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BBC One Christmas 2009 - Doctor Who ident revealed

(December 2009)

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LI
littlesmegger
Johnny83 posted:
littlesmegger posted:
If anything the return of Who 5 years ago helped bring back family entertainment. Without Doctor Who there wouldn't have been Robin Hood, Merlin, Primevil, Demons... created spinoffs such as Torchwood and Sarah Jane... allowed more grown up products like Misfits and The Prisoner. And if it wasn't for the success the BBC has had with such programmes, ITV wouldn't have made programmes such as The X Factor's spin offs to compete, such as Britain's Got Talent. So if anything, we're better off for family entertainment programmes then before Doctor Who came back. There are a lot of programmes out there, just this Christmas is a special exception celebrating the one programme. Something I think it deserves, seeing it came from a stereotypical sci-fi geeky background of wobbily sets and stupid costumed aliens, and has become one of the biggest programmes around the world... I say bring on the stupid 30 second little ident, they've deserved it!


Totally agree (except for the wobbly sets / stupid costumed aliens bit Razz ) but then again I would be biased.

Wasn't there a similar argument about the W&G ident last year IIRC? Plus the average Joe probably won't care & will probably like it more than complain Smile


Don't worry I don't see them as wobbily either, just said the general opinion. Laughing I can't remember one about W&G personally, but I wouldn't be surprised. Anything to nitpick what is essentially a BBC logo promoting their main Christmas lineup in a light hearted and festive manner...
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Chie posted:
No I'm serious - it was a number of giant red baubles arranged in the shape of a cone. To call that "a tree" is ridiculous.


Darling, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck - its a duck.
CH
Chie
There's a big difference between a duck and something that vaguely resembles the shape of a duck, dear.
PA
Paul02
Chie posted:
Paul02 posted:
"tosh talk"- a lot of these Doctor Who fans have really embraced yob culture.

Two hours on and nobody's replied to this comment screaming "Daily Mail reading scum!!!". It's a Christmas miracle.

I completely disagree, by the way - I think there's a lot of snobbery around Doctor Who actually.


That's just willfully misinterpreting my point- ie trolling- and:

Oi! I watch Doctor Who, too.
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Chie posted:
There's a big difference between a duck and something that vaguely resembles the shape of a duck, dear.


Or *is* there?

PS: That was rhetorical.
LI
littlesmegger
Chie posted:
No I'm serious - it was a number of giant red baubles arranged in the shape of a cone. To call that "a tree" is ridiculous.


Clearly not shopped at Medowhall around this time of year then have you Laughing
JO
Johnny83
littlesmegger posted:
Chie posted:
No I'm serious - it was a number of giant red baubles arranged in the shape of a cone. To call that "a tree" is ridiculous.


Clearly not shopped at Medowhall around this time of year then have you Laughing


Or John Lewis & Debenhams in Oxford Street a few years back Laughing
PE
Pete Founding member
8 years ago, I joined this site to download the news 24 countdown. I'm now reduced to posting that a real christmas tree in an ice rink would be a safety risk due to the needles therefore its perfectly obvious that in such a setting a more modern interpretation would be used. However as its baubles, and is that shape, it's a christmas tree. Perhaps its not a "tree" but it's a "christmas tree."

Think "mincemeat."
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Hymagumba posted:
Think "mincemeat."


Ooh yes, that's a good simile.
CH
Chie
Hymagumba posted:
8 years ago, I joined this site to download the news 24 countdown. I'm now reduced to posting that a real christmas tree in an ice rink would be a safety risk due to the needles therefore its perfectly obvious that in such a setting a more modern interpretation would be used. However as its baubles, and is that shape, it's a christmas tree. Perhaps its not a "tree" but it's a "christmas tree."

Think "mincemeat."

They'd never put anything in the middle of an ice rink full stop. Baubles are made of glass - if a skater smashes into the bauble cone, the whole thing will go flying and shatter across the ice rink like a cluster bomb. So not very safe really...
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Chie posted:
Hymagumba posted:
8 years ago, I joined this site to download the news 24 countdown. I'm now reduced to posting that a real christmas tree in an ice rink would be a safety risk due to the needles therefore its perfectly obvious that in such a setting a more modern interpretation would be used. However as its baubles, and is that shape, it's a christmas tree. Perhaps its not a "tree" but it's a "christmas tree."

Think "mincemeat."

They'd never put anything in the middle of an ice rink full stop. Baubles are made of glass - if a skater smashes into the bauble cone, the whole thing will go flying and shatter across the ice rink like a cluster bomb. So not very safe really...


Never seen Disney's Icecapades then?

Stop being so humbuggy. If the wind changes you'll look like the grinch all year you know.
PE
Pete Founding member
Chie posted:
Baubles are made of glass


The ones on my tree are plastic.

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