[tv show] Doctor Who

[mikeprice]

Citation needed.

 

While not my specialist topic, it is that of a friend of mine and as far as I am aware there were not ‘plenty of male’ victims.

 

although citing Wikipedia is a bit dodgy this complies with my 'research' on the subject

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_the_early_modern_period#Gender_conflict

 

 

so there were plenty of male victims - but only as a much smaller percentage than women - although with regional variations

"Especially at the margins of Europe, in Iceland, Finland, Estonia and Russia, the majority of those accused were male"

 

Basically it seems to have often been based on local politics and petty quarrels - given a nuclear option

 

I believe that James II declared that the accusation of a person being a witch was sufficent proof of guilt as such as accusation is so terrible that God would not alow such an accusation to be made unless it was true.

Which quite a few dictators have employed as well!

[Ephelyon]

https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/11/quarter-people-executed-witchcraft-were-men-and-other-surprising-facts

 

Gendercide Watch: European Witch-Hunts

 

https://www.purplemotes.net/2015/11/08/witch-hunt-gender/

 

All concur that around 1 in 4 of the victims were male. The third is a long read but it does note that "about three times more women than men were executed as witches", putting the men at about a quarter.

 

I said that the victims were predominantly female, which at 3 in 4 is true, although 1 in 4 males I would argue is also "plenty" given the total numbers we're talking about. I also said there was no inclination to discriminate as to gender when bringing a trial, of which what happened in Salem in 1692 would be a very good example.

[6Foot2]

Citation needed.

 

While not my specialist topic, it is that of a friend of mine and as far as I am aware there were not ‘plenty of male’ victims.

 

Link: Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Europe - Oxford Handbooks

 

...What sorts of women were accused and why, and did other factors – age or marital and socio-economic status – influence their vulnerability to accusation? Why did witch-hunting claim a significant proportion of male victims, and why did the gendering of witchcraft prosecutions vary geographically?..

[AJWhite1970]

Pleasantly surprised by that episode.

 

 

I didn’t think it could get any worse and then bam, there it was....

#talkingfrog

[6Foot2]

[E_G_R2]

Much much better, I'll even forgive them for the Harry Potter esq white screen piece with the talking frog Edited December 3, 2018 by E_G_R2

[witch]

But the Doctor said she was "terrified" Since when is the Doctor terrified. Once again she has no idea what is going on and then..bam....she does. And the sonic screwdriver did everything else. Don't really need the Doctor anymore - seems to me

[DJ-1701]

But the Doctor said she was "terrified" Since when is the Doctor terrified.

The 3rd Doctor certainly was in Planet Of Spiders.

 

I haven't managed to catch up on the current series of Doctor Who, so I will be quiet now.

[DalekSec]

But the Doctor said she was "terrified" Since when is the Doctor terrified. Once again she has no idea what is going on and then..bam....she does. And the sonic screwdriver did everything else. Don't really need the Doctor anymore - seems to me

Capaldi's Doctor seemed to be scared a lot, along with most nu-who,

 

I agree with the Sonic i does come out to much IMO hopefully something they tone down on in next series.

 

Loved the last episode one of the stronger of this series, let down slightly by the frog at the end...

[Ephelyon]

Yes, this one was definitely better. Excellent stuff on grief from Bradley Walsh. We finally had the "companions arguing with the Doctor" moment, and she got to convey a bit of wisdom for the first time too, so this is good stuff. There were a few moments when I definitely believed this was The Doctor, which hadn't happened for me before in this series. If the second series is consistently much more like this, then I think they'll finally have found their groove.

 

That said... I echo what's been said above about the talking frog. It's like... someone who'd read about children but had never met one was asked what they thought might appeal to them...

 

I mean, it's a kids' show (in some ways) so I can definitely forgive a talking frog. I can totally forgive it. But only if you can give me a damn good explanation as to why there's a talking frog. And there just kinda wasn't one... :/

[6Foot2]

But the Doctor said she was "terrified" Since when is the Doctor terrified...

