATCHING A LOT OF ANOTHER SHOW
Would it help if I actually knew what a Yorkshire accent sounded like?
SlipperyFishes
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FortuneFaded
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lastplayed
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Patrick Stewart is from Yorkshire. Imagine if he kept his accent.
"An ah said to t'Borg, tha' torpedo were wasted on thee"
tonysidaway
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Sean Bean (Ned Stark) and Mark Addy (King Robert Baratheon) speak with their natural Yorkshire accents in Game of Thrones. Contrast this with the accent of Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister). Although Headey's father is from Yorkshire and she spent much of her childhood there and could probably speak with that accent, in the show she plays a woman from a southern kingdom of Westeros and uses a generic, vaguely southern English accent which sounds a little posh to English ears.
https://youtu.be/e_LpTmWGLHk
tonysidaway
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tonysidaway
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Dick Van Dyke trying for a chirpy cockney chimney sweep.
I have never heard Jodie talk before, never seen her before really, but my gawd she has the cutest accent...and when she talks ( on the BBC interview in the Doctor Who FB page) she's like so animated and cute...golly gee.
And then she appears on Doctor Who and she's the meanest person ever...lol.
And then she appears on Doctor Who and she's the meanest person ever...lol.
funkystudent
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I am going to be extremely bummed if they have her do a straight English accent for Who.
They should pay him to overdub some classic episodes in broad Yorkshire accent: would make for delicious special editions.
Which means she is perfect for the character.
A good doctor can do both "cute old granpa who can't hurt a fly" and "i will muder you in ways that would make a mexican cartel afraid" when the situation requires
I was actually thinking the other day that a great Easter Egg for the season Blu-Ray would be to get Nick Briggs to overdub all of Bill-as-human's dialogue from the last episode in the sing-song Cyberman voice - strictly speaking, that's what they'd be hearing, after all...
I think there's an implication that the Cybermen "translate" Bill's dialogue like the Dalek speech in Witch's Familiar as well, isn't there? As hilarious as it would be to hear Briggs do it word-for-word...
That would be good one.
lastplayed
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Bigby_Wolf
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She looks great!
So brave and so beautiful.
So brave and so beautiful.
ManDudeChild
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I guess suspenders are the new fez... and fez's are cool
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Good promo shot. Very warm colors. Digging her style. Hopefully they nail hers right off the bat. Took them awhile to settle on 12 just being a middle age rocker.
Robot Carnival
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not a big fan of the pants but otherwise she looks great.