Thoughts on the Series XII Flipside Cover?

[Renegade Rob]

Over this past weekend, I’ve been processing the reveal of the Series XII flipside cover. As someone who likes consistency but also wants each series to have their own identity, I’ve been trying to figure out how I feel about the color. The pale red bunkroom and pale blue Starbug cockpit made perfect sense for X and XI, but the fact that the Science Room for XII, despite being an obvious choice, still nags at me a bit, so I’ve created this post more as a sounding board to help me work out how I come down on this very important issue.

I really want each series to feel like it’s own distinct entity with its own identity, and up until now, they have. But let’s face it: the military blue Science Room XII cover is a little close to the ocean blue of the Starbug cockpit XI cover, so that’s 2 pale-blues in a row. Granted, they’re slightly different shades, with XII having more than a dash of light purple. But it’s the equivalent of making Series IV the officers Bunkroom and Series V the old III-V Science Room: same color scheme because of similar production design. If they had made XII yellow with the new Science Room at Yellow Alert, that would’ve been great. Or they could have, as I thought they might do, made XII pale-green with the Starbug 19 interior and echo the pattern of the original 6, so that a Series XIII cover would be even paler beige and so on.
As it is, two light blues in a row, leaves me a little cold.

But then I did some more thinking about the cover (What better way is there to spend a Sarurday night?), and the thought occurred that part of XII’s identity is the fact that it’s of a pair with XI. Thet were commissioned together, written together, share sets and even moved scenes, and were basically filmed together. This sort of was one long series split over two, more than possible any pair of series before. Now true, XII is, give or take a Timewave, way better than XI overall, as almost certainly it built off the momentum established by XI to be more bold and confident.

In that light, it makes some deal of sense to have XI and XII be similar colors, because much of their identity is the fact that they’re intrinsically linked. Like those weird quasi-two-parters from Series 9 of Doctor Who. So I think I’m coming down on the side of “I get it and can live with it” but would have preferred something a little more distinct.

Thoughts?

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[Moonlight]

“Thoughts on the Series XII flipside cover…and Doctor Who…and Douglas Adams…and presumably a few other things as we go…”

[bloodteller]

so what’s the general consensus on Doctor Who: The Movie? i really quite liked it, but the last time i mentioned it to someone they just said “that’s not doctor who” and then they buggered off.

[flanl3]

So why did people hate The Last Jedi? I absolutely adored it.

[International Debris]

The film has a decent story and a great performance by McGann, but The Master is bloody crap in it, the whole thing is too over the top and it takes far too long to get going. McCoy’s regeneration was a really important aspect, to keep the continuity of the original series, but it should have been a flashback for the moment where he finally gets his memory back.

[bloodteller]

Chang Lee was good too, probably the least annoying companion from all the Doctor Who shows i’ve seen (i ended up watching a few recently)

[bloodteller]

everyone always forgets about poor Chang Lee

[Ben Saunders]

The Last Jedi was far too long and incredibly boring. All the stuff with Luke, Rey and Kylo was interesting, and could have made for a decent movie all on its own, but the B and C plots with the slow motion chase and the casino planet were just tedious.

Also the shit jokes undermining the drama, as if they’re afraid of being too serious for too long, Mary Poppins made me want to die, weaponising that thing that shouldn’t be weaponised opens up a can of worms (although I thought it was fine) and oodles and oodles of plot convenience.

The Doctor Who Movie is a lot of fun and McGann is great, but I totally get the whole “it’s not really Who” angle – it is incredibly cheesey, and quite different from the rest of the show. And the half human thing

[Ben Saunders]

I don’t really like the flipside cover, by the way, Craig’s face in that photo just doesn’t look very good and it breaks the tradition of only having him and Chris on the cover x

[GlenTokyo]

I like the Who movie. Best theme tune too, McGann is great aswell. In fact it’s all great apart from Eric Roberts I’d say. Sets are good, McCoy is good, and looking back now after the Russell T Davies reboot, it doesn’t seem as out of character for the Doctor to be interested in relationships. I prefer it to a lot of new who to be honest.

[flanl3]

So what’s everyone’s opinion on shorts?

[bloodteller]

depends on what type of shorts they are

[Ben Saunders]

I don’t like them

[International Debris]

Depends who’s wearing them.

[bloodteller]

me.

[Ben Saunders]

Oh, definitely not then

[flanl3]

I like them.

[Hamish]

Who likes short shorts?

[flanl3]

She wears short shorts, I wear t-shorts, she’s shorts captain and I’m on the bleached-shorts,

[Ben Saunders]

Now short shorts I can get into. Not literally, though

[flanl3]

What if your mind got your dick and the elastic on athletic shorts mixed up so instead of getting a boner your waistband got bigger and your shorts fell off instead of your waistband getting bigger but your shorts staying on?

Please do not permit me to think when I should have

[International Debris]

Please check my modelling profile for me wearing short shorts.

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