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CobiWann posted:Question – as a Doctor Who fan, should I give Rick and Morty a go? I'm slowly working my way through it, and there's definitely a Who-ish sense to it. We're half way through October already (somehow), so it's time to start thinking about... you know.. that. Who's in? (It's the Secret Santa, btw) The_Doctor fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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Yeah, I didn't catch a lot of these past episodes until days after they aired, as did most of my friends who are avid fans of the show. There's also the group of fans of any show nowadays that just waits until the entire season is on Netflix/Hulu/whatever and they binge watch it. Is Doctor Who losing viewers? Maybe. But you can't argue that the way people watch TV hasn't changed significantly even since two or three years ago.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:There's an argument to be made that the opposite is true, surely? People watching just to fill time [on Saturday evening] will watch it live, whereas people who actively want to watch it will watch it preferentially, subsequently, over whatever is on at the time. Both can arguably be true by how people watch things now. I watch Doctor Who when it airs, and I watch my Youtube subscriptions when I get around to them, but I'd say that I actively watch both of them.
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Is Who airing later than it did previously as well? In my head Who starts some time between 6:30 and 7:30, but it seems constantly to be sitting at 8pm+ these days.
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Paul.Power posted:The thing about steampunk is that it's at the bottom of the nerd food chain. Actual steam engine nuts get annoyed at the mechanical and historical inaccuracy of it all. And fans of other -punk genres get annoyed because it focuses on the upper classes and not the downtrodden living in a grimy dystopia. The villains are an egotistical mad scientist and a group of rich Americans, who are building a giant fuckoff steam-powered war machine to take over the world. It's eventually destroyed, and in the ending credits the invention of the lightbulb, internal combustion engines and all that lead to technology moving on from steam engines anyways. Most of the story itself was rather mediocre, but the movie did a good job not just jacking off to steam engines and pretending the Victorian upper crust was all good.
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Catching up on the thread, and all I have to say is that Young Hartnell was good-looking. Surprising, because he seemed like Someone Who Had Always Been Old.
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Fil5000 posted:Is Who airing later than it did previously as well? In my head Who starts some time between 6:30 and 7:30, but it seems constantly to be sitting at 8pm+ these days. It's not been on at the same time each episode this season. This week it starts at 8:20 I think.
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Rick and Morty is sort of like Doctor Who, but in myth terms if the doctor is a benevolent wizard then rick is like a disinterested greek god.
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CobiWann posted:Question – as a Doctor Who fan, should I give Rick and Morty a go?
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Even the Radio Times gets in on this action http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-10-12/who-said-it-the-doctor-or-rick
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Watch the show but don't read the thread
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anyone else here seen Local Hero? I was really excited watching it about a year ago when I recognized young Peter Capaldi. He was such a handsome dork.
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CobiWann posted:Question – as a Doctor Who fan, should I give Rick and Morty a go? Yes. CobiWann posted:Question – should I give Rick and Morty a go? Yes.
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If you need further convincing, here's Werner Herzog with a word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw1cdRew-Zg
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Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:I enjoy it a lot. I think it takes some inspiration from Doctor Who. Definitely, the theme song is even supposed to sound similar to the Doctor Who theme. Rick is basically the Doctor as an alcoholic nihilist. It's great.
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Tempo 119 posted:Watch the show but don't read the thread The same could be every thread on this forum except Monday Night RAW. Spatula City posted:anyone else here seen Local Hero? I was really excited watching it about a year ago when I recognized young Peter Capaldi. He was such a handsome dork. Fantastic movie. Great soundtrack too! CobiWann fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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Short Synopsis: A whole lot of con jobs backfire spectacularly and almost drag the entire human race into hell. Long Synopsis: The Doctor brings Ace and Bernice Summerfield to a small hotel in Kent where a peculiar combination of conventions are taking place simultaneously. A plan by the Doctor to con a race of inter-dimensional conquerors backfires, and Bernice has to help the Doctor maintain his own sense of self while Ace figures out that self-harm is the key to silencing the voices in her head. What's Good:
