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SiKboy posted:Personally I will certainly be suprised if I ever see any evidence of this. What, you didn't like her Irish accent in Penny Dreadful?
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Capaldi is so great
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 17:33 |
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The_Doctor posted:Also, Captain Yesterday, why is your av a potential GoT spoiler? Or not, I don't know/care. Beats me, I don't know/care either.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 17:57 |
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The_Doctor posted:Cobi, J-ru, didn't one of you review Engines of War, the War Doctor book? I've just finished it and wanted to see what others thought. I read it too and thought it was fantastic. Gave me everything I wanted to see about the Time War, Rassilon, and the Daleks. Also made me want more War Doctor adventures.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 18:05 |
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CobiWann posted:What, you didn't like her Irish accent in Penny Dreadful? I think its fair to say SiKboy posted:Just finished watching the whole season over about 3 days. I actually liked it a lot more than I expected to. Some general comments; that I'm not a fan, no. At least I'm consistant in my anti-piper prejudice.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 19:41 |
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There is zero point zero chance that Eccleston is doing Big Finish, but if we get a Companion Chronicle with Billie Piper, I'd still be stoked.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 19:48 |
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Goodbye, wallet.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 20:08 |
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They're not allowed to do anything cool until I catch up with them. Somebody tell them to hold off for a couple of years.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 20:10 |
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Oh god, please don't let it be new 9 stories. Don't make me become an audio person.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 20:16 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Oh god, please don't let it be new 9 stories. Don't make me become an audio person. Big Mean Jerk is pretending that he is not already an audio person, and he has posted about trying to listen to them before, which is funny.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 20:24 |
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Jerusalem posted:"We" can't agree on anything! I thought the first half of Deep Breath was hilarious, Vastra's pompous old-mentor bullshit notwithstanding, but out of all the series openers it might be the single worst one in the revival to introduce someone to the series since it's all about Clara's sudden character development in the face of adversity. Even The Impossible Astronaut has a lot of great moodiness and atmosphere to carry a confused new viewer through. Deep Breath's got almost nothing on offer if you don't have any familiarity with the characters and care little for ridiculous slapstick and anatomically improbable dinosaurs.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 20:48 |
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Deep Breath is self-indulgent Moffat garbage. It's awful.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 21:22 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Deep Breath is self-indulgent Moffat garbage. It's amazing. There's no better garbage than indulgent garbage.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 21:24 |
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Deep Breath was a fun episode but I hate Vastra. Don't mind the other two, though.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 21:24 |
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Fine, FINE, I'll change the OP. You lied to me, Trin Tragula! You lied to all of us!
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 21:25 |
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The second half of it was good. It was just trying to do a little too much and probably should have focused on the clockwork robots. I think they thought they needed the Pasternoster Gang because Clara was so new and we had a new Doctor, but it would have been fine without them. The dinosaur should have been a throwaway joke at the beginning, at absolute most.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 21:25 |
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Since you're changing the OP, classic Who is also broadcast on Drama in the UK.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 21:36 |
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I'll repeat what I said at the end of the last thread: "Rose" and the first season of the revival more generally (although I recognise that, by a number of subjective measures, it probably isn't as good as seasons four or five) have a special status in my eyes. I was born a couple of years after the classic series reached its end, but I'd been into Doctor Who since I was 10 or 11 thanks to a mixture of omnibus reruns on UK Gold, the first handful of BBC DVD releases, and even some of the BBC Books line (War of the Daleks by John Peel was the first one I read, and my introduction to the character of the Eighth Doctor); I remember getting a book token at school prize day in 2004 and using it for this great big episode guide called Doctor Who: The Legend, and I remember thinking it would be amazing if the series came back. Then, all of a sudden, it actually did! And better yet, as far as my 13 1/2 year-old self was concerned, it was for me! I've never had a "my Doctor" in the same way that some have, but the first season of the revival is and probably always will be my series.
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# ? Mar 26, 2015 22:09 |
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The thinking behind "start with Deep Breath", in case anyone cares, was to get people caught up as quickly as possible with the Doctor that they were going to be seeing in new episodes, and trying not to put people off with "sure you can join in but first you need to watch eleventy-one years of old episodes with twiddly-two billion different lead actors".CobiWann posted:Was anyone here from the UK NOT surprised by the fact that Billie Piper could actually act? I'd seen her in The Canterbury Tales (currently available on a popular video-sharing website), so no, it wasn't a surprise at all. IIRC, Outpost Gallifrey was split about 30/30/40 between "OMG it's Bonnie Langford all over again", "STFU she's great she was an actor before she was a pop star", and "Actually I'm more concerned about whether they're going to credit the lead actor as 'Doctor Who' or 'The Doctor'". Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Mar 26, 2015 |
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Trin Tragula posted:I'd seen her in The Canterbury Tales (currently available on a popular video-sharing website), so no, it wasn't a surprise at all. IIRC, Outpost Gallifrey was split about 30/30/40 between "OMG it's Bonnie Langford all over again", "STFU she's great she was an actor before she was a pop star", and "Actually I'm more concerned about whether they're going to credit the lead actor as 'Doctor Who' or 'The Doctor'". Around the time, I was chiefly concerned by my discovery that they wouldn't be doing four-part 25-minute serials.
