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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4th Doctor problems.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 02:55 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 06:03 |
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Speaking of "things getting brought up in the audios" I'm honestly surprised that 4's hat and scarf don't get mentioned way more often in the FDA line. Every so often the scarf will get used as an emergency rope or something, but I'm kinda impressed by the restraint shown to not have it mentioned every. single. time. someone describes the Doctor aloud.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 03:00 |
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And there's John Cleese. I forgot he has a cameo. I guess that is an indication of the popularity of the show at the time.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 04:29 |
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Jerusalem posted: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? ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4bgOroUhWI&t=56s
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 10:07 |
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"Oh, MARY!"
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 19:51 |
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Just got to the end of The Eight Truths and Eddie Robson has pulled another Human Resources style cliffhanger twist I really, really, really like Eddie Robson's stuff.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 21:43 |
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Jerusalem posted:Just got to the end of The Eight Truths and Eddie Robson has pulled another Human Resources style cliffhanger twist I was literally hanging out with Eddie (and several other Who-ish writers) yesterday!
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 21:45 |
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The_Doctor posted:I was literally hanging out with Eddie (and several other Who-ish writers) yesterday! Oh man, if I'd listened a couple of days earlier I could have told you to give him an awkward high five from some loser on the Internet! In all seriousness though, I really enjoy his writing, particularly what he does on the Eighth Doctor Adventures - sure he seems to always use his pet characters, but he uses them well and the stories are always well worth it. He also seems to be able to do humor well, and nothing wrecks a story more than attempts at humor that fall flat. Writing wise he's been the saving grace of the EDAs for me.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 22:12 |
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The Nimon is pretty hilarious. I wonder if its weird body posture is the actor inside the suit trying to walk on giant platform shoes while wearing a mask that completely covers his head.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 02:54 |
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twistedmentat posted:The Nimon is pretty hilarious. I wonder if its weird body posture is the actor inside the suit trying to walk on giant platform shoes while wearing a mask that completely covers his head. They're all played by ballerinas. No joke.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 02:58 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:They're all played by ballerinas. No joke. That's pretty coo. Also, what was up with Romana's outfit in Nightmare of Eden. It looked like what they'd make a woman wear when she is hiding being pregnant.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 03:40 |
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Short Synopsis: Lucie and Karen become brand new people figuratively and literally. Long Synopsis: While the Doctor occupies himself investigating the mystery of a missing space probe, Lucie is convinced to undertake a consult by a "Self-Help Group" with alarming consequences. It's the end of the world, the Doctor's in a coma, Lucie's in charge, and a long con goes horribly wrong. What's Good:
What's Not:
Final Thoughts: The Eight Truths is a fantastic penultimate episode to the season that sets everything up for what looks to be one hell of a finale. Giving Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith each their own strong individual stories to tell, it still manages to produce two halves that make a cohesive whole. The way everything comes together in the end for the big reveal is just excellent handled. There are some great elements that very deliberately bring to mind the Pertwee era, and by the end of the story everything not only makes sense but has set the stage beautifully to just let poo poo go crazy in the follow-up story (which hopefully it does). Eddie Robson produces yet another winner, and if he is still guilty of being a bit too attached to his pet characters (to the point of having another actor play the same character) he at least makes them palatable (well, the Headhunter is continuing to grate on me) and it can be forgiven if everything going on around it is so good. While it relies on a working knowledge of the season's opener - Orbis - it is a strong enough story to stand on its own, with about the only caveat being that if you're not particularly familiar with the late Pertwee era then the big reveal probably won't have the same impact as it did for me. After a mostly unimpressive season, this looks set to be a hell of a final 1-2 punch that may (may) redeem the entire thing or make me look back on it more favorably.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 04:01 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:They're all played by ballerinas. No joke. You're thinking of the Tractators from Frontios
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 12:22 |
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Frontios is seriously underrated, even if it is highly distracting watching Jeff Rawle from Drop the Dead Donkey trying to play a character with a backbone.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 13:48 |
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Trin Tragula posted:Frontios is seriously underrated, even if it is highly distracting watching Jeff Rawle from Drop the Dead Donkey trying to play a character with a backbone. Bidmead was generally of the opinion that you didn't need a silly monster to make a story great, Frontios is excellent evidence because everything not involving the Tractators is brilliant and the rest of it is not.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 14:17 |
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twistedmentat posted:The Nimon is pretty hilarious. I wonder if its weird body posture is the actor inside the suit trying to walk on giant platform shoes while wearing a mask that completely covers his head. Trivia: the mask was supposed to be exactly that. A mask, hiding the Nimon's true visage beneath it. Then the production just said "gently caress it, that's good enough".
