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Which non-Power of the Daleks story would you like to see an episode found from?
This poll is closed.
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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Tim Burns Effect
Apr 1, 2011

Fil5000 posted:

Yes, we know.

I didn't

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AndwhatIseeisme
Mar 30, 2010

Being alive is pretty much a constant stream of embarrassment.
Fun Shoe

Cleretic posted:

Today, in 'good news that coincidentally sounds like just an awful two-parter', a BBC Radio science host found four potential new antibiotics!

On a Dalek.

I'm guessing it's because a bunch of nerds with questionable hygiene kept touching it.

This will lead to scientists taking swabs of every surface at the end of the next Comic-con, eventually leading to the end of all disease.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

AndwhatIseeisme posted:

This will lead to scientists taking swabs of every surface at the end of the next Comic-con, eventually leading to the end of all disease.

"It was so simple I don't know why we didn't think of it before, just take all the cures in the world and mix them together in a big vat and sprinkle it over everybody!"

MixxMaster
Sep 15, 2005
This trailer is so good, it almost makes me want to see Trail of a Timelord again...almost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ueD9SPLHM

AndyElusive
Jan 7, 2007

What's a Time Lord trail look like exactly?

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The curves are longer on the inside.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

MixxMaster posted:

This trailer is so good, it almost makes me want to see Trail of a Timelord again...almost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ueD9SPLHM

Why wouldn't you want to watch a Sixth Doctor story is a better question.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
I still think Trial is good. Clumsy but good, and addresses the question "just how much of a bastard is the Sixth Doctor?"

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

AndyElusive posted:

What's a Time Lord trail look like exactly?

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!

Wait. He's wearing PANTS in this picture! Everything is ruined forever!

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

CobiWann posted:

Wait. He's wearing PANTS in this picture! Everything is ruined forever!

Probably assless chaps.

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.
Trail of a Timelord, that's the one where you cross Gallifrey in a covered wagon, right?

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Chairman Mao posted:

Trail of a Timelord, that's the one where you cross Gallifrey in a covered wagon, right?

The Master has died of Dysentery. The Master has two regenerations left.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Neddy Seagoon posted:

The Master has died of Dysentery. The Master has two regenerations left.

The Master shows up in his old form.
"Didn't you die of dysentery?"
"Nope! :)"

Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Jun 13, 2016

And More
Jun 19, 2013

How far, Doctor?
How long have you lived?

Neddy Seagoon posted:

The Master has died of Dysentery. The Master has two regenerations left.

Considering death is apparently "Time Lord for man flu", I'd really hate to find out what Time Lord dysentery looks like. :v:

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

And More posted:

Considering death is apparently "Time Lord for man flu", I'd really hate to find out what Time Lord dysentery looks like. :v:

Probably close to what the Master looked like in the Deadly Assassin .

Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS
Time Lord dysentery is when you burn an entire regeneration on pooping.

The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Fil5000 posted:

Time Lord dysentery is when you burn an entire regeneration on pooping.

Time Lords can only go to Chipotle 6 times, tops.

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.
Best exchange from The Two Masters;

Beevers Master: [...] I kill for power.
Macqueen Master: Kill joy, more like. Ya know, you used to be fun. Back when it was all "pointy-beards", and "Nehru jackets", what happened to that?
Beevers Master: You happened.
Macqueen Master: Am I really going to be stuck ruling the universe with you? Out of all my other incarnations, this!? This is the version I end up with!? Couldn't I have had "Mr Velveteen", or "the snake", or someone!?

Short review of the story; the interactions between the Masters is pretty great, the story is serviceable as an excuse to get them together, and the Doctor doesn't really do much (the focus is very much on the Masters).

Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Jun 14, 2016

Gaz-L
Jan 28, 2009
Oh, god, it's not going to happen for years, but Macqueen and Gomez? Guaranteed :aaaaa:

Astroman
Apr 8, 2001


Haha they referenced "CGI Snake"

Doctor Who fandom best fandom. :allears:

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Pesky Splinter posted:

Best exchange from The Two Masters;

Beevers Master: [...] I kill for power.
Macqueen Master: Kill joy, more like. Ya know, you used to be fun. Back when it was all "pointy-beards", and "Nehru jackets", what happened to that?
Beevers Master: You happened.
Macqueen Master: Am I really going to be stuck ruling the universe with you? Out of all my other incarnations, this!? This is the version I end up with!? Couldn't I have had "Mr Velveteen", or "the snake", or someone!?

Short review of the story; the interactions between the Masters is pretty great, the story is serviceable as an excuse to get them together, and the Doctor doesn't really do much (the focus is very much on the Masters).

Which Master was Mr Velveteen?

The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Which Master was Mr Velveteen?

Definitely Ainley. All puffy velveteen sleeves.

The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Ugh, Frank 'Forest of the Night' Cottrell-Boyce is back writing an episode for S10.

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



Matt Lucas is back as a regular for Series 10


Sarah Dollard, Mike Bartlett, and Frank Cotrell Boyce announced as writers.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

The_Doctor posted:

Ugh, Frank 'Forest of the Night' Cottrell-Boyce is back writing an episode for S10.

Oh christ :cripes:. At least if they're taking a writer's room approach someone might be able to shout him down this time.

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



Neddy Seagoon posted:

Oh christ :cripes:. At least if they're taking a writer's room approach someone might be able to shout him down this time.

