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jivjov posted:amiibo you say? I can think of only one person to star in that show! Me! Maybe he eats a baby or something to stop the daleks. Just straight up chews right into one. I dunno why.
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I feel like the weakness of Big Finish's War Doctor sets is more to do with how few stories actually play around with the temporal fuckery you'd expect from a Time War than anything to do with their characterisation of the Doctor. When we first properly meet the War Doctor in Day of the Doctor it's at his lowest point when he's feed up with everything and ready to blow it all up and... he's just a cantankerous old grump, not any sort of vile monster. The whole point is that actually, yeah, he was still more or less just the Doctor, everything else is an image built up around self loathing and guilt from what the later Doctors think they did.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:21 |
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jivjov posted:amiibo you say? I can think of only one person to star in that show! Me! I always got the idea that leading up to that, he had done some pretty awful poo poo, so much so that wiping out the children of Gallifrey was a worthwhile price to pay to ensure "never again." I'm thinking like a multi-planetary civilization wiped out of time ab initio sort of thing. People that can control time could get up to some pretty horrific poo poo, now that I think about it. Brb, writing some really dark War Doctor fanfic
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:26 |
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Bringing up The War Doctor just makes me want to know more about what he did. Now we'll never know, because John Hurt is dead.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:28 |
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jivjov posted:Yeah that bundle is absolutely worth it for the Doctor sourcebooks alone. Box of Bunnies posted:Yeah, I went ahead and got it and skimmed through the First Doctor sourcebook on my phone while waiting for a doctor's appointment that was running behind. Exactly the kind of thing I like from these sorts of things. What's in them, exactly? I'm not familiar with tabletop RPGs.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 04:06 |
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toanoradian posted:What's in them, exactly? I'm not familiar with tabletop RPGs. They have descriptions of the Doctor, companions, TARDIS, general style/themes of an era and then episode synopsis, with ways those things can be used within the game throughout. A few pages from the First Doc one:
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 04:47 |
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Ah, I see they have previews. Sounds like interesting information for general fans that don't even roleplay. Thanks! Also, they're gonna need to slightly modify this section.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 05:57 |
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2house2fly posted:I wish he'd remembered not to wear it ever The holey shirt, much like the hoodie, ray-bans, and tees, is actually cool and good. The only bad outfit Capaldi had was his original, and that was merely boring.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 07:17 |
Can't wait for a gender neutral doctor!
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 07:40 |
Big Mean Jerk posted:The holey shirt, much like the hoodie, ray-bans, and tees, is actually cool and good. The only bad outfit Capaldi had was his original, and that was merely boring. I loved his coat. I wish he had kept that at least and mixed in a hoodie etc.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 07:46 |
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PriorMarcus posted:I loved his coat. I wish he had kept that at least and mixed in a hoodie etc. I like the crombie coat, but since you hardly ever saw the red accents that outfit looked really plain. I hope they do something really different with 13, the long coat and slacks look has become the standard for three revival doctors now. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jul 20, 2017 |
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Long coat has been standard for 10/12 doctors though hasn't it? She got to have a really good coat.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 07:59 |
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learnincurve posted:Long coat has been standard for 10/12 doctors though hasn't it? She got to have a really good coat. I'm of the opinion everyone needs a really good quality long coat. They're just great to have for appearance & weather. Jodie Doctor needs to have one that says "classy as gently caress".
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 08:09 |
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DancingShade posted:Jodie Doctor needs to have one that says "classy as gently caress". As words, sewn into the lapels, yes.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 08:15 |
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Bring back the question marks IMO
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 08:21 |
I've recently moved and found this in stored away and wondered if anyone wants it. Its a hall poster from a cinema so its reasonablly large. Free to a good home. http://imgur.com/IHIvSVf
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 08:29 |
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DancingShade posted:I'm of the opinion everyone needs a really good quality long coat. They're just great to have for appearance & weather. The_Doctor posted:As words, sewn into the lapels, yes. Big Mean Jerk posted:Bring back the question marks IMO Something for the artists to consider, I suppose
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 09:01 |
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Perhaps they will go in a completely different direction and have her utilise the Tardis wardrobe so she's always wearing local clothing?
