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Like, do you remember the Third Doctor's reaction to the Brig's solution for the Silurians? It wasn't uproarious applause
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Feb 9, 2019 21:03
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TinTower posted:No. Not the mind power. Hell, I wouldn't shoot Sylvester McCoy either
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Feb 9, 2019 21:48
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When RetroTV airs The Happiness Patrol, it actually cuts half of the Throw Away Your Gun speech out. Like, as soon as the Doctor tells the sniper to shut up, it’s a smash cut to commercial, then we’re back in the Candy Kitchen. It’s weird. Because that scene is probably the most important scene in the story, possibly McCoy’s whole tenure.
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Feb 9, 2019 22:00
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If you watch a McCoy story after something from the Moffat era, you can see the parallels. Making the Doctor Not Just Another Time Lord might've been a bit too much when there were plenty of Time Lords running about, but when the Doctor's the only one it works unquestionably.
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Feb 9, 2019 22:00
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marktheando posted:I really really hate the Three is a Tory take. Since when did a Tory do anything to help anyone? Three is kind and compassionate and wise, the total opposite of conservative ideology. I'd say between Malcolm Hulke and Barry Letts it was probably the most left-leaning era in the show's history. Although saying that I think Dicks was a bit more conservative and I don't really know anything about Bob Holmes' politics, other than his frustration with the Tax Office.
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Feb 10, 2019 02:37
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Holmes' vegetarianism comes up in The Two Doctors, and stories like The Power of Kroll have a strong anti-colonial element.
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Feb 10, 2019 03:29
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Peter Capaldi has at least 3 pro-vegetarian lines, all in Moffat-written episodes. Probably a coincidence(they go along with appeals to moral relativism eg "or do you think your bacon sandwich loves you back") but 3 separate instances makes me wonder if it's been on someone's mind
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Feb 10, 2019 07:05
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Maelstache posted:I'd say between Malcolm Hulke and Barry Letts it was probably the most left-leaning era in the show's history. Hell, by the end they were basically flat out saying,"Buddhism is the best, Buddhism #1."
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Feb 10, 2019 07:43
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I've finally been listening to Scratchman, taking my time with it more than I meant to so I'm barely half way through, and it's really good so far. The set up is creepy, there are some nice turns of phrase in the prose that set the scene, and Tom's narration is absolutely delightful. His cadence and the use of first-person really feel like he's right there, The Doctor, telling you this story. Once it starts to get into exploring the scarecrow monsters a bit more it also gets into a bit of a feeling of The kind of horror I'd like to see from the Cybermen. Like to dissonance of leftover identity in this passage here: "She remembered these things, but she didn't feel any of those memories. They were all dull, faded like the pattern of a too washed plate."
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Feb 10, 2019 09:45
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Holmes' vegetarianism comes up in The Two Doctors, and stories like The Power of Kroll have a strong anti-colonial element. the power of kroll sure is something
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Feb 10, 2019 09:47
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Slaapaav posted:the power of kroll sure is something "Hey we hired Philip Madoc!" "Awesome, what super cool villain is he playing this time?" "Oh no. His character is just some dude who happens to be around."
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Feb 10, 2019 11:52
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https://twitter.com/Pascalwho/status/1094534304816906240
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Feb 10, 2019 14:04
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If you're not mad about Gareth Roberts' virulent transphobia I don't trust you.
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Feb 10, 2019 14:35
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not everyone is aware of the same things you are
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Feb 10, 2019 14:42
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Maelstache posted:I don't really know anything about Bob Holmes' politics, other than his frustration with the Tax Office. Sounds like somebody needs to watch "Caves of Androzani" again. 
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Feb 10, 2019 14:51
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Dabir posted:not everyone is aware of the same things you are For example I'm not aware of why there's an option to be mad about Clara when from other options it looks like the shirt was designed at least 2 years after she left the show
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Feb 10, 2019 14:52
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Jerusalem posted:Hell, by the end they were basically flat out saying,"Buddhism is the best, Buddhism #1." Colony in Space is basically "capitalism is bad and here's why we should embrace socialism/Communism" with Three and Jo running around in it. Which isn't all that surprising when you realize that Malcolm Hulke was a member of the British Communist Party in his younger days.
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Feb 10, 2019 14:55
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HULKE SMASH CAPITALISM
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Feb 10, 2019 14:56
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DoctorWhat posted:If you're not mad about Gareth Roberts' virulent transphobia I don't trust you. Yeah it's a true bummer, I'd loved his Virgin novels and a lot of his episodes in the past but now it's like taking a big long whiff of spoiled milk. My partner and I have been rewatching all of the Moffat era and when we got to The Lodger I was like, uh, I have some bad news.
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Feb 10, 2019 16:33
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i got a compendium of short stories about missy on a whim and have found it an enjoyable read. she kills a boris johnson stand-in. its sometimes a little too twee but its fun and also i think strikes a good balance of her being bad but also the protagonist
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Feb 10, 2019 17:56
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Gareth Roberts is mostly a Graham Linehan situation, where like, I'm not going to stop enjoying Black Books just because it turns out Linehan is a huge bigot, and I'll probably still like the Roberts episodes of Doctor Who that I liked before, but neither of them should be given any work now, and there will be a vague sourness that makes everything they touched less enjoyable than it was. It's different than, say, Tambor and Arrested Development, because Tambor's character is written to be abusive in the way that he actually is, in the real world, and it's throughout the whole show, which makes it really, really hard to watch anymore.
