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computer parts posted:Imagine if The Moment was River Song instead of Rose. ....we'd lose Rose's no more dance. That is not a reality I could live in. Rose as the Moment owned every thing. I want RoseMomentWolf to be in everything.
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Burkion posted:....we'd lose Rose's no more dance. quote:The casing's hot. Yeah, Billie rocked that.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 06:41 |
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echoplex posted:Interestingly, no-one seems to have picked up on the much more blatant redresses we've done over this series, but I suppose that means we hid it ok. The corridor crossroads from Under the Lake and Sleep No More?
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 07:28 |
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Burkion posted:....we'd lose Rose's no more dance. Rose works better anyway, just as the whole series of events spinning on one last little act of Bad Wolf to give the Doctor a chance to save Gallifrey.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 08:04 |
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Argue posted:What was it? They're both in separate space ships quite a distance away from each other and only have an audio link, so she modulates her voice so that it sounds different and he won't recognise it later. I'm interested to see how they do it in Eight's audio that she guests in though. Surely they're going to have to go the amnesia route sooner or later, I mean come on, it's Eight. Angela Christine posted:Lots of good words. This is all true, I guess I didn't quite explain myself right. I don't mean that River's the worst person in the world or even necessarily a "bad" person by the latter parts of her life, just that she has a very different way of approaching things to the Doctor. Like I said, I don't think it's out of character to have her getting thrown into doctory adventures and righting wrongs as she goes, I just think it's less interesting when it's a story that could have happened to the Doctor as opposed to something she gets into due to being River and ends up solving through methods the Doctor wouldn't approve of. The Christmas special was just an excellent example of what I mean: she was actively hired to get the diamond, she was prepared to murder people to get it and it's ambiguous what she was planning on doing with it and the money. The Doctor version of that story just doesn't exist because he wouldn't go for the diamond in the first place. I guess it's a case of active vs passive maybe? The Doctor goes wandering around the universe and stumbles into trouble, River seems to actively go seeking it out. In any case, there is indeed a lot of time that Big Finish can fill in and cover, and hopefully they'll get to cover a wide variety of scenarios.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 11:37 |
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I'm surprised we never saw when River learned the Doctor's name. Given how Moffat likes to tie things up, even sometimes at the expense of having to twist it to get it to fit, we never actually saw River learning his name. "There's only one reason I would ever tell anyone my name. There's only one time I could..." I'm actually kinda glad that every thing that's ever been hinted at on screen hasn't actually gotten time devoted to explaining it, I just found it surprising.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 17:40 |
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Mortanis posted:I'm surprised we never saw when River learned the Doctor's name. Given how Moffat likes to tie things up, even sometimes at the expense of having to twist it to get it to fit, we never actually saw River learning his name. It did happen in the Wedding of River Song
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 17:42 |
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Didn't she just read his name off of his crib?
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 17:44 |
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Oh here's another I rewatched last year's xmas special right after I watched this one. One of the two elves has WOLF on the back of his coat. I couldn't find a shot of the back of the other one's. Any significance there?
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 17:51 |
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Burkion posted:Didn't she just read his name off of his crib? No it was part of the wedding ceremony.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 17:52 |
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bobkatt013 posted:It did happen in the Wedding of River Song He SAID he was going to tell her his name, and then said "Look into my eyes". He didn't actually tell her. Which is actually pretty meta - the only reason to say "I'm going to tell you my name" is only for the audience fake-out.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 17:58 |
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He told us his name earlier this season. It's Doctor Funkenstein.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 18:49 |
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Come on, that's clearly an alias. His real name is Doctor John Disco.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 19:04 |
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CommonShore posted:Oh here's another it\s the elfs name
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 19:12 |
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Rochallor posted:He told us his name earlier this season. It's Doctor Funkenstein.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 19:14 |
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Rochallor posted:He told us his name earlier this season. It's Doctor Funkenstein. I think you mean Basil.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 19:22 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:River was good here because it's actually a River episode instead of a random episode where River also shows up for no reason. Hey, LKH was pretty good once it became a River episode. The part that was a Mels episode was terrible though.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 19:35 |
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I love how I got dogpiled for putting "Let's Kill Hitler" into my short list of "Must Watch" episodes for my friend, because it is "Peak Moffat" and "literally the worst," but it's also the most referenced and most discussed episode in this thread.
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 19:41 |
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CommonShore posted:I love how I got dogpiled for putting "Let's Kill Hitler" into my short list of "Must Watch" episodes for my friend, because it is "Peak Moffat" and "literally the worst," but it's also the most referenced and most discussed episode in this thread. Sigh. Maybe I’m just getting old, for once upon a Timelash…
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 20:22 |
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My package finally made it into the mail!
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 20:43 |
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CommonShore posted:Oh here's another The other elf was called "Ian". No significance. Just a joke. One's called "Ian", the other's "The Wolf".
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 22:41 |
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Hey, Echoplex, how's the burgers at Eddie's?