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Jerusalem posted:"We" can't agree on anything! I agree with you. CobiWann posted:Bugger. You always count Paul McGann! You can always count ON Paul McGann (to be an excellent Doctor (even with what the Fox movie gave him to work with))! Damnit, I still say we need a series/series of specials with him. He was robbed!
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Astroman posted:I read it too and thought it was fantastic. Gave me everything I wanted to see about the Time War, Rassilon, and the Daleks. Also made me want more War Doctor adventures. I read the wiki about it. I still don't understand this: 1) The TARDIS can travel in time 2) The TARDIS can move planets 3) They know the Daleks originated on Skaro 4) Go back in time to when Skaro was first starting to form, and toss it into its star. 5) Problem solved. The entire billion year history of Skaro can't be time locked.
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PowerBuilder3 posted:
Why not? I've always got the impression that pretty much all of Gallifrey's history is.
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PowerBuilder3 posted:4) Go back in time to when Skaro was first starting to form, and toss it into its star. I think that the entire point of the time war was because of this. Dalek's get interrupted by The Doctor, suffer complete defeat, and determine that this just will now do. They develop space travel, time travel, incredibly powerful weaponry, etc. Now the Daleks go back in time and defend Skaro from attack in its infancy, seed the beginning of time with Daleks, and start annihilating the universe. Time Lords respond in kind and the time streams become so entangled and twisted that it just boils down to blowing each other up the old fashioned way.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 17:17 |
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Yeah, I think once the Dalek's achieved extensive time travel, they would essentially exist outside of time, even if someone destroyed Skaro.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 17:22 |
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It kind of goes without saying that any society which invents time travel would invent protections from altering their own history, or else alter history to the point of not inventing time travel, during the period in which a privileged elite few would have access to the technology.
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Teek posted:Yeah, I think once the Dalek's achieved extensive time travel, they would essentially exist outside of time, even if someone destroyed Skaro. Someone destroyed Skaro even though the Doctor told him not to use the Hand of Omega, right after he said not to throw him in the briar patch.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 19:23 |
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After The War posted:Someone destroyed Skaro even though the Doctor told him not to use the Hand of Omega, right after he said not to throw him in the briar patch. Time to begin penning a letter to the Doctor Who Experience with an idea for a musical log flume ride.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 19:33 |
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So...this is my first Who convention and I am NOT prepared for this. So many utili-kilts...so many fezzes...
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 19:44 |
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CobiWann posted:So...this is my first Who convention and I am NOT prepared for this. So many utili-kilts...so many fezzes... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
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Bicyclops posted:Time to begin penning a letter to the Doctor Who Experience with an idea for a musical log flume ride. You really want Joseph Lidster to write that for you? CobiWann posted:So...this is my first Who convention and I am NOT prepared for this. So many utili-kilts...so many fezzes... Hey, I'm still at work! Spoiler-tag that poo poo!
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 19:49 |
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http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who-licenced-extended-to-2020 Good news!
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 19:50 |
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PantsOptional posted:I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. It's worse. I just got to the ponies.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 19:53 |
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CobiWann posted:It's worse. I just got to the ponies. Is it just you out there or did you take your family with you?
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 19:57 |
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Thunderfinger posted:Is it just you out there or did you take your family with you? Just me for now, wife and kiddo coming tonight. I am proud of myself. Colin and Sophie just walked by and I didn't fanboy out. As i said, lot of fezzes, lot of scarves, a few spoons, and enough naked fat flesh to convince me that I'm going on a drat diet when this is over.
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:10 |
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CobiWann posted:So...this is my first Who convention and I am NOT prepared for this. So many utili-kilts...so many fezzes...
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# ? Mar 27, 2015 20:13 |
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I can only imagine an American Who convention as being fezzes, bowties, converse hi-tops and TARDIS dresses as far as the eye can see. And DoctorWhat as the sole Classic Who holdout, constantly having to explain who he is. "The sixth Doctor. No, the sixth. Colin Baker. No, the one with the scarf was Tom Baker."
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The_Doctor posted:I can only imagine an American Who convention as being fezzes, bowties, converse hi-tops and TARDIS dresses as far as the eye can see. And DoctorWhat as the sole Classic Who holdout, constantly having to explain who he is. I did just see a teenager with green bubble wrap on one hand.
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CobiWann posted:I did just see a teenager with green bubble wrap on one hand. That warms my heart no end. Maybe there is hope.
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