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Final Thoughts: The Shadow of the Scourge is a disappointment, both because I expect better from Paul Cornell and because it tries to cram too much into what time it has and as a result waters down everything. There are interesting ideas and a pared down version of the plot could have made for a far superior story, but even then it would have been pulled down by the voice effects atmospheric, or watered down by the bloated cast. Exploring the idea of what happens when the 7th Doctor's careful planning backfires spectacularly and he brings everybody and everything he holds dear into peril is the great germ of an idea though, and something well worth exploring further. If this was intended as either an advertisement or homage to the New Adventures novels, it failed for me, particularly in regards to the presence of Benny who feels completely excess to requirements. Her easy familiarity with both the Doctor and Ace feels alien because I'm not familiar with their relationship from the books, and though my ignorance shouldn't preclude them from making use of that relationship, I do think it was important to consider that not everybody will have (nor should have) been intimately familiar with an entirely different medium of Doctor Who before picking up this story. Yes it can be done well (as it was in Night of the Doctor), but I think this marks an early problem Big Finish was facing - obviously they were appealing to hardcore fans of the show, and I guess the idea was that if they were into Doctor Who enough to have bought an audio, they probably had read all the books/comics etc as well. It may have even been that they thought it would be rude or insulting to effectively ignore the sole thing that had kept producing new Who content after the show went on "hiatus" in 89. But for me, this story was too muddled, too reliant on pre-existing knowledge, hobbled by a bloated cast and poor voice effects, with a setting that didn't match the story, and a failure to effectively contrast the mundane with the extraordinary. Cornell can (and does) do better, but don't look at his name on this story and assume you're going to get something as amazing as Father's Day or the Human Nature/Family of Blood 2-parter.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Since I was an A-level politics student (i.e. a complete twunt) at the time, that irritated me more than it should have. You can excuse it with mind control, and maybe consider the context (I may have my dates wrong but I believe there was a lot of whinging about Gordon Brown being an "unelected prime minister" in the press around the time). Yea, I vaugly remember that. And it was always a interesting question in political science class on what would happen if the PM lost his seat but party won the election. I'm sure RTD probably heard President Elect Bush a bunch and figured it figured it was just a fancy name for President. I knew Capaldi was in the the Torchwood movie, but I completely missed he was the Roman father in Fires of Pompeii, which is weird because they have said that plotline will be revisited this season. Though I think its funny how every time he speaks I think its the Doctor talking, rather than Tennant. Though if they go back to that story, it would be clever to have Capaldi be the Doctor and the father in the same episode.
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CobiWann posted:The same could be every thread on this forum except Monday Night RAW. Let's Play is pretty good But yeah, read the Raw GDT, best entertainment on the forums. Just don't actually watch the show or read the discussion afterwards
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Tom Baker Special Offer @ Big Finish: http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/special-offers-on-tom-baker-at-big-finish First 2 seasons of the 4th Doctor Adventures are on sale. 1st Season with Leela for 12 moneys and 2nd season with Romana I for 15 moneys.
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adhuin posted:2nd season with Romana I for 15 moneys. I’m sorry. Mary Tamm? Jago & Litefoot? DAVID WARNER?!? Jerusalem posted:Shadow of the Scourge Just the stylistic differences between this, The Dark Flame and the rest of the main range make me glad Big Finish didn’t follow up too much on the Virgin New Adventures and spun Bernice Summerfield out into her own line. It just felt incredibly mean spirited and a lot more “PG-13” rated than the other stories just in terms of sheer violence, like when the aliens made the con-goers turn on each other in brutal ways. And I just don’t like Bennie in these stories. I like Lisa Bowerman and she does a great job AS Bennie, but it’s the same trap as River Song – I love Alex Kingston but sometimes they’re both just a little TOO smug and a little TOO awesome. CobiWann fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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Chokes McGee posted:Let's Play is pretty good Yup, I'll join this . RAW GDT is always a fun read, RAW is almost always a terrible television program.
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adhuin posted:Tom Baker Special Offer @ Big Finish: Is there something I'm not understanding...or is it cheaper to buy both series' individually than it is to buy them together? Big Finish posted:You can pick up both series today in a series of special bundles – Series 1 is just £20 on CD or £12 on download, with Series 2 just £25 on CD or £15 to download. Both Series can be picked up together for just £60 on CD or £45 to download. £12 for Series 1, £15 for Series 2, which adds up to £27 Or buy them both at once for £45??
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jivjov posted:Is there something I'm not understanding...or is it cheaper to buy both series' individually than it is to buy them together? That includes the 4th Doctor Box set, with two "lost stories" from tv-days. They just forgot to write that in. It's 25 £€ individually.
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You also get the Fourth Doctor Lost Stories if you get them together and they cost £25; so you are saving a grand total of £2 by buying them all together... Every time I see the Hinchcliffe set it seems to have gone up in price to some other value: its now on sale at £40 for a download. Who on earth is going to pay that for it?
