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zoux posted:Is there a companion that Who nerds don't loving despise? Also Selfie is good, but not everyone likes Kapnek's style of humour, but it's definitely coming through now.
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zoux posted:Is there a companion that Who nerds don't loving despise? Donna and Clara are fine in my book. Amy was godfuckingawful, but it wasn't Karen Gillian's fault.
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Oct 27, 2014 19:29
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IRQ posted:Donna and Clara are fine in my book. Also Clara has been really fun this season but I'm expecting Moffat to Moffat so who knows what's going to happen...
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Oct 27, 2014 19:30
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Anyway, the reason they hate them is the same reason why they can't ever have decent female characters on Supernatural: the fans all want to gently caress the main characters. If you bitch about a companion its because you want to gently caress Dr. Who.
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Oct 27, 2014 19:31
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I guess it's good then that they went with a gently caress ugly doctor this time around.
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Oct 27, 2014 19:52
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I genuinely enjoy watching Doctor Who but I don't really go around trying to guess what's supposed to happen next or spend my waking moments dissecting each scene for clues and poo poo that might mean something for the finale. I maybe make a post or two each week on SA if I care to in DW-related stuff, maybe talk to some friends about it, mostly surface-level stuff. Maybe my tastes have changed over the years but something about how Steven Moffat running DW really doesn't seem to work, or simply put it has some good highs but hits really low lows. I don't think I can recall anything else that has maintained that pattern other than maybe Glee (and even then it just stopped and started going into freefall instead). If anything it's a little weird to have him running a show in American style (he doesn't solo write the episodes like most British series might) and then there doesn't seem to be much quality control in recent years that is pretty damning considering he's supposed to be also overseeing all the work he hands out (which is the whole point of having a showrunner in the first place), especially when it isn't even 20+ episode seasons like American broadcast stuff and only really half that load. I mean I won't go and lambast this season because I thoroughly enjoyed most of it but which it gets lovely, it really goes for broke sometimes.
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Sober posted:I genuinely enjoy watching Doctor Who but I don't really go around trying to guess what's supposed to happen next or spend my waking moments dissecting each scene for clues and poo poo that might mean something for the finale. I maybe make a post or two each week on SA if I care to in DW-related stuff, maybe talk to some friends about it, mostly surface-level stuff. Maybe my tastes have changed over the years but something about how Steven Moffat running DW really doesn't seem to work, or simply put it has some good highs but hits really low lows. I don't think I can recall anything else that has maintained that pattern other than maybe Glee (and even then it just stopped and started going into freefall instead). You know, this is exactly what someone who wants to gently caress Dr. Who would say.
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Oct 27, 2014 20:15
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Just a heads up, watching SNL at 10:30 was fuckin' weird How do you Central Time Zone people handle that on a daily basis?
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Oct 27, 2014 20:16
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I don't, I DVR it and watch it the next day.
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Mo0 posted:Just a heads up, watching SNL at 10:30 was fuckin' weird It's revenge for all of us being confused by "News at 11" jokes for half our lives.
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Mo0 posted:Just a heads up, watching SNL at 10:30 was fuckin' weird I just assume CT people do everything an hour early. Start work at 7, eat lunch at 11, sing its "4 O'Clock Somewhere," etc.
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Oct 27, 2014 20:20
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zoux posted:It's revenge for all of us being confused by "News at 11" jokes for half our lives. When I was a kid, I was very confused by WGN's "7 o'clock movie" always starting at 8. Then I learned about WGN being based out of Chicago, and time zones. Still always felt weird to me, but I did live the privileged "East Coast Time Zone" life.
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Oct 27, 2014 20:28
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zoux posted:It's revenge for all of us being confused by "News at 11" jokes for half our lives. I think it'd be pretty cool to have stuff start any hour earlier. If I actually watched anything live I guess. e: would never want to leave god's true time zone though.
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zoux posted:Anyway, the reason they hate them is the same reason why they can't ever have decent female characters on Supernatural: the fans all want to gently caress the main characters. If you bitch about a companion its because you want to gently caress Dr. Who. What's wrong with finding the TARDIS attractive? She's got lovely dimensions! 
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zoux posted:You know, this is exactly what someone who wants to gently caress Dr. Who would say.