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 23:05 |
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CommonShore posted:I love how I got dogpiled for putting "Let's Kill Hitler" into my short list of "Must Watch" episodes for my friend, because it is "Peak Moffat" and "literally the worst," but it's also the most referenced and most discussed episode in this thread. Let's Kill Hitler is far from great, but it's a perfectly watchable farce with an emotional ending that more or less works. It's quite like the most recent Christmas special, actually, just worse. It does have my absolute favorite River-related line, though, where she's like, "Maybe I'll just make myself a bit younger every couple of years to mess with people."
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# ? Dec 29, 2015 23:40 |
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CobiWann posted:Sigh. Maybe I’m just getting old, for once upon a Timelash… Timelash is awesome.
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Kilo147 posted:Hey, Echoplex, how's the burgers at Eddie's? Pretty good. It's much bigger than it appears on TV though. I think it might be part of a chain too.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 00:42 |
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PriorMarcus posted:Pretty good. It's much bigger than it appears on TV though. I think it might be part of a chain too. Well, of course, it's a TARDIS!
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 02:04 |
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This came a couple days ago, but I haven't put it up yet because I'm horrible! I really like this shirt. I get inundated with TARDISes all over everything, but this the first one to actually make me think of the ragged old 80s thing that felt so magical when I first saw it and still does. Thank you, BSam. You're the BBest!
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 02:20 |
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PriorMarcus posted:Pretty good. It's much bigger than it appears on TV though. I think it might be part of a chain too. If I'm ever that way, I'll let you know. Unlikely, but still.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 02:25 |
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Kilo147 posted:Hey, Echoplex, how's the burgers at Eddie's? Never went - we usually went to GBK for lunch, the BBC canteen was a bit... yeah. I posted my Santa gift today as I've been away for xmas... hopefully it arrives soon! I put a few things up on my twitter last night which didn't really get a close up - was amazed the brandy bottle didn't get seen in any depth given it was scripted and there was lots of back and forth over it. echoplex fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Dec 30, 2015 |
# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:38 |
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echoplex posted:Never went - we usually went to GBK for lunch, the BBC canteen was a bit... yeah. I think I've guessed the reused sets; The underwater base set from Under the Lake for the space station in Sleep No More?
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:41 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I think I've guessed the reused sets; The underwater base set from Under the Lake for the space station in Sleep No More? Most of the SNM set was a new build / location but the archway elements may have been reused in one of the side tunnels. They layout was broadly similar, though, but that's a consequence of having a studio with a specific size and getting curving corridors inside it that you can't see the end of.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:45 |
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The Mire ship and the trap street?
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 14:03 |
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So this was my first Series (Season) in this thread. What happens here while we wait for 10? Lots of Big Finish discussion?
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 17:57 |
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After The War posted:This came a couple days ago, but I haven't put it up yet because I'm horrible! I'm glad you like it. I've not received anything yet, part of me is giving grace because I live at the arse end of the world, but hopefully something shows up soon.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 17:57 |
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CommonShore posted:So this was my first Series (Season) in this thread. What happens here while we wait for 10? Lots of Big Finish discussion? A mix of Big Finish discussion, classical episode discussion, revival episode discussion, and book discussion, along with any random chatter that comes up. Jerusalem and I will write reviews, we’ll speculate on the next series, and someone will post 70’s porno Colin Baker at some point.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 18:18 |
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Hey, just letting people who were readers of Toxx's Doctor Who review thread know that it's going to be starting back up again in the near future, since some of you might have stopped following it. (And then backing out of this thread with my eyes shut because I have to catch up on the new series too.)
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idonotlikepeas posted:Hey, just letting people who were readers of Toxx's Doctor Who review thread know that it's going to be starting back up again in the near future, since some of you might have stopped following it. (And then backing out of this thread with my eyes shut because I have to catch up on the new series too.)
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CobiWann posted:They’re all pretty solid (save for Terror Firma which you either love or…well, Joseph Lidster)…but the best of the best? Thanks for your suggestions, btw. I chose five that sounded promising. So far, The Last of the Cybermen was a blast, and The Holy Terror was the weirdest, nightmarish thing I have heard in a while. Who would have thought that a story featuring a penguin companion could be scary. I'm probably going to mix them with the audio books from the humble bundle from now on. It just wouldn't feel like Doctor Who anymore if every episode ended up being amazing. Picklepuss posted:I'm probably not remembering this right, but wasn't a reviewer in that thread getting increasingly cranky about how much he or she didn't even like Dr. Who? Oxx stopped posting a long time ago. It's now probably the nicest place to talk about Doctor Who (when people aren't going insane over egg physics and abortions). And More fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Dec 30, 2015 |
# ? Dec 30, 2015 19:39 |
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Speaking of Big Finish, the "extra" stuff for the Humble Bundle was revealed. Cyberman Parts 1-4 and a code to put 8 and Charlie into Doctor Who Legacy.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 20:10 |
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CommonShore posted:So this was my first Series (Season) in this thread. What happens here while we wait for 10? Lots of Big Finish discussion? we pick on the new guys
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