by mrsjones5 34 Replies latest social entertainment
The "Bad Wolf" website that Blondie gave is owned by the BBC, and is an instance of their "Viral Marketing" of Dr. Who.
See http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/cs4fn/films/badwolf.html for an article on this method of advertising as it relates to Dr Who.
Also, that website has a link to another Dr Who "viral" website. It turns out that the Cybermen will be back!
--VM44
The Cybus Corporation. The future's shiny!
http://www.cybuscorporation.com/site1.html
This company is a front for the Cybermen's plan to take over the earth and make everyone like them!
"You Will Be Like Us"
The password to gain access to the restriced pages is "nemesis"
--VM44
Fourth show on right NOW!!!!
dorayakii ....Yeah they in fact made a point about mentioning the Dr.'s Northern accent....tried to listen for his vowels (i.e. saying "nut" like "put"). I really like Piper's character, do you know how long she'll be with the show? Hopefully more than just a few eps...
Yes Leolaia, the northern English dialects retain the oldest pronunciation of these vowels. "us" is pronounced [z]...
Watch out also for the long [a:] of southern England being pronounced as a short [ æ ] as in "bath"... which is a clipped version of the General American long [ æ: ] but unshaded, as GA [æ:] is, by [e]...
Also of interest is a final long [i:] of words like "study" being pronounced as a short [e]... eg. {stoo-deh}
Much of the series is shot in Cardiff, Wales... so you can hear the Welsh sing-song lilt if you're attentive, as well as a couple words of their own language...
VM44, i love those robots. I think that Dr. Who is an advert for UK tourism lol... you have St. Pauls Cathedral in the background... beautiful...
and pretty soon when The Empty Child airs you'll find out why British school play grounds were full of little kids saying "are you my mummy ?"
Just saw the first episode of The Empty Child...cool!
Josie
