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vegetables posted:I just realised that John Hurt is going to end up having played the Doctor in more things than Christopher Eccleston, which makes me kind of happy and sad at the same time. Which is a great segue into some good news! http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/14/john-hurt-given-all-clear-on-cancer
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CobiWann posted:Which is a great segue into some good news! Oh that is good news! Many seasons of War Doctor stories please.
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Oct 14, 2015 12:23
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vegetables posted:I just realised that John Hurt is going to end up having played the Doctor in more things than Christopher Eccleston, which makes me kind of happy and sad at the same time. Speaking of John Hurt, and as I just mentioned Alien: he looks quite odd in Alien. Like a man who is trying really really hard to look old but not succeeding. The other half also commented that Ian Holm actually looked reasonably attractive (I couldn't see it myself) so I got to lol when he got decapitated and sprayed goop everywhere.
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Oct 14, 2015 15:00
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Speaking of John Hurt, and as I just mentioned Alien: he looks quite odd in Alien. Like a man who is trying really really hard to look old but not succeeding. I think it's just that he's always had a craggy well-worn face. Even when he was young, he looked drat tired. He was nearly 40 when he did Alien.
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The_Doctor posted:I think it's just that he's always had a craggy well-worn face. Even when he was young, he looked drat tired. He was nearly 40 when he did Alien. I'm nearly 40 (well, early 30's anyway) and look at least 100 years younger
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Oct 14, 2015 15:16
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Is this a permanent feature, and what is this 'The Way Station' place like? My spouse is visiting New York in a couple of months, and this is the sort of thing she'd lose her poo poo over...
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Oct 14, 2015 16:06
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It's a bar in Brooklyn that has a light Doctor Who theme. That TARDIS is actually the bathroom, and it's fixed into the wall so that it's "bigger on the inside". There's also drinks named after certain Doctors. I forget what was actually good because I was drunk already when I got there, but I remember it being pretty fun.
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Oct 14, 2015 16:32
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HD DAD posted:There's also drinks named after certain Doctors. I forget what was actually good because I was drunk already when I got there, but I remember it being pretty fun. All revival Doctors, I see.
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Oct 14, 2015 17:03
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The_Doctor posted:All revival Doctors, I see. Any alcoholic beverage that truly embodies the spirit of Tom Baker would probably instantly dissolve the liver of any normal drinker, so perhaps it's for health and safety reasons?
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Oct 14, 2015 17:12
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The Way Station is almost unbearably fannish in my (limited) experience, and coming from me that's saying something. Like maybe an occasional stop by might be fun but lord knows I wouldn't want to make it my regular haunt.
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Oct 14, 2015 17:15
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DoctorWhat posted:The Way Station is almost unbearably fannish in my (limited) experience, and coming from me that's saying something. Like maybe an occasional stop by might be fun but lord knows I wouldn't want to make it my regular haunt. This, 3000%. It's also weirdly low-rent in a lot of ways. When you first walk in, aside from the bathroom the first thing you see behind the bar is a bunch of poorly converted Nerf guns done up to look vaguely steampunky. I think the drink that comes closest to Tom Baker is actually the Captain Jack, which is rum, whiskey, and Coke. When I ordered mine the glass was maybe 2/3rds full of booze before the Coke got added and the guy next to me turned to me and asked incredulously "Jesus Christ, what did you order?" My only response was "A mistake."
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PantsOptional posted:This, 3000%. It's also weirdly low-rent in a lot of ways. When you first walk in, aside from the bathroom the first thing you see behind the bar is a bunch of poorly converted Nerf guns done up to look vaguely steampunky. You can't say they didn't warn you with the name
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Oct 14, 2015 17:41
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PantsOptional posted:This, 3000%. It's also weirdly low-rent in a lot of ways. When you first walk in, aside from the bathroom the first thing you see behind the bar is a bunch of poorly converted Nerf guns done up to look vaguely steampunky. I'm gueSsing it was Captain MOrgan and Jack Daniels, then?
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I'm nearly 40 (well, early 30's anyway) and look at least 100 years younger That, and keep in mind John Hurt is/was a student of the Oliver Reed/Peter O'Toole/Richard Harris school of hard living. I have a pal who knew JH back in the '80s, and said the man could drink as if he had a hollow leg. That said, the news that he's in the clear cheered me up immensely, as I've been crushing on his fantastic voice since I saw him in I, Claudius back in the 1970s; my dream is to meet him and have him read passages from Dio Cassius out loud, especially where Caligula threatens his sister Agrippina with execution (after she complains about being stuck in exile): 'I have swords as well as islands, you know.'  His war-doctor's 'Oh for God's sake' response to 10 and 11 became a catchphrase in this house for a few weeks.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Space truckin' takes it's toll. Normally it just makes you marry a woman half your age, dress up like Robin Hood and start performing Renaissance folk music.
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Cheers guys. She's coming over (we're from the UK) with her sister for what I imagine is going to be a two-week piss-up, so 'tourist trap with cocktails' is unlikely to be a turn off for them. I'll let her know anyway, see what she thinks. Thanks for the advice.
