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Facebook Aunt posted:This great season makes me retroactively more annoyed that they stretched out "who am I? am I a good man?" for a whole season. Speaking of this season being so good it's almost annoying, how about we start a betting pool: what major issue will Peter Harness' story ham-fistedly reference and mishandle THIS time!? My money's on nuclear armaments, given the context of the story we have so far.
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May 27, 2017 02:42
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Cleretic posted:My money's on nuclear armaments, given the context of the story we have so far. Bill: But my mother protested for nuclear disarmament Doctor: Well that was stupid, nuclear weapons are a good and desirable thing and there should be more of them!
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May 27, 2017 03:31
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You guys are joking but I swear to God Just please be a bland, boring episode that is just wrote and nothing important happens. Please do that. Do that much. Don't try to tell a message because for God's Sake you are going to gently caress it to hell and back.
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May 27, 2017 04:00
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AndyElusive posted:And Cyber-Brig. I still maintain that the Brigade Leader's body followed Three to the normal universe ssssssssomehow and that, long after a lifetime of cowardice, he was given one final opportunity to be a hero and he took it. Because our Brigadier already had his send-off with the phone call to Eleven, and I have a preference for the moronic over the insulting.
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May 27, 2017 04:05
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In a surprise twist, Moffat's last episode is just Cyber-Briggs (that's the Brigadier with Nicholas Briggs's Cybervoice) sitting in front of a UNIT computer, slowly hunt-and-pecking at a keyboard and writing a report while he narrates it out loud, focusing on the Doctor's best monologues.
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May 27, 2017 04:19
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I'd like to remark that I wish that the extremis aliens were more RTD and did have to be serious boring mummies. With all the video game references they could've made them horrible alien gamerbros or creepy nerds. Yes a little of the tone would be sacrificed but again the mummies are so loving boring.
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May 27, 2017 05:01
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Hemingway To Go! posted:I'd like to remark that I wish that the extremis aliens were more RTD and did have to be serious boring mummies. Maybe they used to horrible alien gamerbros and creepy nerds. They've been playing video games for 400 years. 
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May 27, 2017 06:41
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SiKboy posted:Veritas has shown the aliens that the best way to conquer earth is to persuade all humans that they are in a simulation, wait, and then sweep up the ones who didnt kill themselves. For about half of its runtime I legit thought this was going to be the twist to the episode. Like just conning their victims into being suicidal/complacent enough to give up seems like it would be less resource-intensive than simulating an entire planet's history and processing all their various sentiences and THEN going on to invade and/or murderize. It'd be kind of a RTD-era gag for cheap villains with access to handwavium technology, but still.
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May 27, 2017 10:29
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ThaGhettoJew posted:For about half of its runtime I legit thought this was going to be the twist to the episode. Like just conning their victims into being suicidal/complacent enough to give up seems like it would be less resource-intensive than simulating an entire planet's history and processing all their various sentiences and THEN going on to invade and/or murderize. It'd be kind of a RTD-era gag for cheap villains with access to handwavium technology, but still. Kinda funny, because you described that and I thought of something like the aliens from The Girl Who Died. Enemies who conquer not by actual conquest, but by being really good at convincing their enemies to surrender. ...and now I'm remembering that that wasn't the ACTUAL thing with those aliens, it was just an interpretation, and now I want an alien race that explicitly is that.
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May 27, 2017 11:17
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They botched the resolution, but I did like the idea in The Power of Three to lower humanity's guard by making them bored with the instruments of their destruction by just leaving them lying around for a year plus doing nothing till they just became part of the background.
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May 27, 2017 11:26
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I wonder what the aliens would have done if humanity had just rounded up the cubes and buried them in the desert or something.
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May 27, 2017 11:52
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The_Doctor posted:I wonder what the aliens would have done if humanity had just rounded up the cubes and buried them in the desert or something. Their original plan to conquer the world with ET video games suffered that fate.
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May 27, 2017 12:03
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PowerBuilder3 posted:I want to know where CERN got all those bugs bunny dynamite sticks from. I thought they would overload the accelerator, since the thing already blew up on its own already. That's not how it works and it didn't blow up
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May 27, 2017 13:36
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MrL_JaKiri posted:That's not how it works and it didn't blow up Blown up, ripped a hole in space time that sucked all of us into an alternate universe where the Nazis win 70 years after WWII; same difference.
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May 27, 2017 14:10
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Cleretic posted:Kinda funny, because you described that and I thought of something like the aliens from The Girl Who Died. Enemies who conquer not by actual conquest, but by being really good at convincing their enemies to surrender. The next episode sounds like it's going to be similar to that at least, from the summary they put out. And then the episode after that sounds like it's possible they'll succeed...
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May 27, 2017 14:45
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Jerusalem posted:They botched the resolution, but I did like the idea in The Power of Three to lower humanity's guard by making them bored with the instruments of their destruction by just leaving them lying around for a year plus doing nothing till they just became part of the background. We're going to be seeing a lot more of that kind of episode next year...
