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I would rather have 10 episodes every year than 13 every 12-20 months. But the good thing about being a Who fan now is there's enough content with Big Finish to keep me going in the slow times.
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I’ve been good with the ten episode series, it was just a bummer to hear of another delay on top of that.
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Dec 25, 2018 02:40
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Yeah, I wasn't commenting on the 10 episodes. I'm fine with that. Just the long delay. And I think like my point is you guys are probably gonna stay engaged because you're so into the Big Finish stuff and everything but I'll probably gradually forget about it until I hang up my Tardis ornament next December. So imagine if I wasn't a nerd with a Tardis ornament?
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Dec 25, 2018 04:18
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Why not join us Big Finish nerds? A significant portion of them are way better than anything produced on the TV show.
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Dec 25, 2018 15:17
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They do the regeneration on the tardis so they can film it on the most private sound stage to keep poo poo as secret as possible.
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Dec 25, 2018 16:38
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, I wasn't commenting on the 10 episodes. I'm fine with that. Just the long delay. Big Finish is cool, embrace Lucie Bleeding Miller
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Dec 25, 2018 18:27
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New spoilery trailer that gives the game away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbT5t0TTuVw
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Dec 25, 2018 20:36
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The_Doctor posted:New spoilery trailer that gives the game away: I can't believe they revealed Tim Shaw's new raspy electronic voice
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Dec 25, 2018 20:58
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docbeard posted:I can't believe they revealed Tim Shaw's new raspy electronic voice I like it.
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Dec 25, 2018 21:08
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Finally, we get to see 13 face something that can, should, and hopefully WILL piss her off Let's go
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Dec 25, 2018 21:53
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Burkion posted:Finally, we get to see 13 face something that can, should, and hopefully WILL piss her off Maybe lower your expectations a little.
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Dec 25, 2018 21:57
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Burkion posted:Finally, we get to see 13 face something that can, should, and hopefully WILL piss her off She just doesn't get all shouty/pouty like 10 and 11 did. 12 was always kinda pissed off, if in a more endearing curmudgeonly way, so it wasn't like a switch flipped and he got real angry at a particular thing. 13 has the switch where she's good natured mostly and suddenly gets angry, but her anger is less performative and more, I don't know how to put it, helpful? Like she's trying to be constructive and explain what's going wrong even when she's livid. It's not as flashy, but she doesn't seem any less angry when she needs to be.
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Dec 25, 2018 23:39
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Her attempts to reason with King James were a good example. She’s absolutely livid with him but does her best to channel that into appealing to his better nature/make him think. She does that a lot this season, tries her best to make people better despite them constantly letting her down (outside of her “fam”) - tries to be a Doctor I guess would be accurate, and appropriate.
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Dec 26, 2018 00:33
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Part of the script from the upcoming episode has leaked!quote:The DOCTOR steps in front of a beleaguered squadron of resistance fighters, hands held up.
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Dec 26, 2018 00:55
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I mean mostly you don't want to shoot Daleks because that's never actually solved a Dalek problem in the history of ever, but you know, keep on strawmanning.
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Dec 26, 2018 01:09
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Oh, there's plenty of great scenes in Doctor Who that start with the Doctor having everybody put down their guns, and one thing all of them have in common is that none of them appeared in Series 11 and none of them were written by Chris Chibnall. After this series was over, I went back and watched Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, because I wanted to see if I was remembering it wrong when I called it quite good. I wasn't. It does a pretty good job of handling a large guest cast; there's the three regulars, Rory's dad, Cleopatra, and the hunter dude, and they all get at least a scene devoted to their development. They make sure to have a couple shots that aren't just generic spaceship interior, and the dinosaur effects are basically fine. The Mitchell and Webb robots... don't actively detract from the episode. And I really kind of like that the Doctor just up and kills David Bradley's character. It wouldn't work if it happened every episode, or even occasionally, but this is a guy that has basically attempted to commit genocide and is probably influential enough to escape any punishment, so the Doctor just... blows him up. That scene could do with a rewrite, sure, but it was really refreshing to see the Doctor actually... do something.
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Dec 26, 2018 01:38
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The Doctor killing David Bradley in cold blood is basically what makes me really dislike that episode despite it being pretty solid up until that point, so different strokes for different folks I guess.
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Dec 26, 2018 02:48
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I recall someone I followed on twitter saying they were done watching the show after that episode, if that's how the Doctor was going to be writren now. Which of course it wasn't, but still I wonder how that guy reacted to the news that the guy who wrote that episode would be taking over the show
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Dec 26, 2018 03:27
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I would have preferred it be written somewhat like the Doctor locks homing missiles onto some expensive item that Bradley had been talking up earlier, basically forcing him to jettison his collection or get blown up, but as it is, I don't mind it. It definitely wouldn't work if that was happening every single episode, but Bradley is such a despicable character, and that's the only time Eleven really does something like that, so instead of feeling dissonant and out of left field it gives the ending of the episode some bite.
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Dec 26, 2018 03:37
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I think the Great Intelligence also calls him out on it later?
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Dec 26, 2018 03:41
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Rochallor posted:Cleopatra, and the hunter dude Legit surprised that Big Finish hasn't done a series with them yet, or backstories involving them having previous adventures with the Doctor.
