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2house2fly posted:*an idea is repeated* this idea is being run into the ground Either of those things can be true depending on circumstances
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corn in the bible posted:Either of those things can be true depending on circumstances Wait are you telling me that context matters and we can't just make broad statements about generalities without looking stupid? I'm shocked
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Hemingway To Go! posted:If you believed that post and vastra's speech you would have expressed it in a single word shitpost
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I have no idea who any of these actors are half the time a Doctor casting rumor pops up, but I always laugh when I see big name actors like Tilda Swinton floated. The BBC can't even consistently put a new 13 episode season on the air every 12 months. There's no way they'd land a movie star for the role. But yeah so far I've enjoyed every NuWho Doctor. Eccelson less than others, but I was hooked after watching series 1 so he clearly did his job. I doubt they'll gently caress up with casting Jodie Whittaker.
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Slowpoke! posted:I have no idea who any of these actors are half the time a Doctor casting rumor pops up, but I always laugh when I see big name actors like Tilda Swinton floated. The BBC can't even consistently put a new 13 episode season on the air every 12 months. There's no way they'd land a movie star for the role. I mean, I take your general point, but you do know that Christopher Eccleston was in movies before he was the Doctor? 28 Days Later and Gone in 60 Seconds off the top of my head, so not just zero budget zero impact british movies either. Also in the interests of pure pedantry one of the main things I know jodie whittaker from is "Attack the Block" which was a movie in which she starred. But that one is admitttedly a bit more of a niche british film (which had success, but not as much as I feel like it should have). In all fairness to people who predict really unlikely big hollywood stars, the demarcation between "TV Actor" and "Movie Actor" isnt nearly as defined as it used to be, with various "prestige miniseries" attracting a reasonably big name actor for various reasons (not always financial either). Personally I'm on the record as being skeptical of any actor whose name is bandied about before an announcement, because its pretty much never who everyone says its going to be.
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sinepost posted:
Replace "punchline" with "scene" (usually the conclusion) and you have a fitting epitaph for RTD's Who.
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I dismissed the notion of Tilda not because she's in movies but because she's break the BBCs budget. They like to keep Who cheap
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Burkion posted:You know, I miss RTD. He's a judge for the 2017 Bruntwood prize for playwriting, he's working on A Very British Scandal for Channel 4, and he's grown a moustache. 
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pgroce posted:A fitting epitaph for Moffat's Who. Replace "punchline" with "scene" (usually the conclusion) and you have a fitting epitaph for RTD's Who. [/quote] I'm not sure 'Clever' fits into anything RTD has ever done. He goes for emotional more than that. The_Doctor posted:He's a judge for the 2017 Bruntwood prize for playwriting, he's working on A Very British Scandal for Channel 4, and he's grown a moustache. I'm genuinely happy to hear that. He looks better with a mustache too.
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Speaking of Rusty, someone on Reddit uploaded a very poor quality scan of a magazine column where he talks about his feelings on Steven Moffats era of Doctor Who: https://68.media.tumblr.com/34b0e7e22aa0f6c54823081208f9d51a/tumblr_otqzoqIzRI1wsfqgwo1_540.jpg
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I think that's from the latest DWM. I was going to buy that in the next couple of days. I could scan it for easier reading.
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Awww, RTD is adorable.
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HopperUK posted:Awww, RTD is adorable. I love listening to RTD talk about Doctor Who.
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The_Doctor posted:He's a judge for the 2017 Bruntwood prize for playwriting, he's working on A Very British Scandal for Channel 4, and he's grown a moustache. HOLY poo poo, I LOOK LIKE RTD
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all-Rush mixtape posted:HOLY poo poo, I LOOK LIKE RTD Are you 8 foot tall?
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Burkion posted:Are you 8 foot tall? One of my favorite RTD stories is when he tells people he worked on Doctor Who, most would look at him ask "Are you one of the monsters?" Then again, he says he was finally able to use his height to his advantage in his job on Who in the early day when he was with the BBC Controller and the licensing department. They had all the contracts to the various licensees spread out before them, and someone brought up Big Finish. The Controller asked "Big Finish? What's that?" and RTD reached across the table, took BF's contract, and said "Don't worry about that, I'll take care of it." RTD explained that if the Controller learned that someone else was making Who at that time, he would have cancelled it then and there, and RTD didn't want that to happen. Davros1 fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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The RTD artefact I'm most interested in reading is the pitch bible he wrote in 2004 and distributed to Moffat, Gatiss, Cornell et al. as a starting point for season one, because its first line is supposedly a description of the Ninth Doctor as a happy-go-lucky, cheerful adventurer, which cracks me up a bit. I'm hoping to get that Moffat retrospective issue of DWM because I enjoy that kind of thing, even though I don't collect DWM as religiously as I did back in 2004-2006. Does anyone know if the DWM app is any good?
