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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 |
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36 | 20.69% |
| The Myth Makers |
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10 | 5.75% |
| The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve |
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45 | 25.86% |
| The Savages |
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2 | 1.15% |
| The Smugglers |
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2 | 1.15% |
| The Highlanders |
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45 | 25.86% |
| The Macra Terror |
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21 | 12.07% |
| Fury from the Deep |
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13 | 7.47% |
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Davros1 posted:The best was recently he was begging online for someone to help him pay for this huge shipment of records he was trying to procure. I think he was asking someone to go in half for it. And in return, they would get a fair number of the records. Selected by him, after he went through the collection for what he wanted. I am happy to give Levine some credit, because the thing that he blew his fortune on the first time around in the late 1980s was sinking a whole pile of money into a record label which would bring in all of these old Tamla Motown artists and get them recording new Motown-style songs. I think that's an admirable use of one's resources. Of course, the main problem was that Ian Levine is nowhere near as talented a songwriter or producer as Holland-Dozier-Holland, Smokey Robinson, Norman Whitfield, Frank Wilson or Berry Gordy. It tried its best, but in the end it didn't have the same quality as any of the Tamla Motown material from the 1960s it was trying to emulate. IceAgeComing posted:but they've both explicitly been the same show since the start? certainly since "school reunion", which I think is one of the best episodes of New Who and - I was still a kid at the time (13 or 14 I think) but I thought that it was cool that they were bringing back people who'd been in the original show, although I probably cared more about K9 than Sarah Jane since i liked the idea of the Doctor having a robot dog as a pet. As I understand it, the BBC were keen that the 2005 series should be a complete reboot, but RTD pushed very hard to ensure that it was a revival and not a remake. He doesn't get as much credit as he deserves for that; in fact, he's often been accused of aiming in the other direction.
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Feb 24, 2016 22:55
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Spare Parts too, that was good. Not as good as Spare Prats though
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Feb 24, 2016 22:56
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Colditz rules.
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Feb 24, 2016 23:00
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MrL_JaKiri posted:
Excuse me that's Marc Platt I'll have you know 
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Feb 24, 2016 23:13
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Trin Tragula posted:Excuse me that's Marc Platt I'll have you know Corrected, thanks for the heads up!
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Feb 24, 2016 23:16
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That's as embarrassing as when one of the pure mathematicians in the department said in a lecture that the Riemann zeta function was holomorphic for Re(s)>0 rather than Re(s)>1!
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Feb 24, 2016 23:17
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Anyway what should I listen to next? Only heard Loup-Garoux, Chimes, Spare Prats, Davros, The One Doctor and Blood of the Daleks so far and my tablet's given up the ghost so I need something else to entertain me in the gym. I'd suggest The Kingmaker, purely because while it's merely okay for the first half (and in fact has some glaring problems/bizarre narrative choices) it has one of the most amazing cliffhangers 3/4s of the way through and the final episode just embraces fully going loving crazy and is a lot of fun.
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Feb 24, 2016 23:35
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Colditz first because it's cheap!
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Feb 24, 2016 23:36
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Singularity is an underrated gem.
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Feb 24, 2016 23:53
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CobiWann posted:Singularity is an underrated gem. I thought it was okay, but I'm still struck by how (superficially) similar the story beats are to The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords, which was made a couple years AFTER this audio.
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Feb 25, 2016 00:00
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jivjov posted:War, 9, 10, and 11 honestly believe that they did, in fact, doom their entire species. The Doctor has that guilt and shame, and it isn't until the events of Day of the Doctor that 11 and forward change things. From the point of view of the Doctor and the viewer, that entire time the Doctor did push the button. The Doctor was willing to burn Gallifrey and all the Daleks, and, for at least a while, he actually did make that choice. The special also isn't 100% clear whether he actually did always save Gallifrey or if he changed the past. Lines like "you'll burn, I've seen that and I never want to see it again" make it easy to imagine that right up until Day Of The Doctor he actually did kill all the Time Lords.
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Feb 25, 2016 01:49
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2house2fly posted:The special also isn't 100% clear whether he actually did always save Gallifrey or if he changed the past. Lines like "you'll burn, I've seen that and I never want to see it again" make it easy to imagine that right up until Day Of The Doctor he actually did kill all the Time Lords. That's what makes the "retcon" of Day of the Doctor so good; it allows both "Killed all the Time Lords and most of the Daleks" both happen and not happen. And, even if the outcome was always "Didn't actually kill everyone", the Doctor at least still had to live with the knowledge that he did it.
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Feb 25, 2016 02:26
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Day of the Doctor was a C at best. This is not something I'm saying as part of the "reveal your secret Doctor Who beliefs" because I'll happily tell it to anyone who'll listen.
