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There must be a better 7th doc story than Battlefield? "Boooooooooooooom!"
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Sad King Billy posted:There must be a better 7th doc story than Battlefield? Any other story from seasons 25 and 26 are better than Battlefield.
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Apr 6, 2015 15:43
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But this one has swords and Merlin.
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Apr 6, 2015 15:52
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The_Doctor posted:Any other story from seasons 25 and 26 are better than Battlefield. Counterpoint: If you want to hear Sylvester McCoy say "Brrrrrrrrrigadier", you have limited options.
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Apr 6, 2015 15:55
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Or ye olde classic "THERE...WILL...BE...NO... BATTLE HEEEEEEEEERE!"
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Apr 6, 2015 15:56
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After The War posted:Counterpoint: If you want to hear Sylvester McCoy say "Brrrrrrrrrigadier", you have limited options. You have Remembrance. 
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Apr 6, 2015 15:59
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Fil5000 posted:You have Remembrance. Group Captain!
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Apr 6, 2015 16:19
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Greatest Show In The Galaxy is nice and creepy, also has Sylvester at his most nonchalant!
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Apr 6, 2015 16:24
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"Battlefield" is a story that should have been great. Judging from the info text on the DVD release, a lot of scenes that would have clarified the action ended up being cut. I'm also given to understand (though I lack the technical knowledge to credit the claim) that it wasn't very well directed.
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Apr 6, 2015 16:29
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After The War posted:Group Captain! HE STILL SAYS IT
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Apr 6, 2015 16:34
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Sad King Billy posted:Greatest Show In The Galaxy is nice and creepy, also has Sylvester at his most nonchalant! She refuses to see anything with a clown it. See The Deadly Assassin. Or puppets. See The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
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Apr 6, 2015 16:48
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Greatest Show is my favourite McCoy, even though it's probably not the best. I don't even need to watch it to make me happy, just listening to the soundtrack is good enough. Sod Murray Gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaYH3nQwGOg dikkadikkadikkadikkadikka
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Apr 6, 2015 17:31
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battlefield is good
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Apr 6, 2015 18:45
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Cerv posted:battlefield is good agreed cerv
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Apr 6, 2015 19:21
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Finally watching series 8, and boy was "Deep Breath" very bad.
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Apr 7, 2015 02:35
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Finally watching series 8, and boy was "Deep Breath" very bad. The second half is good.
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Apr 7, 2015 02:40
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Bicyclops posted:The second half is good. I liked Capaldi but nothing else really worked for me.
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Apr 7, 2015 02:43
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The episode is just way too overloaded. The T-Rex and the Paternoster stuff didn't work for me, but the moments with the clockwork robots, Clara and the Doctor were good.
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Apr 7, 2015 02:45
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Bicyclops posted:The second half is good. I agree, but boy howdy is the first half pretty awful.
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Apr 7, 2015 02:56
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It's definitely a weird, meandering mess, overladen with jokes, only half of which land.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:03
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It's not until Capaldi really becomes the Doctor that it clicks. Otherwise it's the "one-note characters who are wearing out their welcome hour" for the first half.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:07
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Clara's angry reaction is also a little unwarranted. It feels like they were having her respond to the Twelfth Doctor from the next couple of episodes, but it reads as kind of weird that she is so immediately hostile.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:10
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"Into the Dalek" is okay. Predictable, but fun. Seems like a sequel to "Dalek" from season one.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:10
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egon_beeblebrox posted:"Into the Dalek" is okay. Predictable, but fun. Seems like a sequel to "Dalek" from season one. It very definitely has a similar "Dalek" vibe to it, they really push the theme of the Doctor (and others, including Clara) questioning his own sense of morality and whether he's a "good" person or not.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:26
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Fil5000 posted:HE STILL SAYS IT How about this, then? Sylvester McCoy and Nicholas Courtney have an instant rapport that makes it seem like they've been working together for years. Also, Pyromaniac Girlfriend.
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Apr 7, 2015 05:22
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Seventh/Brig is the best because the Brig knew it was the Doctor right away. I think that's my favorite Seven scene in his entire run.
