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What did you think of The new Titles/Theme tune?

What did you think of The new Titles/Theme tune

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35 comments

  • anonymous

    May 4th, 2013 - 5:45pm

    Best one by far in the new series.

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  • Baba

    January 4th, 2013 - 11:42am

    It reminded me of the 5th or 6th Doctors theme mixed together but the tune is much different it is like Matt Smith’s old one but more high pitch.
    I thought it was great especially the face at the end.

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  • drjakeyoung

    December 31st, 2012 - 8:43pm

    anyone else think that the titles remind you of series 6 of dr who confidential? i think this might have been inspired by it

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    • McGann is the Doctor

      January 6th, 2013 - 8:17pm

      No, it was nothing like the lame Dr Who confidential theme !

      It was a more dynamic update which didn’t go in a straight linear movement but instead went a bit “all over the place” like the Sylvestor McCoy title, and it was awesome ! πŸ™‚

    • drjakeyoung

      January 8th, 2013 - 4:44pm

      i do love these new titles!!!

  • McGann is the Doctor

    December 31st, 2012 - 3:15pm

    Was very VERY pleased with the new titles.

    No longer is it just a tunnel with afew CGIed names, it’s a trip accross the galaxies with the Doctor’s face appearing, which was done very well, and the sound has been much improved by making it more like the original.

    Hope they keep this one and don’t change it into something worse ! ❗

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  • Doctor When

    December 29th, 2012 - 11:33pm

    I just want to confirm that the classic theme tunes aren’t used at all in the new sequence. It’s the 2010 theme but when the “ooh eh ooh” bit starts, there is no backing music, it’s just that. It makes it seem more eerie but, yeah, it’s just a slightly modified 2010 theme.

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    • doctorwhoone

      December 30th, 2012 - 8:14am

      Yeah it is just an updated version of the 2010 theme, I can’t understand why other fan’s are saying that they can hear bits of the old themes in this one.

      I think a lot of fan’s need their ears syringing πŸ™‚

    • Doctor When

      December 30th, 2012 - 1:23pm

      I think it’s because a majority of the fans want to see something that gets them excited for the 50th Anniversary, like little nods to the past. So, they trick themselves into thinking that it’s definitely there but it’s just not. I’m sure they have big plans for the 50th anniversary anyway otherwise they’re going to lose a lot of support from the fans, which to be fair, are most of the people tuning in every Saturday afternoon.

    • doctorwhoone

      December 30th, 2012 - 4:37pm

      Doctor When – Yeah, they just hear what they want to hear. It’s like Clara in ‘Asylum of the Daleks’, believing that she is still human when she knew she’d been turned into a Dalek because the truth was too painful for her.

      The new version is simply an updated version of the 2010 theme, pure and simple, but it does have a bit of a ‘Trial of a Time Lord’ theme likeness when Matt and Jenna’s names appear in the new opening titles, but apart from that one classic theme, there’s nothing classic series sounding about this new theme what so ever.

    • McGann is the Doctor

      December 31st, 2012 - 3:47pm

      That’s not quite true.

      It has been made more ominous and haunting like the 60s and 70s theme tune.

      And the trip around the galaxy as opposed to a straightforward tunnel was possibley inspired by the Sylvestor McCoy titles which were the first to not go in a straight, linear movement ❗

    • John Smith

      January 2nd, 2013 - 11:17am

      I’ll admit. The first time I heard the theme tune I thought that I heard bits of the classic themes. I thought that it was but now that i’ve listened to it a few more times I was obviously wrong. Although the bassline does sound very similar to the Trial of a Timelord one.

    • McGann is the Doctor

      January 6th, 2013 - 8:18pm

      Either way it was awesome.

      And I love the Trial of a Timelord/Sixth Doctor big finish theme, I listened to the new theme and it DOES sound like that.

      Surprised I didn’t notice that the first time since I’m such a fan of the 1986 one ❗

  • doctorwhoone

    December 29th, 2012 - 9:26am

    Having heard this a few more times on YouTube, I personally think it’s doesn’t remind me of anything of the past intro’s other then seeing the 11th Doctors face in the titles and yet people seem to say you can hear bits of the old intros in this new one, but I can’t, to me it’s just an updated version of the 2010 theme, nothing more.

    But I will say this for the new theme, it did sound a bit like the 1986 ‘Trial of a Time Lord’ version when Matt and Jenna’s names appear.

    I guess we all view this new intro differently.

    If I was to make any changes, I’d have ‘DOCTOR’ above the word ‘WHO’ like it was in the old days rather then ‘DOCTOR WHO’, and would feature Matt Smiths face with his name below it followed in the same way by Jenna’s name and face, and remove the BBC logo since it kinda ruins it for me.

