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Our New Logo!

In light of recent events – i.e. the reveal of the new Doctor Who logo – it’s just about time we showed you our new logo. So without further ado, tada!

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It was designed by Dylan over at happymonkeyshoes and we think it’s great!

At some point soon we’ll be replacing the header at the top of this page with the new logo and some new graphics, although it’ll probably just be the new logo at first. Chances are we’ll wait for some Matt Smith promo shots before we go the whole hog!

The Eleventh Doctor’s New Logo

Matt Smith’s Doctor has a logo and we think it’s brilliant.

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This is more like it! After the lacklustre done-in-Photoshop look of the last logo this breathes fresh air deep into its lungs and shouts out that Doctor Who is catching up with the rest of the world!

The last logo was tired when it was brand new, it reeked of being sketched on a napkin by someone with no graphic design knowledge or ability. Most likely Russell T Davies himself.

Honestly look at it and tell us it looks sophisticated.

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If Davies did have a hand in the design of the 2005 logo, then it’s likely no one would have dared tell him it looked shit. Let’s face it Doctor Who was dead before he came along and afterwards it was raking in millions for the BBC, who cares about artistic credibility when there’s money about?

Then along comes Moffatt – a new broom – he let’s the writers write and the designers design and the result is a well designed logo with a lovely bold logo type to go with it. That’s not to say people haven’t criticised it a little.

They say it’s a bit too shiny? Maybe they’re right.

There’s too much lense flare? We’d agree – but certainly less than the old logo.

All in all though it looks modern, sleek and it’s given us yet more hope that Doctor Who will finally be the show it used to be and should always have been.

Surely That’s Not Tea Time Viewing?

It’s amazing what you find when you read things properly. For example SciFi Now‘s 50 Greatest Doctor Who Moments.

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It would appear SciFi Now has access to information that us mere mortals don’t. Namely some form of original script from the ninth Doctor episode Dalek. Witness greatest moment number eight!

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Who would’ve known? The Doctor was originally obviously supposed to have performed some kind of kinky sex act on a restrained Dalek?

I know Russell T Davies was driven to shoehorn in as many inappropriate references to homosexuality as possible, surely The Doctor wanking off all over a Dalek is a step too far though?

Still anything is possible, look at poor Bannakaffalatta and his repressed cyborguality.

I guess we just have to be glad that it never made it to air. I’m not sure I could have witnessed Christopher Eccleston knocking one out, while Nicholas Briggs screamed ‘white wee-wee‘ at the top of his voice.

Omega (Sadly No Alpha)

Now then, Omega, as seen in The Three Doctors and Arc Of Infinity, is a really interesting villain.

This is him here with Sergeant Benton and the second and third Doctors. He’s the one on the let that looks like The Man With The Stick from Vic Reeves Big Night Out.

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Omega was an outstanding stellar engineer and High Council member on Gallifrey. He developed the Hand of Omega, a remote stellar manipulator which could be used to control the reactions within a star.

Using the Hand of Omega he performed adjustments on a star near Gallifrey’s, in an attempt to provide a power source for the time travel experiments he conducted with Rassilon.

Unfortunately it was thought that Omega was killed in the resulting supernova, which then collapsed into a black hole. However, all of this malarky eventually resulted in the Time Lords being able to zip back and forth through time.

Neat, huh?

Of course for such sacrifice comes, well, more sacrifice. In this case it was a bit of lunacy and a touch of bitterness…

Now is just me or does the sound of a returning Omega seem just the thing to spice up Matt Smith’s presidency?

The Dalekettes

We’re a bit slow with this one sorry about that. Anyway it would appear that some enterprising Australian cosplayers (if you don’t know what that is, look it up and prepare to be horrified) decided to dress up like Daleks.

Not unusal you say? A little ambitious? Mayhap, however look at how they did it.

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Now we’ve got to admit that they’re some pretty classy Australian birds right there, whisks and plungers in hand. Still you’ve got to hand it to those girls for doing something that Russell T Davies and his cohorts would never ever do; redesign the Dalek.

Arf, arf, etc. ad nauseum…

Long Live Doctor Who Is Dire!

In a fit of pique last night we decided that Doctor Who Is Shit was a bit disparaging and, to be honest, a little too rude for the title of this site. So to that end we proudly present the new and improved Doctor Who Is Dire!

It had to be done.

We’re On Twitter!

Doctor Who Is Dire is now on Twitter in its own right. We feel oh, so grown up!

Follow @DoctorWhoIsDire by clicking here! and if you haven’t got a Twitter account you really should you know.

You really should. All the coolest people have one.

Obviously Chris Moyles is the exception that proves the rule.

The Day I Met A Dalek

So there I was, in Bradford, at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television when I saw a Dalek.

Cripes I thought, I’d better be careful it looks really far away, but they can trundle quite quickly on level, perfectly smooth, ground. I’d better make a dash for it. You can see the fear in my eyes!

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It was at the point above that I realised I’d been duped. It wasn’t far away at all it was just really, really tiny.

And shit.

How they plan on conquering the universe is beyond me. Short arse Skaro bastards.

Is Doctor Who Dire?

Perhaps I’ve been a little bit hasty in calling this site Doctor Who Is Dire. Given that I’m a fan of Doctor Who in principle and that I don’t really hate it.

Mayhap I should just have called it New Doctor Who Is Dire? Even that would be a little misleading as some of the new episodes have been rather good. Hmmm?

I suppose if I’m honest it should really have been called Russell T Davies Is The Worst Writer Of Sci-Fi In The World, not quite so easy to remember though is it?

Interesting, Very Interesting

It’s nice to see that good old Steven Moffat has been nominated for another Hugo Award in the ‘Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form’ category.

Oh, and Russell T Davies has been nominated too.

Moffat’s been nominated for Silence In The Library which I thought was rather good and hinted at the future Doctor in a very subtle and well written way. Although the costume design was – as per – fucking abysmal, here’s a hint; space faring adventurers rarely wear snow boots.

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Davies has been nominated for Turn Left, a lack lustre turd of an effort that bases its entire storyline on the film Sliding Doors – plagiarism is much easier than invention, eh Russell? – and gets its ‘comedy’ from Catherine Tate’s predictable gurning.

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What’s very interesting to note is that Moffat has been nominated and has won this for the past three years. Odd that Davies hasn’t won it yet really given the number of episodes that he’s pumped out.

Or is it?