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 09:04 |
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learnincurve posted:Perhaps they will go in a completely different direction and have her utilise the Tardis wardrobe so she's always wearing local clothing? The BBC budget circuit is broken, so she's stuck wearing the same outfit
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 09:12 |
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Well, if they continue to have outfits that channel previous Doctors in order, we're up to Four.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 09:30 |
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She should be wearing a scarf, yes. Or, combining previous discussion and bad news together, she should dress up like Sherlock Holmes.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 09:35 |
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Lampsacus posted:Can't wait for a gender neutral doctor! Someone call Tilda Swinton
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 09:43 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Someone call Tilda Swinton She was my favourite in the role guessing game. Not because she'd do it - she wouldn't, she's a massive Hollywood success - but because she'd ramp the "alien" up to eleventy-stupid and it would be wonderful.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 09:50 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Someone call Tilda Swinton Doing her best Minister Mason I hope.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 09:51 |
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One of the best pieces of acting I ever saw was Tilda Swinton in a movie called only lovers left alive, she plays a centuries old vampire who has aged beyond simple blood lust and is now this strange, ethereal creature living for emotions and the mind. There is this one completely breathtaking moment where she simply stops and looks with wonder at a mushroom that is growing when it shouldn't be. So yeh, watch that movie and imagine Swinton playing the doctor like that.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 10:14 |
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Plavski posted:She was my favourite in the role guessing game. Not because she'd do it - she wouldn't, she's a massive Hollywood success - but because she'd ramp the "alien" up to eleventy-stupid and it would be wonderful. I'd have loved a Swinton Doctor just because I've gotten compared to her, so I'd be able to cosplay that Doctor really well*. But now that I'm thinking about it and your observation there, I think she'd be really awesome as some sort of external take on the Doctor. I'm picturing a movie from the perspective of just an average person during one of the more visible and daunting invasions; the Stolen Earth, Army of Ghosts, Dark Water, or even something a little smaller like The Power of Three or Pyramid at the End of the World. Their entire world gets turned inside-out one day they're struggling to just keep it together and survive, while on the sideline of the story is this inscrutible alien Swinton-Doctor that comes out of loving nowhere and is working entirely according to her own totally foreign problem-solving. I always got the feeling that while the Doctor's very inspiring to people they directly interact, with they've gotta be this terrifying, unknowable and suspicious figure to the people just outside of that, and Swinton would be an amazing Doctor for that. *I should say I'm probably gonna be cosplaying the Whittaker Doctor if at all possible, because it just seems like an amazing opportunity of a character for a trans woman. I'm permitted the opportunity, I can't NOT try.
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Cleretic posted:I always got the feeling that while the Doctor's very inspiring to people they directly interact, with they've gotta be this terrifying, unknowable and suspicious figure to the people just outside of that, and Swinton would be an amazing Doctor for that. Yeah, a lot of big popular heroes are like this, and I love it when they take the time to do a story that actually spells it out. My go-to is usually the Jedi. So much Star Wars media is focused on them or people working closely with them, that its sometimes a shock when you realize "Oh yeah, these people just roll up out of nowhere with their laser swords and mind powers and sometimes take babies away", and what that must look like to the layperson.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 10:33 |
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Cleretic posted:I always got the feeling that while the Doctor's very inspiring to people they directly interact, with they've gotta be this terrifying, unknowable and suspicious figure to the people just outside of that, and Swinton would be an amazing Doctor for that. They sort of tried this in the audio "The Sandman" - it didn't really work but I don't know that it was the fault of the concept. Early Big Finish had some huge swings in quality and this one was sadly one of the downswings.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 10:53 |
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learnincurve posted:One of the best pieces of acting I ever saw was Tilda Swinton in a movie called only lovers left alive, she plays a centuries old vampire who has aged beyond simple blood lust and is now this strange, ethereal creature living for emotions and the mind. One of my favorite Tilda Swinton things is when I found out about her art project where she literally goes to a gallery, hops into a big glass case and goes to sleep. Then people come and watch her sleeping because why the gently caress wouldn't you go see Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass case in an art gallery if given the opportunity? 11: I could be a performance artist, I'd be really good at it. Yes, maybe I should do that. Tilda (yawning): You know I rather think you might.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 11:03 |
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Short Synopsis: The Doctor is late to a funeral, and the corpse is early. Long Synopsis: The Doctor is summoned to the vigil for a recently deceased Draconian Emperor, where the political machinations of the widow and son are bad enough, but the dead also play games. What I Liked/Disliked:
Final Thoughts: Paper Cuts is a really interesting setting that plays well off the relatively scant information given us in Frontier in Space and crafts a pretty neat base under siege story out of it. The Sixth Doctor fits nicely as a contrast to the Third Doctor whom the Draconians were expecting, a far more bombastic and colorful character than their dignified, respectful memory. The supporting characters are mostly unpleasant or selfish people but that kinda works given the isolated setting and the stakes at play, and it helps to maintain the tension. The audio does suffer from the lack of visuals though, as I had to keep reminding myself these were reptilian spacemen I was listening to and not blokes from the local pub. India Fisher is largely wasted, not because Charley doesn't have stuff to do but because all she does is what Charley would normally do. There's only the barest hint of something else going on at the end when she carefully convinces another character not to spend any more time with her and the Doctor than is absolutely necessary, 99.9% of the time it's just Charley being Charley. Also there's another of the rather good Brigadier/Polly stories right at the end, which is once again hurt by the inclusion of... ughh... Thomas Brewster.