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May 27, 2017 15:54
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Bicyclops posted:We're going to be seeing a lot more of that kind of episode next year... From what I've heard about his plans he's getting a writer's room together and wants to really break away from the format the new show has fallen into. Don't know how successful he will be allowed to be given what I've also heard about his hiring.
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May 27, 2017 17:22
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PriorMarcus posted:From what I've heard about his plans he's getting a writer's room together and wants to really break away from the format the new show has fallen into. Don't know how successful he will be allowed to be given what I've also heard about his hiring. Eh, I thought it was generally agreed that the writers he hired for his seasons of Torchwood were all surprisingly good.
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May 27, 2017 17:30
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Jerusalem posted:They botched the resolution, but I did like the idea in The Power of Three to lower humanity's guard by making them bored with the instruments of their destruction by just leaving them lying around for a year plus doing nothing till they just became part of the background. An obvious idea for a Doctor Who story is to do this with the Daleks. Have them change history so they're fictional aliens with loads of merchandise, then have everyone react to the Doctor saying they're real in the exact same way they would in our world.
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May 27, 2017 18:14
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How has this season been? I didn't like the Christmas Special that much so took a break.
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May 27, 2017 18:33
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I thought the one with Nick Frost was cute. I liked Santa's reaction to Capaldi-Doctor's questions - especially the masterstroke with the sack of toys - "How do you fit hundreds of thousands of toys into that one sack!" "Bigger on the inside  "
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May 27, 2017 18:36
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Josh Lyman posted:How has this season been? I didn't like the Christmas Special that much so took a break. Possibly the best season since the show came back
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May 27, 2017 18:36
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Josh Lyman posted:How has this season been? I didn't like the Christmas Special that much so took a break. Extremely good, to the point I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop because it's been almost TOO consistently good so far.
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May 27, 2017 19:20
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vegetables posted:An obvious idea for a Doctor Who story is to do this with the Daleks. Have them change history so they're fictional aliens with loads of merchandise, then have everyone react to the Doctor saying they're real in the exact same way they would in our world. That's KIND OF what the Jubilee audio story is. Sort of. A bit.
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May 27, 2017 19:38
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Fil5000 posted:That's KIND OF what the Jubilee audio story is. Sort of. A bit. The audio Renaissance of the Daleks also does a thing where the Daleks prevent their own invasion (from The Dalek Invasion of Earth) and begin mass producing little Dalek toys that all the kids are going nuts for, as they prepare to take over all of reality/time itself. This leads to a rather hilarious scene where a mini-Dalek is menacing the TARDIS crew until they realize,"Hey hang on, it's tiny and adorable" and just pick it up and carry it around while it screeches angrily at them to put it down 
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May 27, 2017 19:48
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Poor Bill can never have a date 
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May 27, 2017 19:54
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Jerusalem posted:Poor Bill can never have a date The Previously/Now thing was actually a rather clever way of doing a recap without it feeling like a recap.
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May 27, 2017 19:55
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Plavski posted:The Previously/Now thing was actually a rather clever way of doing a recap without it feeling like a recap. Yeah I dug that, quite neatly done.
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May 27, 2017 19:56
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Is it Briggs on the voice work again?
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May 27, 2017 20:12
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Douglas is a loving idiot and I'm glad he's dead 
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May 27, 2017 20:21
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I hope that was intentional and not a sign of the episode tanking
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May 27, 2017 20:22
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I was hoping it'd be something like The Destruction Factor where plants got modified and produced so much oxygen they became hyper flammable. But I guess rapidly composting people is good.
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May 27, 2017 20:25
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Just finished The Pilot. Heather was such a cutie. Bill seems to be a better actor than most companions.
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May 27, 2017 20:26
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The melting CGI work is really good. Like, way better than expected for Doctor Who.
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May 27, 2017 20:30
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Series status: continues to be good.
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May 27, 2017 20:36
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I liked that, the streak continues Please don't gently caress it up 
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May 27, 2017 20:37
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Jerusalem posted:The audio Renaissance of the Daleks also does a thing where the Daleks prevent their own invasion (from The Dalek Invasion of Earth) and begin mass producing little Dalek toys that all the kids are going nuts for, as they prepare to take over all of reality/time itself. This leads to a rather hilarious scene where a mini-Dalek is menacing the TARDIS crew until they realize,"Hey hang on, it's tiny and adorable" and just pick it up and carry it around while it screeches angrily at them to put it down That reminds me of Flatliners, with the Tiny Tardis: "It's lighter..." "It's ALWAYS lighter, at it's true mass just landing would crack the Earth's crust!". I also loved "Don't you dare..."
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May 27, 2017 20:38
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Plavski posted:Series status: continues to be good. You love the ssseriesss. Love is consssent...
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Echoplex, did you say you'd left the show at this point? I only ask because that door lock looked like something out of Chocabloc.
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