Mister Magister...?

[sebastienne]

My feelings on watching the "Christmas on BBC One" trailer:

Watch on YouTube

0:11 - is that really Jonathan Creek?
0:18 - oh my god he's doing the voice it is Jonathan Creek!
0:36 - that is the Master. no-one puts on gloves like that except the Master.
0:48 - why is the person in the gorilla suit wearing a cyberman mask?

So, obviously, I have massive joy about the fact that the Doctor and Jonathan Creek both have new shows in the same calendar year, for the first time since 1996. (Let's all take a moment to consider curly-haired men. Ahh.) But do you know what's getting me the most?

The Master at 0:36.

I mean it clearly is. Beard and black leather like no other, right?

..right?

Comments

[ayaron.livejournal.com]

Is this like the experiment with the people passing basket balls because I didn't see any gorilla cybermen?

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

I promise you it's there! Just pause the video at 0:48.

Your icon looks a little like Rowan Atkinson.

...I still would.

[ayaron.livejournal.com]

48 was a Cyberman in a cloak driving a coach.

It *is* Blackadder.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Yeah but in my head it's the Master. In my head everything is the Master. Master Master Master.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm sorry, but if that's a cloak it is a furry cloak, covering the whole body. Which is also visible when it bursts out of the cupboard in the teaser from Children in Need.

[the-whybird.livejournal.com]

I think Wikipedia mentioned that the Christmas special would feature some sort of mutated Cyberman called a Cybershade. Maybe this is they.

Or maybe in the same way as there's a guy going around pretending to be the Doctor, there are other guys going round dressing in gorilla suits and masks pretending to be Cybermen, and the Doctor has stumbled on a freeform RPG gone wrong.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

I think you've got it the wrong way round, my dear.

Ecclestone and Tennant have clearly been playing a screwed up alt-universe RPG for the last four years - "post-time-war" is like saying "post-apocalyptic"! - and Morrissey is the real Ninth Doctor, from the still-extant Gallifrey, where Romana is president.

This theory, and indeed the Master-spotting, entirely due to the combination of the following things:

- other people in my workplace being better geeks than me
- the judicious application of mulled wine

[h0m54r.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia strikes again! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Doctor)

[flannelcat.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or have they ripped "The One Doctor" with Christopher Biggins?

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Not just you. If it weren't for The One Doctor, I'm not sure as many people would have jumped to the immediate conclusion that David Morrissey's character is a scam artist, either.