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I liked Kill the Moon, and I also liked the Zygon two-parter. The first episode was a bit mediocre, but the 12 monologue at the end was probably one of my favourite 12 moments yet. Still think I preferred series 8 overall so far, though. While there's a lot of two-part stories this time, I think it's lacking the overall cohesiveness of series 8. Not sure I appreciated it much at the time, but looking back it's a standout feature of series 8 - the Doctor continuing to visit Clara, sticking more with her as a throughline than the Doctor. I think some people complained about it, and I may even have too, but I really like it now. This series is kind of just a bunch of stuff, and while I like longer stories, it gives some of the rubbish elements of some of them a longer time to stick around. Also, ages ago I started a Let's Play of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. Starting up a Let's Play just before graduation was a bad idea as life happened and I couldn't do it anymore. But now I'm back on the wagon, and I'm doing it again. I kind of love these even though I know they're bad. I like the episodic approach, as it keeps it from getting too stale. It's a nice opportunity to revisit Matt Smith in some form anyway. Never realised how much I would miss him until he was gone. Anyway, the thread is here if anyone is interested in following it. The first of the five episodes, City of the Daleks, is all up and uploaded.
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Fun fact: VLC player ignores all region coding on DVDs.
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The_Doctor posted:Fun fact: VLC player ignores all region coding on DVDs. Assuming that the region checking is done software side rather than hardware side, it doesn't do poo poo if the DVD player doesn't let it have the unencrypted files
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Nov 21, 2015 03:11
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Assuming that the region checking is done software side rather than hardware side, it doesn't do poo poo if the DVD player doesn't let it have the unencrypted files Right, I was talking PCs rather than actual standalone players.
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The_Doctor posted:Right, I was talking PCs rather than actual standalone players. So am I? eg. Matshita's RPC-2 "solution" is to have a check in the unit itself whether the regions match, and then not send any data if they don't. Ain't no way of getting round that.
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Nov 21, 2015 03:22
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Dvd43 used to work, but I'm pretty sure it's been wiped from the internet.
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Nov 21, 2015 06:46
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Get stuck in: The War Games is on DailyMotion http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22zh65_doctor-who-6x35-the-war-games-part-1_shortfilms
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CobiWann posted:I’m a little nervous. All the Tom Baker serials I’ve seen up to this point I’ve either seen before or knew a good bit about them in advance. I have The Brain of Morbius lined up for this weekend and I know absolutely nothing about it. Trust me, you have seen it before. It might have been the black and white version starring Boris Karloff though.
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A week late but, I just caught the Sleep Dust Monster episode on the iPlayer and it felt like Gatiss had been playing Dead Space before he wrote this, crazy monsters made out of dead skin and such? literally Necromorphs, and a signal that gets broadcast to turn people into more of them? Pretty much how the Markers work as well.
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Judge Tesla posted:A week late but, I just caught the Sleep Dust Monster episode on the iPlayer and it felt like Gatiss had been playing Dead Space before he wrote this, crazy monsters made out of dead skin and such? literally Necromorphs, and a signal that gets broadcast to turn people into more of them? Pretty much how the Markers work as well. Then there should have been more dismemberment, distant industrial sounds, and eye gouging. (and now I want to go play Dead Space again you bastard)
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Nov 21, 2015 19:15
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CobiWann posted:Then there should have been more dismemberment, distant industrial sounds, and eye gouging. Don't forget body stomping
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Nov 21, 2015 19:20
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I hope tonight's is as good as the script suggested. My favourite script of the series, I think.
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Nov 21, 2015 20:47
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Oh poo poo, new Luther?
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Nov 21, 2015 21:11
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turns out that brewdog not only makes good beer as a distraction, so they can give weird tattoos
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The one drawback to watching on Hulu+ is the commercials are really weirdly placed (I have not yet brought myself to pay for the ad-free upgrade.) Still it is part of why I bought in. Seeing the whole e-Space trilogy was cool.
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Nov 21, 2015 21:23
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Really digging this so far. Though seeing the guys in monster make-up was a little disappointing.
