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Classtoise posted:I mean. Nah, they're just old.
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Astroman posted:I gotta say, I'm really not down with Big Finish's new predilection to bundle everything into "collections" or seasons that cost $20. Sometimes I might want to try a new range or something a la carte, but you can ONLY buy audios like War Doctor, Jago and Litefoot, and the new Third Doctor audios as collections. Same for the Blake's 7 Liberator Chronicles. While this may not apply to all of the sets you're referring to, I think part of this might be because they're acquiring the rights to do all these new series, and with that comes actors with higher fees (no offense to Colin Baker, but I'd be willing to bet his fee is less than David Tennant's or John Hurt's, which is also probably why the War Doctor and 10th Doctor sets are 3 hours instead of the usual 4)
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josh04 posted:And corrupt, don't forget corrupt. So you are saying Time Lord society is just FIFA?
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Where is Only The Monstrous, Big Finish, where is it!?! 
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DoctorWhat posted:Nah, they're just old. Well and psychic and more durable and immune to strangulation and can survive in the vacuum of space and have a backup heart in case one of them gives out. But otherwise basically old humans! 
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Dec 14, 2015 08:06
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I honestly have no idea how you can be looking forward this much to Nicholas Briggs + Time War. I mean, John Hurt's great and all, but there's only so much he can do to overcome that.
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So I just finished watching season/series 16 and I have to say, I'm shocked that Underworld has such a poor reputation, I rather liked it. Sunmakers on the other hand, what a crock of poo poo that one was.
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Rochallor posted:I honestly have no idea how you can be looking forward this much to Nicholas Briggs + Time War. I mean, John Hurt's great and all, but there's only so much he can do to overcome that. Audio is one of the best possible mediums to actually present something as possibly weird as the Time War. It could be not worth the effort, but there's a lot of potential for greatness there yet.
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All I really want is a companion from the non-present. We probably won't get someone from the past because watching them be amazed by, or need an explanation for, every bit of technology they see would get old quick, but just grab someone from 2200 and roll with it. Or maybe someone with a very strong view of right and wrong or some major issue that doesn't align with the Doctor's, and they clash over that and eventually each sees that there's some value in the other's perspective. Give them a reason to not be able to easily go back to their own time too, so they can just always be on the Tardis like the good old days. They can be an audience surrogate without being grabbed right from the present, they'd still be a human traveling with the wildest alien ever. The added bonus of this is we can get away from a solid third or more of any given season being set in present day earth. Just do one or two episodes set "now" and have the rest be crazy alien adventures. I dunno, I'm sure I'll like whatever they come up with, I just could really use a change of pace. NowonSA fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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Rochallor posted:I honestly have no idea how you can be looking forward this much to Nicholas Briggs + Time War. I mean, John Hurt's great and all, but there's only so much he can do to overcome that. Robophobia owns 
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NowonSA posted:All I really want is a companion from the non-present. We probably won't get someone from the past because watching them be amazed by, or need an explanation for, every bit of technology they see would get old quick, but just grab someone from 2200 and roll with it. I dunno, I think you could manage a companion from the past as long as they can roll with it fairly well. Someone that's not from too far in the past so they can keep up fairly well would probably work, like from the early or mid-20th century., or maybe someone from further back but who's the type to conceive of technological developments anyway, like a writer or a would-be inventor. If you have a companion from the past you do want a bit of 'what the gently caress is a smartphone', but you don't want it to get in the way.
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Dec 14, 2015 09:33
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All you need for a companion from the past is the occasional reminder of lessons and a few shots of them in the background reading a book or examining something.
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Cliff Racer posted:So I just finished watching season/series 16 and I have to say, I'm shocked that Underworld has such a poor reputation, I rather liked it. what
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Jerusalem posted:Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury forever.
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cargohills posted:what Well the original twist, that the humanoids in the planet were Minyans, was obvious, but the guards being something else was legitimately surprising. The CSO sucked though, obviously, but ehh what can you do. Them bitching about bureaucracy/corporations/paying taxes got old really fast in Sunmakers.
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Dec 14, 2015 10:35
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Where and when did this snideness about Nicholas Briggs stories come from? I hardly saw any complaints about his stuff for ages and in the last month or two it seems inescapable.
