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Almost time for the new episode. Here's this, for anyone who has to wait longer to pass the time with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=828rVOsSifg
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Oct 21, 2018 18:53
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Let the man see Elvis! 
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Oct 21, 2018 19:01
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They are not holding back here.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:03
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Emmett Till isn't a name I expected to hear on Doctor Who 
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Oct 21, 2018 19:03
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Time to avoid this thread until the evening. Blasted BBC America.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:05
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This is.... clumsy
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Oct 21, 2018 19:07
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It is really so difficult to find actors from the place their characters are supposed to be from instead of just having a lot of terrible accents? E: the whole episode feels really....ham-fisted. not enjoying it at all tbh Bardeh fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Oct 21, 2018 |
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Oct 21, 2018 19:08
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Ben Soosneb posted:This is.... clumsy Not in a terrible way though. Educate and entertain, just a bit on the nose.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:15
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ryan and yaz awkwardly explaining the moral of the episode
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Oct 21, 2018 19:16
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"Who says I'm not [x]" jokes will never not slay me.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:16
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Ben Soosneb posted:Not in a terrible way though. Educate and entertain, just a bit on the nose. Yeah, it's rough but I 'm enjoying it. Edit: Graham absolutely rules.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:17
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Checkovs temporal time travel gun
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Oct 21, 2018 19:30
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Ben Soosneb posted:Checkovs temporal time travel gun Yeah, that was pretty obvious  Graham and Ryan are such a great team.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:34
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Well I'm just offended to my very core. That was a perfectly good jacket.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:34
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so far two separate episodes have involved graham saving the day with his bus knowledge
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Oct 21, 2018 19:36
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So are we expecting the bad guy and his "this is where it all went wrong" ominous messages to be a fakeout and he's trying to save Rosa or something? Otherwise he just seems kind of... one-note. Edit: Nevermind, guess he was just one-note Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Oct 21, 2018 |
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Oct 21, 2018 19:37
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I was disappointed the Doctor didn’t mention her wife was in Stormcage.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:41
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corn in the bible posted:so far two separate episodes have involved graham saving the day with his bus knowledge When you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a bus.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:41
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I'm extremely relieved that they didn't make it so Rosa was inspired by the Doctor or her companions to stay in place.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:43
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Jerusalem posted:So are we expecting the bad guy and his "this is where it all went wrong" ominous messages to be a fakeout and he's trying to save Rosa or something? Otherwise he just seems kind of... one-note. Maybe he’ll be a recurring but misunderstood racist villain?
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Oct 21, 2018 19:43
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And I'm quite sure the racist ex-con whose into causing butterfly effects being punted back in time will have no consequences whatsoever.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:44
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Ben Soosneb posted:Maybe he’ll be a recurring but misunderstood racist villain? Maybe he’s the start of the Stenza? Ryan sent him very far back.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:45
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All felt a bit ‘very special episode’ and awkward and clumsy. But not bad.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:45
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On the one hand, that was clumsy as all gently caress. On the other, I was braced for it to be SO MUCH WORSE, so I'm putting that one down as, if not a win exactly, at least not a loss. A no score draw of an episode if you like.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:47
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Spiders from metebelis 3?
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Oct 21, 2018 19:47
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Well that was... interesting. Let's see what next week's episode is oh thank gently caress it's evil spiders there's no way to gently caress that up.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:48
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That was pretty straight-forward if very well shot. The sci-fi elements felt forced and the villain was incredibly one-dimensional, but I dug that they didn't cause Rosa to keep her seat and they didn't really sanitize how utterly prevalent the racism was. Next week: Eight Legs? 
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Oct 21, 2018 19:49
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The writing was very heavy-handed but I did like the idea of a villain who's just trying to bugger up history due to being racist. Looking forward to his return where he'll be teaching dinosaurs to be racist.
