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Astroman posted:It ruined the premise of good, deep criticism and picking apart episodes when he tried to cobble together some false meta-narrative. And of course, part of that narrative was to completely dismiss Big Finish as a dead end product of a time gone by that was imperfect but had a small part in the creation of Perfect Modern Doctor Who, the Platonic Ideal of Who. Granted, I checked out at that point so if he's still going he might have changed up a bit... Apparently he really, really liked Kill the Moon. To the extent that he called it "THE Doctor Who episode" or some other such thing.
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Nov 19, 2015 07:39
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Cliff Racer posted:Apparently he really, really liked Kill the Moon. To the extent that he called it "THE Doctor Who episode" or some other such thing. A Verbose Wanker posted:This was the single best episode of Doctor Who ever.
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Nov 19, 2015 07:44
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Cliff Racer posted:Apparently he really, really liked Kill the Moon. To the extent that he called it "THE Doctor Who episode" or some other such thing.  Well that says it all I guess...Edit: quote:This was the single best episode of Doctor Who ever.  I think his problem is he's too close to the current episodes to be able to evaluate them as soberly as he did the stuff from 40 years ago. He's trying to judge this week's episode with the same weight and critical lens of history that he would for something from 1978 or whatever and he doesn't have the perspective. Also he's a pretentious wanker. Astroman fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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Nov 19, 2015 07:44
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Given the theories about Clara being dead and the Doctor breaking their own continuity to continue to have adventures, perhaps it's an earlier version of 12 (ala the Time of Angels thing) yuuuuup. I was unsure about this before, but with the Doctor back in his previous attire in the preview, I think Moffat totally went there. It's a clever twist.
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Nov 19, 2015 08:20
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Eruditorum should have ended, forever, with Survival or maybe the TV Movie or Fatal Death, and shouldn't have included any audios or books or expanded universe stuff made after Survival at any point in its run. As it stands, it reached beyond its grasp and beyond Sandifer's talents and resources, while remaining incomplete. With a bound set of "Televised pre-1996 (or pre-2005) Doctor Who" you can claim completion, cohesion. When you start picking what's worth talking about, well, you're vulnerable to feedback loops. I'm sympathetic towards Phil's opinions on Kill the Moon, insofar as that I don't despise it, actually quite like it, and certainly find it to be a profoundly fascinating piece of television drama for both textual and paratextual reasons. I'm orders of magnitude less sympathetic to his love of Forest, seeing as he was extremely quick to declare it a Blakeian Masterpiece without ever offering any actual televisual merit or genuinely considering how irresponsible the medication bullshit is, on the basis that Blake had "visions" and that "visions" are legitimate artistic inspiration and not merely symptoms of dangerous brain diseases, and HOO BOY once Sandifer smells William Blake or Alan Moore on something he's gonna, well, there are sexual metaphors I'd use if they were appropriate but they aren't so just say he really likes that poo poo regardless of actual qualitative execution. Sandifer believes his own hype. This is a wonderful thing when he's running righteous exposes of systemic transphobia among Wikipedia editing cabals and tearing Vox Day new rhetorical assholes on internet radio. It's a less wonderful thing when he gets it in his head that any opinion he holds is self-evidently virtuous and proper because he holds it. The trouble is that he's very clever and a very capable wordsmith in terms of syntax and rhetoric and sheer volume, and also he makes enemies of really nasty people, and so it's hard to keep up with him when arguing and even harder to not come off as a total shithead in the process. So he (very nearly) never gets taken to task properly and therefore never really modulates himself. It's something of a wonder that he so virulently dislikes the Sixth Doctor because he's the most Sixlike person I've ever met, myself obviously excepted.
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Nov 19, 2015 08:26
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DoctorWhat posted:It's something of a wonder that he so virulently dislikes the Sixth Doctor because he's the most Sixlike person I've ever met, myself obviously excepted. I wonder...  Someone recommended the Eruditorum articles to me; I could never click with the writing style. 
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Nov 19, 2015 08:55
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We hate the most in others what we hate in ourselves... I do admit i tend to like his collaborators more these days.