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 14:45 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Bidmead was generally of the opinion that you didn't need a silly monster to make a story great, Frontios is excellent evidence because everything not involving the Tractators is brilliant and the rest of it is not. Remember how disappointed the kid* who designed the Abzorbaloff was? That feeling must be like alcohol to Doctor Who writers. First it disgusts them, then they learn to live with it, and eventually, life just doesn't seem as good without it. * Apparently he changed his story between early interviews and the DVD commentary, so the process has begun. Blue Peter winner William Grantham for showrunner!
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 14:47 |
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Davros1 posted:the production just said "gently caress it, that's good enough". This summarizes everything about Horns of Nimon.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 14:48 |
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After The War posted:This summarizes everything about Horns of Nimon. Except the performance of Graham Crowden, who gives it both barrels
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 14:58 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqn0UHZOSjQ
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 15:04 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Except the performance of Graham Crowden, who gives it both barrels I was thinking of anyone whose job it was to reign him in.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 15:10 |
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The second War Doctor set is officially released and can be downloaded now. Sadly, I am stuck at work for a few more hours!
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 16:36 |
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jivjov posted:The second War Doctor set is officially released and can be downloaded now. Sadly, I am stuck at work for a few more hours! Suck it up, you'll get to it. Savor the wait. SAVOR IT
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 16:41 |
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jivjov posted:The second War Doctor set is officially released and can be downloaded now. Sadly, I am stuck at work for a few more hours! Awwww ysssss
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 21:51 |
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Davros1 posted:Trivia: the mask was supposed to be exactly that. A mask, hiding the Nimon's true visage beneath it. Then the production just said "gently caress it, that's good enough". I'm sure a hell of a lot of stuff from Old Who comes from that.
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# ? Feb 22, 2016 23:48 |
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twistedmentat posted:I'm sure a hell of a lot of stuff from Old Who comes from that. The opposite is true, if anything
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 00:17 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The opposite is true, if anything Interesting. It always felt like a fly by the seat of our pants, we have 1000 pounds to spend on this episode kind of show. Also, I'm not ashamed to admit my favorite version of the opening theme is the one that first appears in the Leisure Hive. Actually, did they get a big influx of cash into episodes at this point, because this episode looks decidedly less cheap than the previous ones. twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Feb 23, 2016 |
# ? Feb 23, 2016 02:29 |
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Even when it was at the absolute height of its popularity, Doctor Who never got money spent on it. The production team often tried, but there was only so far to go.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 02:40 |
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twistedmentat posted:Interesting. It always felt like a fly by the seat of our pants, we have 1000 pounds to spend on this episode kind of show. The budget was always incredibly sparse, and the production crew were always pressed for time with almost no let-up.... but everybody involved seemed to pour their heart and soul into what they did and do the absolute best to get as much out of their limited time and resources as possible. Even in the dying days when JNT was burned out and wanted to move on to somewhere else, he didn't go because he was justifiably concerned that if he left the BBC wouldn't replace him and the show wouldn't be made anymore. Eventually the show went on permanent hiatus anyway, but JNT did what he could to keep it going even when it was obvious the BBC wanted the show to go away.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 02:41 |
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Jerusalem posted:The budget was always incredibly sparse, and the production crew were always pressed for time with almost no let-up.... but everybody involved seemed to pour their heart and soul into what they did and do the absolute best to get as much out of their limited time and resources as possible. The behind-the-scenes features on the DVD's I'm watching talk about this extensively, how the production crew had to get incredibly creative with the budget and how to stretch each and every pound. It's amazing how a set like the ones for Planet of Evil came together with some creative camera placement, columns and pillars from other BBC shows, and making a set three stories instead of two.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 03:47 |
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yeah for all the flak that JNT gets he's basically the reason why it wasn't cancelled three years earlier; without him we wouldn't have had McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and some of the great stuff that he was in. I mean with the stories that you hear about how difficult the end of Trial of a Timelord was who'd have blamed him if he'd gone "gently caress this" and moved onto something else. I mean the last part of the thing is probably the only Pip and Jane thing that you can't totally blame them for being terrible! Lots of the McCoy stories actually look less cheap than most Doctor Who despite the fact that around that time they were probably getting a budget smaller than they'd have had for a long time - this is perhaps because they were able to use a lot more location filming which helped to hide the cheapness? I mean McCoy's last series is pretty much all set on Earth and I'm imagine that would help to keep costs down, although I don't work in television so I could be totally wrong!