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Oct 21, 2018 19:52
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I was won over on this episode, and perhaps this entire season, on the line 'Thats good, because I don't eat them'
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Oct 21, 2018 19:58
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Pretty funny that after Ryan admits sending the time-racist back into pre-history the Doctor just kinda doesn't care. Edit: Also at the start when Ryan says they've gone to 14 different stops before Alabama, I could almost hear Nick Briggs salivating about the 2025 Big Finish range.
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Oct 21, 2018 20:00
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I was really worried about this episode - and yeah, it was a tad clumsy towards the middle with Ryan and Yaz laying out the core theme of the story - but I'll take something that's slightly clumsy, but tries to deal with racism frankly and unflinchingly - and I think they handled Rosa and the segregation pretty well. It does suffer from the usual psuedo-historical problem of stuffing a random space person in there though. A space racist with an interesting plan to fudge history, but still it's unneeded, and he's still completely flat as a character. It felt really rushed how they got rid of him as well, sending him through time - if he returns, I don't think anyone could care enough.
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Oct 21, 2018 20:01
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Jerusalem posted:Pretty funny that after Ryan admits sending the time-racist back into pre-history the Doctor just kinda doesn't care. That’s what makes me think it’s something they’re going to follow up on.
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Oct 21, 2018 20:02
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I mean “villain who can’t directly kill but is really into the butterfly effect” is way too good to pass up.
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Oct 21, 2018 20:15
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So Alabama's segregation ends because of a grandfather paradox started by a far-future white supremacist that ensures the bus was full that evening? Okay.
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Oct 21, 2018 20:15
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corn in the bible posted:Have they really gotten worse? That's sad i wouldn't say worse but it does seem like they're less willing to take risks than they used to be. They kind of have an established comfort zone now which is fine if that's what you want
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Oct 21, 2018 20:15
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episode was ok i guess. eh
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Oct 21, 2018 20:19
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Stabbatical posted:So Alabama's segregation ends because of a grandfather paradox started by a far-future white supremacist that ensures the bus was full that evening? No it happened, he went back to try and change it, the Doctor and companions nudged things back as close to the original conditions as they could and happily did a good enough job that things went back along their original path. If the time-racist hadn't shown up and tried to change things, then the end result would have been the same: Rosa Parks refuses to move from her seat and gets arrested. My biggest concern going into the episode was that Rosa would only do these things because she was inspired or directed to by either the Doctor or her companions, so I was glad they were mostly just along for the ride trying to keep the obstacles out of her path so she could do what she was always going to do in the first place.
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Oct 21, 2018 20:26
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Editing seemed a bit better this time - in the Ghost Monument it was all over the placeJerusalem posted:No it happened, he went back to try and change it, the Doctor and companions nudged things back as close to the original conditions as they could and happily did a good enough job that things went back along their original path. If the time-racist hadn't shown up and tried to change things, then the end result would have been the same: Rosa Parks refuses to move from her seat and gets arrested. Yeah, this. Jerusalem posted:My biggest concern going into the episode was that Rosa would only do these things because she was inspired or directed to by either the Doctor or her companions, so I was glad they were mostly just along for the ride trying to keep the obstacles out of her path so she could do what she was always going to do in the first place. That was my biggest worry as well - it was actually a relief to see Malorie Blackman's name appear in the opening writing credits - a black woman who's written works that deal with racism. I so glad they handled it the way they did. Also, unrelated, I'm coming round to the new theme - also Akinola's general music is pretty great - different, but good and fitting from Gold's - and the better sound mixing means it's not drowning out everything else.
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Oct 21, 2018 20:51
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Also the timeline in Doctor Who is seven shades of buggered anyway.
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Oct 21, 2018 20:52
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SiKboy posted:On the one hand, that was clumsy as all gently caress. On the other, I was braced for it to be SO MUCH WORSE, so I'm putting that one down as, if not a win exactly, at least not a loss. A no score draw of an episode if you like. Yeah, I think that was the best that a show like dr who could have handled that storyline. Also I really liked it, three for three so far.
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