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Rochallor posted:I irrationally despise the VWORP VWORP. It's the least accurate onomatopoeia since SNAP-HISS for lightsaber. The TARDIS is more of 'KSSSSHWOOOOO', yeah.
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I believe the official onomatopoetic term for it is wheezing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S1RHWp-who
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 09:28 |
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Rochallor posted:I irrationally despise the VWORP VWORP. It's the least accurate onomatopoeia since SNAP-HISS for lightsaber. DWM actually changed it for a while, but got a load of complaints, so they went back to VWORP VWORP
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Davros1 posted:DWM actually changed it for a while, but got a load of complaints, so they went back to VWORP VWORP What did they change it too?
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 10:09 |
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Rrrrrrreposting! It’s time for… THE 2015 DOCTOR WHO THREAD SECRET SANTA! Yes, it’s that time of the year again! If you're new to this Secret Santa malarkey, we all throw our names into my hat, receive a random name, and send that person a lovely gift of DOCTOR WHO goodies, toys, candy, maybe some booze, and all around a big ol' ball of holiday cheer! It's fun, trust me. No really. SIGNING UP: 1 )First thing, sign up here: http://goo.gl/forms/ldaiubFMd7 If you find you are having problems, email me at doctorwhosecretsanta [at] gmail [dot] com In the subject, please include the tag [DWSS] as I am running another Secret Santa and don’t want to confuse the two. 2) Post in this thread! Tell us what kinds of stuff you're into! Once Santas are assigned, we're all going to be trying to figure each other out, so some healthy conversation will help things go smoothly. 3) DEADLINE: The deadline for sign-ups is SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15TH! #SAVETHEDAY Assignments will go out shortly thereafter. 4) BUDGET: Somewhere in the $25-$30 (£15-20) range (before shipping). You're welcome to spend more, but that's no guarantee you'll get that much in return. Gag gifts are cool, but please include some kind of actual gift. 5) COLLEGE STUDENTS: Remember that these gifts will likely go out around the holiday break, so be mindful of which address you give me. If you have any concerns about packages being stolen from your doorstep, use the address of your work/friend/parents, just so long as it's cool with them. 4) INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING: If you sign up for this, you are agreeing to the possibility of getting an international address. The USPS international price calculator can be found here. 5) SHIPPING DEADLINES: • International - Tuesday December 15th (This is the UK to US last shipping date, so I'd imagine the same is true vice versa) • Within the same country - Friday December 18th 6) WHEN YOUR GIFT ARRIVES: Show us your loot! Take pictures! You can wait until Christmas morning if you want, but still, show us all the awesome goodies your Santa brought you. 7) LATE PACKAGES: If you haven't received your gift by January 1st, let me know so I can look into it. If you haven't SENT your gift by December 17th, let me know so I can contact your recipient. 8) DON'T BE A DEADBEAT: If you sign up, please get your person something. Nobody likes a deadbeat santa. 9) FINALLY: A Merry Christmas to all of you at home!
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 10:43 |
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CaptainYesterday posted:This year's Christmas special will be shown in US cinemas on the 28th and 29th of December. I still don't get why they do it this way - I'd be more inclined to go if I hadn't seen the episode days earlier, and in the comforts of my home with a pause and rewind button. People planning on going to the cinema screening will just do something else on xmas day.
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 11:22 |
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So I hurt my knee this weekend. While waiting for Fallout 4 to drop Monday night/Tuesday morning, I went on a slight binge... Planet of Evil, Pyramids of Mars, The Android Invasion, back-to-back-to-back. Is there such a thing as too much Tom Baker? Is there such a thing as too much Philip Hinchcliffe?
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 13:51 |
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Yes, because you watched The Android Invasion
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 14:02 |
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Just watched part 1 of the Zygon Invasion. After some good episodes it's back to forgettable fluff. Part 1 had some of the most heavy-handed liberal spin I've ever heard on this show, treating on mass immigration to the U.K., the supposedly unfounded fear of lost benefits from said immigration, etc. Worse than that, it was just a bad episode. The two episodes with Arya Stark were fun at least.