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Nov 19, 2015 13:03
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Astroman posted:In other news I've been trying new things with Big Finish. I listened to my first B7, Fractures. I wanted a full cast audio so I started there. It was a great start. Michael Keating was particularly good, the others were certainly passable as their old selves, except (most disappointingly) Avon. I was really counting on Paul Darrow to channel that old Avon magic but he seemed to have only one emotion--edgy sardonic. I'm in the middle of rewatching the show, up to mid Season 2, and Avon had a lot more range than that. This was like Avon turned up to 11 for an entire episode. But I know that was an early episode for them, so I'm sure it wlll get better. What was perfect though was the cast interaction, the writing--Justin Richards, unsurprisingly nails the classic dialogue of the show and the voices of the characters. And it was a fine use of the medium. I’ve been enjoying the Survivors range. It’s bleak without being “dark and edgy” and an interesting take on the end of the world, British style. I’ve also been working my way through the Frankenstein play with Arthur Darvill and Nicholas Briggs. It’s based on the novel and it’s pretty well done so far. I have to listen to it in chunks since it’s based on the novel and takes a bit to get going. In the same vein, apparently Big Finish is going to release an audio play of the novel for Dracula with none other than Mark Gatiss as the Count…
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Nov 19, 2015 13:53
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This joke has already been done but I'm doing it again anywayHD DAD posted:It's me. I have Marco Polo. It's odd that it's missing because it really should be the easiest to find
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Nov 19, 2015 14:19
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DoctorWhat posted:Sandifer believes his own hype. This is a wonderful thing when he's running righteous exposes of systemic transphobia among Wikipedia editing cabals and tearing Vox Day new rhetorical assholes on internet radio. It's a less wonderful thing when he gets it in his head that any opinion he holds is self-evidently virtuous and proper because he holds it.
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Nov 19, 2015 15:28
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Picklepuss posted:Sandifer's batshit crazy fans probably made him worse. There's one who's active both on his blog and at Gallifrey Base, where she posts interpretations that make Sandifer's nonsense about alchemy look positively rational. She's the sort of person whose obsequious ramblings probably feed into his ego. If we're thinking about the same person on GB, then yeah, she's pretty out there. Though, for the most part, Gallifrey Base is a good source for spoiler info. Some people close to production post there. Also, I think it was reading that forum that drove Helen Raynor to tears after Daleks in Manhattan aired.
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Nov 19, 2015 15:52
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Picklepuss posted:Sandifer's batshit crazy fans probably made him worse. There's one who's active both on his blog and at Gallifrey Base, where she posts interpretations that make Sandifer's nonsense about alchemy look positively rational. She's the sort of person whose obsequious ramblings probably feed into his ego. If you're talking about Jane Campbell, she's a goddamn genius and far more compelling a critic than Sandifer is, in my opinion. The ceaseless recurrence of the Circle-in-the-Square motifs bear out her interpretations with remarkable consistency.
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Nov 19, 2015 15:52
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HD DAD posted:If we're thinking about the same person on GB, then yeah, she's pretty out there. DoctorWhat posted:If you're talking about Jane Campbell, she's a goddamn genius and far more compelling a critic than Sandifer is, in my opinion.
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Nov 19, 2015 16:07
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Oh hey, the Secret Santa e-mails went out! Now I have to think of what in the world to get the nice person whose name I got. I mean, I have half an idea but I'm still kinda terrible at picking out gift things.  It's the thought that counts though and I'm putting in thought for you!
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Nov 19, 2015 17:01
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Having listening to that clip of the Doctor/Donna audio several times, can we please give David Tennant some sort of award for his pronunciation of the word "boys"?
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Nov 19, 2015 17:02
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CobiWann posted:I’ve been enjoying the Survivors range. It’s bleak without being “dark and edgy” and an interesting take on the end of the world, British style. Well I couldn't think of a better person to play Jonathan Harker than Arthur Darvill, they should cast him for that one too! The only reason I haven't jumped on Survivors is because I never saw the original series, but I DID see the remake with Paterson Joseph and I really liked it. If they'd have done audios with that cast, continuing that story, I'd have listened ages ago. As it is the one they're doing now sounds interesting, and it's on my radar, but it's low on the radar at this point. Going to be all over The Prisoner when that hits though!
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Nov 19, 2015 17:07
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Sandifer "[i posted:Earthshock[/i]"] Master posted:This was the single best episode of Doctor Who ever. Love and Monsters posted:This was the single best episode of Doctor Who ever. Stupid idea was actually brilliant, because people thought it was stupid. Good loving God.
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Nov 19, 2015 17:17
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CobiWann posted:In the same vein, apparently Big Finish is going to release an audio play of the novel for Dracula with none other than Mark Gatiss as the Count… This should be great simply because Gatiss does a dead-on Anthony Ainley, so it may be the closest we get to that particular dream casting.
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Nov 19, 2015 17:19
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TL posted:Having listening to that clip of the Doctor/Donna audio several times, can we please give David Tennant some sort of award for his pronunciation of the word "boys"? As soon as he stumbled over the word "wench" my wife and the kiddo lit up like Christmas trees.