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Burkion posted:Are you 8 foot tall? No, and I also have more hair.
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Box of Bunnies posted:They definitely overdo this stuff with Vastra but I like the core idea of her and Strax where the Doctor has these friends that we don't meet until later into those friendships because, well, of course he does. He's very old and has all these off screen adventures, it makes sense that we'll meet some of these friends later into their relationships with him One of my favorite things is from one of those "mini-sodes" where Amy wakes up in the middle of the night, walks into the console room and the Doctor bursts through the door in a tuxedo and brakes to a halt when he sees her. Her,"Doctor.... do you go on adventures without us while we're asleep?" and his sheepish look back at her is hilarious. TinTower posted:
God I love The Crimson Horror  Davros1 posted:RTD saves Big Finish God I love Rusty
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: In the wrong hands, that venom could wipe out all life on this planet!
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Q_res posted:A John Carpenter-style Who theme. This is great. It also makes me yearn for when Doctor Who music was properly weird and wobbly and synthy. It was always that stuff that made me 'hide behind the sofa' more than the monsters. I know its been a Who fan complaint literally since 2005 that Murray Gold was all about 'Hollywood orchestra bombast', but the annoying thing is, there were these tiny glimpses into what he could do, synthesiser-wise. I remember there was a tiny fragment of music over a CGI shot in Silence In The Library/Forest of the Dead that had a dope bassline, and also when the Doctor inspects the painting of Clara in Heaven Sent that made me just wish all Doctor Who music was all synth, all the time. I tried to look on youtube for examples of the moments I meant, but couldn't find anything. Please accept instead an arrangement of Laura Palmer's Theme in the style of the Stranger Things Title Theme, which is the sort of vibe I would love to see in the next series of Doctor Who. It's funny how RTD wanted a full orchestra sound so as not to feel dated, but things have come round full circle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KictEmxIKE
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Matinee posted:and also when the Doctor inspects the painting of Clara in Heaven Sent that made me just wish all Doctor Who music was all synth, all the time. Still waiting on that season 9 soundtrack. <  > I've really fallen in love with synths lately. To me they speak of memories I know I don't have. Of driving along long dark American highways, when the night was endlessly large and all-encompassing, the only holdouts being tiny pools of light from hole in the wall diners in the middle of nowhere.   Stranger Things does a really good job of tapping into that sense of simpler things for me.
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Q_res posted:I'm sure I"m not the first person to post this, but I just discovered it. The Tangerine Dream-style theme is loving amazing. The_Doctor posted:Still waiting on that season 9 soundtrack. < As an American...you pretty much hit the nail on the head. It boggles my wife's mind when sometimes I'd rather hop in the car and drive somewhere hours away and take the non-highway route than get on an airplane or take the Interstate. Going from Washington DC to Orlando Florida without touching I-95 is one of my most treasured memories because you see places like that at the side of the road and wonder what kind of stories take place wherever you aren't at any given time.
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CobiWann posted:As an American...you pretty much hit the nail on the head. It boggles my wife's mind when sometimes I'd rather hop in the car and drive somewhere hours away and take the non-highway route than get on an airplane or take the Interstate. Going from Washington DC to Orlando Florida without touching I-95 is one of my most treasured memories because you see places like that at the side of the road and wonder what kind of stories take place wherever you aren't at any given time. Pretty much exactly how this happened: 
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Very late 80/early 90s (89-94?) My parents and I would fly from here in London to Detroit and then drive down to Chicago to do this antique show just outside Chicago (flying straight into Chicago was more expensive I think?). I was 8/9 first time we did it, so I've just got the cusp of what it felt like then. But absolutely we'd be driving along dark roads, and we'd stop at some middle of nowhere motel en route in Michigan. Eat dinner in hole in the wall diners with that yellowy fluorescent light, or dimly lit with just pools of light along the counter and above the booths.
