The Doctor's New Clothes

[Crazedwraith]

New Doctor Who costume revealed
By Lizo Mzimba
Entertainment correspondent

Doctor Who fans have been given their first look at the new costume being worn by Matt Smith, the 11th actor to play the role.

The Time Lord's new look consists of tweed jacket, bow tie, rolled up trousers and black boots.

Filming on the new episodes begins on Monday in Cardiff, with the new series going out in spring 2010.

Smith is taking over from David Tennant, whose last episodes will be shown at the end of the year.

"I feel very privileged and proud to be part of this iconic show," Smith said after arriving on set for his first day of filming.

'Come alive'

"The scripts are brilliant - I'm excited about the future and all the brilliant adventures I get to go on as the Doctor."

The Doctor will also have a new companion - Amy Pond - played by Karen Gillan, who meets the Time Lord in episode one of the new series.

There is also a changed team behind the scenes, led by new lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat who will be responsible for the overall creative direction of the show, as well as plot and character arcs.

"Matt and Karen are going to be incredible, and Doctor Who is going to come alive on Saturday nights in a whole new way," Moffat said.

Since its return in 2005, Doctor Who has won a number of accolades, including Baftas and National Television Awards.
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Published: 2009/07/20 07:30:04 GMT

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There's a picture in the link. Looks rather goofy to me. Though the new companion is very easy on the eyes.

[Bounty]

I like it. Fits the character. All it misses is some sort of vegetable.

[Zac Naloen]

Seems I wasn't wrong about those original publicity shots.


They were just the actor in his normal clothes and hair placed next to the Tardis.

[Molyneux]

"Goofy" does seem to rather fit the bill for the Doctor...

[PREDATOR490]

I Find it kinda pointless to judge the look without knowing what kind of personnality the Doctor is going to roll with this time. Although given the age of the actor it seems given he will be goofy so go figure with the look. The way new Doctor Who is going with their selection it seems unlikely they will find the kind of people that can carry the more interesting looks, Tom Baker and Colin Baker being the most obvious.

Personnally, I found McCoy's Doctor the best although that might have something to do with his rather awesome, explosive packing, attacking Daleks with baseball bat companion Ace. Such a welcome to replacement to that fucking wailing banshee bitch but I digress...

As for this companion, she has the looks but I'm more interested in seeing if they will relegate her to another stupid Doctor groupie or break the trend and make her reasonably competent. I would say someone like Easter's Michelle Ryan would be interesting but even then they were going down the road of more romancy shit.

[Thanas]

Personnally, I found McCoy's Doctor the best although that might have something to do with his rather awesome, explosive packing, attacking Daleks with baseball bat companion Ace. Such a welcome to replacement to that fucking wailing banshee bitch but I digress...

WTF?

[PREDATOR490]

Personnally, I found McCoy's Doctor the best although that might have something to do with his rather awesome, explosive packing, attacking Daleks with baseball bat companion Ace. Such a welcome to replacement to that fucking wailing banshee bitch but I digress...

WTF?

Your problem is ?

[Thanas]

Which companion would you characterize as a fucking wailing banshee bitch?

[Stark]

Is it wrong that looking at that I just think 'snore'? Oh wow, a bow tie! A neutral coloured suit! Amazing. How original!

[Bedlam]

Which companion would you characterize as a fucking wailing banshee bitch?

I'm Guessing that would be Mel (Bonnie Langford), we was a rather accumplished screemer.

[PREDATOR490]

Which companion would you characterize as a fucking wailing banshee bitch?

Bonnie Langford A.K.A Mel

Doctor Who became nearly unwatchable due to this woman's screaming which ended up being her entire role in the show. It was a welcome relief when she was replaced by Sophie Aldred A.L.A Ace

Granted, I am biased due to growing up with this Doctor and companion as short as it was but beating up a dalek with a baseball bat simply rocks and the episode was the first to actually show daleks going up stairs from what I recall. Despite how utterly shit it looks by today's standards...

ACE vs. Dalek

[Stark]

Are you saying 'Mel screamed and was annoying because Ace was cool'? How does that follow?

[PREDATOR490]

Are you saying 'Mel screamed and was annoying because Ace was cool'? How does that follow?

