Tie-breaker for serial you'd most like to find an episode from This poll is closed. |
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The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve | 33 | 44.59% | |
The Highlanders | 41 | 55.41% | |
Total: | 74 votes |
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After The War posted:And while we're at it, is anyone else wondering if Sideburn Guy in the first picture is Douglas Adams? Possibly, but he doesn't look tall enough.
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 14:54 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 17:09 |
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The_Doctor posted:Possibly, but he doesn't look tall enough. I know, but I want it to be true! Besides, he's bending over and our main comparison for size is the also-gigantic (if not quite as tall) Tom Baker. For reference, I'm more like mini-Doctors Patrick and Sylvester, so they're all equal Godzilla height to me.
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 15:32 |
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Toby Jones for doctor
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 16:00 |
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After The War posted:I know, but I want it to be true! Besides, he's bending over and our main comparison for size is the also-gigantic (if not quite as tall) Tom Baker. McGann counts as a mini-Doctor too! He's only a couple of inches taller than McCoy and half an inch on Troughton, he just doesn't look that short.
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 16:10 |
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Astroman posted:A really young Doctor might even have fallen in love with the show right away with Eccleston or even Tennant! It will bear watching. You could be in your thirties and have this apply to you, as you'd have grown up in the long stretch of time when Doctor Who wasn't really a thing. In fact, this could realistically have applied to Matt Smith in 2009, and that's eight years ago now.
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 18:01 |
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The_Doctor posted:McGann counts as a mini-Doctor too! He's only a couple of inches taller than McCoy and half an inch on Troughton, he just doesn't look that short. I know, I was ready to list him too until I saw that he's definitely taller than me.
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 18:06 |
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I'm 35, Canadian, and the original series wasn't on in any reasonably accessible way for me when I was a kid. It was on, but I didn't know anyone who watched it, and so I was always confused by what was happening and why it was black and white sometimes, and why it was in colour others, and why the same people never seemed to be on. I didn't get into the new series at first because it was recommended to me by someone with exquisitely bad taste, though I saw the end of Waters of Mars at a friend's house and thought it was decent. I didn't get into the series in any focused way until I was invited to a 50th anniversary ep party, which I accepted because of the woman who invited me, not because of the show. So really, John Hurt was my first Doctor. I didn't realize this until now.
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 18:11 |
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Astroman posted:As Tennant and RTD scripted into Time Crash, Tennant's was Davison. Moffat wrote "Time Crash". vegetables posted:You could be in your thirties and have this apply to you, as you'd have grown up in the long stretch of time when Doctor Who wasn't really a thing. In fact, this could realistically have applied to Matt Smith in 2009, and that's eight years ago now. Sure, Colin Baker was a big fan of the show before he was cast, having discovered it as a young law student in the 1960s.
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:50 |
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They're going to cast Peter Cushing (again!), his recent appearance in Rogue One has revitalized a career that seemed to have ended almost quarter of a century ago.
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 23:17 |
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Jerusalem posted:They're going to cast Peter Cushing (again!), his recent appearance in Rogue One has revitalized a career that seemed to have ended almost quarter of a century ago. You know what if Doctor Who got another movie, this is exactly what should happen
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 23:25 |
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Where's that fan trailer for the Daleks/Mechanoids movie?
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 00:13 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:Moffat wrote "Time Crash". True, but I'm pretty sure the "Your were my Doctor" speech was written specifically for Tennant and 5 literally was his Doctor. Moffat is older, and is more likely to be a T Baker man. Maybe even Pertwee. Wheat Loaf posted:Sure, Colin Baker was a big fan of the show before he was cast, having discovered it as a young law student in the 1960s. Now that I think of it, didn't he originally want to play the Doctor as more gruff like Hartnell? Or am I just misremembering?
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 02:23 |
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Astroman posted:True, but I'm pretty sure the "Your were my Doctor" speech was written specifically for Tennant and 5 literally was his Doctor. Moffat is older, and is more likely to be a T Baker man. Maybe even Pertwee. He's a Peter Davison man. In the nineties he even said that everything else was poo poo.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 09:49 |
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Which is utterly rich coming from him.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 09:51 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:He's a Peter Davison man. In the nineties he even said that everything else was poo poo. https://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/steven-moffat-1985/ quote:Q: How many of the New Adventures have you read? He has since admitted that yes, he sounds like a gigantic pompous prat; but suddenly it makes a lot more sense how he could be moved to bellow "YOU ARE ERASED FROM DOCTOR WHO" at people in public. Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Feb 20, 2017 |
# ? Feb 20, 2017 12:20 |
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To be fair didn't he do a later interview where he basically said,"God what a stupid loving thing to say?" re: badmouthing everybody before Davison?
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 12:27 |
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Moffat's wording in that interview is harsh and really disrespectful towards people who apparently did a good and inspiring enough job that he can make a living based on their effort over 50 years later. But he's not wrong.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 13:49 |
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Jerusalem posted:To be fair didn't he do a later interview where he basically said,"God what a stupid loving thing to say?" re: badmouthing everybody before Davison? IIRC, some people have argued that he was drunk during that interview too. Mostly, though, it just comes off as someone being an edgelord back then, versus being overly congratulatory of the show now because he's involved with it. Without wanting to slip into the golden means fallacy, I don't find either position particularly sympathetic.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 13:56 |
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It's a good thing I will most likely never hold any position of influence over Doctor Who, some of the things I've posted here would probably haunt me to my grave
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 14:01 |
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Forktoss posted:It's a good thing I will most likely never hold any position of influence over Doctor Who, some of the things I've posted here would probably haunt me to my grave Head of BBC Drama: Why should we hire you, considering some of these things we've found in your post history? Forktoss: If you don't hire me you have to hire Ian Levine Head of BBC Drama: Uhhh actually you don't get to dictate our opti- Moffat: We can't risk it, welcome aboard Fortktoss!