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Feb 25, 2016 02:33
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Day of the Doctor was a C at best. I'm getting tired of the relentless negativity this thread constantly has for Day of the Doctor! I can't believe I was literally the only person who liked it, I guess I just don't watch Doctor Who "right".
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Feb 25, 2016 02:45
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Jerusalem posted:I'm getting tired of the relentless negativity this thread constantly has for Day of the Doctor! I can't believe I was literally the only person who liked it, I guess I just don't watch Doctor Who "right". Love you so much
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Feb 25, 2016 02:53
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Jerusalem posted:I'm getting tired of the relentless negativity this thread constantly has for Day of the Doctor! I can't believe I was literally the only person who liked it, I guess I just don't watch Doctor Who "right". SICK TO HIS STOMACH!
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Feb 25, 2016 03:17
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It's the CARDIS. loving kills me every time.
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Feb 25, 2016 03:28
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CobiWann posted:Singularity is an underrated gem. And once again I'll cite those last thirty seconds as an emotional gut-punch that only Davison could have pulled off.
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Feb 25, 2016 05:28
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cargohills posted:The first one wasn't great but I recently finished listening to the second War Doctor box set and it's much, much better. It gets across the sense of a Time War across very well: in the third episode, "The Neverwhen", it's just a regular battle but time is constantly shifting - technology and evolution both go back and forwards, with past/future Daleks and Time Lords involved. It's really cool. I really enjoyed the second boxset too, just finished it up and while it is still mostly straightforward in terms of the potential weirdness of the Time War, I think they're moving in the right direction. I also loved how they characterized the War Doctor, particularly the way everything wraps up with his warning to Ollistra about how he means to go about matters from now on. Was a bit of a  moment for me even though in context it is a little heartbreaking.Best part though is in the Behind the Scenes stuff. While Big Finish were discussing bringing in David Warner for a major role, he rang them up to ask if he could pop in for a few minutes to say hello to John Hurt 
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Feb 25, 2016 07:02
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Bonus: This was the best Xmas present. Thank you again, Forktoss (You should totally do more comics)
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Feb 25, 2016 07:38
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Jerusalem posted:I'm getting tired of the relentless negativity this thread constantly has for Day of the Doctor! I can't believe I was literally the only person who liked it, I guess I just don't watch Doctor Who "right". Nah man, I loved it and so did my whole family.
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Feb 25, 2016 10:14
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It's my favourite Who thing of the revival, honestly.
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Feb 25, 2016 10:27
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Rochallor posted:
That was Nick Briggs. Platt wrote the crocodile one, which I thought was pretty great. (That said, Platt has his ups and downs, but at the very least he clearly puts a lot of effort into creating imaginative and interesting settings and characters. It's more like he concocts stories than plots them, hence all the foul tasting brews I guess.)
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Feb 25, 2016 11:16
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EdBlackadder posted:Nah man, I loved it and so did my whole family. The_Doctor posted:It's my favourite Who thing of the revival, honestly. It was a joke  Day of the Doctor is the closest this thread has ever come to a consensus opinion, most people seemed to love it (perhaps the fact it was loving amazing was a factor). I was just mocking a common thing that happens in these threads where immediately after the initial airing of a new episode, after lots of people praise it you get one or two somewhat negative comments and then somebody posts that they are shocked at the hugely negative reaction the episode is getting and can't understand why nobody liked it. I forget the exact term for it (confirmation bias? Or is it the opposite of that?) but basically the comments that disagree with somebody's point of view seem to stick out more and become the only thing they can focus on.
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Feb 25, 2016 22:27
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Jerusalem posted:It was a joke This post is so wrong it could have been written by Pip and Jane! 
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Feb 25, 2016 23:52
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Not quite done with The Neverwhen yet, so maybe that will change my mind a little bit, but after the first two episodes of the 2nd War Doctor boxset, I'm still a little disappointed in how they're writing the War Doctor himself. John Hurt continues to amaze and impress, and he's got the "Captain Grumpy" persona down pat...but I really want to I know that fundamentally he's still the same man...but every time the War Doctor behaves exactly like any other incarnation of the Doctor would, it really undermines the "broke the promise" thing; makes me wonder why the 9th through 11th incarnations refused to acknowledge that incarnation's existence. EDIT: Just rewatched a bit of Day, 11 even says that the War Doctor was a man who "had more blood on his hands than any other". So far they haven't let the War Doctor directly do much killing at all... jivjov fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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Feb 25, 2016 23:54
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Anyway what should I listen to next? Only heard Loup-Garoux, Chimes, Spare Prats, Davros, The One Doctor and Blood of the Daleks so far and my tablet's given up the ghost so I need something else to entertain me in the gym. Seasons of Fear, Neverland, or The Natural History of Fear are my recommendations for a McGann audio.
