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He routed it through the same thing that handles all the phone calls people make across time and space.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I quite liked "I am the only man in the universe with an actual license to kick the Doctor's rear end". I am seriously considering changing my current AV for Nardole with this text!
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May 22, 2017 11:05
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Matt Lucas is actually a really solid actor (he was ace in Midsummer Night's Dream which we shot on the Trap Street set), so I'm quite enjoying the odd little flashes of actual acting. Suicide by pills seemed much darker than anything in S9! The dialogue in the last few eps has been really superb, and Peter is on fire. Such a shame he's going, but I've quite enjoyed the condensed companion experience over the last few episodes. I hope there are much bigger things in Pearl's future, she really makes some of those lines fly.
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May 22, 2017 11:58
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I'm curious as to who originally wrote the Veritas? Surely the mysterious invading aliens wouldn't have put it in.
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May 22, 2017 13:44
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An early civilisation who figured it out then comitted suicide en masse, clearly.
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May 22, 2017 13:46
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hangedman1984 posted:I'm curious as to who originally wrote the Veritas? Surely the mysterious invading aliens wouldn't have put it in. Robert Kilroy-Silk.
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Jerusalem posted:I did get a laugh out of,"They're capable of building utterly seamless recreations of reality down to the atom, to the point that the NPCs are sentient.... but then they cheaped out and just made every npc access a singular RNG across the entire simulation." In fairness, I can see "how frequently would people call out a number at the exact same time? :eyeroll:" being a thought in a programming meeting, without really thinking just how many people exist and how long they're existing for. Also yeah, Matt Lucas was pretty good in this. I feel like he's getting a bit better every episode.
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May 22, 2017 13:49
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hangedman1984 posted:I'm curious as to who originally wrote the Veritas? Surely the mysterious invading aliens wouldn't have put it in. Ostensibly it'd be someone who found out the secret a long time ago, but died/was killed before it was widely disseminated or decided not to spread it.
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spectralent posted:In fairness, I can see "how frequently would people call out a number at the exact same time? :eyeroll:" being a thought in a programming meeting Some of my friends have a drinking game based around just that concept!
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May 22, 2017 14:20
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Random Stranger posted:Yeah, you can do "it's all fake" stories, but something has to matter. Like in Extremis, the point wasn't "it's fake so we can gently caress everything up", it was "it's fake and here's how people figure it out and what even a fake Doctor can do about it". This episode could have stood fine on its own with the conclusion being now that the real Doctor knows what's going on the villains are doomed to failure (which they are, of course, but that would be a one minute epilogue instead of a full episode next week). Well, there's still the problem that the Doctor doesn't know at all what they're capable of and exactly what their plans are. All he knows is that they made an extremely sophisticated simulation which only tells him how incredibly advanced they are.
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May 22, 2017 14:43
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May 22, 2017 14:47
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Doctor Spaceman posted:He routed it through the same thing that handles all the phone calls people make across time and space. Five generations after successfully conquering the earth, a Monk historian was browsing through some old simulation records and found the bit where the Doctor used Time Lord technology. He thought 'that looks useful, make me up a quantum-printed copy'. That copy contained the email, which it forwarded to the past as instructed.
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May 22, 2017 14:50
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radmonger posted:Five generations after successfully conquering the earth, a Monk historian was browsing through some old simulation records and found the bit where the Doctor used Time Lord technology. River has been shown to do something similar.
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hangedman1984 posted:I'm curious as to who originally wrote the Veritas? Surely the mysterious invading aliens wouldn't have put it in. The Doctor briefly mentions that people smart enough to understand they're in a simulation is a part of the simulation's plan, I think. They probably just want to limit access to it.
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Bicyclops posted:The Doctor briefly mentions that people smart enough to understand they're in a simulation is a part of the simulation's plan, I think. They probably just want to limit access to it. I think it's an inherent problem of the simulation: to make it accurately predict how humans (and human-aligned aliens) would react to an alien threat, they had to program in very, very clever people. People smart enough to figure out they're in a simulation by the flaws in the programming. The simulated characters didn't just warn the Doctor, they also succeeded in rendering the program worthless for predicting humanity's response to an invasion.
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I was really hoping that this was going to build up to a point about people being simulated not necessarily making them less real, but nope!
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fractalairduct posted:I was really hoping that this was going to build up to a point about people being simulated not necessarily making them less real, but nope! The Doomsday Quatrain is exactly that, with the alien invaders even running the simulation for the same reason. Also Nostradamus. Quite good.