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Nov 19, 2015 17:29
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After The War posted:This should be great simply because Gatiss does a dead-on Anthony Ainley, so it may be the closest we get to that particular dream casting. Aww man I hate it when people point out obvious holes in my life I never realised were there and can never, ever be filled. This is worse than Leo McKern as Mr Wednesday in American Gods
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Nov 19, 2015 17:29
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Santa presents purchased, now to wait two months for them to arrive and to be a deadbeat 
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The exact thing I've been thinking about giving all year has just appeared for the first time on eBay, but I can't do a "Buy It Now" and there are still three days left with one other bidder... 
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Nov 19, 2015 18:42
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Have the Santa emails been sent already? I don't seem to have received mine yet.
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Nov 19, 2015 18:51
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Forktoss posted:Have the Santa emails been sent already? I don't seem to have received mine yet. I've not sent out a couple because I had to leave work early. Heading out shortly.
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Nov 19, 2015 19:00
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The_Doctor posted:I've not sent out a couple because I had to leave work early. Heading out shortly. Okay, thanks! Didn't mean to hurry you or anything, I just wondered if something had got lost in the post.
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Nov 19, 2015 19:03
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After The War posted:The exact thing I've been thinking about giving all year has just appeared for the first time on eBay, but I can't do a "Buy It Now" and there are still three days left with one other bidder... Is it the reliquary containing a genuine finger bone from our lord Billy Hartnell
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Nov 19, 2015 19:06
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Is it the reliquary containing a genuine finger bone from our lord Billy Hartnell   Hmm, yes, but... that would belong in a museum, wouldn't it JaKirton? Hm? 
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Nov 19, 2015 19:23
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After The War posted:Stupid idea was actually brilliant, because people thought it was stupid. Good loving God. I don't know or care to know about this Sandifer person, and I'm extremely bored by people talking about forums drama from other forums, but surely nobody would suggest killing Adric was a bad idea?
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After The War posted:Hmm, yes, but... that would belong in a museum, wouldn't it JaKirton? Hm? Some kind of space artefact place at that!
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marktheando posted:I don't know or care to know about this Sandifer person, and I'm extremely bored by people talking about forums drama from other forums, but surely nobody would suggest killing Adric was a bad idea? I meant the dinosaur part, but yes, Paul Magrs at least thought so. Don't listen to The Boy That Time Forgot if you can help it, ugh.
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Rhyno posted:I just absolutely spoiled myself and watched a youtube video showing off all the Doctors and TARDIS interiors for the Lego Dimensions DW module. Coincidentally I watched what I think is the same video yesterday night and yeah I chuckled when 11 did his dance. The game looks pretty loving ridiculously cute and I dig its attention to detail. Linking the video for anygoon interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a442O-EPK70 AndyElusive fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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Nov 19, 2015 21:12
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Is it the reliquary containing a genuine finger bone from our lord Billy Hartnell I stand amazed. I thought they only came in boxes of ten! http://dai.ly/xjemxb?start=1284
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Guys, I'm watching a classic episode and Sarah Jane just sprained her ankle! Is she going to be ok?!? 
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Nov 20, 2015 00:02
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CobiWann posted:Guys, I'm watching a classic episode and Sarah Jane just sprained her ankle! Is she going to be ok?!? That depends, has she exchanged at least one sentence with a vaguely attractive male? Because if so she might fall deeply in love and leave the show forever!
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I'm so torn. The new trailer they just put up has sold me a little more on their 6, but I'm a little skeptical of how closely it seems to be hewing to the original. Like, what's the point when I can watch the original in HD? I'm not a huge fan of the Ian McKellan version, but at least it tried something new. Oh, and as for the Ten/Donna clip, I'd guess that's not the final mix, more likely a first quick pass in order to be able to have something to put up to appease fans/outlets.
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Ever since the show came back I've been a sucker for Murray Gold's work, the individual character themes are pretty great in my opinion. But man, Twelve's is just loving spectacular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JpbE_sVabI
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I'm watching the first episode of the Zygon two-parter and one of the overhead maps on a monitor for like a second was the city I live in. In fact, I could make out my neighborhood. This is probably more common than I'd think if I were British, but I'm on the other side of the world. And fortunately I don't live in New Mexico, either. Just wanted to announce that I am Doctor Who canon. Until I'm not. I've probably been retconned by now. Bye. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Nov 20, 2015 |
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AndyElusive posted:Coincidentally I watched what I think is the same video yesterday night and yeah I chuckled when 11 did his dance. The game looks pretty loving ridiculously cute and I dig its attention to detail. This makes it clear that while 8 was not the one who fought in the time war, he was the one who got rid of the round things and is therefore history's greatest monster.
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Angela Christine posted:This makes it clear that while 8 was not the one who fought in the time war, he was the one who got rid of the round things and is therefore history's greatest monster. The tv film started with Seven so...
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