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Jerusalem posted:
Yeah, I definitely really liked this story, if only for the weird little world-building, but as you say, the ongoing plot with Charlie and later, Mila getting ignored... it starts to grate. I always felt that way about Charlie and Six. They have so many interesting individual ideas, but you get more and more frustrated with them pushing off the inevitable confrontations. I get that they just have to tell good, individual stories, but don't introduce a huge Sword of Damocles cliffhanger and then ignore it forever.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 14:00 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:They have descriptions of the Doctor, companions, TARDIS, general style/themes of an era and then episode synopsis, with ways those things can be used within the game throughout. A few pages from the First Doc one: I always like how they justify the Doctor being OP as gently caress in-game by basically letting him (or her, now) take the Nemesis flaw like a billion times to let them purchase all the other poo poo. Also, the RPG books ONLY have the TV licence, so the 8th Doctor book has a massive summary of the TV movie, and then the rest is what other tabletop RPGs would call a campaign module. Specifically, one that's meant to run for about 12 sessions, one for each Doctor's era up to the point of publication.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 15:49 |
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I wrote a short story about the 13th Doctor. I made no attempt to write her like I might imagine she'll really be; I just thought of who I'd like the Doctor to be and wrote her like that.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 18:52 |
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learnincurve posted:Long coat has been standard for 10/12 doctors though hasn't it? She got to have a really good coat. RTD said that when he told David Tennant that he wanted him to be the Doctor, Tennant's reaction was "He laughed, then swore, then said 'I want a long coat'."
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 20:11 |
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Davros1 posted:RTD said that when he told David Tennant that he wanted him to be the Doctor, Tennant's reaction was "He laughed, then swore, then said 'I want a long coat'." I could never take him seriously in that, it looked like a kid wearing his dad's overcoat. The sleeves were too long and the hem should have been about 6 inches higher.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 20:27 |
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An outfit you can't really take seriously is kind of a Doctor tradition as well
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 20:40 |
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I always saw Tennant as the spot-on embodiment of a slightly child-like, always fascinated by but never afraid of the vastness of space and its inhabitants Doctor, so that outfit worked well for me. In my opinion he was the least serious and most happy of the new Doctors, Smith kinda got that light-hearted adventure seeking across as well but he never sounded quite as enthusiastic as Tennant did, and Capaldi comes across as way more serious. Yes, I am a huge Tennant fan, how did you know?
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 22:18 |
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Well, Eleven and Twelve both have moments of world-weariness but without the maudlin tantrum-like effect that Ten had (cue gif of Tennant crying in the rain). The deleted scene where Smith tells Amy that he brings young people with him because he can't see the wonder of the universe anymore, but THEY can, and he gets to see it vicariously through them, is great.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 22:33 |
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Pocky In My Pocket posted:I've recently moved and found this in stored away and wondered if anyone wants it. Its a hall poster from a cinema so its reasonablly large. Free to a good home. PM sent!
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Gaz-L posted:The deleted scene where Smith tells Amy that he brings young people with him because he can't see the wonder of the universe anymore, but THEY can, and he gets to see it vicariously through them, is great. I really love those scenes. My favourite is the explanation of the TARDIS chameleon circuit and how it functions because he absolutely sells it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAOne4Bxz1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O3b5yRqZPg
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