I think that's starting with Chibnall's run. I think Moffat's sticking to usual format

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

Davros1 posted:

Matt Lucas is back as a regular for Series 10

Wait, who's he ag--

...yeah, okay. I'm fine with that. We should bring back more comedians as their characters from Christmas specials, really.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
Matt Lucas is a regular? I'll be watching The Sensorites, come get me when Chibnall is in charg-I'll be watching The Sensorites, ok?

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

As the same character? Well... okay? Didn't really feel like there's anything to stretch out there.

The_Doctor posted:

Ugh, Frank 'Forest of the Night' Cottrell-Boyce is back writing an episode for S10.

Well I'm hoping that his first episode was just a horrible aberration, since by all accounts the guy is supposed to be a very good writer. I'd be more concerned about Peter Harness returning (is he?) based on his track record with Who so far.

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!

Jerusalem posted:

Well I'm hoping that his first episode was just a horrible aberration, since by all accounts the guy is supposed to be a very good writer. I'd be more concerned about Peter Harness returning (is he?) based on his track record with Who so far.

Once is an accident. Twice is a pattern. Three times?

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

CobiWann posted:

Once is an accident. Twice is a pattern. Three times?

Kill the Moon was stupid, but the Zygon Invasion should've been enough to ensure he was never allowed near a script again. It's the most offensively tone-deaf hot-button of an episode of anything I've seen in a long while.

I swear Steven Moffat co-writing Inversion must have been him jumping in late in the game to try to un-gently caress that trainwreck of a story into something slightly tolerable.

Burkion
May 10, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
I swear to God if we get Franky boy and Peter again on season 10, and Frank doesn't massively improve over his MEDICINE IS BAD STOP TAKING IT IF YOU HEAR VOICES THAT'S JUST THE SPIRIT OF TREES TELLING YOU HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD AND ALSO IF YOU STOP TAKING YOUR MEDICINE AND DO WHAT THEY SAY YOUR MISSING SISTER WHO HAS BEEN GONE FOR A YEAR WILL MAGICALLY RETURN TO YOU BECAUSE FAIRY TAIL DUST IS REAL gently caress YOU bullshit


I might just join JaKiri over at the Sensorites

Toph Bei Fong
Feb 29, 2008



Burkion posted:

I swear to God if we get Franky boy and Peter again on season 10, and Frank doesn't massively improve over his MEDICINE IS BAD STOP TAKING IT IF YOU HEAR VOICES THAT'S JUST THE SPIRIT OF TREES TELLING YOU HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD AND ALSO IF YOU STOP TAKING YOUR MEDICINE AND DO WHAT THEY SAY YOUR MISSING SISTER WHO HAS BEEN GONE FOR A YEAR WILL MAGICALLY RETURN TO YOU BECAUSE FAIRY TAIL DUST IS REAL gently caress YOU bullshit


I might just join JaKiri over at the Sensorites

I quite like the Sensorites. Not the best Hartnell, but it has psychic Susan, a good twist ending, some great Doctor speeches, nice interplay between Ian Barbara and the Doctor... Really not a bad story. Far better than In the Forest of the Night, by any stretch.

jivjov
Sep 13, 2007

But how does it taste? Yummy!
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Burkion posted:

I swear to God if we get Franky boy and Peter again on season 10, and Frank doesn't massively improve over his MEDICINE IS BAD STOP TAKING IT IF YOU HEAR VOICES THAT'S JUST THE SPIRIT OF TREES TELLING YOU HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD AND ALSO IF YOU STOP TAKING YOUR MEDICINE AND DO WHAT THEY SAY YOUR MISSING SISTER WHO HAS BEEN GONE FOR A YEAR WILL MAGICALLY RETURN TO YOU BECAUSE FAIRY TAIL DUST IS REAL gently caress YOU bullshit


I might just join JaKiri over at the Sensorites

I'm still shocked that the BBC or Moffat or anyone didn't issue a statement after that episode and the backlash thereof...

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

jivjov posted:

I'm still shocked that the BBC or Moffat or anyone didn't issue a statement after that episode and the backlash thereof...
There wasn't much of a backlash to that specific bit, to be honest. The episode sure wasn't popular though.

You could fix that bit fairly easily and you'd still have a loving garbage episode.

Stabbatical
Sep 15, 2011

jivjov posted:

I'm still shocked that the BBC or Moffat or anyone didn't issue a statement after that episode and the backlash thereof...

Was there a backlash? Being serious here, I only saw people in this thread complain about the medicine thing.

People I know IRL just thought it was boring and made no sense.

jivjov
Sep 13, 2007

But how does it taste? Yummy!
Dinosaur Gum

Stabbatical posted:

Was there a backlash? Being serious here, I only saw people in this thread complain about the medicine thing.

People I know IRL just thought it was boring and made no sense.

I saw a bit of outcry on other social media outlets, and one of my IRL friends (who is on some mental health medications) said something about it.

It wasn't a huge controversy, by any means...but it was still in horrifyingly bad taste.

The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Let's just all watch the Sensorites.

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DoctorWhat
Nov 18, 2011

A little privacy, please?
I'm of the apparently unique opinion that the meds thing is the ONLY thing wrong (inexcusably wrong, in fact) with Forest. Therefore, I'm cautiously optimistic about FCB's return, as long as he's more careful next time.

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