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The_Doctor posted:I keep coming back to the fact that the Doctor just walked away from an innocent man being left to die. I love that the super hero super dude shows up on the scene, the Doctor knows who he is, knows that these aliens are bad news and that they've done terrible things that he has personally witnessed, and they just leave despite being able to take care of the problem right then and there. It wasn't even like the baby monitor went off during the scene and that's what led the Doctor to following him- they just all collectively decide that taking care of the evil alien murderers wasn't important what so ever, so they didn't even bother.
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CobiWann posted:Having to search Tumblr for GIFS 
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Dec 30, 2016 21:21
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Been listening to the new Colin story "Absolute Power", and am genuinely blown away by the score. Then I find out the composer did the scores to "Jack Reacher" and "Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation".
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Dec 30, 2016 22:51
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Davros1 posted:Been listening to the new Colin story "Absolute Power", and am genuinely blown away by the score. Then I find out the composer did the scores to "Jack Reacher" and "Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation". Goddamn, I'd be surprised if the TV show got a composer like that, let alone Big Finish!
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Dec 30, 2016 23:01
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The author of Flip Flop is tweeting a commentary of it at the moment. I was particularly struck by this bit: https://twitter.com/jonnymorris1973/status/814942289881612291 I agree with the thread in general that it comes out murky at best, but it's nice to know what the intent was.
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Dec 30, 2016 23:07
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So what's the difference between The Daily Mail and The Sun?
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Dec 30, 2016 23:26
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There are a lot more literal tits in 'the Sun'.
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Dec 30, 2016 23:31
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Fil5000 posted:The author of Flip Flop is tweeting a commentary of it at the moment. I was particularly struck by this bit: I thought it would be amusing to have villains that were hideous racist stereotypes right out of neo-nazis' wildest fever dreams of sharia persecution? Different standards of 'amusing' I suppose.
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Dec 30, 2016 23:34
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CobiWann posted:So what's the difference between The Daily Mail and The Sun? The Sun is more downmarket, but in some respects, it is better than the Mail. The Sun is aware of what kind of paper it is, and if nothing else, it makes complicated issues accessible (that it puts a very particular slant on said issues is indisputable but, in my view, a separate matter entirely - the Daily Mirror does the same thing from a more left-wing perspective), whereas the Mail has this sort of self-importance that makes it doubly insufferable. I'm not sure what the American equivalent would be. I suppose the Mail is Fox News in the sense that it has a very thin veneer of respectability born out of tradition, whereas the Sun is low-rent talk radio. Anyway, "Flip-Flop". I thought it had a clever concept with the thing about being able to listen to either side/disc first. It's a bit of a novelty.
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Dec 30, 2016 23:36
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The sun is, in general, a horrible rag intended for consumption by the working class. The mail is a horrible rag intended for consumption by the middle class. The latter prefers dog whistle racism and xenophobia, the former has previously run a front cover with the words "Up Yours Delors" with a picture of a hand flicking the Vs (in reference to Jacques Delors, then president of the European Commission). The mail would still happily use the term "coloureds" and doesn't see why that should cause any offense.
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Dec 30, 2016 23:40
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Fil5000 posted:The author of Flip Flop is tweeting a commentary of it at the moment. I was particularly struck by this bit: When I first read that I thought that he was indicating that there should be a story in which the villains are unscrupulous journalists and publishers.
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Dec 30, 2016 23:51
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Fil5000 posted:the former has previously run a front cover with the words "Up Yours Delors" with a picture of a hand flicking the Vs (in reference to Jacques Delors, then president of the European Commission). I'm sure Tony Benn would have concurred. 
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Dec 30, 2016 23:58
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Wheat Loaf posted:I'm sure Tony Benn would have concurred. Tony Benn references should of course be saved for whatever thread we have discussing Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye.
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Dec 31, 2016 00:24
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jesus christ it only takes 10 minutes for flip-flop to get to the horrible dogwhistle racism this is awful e: and now they're trying to get rid of christmas. what the gently caress cargohills fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Dec 31, 2016 |
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Fil5000 posted:Tony Benn references should of course be saved for whatever thread we have discussing Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye. That'd be the Transformers Megathread in BSS.
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Dec 31, 2016 01:29
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DoctorWhat posted:That'd be the Transformers Megathread in BSS.
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cargohills posted:jesus christ it only takes 10 minutes for flip-flop to get to the horrible dogwhistle racism The other half of Flip-Flop (set in the world without the slithergees) is genuinely very good. It would take almost nothing to rewrite the story to make it significantly less racist and one of the best Big Finish releases. It's not at all necessary to the alternate timelines part of the story.
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Dec 31, 2016 03:18
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Hello from the far off year of 2017! 
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The_Doctor posted:Hello from the far off year of 2017! http://i.imgur.com/sQQGMT4.gifv
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The_Doctor posted:Hello from the far off year of 2017! How does the future look?
