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Ive lived my life by that "Oh its gone horribly wrong but I like it " mantra Usually I only get to "Oh its gone horribly wrong" ! Arsing about can really be fun

Arsing about pretty much sums up my entire life

Its that a thumbs up for the picture or for me arsing about my whole life? I'll take either!

Oooh very Dead Marshes- that a bit of your own photoshopping Figg? If so nice one

cheers. Its an old one from when I had Photoshop. I was just looking at those photos Yooper posted years ago and thinking nostalgic things.

Lovely pic Figgs ! very ethereal. Yooper must have been someone special as youve mentioned "him" ? a lot. I wasnt here then.

Where is Yooper?!

dunno.

WHERE ARE YOU YOOPER?

while we are at it WHERE IS TUREMBAR????

Who the fook is Turembar ?

he is a guy I used to write my story Haddon Hall with. I wrote a bit and then he would write the next bit and so on...it was good fun. and I miss him.

Sorry Figgs Its a shame when the ones you care about seem to vanish in thin air.

Turembar was active duty military and Forumshire was a haven for him for a while. I hope he's doing well.

that ones great. I would really like to see images like that on the tv show.

this current season seems very thin on these wide shots of other worlds and it also feels cramped into small claustrophobic spaces like under water or space bases, a lot of the time its on Earth London. I hope for this last two episodes they get off Earth.

Thanks Figg.

I think the cinematography, lighting ect has improved year on year for some time- but its also clear that Who, like everything else publicly funded, has had its budget cut again after last years cut.
If you go back and just look at say series 6 and 7 there are a lot of those big sweeping shots you talk of and I doubt they could budget for an episode like Dinosaurs on a Spaceship in the current climate.

listen there are thousands of people who would do that work for free if they got their name on the credits. there must be thousands of people with the right kit at home who could turn in decent cgi. surely? plus they must be raking in cash from Dr Who viewed from other countries.

You cant just farm it out- BBC uses unemployed as free labour! I can see the Daily Mail headlines already.
Also there all sorts of technical reasons why you couldn't- such as the need for a render farm.

'plus they must be raking in cash from Dr Who viewed from other countries.'

They do- its the BBC's top selling program globally. But the money doesn't come back to the show. It goes into the big BBC pot- Who gets the exact same drama budget as any other top tier BBC drama, but no more, and when the drama budget gets cut, as it has for the last few years, Who gets cut with it- regardless of how much money it makes.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:

This is my favourite piece that you've done so far Now this creeps me out & frightens me more than the tosh Ive seen on the TV Dr Who !

Pettytyrant101 wrote:You cant just farm it out- BBC uses unemployed as free labour! I can see the Daily Mail headlines already.
Also there all sorts of technical reasons why you couldn't- such as the need for a render farm.

'plus they must be raking in cash from Dr Who viewed from other countries.'

They do- its the BBC's top selling program globally. But the money doesn't come back to the show. It goes into the big BBC pot- Who gets the exact same drama budget as any other top tier BBC drama, but no more, and when the drama budget gets cut, as it has for the last few years, Who gets cut with it- regardless of how much money it makes.

ok but there's no excuse for unimaginative sets, they could make some interesting things with plywood and spit. they seem to have lost the skills found in theatre productions and they seem to be lacking the interesting locations found in Smiths run as well. everything seems to be winding down and grinding to a halt creatively.

Thanks Azriel


'they seem to have lost the skills found in theatre productions and they seem to be lacking the interesting locations found in Smiths run as well. everything seems to be winding down and grinding to a halt creatively.'

I couldn't disagree there more, I think the actual imagination and creativeness this series is exceptionally high, probably more so because they are having to do it with less money than before.

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There are stills there form every episode so far this series. There is not a single episode without great attention to detail in sets and design, costuming, lighting, colouring. Some of the sets are huge. And there is a wide arrange of creativity on show from writing to final product. I don't think the production team have put a foot wrong this series.

this season the set designs are quite bland and forgettable. even the crappy season 8 had more interesting sets than this one.

Bring on the Blue Peter team