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PriorMarcus posted:Given the show runner I'd guess she's sticking around then. Modern Who has a problem with this in general. Rose coming back in Tennants last full season was stupid. Martha kept popping up. Donna even came back despite not having any memory of the Doctor, and let's not even start on Amy and Rory's many goodbyes.
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HD DAD posted:I just want CyberBrig to pop up and save the day every couple of episodes. No explanation whatsoever.  \/ "EVERY BODY GETS ONE. OLD CHAP."
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Astroman posted:
Christ, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but man I miss those Cyberman heads. The new ones are just too flat and round, Jesus.
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Burkion posted:Christ, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but man I miss those Cyberman heads. The new ones look like they don't fit with their body. Also. They look friendly. It's poo poo.
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Nov 10, 2014 14:11
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The new ones in general just don't look very scary. Even the Cybus design had enough of a creepy factor. Bright shiny robots just aren't that frightening.
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Mokinokaro posted:The new ones in general just don't look very scary. Even the Cybus design had enough of a creepy factor. I admire the fact that this time around they made an attempt to show that, look, there's actual human body stuff inside the suits, not just a brain (how the Cybus ones were), and seeing Danny's face contorted and riddled through with metal went a long way:  But they could still go further. Bring back the chin, dare to show something more underneath.
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I love that effect SO MUCH, but it wouldn't really work on Cybermen, exactly. I am assuming, assuming only of course, that CyberDanny still had his face because he didn't start decomposing yet, so it just worked around it for some reason. Though I do wonder why the gently caress the way he talked changed so drastically once his face mask came off. It's not like that was limiting how he could speak. Whatever. RoboCop has a face, but when you look at it you realize that holy poo poo, it's pretty much just STAPLED ON. They slapped a human face on a terminator skull and called it a day, and that's fantastic and perfectly suits the callous, skin deep care a giant company like Omni should have. Cybermen wouldn't have any reason to keep a face if they had to remove it in the first place.
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Burkion posted:Cybermen wouldn't have any reason to keep a face if they had to remove it in the first place. Exactly. To them, it's not even a consideration, they just burrow through the skin as needed. Faceplate attachment clamp? Just drill it into the skull's bone through the cheek. The skin itself will decompose and fall away, but that's secondary.
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Just retire the Cybermen for good.
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Harlock posted:Just retire the Cybermen for good. But then they'd have to come up with original monsters and we can't have that... (Original monsters was one of the things this season did pretty well with I think.)
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Mokinokaro posted:But then they'd have to come up with original monsters and we can't have that... Moffat in general does better with original monsters than RTD did. No matter how he's used them The Weeping Angels and The Silence have a lot of potential. I can't see much variation possible in the Shadow monsters or Clockwork robots though. The Boneless this season was great, but the Mummy was kind of a one time and done fluke of technology.
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She's back! And it's abou- no, wait. http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/michelle-gomez-reveals-series-9-return-rani-trickery-68791.htm
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The_Doctor posted:She's back! And it's abou- no, wait. Good. Even bad episodes will be improved, because bad Moffat era Who is the sort of thing that will give the cackling villain a lot of scenery to chew on. Something tells me Gomez would be too busy to do a real Pertwee era "the Master is in every episode and behind everything" season, but even a pop-in now and then will mean this incarnation isn't wasted.
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The_Doctor posted:She's back! And it's abou- no, wait. Didn't expect a return so soon. This is good news.
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The_Doctor posted:She's back! And it's abou- no, wait. Hah I knew that she definitely said Rani in that clip, clever Moffat...
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The_Doctor posted:She's back! And it's abou- no, wait. They missed out Geoffrey Beevers and CGI snake
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Yes. More of her character is just what the Doctor ordered. Wow. I hate myself for making that pun, but here we are.
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Preview of the Christmas episode is up: http://youtu.be/MsxEenCBRG0 Someone please make some sense of that jacket for me because I'm having a hard time reconciling the image of the Doctor wearing a hoodie.
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Man, this whole "fictional character is actually real" conceit thing is a big departure from all the episodes in the last series
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Based on the Doctor's conversation from that preview, I think that the twist of the episode is going to be that Nick Frost is not really Santa but only pretending for nefarious purposes. Then at the end of the episode we'll see the real Santa Claus because children watch this show so of course they're not going to say Santa isn't real.
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It didn't really sound like the Doctor was threatening him though. My guess is whoever Frost really is is actually benevolent but uses Santa as a disguise for some reason.
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Nov 15, 2014 02:02
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Man, this whole "fictional character is actually real" conceit thing is a big departure from all the episodes in the last series Did anyone else feel like Santa was making an implication that the Doctor is also like a fairy tale?
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The amount of people he's met and affected across all time and space I'm surprised he's not worshipped by all earth cultures. Tennantjesus is not canon.
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Chairman Capone posted:Did anyone else feel like Santa was making an implication that the Doctor is also like a fairy tale? yes. Also mocked the idea that Clara's parents loved her.
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Nov 15, 2014 02:43
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Everyone's missed the obvious that Nick Frost is clearly the new Master, he's just disguised as Santa to gently caress with the Doctor.
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The Land of Fiction is invading. And Santa, who is real, is fighting them off. Why not?
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david... posted:Everyone's missed the obvious that Nick Frost is clearly the new Master, he's just disguised as Santa to gently caress with the Doctor. As much as I adored Michelle Gomez.... this would be amazing. As long as the two of them pair up in an episode.
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I laughed at "of course I'm real! How do you think the presents got under the tree? [mocking pretend magician arm movements] by magic?"
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Man, this whole "fictional character is actually real" conceit thing is a big departure from all the episodes in the last series It was just the Robin Hood one, right? This at least looks interesting, although I'm sure the Narnia one did when it was just a preview.
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2house2fly posted:I laughed at "of course I'm real! How do you think the presents got under the tree? [mocking pretend magician arm movements] by magic?" "Because [your parents] love you so much?" was my favorite part 
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Kazy posted:"Because [your parents] love you so much?" was my favorite part Of course Santas a dick, why do you think he always gives children from rich families a poo poo load more presents then those from poorer ones. Classists git.
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david... posted:Everyone's missed the obvious that Nick Frost is clearly the new Master, he's just disguised as Santa to gently caress with the Doctor. Santa is clearly the Rani.
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Bicyclops posted:It was just the Robin Hood one, right? This at least looks interesting, although I'm sure the Narnia one did when it was just a preview. The Paternoster Gang claim to be the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes Robin Hood The Foretold A theoretical but undiscovered 2D universe Aaaaaand the very concept of an afterlife That do you?
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david... posted:The amount of people he's met and affected across all time and space I'm surprised he's not worshipped by all earth cultures. Which Jesus? Tinkerbell Jesus or Literal Jesus?
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Well it didn't take long for someone claiming to be "in the know" to pop up and share some details about next series.GallifreyBase posted:Never done this before, can't actually do much, but here goes...
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I hope the part about it being Moffat's last series is true.
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The real giveaway (besides everything about it) is that Neil Gaiman had time to write another episode of Doctor Who right now. The poor dude is struggling with his other deadlines right now.
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Bicyclops posted:The real giveaway (besides everything about it) is that Neil Gaiman had time to write another episode of Doctor Who right now. The poor dude is struggling with his other deadlines right now. And he wouldn't write a mistress and doctor episode, he already wrote "the doctor's wife"
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