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Bicyclops posted:Man, I get the writing was a little all over the place for her at times, but this is just flat out wrong. We agree to disagree.
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 15:33 |
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# ? May 8, 2024 06:35 |
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Watching someone who has to rapidly switch between being playfully curious, weeping with grief, shouting furiously, and basically just being Matt Smith: dang, this girl is cardboard!!
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 15:37 |
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Bicyclops posted:Watching someone who has to rapidly switch between being playfully curious, weeping with grief, shouting furiously, and basically just being Matt Smith: dang, this girl is cardboard!! We see different things. Anyway this risks getting cyclical, so I'll leave it there
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 17:11 |
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Not sure how a plank of wood could say one thing - just - one thing.
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 17:14 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPaveQftN2I In which Steven Moffat introduces Episode 2 "Smile" and says what some of the episode is going to be focusing on
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 19:19 |
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So I've just hit the 6th series of the Jago and Litefoot audio series, and I have a bit of a...continuity question. Jago in particular (though Litefoot mentions it too) talks about their trips to Venus, Colonial America, and the 60s all feel like a dream, and he can't remember it well. Is this plot-relevant? Or just an effort to reset J&L to a status quo and not have them talk about future stuff?
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 19:56 |
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jivjov posted:So I've just hit the 6th series of the Jago and Litefoot audio series, and I have a bit of a...continuity question. Jago in particular (though Litefoot mentions it too) talks about their trips to Venus, Colonial America, and the 60s all feel like a dream, and he can't remember it well. Is this plot-relevant? Or just an effort to reset J&L to a status quo and not have them talk about future stuff? If I recall correctly, they started to lose the memory of those trips pretty much immediately.. Don't know really if that needs to be spoilered, but there ya go.
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 20:59 |
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McGann posted:If I recall correctly, they started to lose the memory of those trips pretty much immediately.. Don't know really if that needs to be spoilered, but there ya go. Well yeah, that's what I mentioned. I'm just curious if that is plot relevant, or just fortuitous happenstance to return J&L to their status quo.
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 21:05 |
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jivjov posted:Well yeah, that's what I mentioned. I'm just curious if that is plot relevant, or just fortuitous happenstance to return J&L to their status quo. Ah, sorry, at work so I don't think I am firing on all cylinders. Being caught up with J&L I'm pretty sure it's just a status quo reset unless I'm forgetting something obvious I missed. I just meant they only mention it periodically as a "well I have hazy memory of this thing happening maybe...ANYWAY on with the plot"
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 21:51 |
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Makes sense. It's lazy; but probably necessary.
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 22:17 |
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Bicyclops posted:I think it was just supposed to indicate to us, the audience, definitively, that the Doctor is the reason the photographs of her mom resurfaced, and let us know that Bill is starting to suspect there's something going on with her "tutor." It also sort of helps to establish that the Doctor is developing a soft spot for Bill, which works towards the episode's ending. Well yes, that is right front and centre in the episode. Just as it is explicit that Bill notices that her tutor knew her mum but then never mentions it.
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 23:06 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdwXMAiM_ug In which Peter and Pearl introduce you to "Smile" "Never trust a friendly robot" Boy, that's one heck of a "screw you" to poor ol' K9, isn't it?
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# ? Apr 20, 2017 15:06 |
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Vinylshadow posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdwXMAiM_ug To be fair K9 laser blasted shitloads of people
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# ? Apr 20, 2017 20:28 |
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And was supposed to have been evil what Twice?
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# ? Apr 20, 2017 20:34 |
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Burkion posted:And was supposed to have been evil what Insufficient data.
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# ? Apr 20, 2017 21:23 |
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10th Doctor: Ah well, dogs. That's different....
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# ? Apr 20, 2017 22:50 |
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CobiWann posted:Insufficient data. Yeah well you never loving know the answer when it's important. Flight Bisque fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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Jerusalem posted:10th Doctor: Ah well, dogs. That's different.... Welllll, I say 'different', more like people are more forgiving, but wook at that tin muzzle! Alons-y!
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# ? Apr 20, 2017 23:15 |
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So with the broadcast of The Pilot as the Spring special, how long do we have to wait for the next episode?
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# ? Apr 21, 2017 11:36 |
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CobiWann posted:So with the broadcast of The Pilot as the Spring special, how long do we have to wait for the next episode? Roiland and Harmon just say 'Summer '17'.
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# ? Apr 21, 2017 11:38 |
22 April 2017
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# ? Apr 21, 2017 12:09 |
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Every time they really make use of that set, it's fabulous. I've noticed a lot of people (Americans) complaining about not being able to understand Bill, which is a bit surprising?
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# ? Apr 21, 2017 12:20 |
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When she was talking really fast during the interview it was a bit tough, yeah.
