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[Teddybrown]

2 clips from episode 4 - The Doctors Wife
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/videos/p00gszmg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/videos/p00gszls

And the introduction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/videos/p00gszmx

[Billz]

Steven Moffat launches attack against Doctor Who fans:
'Doctor Who chief writer Steven Moffat has attacked fans of the show who reveal crucial plot lines ahead of transmission.

"You can imagine how much I hate them," he told BBC Radio 5 live. "It's only fans who do this, or they call themselves fans."

"I wish they could go and be fans of something else."

Before the current series begans, a fan posted the entire plot of the first two episodes on an internet forum.'


Source: BBC Teletext, BBC Radio 5 Live

Okay, I can imagine him being upset about leaked details, but to tell fans to basically get lost because of it, is a bit stuck up.

[Sealurk]

Steven Moffat launches attack against Doctor Who fans:
'Doctor Who chief writer Steven Moffat has attacked fans of the show who reveal crucial plot lines ahead of transmission.

"You can imagine how much I hate them," he told BBC Radio 5 live. "It's only fans who do this, or they call themselves fans."

"I wish they could go and be fans of something else."

Before the current series begans, a fan posted the entire plot of the first two episodes on an internet forum.'


Source: BBC Teletext, BBC Radio 5 Live

Okay, I can imagine him being upset about leaked details, but to tell fans to basically get lost because of it, is a bit stuck up.

I suppose it could be read as "I put a lot of work into this story and hoped it would be full of mystery and intrigue and cliffhangers, and some loudmouth goes and ruins the whole thing" and he's just very upset for that reason, but still, that's a little sad to see. I wouldn't have pegged him as the type to attack his fans publicly.

[Alan]

Steven Moffat speaks out against spoiler "vandals"
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - Posted by Chuck Foster

Steven Moffat has been quoted this morning on his thoughts about how some 'fans' feel the need to spoil series surprises ahead of broadcast, something he considers to be 'vandalism'.

The comments come after a recent incident where the plot of series opener The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon was posted online, and the story has been picked up by BBC News and on BBC Radio. Speaking to BBC Entertainment reporter Colin Paterson at a pre-BAFTA TV Awards event, Moffat said:

It's heart-breaking in a way, because you try and tell a story, and stories depend on surprise, stories depend on shocking people, stories are the moments you didn't see coming - those are what live in you and burn in you forever. If you are denied those, it's vandalism.

To have some twit who came to a press launch write up a story in the worst, most ham-fisted English you can imagine and put it on the Internet ... I just hope that guy never watches my show again, because that's a horrific thing to do. It is exactly like that boring man in the pub, who waits until you're nearly finished your joke and jumps in with the punchline, and gets it slightly wrong. You hate that guy, you just hate those guys too - can you imagine how much I hate them?

... It's only fans who do this - or they call themselves fans - I wish they could go and be fans of something else!

Having discussed the item on BBC Radio Five Live earlier in the morning, Paterson then appeared alongside Doctor Who Magazine reporter Benjamin Cook on BBC's Breakfast, where the latter reflected on Moffat's concerns:

I can understand Steven's frustration, because he heads a team of people who work incredibly hard throughout the year to make the BBC's flagship show and it should be their choice in how that story is digested by the viewers: the funny bits make you laugh, the sad bits make you cry, and the twists and turns - of which there are many, and many more coming up later in the series - they should be allowed to shock people. If someone goes online and spoils it for other fans ... but also then often journalists will trawl the Doctor Who forums to find stories to put in the newspaper that can reach the national press, it's a bit of a rubbish thing to do.

But I would say in the fans' defence that it often comes from a place of enthusiasm - it's not malicious, it's because they love the show. They want information about it, they want to share information about it.

BBC Radio Five Live spoke to Sandy Sinclair, senior contributor to Spoiler TV, who commented:

(If) you look at soap operas these days, you know what's happening months ahead. People start to expect these things of programmes. I have to say that people who do come and read these spoilers - specifically the one he (Steven Moffat) talked about - make up approximately 0.00001% of the actual people that are watching the show.

... We get screeners all the time for episodes of shows that haven't been screened yet on TV, they're sent to us and we give a non-spoiler review so that fans then do want to watch it. Obviously you are going to get people who don't respect that, unfortunately. If Steven Moffat is going to invite a number of people to different screenings of the episode three, four weeks before it's been shown on TV, he's going to have this happen. He's invited normal fans along to screenings rather than just the press or a site like us that will respect what he says, and obviously tease people about the episode, rather than give out a full blown, exactly blow-by-blow of what happened.

(the full interview can be heard for the next seven days on the BBC iplayer [2:13:24])

Later in the morning, Moffat wryly commented on Twitter about his interview: "Finally heard my own rant. Grumpy sod. And what a boring, inflection free voice! It's like been told off by the shipping forecast." He also pointed out: "It's the fans who MAKE the screenings - helluva lot of people to punish for one idiot."

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Doctor Who's brand manager Edward Russell has also entered the fray via Twitter, focussing on those that follow location filming: "It's the people that follow us around on set and post bits of dialogue, film and photos that are the problem. One fan posted the dialogue of a scene from Ep13 recently." Responding to comments about Monday's Today programme, which also featured details of episode 13, he added: "Today didn't give away anything they weren't supposed to. There's a difference between teaser and spoiler."

Link to original article here: http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/05...peaks-out.html

[Admiral Mappalazarou]

I agree with him to be honest. He doesn't mean all of the fans. He loves the fans, but a couple of namless people who just couldn't resist spoiling it for others. But that's the danger of the 'Twitter-era' within which we live now. The internet is there to be used for its prime purpose;

- To discuss Doctor Who

[Admiral Mappalazarou]

A shorter run of episodes means that each season is tighter and more compelling rather than padded out with 5 or more cr*p episodes. The length of each season of Doctor Who is perfect as it is.

If it ain't broke, then don't fix it.

I think it works . . . And besides imagine the strain on the actors and everyone involved? It already takes up a huge, huge chunk of their time. 13 episodes sits right to me.

[Jonzey]

2 clips from episode 4 - The Doctors Wife
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/videos/p00gszmg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/videos/p00gszls

And the introduction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/videos/p00gszmx

ARRRRGGGHHH That was annoying. I don't know if it's my internet sucking or what, but every single one of those clips, despite being under a minute each, had to pause every couple of seconds to stream, even if I paused it and waited. Looks good though.

[Admiral Mappalazarou]

The Silence are added to the Doctor Who experience...

Worth posting just for this image;

BRILLIANT.

[Pharaoh Atem]

The Silence are added to the Doctor Who experience...
RL]

dumb idea
no ones going to remember it

[Admiral Mappalazarou]

Remember what?

[Teddybrown]

That would creep me out if I saw one of those lol
But I wouldnt remember now would I...

[sparklegem]

Worth posting just for this image;

BRILLIANT.

Am I the only one who, seeing this photo, expects the Silent to start bobbing his torso back and forth to Barbra Streisand in the middle of a flash mob? Just me? Okay, I'll go slink back into the Glee fandom.

[Admiral Mappalazarou]

Am I the only one who, seeing this photo, expects the Silent to start bobbing his torso back and forth to Barbra Streisand in the middle of a flash mob? Just me? Okay, I'll go slink back into the Glee fandom.

You are welcome.

[Pharaoh Atem]

You are welcome.

i downloaded just the silence will fall part. it's now my cell phones alert sound

[Admiral Mappalazarou]

This one sounds slightly better