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Nov 21, 2015 21:24
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Just when I started thinking Clara is gonna take the Raven as a last ditch effort she instead talks about it in the very next scene so now she obviously is not gonna die by Raven also ITS A TRAP? I hope not
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Nov 21, 2015 21:36
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Jerusalem posted:Really digging this so far. Though seeing the guys in monster make-up was a little disappointing. Hyper-pleased with how the street looks. That's a big set build!
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echoplex posted:Hyper-pleased with how the street looks. That's a big set build! The set is incredible, great work on it 
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Nov 21, 2015 21:39
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Yeah, this plan of Clara's isn't going to go wrong at all... 
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Nov 21, 2015 21:39
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Yelling at the raven, raven CAWWing back. 
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Nov 21, 2015 21:43
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That was excellent.
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Nov 21, 2015 21:57
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Nov 21, 2015 21:57
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She's finally dead. Good.
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Ok that was an amazing episode
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Nov 21, 2015 21:58
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Jerusalem posted:That was excellent. Oh god I can't believe the graffiti'd TARDIS was only in it for 2 seconds, and in a post-credit scene at that.It was such a beautiful scene as was scripted. Definitely a great episode, though.
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Nov 21, 2015 21:58
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That episode was great, I think it's my favourite this season. Much like the first part of Under The Lake (my previous favourite) I was so engrossed I didn't even realise the time was almost up as the episode ended on a to be continued.
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Nov 21, 2015 22:00
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Diagon Alley was a bit silly. But the episode was great, and the fact that we knew Clara was gonna this season made it even stronger. Also, it seems some season arcs are surfacing now. I doubt this is the last we've seen of Ashildr.
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Nov 21, 2015 22:02
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Nov 21, 2015 22:02
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RoboJoe posted:I was so engrossed I didn't even realise the time was almost up as the episode ended on a to be continued. It was the same when reading it, which gave me high hopes. I really really like how this came together. EccoRaven posted:they killed her?? YOU killed her
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Nov 21, 2015 22:03
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Nov 21, 2015 22:03
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This was a Top 5 episode for me. Sarah Dollard needs to write more for Doctor Who. And next week looks exciting as well!
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echoplex posted:Oh god I can't believe the graffiti'd TARDIS was only in it for 2 seconds, and in a post-credit scene at that.It was such a beautiful scene as was scripted. I assume it will be in next week's episode since it was part of the preview? I hope like hell that little post-credits bit isn't the only time we see it. The only downside to this episode for me was the brief flickers we got of the two aliens we initially see - their make-up effects looked pretty cheap and it really stood out when everything else looked so good. Happily they only really appeared a couple of times. Also, did I see a brief flicker of a Christopher Ryan Sontaran? Even if that is all we see of him, I dig it, because he was a fantastic Sontaran and it's nice to see a non Dan Starkey one.
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echoplex posted:YOU killed her IceAgeComing posted:that was pretty good, i think agreed I quite liked it, I also like the theme of playing with metanarratives because the sandman episode kinda had that too but this one was actually good instead of strange and off-putting.
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That was pretty okay. Disappointed that Rigsy was rather underused, and was just kinda there to kickstart things, but more Rigsy's a good thing. Graffti Tardis was pretty neat  Still can't stand Maisie William's emotionless boringness. Oh and she has ghost powers, because I guess being biologically immortal isn't special enough, I guess  On the upside, I'm glad Capaldi gave her the death glare for what happened to Clara. Also pleased they didn't go the route I thought they were with the stasis pod thing (I thought they were going to stick Clara inside the stasis booth and that would freeze the timer or something). So yeah, kinda clears the board for a new companion.
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Also echoplex even though I've not been a fan of most of the episodes due to story/scriptwriting this season I have to say I do enjoy all the design work you and the others there put into them, all the sets and details, etc, are fantastic to actually see.
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Nov 21, 2015 22:08
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Heaven Sent TV trailer.
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What a dramatic increase in quality from last week. That prison/stasis pod looks suspiciously like the prison that the Master was in on Skaro in the TVM 
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"Why can't I be the good cop?" "We talked about this remember? Your face?" 
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I loved how enamored The Doctor was with the new human.
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