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Jan 1, 2017 05:55
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CobiWann posted:How does the future look? Ah-ah-ah, ~Spoilers!~ 
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CobiWann posted:How does the future look? In 2020 the Presidential election is between: A. A candidate with decades of experience who may or may not have forgotten to like a Game of Thrones facebook status update that went viral in mid-2019. B. The Dalek Race, which is running on a platform of screeching they will exterminate all life on the planet. Polling has the candidates' unfavorables roughly level.
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Jan 1, 2017 06:14
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Ah-ah-ah, ~Spoilers!~ More River Song episodes? NOOOOOOOOO! (Her new audio stories are actually pretty great.)
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Jan 1, 2017 06:34
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Jerusalem posted:In 2020 the Presidential election is between: Wow, calling them Daleks. The Pepperpot Party are running on a message we so rarely see in politics: one of honesty and straightforwardness. Their opponent straight up lied about liking that status, I don't even like GOT but that dishonesty cannot be forgiven.
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Jan 1, 2017 09:53
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I don't care what any of you say, Mavic Chen has my vote.
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Jan 1, 2017 11:52
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CobiWann posted:How does the future look? Oh it's a new year. I don't like it.
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Linear Zoetrope posted:Wow, calling them Daleks. The Pepperpot Party are running on a message we so rarely see in politics: one of honesty and straightforwardness. Their opponent straight up lied about liking that status, I don't even like GOT but that dishonesty cannot be forgiven. I think you will find they are the Handi-Capable Kaled Party, thank you very much you slurring bigot.
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Jan 1, 2017 13:04
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While BF have yet to announce any further War Doctor sets, they did announce they're doing adaptations of six H.G. Wells stories, the first being "The Invisible Man" starring John Hurt. So hopefully this bodes well for him coming back to do more Who stories. https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/hg-wells-comes-to-big-finish
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Jan 1, 2017 14:45
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BSam posted:Oh it's a new year. Doctor: Ah, Bsam!! Congratulations, you are today's lucky winner! Ace, tell the man what he's won. Ace: A complete set of explanations for the Professor here! And you have no idea what a rare and precious thing that is...
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Jan 1, 2017 15:08
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Bicyclops posted:I finally saw the episode - I found Nice Guy Superman's entire plot to be kind of annoying, but I actually really like Matt Lucas as a companion. He's just weird enough without feeling like an extension of the Doctor's weirdness, and I think he'll work even better with another companion on board. Yeah, I thought that was weird too. Like, he's been pining for her for 24 years, watched his best friend marry her and leave her, and now he works full time as the nanny to her child while trying to date her disguised as another person. That isn't romantic, that's sort of really weird, or at least they don't sell that this relationship is genuine beyond her having a, "oh my gosh, I'm such a selfish fool for not falling in love with Grant after how Nice he's been for so long!" moment in the middle. Wasn't a fan of Matt Lucas. Liked him last year, but didn't feel he really distinguished himself in this.
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Jan 1, 2017 17:30
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On the whole, a really mediocre episode. Background noise. I thought it was a fun romp to start with but the instant it gets bogged down in the Grant/Lucy secret identity drama it dies in a ditch and never recovers. Also, the Doctor's plan to stop the elaborately exploding and locked down alien spaceship being just "press buttons at random and see what happens" is very, very weak writing.
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Jan 1, 2017 17:37
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He was told that pressing anything would initiate the strike and inferred that it would be bad for the aliens if he did it too early since they didn't have Grant under control at that point.
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Jan 1, 2017 17:43
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He asked why they haven't done it already and they said "we'll do it when the time is right" and he said "ah, so you mean the time is NOT right now"
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Jan 1, 2017 17:54
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Tangentially related to Who, but goddamn was the new episode of Sherlock good. I guess that's what happens when you only have to make 3 (long) episodes a year 
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Jan 2, 2017 03:16
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*Every 3 years
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Jan 2, 2017 03:28
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2house2fly posted:*Every 3 years If it keeps the two leads coming back despite their enormous worldwide success in film and television then I can't really complain too much 
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Jan 2, 2017 03:34
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Linear Zoetrope posted:Wow, calling them Daleks. The Pepperpot Party are running on a message we so rarely see in politics: one of honesty and straightforwardness. Their opponent straight up lied about liking that status, I don't even like GOT but that dishonesty cannot be forgiven. THE DO YOU NOT WANT TEA PAR-TY IS A GRASS-ROOTS CAM-PAIGN! THE A-MER-I-CAN EM-PIRE WILL NOT BE UND-ER-MINED BY SOC-IAL ME-DI-A FAL-A-CIES! THE PUR-I-TY OF THE PAR-TY'S GEE-OH-TEE O-PIN-IONS WILL BE RIG-OR-OUS-LY EN-FORCED!
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Jan 2, 2017 07:35
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DRAIN THE GEY-SER SWAAAMP
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Jan 2, 2017 08:27
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https://twitter.com/realDavrosTrump/status/803888332447027200
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Oh! Forgot about Sherlock. Well that's tonight sorted.
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