Which non-Power of the Daleks story would you like to see an episode found from? This poll is closed. |
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Marco Polo | 36 | 20.69% | |
The Myth Makers | 10 | 5.75% | |
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve | 45 | 25.86% | |
The Savages | 2 | 1.15% | |
The Smugglers | 2 | 1.15% | |
The Highlanders | 45 | 25.86% | |
The Macra Terror | 21 | 12.07% | |
Fury from the Deep | 13 | 7.47% | |
Total: | 174 votes |
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The_Doctor posted:In other news, Eve Myles has said she's done with playing Gwen Cooper, so no returns to Torchwood. That's so weird; on an interview that came out with a really recent Torchwood audio, she said that she loved the character and would keep playing the role for as long as they offered it to her.
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 11:58 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 10:18 |
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Torchwood was trash and I never had any attachment to Gwen because of that fact but she was okay in Stolen Earth/Journey's End and I always had a bit of a girl crush on Eve Myles so I'd hoped she would come back for a run of better stories with Big Finish.
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 12:30 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:Torchwood was trash and I never had any attachment to Gwen because of that fact but she was okay in Stolen Earth/Journey's End and I always had a bit of a girl crush on Eve Myles so I'd hoped she would come back for a run of better stories with Big Finish. I haven't gotten to her second (and I guess last) audio with Big Finish yet, but the first one she was in was pretty great.
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 12:32 |
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Talking of Big Finish... http://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/coming_soon_reverse/doctor-who---the-collected-10th-doctor
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 13:10 |
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Hmm, I wonder if we're getting Strax and/or Davros in that second one; or if those actors will be playing different roles
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 13:12 |
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twistedmentat posted:Romana I was in a lot more episodes than I remember. Precisely 6 stories in fact
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 13:26 |
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jivjov posted:Hmm, I wonder if we're getting Strax and/or Davros in that second one; or if those actors will be playing different roles Playing different roles, as is Niky Wardley
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 14:36 |
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Oh poo poo, Alice Krige's in that third one! The Borg Queen!
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 15:58 |
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Dabir posted:Oh poo poo, Alice Krige's in that third one! The Borg Queen! She was also in the Tom story "Phantoms of the Deep"
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 16:12 |
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I'm honestly not as excited about Ten audios as I am that one of them is written by someone who doesn't already have two dozen stories under their belt!
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 20:21 |
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And none written by Briggs
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 20:54 |
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Just finished Planet of the Spiders and moved on to Robot. I'll miss Pertwee - I feel like his run got stronger as it went. Towards his last season/series his performance started to suggest that he was a pretty significant influence for Matt Smith's interpretation, beyond the ties, even. And you guys weren't kidding about the chase scenes. I want to see that 25 part horse chase with his mate Roger, now that I have seen the helicopter/hovercraft/hovercraft/helicopter/speedboat/hovercraft chase.
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# ? Feb 19, 2016 05:57 |
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CommonShore posted:Just finished Planet of the Spiders and moved on to Robot. I wonder how much longer Pertwee would have gone, should Roger Delgado have never died.
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# ? Feb 19, 2016 06:03 |
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Burkion posted:I wonder how much longer Pertwee would have gone, should Roger Delgado have never died. Hm first I read about that. Sad poo poo. According to their wikipedia articles, there had been a planned story to wrap up both Third Doc's and The Master's storylines, The Final Game. Did that story ever get put down anywhere?
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# ? Feb 19, 2016 06:06 |
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I remember watching Planet of the Spiders for the very first time as a child. Now I had seen plenty of Fourth serials but I'd never seen the end of Three and it loving traumatized me and left me a sobbing mess. I was so upset my parents thought I'd gotten been molested or something. It was a rough time.
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# ? Feb 19, 2016 06:43 |
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Rhyno posted:I remember watching Planet of the Spiders for the very first time as a child. Now I had seen plenty of Fourth serials but I'd never seen the end of Three and it loving traumatized me and left me a sobbing mess. I was so upset my parents thought I'd gotten been molested or something. And then I had to wait months to see more of this weird-looking new bloke who couldn't possibly be as good a Doctor as Jon Pertwee...
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# ? Feb 19, 2016 15:38 |
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jivjov posted:And none written by Briggs Same with the second War Doctor set, so maybe it'll be more interesting than the first one was.