 

Hide: 2013.

[LeMarchand]

I enjoyed the ep, but now that Ryan has called him "Grandad" I'm worried for Graham.

[6Foot2]

Pleasantly surprised by that episode.

 

 

I didn’t think it could get any worse and then bam, there it was....

#talkingfrog

 

Meglos was a walking, talking cactus...

 

 

*Not criticising a Tom story here

[gshaw]

Yes, this one was definitely better. Excellent stuff on grief from Bradley Walsh. We finally had the "companions arguing with the Doctor" moment, and she got to convey a bit of wisdom for the first time too, so this is good stuff. There were a few moments when I definitely believed this was The Doctor, which hadn't happened for me before in this series. If the second series is consistently much more like this, then I think they'll finally have found their groove.

 

That said... I echo what's been said above about the talking frog. It's like... someone who'd read about children but had never met one was asked what they thought might appeal to them...

 

I mean, it's a kids' show (in some ways) so I can definitely forgive a talking frog. I can totally forgive it. But only if you can give me a damn good explanation as to why there's a talking frog. And there just kinda wasn't one... :/

 

Yup my feelings on it too; shame it's taken so long in this series to get going (which is shorter than usual) then the rumour has it the next series will be even shorter

 

The talking frog scene was rather trippy to say the least

[mavhc]

What was weird was the terrible mouth animation, did they not have the script until 5 hours before it aired?

[LeMarchand]

What was weird was the terrible mouth animation, did they not have the script until 5 hours before it aired?

 

The "frog" was talking in but we were getting the audio benefits of the Tardis's translation circuits. Normally it also creates the illusion of lip synch, but the distance/mirror threw it out.

 

Honest.

[E_G_R2]

The moth was so old who.

 

The frog made me think of league of gentlemen (don't mention the F word)

[Garacesh]

Got round to watching it last night..

 

Oh good heavens, would you look at that? A decently paced episode! And it wasn't written by Chibnall. Fancy that!

OK, yeah, so I'm being a little bit facetious. But it was something I picked up on.

 

We're still having a bit of 'too many companions' though. Yet again we have Bradley Wash nailing his performance, and Ryan had his turn playing a decent role.. But what did Yaz do? I'm struggling to recall anything she did that actually mattered.

As seems to be the recurring theme, the ending felt rushed. I'll be the first to admit I'm not quite sure how I'd portray a physical manifestation of a conscious universe, but I don't think I'd pick a talking frog. At least they recognised it was a bit stupid and scripted The Doctor asking about it, but being self-aware about your daftness doesn't negate the fact that it's daft in the first place.

The null space (or was it void space?) was dingy and different enough, but they didn't spend too much time lingering on it as a plot point, which is good. I do wish they hadn't killed the creepy dude they met there, but it's clear they wanted to set him up as a nasty man, and they didn't want his presence interfering with the mad rush home, but it just made the entire section he was in just feel a bit pointless. I appreciate a potential adversary being defeated by their own greed or other such vice, but for that kind of thing to really pay off we need to be a lot more invested in that adversary than we were with what's-his-face.

Also I liked the touch of all the scenes inside the mirror universe being horizontally flipped. I know they're not the first show to do it and it doesn't really add much to the plot but it was still a nice detail.

I think the way they played Ryan finally calling Graham Granddad was done well, especially the playful jab about going deaf. That struck me as very real.

Edited December 4, 2018 by Garacesh

[mikeprice]

Finally saw this weeks episode last night - MUCH better

 

Not up to the best from Tennant but seriously better than the last few weeks

 

now - keep the improvement going and sack the person who did the frog animation and we could getting somewhere

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[Arthur]

BBC confirm Series 12 to broadcast in 2019

 

Rumours about both the immediate and longer term future of Doctor Who have been flying around the Internet this week. In a bid to either discover the truth or put those rumours to bed, STARBURST has been in touch with the series’ production office for confirmation one way or the other.