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When I was younger I tried chasing that time zone high. Living in the east meant I got to see everything three hours earlier than people on the west coast, but that wasn't enough for me. No, once I had the taste of that power I needed more. So I went to Halifax, but that only gave me an extra hour and once you have three, one more just won't cut it. I hopped a plane to London. That gave me a total of five hours, but why stop there? Why stop anywhere? From London I went to Finland, 9 hours, then to Moscow for 10. I couldn't stop there. I just couldn't. 10 hours was such a rush, such an incredible high. Imagine how great I was to be ten hours in the future of those slobs on the west coast, so I kept going. From Moscow I flew Sydney where I enjoyed a full 18 hours. I was so close. So close to hitting that ultimate high. From Sydney I hopped a plane to Honolulu, 21 hours. So close. In Honolulu I boarded a plane and watched the time zones tick under me. 22 hours. 23 hours.. and then everything went black. I awoke a day later in San Diego, hourless. Everything I hoped to gain--that magnificent high--gone. I was just another schlub, living three hours behind the people on the east coast.
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Oct 27, 2014 20:42
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The joke doesn't work because regardless of timezone, tv shows are first broadcast in North America, and then several months later in the rest of the world.
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GreenNight posted:Hard to make a point when you type like an infant. GreenNight, if you'll allow me to pontificate, you are a dumbass. 
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Ravane posted:GreenNight, if you'll allow me to pontificate, you are a dumbass. I'm sorry, did Z-Nation put a cramp into your panties again?
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IRQ posted:Donna and Clara are fine in my book. I like Clara but I also kinda don't because sometimes it feels like she escaped from some alternate universe Gilmore Girls that takes place in Britan.
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Sober posted:
If you're British, chances are you don't like Tate mainly because of her lovely sketch show. However, she was the best companion because she wasn't written as a love interest. It let them play with the dynamic a lot more by making her a strong-willed woman who never accepted the Dr's whole 'Oh aren't I brilliant?' thing. Despite Gillen's winning performance, Amy Pond's Dr obsession just never worked, and says a lot about Moffat. But then he's a very problematic writer.
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GreenNight posted:I'm sorry, did Z-Nation put a cramp into your panties again? Wasn't this week's great? "IT'S A ZOONAME!" That name doesn't even make sense. 
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IRQ posted:Wasn't this week's great? "IT'S A ZOONAME!" Z-unami (noun): A great flood of zombies. C'mon. The show is already bad, you shouldn't have to reach so hard to criticize it.
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Manos del Sino posted:Z-unami (noun): A great flood of zombies. No you're misunderstanding me, I love the show. And yes I got that it was a bad pun on a tsunami, it just sounded so dumb!
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Ahahahaha DC just won't quit with this poo poo. David Goyer is developing a TV show called Krypton. I'll give you three guesses what it's about.
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GreenNight posted:I guess it's good then that they went with a gently caress ugly doctor this time around. And the time before.
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hcreight posted:Ahahahaha DC just won't quit with this poo poo. That sounds like it might be a little expensive for network TV. Although not especially surprising they're thinking about it considering how much people liked science bad rear end Jor-El.
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muscles like this? posted:That sounds like it might be a little expensive for network TV. Although not especially surprising they're thinking about it considering how much people liked science bad rear end Jor-El. Hahahaha, its not going to be Middle Earth Krypton from Man of Steel, it's going to be Vancouver Forest Krypton with occasional location shoots in futuristic looking buildings. It's going to be Caprica. They don't even have loving super powers while on Krypton.
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hcreight posted:David Goyer is developing a TV show called Krypton. I'll give you three guesses what it's about. WOW! Finally, a chemistry documentary focusing on the beauty of noble gases! I've always delighted in the exploits of Sir William Ramsay, the man who discovered Krypton!
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hcreight posted:Ahahahaha DC just won't quit with this poo poo. Jesus, it'll be like if someone made a Batman TV show without Batman.
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I HATE Catherine Tate but I actually really like Donna and she definitely has the best story and development of any Dr. Who companion I saw. Yeah, she's annoying and hateable at first but that develops into someone I really like. And actually I recent finished off The Office and I felt the same way about her. She starts off super annoying but by the end develops into a reasonably likable and funny character. So is that what she does? Is Tate's entire bit to be as obnoxious and likable to start so that when she becomes a more likable character you're so relieved and happy?
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PriorMarcus posted:Hahahaha, its not going to be Middle Earth Krypton from Man of Steel, it's going to be Vancouver Forest Krypton with occasional location shoots in futuristic looking buildings.
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Jor-El: "Son, I don't want you going out there like some kind of MARTIAN MANHUNTER"
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"You hear about this alien? He's really intelligent, he's a real BRAINIAC"
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A Superman show about a teenage Clark Kent growing up in Smallville would be incredible. They could call it The Kents.
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