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Gaz-L posted:I want to say gently caress you, because the rhyme scheme of that made me read it in Matt Lucas' Dennis Waterman voice from Little Britain. I've heard Waterman was offered the role of the Doctor in the late 80s after Minder went on its four-year break, but he declined because he wouldn't have been allowed to write the feem toon or sing the feem toon. Not that it would ever top his greatest musical achievement.
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Just call me WickDiv, because once again, I return. So, I'm really liking Whitaker so far. Sort of a Tennent-ish vibe coming off her, which isn't terribly surprising a choice. When you're already the experiment half the internet hates, draw on your predecessor with the mass appeal and all. I don't really have much to say about Yaz, but I do rather like Graham and Ryan. An old fella on the Tardis who isn't its owner feels new, and giving him and Ryan a family connection I thought was a good way of including the mandatory NuWho family drama without requiring pit stops in modern day Britain every other episode, and helps lessen the writerly burden of three companions. As for the actual episodes... eh. Aside from "Rosa" most of them have ranged from "decent and functional" to "watchable but scattershot", which is a problem halfway through the series. We're getting a bunch of episodes from writers besides Chibnall , so I'm interested in seeing how that pans out.
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Nov 8, 2018 10:50
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Jerusalem posted:
J-Ru, you’ve got to organise these out into stories or something. The pages take ages to load now, which is frustrating when you just want that one gif of 11 doing the heel turn from DotD.
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Nov 8, 2018 13:29
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The best TARDIS interior will always be the one from the TV Movie (if they increased the lighting maaaaaaybe 10-15% so it’s a notch above “mid-90s Fox atmospheric lighting”)
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Nov 8, 2018 18:22
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Twelve had the best Tardis interior. Also best Doctor outfit, sonic, and hair. And guitar.
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Nov 8, 2018 20:01
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The one complaint I have now about the current console room is that it's very dark and that makes it feel a little claustrophobic (though it may be one of those cases where it's a small set and the underlighting is to hide that.) If it were a little brighter and a little more open it'd be perfect.
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Nov 8, 2018 20:28
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I don't have a very good sense of the new control room because the show has spent practically no time at all in it. There's been what, three scenes total in the Tardis this season? I'm probably forgetting some.
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Nov 8, 2018 23:03
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The_Doctor posted:J-Ru, you’ve got to organise these out into stories or something. The pages take ages to load now, which is frustrating when you just want that one gif of 11 doing the heel turn from DotD. I've organized them into episodes per season on my HD, but Imgurs' system isn't the best and I already have way too many folders on my account there. As far as I know you can't embed folders into folders, somebody please let me know if I'm wrong! This rules 
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howe_sam posted:I don't have a very good sense of the new control room because the show has spent practically no time at all in it. There's been what, three scenes total in the Tardis this season? I'm probably forgetting some. Yeah, someone upthread mentioned a comparative lack of "bookend"scenes in the TARDIS so far this season. That's something I've always wanted to see from the show. Does Team TARDIS always bounce straight from crisis to crisis? Or do they sometimes take a day off and chill in the cool space and time box?
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jivjov posted:Yeah, someone upthread mentioned a comparative lack of "bookend"scenes in the TARDIS so far this season. That's something I've always wanted to see from the show. Does Team TARDIS always bounce straight from crisis to crisis? Or do they sometimes take a day off and chill in the cool space and time box? There's the implication with pretty much every monster a week show, fantasy, sci-fi or whatever, that you're only seeing the really bad or really good days and I think for whatever reason this season they've just decided to cut the cruft. Regardless of whether or not most people like the cruft, which I think they probably do.
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I liked the Tsuranga Conundrum for the most part, except for the pregnant guy. That felt a bit unimportant. Also, S37E07 may be have the dumbest episode title in Doctor Who history.
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Nov 9, 2018 02:18
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I'm up to Matt Smith in my rewatch and I think the space whale episode is underrated, but that Victory of the Daleks is basically trash until the Doctor teleports to the Dalek ship, at which point there are some good, Baker-esque jokes.