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    • drjakeyoung

      December 29th, 2012 - 12:50pm

      that’s what i keep saying! if you listen to the “dum de dumb” part and when the names appear it does sound like the trial of a time lord version. completely agree with you about the doctor who logo and the BBC under it, they should have had that at the beginning of the episode, i also agree that the doctors face should be with his name

    • doctorwhoone

      December 30th, 2012 - 8:13am

      Cheers dude πŸ˜‰

  • The Cyber Squirrel

    December 27th, 2012 - 9:16pm

    when the snowman was broadcast in the closing titles they accidentally played the old 2010-2012 theme!

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    • doctorwhoone

      December 28th, 2012 - 11:13am

      They did indeed, silly sausages πŸ˜€

      Hopefully by end of the first 2013 episode they won’t make that mistake twice πŸ™‚

    • drjakeyoung

      December 28th, 2012 - 5:55pm

      unless that was meant to happen, you never know! that happened in the 60s when the second doctors theme changed, the closing titles still retained the original version of the theme. But it still could have been a mistake

  • drjakeyoung

    December 27th, 2012 - 4:49pm

    the theme sounds a bit like Dominicο»Ώ glynn’s version (with the dumb de dumb)

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  • Hector Sandler

    December 27th, 2012 - 2:08am

    It was great. I see the Face return since Sly McCoy era. Matt SMith face in the beginning title. I Chris & David Tennart didn’t get that. I glad things came back.

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  • RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND

    December 26th, 2012 - 12:01pm

    liked the theme and sequence, and the font matched t. it was really red though…

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  • doctorwhoone

    December 26th, 2012 - 8:16am

    Not bad. Not the best intro I have ever seen, and the new theme don’t seem that much different to the previous one, just sounds updated.

    Trouble for me is, this new one looks like something a fan would produce and upload onto YouTube, like the Vortex right at the end of the intro before the Tardis doors open, looks similar to Vortex’s made for fan-made intros.

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    • John Smith

      December 27th, 2012 - 1:57am

      That’s because some of the latest fan intros are so good that they look up to Millennium FX standards. The first time I saw the new titles I thought it was fan made too. I really like them though.

  • John Smith

    December 26th, 2012 - 6:38am

    I F@$KIN’ LOVE IT! It’s amazing, the mysterious and almost scary music and they brought the faces back! I love the fact that if you listen closely you can hear all the previous theme tunes. I think that Matt Smith’s face should’ve gotten a bit more of a flashy-ness to it instead of a 1 second blurry thingy. I really, really like it. I hope that they do a slightly different re-vamp of the theme as it moves through the years.

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    • John Smith

      December 26th, 2012 - 6:54am

      By the way, definitely made my Christmas…

  • The Cyber Squirrel

    December 25th, 2012 - 10:13pm

    If you listen really closely you can here a bit of each of the theme tunes

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  • drjakeyoung

    December 25th, 2012 - 9:00pm

    like the way at the end of the titles the tardis fly’s towards the screen and opens the same way as the classic Dr who DVD range intro does.BTW love the theme and titles, so much better and epic than the other ones

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    • doctorwhoone

      December 26th, 2012 - 8:14am

      The only difference about how the doors of the Tardis open at the end of the new intro is that they open outward rather then inward.

    • drjakeyoung

      December 26th, 2012 - 3:44pm

      yea, defiantly a nod to the classic series

  • avi the rocker

    December 25th, 2012 - 8:34pm

    Amazing
    Much better than the normal 1

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  • doctor who 19

    December 25th, 2012 - 6:44pm

    love it

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  • CYBERMEN97000

    December 25th, 2012 - 6:43pm

    I think the titles give the show a bit more realism, as instead of a vortex they’ve gone down the route of the TARDIS flying through nebulas and star systems which look similar to those seen by the Hubble telescope and they have reverted back to the face of the doctor being shown in this case matt smith but not so conspicuous ,giving it that touch of the classic series within modernisation of the show ,so as you can tell its a winner with me πŸ™‚

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  • Pete Geminitwo

    December 25th, 2012 - 6:30pm

    Loved it all, every bit of it. This is the first Who Chrstmas Special that I thoroughly enjoyed that really felt like a real Who episode and not something called Who just to play on Christmas! Excellent excellent excellent, and love Clara and her mystery, and hope the gang will all be together again soon!

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  • Bilal

    December 25th, 2012 - 6:18pm

    the new tardis looks good I love it the titles are good but really confusing but i think they will make sence when Doctor who returns again.

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