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ashpanash posted:Didn't want to call out names if I didn't have to, but I guess the cat's out of the bag. Bown revealed - without explicitly saying it, though he was drawing attention to it - that Rory would be back. Occ said he figured that was the case, said that while he doesn't really care about spoilers that much and he mostly just doesn't want it to poo poo up the thread, he didn't want to know any more. Eh, the Giant Bomb thread likely spoiled him a bit before that. relevant, on topic edit: Man, The Doctor got up to some real weird stuff during the Time of the Doctor time skip. Cross-Section fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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Yup, that was what was pointed to. Edit: I take it back, scrolling back in the irc, it wasn't Bown at all who pointed to the spoiler, it was Zaggitz himself. But Occ encouraged him. code:ashpanash fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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Feb 4, 2015 03:38
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I retract my earlier comments about Bown and swear eternal vengeance on Zaggitz, then. I can't police the whole forum, you guys!
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Feb 4, 2015 03:59
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Oxxidation posted:I retract my earlier comments about Bown and swear eternal vengeance on Zaggitz, then. to be fair theyreboth eteriivly terrible fuckenm
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Feb 4, 2015 04:08
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Is the "sorry, Van Gogh was still loving depressed and killed himself" bit at the end of Vincent and the Doctor or later in the series?
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Feb 4, 2015 04:16
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Is the "sorry, Van Gogh was still loving depressed and killed himself" bit at the end of Vincent and the Doctor or later in the series? It's right at the end when she finds out that there's no new paintings.
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Feb 4, 2015 04:17
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BSam posted:to be fair theyreboth eteriivly Um. Someone should probably call 911 or something 
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Feb 4, 2015 04:56
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I hated this episode, but I assumed that Occ would love it because it's so emotional. Do you want to know something disturbing, Doctor Who thread? I wasn't trying to come in last place.
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So, with that little nugget known about Occ now, I can safely say from personal experience Oh God Night of the Forest might break him. Oh God. Jesus Christ Doctor Who Why
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Burkion posted:So, with that little nugget known about Occ now, I can safely say from personal experience I wonder if he'll come up with a way to rate an episode lower than an F.
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Feb 4, 2015 05:24
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DoctorWhat posted:Yeah, I saw that stuff ages ago. Like, 18 months back. Where have you been, Astroman? TIme is relative, my dear boy! It was on IO9 yesterday.
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Feb 4, 2015 05:34
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Man, what the gently caress is even the point of introducing a newbie to the show if you spoil everything for him? That's like, all of the fun of it!! When I watched Buffy for the first time with four people who had seen it before, they not only made sure never to say any spoilers, they enlisted all of my friends in a huge conspiracy to convince me that Dawn, introduced in season 5, had been a character all along and had featured prominently in an episode in season 2. They had an extensive plot summary that everyone had to memorize and not one person I knew ever broke character on it. It didn't work, but it was really impressive and involved about 20 people and all of them managed not to slip up once. We can't get like 30 guys, at the most, to not just blurt out hugely relevant plot points?!
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He probably won't see it coming when it actually happens because the actual circumstances are so crazy, so there'll still be the thrill of discovery. The main thing is that nobody spoils the Doctor's reaction 
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I do hope that overall, he is actually enjoying the experience and show, and not just doing it for some internet people, because the principle thing differentiating him from other first-time watcher is that he puts a loving ton of effort and words into writing those reviews, and if he's just doing it to try to grow his writing muscles, he's probably stretched them enough. I think he mostly enjoys it, but you never know.
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Bicyclops posted:I do hope that overall, he is actually enjoying the experience and show, and not just doing it for some internet people, because the principle thing differentiating him from other first-time watcher is that he puts a loving ton of effort and words into writing those reviews, and if he's just doing it to try to grow his writing muscles, he's probably stretched them enough. I think he mostly enjoys it, but you never know. At first he would talk about how much he hated watching the show and how it was preventing him from watching shows he DID want to watch because of the time it was taking up, and I couldn't understand why he would continue. But he seems to have really embraced the show and genuinely enjoy what he's doing with it now, which is nice, and I hope he continues to do so (enjoy it and write about it).
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Bicyclops posted:if he's just doing it to try to grow his writing muscles, he's probably stretched them enough. You can never stretch those muscles enough, and in all honesty I do think he still needs work. He tends to not self-edit (sometimes you need to kill your darlings) and he overuses the same words a lot. Look at how many times he used incredible in the Amy's Choice review, for example. Regardless he's quite good at telling the reader how he emotionally digested the episode, and his writing style is endearingly conversational. It's really great to watch someone who has an obvious talent grow better and better at their craft.
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ashpanash posted:You can never stretch those muscles enough, and in all honesty I do think he still needs work. He tends to not self-edit (sometimes you need to kill your darlings) and he overuses the same words a lot. Look at how many times he used incredible in the Amy's Choice review, for example. Well yes, but you're never going to exorcise your bad habits and murder those darlings in a venue which more or less literally revolves around you. I enjoy his perspective a lot, and the earnest, conversational nature of it is definitely part of its appeal. I just hope that he's getting something out of it that he couldn't be getting from watching a show he thinks he could enjoy better or from branching out to more stuff that he doesn't enjoy!
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Cross-Section posted:relevant, on topic edit: Man, The Doctor got up to some real weird stuff during the Time of the Doctor time skip. The Silence was trying to stop Ryan Gosling all along!
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Jerusalem posted:At first he would talk about how much he hated watching the show and how it was preventing him from watching shows he DID want to watch because of the time it was taking up, and I couldn't understand why he would continue. But he seems to have really embraced the show and genuinely enjoy what he's doing with it now, which is nice, and I hope he continues to do so (enjoy it and write about it). There is such a thing as Stockholm syndrome.