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Feb 10, 2019 18:51
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Also I'll never get the "None of the above" checkbox because I'm always a little bit mad about the missing episodes.  Power of the Daleks!
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Feb 10, 2019 18:52
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Heh, imagine being mad about any of those things on that shirt other than Gareth Roberts. Heh, loving nerds, they're so laWAIT THERE'S NO ST. JOHN AMBULANCE LOGO ON THE CURRENT TARDIS!?! 
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Feb 10, 2019 22:40
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Pocky In My Pocket posted:i got a compendium of short stories about missy on a whim and have found it an enjoyable read. she kills a boris johnson stand-in. Holy poo poo this would actually be a great direction for the next iteration of the Master - 12's lessons actually got through, and the Master has given up on the megalomania and tyranny and destruction for its own sake, having come to see the beauty of life, all the while remaining the same homicidal maniac. So the Master's new jam is making sure that the little people are safe and protected, but they achieve it through murder, vigilantism, iconoclasm, sparking hyper-violent revolution etc etc - achieving noble ends through often atrocious means. Such a Master would have some great conflict with 13 too. I can imagine that their first meeting would have 13 + co infiltrating some gigantic bloody operation responsible for tens of thousands of deaths all the way to the top, only to discover that the Master is in charge, but instead of shooting a disruptor at the Doctor, the Master gives her a gigantic hug - "I'm so glad you're here!" Let the casting begin.
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Feb 10, 2019 23:01
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CommonShore posted:So the Master's new jam is making sure that the little people are safe and protected, but they achieve it through murder, vigilantism, iconoclasm, sparking hyper-violent revolution etc etc - achieving noble ends through often atrocious means. Even though she didn't do it for particularly altruistic reasons, I like her casually explaining how she defeated the Monks when she came across one of their subjugated planets. "Oh I just found patient zero and brutally murdered them, and the planet was saved  "
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Feb 10, 2019 23:23
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CommonShore posted:Let the casting begin. Matt Berry. Matt Berry will always be my answer for Master casting, but he'd do this idea great.
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Feb 10, 2019 23:36
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That reminds me, not only did I recently find out that they're making a tv series version of What We Do In The Shadows (if you haven't seen that movie, check it out, it's incredible), but Matt Berry is playing one of the vampires. It's going to be fantastic.
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Feb 10, 2019 23:38
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CommonShore posted:Let the casting begin. Eddie Izzard.
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Feb 11, 2019 00:08
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Also Matt Berry related - if you haven't already, watch the excellent Toast Of London to see Peter Davison as a beer swilling hooligan
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Feb 11, 2019 01:12
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Pocky In My Pocket posted:i got a compendium of short stories about missy on a whim and have found it an enjoyable read. she kills a boris johnson stand-in. I just remembered that the story I mentioned also has a shout out to CGI snake
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Feb 11, 2019 01:15
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On the topic of Missy, I listened to her Big Finish boxset - Gomez is great in all of them, but the first story (where she becomes a victorian governess) has really wooden side-actors, and has interesting elements that don't really go anywhere - she's unable to use future tech, and unable to kill people, because she's being held captive by a time-travelling race who have pre-emptively punished her for crimes she'll comit against them in the future (or something). The other story with Rufus Hound as the Monk as Henry VIII is pretty funny, and they bounce off each other very well, with a pretty great moment towards the end. Catherine Parr: If you're really Henry, sing that song you wrote. Monk (Nervous and flustered): Um...right, the song. That song right. ♪I'm Henry the eighth I am, Henry the eighth I am, I am-♪ The third one has a strange America's Most Wanted framing device, and goes into some real mind-gently caress territory, but is pretty good. And the last one is kinda, meh. It's fine, but I was expecting something more. It's all listenable, either way, though not as good as some of their other boxsets.
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Feb 11, 2019 06:17
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have the fourteenth doctor be captain jack
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Feb 11, 2019 06:26
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corn in the bible posted:have the fourteenth doctor be captain jack That kind of would end any further regenerations, wouldn't it?
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Feb 11, 2019 06:45
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I take it McGann only got to do adverts on the radio.
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Feb 11, 2019 08:50
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I love that the show told us in big bold, glittery letters that Captain Jack is the Face of Boe and that Russell Davies continues to say "Well, maybe it's true, maybe it's not, you never know, there some hints."
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Feb 11, 2019 16:23
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It could also be fun to have a past companion actor take the role of the Master. Right now I'm imagining Catherine Tate laughing manically in a goatee.
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Feb 11, 2019 16:50
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Oh man, she'd be great as the Master, actually. Her kind of unapologetically loud, manic humor matches so well, and all you have to change is the dialogue to tilt it over to horrible and menacing.
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Feb 11, 2019 16:53
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Bicyclops posted:Oh man, she'd be great as the Master, actually. Her kind of unapologetically loud, manic humor matches so well, and all you have to change is the dialogue to tilt it over to horrible and menacing. But she needs a goatee. In hindsight one of my favourite details about WEAT/The Doctor Falls is that they put Simms into the classic goatee.
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What are peoples' favorite Big Finish stories?
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