 

The BBC was happy to go on the record about the programme’s short-term future. There had been a lot of chatter about Jodie Whittaker’s second run in Series 12 being planned for a broadcast in the spring of 2020, rather than in the autumn of 2019 as everyone had originally assumed. This is not true.

 

We were told that Series 12 went into production this week, and that it will definitely be broadcast next year, as part of the autumn 2019 TV schedule.

 

That’s one rumour that has now been scotched.

 

The second rumour that’s currently doing the rounds is that new showrunner Chris Chibnall hasn’t been happy behind the scenes, and is set to quit after Series 12.

 

We can only speculate as to his possible reasons – if indeed the story is true – but Chibnall told us quite firmly in January 2013 that he didn’t want the showrunner job, and it’s possible after the success of Broadchurch that the BBC pursued him for it against his better wishes. Or simply that he changed his mind.

 

Either way, if there is any truth to this rumour then it’s also been said that Jodie Whittaker would not want to continue on as the Doctor without Chibnall at the helm, and would leave at the same time as he did.

 

Both Chibnall and Whittaker have certainly looked happy enough during the pre-publicity for Series 11, and with the ratings success they’ve had it would be a loss for them both to go after one more series. But the BBC is an odd, double-headed beast (the programme is essentially now a co-production between the BBC and its autonomous subsidiary BBC Studios), and Chibnall would seem to be happier working with his own production company on series like Broadchurch. We have been somewhere very like this before, with Christopher Eccleston’s departure after just a single series in 2005.

[6Foot2]

Jodie Whittaker on Jamie & Jimmy's Friday Night Feast tonight, Channel 4, 8:00 pm.

 

Link: Jodie Whittaker's massaman curry

[6Foot2]

Link: Jodie Whittaker Confirms Return for 'Doctor Who' Season 12 [Hollywood Reporter]

 

The first female Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker, will be returning for another season.

 

While it was largely presumed that Whittaker wouldn't be handing over her sonic screwdriver anytime soon, the typically tight-tipped BBC hadn't yet confirmed who would be playing Doctor Who for season 12 of the cult sci-fi series, and there was always the chance that she could go the way of Christopher Eccleston, who managed just one stint as the Time Lord.

 

"I really can’t wait to step back in and get to work again," Whittaker told The Hollywood Reporter. "It’s such an incredible role. It's been an extraordinary journey so far and I'm not quite ready to hand it over yet."

 

Whittaker's unveiling as the star of Doctor Who last year was met with widespread praise, and her first season in the role — the first female Doctor in the show's 55-year history — has so far been hugely well received by the critics. The opening episode of season 11, "The Woman Who Fell to Earth," amassed consolidated ratings of 10.9 million in the U.K., making it the biggest season launch for the show since it returned in its modern form (Eccleston’s first episode reached 10.8 million, when non-TV viewing was far less of a phenomenon).

 

The 11th season of Doctor Who draws to a close on Sunday, with the show returning for a New Year's Day special. Season 12 is expected to start shooting in early 2019.

 

Doctor Who is a BBC Studios production for BBC One and a BBC America co-production.

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Link: Doctor Who New Year special to see

battle Jodie Whittaker for first time [The Mirror]

 

NOTE: Potential New Year special spoiler upon clickin link above and in text below

 

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Doctor Who is rolling out the fan faves for the New Year’s Day special as Jodie Whittaker’s Time Lord battles the Daleks.

 

The iconic baddies had been banished by new showrunner Chris Chibnall, along with the Cybermen and Weeping Angels.

 

But they will now try to exterminate the Doctor in the hour-long special – and have had a makeover, losing the bronze look...

 

...A hint about the return of the Daleks is expected to come in the trailer at the end of Sunday’s series finale. The BBC declined to comment last night.