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Jerusalem posted:Bernice Summerfield, a character that can be vaguely (though not accurately) described as a proto-River Song River Song is a pound-shop Benny Summerfield
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Paul.Power posted:The thing about steampunk is that it's at the bottom of the nerd food chain. Actual steam engine nuts get annoyed at the mechanical and historical inaccuracy of it all. And fans of other -punk genres get annoyed because it focuses on the upper classes and not the downtrodden living in a grimy dystopia. Like, I don't give a poo poo about steam punk, but that just means I don't give a poo poo about it. People can like what they like. And historical inaccuracy? Really? First off, again, Doctor Who. Second, of course it's not accurate, it's made up fantasy. SiKboy posted:Have you considered just not watching it? I mean, I loathe gotham but I'm cool just not watching it, and the people who for some bizarre reason enjoy it can continue to watch their awful show. Like if you hate current who enough to want it cancelled entirely then no-one is forcing you to waste an hour of your saturday on a show you hate*. If you hear its changed into something more like a show you would enjoy you can always catch up anything you miss, or come back here and someone will recommend what episodes you *need* to watch to understand the new status quo or whatever. I'm up and down on capaldis doctor so far, there are episodes I like and episodes I dont, but if I found myself consistantly that angry about the show I'd walk away from it and never look back. We're 4 episodes into the season. Someone is absolutely allowed to complain about a show they love having a bad start to a season without having to give up on the show. He didn't say he hates the show. He said he's hating this season. Which is less than half way done.
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thrawn527 posted:Someone in a Doctor Who thread nerd sharming, and talking about the "nerd food chain". Wonderful. You've completely misread his post. Wilfully or not I leave as an exercise.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:You've completely misread his post. Wilfully or not I leave as an exercise. I left out the part about the upper class because it's actually a fair point so nothing to complain about. But other than that, what did I miss? Was he sarcastically saying Steam Punk is the bottom of the nerd food chain? Genuinely asking. If he wasn't nerd shaming Steam Punk, I'll admit I was wrong. But it seemed really annoyed at Steam Punk fans.
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Steampunk fans are a very oppressed group you see
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cargohills posted:Steampunk fans are a very oppressed group you see Somewhere between 200-250 psi, I think.
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The_Doctor posted:Somewhere between 200-250 psi, I think.
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thrawn527 posted:
Yep, people are obviously allowed to dislike the season. I'm 50/50 on it myself. But he said, as I believe I quoted, "Doctor who needs to stop being on TV". My point is basically "I dont like this season and wish it was better" is absolutely a valid opinion. "I dont like this season and it shouldn't be on TV" is the opinion of a giant entitled baby who thinks that their taste is the only valid one and should be imposed on everyone else. If you legit think that a show shouldnt be on TV then its super easy to pretend its not, the TV has other channels. In most places more than one even! in essence; thrawn527 posted:
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The_Doctor posted:Somewhere between 200-250 psi, I think. Please convert to pascals, tia
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cargohills posted:Please convert to pascals, tia 1 378 951.46 pascals to 1 723 689.32 pascals.
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CobiWann posted:Just the stylistic differences between this, The Dark Flame and the rest of the main range make me glad Big Finish didn’t follow up too much on the Virgin New Adventures and spun Bernice Summerfield out into her own line. It just felt incredibly mean spirited and a lot more “PG-13” rated than the other stories just in terms of sheer violence, like when the aliens made the con-goers turn on each other in brutal ways. The thing that really bugged me was Ace deliberately making herself deaf which at first seems like both a clever way around the monsters' powers AND demonstrating just how far she was willing to go to defeat them.... but then they turn it into a running joke where she is running around corridors screaming at the top of her voice while they're supposed to be stealthily making their way to the roof while being hunted by the Scourge. It's like they wanted their cake and to eat it too - have Ace do something so dramatic and then go for the cheap comedy. Trin Tragula posted:River Song is a pound-shop Benny Summerfield I wonder if I'll grow to hate the I'm sure to be impending barrage of trailers/coming soons for The Diary of River Song as much as I do for the Benny one where she writes her journal and makes sardonic comments to her cat.
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cargohills posted:Please convert to pascals, tia Lovely chap, Pascal. Always ill.
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CobiWann posted:I’m sorry. Mary Tamm? Jago & Litefoot? DAVID WARNER?!? Highly recommend The Big Bang Generation, then. The first half is Benny loving stuff up worse than it was to begin with, to the point that she has to send very, very post-dated postcards and text the Twelfth Doctor to help out.
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thrawn527 posted:I left out the part about the upper class because it's actually a fair point so nothing to complain about. But other than that, what did I miss? He said that people who are fans of actual steam engines from a mechanical and historical point of view would care about the accuracy of the steam engines because that's all they're interested in. Saying "Doctor Who has fake physics" is completely irrelevant. Someone who just looooves history and learning about things that actually happened probably wouldn't be a priori interested in The Shakespeare Code, would they?
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Is Capaldi getting his new console room tonight? I could've sworn I read that somewhere.
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