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Nov 9, 2018 02:25
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Even after the jokes start, it's a real slog. I remember it being a low point elevated by it's jokes, but it's like 5 percent good jokes and 95 percent Trix Flavour Daleks and Rascally Old Churchill.
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Nov 9, 2018 02:35
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Bicyclops posted:I'm up to Matt Smith in my rewatch and I think the space whale episode is underrated, but that Victory of the Daleks is basically trash until the Doctor teleports to the Dalek ship, at which point there are some good, Baker-esque jokes. In some ways I like The Beast Below better than I do The Eleventh Hour.
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Nov 9, 2018 03:14
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The Beast Below is a great follow-up, but I still think The Eleventh Hour is an utterly fantastic intro/scene setter not just for the new Doctor, but the entire fairy-tale aspect of season 5.
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Nov 9, 2018 03:17
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It's been a while, but I remember "Beast Below" bugging me in that it never connected the creepy Moffat-isms (like the spinny head guy) with the central plot of Bloody Queen and the Space Whale. (Which would be a great name for a terrible prog band.) Now, after five-odd seasons of that, I probably wouldn't even notice .
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Nov 9, 2018 03:57
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The Beast Below is a personal favourite. There's something special about Matt Smith's performance in it that I can't quite put my finger on. There are a few hokey elements to the plot and writing - as always - but it's just wonderful otherwise Edit - thinking about it, it's that Smith isn't as cartoony as later episodes. He plays the doctor as being awkward but less in a 'limbs flying everywhere' way and more in a 'struggles to keep up with his own head' way. It's also his most Troughton-like performance, which is always a huge plus in my book. Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Nov 9, 2018 09:53
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It's a great episode that has many of Smith's Doctor's best traits in play - kid at heart, good with kids thereby, curious of but not magically knowledgeable about the situation which allows him to be wrong, something Smith in particular is good at, a good guest cast from the Queen to the monks to the girl, some righteous anger from the Doc, something I think only Capaldi beats out Smith for, a good ending with a nice bit of morality that doesn't overstay its knowing wink and nudge. It's everything Dinosaurs On A Spaceship tries and fails to be. And 'struggles to keep up with his own head' is a great way to put it, though he does get that back in some fun episodes.
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Orv posted:And 'struggles to keep up with his own head' is a great way to put it, though he does get that back in some fun episodes. This was one of my favorite bits of early 11 - especially in The Eleventh Hour - where there were points where he had to stop because he'd figured everything out so fast that he'd gotten ahead of his own brain and had to wait for a moment to play catchup 
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Jerusalem posted:This was one of my favorite bits of early 11 - especially in The Eleventh Hour - where there were points where he had to stop because he'd figured everything out so fast that he'd gotten ahead of his own brain and had to wait for a moment to play catchup Yeah, that was also great. It seemed like it was going to be a running thing after the first two episodes, but it never really came up after that.
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Nov 9, 2018 12:41
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Jodie looks like Chadwick Boseman did after having to do the Wakanda Forever salute for 47,000th time. https://twitter.com/blogtorwho/status/1060933174530850817
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Watching the Doctor smack into a tree is a magical thing Then again into a pole during The Doctor, the Widow, and Flying a Plane Through the Time Vortex After Dealing with Tree People Also one of the few times we get a Police Box fakeout
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The_Doctor posted:Jodie looks like Chadwick Boseman did after having to do the Wakanda Forever salute for 47,000th time. "We did twenty takes and that was the best one." However, I like the look of the TARDIS set in that shot. That's good lighting for it.
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Nov 9, 2018 17:56
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Rani from The Sarah Jane Adventures was on this week's Legends of Tomorrow
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Nov 9, 2018 17:57
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I genuinely believe The Beast Below is one of Smith’s top 3 episodes, and it’s crazy that it was only his second episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDix_GCbWf0
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1060951855369461765 Such a bright woman
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I genuinely believe The Beast Below is one of Smith’s top 3 episodes, and it’s crazy that it was only his second episode. It really reminds me that the episodes this series have been pretty sub par. I really hope we get some good ones before the season is over.