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Murderion posted:I think it's an inherent problem of the simulation: to make it accurately predict how humans (and human-aligned aliens) would react to an alien threat, they had to program in very, very clever people. People smart enough to figure out they're in a simulation by the flaws in the programming. The simulated characters didn't just warn the Doctor, they also succeeded in rendering the program worthless for predicting humanity's response to an invasion. The president was smart enough to know what's going on? What a poo poo simulator Namtab fucked around with this message at 08:43 on May 23, 2017 |
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I think the main reason I like Missy/the Mistress more than the previous Masters is that she seems more clever about her evil. John Simm's master was largely about killing a lot of people, which is fine as villains go but gets old as it cannot really be escalated. Missy's thing is giving the doctor things that he should never ever have the opportunity to have so that he can make his own mistakes for her amusement. She put him with Clara as an assistant because she knew that they were so perfect together that it would destroy them (as she put it: The Control Freak and the Man who should Never Be Controlled): The Doctor made a few moves that without Clara's advice he would not have made, and Clara "became" a Doctor in her own right, at least in attitude, without realising that there was one key difference - The Doctor regenerates. She doesn't. Hence trying to be noble and self sacrificial with the raven, but not realising that that was the worst thing that she could possibly have done. There was also, of course, the Army she gave him with the planet of tame Cybermen: She gave him what she thought that he always wanted - the opportunity to go to every point in history and forcibly save EVERYBODY. These are much more interesting Master-plans (  ) than just killing 1/10ths of the earths population to make the Doctor Sad.She doesn't need to mess with the Doctors head or kill his pets - she just gives him a present and watches the fireworks. also the Putting Clara in a Dalek and the Doctor nearly kills her thing was the Doctor's fault for being incurious - he should have noticed something was wrong when the Dalek started shouting "I am a Dalek!" over and over again which is really weird. An actual dalek would have stuck to the usual "Exterminate" and shot at him, not constantly reinforced what it was, unless directly asked. BioEnchanted fucked around with this message at 09:06 on May 23, 2017 |
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Plavski posted:"Nardole, are you secretly a badass?" Of the most recent companions: Clara: How Doctor Who fans would imagine themselves as the companion. Bill: The type of companion a non-fan would be. Nardole: The type of companion a Who fan would actually be.
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May 23, 2017 10:12
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Senor Tron posted:Of the most recent companions: I dunno, Nardole has been pretty competent so far.
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Fil5000 posted:I dunno, Nardole has been pretty competent so far. Yeah, we'd be Micky. e: maybe a few Adrics
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yeah, we'd be Micky. Micky winds up with Martha. We're all Adam.
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So something has occurred to me.We're 6/13 episodes in, with the next episode following on directly from this one, with the same enemies. Is this the longest a season has gone without an episode on ANY recurring staple enemy? We've had small appearances by the Daleks and Missy, but they were both ancillary to the actual focus of the story. With the very debatable exception of Smile ('rogue colony ship AI' even if not the same ones) and Thin Ice (if you want to count 'man' as a race), every antagonist has been a new thing.
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Cleretic posted:So something has occurred to me.We're 6/13 episodes in, with the next episode following on directly from this one, with the same enemies. Series 6 I think? The silence were new for that opening two parter, then it was Black Spot, Doctor's Wife, Flesh two parter... you have to get up to God Complex before you get a recurring antagonist and even then it's a Nimon. Closing Time is your first PROPER recurring baddie and that's one episode before the finale.
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May 23, 2017 11:03
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Season 6 barely reused any antogonists didn't it? efb
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Cleretic posted:So something has occurred to me.We're 6/13 episodes in, with the next episode following on directly from this one, with the same enemies. To be fair, we don't actually know who/what the invading aliens are.
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Cleretic posted:So something has occurred to me.We're 6/13 episodes in, with the next episode following on directly from this one, with the same enemies. Of Modern Who or Classic Who? Classic Who wasn't really as big on recurring enemies as people remember it to be. I think Modern Who was based more on an image of Doctor Who than of what was really going on in those episodes. For example, the 3rd Doctor and the 4th Doctor, together, over ten years, only fought the Daleks 5 times.
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Sure, there were two seven year gaps between Cybermen appearances in 1968 ("The Invasion"), 1975 ("Revenge") and 1982 ("Earthshock").
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If you count all the Master appearances in Pertwee's era as "recurring stuff": 24% 48% 70% (50% otherwise) 22% 55% 64% 42% (dead on 1/3 if you don't count Glitz) Don't forget that even outside the Master, the Daleks and the Cybermen there were still recurring villains/alien locations aplenty, like the Ice Warriors, the Silurians, the Yeti, the Mara, etc.
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I'm not entirely sure what those percentages are supposed to represent.
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cargohills posted:I'm not entirely sure what those percentages are supposed to represent. % episodes that feature a villain that appears more than once in the series. So, eg, the first Doctor's is made up of the dalek stories, The Time Meddler (reappears in Master Plan) and Tenth Planet. (Daleks, Dalek Invasion, Chase, Meddler, Cutaway, Masterplan, Tenth Planet for the precise list) MrL_JaKiri fucked around with this message at 20:13 on May 23, 2017 |
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I'm surprised by the Fourth Doctor era, but when I think back, I guess it was just Davros and the Cybermen a couple of times. Even the entire season that focuses on the Guardians really just has them pop in at the beginning and the end of the fetch quest.
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Bicyclops posted:I'm surprised by the Fourth Doctor era, but when I think back, I guess it was just Davros and the Cybermen a couple of times. Even the entire season that focuses on the Guardians really just has them pop in at the beginning and the end of the fetch quest. 2 daleks, 1 cybermen; as many sontaran stories as either.
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May 23, 2017 21:00
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Oh, right, the Sontarans. I can't believe I forgot about the pool chairs serial.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Some of my friends have a drinking game based around just that concept! What's the game? I can only think of 'people yell out a number greater than zero, highest number drinks difference between numbers, both drink number if it's the same number'. And that'd still probably end up with people just shouting '1' at each other.
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Linked from the actual scene's page, this is pretty dope tbh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAY-tgKr52s
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May 23, 2017 22:22
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Aww. https://twitter.com/doctorwhocovers/status/867116491572994055
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TinTower posted:Linked from the actual scene's page, this is pretty dope tbh. This was pretty impressive.
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Jon Culshaw's Tom Baker has got much better than it used to be.
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