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Apr 7, 2015 05:27
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Rhyno posted:Seventh/Brig is the best because the Brig knew it was the Doctor right away. I think that's my favorite Seven scene in his entire run.  "Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart!" "Hello, Doctor.""So you recognise me then?""Who else would it be?"
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Apr 7, 2015 06:59
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The_Doctor posted:
Seven meets Rory?
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Apr 7, 2015 10:42
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Oh my god, if Big Finish ever got the rights to The Centurion Rory Chronicles imagine his various adventures with classic doctors over the past thousand years. EDIT: DAMNIT that wouldn't work, he was only around in the Starless universe. I still want Rory's adventures. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Apr 7, 2015 |
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Apr 7, 2015 11:02
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After The War posted:How about this, then? Sylvester McCoy and Nicholas Courtney have an instant rapport that makes it seem like they've been working together for years. Yes, this is entirely fair. I find it hard to dislike much from McCoy's run as he was MY Doctor, but even with that in mind I agree that a lot of the grief Battlefield gets is perhaps a bit unfair. You get the Brig, you get Bessie, you get the Brig standing off against a nigh immortal beastie with his revolver (twice) and you get an extra Brigadier played by the female Dave Lister. Also it isn't Silver Nemesis, which surely is worth a lot of points.
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Apr 7, 2015 13:23
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Finally watching series 8, and boy was "Deep Breath" very bad. Eh, I really thought it picked up at the restaurant. In that scene, Coleman and Capaldi just clicked amazingly in a way Coleman and Smith never did. And the Clockwork Man was kind of a great, sad villain. And, thinking about it, Ten or Eleven would have taken him down quite differently, and wouldn't have openly expressed the deep reservations and melancholy Twelve had about doing it. but all that dinosaur nonsense, and the Paternoster gang stuff just didn't work. But Into the Dalek is great, Robot of Sherwood is silly as hell, and Listen is...well, some people hate it, but to me it's self-evidently one of the five or so best episodes of the revival, and actually manages to say something profound.
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Apr 7, 2015 14:26
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MikeJF posted:Oh my god, if Big Finish ever got the rights to The Centurion Rory Chronicles imagine his various adventures with classic doctors over the past thousand years. Coming soon, from Big Finish: Starless Universe, starring Arthur Darvill as the Last Centurion...
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Apr 7, 2015 14:39
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Bicyclops posted:Coming soon, from Big Finish: Starless Universe, starring Arthur Darvill as the Last Centurion... All episodes written by Joe Lidster, each revealing a horrible way Rory was tortured during his thousands of years of life.
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Apr 7, 2015 14:47
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Fil5000 posted:All episodes written by Joe Lidster, each revealing a horrible way Rory was tortured during his thousands of years of life. At last, Rory is going to kick the football he's been waiting for 2000 years to kick, until the person holding it dies of cancer and the ball rolls away, to be eaten by the kite eating tree, which also ate Rory's kite.
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Apr 7, 2015 14:50
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Fil5000 posted:All episodes written by Joe Lidster, each revealing a horrible way Rory was tortured during his thousands of years of life. Rory finds the lost Doctor Who episodes! On Betamax!
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Apr 7, 2015 14:59
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The Doctor never switched the TARDIS film library to VHS, and he made the right decision.
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Apr 7, 2015 15:05
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Spatula City posted:Eh, I really thought it picked up at the restaurant. To me that's really damning to it, because the Restaurant doesn't happen until an hour into the goddamn episode. It's such a slog to get to the good parts that it cheapens the impact that they should have. Why was this episode the super long one again?
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Apr 7, 2015 15:23
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Bicyclops posted:At last, Rory is going to kick the football he's been waiting for 2000 years to kick, until the person holding it dies of cancer and the ball rolls away, to be eaten by the kite eating tree, which also ate Rory's kite. Also the football was made from Rory's best friend's skin.
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Apr 7, 2015 15:27
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How are the two Unbound audios with David Warner?
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Apr 7, 2015 15:31
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Burkion posted:To me that's really damning to it, because the Restaurant doesn't happen until an hour into the goddamn episode. The BBC cut the episode order to 13, I think, to make up for the 50th anniversary special. The extra-long first and last episodes made it basically the same length as a normal season, so I'm guessing Moffat did it either as a gently caress you to the BBC or (more likely) trying to make it up for the viewers.
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