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Jerusalem posted:That can be the only answer, there's no way that many Doctor Who fans have all had the same basic idea for the premise of a story, no way at all! I just hope that no one steals my idea for "The Doctor Meets [famous historical figure] and They Fight Aliens Together" before I can come up with a better title.
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Jerusalem posted:These all open with,"The Doctor has amnesia....." I don't remember writing that one.
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Random Stranger posted:I just hope that no one steals my idea for "The Doctor Meets [famous historical figure] and They Fight Aliens Together" before I can come up with a better title. Why would I steal that when I have the much more original idea of a multi-Doctor story!
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Jan 22, 2015 23:05
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Bicyclops posted:Eight may actually have amnesia more times than all of the characters of the Final Fantasy series combined. Looking forward to the Doctor Who / All My Circuits crossover.
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Jan 22, 2015 23:08
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Hah! I have a script that makes use of Peri's oft mentioned skill as a botanist!
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Jan 22, 2015 23:12
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Gallifrey is awesome, without Gallifrey and terrible Time Lords we'd never have gotten that loving boss scene at the end of the Five Doctors!quote:Why not? After all, that's how it all started.
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...Goddamnit, I stop checking this thread for a few weeks and I missed that there's a new Benny box-set coming out this year... I liked having money, Briggs!  
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Gaz-L posted:...Goddamnit, I stop checking this thread for a few weeks and I missed that there's a new Benny box-set coming out this year... I liked having money, Briggs! Apparently, at Big Finish Day 6, they announced that for the foreseeable future, Benny's only going to be in 7th Doctor stories, since her series isn't selling well anymore.
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Davros1 posted:Apparently, at Big Finish Day 6, they announced that for the foreseeable future, Benny's only going to be in 7th Doctor stories, since her series isn't selling well anymore. I know! I really liked the last set! And this one has Sutekh!
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Gaz-L posted:I know! I really liked the last set! And this one has Sutekh! I was surprised by the last set. They kept most of the Benny obnoxiousness away, except for in the first story. I was disappointed by the fact Davros is in it for a two minute monologue, and THAT'S it. No interaction with another character, nothing.
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So, um remember that pipe-dream New Doctor Who Wiki? I, um, may have bought the domain "dwwiki.net" today. I may be soliciting article-writers to deliver written-from-scratch synopses for every TV story and mini-sode since 2005. I may actually be starting this ridiculous thing and looking for help in getting it off the ground. I may be posting some more detailed plans and cries for aid this time next week.
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Cruel Rose posted:Only reason I want Gallifrey back is the possibility of Narvin and co. on TV. I know everybody likes God Mode Second Doctor Time Lords, but if and when Gallifrey comes back, I still want pompous bureaucratics in funny hats that the Doctor can make fun of. There's just something right about a society that has control over all time and space being a bunch of petulant pencil-headed douchebags. 
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Jan 23, 2015 02:11
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DoctorWhat posted:So, um Godspeed, you rainbow coated dreamer. 
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Davros1 posted:I was surprised by the last set. They kept most of the Benny obnoxiousness away, except for in the first story. I was disappointed by the fact Davros is in it for a two minute monologue, and THAT'S it. No interaction with another character, nothing. Other than the Davros thing (which was a fine monologue, just odd to have it without payoff- yet?) that might be my favourite Dalek story... maybe ever.
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DoctorWhat posted:So, um I'd write Eighth Doctor audio articles.
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GonSmithe posted:I'd write Eighth Doctor audio articles. That'd be great, man. I'll have a style guide for "story" articles available by the 30th of this month.
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DoctorWhat posted:So, um Let's be fair, all of your posts are cries for help.
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Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Joe Lidster? The one he wrote for 100 was an okay if run-of-the-mill story until the very end, when the frame story was revealed to have been the villain, who was back to put an entire family in sensory deprivation hell, revealing that the Doctor's efforts had been for nothing and he had tricked him. I'd chalk it up to an attempt at a cheesy, italicized Lovecraft ending if it weren't for the fact that Lidster is needlessly depressing in seven other different ways in prior stories.
