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I listened to The Reaping today. You know, up til the last few minutes, I was kind of impressed. Not the tightest story ever told, but it more-or-less held together, and certainly a downer, but the emotional beats felt more-or-less natural rather than HA HA HA gently caress YOU I AM LIDSTARR DESTROYER OF LIGHT. The various attempts at American accents were pretty sad, of course, but that's a minor enough complaint. And then, of course, that final scene. It wasn't just pointless misery porn, though it certainly was that. It was just dumb. Minuet In Hell dumb. And at least I got some laughs out of Minuet In Hell.
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It really is godawful, though at least this time it actually kinda sorta went somewhere in a future story instead of being dropped forever and having ZERO impact on anything at all.... but only because Lidster himself wrote the next story!
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Jun 25, 2015 00:20
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CobiWann posted:I know I'm going to regret this...but where does the phrase "Tom's putting it in now" come from? If you must know... There's a celebrity gossip site called Popbitch, and the story surfaced many years ago about Tom thus: Popbitch posted:Another eyewitness tells of the sexual prowess of Dr Who star Tom Baker, having had sex with him as a drama student when he was a guest lecturer. Apparently he preceded the act of penetration by whispering in her ear: "Tom's putting it in now".
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Jun 25, 2015 02:12
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Jun 25, 2015 02:15
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Oh god I can hear it in his own voice
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Jun 25, 2015 02:22
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Tom was granted a single wish, and that was to get narration for his life from the best possible choice for narrator there was. That was the easiest day of work that genie ever had.
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Jun 25, 2015 02:24
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The_Doctor posted:If you must know... There's a celebrity gossip site called Popbitch, and the story surfaced many years ago about Tom thus: Hah! Let's see Peter Davison top THAT!
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Jun 25, 2015 02:36
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That's odd, Peter Davison never struck me as a Top.
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Jun 25, 2015 02:53
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Jerusalem posted:That's odd, Peter Davison never struck me as a Top. Thankfully we have Colin for the Bear.
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Jun 25, 2015 03:01
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Toxxupation posted:From what I gather Twelve's probably gonna be a miserable cynical sarcastic rear end in a top hat, mostly because, one, that's what you cast Peter Capaldi to play, two, that's what Oxxidation is and Twelve's his Doctor for a reason, and three because then it makes Clara's sort of disinterested, bemused good nature make more sense. A more muted, vaguely angry Doctor doesn't need some crazy expressive firebrand as a Companion, he needs someone who can tolerate his general bullshit but tap him on the shoulder and go "Hey, yo, you're being a loving rear end in a top hat" when he gets to be too much, which is exactly what Clara can be. Well, he's done it again.
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Jun 25, 2015 06:42
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SirSamVimes posted:Well, he's done it again. To be fair, he did see part of a 12/Clara episode.
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Jun 25, 2015 07:02
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Jerusalem posted:Tom was granted a single wish, and that was to get narration for his life from the best possible choice for narrator there was. That was the easiest day of work that genie ever had. His life is narrated by BRIAN BLESSED?
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Jun 25, 2015 10:26
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Having read the Toxx thread's write up of Time of the Doctor, I found myself wanting to rewatch some 12th Doctor episodes, and am quite annoyed that they're still not on Netflix. When do they usually show up? Shortly before the new season?
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Jun 25, 2015 14:04
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thrawn527 posted:Having read the Toxx thread's write up of Time of the Doctor, I found myself wanting to rewatch some 12th Doctor episodes, and am quite annoyed that they're still not on Netflix. When do they usually show up? Shortly before the new season? they're on netflix in europe. try changing your region?
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Jun 25, 2015 14:10
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Attitude Indicator posted:they're on netflix in europe. try changing your region? 12th Doctor? Not in the UK they're not. Ours go up to Name of the Doctor.
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The_Doctor posted:12th Doctor? Not in the UK they're not. Ours go up to Name of the Doctor. wha? I just watched deep breath yesterday (It's not a very good episode) I'm in norway though... i figured it would be out in the uk.
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Jun 25, 2015 14:20
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So I'm over in the Terminator thread and there's a lot of bleed over with Doctor Who now to the point where I KEEP getting confused which thread I'm reading for a time. It's super weird.
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I wonder how the Doctor would have dealt with time travelling terminators?
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Angela Christine posted:I wonder how the Doctor would have dealt with time travelling terminators? Depends on the Doctor. Eleven would probably go back to the dawn of computing during World War II and put some kind of persistent virus that would cause SkyNet to blow up when he said "rutabaga" in it's presence. Seven would manipulate SkyNet into being a counter for a Cyberman invasion and get them to kill each other off, leaving the humans to rebuild. Three would discover it was the Master behind it all along, get into a slow car chase, disable a T800 with Venusian Akido, then fiddle with something and watch the whole thing blow up in an explosion that wasn't as impressive as it ought to have been. Four would blunder around, let Romana do all the hard work, then happen to be there when it all paid off and then would claim all the credit. You know, just like always. Which is why we loved him. jng2058 posted:Beats me. I went dark for a couple of weeks before the 50th just to avoid spoilers. Given how bad the spoilers get online about Who, I guess I assumed that the spoilers were out there. If they weren't, it's a pretty impressive feat for Moffat and company, even more so given that whole fuckin' episodes got leaked for the first quarter of season eight. Continuing a discussion from the Toxx thread so I can talk about Twelve without spoiling Occ, it's interesting how spoilers or what you think are spoilers can warp your perception of a season. In my case, I'd heard around here someone say that they "knew" that Danny was going to replace Clara as the new companion at the end of the season. I believed whomever that was, and so when Danny got run over in "Dark Water" I was floored. Then when it seemed like he was coming back at the end of "Death in Paradise" I was like "ah-ha! Here it comes!" Then...he stayed dead!  And finally, when "Last Christmas" hit I was sure that Clara was going to leave/die, and no, that didn't happen either. Granted that last one was a last minute decision by Coleman, but still, nothing happened they way I thought it would...which is a good thing!Anyway, the point is that even "spoilers" may not be. They may just be lies, or they may have been true when they heard them, but then changed.
