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Harlock posted:I hope his real name is actually Doctor Who I'm 100% certain that tease from that preview article about "revealing the Doctors real name" and "female Doctor" are based on that clip of Missy going "Hello, I'm Doctor Who"
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2house2fly posted:I'm 100% certain that tease from that preview article about "revealing the Doctors real name" and "female Doctor" are based on that clip of Missy going "Hello, I'm Doctor Who" The "female doctor" one definitely is, and the "real name" one is probably something equally 
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I can't help but feel like tonight's 400 mile long spaceship, with one end in a black hole is going to be some derivative of The Needle from the EDA 'The Infinity Doctors'.
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Jun 24, 2017 16:15
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The concept puts me in mind of the second Red Dwarf book, Better Than Life. Lister is marooned on a planet while the crew on the big ship find that time is passing differently at the front of the ship than at the back, and eventually work out it's because they're being pulled into a black hole. They escape and go back to pick up Lister, who turns out to have been marooned for 34 years.
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Jun 24, 2017 17:21
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2house2fly posted:The concept puts me in mind of the second Red Dwarf book, Better Than Life. Lister is marooned on a planet while the crew on the big ship find that time is passing differently at the front of the ship than at the back, and eventually work out it's because they're being pulled into a black hole. They escape and go back to pick up Lister, who turns out to have been marooned for 34 years. Man, the Red Dwarf books were really weird.
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The_Doctor posted:Man, the Red Dwarf books were really weird. The first two Red Dwarf novels (the two that Doug Naylor and Rob Grant wrote as a partnership) are two of my favourite SF novels of all time. They do such an amazing job of fleshing out ideas from the show while building a bigger realistic feeling universe.
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Jun 24, 2017 17:39
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Supposition: the later phases of Cybermen are ones further up the ship as time changes speed.
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I thought that too but it doesn't make sense, the ones further up have had *less* time to develop, not more. If it's about the Doctor escaping up the ship and later and later generations coming after him from below, because the further up he gets the faster they're advancing relative to him... Maybe.
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Jun 24, 2017 23:08
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That sounds about right.
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Dabir posted:I thought that too but it doesn't make sense, the ones further up have had *less* time to develop, not more. If it's about the Doctor escaping up the ship and later and later generations coming after him from below, because the further up he gets the faster they're advancing relative to him... Maybe. That's what I figure too. Hell, they're probably going back down on purpose to devise means to beat the Doctor in relative safety before sending up the new models. All I'm hoping is the episode is resolved by killing them all in the proper Cyberman way; Gold Dust in the air filters.
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Jun 25, 2017 13:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYIvOJ3i_4 Anyone else catch unconverted Bill at the 20 second mark?
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Jun 27, 2017 01:11
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She looks quite young, and it's not Pearl Mackie. Probably Bill as a child.
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Jun 27, 2017 01:16
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Open Source Idiom posted:She looks quite young, and it's not Pearl Mackie. Probably Bill as a child. She reclaims her individuality by remembering her childhood and her mother. Once that is over, uncybernating her is pretty easy for the Doctor and Two Masters.
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Jun 27, 2017 04:49
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A fuzzy spy photo for the Christmas episode seems to show Capaldi and someone who looks like David Bradley in his First Doctor look. This could seemingly confirm the possible "A Christmas Carol" theme for the episode.
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Jun 27, 2017 20:46
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Teek posted:A fuzzy spy photo for the Christmas episode seems to show Capaldi and someone who looks like David Bradley in his First Doctor look. This could seemingly confirm the possible "A Christmas Carol" theme for the episode. I'm all for this. Christmas specials have been cheesy retellings of stories like this (Hell, even this very story) before, why not?
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Jun 27, 2017 20:48
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Having the 1st Doctor show up is so very very Moffat, and I am all for it. How many different actors have played 1 now?
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Jun 27, 2017 21:14
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jivjov posted:Having the 1st Doctor show up is so very very Moffat, and I am all for it. Not counting BF? Hartnell, Hurndall, and now Bradley. Technically Peter Cushing too.
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Jun 27, 2017 21:17
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Nah, Cushing was Doctor Who, along with Michelle Gomez 
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Jun 27, 2017 21:20
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Don't forget the kid from Listen. And the impressionist from Day of the Doctor!
