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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CaptainYesterday posted:The Space Pirates only has one episode surviving, how would you know if it's middling? Pros: It has Josef Stalin in it Cons: It has Josef Stalin in it Seems fairly balanced to me Jerusalem posted:What I love about English is that every so often you see a combination of words that have never been put together in that order before. Like the post I just quoted. I liked the Target novelisation of it when I was young
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 09:18 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:06 |
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Nightmare of Eden is a 1988 McCoy story ten years early; there are some really good bits, and some really embarrassingly terrible bits.
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 13:50 |
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The Doctor's utter disgust towards the drug dealer at the end when they try to justify/qualify their actions is the only good bit I can remember, the rest I just recall being aggressively mediocre or appallingly bad - the monsters were the loving worst, even at the time it was made they looked awful (and not in a charming way!)
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 13:57 |
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Nightmare of Eden itself isn't great, but Lewis Fiander's bizarre Germanic accent is genuinely compelling television.
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 14:13 |
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pinacotheca posted:Nightmare of Eden itself isn't great, but Lewis Fiander's bizarre Germanic accent is genuinely compelling television. The Doctor walking in on the two captains arguing and watching as if it's a match at Wimbledon is awesome. And I loved the concept of the Continual Event Transmuter
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 14:17 |
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It's as lightweight as a box of fluffy ducks, but fine if you treat it as a farce on itself. You wouldn't like the show to be like that every year, but once in 50 is fine.
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 14:19 |
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Davros1 posted:The Doctor walking in on the two captains arguing and watching as if it's a match at Wimbledon is awesome. And I loved the concept of the Continual Event Transmuter Yeah, it has some good bits in it: the basic idea of two spaceships colliding/fusing into each other as one comes out of hyperspace is neat, David Daker's always good value for money and I do love the cliffhanger where Tom and Lalla escape by leaping into the projector, for example. I think I like it more than either The Creature from the Pit or The Horns of Nimon, but not quite as much as Destiny of the Daleks. (I don't actually like Destiny of the Daleks that much either, but who does?)
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 14:40 |
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pinacotheca posted:Yeah, it has some good bits in it: the basic idea of two spaceships colliding/fusing into each other as one comes out of hyperspace is neat, David Daker's always good value for money and I do love the cliffhanger where Tom and Lalla escape by leaping into the projector, for example. Heh, Destiny was the first episode of Who I watched and it made me a fan.
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 14:44 |
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It's also pretty bad, even on its own merits (ie ignoring that the daleks aren't robots)
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 15:16 |
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Nightmare of Eden was my first episode, so I like it for that reason.
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 15:17 |
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pinacotheca posted:Nightmare of Eden itself isn't great, but Lewis Fiander's bizarre Germanic accent is genuinely compelling television. ROMANA: How many were on your ship? TRYST: Ah, well, to begin with there was ten, but we lost one. ROMANA: How? TRYST: He died. ROMANA: How did he die? TRYST: He died!
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# ? Apr 29, 2016 16:05 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:It's also pretty bad, even on its own merits (ie ignoring that the daleks aren't robots) Destiny is the principal reason I wonder if Terry Nation even watched Genesis, let alone wrote it.
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# ? Apr 30, 2016 01:06 |
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Organza Quiz posted:My vote for most middling is the pirate episode from season 6. I was looking down a list of episodes to rewatch recently, and The Curse of the Black Spot is the only one I can't even remember anything from. Like there's a pirate ship, Kovarian showing up in a window being all ooooOOOOooooOOOO spooky, something something aliens, and that's it. I just thought "eh" when I read the name, wasn't even curious. 42 at least had a few cool premises that kept it trundling along. Murderion fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Apr 30, 2016 |
# ? Apr 30, 2016 01:40 |
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Short Synopsis: The Doctor gets it wrong, Tamsin gets to act, and the last line changes everything. Long Synopsis: In the year 1006, the Doctor and Tamsin find themselves in the middle of the mystery of the disappearance of the Book of Kells, and everything is most definitely not what it seems. What's Good:
What's Not:
Final Thoughts: The Book of Kells can be a frustrating story, albeit a very funny one. It's continuity-heavy, features some head-scratching characters and dialogue (on a first listen anyway), and wastes a tremendous supporting castmember (and making great use of another).... butttttttt, holy crap that final line. Getting to the end of it, I thought this was a fun audio and a nice building of Tamsin's character.... but then that final line. It's incredible, suddenly throwing everything into a new context, changing my perception of everything that happened up to that point in the story AND the season. It's a game-changer, potentially setting an entirely new direction/angle for the season to continue on - suddenly the question isn't so much "what big universe ending threat are they building up to this time?" as it is the far more interesting,"What the hell is going on with character <x>?" Written by Barnaby Edwards whose work is usually solid if unspectacular, this is the best story of the season so far. Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 10:49 on May 1, 2016 |
# ? May 1, 2016 10:47 |
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I thought that season of 8DAs was really solid. And yeah, those supporting actors are great but honestly you could give me any amount of those two and I'd be disappointed there wasn't more of them.
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# ? May 1, 2016 11:35 |
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DoctorWhat you really need to report to the Homestuck thread
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# ? May 1, 2016 21:07 |
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I got kicked out of my aunt's house two weeks ago and only today got a place.
