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CobiWann posted:Well, with a name like Pussy Galore... I remember Roger Moore telling a pretty hilarious story about when he was playing The Saint and somebody asked if him and the other "super-spies" like Sean Connery and Patrick Macnee went out on the town together. He says of course they do, and the guy asks him,"....Pussy Galore?" and Moore responds,"Well we don't go looking for it....."
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The Enemy of the World is really good. Like, top five Troughton good. I am very thankful this one showed up again.
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Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:The Enemy of the World is really good. Like, top five Troughton good. I am very thankful this one showed up again. Yeah, I'm so glad this one was the one recovered in its entirety. Troughton's performance is incredibly fun to watch and it benefits so much from having visuals again.
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# ? Aug 20, 2015 04:06 |
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Enemy of the World shot straight up my list of best Troughtons as soon as I could see it in its entirety, it's so good. So much so that it made The Web of Fear feel almost a bit underwhelming compared to it.Pesky Splinter posted:There's some good scenes in there, but it's the typical uneven BF quality; the first story is good, but it's practically stand-alone. The second's pretty garbage (Reverse werewolves, seriously?). The third is alright, but feels like it needs expanding on (it could have also been the main introduction story really). And the final one...starts off strong, flags in the middle, and then it seems like everything is rather rushed towards the end; the real standout is Baker's regeneration scene. I dunno really, the thing as a whole is ok, but lacks polish. Yeah, the second one isn't great, but there's some good Charley stuff in there. The final one gets messy at points, too, but Colin does wonders with the big speeches. The very end is definitely a rush, though, and I have to say I completely lost my way a couple of times and am still not entirely sure what happened and why. Mel was hardly even in the last one, too, and passes out before Six can even say so much as a goodbye to her (though I suppose Time and the Rani is to blame for this). I thought the Valeyard was handled surprisingly well, though (aside from the dumb black ops stuff), and his scenes with the Doctor alone carry a lot of the third and fourth episodes. He's way better here than he was in Trial, that's for sure. Forktoss fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Aug 20, 2015 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:Sticking behind a link to avoid open spoilers in the thread. This makes knocking himself out on the console look dignified by comparison.
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# ? Aug 20, 2015 07:27 |
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There's always Spiral Scratch for the last Sixth Doctor story.
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# ? Aug 20, 2015 08:47 |
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CaptainYesterday posted:There's always Spiral Scratch for the last Sixth Doctor story. Or Time's Champi
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# ? Aug 20, 2015 09:07 |
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jivjov posted:It's certainly better than "whoops I fell down and now I'm McCoy." I don't really agree with this; no story at all is better than an aggressively bad one. It's not like an epic send-off which comments on how great the outgoing Doctor was is even in keeping with most regeneration stories, which tend to be about how they were flawed in some way the new one will not be. In a weird way I find an approach that sounds like it's not about the current Doctor's failings to be a more disrespectful way of handling things; on some level it feels like they know the Sixth Doctor isn't actually massively popular and so aren't prepared to have a story in which there is an implied criticism of the character. I guess that's a choice some people will love, but it's not one I feel any urge to spend money listening to.
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# ? Aug 20, 2015 15:25 |
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I finally got around to starting Dark Eyes 3. I forgot how much I love Alex McQueen's performance in these.
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# ? Aug 20, 2015 21:51 |
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FreezingInferno posted:I finally got around to starting Dark Eyes 3. Oh! Hello, you... I'm just finishing up Dark Eyes 3!
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# ? Aug 20, 2015 23:11 |
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Short Synopsis: The Doctor and Lucie meet one of those couples who become almost indistinguishable from each other. Long Synopsis: The Doctor and Lucie take a little vacation time at a B&B run by Lucie's Auntie Pat, who seems to be doing far better for herself than Lucie ever thought she did. Pat's husband gets a visit from some old business associates who want to put the band back together. The local wet nurse is in high demand, and there is a pretty hosed up tribute to end things. What's Good:
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Final Thoughts: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth is a troubling story with a less than satisfying conclusion. With poorly handled/written bad guys, the Doctor being uncharacteristically dim at times, and a well-intentioned but poorly handled ending "twist" that left me feeling disturbed, it is not a story I can really recommend. Especially since it follows up on the excellent Grand Theft Cosmos, which reinvigorated my flagging enthusiasm for the Eighth Doctor Adventures, only for this story to drag it back down again. A disappointment. Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Aug 21, 2015 |
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Without spoiling too much, the ending of Zygon will have consequences down the line.