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Jun 27, 2017 23:30
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"So, we managed to successfully bring the Mondasian Cybermen back in a creepy episode that really highlighted the horror of them. Now what? That stupid Iron Man flight would be good, right?"
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Jun 29, 2017 01:15
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The mere fact of Cybermen and the Master appearing in an episode together is a callback to Death In Heaven on its own, might as well go all the way with it.
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Box of Bunnies posted:"So, we managed to successfully bring the Mondasian Cybermen back in a creepy episode that really highlighted the horror of them. Now what? That stupid Iron Man flight would be good, right?" Why 
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The Moffatt giveth, the Moffatt taketh away.
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Jun 29, 2017 02:31
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gently caress right the hell off.
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Jun 29, 2017 04:37
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This shows how more than ever we need Big Finish's Rocket Men brought to the screen. 
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Jun 29, 2017 06:02
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Bill appears to be healed and fine in the Christmas special, Pearl has been spy photographed on set. But with the Christmas Carol nature of the story, could be a "ghost" of some form.
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Jun 29, 2017 17:07
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Healed? Or... Not dead yet...
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Jun 29, 2017 17:14
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He's looking for shovels to bean people with.
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Jun 29, 2017 22:07
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WWI setting? Maybe during the Christmas soccer game?
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Jun 29, 2017 22:09
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That would be a good setting for the mood of the episode.
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Jun 29, 2017 22:14
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PriorMarcus posted:That would be a good setting for the mood of the episode. After echoplex called you out, considering he literally worked on the show, I'm thinking you need to stop.
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Jun 29, 2017 22:47
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On the other hand he said the finale would end with the Doctor dying and choosing not to regenerate, which seems likely considering the cold open of World Enough And Time
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Jun 29, 2017 23:54
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My fiancée and I just watched An Adventure In Space And Time, so I'm all in for more Bradley as Hartnell. He is amazing.
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TL posted:My fiancée and I just watched An Adventure In Space And Time, so I'm all in for more Bradley as Hartnell. He is amazing. Yeah, An Adventure In Space And Time was probably my favorite of the various anniversary things, largely because of him.
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Jun 30, 2017 03:11
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So stoked that Bradley is coming back for this! It seemed like a no brainer, but one of those things that might not have happened, that they wouldn't have been able to get together. Now, let's get him in for some Big Finish!
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I feel like I'm the only one who thinks David Bradley just didn't quite capture Hartnell. His voice, especially, not only doesn't sound much like Hartnell's (which isn't necessarily a problem) but doesn't even really evoke him, either. It was a fine performance, don't get me wrong, but kind of only in and of itself. IMO, anyway.
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I think he does a pretty good Hartnell for a biopic. I think it's weird to have him play "the First Doctor." The Doctor gets recast as different actors, but recasting specific incarnations of the Doctor is basically just asking an actor to do an impression of another actor. It gives them very little leeway to do their own interpretation of a part. I think it could work here if it's a Christmas Carol-y type thing - the Doctor's memory of his past self is distorted, whatever, but I really hope we don't get into the habit of using combinations of CG, make-up and impressionists to try breathing some kind of undead life into actors that we've lost. It's ghoulish.
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Bicyclops posted:I think he does a pretty good Hartnell for a biopic. I think it's weird to have him play "the First Doctor." The Doctor gets recast as different actors, but recasting specific incarnations of the Doctor is basically just asking an actor to do an impression of another actor. It gives them very little leeway to do their own interpretation of a part. We are absolutely going to get into that habit. Did you see Rogue One?
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thrawn527 posted:We are absolutely going to get into that habit. Did you see Rogue One? I did, and it felt particularly weird there, because I don't even think they really captured his voice. The 50th Anniversary stuff in Doctor Who was fine, because it was for brief shots mostly using archive footage, and Big Finish's narrated short stories are fine, but this idea that we can essentially have the First Doctor back because someone did a pretty good job of portraying Hartnell in a biopic sucks. Bill Hartnell is dead.
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Bicyclops posted:I did, and it felt particularly weird there, because I don't even think they really captured his voice. Did you not watch The Five Doctors?
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