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Speaking of crazy Big Finish audios, I decided to start listening again where I left off, starting with 1963: The Space Race. What the gently caress was that? Okay, it starts great with the 6th Doctor (yay!) and Peri (okay...) poking around Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Kazakhstan with various interesting dramas afoot (loving awesome!), and I'm enjoying the setting and the mystery and then... bam, out of nowhere, talking dog. Okay, that's silly, and totally not in keeping with how interesting things have been so far, let's see where things go from there. The crazy space dog is loving insane, and as soon as Peri releases her she psychically (?) gets all the animals to rise up in revolt against... animal testing or something? As soon as the severity of the situation becomes clear, the Doctor buggers off with an American spy to the loving Moon on a lunar lander the Soviets just happened to have floating around and ready to launch at short notice (still 1963), where he finds a secret American Moon Base that's conveniently abandoned, except for a loving black hole, so the Doctor jumps in to see what it wants, and it basically felt really loving bad for dogs and decided to send that dog to go take over Earth (!?), so the Doctor goes to prove that humans aren't all bad, and takes one of the half dozen American rockets chilling on the far side of the moon, which prompts the (hilariously accented) Ameircans to launch a nuke at the Moon, which gets the Soviets (still besieged by an army of dogs and a few monkeys with guns) all pissy and they threaten global thermonuclear war if the Americans don't cut it out right now, so the American general has to contact the president to call off the nuke (but not to launch it earlier?) but then the Doctor realizes that it's November 22, 1963, 12:30 Central Standard Time, and the president can't call off the nuke because he's too busy being shot! Cue credits! That's the actual loving cliffhanger for episode 3. That has got to be one of the most... incredible cliffhangers in all of Doctor Who. It keeps going and I can't think of a single plot point that isn't mind-numbingly silly. And the ultimate message is pretty drat poo poo too: Humanity better act nice, because, "you never know who might be watching." Because I guess pure compassion for the plight of you fellow man isn't enough. gently caress empathy. Humanity should behave well because you're scared of punishment. Punishment in the form of psychic revolutionary dogs sent by moonbase squatting black holes. Except nothing bad would have happened if Peri hadn't compassionately released the poor trapped animal to begin with so... you're hosed if you act good too? gently caress if I know what the point was. I may as well have watched Kill the Moon again. Eiba fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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Bicyclops posted:Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Joe Lidster? My (thankfully) limited experience with Lidster's stories is that he wants to be "real" by having horrible things happen to people, and that he has a bizarre love for retconning in utterly meaningless, pointless and often nonsensical stuff in the Doctor's past that ends up having zero bearing on either the story at hand or anything that follows on from it.
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I for one hope they'll bring Gallifrey back, because it could be the kind of gamechanger that helps the Capaldi era to find its own voice.
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I'm a big fan of the idea of the Doctor rediscovering Gallifrey and bringing them back safely into the universe.... then running the gently caress away because he remembers how frustrating and boring and horrible life there was. Either that or he brings them back but then forces them to remove themselves from any active role in the universe to avoid kicking off a giant rumble like almost happened in Time of the Doctor, basically resetting them to the Time Lords of old - guarding over the timestream but taking no active part in events, with almost every other "higher" race not even aware they exist.
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In case you missed it, RTD continued his love of reusing names by naming the insurance company that one of the main characters works at H.C. Clements. I'm now imagining a giant spider woman underneath Canal Street now.
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Bicyclops posted:Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Joe Lidster? The one he wrote for 100 was an okay if run-of-the-mill story until the very end, when the frame story was revealed to have been the villain, who was back to put an entire family in sensory deprivation hell, revealing that the Doctor's efforts had been for nothing and he had tricked him. I'd chalk it up to an attempt at a cheesy, italicized Lovecraft ending if it weren't for the fact that Lidster is needlessly depressing in seven other different ways in prior stories. Yup. He loves his miseryporn. He always, always wants to be writing the story where the doctor doesn't get to win. I loving LOATHED Bedtime Story because of that "lol, surprise" ending. It's even worse because it's surrounded by all the other 100 stories, and doesn't fit properly with them at all. I think I'd rather listen to one of the Forge based audios than Lidster's stuff.