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# ? Aug 21, 2015 06:55 |
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Well on the one hand I think that's cool that they are willing to go for callbacks and later development of characters etc, but to make that work they need to make each story also work as a standalone. I do think they failed in that regard in this story, it wasn't all that great and the ending left a very bad taste in my mouth.
Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Aug 21, 2015 |
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In a development that may be very detrimental to many people's free time soon, Big Finish have started putting their stuff up on Audible. No direct Who stuff thus far, mainly Blake's 7 and Dark Shadows, with a smattering of other stuff, notable one of the more recent seasons of the Benny series.
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# ? Aug 21, 2015 19:04 |
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Everyone should talk about how great Logopolis is imo, in particular how The Master nearly destroys the universe because he has this wicked plan and when people say 'No, don't, you'll destroy the universe', he's like 'Pfffffft NAH'. Also that scene with Nyssa and "Logopolis is a cold high place overlooking the universe" is Anthony Ainley's finest hour before it all goes badly wrong for him. We'll ignore anything to do with Tegan and the 80s understanding of what a supercomputer might look like. Psybro fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Aug 21, 2015 |
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Psybro posted:Everyone should talk about how great Logopolis is imo, in particular how The Master nearly destroys the universe because he has this wicked plan and when people say 'No, don't, you'll destroy the universe', he's like 'Pfffffft NAH'. Ainley gets Castrovalva as well to be fair to him. I'd argue his Master appearances are solid while Bidmead is in the script chair. He's a cartoon after that for sure though.
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# ? Aug 21, 2015 21:47 |
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Actually, Timeflight is the only time Ainley is bad in any way
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# ? Aug 21, 2015 22:28 |
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Ainley does a really solid job of being genuinely believably malicious and cruel in Survival.
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# ? Aug 21, 2015 22:37 |
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Logopolis also has one of the, if not the best, soundtracks of the series. It's this wonderful, bizarre little fairy tale and it's a great note for Baker to go out on. The whole season, really, is just of exceptional quality.
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Rochallor posted:Logopolis also has one of the, if not the best, soundtracks of the series. It's this wonderful, bizarre little fairy tale and it's a great note for Baker to go out on. The whole season, really, is just of exceptional quality. JNT's Tom Baker season is his best to me. I don't like much of Five's run, Six is a trainwreck, and about half of Seven's run does nothing for me. All good Doctors, just a bunch of dull and/or bad stuff surrounding them sometimes.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 00:01 |
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I love that the Master accidentally sets off a chain reaction that will bring about the end of the universe, realizes what he has done and works eagerly with the Doctor to find the solution.... and then once he has the solution tries to use it to blackmail the universe into paying up
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 00:47 |
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DoctorWhat posted:Ainley does a really solid job of being genuinely believably malicious and cruel in Survival. The best part about that is that it's all really hammy dialogue in a serial about interdimentional cats but Ainley swims against the current the entire time and delivers every single line with the loving malevolence of a serial killer.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 02:27 |
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it's the only time the Ainley Master makes any sort of sense as carrying on from Crispy
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 02:36 |
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I personally think that the last series of Classic Doctor Who should be seen as among the best series ever. Battlefield is incredibly silly but it manages to work somehow and I really like how the Brigadier is treated in it, Ghost Light and the Curse of Fenric are very very good and Survival is also the right kind of silly Doctor Who story. Although I really like the Seventh Doctor and Ace (the first classic Who episode I saw was a copy of Remembrance of the Daleks that my parents got me as a Christmas present) so I'm not exactly objective.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 02:44 |
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Rochallor posted:Logopolis also has one of the, if not the best, soundtracks of the series. It's this wonderful, bizarre little fairy tale and it's a great note for Baker to go out on. The whole season, really, is just of exceptional quality. I was actually playing my housemate the wonderfully out-of-place porno music bit from Part Four when they're running across the field at the Pharos Project. It's all synthy organs and then suddenly you've got bass and wah-wah guitar, it's hilarious.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 03:03 |
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Battlefield is great because of the Last Stand of the Brigadier.quote:DESTROYER: Ah, little man. What do you want of me?