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Feb 26, 2016 00:51
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Anyway what should I listen to next? Only heard Loup-Garoux, Chimes, Spare Prats, Davros, The One Doctor and Blood of the Daleks so far and my tablet's given up the ghost so I need something else to entertain me in the gym. Listen to RRRRRRRRed.
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Feb 26, 2016 01:08
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Anyway what should I listen to next? Only heard Loup-Garoux, Chimes, Spare Prats, Davros, The One Doctor and Blood of the Daleks so far and my tablet's given up the ghost so I need something else to entertain me in the gym. Flip-Flop. And tell us what you think of it immediately.
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Feb 26, 2016 01:20
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I have yet to listen to the War Doctor, but I read the book, and I think it's more interesting and appropriate for moments of the old Doctors to shine through. He is the same man after all.
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Feb 26, 2016 01:22
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Astroman posted:I have yet to listen to the War Doctor, but I read the book, and I think it's more interesting and appropriate for moments of the old Doctors to shine through. He is the same man after all. Well, sure, there should be moments. He is, of course, still the Doctor...but I just want to see the moments that led him to pushing the Big Red Button the first time around.
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Feb 26, 2016 01:41
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jivjov posted:Not quite done with The Neverwhen yet, so maybe that will change my mind a little bit, but after the first two episodes of the 2nd War Doctor boxset, I'm still a little disappointed in how they're writing the War Doctor himself. John Hurt continues to amaze and impress, and he's got the "Captain Grumpy" persona down pat...but I really want to "more blood on his hands" is referencing that he was the one that destroyed Gallifrey.
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Feb 26, 2016 01:45
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cargohills posted:"more blood on his hands" is referencing that he was the one that destroyed Gallifrey. The way the lines and depictions are structured; 11 is saying that at Arcadia, pre-destruction of Gallifrey, War has the blood on his hands.
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Feb 26, 2016 01:52
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jivjov posted:Not quite done with The Neverwhen yet, so maybe that will change my mind a little bit, but after the first two episodes of the 2nd War Doctor boxset, I'm still a little disappointed in how they're writing the War Doctor himself. John Hurt continues to amaze and impress, and he's got the "Captain Grumpy" persona down pat...but I really want to I do think that by the end of The Neverwhen you'll have seen that they are very much moving in the direction you'd like, I certainly did.
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Feb 26, 2016 02:26
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Jerusalem posted:I do think that by the end of The Neverwhen you'll have seen that they are very much moving in the direction you'd like, I certainly did. Oh good! And again; I think the stories being told are great, John Hurt is killing it...I'm just not getting quite what I expected. With two more box sets to go, I'm hoping we get a nice neat arc that leads in the general direction of the Engines of War novel and the fall of Arcadia from Day.
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Feb 26, 2016 02:43
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There is one announced but unannounced (as in, the title hasn't been revealed yet) book adaptation on its way. As great as Nick Briggs' War Doctor impression is, it'd be incredible to have a full cast Engines of War audio as a lead-out to the War Doctor series. Bonus points if they manage to get Timothy Dalton in for some lines.
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Feb 26, 2016 03:20
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Anyway what should I listen to next? Only heard Loup-Garoux, Chimes, Spare Prats, Davros, The One Doctor and Blood of the Daleks so far and my tablet's given up the ghost so I need something else to entertain me in the gym. There's a disturbing lack of Evelyn in that list.
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Feb 26, 2016 05:28
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Jerusalem posted:I do think that by the end of The Neverwhen you'll have seen that they are very much moving in the direction you'd like, I certainly did. Quoting the same post again because I went ahead and finished up The Neverwhen before bed...and yes, yes that is exactly what I wanted from the War Doctor.
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Feb 26, 2016 06:26
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Jerusalem posted:Day of the Doctor is the closest this thread has ever come to a consensus opinion, most people seemed to love it (perhaps the fact it was loving amazing was a factor). I was just mocking a common thing that happens in these threads where immediately after the initial airing of a new episode, after lots of people praise it you get one or two somewhat negative comments and then somebody posts that they are shocked at the hugely negative reaction the episode is getting and can't understand why nobody liked it. I forget the exact term for it (confirmation bias? Or is it the opposite of that?) but basically the comments that disagree with somebody's point of view seem to stick out more and become the only thing they can focus on. Assuming that the thing being confirmed is "The thread is anti-Doctor Who" then it's a confirmation bias.
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Feb 26, 2016 11:30
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After The War posted:There's a disturbing lack of Evelyn in that list. Good news! http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who-special-offers-on-evelyn-smythe
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