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# ? May 1, 2016 23:52 |
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DoctorWhat posted:I got kicked out of my aunt's house two weeks ago and only today got a place. No, no man This is a good thing that will make you laugh Also sorry to hear about that.
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# ? May 1, 2016 23:57 |
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DoctorWhat posted:I got kicked out of my aunt's house two weeks ago and only today got a place. What happened?
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# ? May 2, 2016 01:31 |
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the government are hinting at some changes they might propose to the BBC charter that might effect Doctor Who - basically amending the charter so that the BBC have to "take account" of the commercial stations when scheduling which might effectively lead to them not putting popular programmes on on Saturday evenings. The arguing over scheduling thing isn't the worst part about this with the iplayer and similar things making traditional TV scheduling increasingly obsolete; its just another example of Tory meddling in the running of what is supposed to be an independent public broadcaster and it could one day lead to them trying to limit the programmes that the BBC are allowed to make.
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# ? May 2, 2016 02:25 |
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Just leave the BBC alone goddammit
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# ? May 2, 2016 02:33 |
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Rhyno posted:What happened? my mom, my dog, and I were used as a scapegoat for my aunt's terrible parenting of my 15-year-old cousin we were living in my aunt's house we aren't anymore the new place is nice tho but the past two weeks have been kind of... liminal
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# ? May 2, 2016 02:38 |
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DoctorWhat posted:my mom, my dog, and I were used as a scapegoat for my aunt's terrible parenting of my 15-year-old cousin That sucks man, hope it's all past you!
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# ? May 2, 2016 02:58 |
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Rhyno posted:That sucks man, hope it's all past you! I'm feeling swell actually, it's nice to have a real home again.
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# ? May 2, 2016 03:00 |
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DoctorWhat posted:I'm feeling swell actually, it's nice to have a real home again. I'm just going to leave this here ThaumPenguin posted:Do you ever feel like you're actively making a poor decision, and then just keep on doing it? Okay bye and I'm glad you're out of that lovely situation and hope things get better from here
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# ? May 2, 2016 03:06 |
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Sorry to hear about that, DWhat. Watch some 6 dvds and pop Jubilee into your portable cd player. Kids still have those, right?
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# ? May 2, 2016 08:10 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Sorry to hear about that, DWhat. Watch some 6 dvds and pop Jubilee into your portable cd player. Kids still have those, right? I think they use something called an Empty Three nowadays.
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# ? May 2, 2016 13:47 |
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Someone in my office just asked me “What’s Doctor Who?” You never realize just how WEIRD the show’s premise is until you try to actually explain it to someone.
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# ? May 3, 2016 18:19 |
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It's a pseudo-anthology science fiction programme where the title character is wherever the story the takes place because he can travel through time and space
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# ? May 3, 2016 19:11 |
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Doctor Who could be a part of RiffTrax' cinema shows this year, if BBC Insiders isn't just making things up.
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# ? May 3, 2016 22:19 |
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CaptainYesterday posted:Doctor Who could be a part of RiffTrax' cinema shows this year, if BBC Insiders isn't just making things up. The Peter Cushing films or are they doing what they did with Lost and riffing on episodes?
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# ? May 3, 2016 22:21 |
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Chibnall might be bringing in a writers' room for his tenure.
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# ? May 3, 2016 22:32 |
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Burkion posted:The Peter Cushing films or are they doing what they did with Lost and riffing on episodes? Episodes.
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# ? May 3, 2016 22:33 |
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That might be a good approach, though I thought the show already had a writers' room. I have obviously misunderstood exactly what it entails. Can anyone enlighten me?
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# ? May 3, 2016 22:35 |
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Oh please mean he's not going to do most of the writing pretty please
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# ? May 3, 2016 22:37 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:That might be a good approach, though I thought the show already had a writers' room. I have obviously misunderstood exactly what it entails. Can anyone enlighten me? More the American style writers room, where there are several writers who all contribute to stories. One will come up with the idea and then others throw in ideas and help out. Writing becomes a more communal affair.
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# ? May 3, 2016 22:49 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:That might be a good approach, though I thought the show already had a writers' room. I have obviously misunderstood exactly what it entails. Can anyone enlighten me? In addition to what others have said, it would also entail any number of writers being kept on as full-time staff, as opposed to the freelance / work-for-hire arrangements that the program has traditionally operated with. It's certainly not a bad idea, but it may be difficult given the financial cuts that have been implemented by the BBC over the last few years.
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# ? May 3, 2016 22:58 |
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It's an interesting take on things, who knows how it will work on a show like Who - I imagine it will probably lead to a leveling out of the quality which will mean we probably won't get the terrible lows but also maybe we risk losing the amazing highs. No way of knowing until it happens, of course.
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# ? May 3, 2016 23:09 |
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I see. I was under the impression that they already had something like that, but I'm not sure why I thought that.
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# ? May 3, 2016 23:28 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:06 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:I see. I was under the impression that they already had something like that, but I'm not sure why I thought that. Do you read Toxx's thread? He had a big long review mostly about the mechanics of writing a TV programme... within the American writing room idiom, which made the whole thing completely irrelevant.
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# ? May 3, 2016 23:40 |