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Dec 26, 2018 03:54
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Irony Be My Shield posted:I think the Great Intelligence also calls him out on it later? Yeah, in Name Of The Doctor everyone's talking about how nice the Doctor is and the Great Intelligence says "tell that to Solomon the trader" a name I'd completely forgotten when I watched that episode the first time 
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Dec 26, 2018 04:50
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Given how often things go real bad and people die because the Doctor wasn't willing to kill someone who definitely needed to be killed, I don't really mind the rare cases where they actively get someone killed and not in a "villain trips over their own death trap, falls to death" kind of way.
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Dec 26, 2018 12:05
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Rochallor posted:Oh, there's plenty of great scenes in Doctor Who that start with the Doctor having everybody put down their guns, and one thing all of them have in common is that none of them appeared in Series 11 and none of them were written by Chris Chibnall. It has a bit of a Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure feel with the big, hodgepodge cast.
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Dec 26, 2018 15:37
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Thinking of Bill and Ted made me ponder the possibility of a clip show episode in which the Doctor goes back in time and does a bunch of little things that solve continuity errors, plot holes, or narrative improbabilities in earlier episodes, just as Bill and Ted get through a few problems by deciding "ok after this is all over, we'll go steal your dad's keys and then travel back and put them right... here!" Graham: "What's this then, Doctor? Do you have a to-do list?" Doctor: "It's just a few necessities I've been putting off. Well, no better time than the present, right?"
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Dec 26, 2018 15:44
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CommonShore posted:Thinking of Bill and Ted made me ponder the possibility of a clip show episode in which the Doctor goes back in time and does a bunch of little things that solve continuity errors, plot holes, or narrative improbabilities in earlier episodes, just as Bill and Ted get through a few problems by deciding "ok after this is all over, we'll go steal your dad's keys and then travel back and put them right... here!" I caught the last bit of Human Nature on BBC America the other day and I like to think that 13 at some point will go let the Family out of their eternal torture traps that 10 stuck them in because she's not that terrifying angry person any more.
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Dec 26, 2018 15:50
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The_Doctor posted:New spoilery trailer that gives the game away: The stupid thing is that the actual trailer itself doesn't spoil who or what it is as obviously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjiTgX6TR5U
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Dec 26, 2018 20:24
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I hope it's all a feint and the actual villain is Pangol, Child of the Generator.
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Dec 26, 2018 20:35
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Wheat Loaf posted:I hope it's all a feint and the actual villain is Pangol, Child of the Generator. Hoping for the long-overdue return of the Quarks, myself.
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Dec 26, 2018 21:17
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The Chumblies, obviously
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CommonShore posted:Thinking of Bill and Ted made me ponder the possibility of a clip show episode in which the Doctor goes back in time and does a bunch of little things that solve continuity errors, plot holes, or narrative improbabilities in earlier episodes, just as Bill and Ted get through a few problems by deciding "ok after this is all over, we'll go steal your dad's keys and then travel back and put them right... here!" Well The Name of the Doctor did basically have The Great Intelligence go back through the Doctor's lives trying to gently caress everything up backwards, and then Clara go through the Doctor's lives trying to set it all back the way it was, and then the Doctor jump into his own lives to go pick-up Clara and give us a John Hurt cameo! What I'm saying is that it was a very weird episode that lead into one of the all time best Doctor Who stories ever in Day of the Doctor which I think I might go rewatch now 
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Vinylshadow posted:The Chumblies, obviously You would be able to hear the Scottish-accented cry of anguish anywhere on the planet.
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Dec 26, 2018 22:19
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Vinylshadow posted:The stupid thing is that the actual trailer itself doesn't spoil who or what it is as obviously very hype for the return of krasko
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Dec 26, 2018 22:23
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Jerusalem posted:Well The Name of the Doctor did basically have The Great Intelligence go back through the Doctor's lives trying to gently caress everything up backwards, and then Clara go through the Doctor's lives trying to set it all back the way it was, and then the Doctor jump into his own lives to go pick-up Clara and give us a John Hurt cameo! What I'm saying is that it was a very weird episode that lead into one of the all time best Doctor Who stories ever in Day of the Doctor which I think I might go rewatch now I've watched many a Dr. Who episode a few times, some more than others (Pirate Planet), but Day of the Doctor I've now rewatched about 10 times, mostly because John Hurt is possibly the best doctor we've ever had, IMO.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Hoping for the long-overdue return of the Quarks, myself. If it is not the Hoothi and their silent gas dirigibles I swear I'll do time.
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Dec 27, 2018 00:14
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Wheat Loaf posted:If it is not the Hoothi and their silent gas dirigibles I swear I'll do time. Holding out for Yartek, leader of the alien Voord, myself.
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Dec 27, 2018 00:16
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Man, as much as I loved Pearl Mackie and her season on Who, that whole Monk trilogy was duuuuuumb.
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Dec 27, 2018 02:07
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Extremis was good but it really could have been nailed on to the beginning of any two-parter, and the one it did lead into was bad
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Mameluke posted:Extremis was good but it really could have been nailed on to the beginning of any two-parter, and the one it did lead into was bad Yeah, I enjoyed Extremis, but that should have been a one and done story. If they wanted to push it into a two parter, they could have smashed parts 2 and 3 together into something shorter and more coherent maybe, but Pyramid just felt too much like the Zygon 2-parter, and Lie was just flat out dumb, and completely falls apart the moment you start questioning it.
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Whithouse pissed away the great story hook of "aliens have brainwashed the Doctor". He pissed it down the drain and I wish the character he played in Twice Upon A Time had died
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