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 03:07 |
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All of Seven's run is really of remarkable quality. The only story that's actually, outright, not good is Time and the Rani, and even that's still better than like half of Six's episodes.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 03:28 |
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Seven's run has also got beautiful disasters like Paradise Towers and The Happiness Patrol where they don't quite work but you can absolutely see what they were going for and just how close they came to getting it right.
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Jerusalem posted:Seven's run has also got beautiful disasters like Paradise Towers and The Happiness Patrol where they don't quite work but you can absolutely see what they were going for and just how close they came to getting it right. Maybe The Happiness Patrol to a degree, but Paradise Towers is basically perfect. I wouldn't change a thing about it.
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Rochallor posted:All of Seven's run is really of remarkable quality. The only story that's actually, outright, not good is Time and the Rani, and even that's still better than like half of Six's episodes. Four words; Delta and the Bannermen.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 05:46 |
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Rochallor posted:Maybe The Happiness Patrol to a degree, but Paradise Towers is basically perfect. I wouldn't change a thing about it. Not even the long "cleaner bot drives down a corridor" sequences?
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 06:18 |
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Paradise Towers is one where you can really feel the "we can't be too scary" edict- there are a lot of weird, 2000 AD-esque elements in the story that could be really disturbing, but of course they have the villain really play things for laughs, you've got the computer shouting HUNGRY!, and there's rarely a sense of genuine menace. It's not a bad story (Red Kangs are best!) but it has its flaws- and also might have worked better as a three parter. It is interesting to see how the influence of contemporary SF was creeping in those last seasons.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 06:30 |
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Rochallor posted:Logopolis also has one of the, if not the best, soundtracks of the series. It's this wonderful, bizarre little fairy tale and it's a great note for Baker to go out on. The whole season, really, is just of exceptional quality. Love those Radiophonic Workshop scores from the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXACtP92zg If this seems to have a vaguely familiar quality, it may be because this one was done by Paddy Kingsland, who also did the music for The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 10:44 |
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I've posted before about how much I love State of Decay, when I still had time to do my detailed breakdowns
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 11:39 |
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IceAgeComing posted:I personally think that the last series of Classic Doctor Who should be seen as among the best series ever. It's certainly one of my favourites ("Remembrance" was also the first Classic Who story I saw). I think the McCoy era actually managed to foreshadow a lot of what RTD did in the first season of the revival. Also (since I'm thinking of "Battlefield" and "Remembrance", and therefore Aaronovitch), I've been thinking you could probably cast a Rivers of London adaptation entirely from Doctor Who alumni. Aaronovitch has already said, I believe, that he pictures Nightingale as Paul McGann, for instance.
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 11:40 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I've posted before about how much I love State of Decay, when I still had time to do my detailed breakdowns The music reminds me of old adventure games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6elAeX07I4
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The music reminds me of old adventure games. That's a Lucasarts soundtrack if I ever heard one. Also? FOUR WEEKS TO GO
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# ? Aug 22, 2015 13:06 |
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Hey, guys, that TARDIS Wikia, huh? http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Posterior According to Susan Foreman's diary, Francis Minto shoved a protractor into Gillian Roberts's buttocks in mid-March 1963, and she destroyed her desk in rage. Mr Grange strapped her three times across the palm of her hand for vandalising school property.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Hey, guys, that TARDIS Wikia, huh? Now, I'm not saying I'm going to ask Wendy Padbury to sign my copy of The Mind Robber at ReGenerationWho next year, but...
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Hey, guys, that TARDIS Wikia, huh? Oh, what could've been...
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