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Cross-Section posted:Eh, the Giant Bomb thread likely spoiled him a bit before that. Weird, that's nothin, check out this one
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Feb 4, 2015 09:57
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Wow, he's REALLY attached to Amy's glasses!
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That looks more boring than Baseball.
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ashpanash posted:You can never stretch those muscles enough, and in all honesty I do think he still needs work. He tends to not self-edit (sometimes you need to kill your darlings) and he overuses the same words a lot. Look at how many times he used incredible in the Amy's Choice review, for example. He'll never improve by doing these reviews, since he's stated that he's not willing to discuss the reviews themself. They're not terrible or anything, but they could be a lot better. Read his write up for season 3, it is literally about 3 paragraphs repeated ad naseum.
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greententacle posted:Weird, that's nothin, check out this one Let's not even talk about that time he got high, went back on his own timestream and shagged Rose.
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MikeJF posted:Let's not even talk about that time he got high, went back on his own timestream and shagged Rose. I clearly need sleep, for a second I though I clicked the Homestuck thread and I was very concerned. 
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adhuin posted:That looks more boring than Baseball. Rowing owns
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"September 2015 sees the release of a very special story from Big Finish, as Doctor Who - The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure at last provides a heroic exit for Colin Baker’s much-loved Time Lord..." http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/coming-in-september-doctor-who---the-sixth-doctor-the-last-adventure 
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Cruel Rose posted:"September 2015 sees the release of a very special story from Big Finish, as Doctor Who - The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure at last provides a heroic exit for Colin Baker’s much-loved Time Lord..." Awesome. The Big Finish Sixth Doctor is practically a different character to the one on telly, and he deserves the opportunity to not go out like a chump. It'll no doubt require ultra convoluted twonkery to somehow fit this in with his on-screen regeneration, but I don't really care about that. I just wanna hear C-Bakes, the best audio doctor, do his thing.
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adhuin posted:That looks more boring than Baseball. Rowing has the decency to make its races last 7 minutes or less. I used to row, and while I can agree that it can be boring to watch, at least it gets over with quickly.
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Barry Foster posted:Awesome. The Big Finish Sixth Doctor is practically a different character to the one on telly, and he deserves the opportunity to not go out like a chump. I'm glad they're doing this but I would probably enjoy it just as much if it's a big unrelated adventure that ends with him slipping on a
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Cruel Rose posted:"September 2015 sees the release of a very special story from Big Finish, as Doctor Who - The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure at last provides a heroic exit for Colin Baker’s much-loved Time Lord..." I was just coming here to post this and it makes me as happy as a clam. Baker has crushed it with regards to Big Finish and giving his Doctor a chance to go out in style is just what he deserves. Now, if we can do the same for McCoy so Seven has a bang-up last adventure that doesn't involve getting shot.. And if I can say anything, doing all the audio and TV reviews for this thread has definitely made me a much better writer...I think. So thanks to everyone for putting up with them and letting me get some good writing and critiquing practice in. Wonderful chaps, all of you. Except for DoctorWhat. He's got shifty eyes.
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It's real loving weird to hear Noel Clark doing Big Finish from 2007. I guess he must have really liked Doctor Who to come back so soon and play a different character.
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Barry Foster posted:Awesome. The Big Finish Sixth Doctor is practically a different character to the one on telly, and he deserves the opportunity to not go out like a chump. The 6>7 regeneration was so blunt and anticlimactic that it's perfectly reasonable to assume that the cause of Six's death wasn't conking himself out on the console. That probably didn't help, and it might've been final nail in the coffin, but it's very possible that he took more significant injuries that actually did him in.
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Cleretic posted:The 6>7 regeneration was so blunt and anticlimactic that it's perfectly reasonable to assume that the cause of Six's death wasn't conking himself out on the console. That probably didn't help, and it might've been final nail in the coffin, but it's very possible that he took more significant injuries that actually did him in. We never even see him conk out on the console, do we? We open on the Rani shooting down the TARDIS and the Doctor and Mel are already on the floor unconscious. He might've been dead and regenerating after a previous adventure by the time she caught up the TARDIS and started shooting, for all we know. As Big Finish will no doubt exploit. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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I hope that if they're doing this, they're willing to rewrite a little bit of the TV show so it still doesn't just end with Six conked out on the floor of the TARDIS. But honestly, I'd rather have a new first story for Six than a new last story. Time and the Rani is just bad, whereas The Twin Dilemma is morally indefensible. Big Finish have got Davison, Bryant, and Baker; just write a new story that starts from the end of Caves. Would anybody really care if we all pretended that Twin Dilemma didn't happen?
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Attitude Indicator posted:He'll never improve by doing these reviews, since he's stated that he's not willing to discuss the reviews themself. They're not terrible or anything, but they could be a lot better. Read his write up for season 3, it is literally about 3 paragraphs repeated ad naseum. He may also have a problem with italics. I don't think Occ is trying to hone his craft via those writeups except in the most basic sense, because he's told me - and he's probably right - that the main appeal of those posts is that everything comes out in one giant stream-of-consciousness rush, which is partly why he's always repeating words or phrases. As for me, I've been doing this from the start for his and my own amusement over everyone else's, so I just hammer out a few coherent points over the course of 45 minutes or so and let it rip. The "reviews" (I really don't consider mine to be such) are mostly an excuse to keep watching the show with my favorite dumb-rear end.
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Official Doctor Who Official LEGO incoming.
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Cruel Rose posted:"September 2015 sees the release of a very special story from Big Finish, as Doctor Who - The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure at last provides a heroic exit for Colin Baker’s much-loved Time Lord..." I bet DoctorWhat's super loving pleased with himself. This seems like the most definitive Big Finish has been, aside from Dark Eyes bleeding into Night of the Doctor. And it has the Valeyard! 
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