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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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Jerusalem posted:I always buy download-only because they're so much cheaper, but man Big Finish can do some pretty CD (and album!) covers. And what happens when the apocalypse hits and all that digital media is lost? Physical media will endure forever!
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Sep 17, 2016 01:35
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CobiWann posted:And what happens when the apocalypse hits and all that digital media is lost? Physical media will endure forever! Good luck finding a working CD player after Skynet takes over 
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Sep 17, 2016 01:38
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jivjov posted:Good luck finding a working CD player after Skynet takes over A Trump Presidency. It'll make SkyNet look like HAL 9000.
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Sep 17, 2016 01:47
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CobiWann posted:A Drumpf Presidency. It'll make SkyNet look like HAL 9000. I was trying to stay apolitical...but yeah, you're not wrong. On the bright side, when I flee America's new orange overlord, maybe I'll end up in Britain and start buying Big Finish CDs due to lower postage rates!
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Sep 17, 2016 01:53
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CobiWann posted:And what happens when the apocalypse hits and all that digital media is lost? Physical media will endure forever! Well then the Doctor shows up and helps us overthrow our cruel alien masters, DUH! God what are they even teaching you kids in school nowadays? 
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Sep 17, 2016 02:44
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Jerusalem posted:Well then the Doctor shows up and helps us overthrow our cruel alien masters, DUH! I did graduate from the academy with a triple first!
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Sep 17, 2016 03:31
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So I haven't been following this thread in ages, and I'm not sure the exact spoiler policy here so I'll tag this just in case (casting spoilers are okay, right?), but am I reading right that in the next season there will be two companions, that new girl they've been promoting (Pearl Mackie) and... Matt Lucas reprising his role as Nardol? The baby faced assistant of River Song who got decapitated and had his head stuck on a cyborg last Christmas special. Has, uh, anyone reacted to that news? I tried to go back in the thread to about when that was announced, but I didn't see anyone say anything. I guess it just struck me as so weird that I was looking to see if anyone else was saying "that's weird."
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Sep 17, 2016 04:04
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Eiba posted:So I haven't been following this thread in ages, and I'm not sure the exact spoiler policy here so I'll tag this just in case (casting spoilers are okay, right?), but am I reading right that in the next season there will be two companions, that new girl they've been promoting (Pearl Mackie) and... Matt Lucas reprising his role as Nardol? The baby faced assistant of River Song who got decapitated and had his head stuck on a cyborg last Christmas special. Most of us have become dull to Moffat and his weirdness and are just quietly dreading the year after.
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Sep 17, 2016 04:06
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Eiba posted:So I haven't been following this thread in ages, and I'm not sure the exact spoiler policy here so I'll tag this just in case (casting spoilers are okay, right?), but am I reading right that in the next season there will be two companions, that new girl they've been promoting (Pearl Mackie) and... Matt Lucas reprising his role as Nardol? The baby faced assistant of River Song who got decapitated and had his head stuck on a cyborg last Christmas special. I don't follow news re: the new season beyond what gets posted in this thread, but I'm fairly certain he's appearing in the Christmas Special and that's all. WHY he is even appearing in the Christmas Special considering how his character ended up in the last Christmas Special I do not know. CobiWann posted:I did graduate from the academy with a triple first! I suppose you think we should be impressed by that, too? 
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Sep 17, 2016 04:17
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Jerusalem posted:Well then the Doctor shows up and helps us overthrow our cruel alien masters, DUH!
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Sep 17, 2016 04:19
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Jerusalem posted:I don't follow news re: the new season beyond what gets posted in this thread, but I'm fairly certain he's appearing in the Christmas Special and that's all. Steven Moffat: “Delighted and slightly amazed to be welcoming Matt Lucas back on to the TARDIS – and this time it’s not just for Christmas, he’s sticking around. One of the greatest comedy talents on planet Earth is being unleashed on all of time and space.” (Do I need to spoiler tag this stuff?) Honestly, I'm not really sure this is actually bad or anything. Having more companions in the TARDIS is usually a good thing, and he wasn't a bad character. It's just... really odd considering his last appearance.