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 15:08 |
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CobiWann posted:So I hurt my knee this weekend. While waiting for Fallout 4 to drop Monday night/Tuesday morning, I went on a slight binge... I'm putting my foot down and not buying Fallout 4 until somebody mods in either Fallout 3's dialog system or homosexuality, but I'm still vaguely following the game, so I have spent way too long interrogating the list of player names that actually get voiced by the game. Mainly because it's a lovely list that doesn't include a lot of really common names, but also because in its myriad references to other sci-fi properties they've made it quite clear that they ignored Doctor Who. In terms of Doctors that actually got their names into the list, the only surnames in there are Baker, McCoy, and of course Smith. But unfortunately for Seven, the only first name that's not in there is 'Sylvester'. Most unforgivably, though, is that 'Doctor' isn't even there, which is just a massive what-the-hell on all levels. 'Quatermass' is there, though, weirdly. So there's at least a bit of BBC representation among the Han Solos and Weyland Yutanis.
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 15:13 |
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what?
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 15:22 |
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LLCoolJD posted:the most heavy-handed liberal spin I've ever heard on this show lol Cleretic posted:homosexuality That's in the game already, I think.
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 15:22 |
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cargohills posted:That's in the game already, I think. Specifically I want a mod to make it so that my character isn't a straight married parent, because none of the characters I usually make in these sorts of games are people I can justify as being in a straight marriage and starting a family. I'm honestly pretty disappointed in Bethesda that they've decided that this is the direction they wanted to go, because it really hinders the whole 'your character is your own, you make them and choose everything they do' when the very start of the game mandates that every single one of these characters start as a very specific kind of person. The quickest and simplest mod I can imagine will come along to fix this is the inevitable one to make it a same-sex marriage, which will at least work for one of my usual three (if not well).
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 15:33 |
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Extreeeemely vague non-spoilers for the season finale here, but I read something online from Capaldi:Peter Capaldi posted:The whole episode’s quite big. It’s huge, actually – but also there’s a sadness, a romance, and a tragedy to Episode 12. It’s just so romantic. It’s very effective. And I loved all the stuff on one particular set. I was very excited. It looks so modern – a Kubrick-y kind of vibe. It was very nice. We’re in a very interesting place, because we’re competing with bigger shows, frankly. Most American shows have four times the budget per episode that we have, but that’s what we’re up against. We’re competing with Game of Thrones… This is traditional for Doctor Who, but it goes to show what this amazing production team can achieve." Question for Echoplex is how much interaction do you actually have with the cast? It must be awesome to hear this kind of approbation from the star of the show, right?
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Cleretic posted:Specifically I want a mod to make it so that my character isn't a straight married parent, because none of the characters I usually make in these sorts of games are people I can justify as being in a straight marriage and starting a family. I'm honestly pretty disappointed in Bethesda that they've decided that this is the direction they wanted to go, because it really hinders the whole 'your character is your own, you make them and choose everything they do' when the very start of the game mandates that every single one of these characters start as a very specific kind of person. You could always assume your wife/husband is just your beard and pick up the game anyway. I see your point, though. While I’m enjoying the hell out of the game so far (37 hours played since Tuesday, have barely touched the main questline), it feels a lot more confined in terms of character development. It seems a lot more console friendly with the dialogue system and perk trees, and I never considered the same-sex protagonist angle… Still a good game though. Makes me proud to be an American in terms of “I really need to go to Boston and walk the Freedom Trail someday.”
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Rochallor posted:I irrationally despise the VWORP VWORP. It's the least accurate onomatopoeia since SNAP-HISS for lightsaber. "SNAP-HISS" was the onomatopoeia Tim Zahn came up with specifically for Luke's green lighstabre from ROTJ (which has a different activating noise to the other lightsabres in the original trilogy) but then it started getting used to describe all of them.
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Wheat Loaf posted:"SNAP-HISS" was the onomatopoeia Tim Zahn came up with specifically for Luke's green lighstabre from ROTJ (which has a different activating noise to the other lightsabres in the original trilogy) but then it started getting used to describe all of them. so it's really an onomatopoeia for the average star wars eu writer's lack of creativity
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Rochallor posted:I irrationally despise the VWORP VWORP. It's the least accurate onomatopoeia since SNAP-HISS for lightsaber. Whssssr would be better, but there's also no good onamotopoeia for dragging keys across the inside of a piano through a distortion filter, so here we are.