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The_Doctor posted:I think it's just that he's always had a craggy well-worn face. Even when he was young, he looked drat tired. He was nearly 40 when he did Alien. John Hurt was also a serious drinker for most of his life. Down the pub every night for years and years and years. That will wear you a bit thin eventually
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Oct 14, 2015 19:20
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Barry Foster posted:John Hurt was also a serious drinker for most of his life. Down the pub every night for years and years and years. That will wear you a bit thin eventually That's most British actors, really. Drinking like fish is the main pastime between bouts of being on stage/in front of a camera.
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The_Doctor posted:That's most British actors, really. * people
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One Swell Foop posted:I'm gueSsing it was Captain MOrgan and Jack Daniels, then? Exactly. My girlfriend got herself a Tenth Doctor (one of their "Sonic Screwdrivers"), and I had "the Companion", which is listed on the website as a PBR tallboy with a shot of whisky, but was actually a 12 ounce can of Naragansett and a shot of whisky, which I preferred anyway. And yeah, the place is sort of over the top, but the service was good, and I got to pee in the TARDIS, so it was cool with me. Maybe not worth going too far out of your way for, but we had tickets to the Legend of Zelda Symphony Concert at Barclays Center, it's only a mile away, it seemed like an appropriately geeky way to kill time.
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Rat Flavoured Rats posted:* people <glances at bedtime coffee that is 1/3 rum> Touché.
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Barry Foster posted:John Hurt was also a serious drinker for most of his life. Down the pub every night for years and years and years. That will wear you a bit thin eventually Who was it that got pissed and decided to go and see a play with a random stranger, before elbowing the dude in the ribs in the second act and going, "Oh, this bit's great, it's the part where I come on- gently caress!"?
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Gaz-L posted:Who was it that got pissed and decided to go and see a play with a random stranger, before elbowing the dude in the ribs in the second act and going, "Oh, this bit's great, it's the part where I come on- gently caress!"? I *think* I heard that story about Peter O'Toole, but gently caress it, could be one of a hundred drunken thesps.
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The_Doctor posted:<glances at bedtime coffee that is 1/3 rum> Rrrrrrrrrum Coffee is the fuckin' best, yo. Indecently so.
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Sentinel Red posted:Rrrrrrrrrum Coffee is the fuckin' best, yo. Indecently so. About six months ago I was introduced to Rumchata. Changed my life. Now I bring it back from the US all the time (there's no UK importer  ).
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The_Doctor posted:I think it's just that he's always had a craggy well-worn face. Even when he was young, he looked drat tired. He was nearly 40 when he did Alien. It's weird thinking he was ever young. This is how he looked in his earliest film role, 1962's The Wild and the Willing. He was only 22 at the time.  Rest of the young Doctors for comparison. Hartnell - teens and late-teens/early twenties.   Troughton (16!)  Pertwee  Baker   Davison  Baker  McCoy - (35 or so) pretty sure he was loomed to look middle-aged.   McGann - stupid sexy McGann    Eccleston (left at 30, right is younger)   Tennant  Smith   Capaldi twenties.  
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Oct 15, 2015 02:15
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i can't get over that Smith picture
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DoctorWhat posted:i can't get over that Smith picture Me either. Also, look at Heartthrob Hartnell over there.
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Oct 15, 2015 02:19
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Oct 15, 2015 02:21
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Matt Smith as a child looked like what a caricature artist would draw if asked to do Matt Smith as a child.
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Oct 15, 2015 02:24
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I wouldn't mind if most of them asked me to play doctor with them.  I mean, I'd say no, but it seemed like an appropriate line.
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Jsor posted:I wouldn't mind if most of them asked me to play doctor with them. Here's a more age appropriate Matt Smith And he's now morphed into his Final Form: 
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Am I the only one who finds Capaldis doctor being almost autistic to be incredibly annoying? We've just had however many in a row that are all able to be around people and understand people, and this ones just a big oval office who's forgotten everything about his past lives? Its not well done at all, its way too try hard.
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Oct 15, 2015 02:57
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Pesky Splinter posted:And he's now morphed into his Final Form: On the set for Pain and Gain 2?
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:Am I the only one who finds Capaldis doctor being almost autistic to be incredibly annoying? We've just had however many in a row that are all able to be around people and understand people, and this ones just a big oval office who's forgotten everything about his past lives? Its not well done at all, its way too try hard. i found it far more irritating when Matt Smith was being made to do it, frankly. And I liked The Lodger.
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:Am I the only one who finds Capaldis doctor being almost autistic to be incredibly annoying? We've just had however many in a row that are all able to be around people and understand people, and this ones just a big oval office who's forgotten everything about his past lives? Its not well done at all, its way too try hard. It's not that he's 'forgotten everything', it's that he doesn't really give a poo poo how people see him. He's more interested in figuring things out and getting things done than seeming friendly while he does it. 'Mild autism' is a valid interpretation of him, and it's one I like just because it means a positive portrayal of an autistic person, but there's more ways about that, more types of people that can care but find it more useful to just not. Last season brought up 'military officer', people around here have put forward 'professor with tenure', this season seems to have grabbed onto 'aging rocker' and rolled with it.
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:Am I the only one who finds Capaldis doctor being almost autistic to be incredibly annoying? We've just had however many in a row that are all able to be around people and understand people, and this ones just a big oval office who's forgotten everything about his past lives? Its not well done at all, its way too try hard. One, Three, Six, and Nine were all dickheads to humans and had to slowly get used to interacting with them again. This is nothing new.
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