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Sep 17, 2016 04:41
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Well in that case... I haven't got a clue! Strikes me as very odd but I guess I'll just have to wait and see what actually happens.LividLiquid posted:Well, who's writing the episode? Because he could just as easily show up and lecture us for not submitting to technology and it'll somehow be both a clumsy allegory for Islamic extremism and not taking your meds. All joking aside, it's Moffat. In general I enjoy his Xmas episodes (The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe a notable exception, that may be one of the worst modern Who episodes of all time) but goddamn what I wouldn't give for a RTD Xmas Special again 
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Sep 17, 2016 06:44
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Listened to the Charlotte Pollard spinoff over the last couple of days. India Fisher knocked it out of the park, as usual...but I give like negative 50 fucks about Viyrans. They were fine as a one-or-two off...but they don't really interest me at all over the span of the box set.
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Sep 19, 2016 02:01
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jivjov posted:Listened to the Charlotte Pollard spinoff over the last couple of days. India Fisher knocked it out of the park, as usual...but I give like negative 50 fucks about Viyrans. They were fine as a one-or-two off...but they don't really interest me at all over the span of the box set. yeah, their mission, taking care of those viruses is kinda interesting, but they're just another emotionless race. surely there's enough of those i'm actually reading the titan comics, starting with the first run of 10 and 11, enjoying them so far.
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Sep 19, 2016 07:39
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The Racnoss are the first to be announced for Classic Doctors, New Monsters 2: https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who---classic-doctors-new-racnoss plus, Neil!
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Sep 19, 2016 12:36
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I had a dream last night, and I can’t decide if it was beautiful or disturbing. Three words. Carry On TARDIS. Sid James was the Doctor and Kenneth Williams was the Cyber Controller.
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Sep 19, 2016 13:40
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CobiWann posted:I had a dream last night, and I can’t decide if it was beautiful or disturbing. This thread goes to weird places during the off-season.
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Sep 19, 2016 13:43
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Davros1 posted:The Racnoss are the first to be announced for Classic Doctors, New Monsters 2: The Racnoss Queen's voice was pretty annoying in the Runaway Bride, hopefully they make it work (and also don't ruin Nigel Planer's performance by making his rasp and smack his lips every 2 seconds).
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Sep 19, 2016 23:03
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Reminder: There will be a DVD of Power before the end of the year!
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Sep 19, 2016 23:20
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Reminder: There will be a DVD of Power before the end of the year! Well, kind of. Speaking of the Power of the Daleks, are we going to try to simul-watch the reconstructions? The episodes are going to be released on day at a time in the UK, but broadcast all at once in the US.
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Sep 20, 2016 00:07
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CobiWann posted:I had a dream last night, and I can’t decide if it was beautiful or disturbing. I assume Barbara Windsor was the companion?
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Sep 20, 2016 00:23
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My girlfriend and her mom are watching Call The Midwife, which really reminds me of RTD era Doctor Who for some reason. I keep expecting David Tennant to pop out of the TARDIS as a sassy nun is delivering a baby.
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Sep 20, 2016 03:53
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BSam posted:yeah, their mission, taking care of those viruses is kinda interesting, but they're just another emotionless race. surely there's enough of those I've yet to bother with that series, because I think the entire time I'd be waiting for her to FINALLY find the 8th Doctor, as that should be her quest, and I know she never will. 
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Sep 20, 2016 04:10
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Astroman posted:I've yet to bother with that series, because I think the entire time I'd be waiting for her to FINALLY find the 8th Doctor, as that should be her quest, and I know she never will. She should be in one of the War Doctor box-sets constantly complaining that he is NOT the Doctor while he exasperatedly agrees.