Mel was rendered as being an idiot that screamed at EVERYTHING and did nothing but get herself into situations that involved screaming until someone came along and saved her thus I found her completely uninteresting and the screaming quickly became the bane of Doctor Who. The blame of course is unfairly leveled at Langford when it should be with the directors but her voice and screaming are simply one of the things that make her annoying regardless of other companions.

That she was followed up by Sophie Aldred being introduced as less of a Doctor flunky and more of a capable and independant character only helps to further contrast against Langford's inept character IMO.

[Stark]

No, slow down. Take a deep breath. Now read what I said. The question was 'how does that follow'. How do Ace's attributes have anything to do with Mel's? They don't of course; Ace is totally irrelevant to a discussion of Mel. Talking about shit Ace did is a complete red herring when talking about how annoying Mel was.

[PREDATOR490]

No, slow down. Take a deep breath. Now read what I said. The question was 'how does that follow'. How do Ace's attributes have anything to do with Mel's? They don't of course; Ace is totally irrelevant to a discussion of Mel. Talking about shit Ace did is a complete red herring when talking about how annoying Mel was.

For fuck sake, Mel spent her entire run screaming, it is the trademark ability she is known for and as a companion she was utterly useless compared to them all.
Mel literally had NO attributes except screaming and servicing act of plot garbage.

That is what made her annoying.

The next companion after Mel was Ace who ends up on the opposite side of the specturm of Mel by being independant and capable. She actually had attributes and was given stuff to do that even furthered her own character development.

I fail to see what is so fucking hard to comprehend about this.

[Big Orange]

To lighten up this thread, here are some clearer, bigger still images of the revamped TARDIS exterior. Looks a bit toy like, don't you think? The Doctor's new costume makes him out and out nerdy, although at least it doesn't have question marks.

[Stark]

For fuck sake, Mel spent her entire run screaming, it is the trademark ability she is known for and as a companion she was utterly useless compared to them all.
Mel literally had NO attributes except screaming and servicing act of plot garbage.

That is what made her annoying.

The next companion after Mel was Ace who ends up on the opposite side of the specturm of Mel by being independant and capable. She actually had attributes and was given stuff to do that even furthered her own character development.

I fail to see what is so fucking hard to comprehend about this.

Right, and how is antyhign Ace did relevant to Mel again? Mel is annoying. This is totally separate from anything about Ace.

[Batman]

Isn't The Doctor's TARDIS supposed to be stuck with looking like a 50s era police phone box? Ecclestons and Tennants did (or at least did look like one would EXPECT a 50s era police phone box to look like) and so presumably did its earlier incarnations. This one does NOT.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

To lighten up this thread, here are some clearer, bigger still images of the revamped TARDIS exterior. Looks a bit toy like, don't you think?

I've seen some commentary that it resembles the original '63 version of the prop more than anything else.

[Vympel]

He looks like a right prat.

[Patrick Degan]

To lighten up this thread, here are some clearer, bigger still images of the revamped TARDIS exterior. Looks a bit toy like, don't you think?

I've seen some commentary that it resembles the original '63 version of the prop more than anything else.

Erm... Somewhat, but not quite:

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Erm... Somewhat, but not quite:

Oh yeah, you are right. Pretty much all of the edge detailing is missing.

So like BO said, very toylike, but at the same time probably closest to the original it's been in years.

[Bounty]

The detailing hasn't changed much, it just looks like they made it a bit lower again - like the real boxes - and gave it a good clean.

[Bob the Gunslinger]

Right, and how is antyhign Ace did relevant to Mel again? Mel is annoying. This is totally separate from anything about Ace.

I don't think he's saying Ace's character is relevant to Mel's so much as something along the lines of "Mel was a useless character who screamed a lot. Period. Her uselessness is only highlighted by the inevitable comparison to her direct successor, Ace, who wasn't a useless character. Thus, Mel looks even worse than she actually was due to hindsight and an unfavorable contrast with the next, decent companion."

It's sort of like Flowers for Algernon, where Predator learns that he can never go back again. At first Mel didn't seem so bad. Then Charlie Predator experienced, Ace, the equivalent of not being retarded. Now when he goes back to watch Mel episodes, he realizes that things are not as rosy as they seemed, for his Ace experiences have left him with the knowledge of how shitty the once-tolerable Mel really is by comparison. Or something.

[Patrick Degan]

Back to topic, it seems the new Doctor would have looked better in this outfit:

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