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Fil5000 posted:I'd rather listen to one of the Forge based audios Jesus Christ, THAT bad?
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Jerusalem posted:Jesus Christ, THAT bad? You've heard The Rapture and Terror Firma by now, right? Actually I just checked and you reviewed the latter but not the former.
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I skipped the Rapture because of all the bad reviews it got, I probably will pick it up at some later point when I've cleared through the large amount of Big Finish stuff I already picked up but haven't had time to listen to. I'm sure it'll be as bad as I've heard, but I always figure I owe something at least one listen if only to confirm what everybody else has already said. Which means I'll probably eventually listen to the other Forge stories too 
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I remember listening to the first Forge story forever ago (Six, Evelyn, Project: Twilight?) and not caring at all. Somehow mixing Bermondsey criminals running a dodgy casino, vampires and an evil Torchwood (which was currently airing at the time) and the entire thing being a dull mess.
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Yeah, I found it very aggravating, it's probably one of the most uninteresting and badly done stories, and I hated the open-ended way it finished because the "promise" of more to come just made me groan. I went out of my way to avoid the follow-up stories, though I guess I'll come back to them eventually. Certainly they'd be hard-pressed to be as bad as Project: Twilight was.
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Actually Lazarus is pretty terrible too. What's the last one called again, Destiny? That was a bit better by dint of it having Hex in it.
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I heard the last one this morning (these short ones are fun, because now that the students are back and the train is ultra-slow, I juuuuust about get through a full one in one train ride). I'm all for winking jokes within the story about production stuff, but a full half hour of it (complete with "And the audience said I was the violent one!") as penned by Paul Cornell was a bit much.
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DoctorWhat posted:So, um I can honestly say that if there's anyone who can make it happen, it's surely DoctorWhat.
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Trin Tragula posted:I can honestly say that if there's anyone who can make it happen, it's surely DoctorWhat. What this guy said. Now just use the TFWiki engine.
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If I ever have time, I will lend a hand to Doctor What's project, but more importantly, I can promise to watch from the sidelines and observe differences in opinions between the different contributors, and subtly make off-hand remarks that will incite in-fighting, possibly while growing a goatee and laughing a Delgado laugh.
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DoctorWhat posted:So, um I bring Sutekh's gift of a wiki page about Sutekh to all human life
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How many pages will there be on Nimons today?
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FFS, the opening episode of the second series of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, and he's got loving amnesia again. Lucie's definitely improved as a companion, and the stories themselves seem to be consitently better on average than the previous unevenly good-or-bad monthly stories; better pacing for less padding, more light-hearted adventure-style romps, and a much more tolerable run-time.
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I like the long run-time for some of Big Finish's stories and there are definitely stories that are more suited to the monthly format, but yeah, for the hit-or-miss stuff, the one hour format really helps for it to be more bearable. I'm in that weird bit of time where Big Finish does a lot of 3-parters (with an additional one-parter), or four small stories, and it's a nice little break. Horror of Glam Rock and Immortal Beloved in particular would have become snoozers if they'd been full four-parters with cliffhangers. And if they feel like they need extra time, they can always make it two different "stories" like with Human Resources.
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Well, I've set up a temporary(?) wiki hosted by ShoutWiki and have sent the ShoutWiki staff a request to upload a fork of the TARDIS data core to the new DWWiki. I'm also working on a style guide for Story articles right now, and also plan to do style guides for character pages. I'm also drafting some general policies. The dream is to have scratch-written articles for every TV story and recurring character since 2005, along with scratch-written or heavily cleaned-up articles on all Classic stories, ready by the end of July so that we can launch a publicity blitz in sync with Series 9.
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