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Sep 20, 2016 04:21
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I mentioned the Titan comics, I'm really enjoying them. Eleven and his companion seem to have picked up a fictional version of David Bowie. The writers are having a lot of fun with this. "these are mind controlled jetpacks, just think 'legal library' and they will take us there" "wow it's working, how about you john jones" "i think my spaceship knows which way to go"
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Sep 20, 2016 08:27
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Astroman posted:I've yet to bother with that series, because I think the entire time I'd be waiting for her to FINALLY find the 8th Doctor, as that should be her quest, and I know she never will. She believes the Doctor to be dead though, so why would she go looking for him?
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Sep 20, 2016 12:33
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BSam posted:I mentioned the Titan comics, I'm really enjoying them. Eleven and his companion seem to have picked up a fictional version of David Bowie. I'm a few issues behind but this series is extremely satisfying. The poo poo with Alice and the Time War - and the Master hanging out with the War Doctor, and all the stuff with the weird degenerate Daleks pulled me right back in when I thought it was losing me.
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Sep 20, 2016 15:07
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Finally got a chance to listen to an audio for the first time in forever. I got to listen to "Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge". I admit I actually didn't get that it's a Cthulhu homage until I got to the part with the author. Overall it was a pretty good story, a couple rolling R's from McCoy as well.
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Sep 21, 2016 04:58
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Heads up people who don't have jobs to go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/writing_doctor_who_30sept16 quote:BBC Writersroom presents Writing Doctor Who
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Sep 21, 2016 09:52
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Moffat: So we write our first draft many months before the episode goes to air... RTD (in audience furiously scribbling): Why didn't I think of that!?!
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Sep 21, 2016 10:14
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Moffat: So we write our first draft many months before the episode goes to air and then I don't bother looking at it again because I'm too busy sleeping with all the female staff and pissing away the budget on hiring my mates... RTD (in audience furiously scribbling): I just wrote a better character in 30 seconds than Mo's managed in 6 seasons.
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Sep 21, 2016 11:11
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RTD: The character looks like a Silurian but that's racist because it's blue and is a Tilurian from the planet Rapadapadoopawoopalapparangadingadongboo. Rup. Moffat: Rup? RTD: Rup. Edit: All joking aside man I'd love to see RTD write an episode of Doctor Who again, especially since (opposite to Moffat) allegedly most of his writing issues came down to putting so much more time into running the actual production side of things.
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Sep 21, 2016 11:40
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Cerv posted:Heads up people who don't have jobs to go to Who also live in London
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Sep 21, 2016 12:37
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Jerusalem posted:Moffat: So we write our first draft many months before the episode goes to air... RTD's not the one who made the Doctor the Witch and the Wardrobe or whatever it was called.
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Sep 21, 2016 18:33
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Cerv posted:Heads up people who don't have jobs to go to Someome should go and ask him how many people he's erased from Doctor Who during his tenure.
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Sep 21, 2016 18:36
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Who also live in London Wait, there are people in England who DON'T live in London?!?
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Sep 21, 2016 21:00
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There are even people in the UK who don't live in England.
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Sep 21, 2016 21:49
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We don't like to talk about those people.
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Sep 21, 2016 21:52
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Lottery of Babylon posted:RTD's not the one who made the Doctor the Witch and the Wardrobe or whatever it was called. He did make Planet of the Dead though! This is NOT a defense of The Doctor, the Witch and the Wardrobe by the way, because holy shiiiiit that episode 
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Sep 21, 2016 22:16
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Jerusalem posted:Edit: All joking aside man I'd love to see RTD write an episode of Doctor Who again, especially since (opposite to Moffat) allegedly most of his writing issues came down to putting so much more time into running the actual production side of things. If I'm remembering The Writer's Tale correctly (gosh, it's been years, I really should re-read it), Davies' issue is that he'd come up with some big idea for a story and just write it on the fly without having any idea of a beginning, middle or end, just that he wanted to have one huge beat in the episode. So he never really broke a story, he just went stream-of-consciousness and called it done.
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