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I can't speak for anybody else, but for me Briggs' stuff alternates between "kinda bland but listenable" to "really rather good", which isn't a bad range at all. Sure the highs aren't as high as some other writers, but the lows aren't anywhere near as low either.
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Dec 14, 2015 11:48
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I mean, I complained about him a couple pages back and still preordered three hours of war epics written/directed by and co-starring him, so it's not like he's totally terrible.
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Jerusalem posted:Where is Only The Monstrous, Big Finish, where is it!?! Not sure exactly when it hit, but it's out now! Edit: I gave in; I bought the thing. jivjov fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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Dec 14, 2015 12:34
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DoctorWhat posted:Nah, they're just old. Romana isn't much older than a human (younger than some - 125 in City of Death!) and is clearly much more able.
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Dec 14, 2015 12:56
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The new theme song for the War Doctor is...certainly something.
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jivjov posted:The new theme song for the War Doctor is...certainly something. Any way to give us a listen?
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The_Doctor posted:Any way to give us a listen?  Funnily enough, I was just working on that
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jivjov posted:
Oh I quite like that. The opening bit has escaped from the 'Best of Both Worlds' cliffhanger, though. [skip to 40 seconds in] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7KFfbjg3Iw
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Dec 14, 2015 13:27
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When I first heard it in the story I wasn't a huge fan..but after clipping out the segment and listening to it a couple times it's already grown on me. Very martial; which fits
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What they're trying to do is quite a nice idea, but that's such a busy, messy mix (like many of the BF theme versions).
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It actually kinda reminds me of the recent X-Men scores...
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Chokes McGee posted:Well and psychic and more durable and immune to strangulation and can survive in the vacuum of space and have a backup heart in case one of them gives out. Doctor Who has featured humans who are durable, like Captain Jack, humans who can survive in a vacuum, like that guy in The Impossible Planet, humans with a backup... well... everything, like Cassandra, and humans who are immune to strangulation, like Peri.
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josh04 posted:Doctor Who has featured humans who are durable, like Captain Jack Captain Jack could hardly be called human. "The Doctor's not that special, this uniquely invincible guy is also hardy!"
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jivjov posted:It actually kinda reminds me of the recent X-Men scores... Yes! That's the part of my pop culture memory it tickled... I like it. I could see this playing as the camera/credits take us through a war-torn Time Vortex...
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So the first War Doctor episode explicitly makes it clear that the events of Genesis of the Daleks was the start of the Time War.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Captain Jack could hardly be called human. "The Doctor's not that special, this uniquely invincible guy is also hardy!" The point isn't that humans and Time Lords are exactly the same, it's that privileging the plot abilities of Time Lords as being authentically superior as opposed to the lesser, contingent plot abilities of human characters is elitist and, well, is in direct opposition to the morality of the show. Doctor Who is definitely not a show about how the genetic traits of the Time Lords make them the superior species.
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Certainly not, except when it is (which is thankfully rarely)
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I'm really hyped for this War Doctor series, even though I fully expect at least the set released today to be awful.
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Anyone able to give me a link to a gallery of reasonably high-res (large enough to print as 4*6 photo style images) Doctor Who stills? I want to pick out about 18 to 20 to print on decent paper. I've decided to put framed pictures of William Hartnell and others up on my walls as if they are my family.
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vegetables posted:I'm really hyped for this War Doctor series, even though I fully expect at least the set released today to be awful. The first story was pretty good at least. I didn't want to burn through them all at once, but I'll probably cave and listen to the other two today.
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Can I express just how well directed/scored/foleyed/everything was in the scene where they used the extraction chamber? That was A+ quality sci-fi. The sounds and movement effects giving an eerie, familiar-but-different shade of broken reality, the slow raising of the music as Clara goes towards the door, where she walks into a large, bright, sterile white room, the Doctor, eager but nervous, framed to the side as the General stands in back, flanked by curious technicians looking on. It's a wonderful moment, one that really expressed, from both perspectives, the strangeness and wonder of the idea - tearing someone out of time, if for a few moments.
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CommonShore posted:Anyone able to give me a link to a gallery of reasonably high-res (large enough to print as 4*6 photo style images) Doctor Who stills? I want to pick out about 18 to 20 to print on decent paper. Google image search '1st doctor' etc, and then fiddle with the search tools so you're looking for 'large' pictures. That'll bring up the high res ones. Just found this rather good one by doing that: 
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