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 14:08 |
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What terrors would we see from an Ian Levine-ran series, though?
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 14:22 |
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FreezingInferno posted:What terrors would we see from an Ian Levine-ran series, though? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ONXNSufZ4
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 14:31 |
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 14:32 |
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FreezingInferno posted:What terrors would we see from an Ian Levine-ran series, though? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4650h76xLk
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 14:34 |
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FreezingInferno posted:What terrors would we see from an Ian Levine-ran series, though?
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 14:39 |
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FreezingInferno posted:What terrors would we see from an Ian Levine-ran series, though? UNIT dating would finally be explained.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 15:03 |
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Fil5000 posted:UNIT dating would finally be explained. Benton and Liz Shaw went out briefly and Mike Yates had a brief tryst with a young private.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 15:12 |
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I will never, ever, ever get bored of pointing out that the music for this comes courtesy of one Hans Zimmer (of Going for Gold theme tune fame) and his brand spanking new Fairlight Series II.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 16:28 |
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Attitude Indicator posted:Moffat's wording in that interview is harsh and really disrespectful towards people who apparently did a good and inspiring enough job that he can make a living based on their effort over 50 years later. But he's not wrong. Apart from being totally wrong. You can't look at things like Power, or Spearhead from Space, or The Robots of Death and say "Man everyone involved is poo poo aren't they"
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 19:39 |
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In the same way we see a bad episode of modern Who, but our own good boy echoplex did sterling work on it. To tar everyone with the same brush is incredibly disingenuous.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 19:42 |
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The_Doctor posted:In the same way we see a bad episode of modern Who, but our own good boy echoplex did sterling work on it. To tar everyone with the same brush is incredibly disingenuous. You have to be incredibly myopic.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 19:47 |
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FreezingInferno posted:What terrors would we see from an Ian Levine-ran series, though? Doctor quits time travelling full-time and retires to Blackpool in the 1970s, where he becomes infatuated with a certain northern soul DJ at the Mecca.
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 20:30 |
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As far as that Moffat interview goes, were the episodes he was slagging off available widely on home video at the time? Was he going from 10-20 year old memories of the show or would he have been able to go home, pop a tape in the VHS recorder and go, "Yep, that's a bit rubbish."
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# ? Feb 20, 2017 20:34 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:As far as that Moffat interview goes, were the episodes he was slagging off available widely on home video at the time? Yes (Well, clearly not all of them - but in 1995 you could have copies of, among others, Talons, Genesis, Tomb, The Azteks, The Robots of Death, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The War Games, The Time Warrior, The Ark in Space, Spearhead from Space, Pyramids of Mars, Brain of Morbius, etc etc etc) MrL_JaKiri fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Feb 20, 2017 |
# ? Feb 20, 2017 20:47 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:Doctor quits time travelling full-time and retires to Blackpool in the 1970s, where he becomes infatuated with a certain northern soul DJ at the Mecca. "Do you know what the sad part is, Doctor? I'm a very good Northern Soul DJ..."
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 01:52 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Yes Yeah, I remember borrowing a bunch of those specific ones from the library when I was growing up. Or taping them from ABC reruns at 4:30AM or whatever.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 04:44 |
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I had an enormous collection of DW episodes I'd taped off PBS. Every Christmas and Birthday my dad would buy me a few packs of VHS tapes so I didn't have to record over anything. I hung onto them for years despite starting to collect the DVDs.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 04:48 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Yes 1995 my family got Sky TV for the first time. A channel called UK Gold showed Doctor Who repeats in a block on a Sunday morning. There would usually be an episode of Blakes 7 or the Survivors then they'd run a serial all the way through and next week you'd get the next serial. When they ran out, back to the start. I believe they showed everything available up to the TV Movie. I used to get up early so I could catch it all, hell of a step up from the odd VHS serials I had before that. So even the serials that weren't on VHS could be viewed.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 09:30 |
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If you're going to claim that only one Doctor has any stories worth watching I'd think you'd want to do it with Tom Baker instead of Peter Davison given the amount of absolute garbage Davison got.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 09:44 |
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EdBlackadder posted:1995 my family got Sky TV for the first time. A channel called UK Gold showed Doctor Who repeats in a block on a Sunday morning. There would usually be an episode of Blakes 7 or the Survivors then they'd run a serial all the way through and next week you'd get the next serial. When they ran out, back to the start. I believe they showed everything available up to the TV Movie. I used to get up early so I could catch it all, hell of a step up from the odd VHS serials I had before that. I'm pretty sure BBC2 also used to run everything from Pertwee to Colin Baker in the mid to late 90s. I think it was sunday mornings, but I don't quite recall. I'm nearly 100% sure they never showed any McCoy, as I was waiting for it but it never arrived. Edit: Apparently it was early 90s, wasn't at lunchtime at all, DID include some McCoy and wasn't a full run at all, just serials chosen seemingly at random. http://gallifreybase.com/w/index.php/Airdates_in_the_UK_(BBC_repeats) Starts at row 111. Fil5000 fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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