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Is anyone collecting all Occ's reviews in one place? I wanted to go back and see what he thought of an older ep, but wading through the pages of discussion to find them is challenging.
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The_Doctor posted:Is anyone collecting all Occ's reviews in one place? I wanted to go back and see what he thought of an older ep, but wading through the pages of discussion to find them is challenging. They're all linked from the first page of the thread.
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The_Doctor posted:Is anyone collecting all Occ's reviews in one place? I wanted to go back and see what he thought of an older ep, but wading through the pages of discussion to find them is challenging. theyre in the op of that thread. you can also click the question mark under a posters av to just get their posts
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Jsor posted:They're all linked from the first page of the thread. Awesome, thanks. Didn't think of looking there.
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Jun 26, 2015 11:54
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I’ve very proud right now of my country giving two Time Lords the right to snog like mad in all 50 states. Now if we can just put a man on the moon, it’ll be like going from 1963 to 2015 in a week!
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Jun 26, 2015 16:01
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jng2058 posted:Three would discover it was the Master behind it all along, get into a slow car chase, disable a T800 with Venusian Akido, then fiddle with something and watch the whole thing blow up in an explosion that wasn't as impressive as it ought to have been. Three would find out it was the Master behind it all along in the cliffhanger to episode four, but then team up with him in episode six when Skynet COMPLETELY UNEXPECTEDLY betrays him.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Three would find out it was the Master behind it all along in the cliffhanger to episode four, but then team up with him in episode six when Skynet COMPLETELY UNEXPECTEDLY betrays him. Well yeah, of course. I thought that was obvious. 
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https://vine.co/v/eJuAqVHgXKd great, now magneto and the master are gonna destroy the universe 
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Big Finish just announced a whole bunch of new series related content:quote:Leading this new wave of adventures is Alex Kingston as River Song, the beloved Time Lord archaeologist who first appeared in 2008's Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. That's... quite a lot! Mixing old Doctors with new series enemies is really interesting. It seems like they're basically being allowed to play with anything that isn't a new series Doctor at this point.
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Jun 27, 2015 10:23
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Crap... I might actually get an audio because that sounds cool.
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Jun 27, 2015 10:26
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Wow, Briggs really did stick to his word. First chance to take a crack at New-Who, and he's going right for the Judoon. I can't imagine the Weeping Angels being very good in audio form, though.
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Tomtrek posted:That's... quite a lot! Mixing old Doctors with new series enemies is really interesting. It seems like they're basically being allowed to play with anything that isn't a new series Doctor at this point. Maybe they can use new Doctors now, but none of the actors are willing to do it yet. It could just be too soon for Tennant or especially Matt Smith. And we know Eccleston is unlikely to ever want to do it.
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River audios sound cool. I'd rather they just went ahead and had her meet the classic Doctors, though, that sounds like it would be funny and fun. They might have to do a little continuity wangling to manage it but it's Doctor Who, that kind of thing happens all the time.
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Android Blues posted:River audios sound cool. I'd rather they just went ahead and had her meet the classic Doctors, though, that sounds like it would be funny and fun. They might have to do a little continuity wangling to manage it but it's Doctor Who, that kind of thing happens all the time. I think the 8th Doctor, being a kind of bridge between Classic and New Who, is the perfect one to introduce River Song to the Big Finish audios with.
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Didn't River say she went and met all of his prior incarnations anyway? I recall some line where she said she met all of them, but did something to make them forget about it. (E: Of course, this directly contradicts her telling 10 that his eyes are "the youngest she's ever seen them" but I swear I remember this)
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Jun 27, 2015 10:47
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She has pictures of all his faces, but I don't think she ever said she saw them all personally.
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Jsor posted:Didn't River say she went and met all of his prior incarnations anyway? I recall some line where she said she met all of them, but did something to make them forget about it. "Rule one: the Doctor lies. So Do I. All the time. Have to. Spoilers." -River the  Songedit: Also and this is little far fetched, but maybe the 8th Doctor develops an AMNESIA about River Song. Issaries fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Jun 27, 2015 |
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Tomtrek posted:Big Finish just announced a whole bunch of new series related content: I assume that Churchill will not be an alcoholic fantasist in the audios and more the exuberant schoolboy he was in Victory of the Daleks.
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Tomtrek posted:Big Finish just announced a whole bunch of new series related content: The Churchill one says that he'll be telling stories of 9, 10, and 11, sooooo . . . maybe it's just a case of actor availability at the moment? Tennant's filming Jessica Jones and has Broadchurch 3 coming up. One can only PRAY that it's simply a case of getting scripts and storylines and schedules all synchronized. edit 9, 10, and 11 ARE on the cover to The Churchill Years! Davros1 fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Jun 27, 2015 |
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River Song and the 8th Doctor  That all sounds pretty loving amazing to be honest, go go Big Finish!
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