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Jerusalem posted:But people keep saying that the thread has a hivemind! Stop filling this thread with relentless negativity, man!
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"Time travel is something that happens in Doctor Who."
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Nov 4, 2014 22:08
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Nope. It certainly used to, but Doctor Who died when they cast a woman as The Master. RIP.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:21
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Carbon dioxide posted:"Time travel is something that happens in Doctor Who." Disagree. I think it's all just an optical illusion, or some kind of holodeck. E: Acne Rain posted:"The doctor's real name should never be revealed to the audience" uhh we know his real name? it's Who
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Nov 4, 2014 22:22
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Carbon dioxide posted:"Time travel is something that happens in Doctor Who." Sure, they had about two seasons where Pertwee was stuck on Earth without time travel, and it was still Doctor Who!
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Nov 4, 2014 22:29
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Carbon dioxide posted:"Time travel is something that happens in Doctor Who." What if, like, the TARDIS never really goes anywhere? Like, it just kinda, moves the universe around itself. Really makes you think.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:34
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Cliff Racer posted:Out of curiosity, I won't mention it by name but is this a forum with a mind-numbingly stupid "you have to use your IRL name" rule? No, and I don't know what SA's rules are to providing links to other forums and whatnot, but a clue I can give is it's named after the homeworld of some stompy cyborgs. Also, Ian Levine told another poster to kill himself on that forum. Davros1 fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Nov 4, 2014 22:46
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The Chimes of Midnight, Jubilee, and Spare Parts are some of the best Who stories ever told.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:47
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CobiWann posted:The Chimes of Midnight, Jubilee, and Spare Parts are some of the best Who stories ever told. I'm pretty sure Jakiri thinks Chimes is only okay.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:49
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Doctor Who exists.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:49
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HD DAD posted:Doctor Who exists. Does it? I mean, Doctor Who has been so many different programs. The "Doctor Who" of the Pertwee era is over and gone, for instance.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:52
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Acne Rain posted:"The doctor's real name should never be revealed to the audience" His real name is 'Who'. This has firmly been established by the show's opening credits. EDIT: Didn't check the last page, guess we found something we can agree on.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:57
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Some people have strong opinions about Steven Moffat, while others don't really care one way or the other.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:58
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HD DAD posted:Doctor Who exists. Doctor Who existed but it died with the end of the RTD era.
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Nov 4, 2014 22:59
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Surely the one thing to agree on is easy: It's bigger on the inside.
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Nov 4, 2014 23:07
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Davros1 posted:I don't know what SA's rules are to providing links to other forums and whatnot It should be fine provided people don't start trying to start poo poo on whatever site it is. Its that sort of thing that made the best threads in gbs and d+d
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Nov 4, 2014 23:08
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Missy plans to take over the universe with a new race of Time Lords she gives birth to herself. She is on earth because she needs The Doctor to be the daddy.
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Nov 4, 2014 23:08
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Spoilers Below posted:Some people have strong opinions about Steven Moffat, while others don't really care one way or the other. Maybe the absence of any opinion is an opinion in itself.
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Nov 4, 2014 23:10
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ewe2 posted:Surely the one thing to agree on is easy: It's smaller on the outside 
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Nov 4, 2014 23:11
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Bicyclops posted:I'm pretty sure Jakiri thinks Chimes is only okay. It's pretty good but it's not all that
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Nov 4, 2014 23:19
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MrL_JaKiri posted:It's pretty good but it's not all that I actually agree. Like many of Shearman's efforts, the resolution is a bit shoddy. It's also bogged down by its reliance on the Charley metaplot and by the fact that, sadly, the atmosphere it tries to invoke is rather limited by the audio format. It's not as good as people say it is, but it's still pretty great, is what I'm getting at.
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Nov 4, 2014 23:23
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ewe2 posted:Surely the one thing to agree on is easy: Not exactly. It just looks that way.
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Nov 4, 2014 23:26
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What if the regeneration limit wasn't entirely arbitrary, but actually due to some innate technical/biological limit? More regenerations are possible, but there is degeneration. The Master is past the limit and has been noticeably crazier than before he reached the limit. The Doctor is just past the limit, and already he's not as quick and he's forgetful -- at first this seemed like post-regeneration trauma, but it's gone on for a while now, and he's still not up to speed. Too many regenerations and you develop dementia.
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Nov 4, 2014 23:27
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ewe2 posted:Surely the one thing to agree on is easy: Actually it transcends mere dimensions 
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Nov 4, 2014 23:31
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Angela Christine posted:What if the regeneration limit wasn't entirely arbitrary, but actually due to some innate technical/biological limit? More regenerations are possible, but there is degeneration. The Master is past the limit and has been noticeably crazier than before he reached the limit. The Doctor is just past the limit, and already he's not as quick and he's forgetful -- at first this seemed like post-regeneration trauma, but it's gone on for a while now, and he's still not up to speed. Too many regenerations and you develop dementia. This is addressed in Zagreus, actually. They say that the "biogenic molecules" that control regeneration degrade with each use, so Rassilon put the twelve regeneration limit in place to avoid total degradation when he first genetically modified the Time Lords. However, you can be gifted a new regeneration cycle, presumably with a new set of biogenic molecules.