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 04:19 |
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The story that really blew my mind was regarding the hiatus between Colin Baker's first and last season. The reason given was,"A hiatus to allow for retooling the show" and then for a year JNT and Eric Saward would come to work and sit in their offices and do absolutely nothing. They got no direction, no suggestions, no communication AT ALL from the BBC. About the only thing that happened was Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant fighting an effort by the BBC not to pay them despite having them under contract. Then after a year, the word came down,"Okay start making the show again" so they.... just did. They put together Trial of a Time Lord but it was based on no input from BBC higher-ups, they just tried to make a show they thought maybe the BBC might prefer maybe?
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 04:36 |
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Why did JNT pick Six's outfit the way he did anyways The rest of the Twin Dilemma's sins we won't lay at his feet, but that was his choice to make Six look utterly ridiculous right? Because I know that was one of the stated reasons that one rear end in a top hat from the BBC gave for ultimately hating and killing the show
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 04:44 |
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Jerusalem posted:The story that really blew my mind was regarding the hiatus between Colin Baker's first and last season. The reason given was,"A hiatus to allow for retooling the show" and then for a year JNT and Eric Saward would come to work and sit in their offices and do absolutely nothing. They got no direction, no suggestions, no communication AT ALL from the BBC. About the only thing that happened was Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant fighting an effort by the BBC not to pay them despite having them under contract. I'd like to think they wanted to make it more like 'Allo 'Allo!, and have the Doctor deal with being stuck in Dalek-occupied Gallifrey while making sexual innuendos. THIS MAY HAVE HAPPENED.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 04:45 |
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OTOH, if JN-T hadn't got carried away with playing to the adoring fanbase and taking conventions to America, he could have moved on with no problem at all when Peter Davison left, while the show was still popular enough for another BBC producer to have wanted to take the job...
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 04:50 |
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CaptainYesterday posted:I'd like to think they wanted to make it more like 'Allo 'Allo!, and have the Doctor deal with being stuck in Dalek-occupied Gallifrey while making sexual innuendos. THIS MAY HAVE HAPPENED. High Chancellor Flavia: DOCTOR! Where are you going with that Type 40 Time Capsule? 1st Doctor: YOU STUPID WOMAN! Can you not see..... we are eloping!?! Doctor Who theme tune plays with accordion
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 04:53 |
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IceAgeComing posted:yeah for all the flak that JNT gets he's basically the reason why it wasn't cancelled three years earlier; without him we wouldn't have had McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and some of the great stuff that he was in. I mean with the stories that you hear about how difficult the end of Trial of a Timelord was who'd have blamed him if he'd gone "gently caress this" and moved onto something else. I mean the last part of the thing is probably the only Pip and Jane thing that you can't totally blame them for being terrible! You can always blame Pip and Jane for being terrible. Especially if you are Chris Chibnall.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 05:55 |
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Jerusalem posted:High Chancellor Flavia: DOCTOR! Where are you going with that Type 40 Time Capsule? HA-IL DAV-ROS! HA-IL DAV-ROS! 'ROS!
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 07:13 |
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drat, I remember so few 7th Doctor episodes. I remember the one with the space Circus, the Curse of Fenric, the one with the glowing bow and obviously the very first one.
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 07:44 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 06:03 |
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First episode of the new War Doctor audio is already a tremendous step up from the first audio (which I enjoyed) and looks to be starting to play around with the concept of,"Incredibly weird poo poo" which is a relief. Or maybe I'm just blinded by the fact that the villain is played by David Warner
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# ? Feb 23, 2016 08:36 |