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The_Doctor posted:Oh. Uh. Um. Sure, why not? The expression on 8 is drat near perfect.
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docbeard posted:The expression on 8 is drat near perfect. So perfect, they used it four other times!
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Sep 25, 2017 18:42
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Blind box, no War Doctor. No thanks.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:44
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And poor 13 sinks back into obscurity once again...   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZk-5vaxUk *cackling*
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The_Doctor posted:Oh. Uh. Um. Sure, why not? hello new, horrible avatar
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Sep 25, 2017 19:33
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Ah, Doctoful Boyfriend.
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The_Doctor posted:Ah, Doctoful Boyfriend.
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Vinylshadow posted:It's not a true dating game until the Master appears in it Step away from the console, Master-kun. You're too tsundere to drive.
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Murderion posted:Step away from the console, Master-kun. You're too tsundere to drive. Get a move on, slow coach
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Get a move on, slow coach Ahahahaha
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Sep 26, 2017 02:48
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The_Doctor posted:Oh. Uh. Um. Sure, why not? These Really make you realize which Doctors' faces are nose-dominated. Three and Four suffer the most.
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Sep 26, 2017 05:05
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12 suffers from diminished eyebrows. I guess there's no way to make accurate eyebrows kawaii.
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Sep 26, 2017 05:11
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The_Doctor posted:Oh. Uh. Um. Sure, why not? where is john hurt
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never forget john hurt
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corn in the bible posted:where is john hurt Dude is going to be sidelined forever, unfortunately. 
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Facebook Aunt posted:12 suffers from diminished eyebrows. I guess there's no way to make accurate eyebrows kawaii. What kind of person doesn't find big fluffy murderous Scottish eyebrows kawaii?
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corn in the bible posted:where is john hurt His figure ate something that didn't agree with him early in development.
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Bicyclops posted:His figure ate something that didn't agree with him early in development. Oh no, not again!
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There are some really great stories during the Troughton era, but boy howdy is The Space Pirates not one of them.. What the hell is Gordon Gostelow trying to do? It's like Yosemite Sam and Miss Gulch had a child who learned to talk entirely from watching Vaudeville. Donald Gee sounds like the American executives in that Monty Python routine about "idears," and he looks too much like a gangly teenager to be the serious military man we're supposed to believe him to be. I'm actually trying to follow the story this time around and I can't figure out what the hell is going on or how the Doctor and crew are even involved. I don't even know who this lady with the dome hat is, but all of a sudden she started speaking extra dramatically and walked straight toward the camera while staring into it. Absolutely bizarre choices, from scene to scene.
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Bicyclops posted:There are some really great stories during the Troughton era, but boy howdy is The Space Pirates not one of them.. What the hell is Gordon Gostelow trying to do? It's like Yosemite Sam and Miss Gulch had a child who learned to talk entirely from watching Vaudeville. Donald Gee sounds like the American executives in that Monty Python routine about "idears," and he looks too much like a gangly teenager to be the serious military man we're supposed to believe him to be. I'm actually trying to follow the story this time around and I can't figure out what the hell is going on or how the Doctor and crew are even involved. I don't even know who this lady with the dome hat is, but all of a sudden she started speaking extra dramatically and walked straight toward the camera while staring into it. Absolutely bizarre choices, from scene to scene. I think I actually have to seek this out now. I'm always looking for more Minuet In Hell-calibre Who to bring quality to my life.
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docbeard posted:I think I actually have to seek this out now. I'm always looking for more Minuet In Hell-calibre Who to bring quality to my life. Only the second episode still exists at present, and if you're going to watch one episode of it, stick with that one, because the way everyone chooses to move is so weird. At least two of the actors look like they're in a school play and keep nervously looking away from the audience. I'm going to have to read the Wikipedia summary afterward, it defies trying to follow the plot.
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When you consider Robert Holmes first two stories for Doctor Who were The Krotons (which I don't mind that much) and The Space Pirates, it's kinda amazing that he actually kept getting work AND that he ended up being so instrumental in some of the best ever episodes of Classic Who as well as arguably its most sustained period of excellence and popularity.
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The Krotons has one of my favourite unintentional comedy sequences in Doctor Who (the one where the Krotons learn how to recognise Gonds*) *Alright, alright, you win. I see you've played Gondy-Jamie before
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I think The Krotons also has that great section where the Doctor sits the intelligence test to try and save Zoe, who is having the time of her life taunting him because he's distracted and not doing quite as well in the test as she did.