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Nov 4, 2014 23:32
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DoctorWhat posted:It's not as good as people say it is, but it's still pretty great, is what I'm getting at. I will strangle you like a botany student!
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Nov 4, 2014 23:36
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Gordon Shumway posted:This is addressed in Zagreus, actually. They say that the "biogenic molecules" that control regeneration degrade with each use, so Rassilon put the twelve regeneration limit in place to avoid total degradation when he first genetically modified the Time Lords. However, you can be gifted a new regeneration cycle, presumably with a new set of biogenic molecules. Ahh the Jedi moment. As for you TARDIS renegades, its all a matter of perspective and mine is the only correct one
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Nov 5, 2014 00:13
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ewe2 posted:Surely the one thing to agree on is easy: No it's not that's just special effects
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Nov 5, 2014 00:42
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Gordon Shumway posted:presumably with a new set of biogenic molecules. Doctor: And how do biogenic molecules get created anyway, Rassilon? Rassilon: Space Magic.
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Nov 5, 2014 00:47
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ewe2 posted:Surely the one thing to agree on is easy: What as the Doctor's explanation of this in Forest of the Night again? I remember quite liking it.
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Cleretic posted:What as the Doctor's explanation of this in Forest of the Night again? I remember quite liking it. It's like how a coke is |_this_| big, but has |_____THIS_____| much sugar in it!
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Nov 5, 2014 00:50
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Jerusalem posted:Doctor: And how do biogenic molecules get created anyway, Rassilon? Doctor: Ah, the Magic Hat of Rassilon to go with the "Saw a Time Lord in Half Box of Rassilon."
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PantsOptional posted:I sort of had the impression that her TARDIS was just inside St. Paul's, with the front doors opening to the inside of the TARDIS - hence why the internal space with the Cybermen and the lab and whatnot didn't look like they should be the inside of the cathedral. I'd prefer if the Master demolished St Paul's and had her TARDIS replace it, just to get a cool shot of the entire building fading away. Just occurred to me, why does the light on top of the Doctors TARDIS flash when it materialises/dematerialises? The police box (including the light) is just a facade after all, so that light isn't actually part of standard TARDIS equipment. The only thing that makes sense is that it's the Time Lord equivalent of putting neons on the underside of your car.
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Senor Tron posted:I'd prefer if the Master demolished St Paul's and had her TARDIS replace it, just to get a cool shot of the entire building fading away. I think some stories have suggested that the light is the "camera" for the TARDIS sensors, if that means anything. So it might be the "indicator" for the sensor calibrating to the local time-space.
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It's because it's cool and the Doctor likes cool things.
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Gordon Shumway posted:This is addressed in Zagreus, actually. They say that the "biogenic molecules" that control regeneration degrade with each use, so Rassilon put the twelve regeneration limit in place to avoid total degradation when he first genetically modified the Time Lords. However, you can be gifted a new regeneration cycle, presumably with a new set of biogenic molecules. Presumably. But what if there isn't a new set of biogenic molecules? Maybe it just changes a line of code from "regenerations=12" to "regenerations=24" and does nothing about the inevitable degradation. By the time you realize the problem you are knee deep in Space Alzheimer's and can't do anything about it. Or maybe there are replacement biogenic molecules, but the experimental replacements just flat out aren't as good as the originals. That's why they don't give them to everyone. It works, but it is unstable. You could regenerate old, regenerate crazy, regenerate forgetful, or even regenerate as the wrong sex. :o Regeneration uncertainty could put a meaningful fear of death back into the Doctor's life.
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Angela Christine posted:Presumably. But what if there isn't a new set of biogenic molecules? Maybe it just changes a line of code from "regenerations=12" to "regenerations=24" and does nothing about the inevitable degradation. By the time you realize the problem you are knee deep in Space Alzheimer's and can't do anything about it. Listen to "Trial of the Valeyard" from BF if you want horrifying stories of regeneration uncertainties.
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Davros1 posted:Listen to "Trial of the Valeyard" from BF if you want horrifying stories of regeneration uncertainties. And if you want to reassure yourself, remember that the Valeyard'll say anything. ... right? 
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CobiWann posted:Doctor: Ah, the Magic Hat of Rassilon to go with the "Saw a Time Lord in Half Box of Rassilon." Even though I enjoyed the portrayal of the Time Lords as rear end in a top hat Greek Gods in The War Games, one aspect I liked about the 4th Doctor onwards portrayal of their stagnant society was that most of them would take one look at the stuff Rassilon made (10 million years earlier!) and say,"What the gently caress how the hell does this thing even work!?!"
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