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# ? Apr 21, 2017 12:30 |
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echoplex posted:I've noticed a lot of people (Americans) complaining about not being able to understand Bill, which is a bit surprising? There was a line or two that I had to rewind to catch, but that's less because of her accent and more because of the line catching me off-guard.
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# ? Apr 21, 2017 12:34 |
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echoplex posted:I've noticed a lot of people (Americans) complaining about not being able to understand Bill, which is a bit surprising? There's a not-insignificant part of the population that thinks Daniel Craig is calling M "mom" in his James Bond movies, so...
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# ? Apr 21, 2017 14:15 |
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The_Doctor posted:Roiland and Harmon just say 'Summer '17'. The crossover for that show and Who should not surprise me in the least, since it's basically "what if real life Tom Baker was The Doctor" Yup, Tom Baker is Rick Sanchez
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# ? Apr 21, 2017 16:56 |
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Timby posted:There's a not-insignificant part of the population that thinks Daniel Craig is calling M "mom" in his James Bond movies, so... A movie review podcast I love spent a solid 20 minutes discussing the symbolism of that, and I was tearing my hair out the whole time.
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# ? Apr 21, 2017 17:59 |
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echoplex posted:Every time they really make use of that set, it's fabulous. This might very well be my favorite shot in the history of the show.
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# ? Apr 21, 2017 18:21 |
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I posted the 60 seconds of them going in from the office to the end of that GIF on my Twitter earlier, I really do think those scenes show off the best of what DW is capable of. All the sets are beautiful (of course), but the directing, writing, camera, sound (lovely ambient noise in there) AND costume (notice the change of coat) are all superb, and Peter and Pearl just nail it (particularly Peter saying nothing at all, that's the best Capaldi). It's so nice when a show pulls something like that off, you can read so many promising scripts and for whatever myriad reason it doesn't come together... this scene really worked.
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Yeah, it was a great scene and part of what makes it so great for me is that there is nothing surprising or even all that new about it - everybody knew exactly what we were going to see/what was going to happen and then that's exactly what they showed. They didn't shake things up or twist things around, they just did that shot really, really, really loving well and made it look amazing.
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# ? Apr 22, 2017 01:49 |
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah, it was a great scene and part of what makes it so great for me is that there is nothing surprising or even all that new about it - everybody knew exactly what we were going to see/what was going to happen and then that's exactly what they showed. They didn't shake things up or twist things around, they just did that shot really, really, really loving well and made it look amazing. There's times when the characters in the show feel like they're speaking to the audience as much as they're speaking to other characters. So Twelve is telling the audience about the TARDIS just as much as he's telling Bill; sure, veteran viewers may be a bit tired of that, but the visuals help lessen the sting.
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Vinylshadow posted:They designed the episode to be a new jumping on point (to the point they changed the episode title from "A Star In Her Eye" to "The Pilot" as in a Pilot Episode), which makes me wonder what a completely new watcher was thinking during that scene.
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# ? Apr 22, 2017 05:12 |
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Lampsacus posted:Yeah in a way the tv show is simply the entrance into the wormhole of fandom. So cosplay, audiobooks, classic series, youtube/tumblr community membership. It's great. There's a TV show?
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# ? Apr 22, 2017 06:06 |
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I don't agree with it all, but interesting view: http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who/38645/doctor-who-looking-back-at-chris-chibnalls-episodes
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# ? Apr 22, 2017 07:21 |
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ewe2 posted:I don't agree with it all, but interesting view: It's difficult to get a handle on Chibnail. His first Who story and Torchwood were totally execrable, and the Silurian two-parter was just as bad, but I quite liked both his Series 7 stories (I believe I'm in the minority there). The pacing feels on on the Power of Three and Dinorsaurs on a Spaceship has some tonal issues, but they're probably my two favorites from that half-season (again, a low bar).
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# ? Apr 22, 2017 07:33 |
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Vinylshadow posted:They designed the episode to be a new jumping on point I do have to say I think they succeeded pretty drat well, I think it's the best jumping on point since Eleventh Hour.
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# ? Apr 22, 2017 11:21 |
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I wonder if there's any particular reason or reasons why this one seemed to be such a clean start? Has it been written about in a magazine or interview anywhere?
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# ? Apr 22, 2017 13:33 |
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Stabbatical posted:I wonder if there's any particular reason or reasons why this one seemed to be such a clean start? Has it been written about in a magazine or interview anywhere? It has been like 2 years since the last series.
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# ? Apr 22, 2017 15:11 |
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Stabbatical posted:I wonder if there's any particular reason or reasons why this one seemed to be such a clean start? Has it been written about in a magazine or interview anywhere? But that's just my assumption and is by no means 100% accurate I love how much the Doctor's hair has changed over three Series (Series 10 and 9 respectively)
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# ? Apr 22, 2017 17:06 |
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Hell his hair changed over the course of an episode, just look at Flatline. It goes from wild outside to close cropped in the siege TARDIS scenes.
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