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Chokes McGee posted:Whssssr would be better, but there's also no good onamotopoeia for dragging keys across the inside of a piano through a distortion filter, so here we are. WOM
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Wheat Loaf posted:"SNAP-HISS" was the onomatopoeia Tim Zahn came up with specifically for Luke's green lighstabre from ROTJ (which has a different activating noise to the other lightsabres in the original trilogy) but then it started getting used to describe all of them. Huh. I never noticed that the green lightsaber had different sounds before. All I ever heard was the "fast turn on" of the blue saber and the "slow turn on" of the red one. Chokes McGee posted:Whssssr would be better, but there's also no good onamotopoeia for dragging keys across the inside of a piano through a distortion filter, so here we are. I think wheezing and groaning is a spot on description, but there's no good word for that, yeah. Fwhhhhhhhh?
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Davros1 posted:DWM actually changed it for a while, but got a load of complaints, so they went back to VWORP VWORP The BBC subtitles for the current series even use that sound. I had them on for the last episode and the TARDIS sound was done as [VWORP VWORP].
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 21:08 |
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LLCoolJD posted:Just watched part 1 of the Zygon Invasion. After some good episodes it's back to forgettable fluff. Part 1 had some of the most heavy-handed liberal spin I've ever heard on this show, treating on mass immigration to the U.K., the supposedly unfounded fear of lost benefits from said immigration, etc. Worse than that, it was just a bad episode. The two episodes with Arya Stark were fun at least. The good news is that The Zygon Inversion is better. The bad news is that it doesn't make The Zygon Invasion any better.
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 21:24 |
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Y'all crazy. VWORP VWORP has been part of Doctor Who longer than the term "Time Lord" and (I think) even the concept of regeneration - I'm at work, so I can't check that one. I've always loved it as an example of the way different iterations of Doctor Who blend into each other and stick around. Everything is important to someone, even those goofy 60s comics. (Link also includes The Land of Happy Endings, which everyone should read.) EDIT - That's awesome about it being used in the captions. Maybe John and Gillian will show up next.
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 21:26 |
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Jerusalem posted:The good news is that The Zygon Inversion is better. The bad news is that it doesn't make The Zygon Invasion any better. They should replace the political compass with a watch of The Zygon Invasion.
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# ? Nov 12, 2015 21:28 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:They should replace the political compass with a watch of The Zygon Invasion. I thought the UK was a signee of the Geneva Convention? I actually like the episode but couldn't resist
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Short Synopsis: Ace wants to go large in Ibiza but winds up in a lovely family reunion instead. Long Synopsis: The Doctor brings Ace to Ibiza to let her hair down and enjoy herself after a particularly traumatic event. A new club with a Biblical gimmick is all the rage, but the "Angels" who run it have ulterior motives. Twists and turns abound, not a one of which have any lasting impact or meaning. What's Good:
What's Not:
Final Thoughts: The Rapture is really bad. REALLY bad. As a direct follow-up to Colditz it is ESPECIALLY bad. The setting is embarrassing for a Doctor Who story, almost as embarrassing as the attempts to get into the mindset of the youthful characters or to see the now middle-aged Sophie Aldred have to try to play her younger self in a setting that Ace probably would have had zero interest in anyway. McCoy shouts his way through the embarrassing dialogue in the hopes of hiding how bad it is, making various leaps in logic and being stymied by out-of-character outbursts from Ace that feel completely detached from her usual personality even when you take into consideration the trauma of her time in Colditz. The twists and turns are present purely for the sake of being twists and turns, and have absolutely no impact on anything. The ending in particular is the usual awful Joseph Lidster trash of making it appear that the bad guy got away with everything and is now unleashing his evil unimpeded with the Doctor none the wiser. Just.... this is just an awful story. Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Nov 13, 2015 |
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1. Jerusalem is right. This story sucks. Sucks. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. 2. Ace mentions her brother to Hex during Night Thoughts, but outside of that I don't think he's ever mentioned or brought up again. 3. I actually enjoyed the soundtrack and the DJ (played by Tony Blackburn). The "drug crash" at the end of the second episode was the high point for the entire story. 4. See #1.
