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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/iplayer-login-tv-licence-fee-dodging/quote:E-mail addresses used to login to the iPlayer will be matched with records kept by TV Licensing to see if individuals are dodging the £145.50 fee to watch content, the BBC said. However, people still pay their telly licence in a variety of ways, including via debit or credit card over the phone, by post, or over-the-counter. This might be relevant for a number of viewers.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Some other names who have recently come up include Luke Treadaway (who was in A Street Cat Named Bob) and Sacha Dhawan (who already has a connection to Doctor Who - he played Waris Hussein, the programme's very first director, in An Adventure In Space and Time). Either could be interesting. I dunno nothin' bout Treadaway, though he seems very "Tennant Clone" and looks very young. Though after Smith, Tennant, and Davison I should learn to not bitch about that (so long as they aren't 22). Dhawan was very solid in Adventure in Space and Time so I'd lean towards wanting him. More interesting is how will the Doctor be played? We had young and exuberant with Tennant, and they started that way with Smith but then he rapidly moved towards the characterization of "Old, Worldy Man In Young Man's Body" and doubled down on it as the years went by. Capaldi is very old and curmudgeonly. I'd like to see someone who doesn't have a chip on his shoulder either way, not being old and grumpy or trying to hard to be young and zany. Maybe a solid action guy like Pertwee or Eccleston. Or more avuncular like The Bakers. I think I could do for once without some overall mystery for the whole season. Do we really need some arc which is dribbled out over 10 episodes with "SUPER SECRET HINTS" AND "MYSTERIOUS PERSONS IN THE SHADOWS"? How about just The Doctor running around exploring and blowing up dictators and fighting/saving monsters at random? The big mystery arcs were very RTD and Moffat, so perhaps Chibnall will do something different, though perhaps not since Broadchurch was basically That: The Series.
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How about we flip the script and make it Idris Elba. He can be a very serious Doctor.
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May 13, 2017 19:28
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"What if you're wrong?" "Then we'll be horribly murdered!"
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May 13, 2017 19:32
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"Capitalism. In space!" Like the opening line and then the little bit about door sounds. Funny and not too on the nose.
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May 13, 2017 19:34
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The blue guy in the movie always dies, typical 
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May 13, 2017 19:47
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That was really loving good, I'm starting to get worried that we're gonna have to get a lovely episode eventually because I'm starting to take it for granted that they'll all be this good.
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I agree, that was a really fun episode and now wondering when poo poo is gonna go wrong. Also, jokes about BBC left wing bias will be broken out I'm sure. I'm all for some space communism in my sci-fi, there's only so many Culture novels.
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May 13, 2017 20:10
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The twist was rather crap, though.
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TinTower posted:The twist was rather crap, though. Well of course you would think that 
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May 13, 2017 20:16
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They've had a pretty good streak of consistent episodes so far - I don't know if I enjoyed this one as much as last week's (because this week didn't have David Suchet) but it was still very good. The zombies were pretty creepy.
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hanales posted:How about we flip the script and make it Idris Elba. He can be a very serious Doctor. Look I don't ask for much in life, I just want Idris Elba to simultaneously be James Bond AND Doctor Who. Also he can keep making Luther if he wants.
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May 13, 2017 20:21
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TinTower posted:The twist was rather crap, though. I thought it was Cybermen when the suits were doing the characteristic march in time that the Cybermen have done in the revival. I think that would have been a worse twist...
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May 13, 2017 20:22
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Well of course you would think that I'm talking about the last line of the episode.
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TinTower posted:I'm talking about the last line of the episode. Yeah, that was badly written. It was like something out of Darkplace.
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May 13, 2017 20:41
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Also was the Ganymede mining company a red dwarf reference
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May 13, 2017 20:45
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The entire run so far is feeling closer to classic Who for some reason, love it. Why did Moffat have to wait until now to break out the good stuff!
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May 13, 2017 20:59
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The opening scene made me think of the last few minutes of Alien Isolation. I really like the suit design too.
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I liked the episode but hated the twist. It's a stunt.
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Someone clearly has a problem with representation of disabilities in television.
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I don't care what gender, sexuality, colour or whatever 'ism the Doctor is. The important thing it that they are selected because they would make a good Doctor.
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Sad King Billy posted:I don't care what gender, sexuality, colour or whatever 'ism the Doctor is. The important thing it that they are selected because they would make a good Doctor. It's just a coincidence that all the people who would make a good Doctor up until now are white guys
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May 13, 2017 23:04
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I liked that one. Apart from the twist, that was pants. And I just don't care what's in the vault. They've not made that very interesting. Although I've never really found boxes of baddies very interesting in Doctor Who. Apart from the Orb o' Daleks. But Nardole is organic? I thought he was an robot. I did like him this episode though.
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I guess his head is still organic? I didn't get why if the voltage wasn't enough to kill Bill (ha!) she still turned into a zombie...?
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May 14, 2017 00:09
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I think the idea will have been that it knocked her out, but it was deliberately underexplained before it happened and then it wasn't mission vital afterwards
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May 14, 2017 00:21
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AND THEN THEY OVERTHREW CAPITALISM IN SPACE the end also I'm blind now, it'll not be obnoxious I promise
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May 14, 2017 00:34
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And I can't tell her for Plot Reasons!
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May 14, 2017 00:46
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It would be nice if we spent the last couple minutes of the episode getting a confrontation between the Doctor/the workers and the corporate suits instead of finding out that everything worked out six months later and also the Doctor is blind now.
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May 14, 2017 01:14
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Some of my best friends are Blueish!
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May 14, 2017 02:27
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I completely misread what he resolution of this episode was gonna be. I thought it was going to be something to the effect of "even if inefficient, discarding potentially useful equipment is a bad idea" and it was gonna be revealed that everyone's nervous systems just "switched off" and not actually dead.
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...Ohhhh, so that's why the Doctor talks about the wrong subjects in his classes He can't see what room he's in so he wings it Maybe Impressive art for a blind man though
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May 14, 2017 02:48
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Looks vaguely in the direction of the woman he hears speaking to him. "You're a beautiful woman, probably."
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May 14, 2017 02:50
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Oh rad, so the channel I'm watching the episode on blacked out but left audio shortly after The Doctor lost his eyesight so I get to experience it exactly how he does. Thanks Space Channel!
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May 14, 2017 02:50
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Tons of great lines this week. Favourite was probably the whole exchange around the fluid link and not/trusting the Doctor. Jamie Mathieson is great.
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Vinylshadow posted:...Ohhhh, so that's why the Doctor talks about the wrong subjects in his classes I assume you're joking but if not, he went blind during this episode, he hasn't been blind the whole season.
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Jerusalem posted:I assume you're joking but if not, he went blind during this episode, he hasn't been blind the whole season. I like my idea better "Do people never hit you?" "Only when I'm talking." *remembers the time Eleven got his lights knocked out and giggles*
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I will say that "spacesuit zombies" are getting to be a bit old hat- the actual idea behind this one is good but the show's done this at least once a season and it doesn't help that the monster in Pilot was another "it looks like someone you know but it's just using her body!" deal. Other than that, good episode. I like that they never blunted the "capitalism will kill you if there's money to be made from it" theme.
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Anybody got a link for the promo for next week?
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