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The_Doctor posted:Very late 80/early 90s (89-94?) My parents and I would fly from here in London to Detroit and then drive down to Chicago to do this antique show just outside Chicago (flying straight into Chicago was more expensive I think?). I was 8/9 first time we did it, so I've just got the cusp of what it felt like then. But absolutely we'd be driving along dark roads, and we'd stop at some middle of nowhere motel en route in Michigan. Eat dinner in hole in the wall diners with that yellowy fluorescent light, or dimly lit with just pools of light along the counter and above the booths. Twelve quietly playing "Clara" on his guitar while a waitress pours him a cup and listens to his story takes on a whole different meaning depending on the lighting
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Regarding Murray Gold themes: I enjoyed the theme tune during Capaldi's tenure much more than Smith's versions and the God-awful Series 4 version. I like 'The Chase', though, and hopefully that bit of the theme continues with Whittaker's Doctor.
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Man i loved the series 4 one, it sounded... cool
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Wheat Loaf posted:Pretty much exactly how this happened: You're not too far off. It's the closest thing to an American Lord of the Rings we will ever see, along with The Stand and Swan Song.
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all-Rush mixtape posted:Regarding Murray Gold themes: I enjoyed the theme tune during Capaldi's tenure much more than Smith's versions and the God-awful Series 4 version. I like 'The Chase', though, and hopefully that bit of the theme continues with Whittaker's Doctor. bring back the middle eight, cowards
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2house2fly posted:Man i loved the series 4 one, it sounded... cool It sounded like the Stolen Earth/Journey's End was written.
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CobiWann posted:The Tangerine Dream-style theme is loving amazing. I keep trying to make stuff like this, but it always comes out sounding like a third-rate educational video about planets. But more importantly: DoctorWhat posted:bring back the middle eight, cowards
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CobiWann posted:As an American...you pretty much hit the nail on the head. It boggles my wife's mind when sometimes I'd rather hop in the car and drive somewhere hours away and take the non-highway route than get on an airplane or take the Interstate. Going from Washington DC to Orlando Florida without touching I-95 is one of my most treasured memories because you see places like that at the side of the road and wonder what kind of stories take place wherever you aren't at any given time. Cobi, have you seen the film Near Dark? It combines both halves of your post, and is fantastic. Okay, there's kind of a deus ex machina ending, but look what thread you're in.
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DoctorWhat posted:bring back the middle eight, cowards they could at least do it on special occasions. when there's a lot a guest stars and the credits could use the extra space
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the tv movie was right. the middle eight should be the start
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Vinylshadow posted:I wonder how different the diner scenes in The Impossible Astronaut and Hell Bent would've been if they'd been shot at night Considering the diner is actual a gaudy faux-American place right on Cardiff Bay, they'd have had a lot of work to do. 
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I was going to say "80s middle 8 supremacy, come fight me like a Myrka, bro", but the fact is I love them all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqyUZUqTqcE Splendid bridges, all of 'em. EDIT - The Ron Grainer arrangement would use it to take a break from Pertwee punching people to show ladies dancing in very 70s getups, or maybe quick zooms on the supporting UNIT cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1SZs4xudf8&t=63s After The War fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Aug 1, 2017 |
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After The War posted:Cobi, have you seen the film Near Dark? It combines both halves of your post, and is fantastic. Okay, there's kind of a deus ex machina ending, but look what thread you're in. I LOVE Near Dark. Back in my LARP days I'd point to that movie and go "this is what playing the Sabbat in the World of Darkness should be like." But in terms of the topic, you're exactly right. Movies like that or Out of the Furnace, even the original My Bloody Valentine, the "this is what happens off the beaten path" setting. I think it's why I love the episodes of Doctor Who that show that even in the future there's still someone having to change the filters in the quantum engines or there's a colony that's been around for 200 years and the shine has worn off but people still have a job to do.
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After The War posted:EDIT - The Ron Grainer arrangement would use it to take a break from Pertwee punching people to show ladies dancing in very 70s getups, or maybe quick zooms on the supporting UNIT cast: Man, this is one of those things that I forget about for months, then somebody else brings it up and I'm not sure how it ever left my mind.
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