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Jerusalem posted:middle-aged Sophie Aldred have to try to play her younger self in a setting that Ace probably would have had zero interest in anyway I don't think that there's anything inherently wrong with having actors play characters much younger than themselves (that's basically Big Finish's whole business model), especially when Sophie Aldred is so good at it. You're right though, that Ace would have no reason at all to want to go to Ibiza. This story really is a turd.
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 01:06 |
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CobiWann posted:The "drug crash" at the end of the second episode was the high point for the entire story. That is actually the only remotely interesting part of the entire story, I have to admit. I think the issue I had there is that the dreamy-surreal atmosphere somewhat echoes the framing used earlier where multiple characters have distinct conversations that blend in together to explain the plot. That earlier section really smacked of the writer trying a little too hard to be clever, though kudos for at least trying something different with the audio format. So far the only Lidster story I can remember hearing where the actor was able to pull off his attempts at misery porn (and do so in a way that ended up being surprisingly inspiring!) was Janet Fielding in The Gathering.
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 02:31 |
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Jerusalem posted:So far the only Lidster story I can remember hearing where the actor was able to pull off his attempts at misery porn (and do so in a way that ended up being surprisingly inspiring!) was Janet Fielding in The Gathering. Well, she is quite stellar.
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 04:27 |
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You know, if they had managed to work in a plot about cyberspace and only had McCoy appear at the beginning and end, this would have been the perfect Virgin New Adventure.
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Stayne Falls posted:Extreeeemely vague non-spoilers for the season finale here, but I read something online from Capaldi: I remember hearing him shout "BUT WHAT BUTTONS AM I SUPPOSED TO PRESS" so I don't know if that counts. It's a bit mixed, normally as the graphic designer you tend not to go near set when they're actually shooting on it, but on DW it was almost a case of us painting the sets while they're rehearsing on them, it's so tightly paced, so you do overhear things. Alex Kingston was really lovely about some of our sets (and particularly the graphics, yay). Some of the actors had specific requests for graphics-based props - Jenna was great in terms of thinking of things her character should have, meanings and references and the like (which goes against the opinion I read on here a lot about how she wasn't that bothered about the show). The best feedback was usually when I did things like the invites for her leaving do or the wrap party I was trying to think of what set he meant - and if it's the one I think it is then that's nice because that was definitely a scrum to make that set and I wasn't that happy about the bits I did. But there's a lot of great stuff in 12. I did A Midsummer's Night Dream right after DW, which was shot in the DW studios with all the same crew, and that was produced/written by RTD and he is, without doubt, the nicest man in television. Really good feedback, very kind, and actually a great aesthetic eye (which is rare with producers).
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echoplex posted:Jenna was great in terms of thinking of things her character should have, meanings and references and the like (which goes against the opinion I read on here a lot about how she wasn't that bothered about the show). Can you think of/name examples because this sounds lovely :3
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 10:53 |
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I don't know if this predates your time or not, but if it was Jenna Coleman's idea to make the Doctor's contact picture on her phone a stick insect then she's a goddamn genius
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 10:53 |
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Echoplex, were you serious about joining the Secret Santa? I don't have a response from you yet if so.
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 11:36 |
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I'm always serious.Little_wh0re posted:Can you think of/name examples because this sounds lovely :3 Not yet - still yet to be aired (and probably won't be seen as is often the case) echoplex fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Nov 13, 2015 |
# ? Nov 13, 2015 12:00 |
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Jerusalem posted:I don't know if this predates your time or not, but if it was Jenna Coleman's idea to make the Doctor's contact picture on her phone a stick insect then she's a goddamn genius I don't get it.
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 12:18 |
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Oh yeah…happy birthday to Paul McGann! (he’s a very pretty, pretty man)
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 12:59 |
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Not in that photo
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 13:00 |
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Jsor posted:I don't get it. In season 8 she'd make fun of him for looking like a stick insect, all long-limbs and skinny. In one episode she gets a call from him and that image comes up on her phone screen.
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