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Jerusalem posted:I think The Krotons also has that great section where the Doctor sits the intelligence test to try and save Zoe, who is having the time of her life taunting him because he's distracted and not doing quite as well in the test as she did. "Go away, don't fuss me, no wait, come back, what's this, no, it's all right, I know" I love the Second Doctor so much. e: heehee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_iVCO2PStE
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The Krotons is sort of the quintessential classic Who in that it feels silly enough that it's hard for me to say that it's good, but it's just so loving enjoyable that I absolutely love it. Like, Jerusalem posted:When you consider Robert Holmes first two stories for Doctor Who were The Krotons (which I don't mind that much) and The Space Pirates, it's kinda amazing that he actually kept getting work AND that he ended up being so instrumental in some of the best ever episodes of Classic Who as well as arguably its most sustained period of excellence and popularity. this summarizes it pretty well. On the one hand, these are the two serials that Holmes started on? But if I stop and think about it, I can't say that about just The Krotons. If nothing else, it has a place in my heart for letting Zoe actually do the thing she was created for, which is to be brainy but let her intellectual curiosity cum naivety get her in trouble. The Krotons are probably meant to be scary, and I get that they're technically supposed to be "crystal organisms," but they come off so perfectly as doofy, clunky, robots, whose programming is just faulty enough to make hugely comical but catastrophic mistakes. It feels more like they were designed by someone with a self-powering algorithm that went wrong and overrode whatever their initial purpose was, so they stumble around in their little room, accidentally creating a pointless dystopia with their stentorian robo-voices. The serious moments are unintentional comedy in the best way, one that allows for you both to enjoy them while still appreciating their intentions. And yeah, watching Two get more and more upset as he gets distracted during the Kroton GRE test (while Zoe looks over his shoulder like some disappointed Princeton Review tutor,) is hilarious, particularly because the way he gets into it is to heroically volunteer for the test so that Zoe won't have to go in alone. It's very definitely not one of the best Two serials, but it's also very, very definitely one of my favorites.
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Also the entire serial, it sounds like people are talking about an alien salad whose bread cubes have asserted a god-like authority over society.
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HopperUK posted:"Go away, don't fuss me, no wait, come back, what's this, no, it's all right, I know" Holy poo poo I did not realize just how much Matt Smith was challenging Troughton.
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That tiny little girl standing next to Troughton in that picture grew up to be Matt Smith's agent when he was cast as the 11th Doctor 
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Jerusalem posted:That tiny little girl standing next to Troughton in that picture grew up to be Matt Smith's agent when he was cast as the 11th Doctor And a mouthy Australian became Paul McGann's agent when he was cast as the 8th!
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Wendy Padbury is just great. She was also the agent for Colin Baker and Mark Strickson (and Nicholas Courtney, I guess, although obviously she didn't discover him). Her interviews are all about how she refuses to scream when people ask and how it makes interviewers uncomfortable, about how she, Patrick and Frazer goofed off on set so much that they lost a lot of takes to laughter (there was a scene where she had to talk about how big a rocket was that she couldn't look Patrick in the eyes or she'd crack up). I guess they offered for the two of them to keep going with Three, but they decided it would be nice to leave with Patrick Troughton.
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88 days left in the Capaldi era.
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CommonShore posted:88 days left in the Capaldi era. Man, I've never been as depressed for Christmas before you put like that. Nothing against Whittaker, but seeing Capaldi go is going to be a bit sad.
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Bicyclops posted:I guess they offered for the two of them to keep going with Three, but they decided it would be nice to leave with Patrick Troughton. Man, I would love to have seen that! Jamie and Zoe continuing on with 3 and UNIT in color on Earth!  Since they've pretty much done every wish list idea I've had in the past few years, there is only one left I can think of for Big Finish--I'd love to see some Unbounds with Mixed Doctors and Companions. I think I've mentioned this here before. Basically you take some cliffhanger and the Doctor dies unexpectedly, regenerates, and the old companions stay on. Bonus points if they coulld redo an actual tv episode (would be a rights nightmare but if you get the original writer to do the audio...). Imagine we're in the middle of some classic tv story, and the Doctor is in peril. But instead of getting out of it as he did--he dies. And now the NEXT Doctor has to finish the serial, with Companions we never saw him wtih on tv. So 4 dies early and 5 ends up with Leela--or a Romana.1 regenerates and Susan has to explain who this tramp looking fellow is to Ian and Barbara. How would the dynamic be if old Sixie was dealing with Nyssa, Tegan, and Adric? You also would have a different Doctor (in the throes of post-Regeneration) possibly reacting very differently to the story than we saw. After that you could even do a few more with new stories.
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It's an interesting idea, definitely. I'd love to hear the adventures of Six and Jo Grant, Seven and Leela, or Eight and Ace. They'd have to find the right stories for them, of course, and get lucky with the rights. I think an Unbound line would be about the length for it, because too many of them would wear it out fast.
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Astroman posted:Man, I would love to have seen that! Jamie and Zoe continuing on with 3 and UNIT in color on Earth! BF did a three audios which had 7 with Jo, 6 with Jamie & Zoe, and 5 with Steven & Vicki.
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Davros1 posted:BF did a three audios which had 7 with Jo, 6 with Jamie & Zoe, and 5 with Steven & Vicki.  I need to get back to my Big Finish listening, clearly.
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On a rewatch, the more subtle way of portraying the Time Lords as xenophobic, detached traditionalists in The War Games is unquestionably the better way to do it, and the Silly Hats Cartoonish Moron Squad of literally every other depiction of them afterward is just regrettable.
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It's so remarkable how out of the park the War Games does it. They're not just some group of people with time machines, they're these godlike things that even the Doctor fears and dreads Turns out no they're just really rather rubbish and boring and the Doctor can just yell at them until they give up
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Did... did they lose their microphones when they went to color? I'm only like ten minutes into Spearhead from Space, but it feels like the whole thing was filmed in a gymnasium with a huge echo.
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