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# ? Feb 19, 2016 20:56 |
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I was playing this beauty earlier tonight:
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 06:40 |
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There was one of those in an arcade in the West Mall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota sometime during the years 1990-1993. They went under in 1994 and my parents refused to buy that machine for me.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 06:52 |
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My sister owns one, and there's one on location here in Chicago. It's a pretty decent game, and Colin Baker's doctor power in it is by far the best one. Not sure if that was intentional or not. Anyway, it's being ported to the game Pinball Arcade soon for anyone curious.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 07:09 |
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That's some spectacularly bad art.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 09:31 |
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timg please (Although the big versions show you they knew exactly what they wanted to emphasise with Peri)
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 11:47 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:timg please not nearly as bad as Leela's weird crotch
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 11:55 |
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Someone's at MAGFest! When I went a few years ago, they had the machine, but it was non-functional.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 15:37 |
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Bicyclops posted:Which Doctor Who villain do you think Donald Trump is? I find it kind of hard to choose. Seems like a regular old Dalek to me, maybe one of the leader Daleks. All the other Daleks eat up everything he's saying, while outsiders are like WTF.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 16:20 |
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NowonSA posted:Seems like a regular old Dalek to me, maybe one of the leader Daleks. All the other Daleks eat up everything he's saying, while outsiders are like WTF. He's Simm era Master. Adept at saying the things enough people want to hear to get into some sort of position of power with the intent of ruining everything when he does.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 16:34 |
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The Pinball Arcade guys just finished up a Kickstarter that's going to digitize the Doctor Who table.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 16:38 |
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After The War posted:Someone's at MAGFest! When I went a few years ago, they had the machine, but it was non-functional. No, though MAGFest looks awesome. I was at the Silverball Pinball Museum in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It's wonderful, you play a flat rate for a set amount of time and get to play any of the dozens of classic machines they have. They've also got some old arcade video games too. It's a fantastic little spot.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 16:46 |
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Fil5000 posted:He's Simm era Master. Adept at saying the things enough people want to hear to get into some sort of position of power with the intent of ruining everything when he does. I don't know that he's intent on ruining everything, he just wants to achieve the highest office in the land so he can do what he wants and will say or do whatever is necessary to get there. Which i suppose would make him the Twelfth Doctor.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 17:00 |
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Bicyclops posted:Which Doctor Who villain do you think Donald Trump is? I find it kind of hard to choose. Henry van Statten.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 19:16 |
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They had one of those in my dorm and it was great, though the stage that raises and lowers to enable multiball targets had a tendency to trap your ball. Then the entire game would reset. Though maybe it was just that one machine--I've never had a chance to replay it on a different one yet.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 20:16 |
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I remember the comic store I went to in the early 90s had this and The Star Trek TOS pinball and it was always hard to choose which one to play.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 00:12 |
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Short Synopsis: Have you tried turning it off and on again? Long Synopsis: The Doctor and Lucie arrive on an apparently abandoned space station, where they discover a collection of robots who have developed sentience and gone insane. As Lucie attempts to avoid being "dismantled" for spare parts, the Doctor ponders whether breaking a cycle is worth coming at the cost of their own lives. What's Good:
What's Not:
Final Thoughts: The Cannibalists is a really drat good story hobbled by overly busy sound design. It does a great job of world-building, provides interesting characters, has some interesting things to say about faith/prophecy and makes good use of its robot gimmick to resolve the situation with a straight-forward logical and literal interpretation of an off-hand comment made by the Doctor earlier in the story. The Doctor's musing on whether it is philosophically right to doom the society to continue down its path even if it means his own death is really well handled, and I doubt it is a coincidence that this so clearly parallels what we knew at the time about the Doctor's eventual decision to end the Time War. But the sound design is terrible, making it a struggle to follow what is happening or distinguish individual voices. It often confuses events (I'm positive one robot was melted at one point, only to show up alive and fine later on) because it is a struggle to get through all the buzzing and distortions and clanging and multiple characters screaming at each other. What could have been - if not quite a classic - a very good story suffers as a result, and in the end I found myself thinking,"Man there's a really good story in here.... I just wish I could actually hear it."
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 02:08 |
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I like how the opening scenes of City of Death make it look like the Doctor and Romana are a couple. This confused me as a kid because I figured that's exactly what was going on, but during the early series, the Doctor was pretty much asexual.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 02:22 |
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Well of course he has no interest in humans or aliens past, present or future, but Romana is a Time Lord.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 02:27 |
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twistedmentat posted:I like how the opening scenes of City of Death make it look like the Doctor and Romana are a couple. This confused me as a kid because I figured that's exactly what was going on, but during the early series, the Doctor was pretty much asexual. The great thing about the Doctor/Romana relationship is that you could look at it as playful flirting, just a straight-up mentor/protege relationship, or that they were legitimately a couple. The Doctor never showed any interest in females before Romana (the 1st Doctor got engaged but that was absolutely played for laughs) but that made sense because they were human and it just wouldn't make much sense. But Romana was another Time Lord, it made sense that they could be a couple, and the way she grew as a person from her initial arrival to her eventual departure made the closeness between them work. You could say that it was just a natural result of the real-world relationship between Tom Baker and Lalla Ward, but there was a similar perceived level of attraction/flirting when Mary Tamm was in the role (though to be fair, who wouldn't be in love with Mary Tamm? )
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 02:28 |
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Jerusalem posted:The great thing about the Doctor/Romana relationship is that you could look at it as playful flirting, just a straight-up mentor/protege relationship, or that they were legitimately a couple. The Doctor never showed any interest in females before Romana (the 1st Doctor got engaged but that was absolutely played for laughs) but that made sense because they were human and it just wouldn't make much sense. But Romana was another Time Lord, it made sense that they could be a couple, and the way she grew as a person from her initial arrival to her eventual departure made the closeness between them work. I guess that makes sense. I forgot that Baker and Ward were a couple at one point, though I certainly saw Romana 1 and the Doctor being a mentor/mentee relationship, but thinking about it, yea there is a flirtatious aspect to their relationship, though its much more low key than with Romana 2. And Mary Tamm vs Lala Ward is like do you want sexy or cute.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 02:34 |
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twistedmentat posted:And Mary Tamm vs Lala Ward is like do you want sexy or cute.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 02:40 |
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Jerusalem posted:
The EDA line sure likes to bring up Lucie's tits. Just trying to appeal to a younger audience or something?
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 02:47 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 10:18 |
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jivjov posted:The EDA line sure likes to bring up Lucie's tits. Just trying to appeal to a younger audience or something? They do the same with Peri too, I think they just really enjoy making jokes about boobs vv
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 02:49 |