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Nov 9, 2018 19:10
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It feels like they're still kinda trying to find their groove as a creative team. Like they're taking a very light touch because they don't want to tank it completely and have the first season with a female Doctor be the one that everyone hates. Like they took a risk in doing a story about Rosa Parks, obviously, but that's a different kind of risktaking. It's been enjoyable but so far nothing *great*.
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Nov 9, 2018 19:48
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It's been okay but boring. I really did not like the last episode, though.
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I've gotten a very 5 vibe from this whole season, in that I like the cast a lot but the stories haven't been very interesting. Rosa has probably been the best so far, but all the others just kind of run together in a generic way.
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The_Doctor posted:Jodie looks like Chadwick Boseman did after having to do the Wakanda Forever salute for 47,000th time. I am scared that she's going to burn out from having to be bright and shiny in every press junket. Having to prove herself because she's a WOMAN is going to be exhausting for her.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I've gotten a very 5 vibe from this whole season, in that I like the cast a lot but the stories haven't been very interesting. Rosa has probably been the best so far, but all the others just kind of run together in a generic way. Make her fight a giant snake!!
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Rhyno posted:I am scared that she's going to burn out from having to be bright and shiny in every press junket. Having to prove herself because she's a WOMAN is going to be exhausting for her. There's a lot of irony in saying this in response to a picture where she looks vaguely tired but still more energetic and beautiful than 99% of people dude.
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Its not just that picture, I've been worried about how long she can sustain it when 75% or reporting about the show is pointing out that she's a woman and how it's ruining the legacy of the series.
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Nov 9, 2018 21:52
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Rhyno posted:Its not just that picture, I've been worried about how long she can sustain it when 75% or reporting about the show is pointing out that she's a woman and how it's ruining the legacy of the series. Eh, I wouldn't go that far. There's a hugely obnoxious vocal minority talking about how she ruined the series and a bunch of the usual rags are doing the "Will viewers adapt to these changes?" thing they do about every new season, but most of the coverage of her has agreed with Colin Baker's article that it was change, and not a moment too soon.
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Bicyclops posted:Eh, I wouldn't go that far. There's a hugely obnoxious vocal minority talking about how she ruined the series and a bunch of the usual rags are doing the "Will viewers adapt to these changes?" thing they do about every new season, but most of the coverage of her has agreed with Colin Baker's article that it was change, and not a moment too soon. Why is Colin Baker the best human.
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Maxwell Lord posted:It feels like they're still kinda trying to find their groove as a creative team. Like they're taking a very light touch because they don't want to tank it completely and have the first season with a female Doctor be the one that everyone hates. I think you're probably right. It does not feel like a confident show, everything happening on-screen is carefully explained or clarified (usually by Yaz) and the writers seem to keep second guessing themselves which makes the show feel inconsistent (comic relief pregnant man turns into serious delivery room scene with emotional counselling) or anticlimactic (TARDIS shown right at the beginning of Ghost Monument, showdown with big spider never happens). It makes me sad only one episode this season is written by a woman without Chibnall as co-writer. Thirteen's character doesn't seem to have much depth compared to her predecessors - I was super excited about finally having a female sci fi lead with a sense of humour, but now I'm somewhat disappointed to find that this is all she's really got. Where are the other facets? It's valuable for kids to see a funny, smart, strong, capable, confident woman but it's hard to sympathise with a character who is all positives. dsub fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Nov 10, 2018 |
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sunnyboy posted:Bingo. Heh, that reminds me. Back in the early 70s when they showed Dr. Who on WTTW Ch 11 Chicago, they showed them serialized, one a day, weekdays. And it never failed, Id either miss the first ep and not know what the heck was going on, or, more commonly, I'd miss that last ep, and never know the ending until decades later. It was the 3rd doctor, IIRC.
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