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I didn't watch any of them, just a skim through and a " what the gently caress is this - I typed in 'Doctor Who whatever', how'd I end up here?".As I recall it was just cutting huge chunks out of the stories - mostly the Doctor's speeches - how any of that would have been remotely watchable is anyones guess. I think it was just new series stuff, toning down Barrowman (which is a crime in and of itself) but this is half-remembered from about five years ago. Like, there's merits to discussing politics (or indeed any other topic in Who - given the vast expanse of media to explore them in), but that is straight up odd. It's still not as funny as Conservapedia's attempt to rewrite the bible to reflect a conservative worldview, resulting in things like Jesus praising the free market, and that, actually, the "Rich man" in "it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven" should be translated as miser, actually, as God totes loves all the rich. 
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Jeez. The existence of a regressive DW edit is evidence that a dark mirror universe exists and can bleed into our own.
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Khanstant posted:Jeez. The existence of a regressive DW edit is evidence that a dark mirror universe exists and can bleed into our own. I would imagine their version of Inferno has the fascist Earth survive at the end.
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Apr 9, 2019 00:36
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So does the original version, haha.
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It's impossible to make media that isn't, to some degree, political, but rewriting an entire series to fit your political worldview is the point at which you have jumped off the deep end and politics is more like a sports team you're insanely devoted to than a philosophy.
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Apr 9, 2019 13:52
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At least it explains how we got the ending to ‘Kerblam’.
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Apr 9, 2019 17:08
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Open Source Idiom posted:It gets stabby-er, and there's a good scene with Gwen towards the end. Hmm. Maybe I'll give it a re-listen from scratch here once I let my brain dissolve the memories of the first attempt. Appreciate the thoughts! Currently I'm catching up on the other parts of Demons of Red Lodge And Other Stories that I missed first time 'round. I always give "Special Features" a re-listen every now and again, but never any of the other stories. I love Special Features, just such a fabulous concept and well executed. I can't recommend it highly enough - the other 3 stories range from ok to good as well, so overall a pretty solid set.
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Pesky Splinter posted:It's still not as funny as Conservapedia's attempt to rewrite the bible to reflect a conservative worldview, resulting in things like Jesus praising the free market, and that, actually, the "Rich man" in "it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven" should be translated as miser, actually, as God totes loves all the rich. I wonder if they picked up on the fact that, in 'servants should obey their masters' and for that matter every other place the word appears, servant should more properly be translated as slave. Seeing as it was the 1st century Roman empire and slavery was actually a thing. Seems like it'd be up their alley.
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feedmegin posted:I wonder if they picked up on the fact that, in 'servants should obey their masters' and for that matter every other place the word appears, servant should more properly be translated as slave. Seeing as it was the 1st century Roman empire and slavery was actually a thing. Seems like it'd be up their alley. KJV posted:Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; Conservapedia "Translation" posted:Slaves, be obedient to those that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in single-mindedness of your heart, as you are to Christ, Conservapedia' Analysis of the text - I poo poo you not posted:This could apply equally to modern labor relations, and to anyone engaged to work for another. For more mind fuckery, here's their 10 rules: quote:1) Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias. For example, the Living Bible translation has liberal evolutionary bias; the widely used NIV translation has a pro-abortion bias. To tie this back to the thread more, their Doctor Who article is mostly stolen from wikipedia, with half-hearted outrage at anyalysing its political and social themes. quote:Several stories in the series have been subtly or overtly political in their themes. For instance, The Green Death (1973) emphasized the dangers of pollution and big business; while the following year's Invasion of the Dinosaurs featured a contrasting menace—pro-environment extremists. Other stories have taken their themes from current news stories of the time, such as the United Kingdom's entry into the Common Market. Many of these pro-liberal stories came during the period where the show was produced by Barry Letts, whose heavily liberal and environmentalist views shaped a lot of stories in the early 1970s. Apart from this period, the original series generally did not have a particularly heavily political leaning, and in fact The Sun Makers (1977) was a conservative story that told of the dangers of heavy taxes and overly complex governments. ~Gay Agenda~
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Lol Russell's "gay agenda" consisted entirely of occasionally having a character say "I'm gay btw" of course that terrified those freaks
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Apr 11, 2019 00:50
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Let's just admit the central theme of Doctor Who - humanity sucks, until it doesn't.
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Apr 11, 2019 12:00
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Yes, this makes sense.
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Apr 11, 2019 15:45
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I'd like to retile my bathroom with blowjob slabs.
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The_Doctor posted:Yes, this makes sense. This reminded me of that coincidence with the Van Gogh painting they found. fist4jesus posted:I'd like to retile my bathroom with blowjob slabs. What a weird thing to say.
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The_Doctor posted:Yes, this makes sense. "He threw my mother into a black hole"
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Never mind the Time War, here’s an absolute unit
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2house2fly posted:Lol Russell's "gay agenda" consisted entirely of occasionally having a character say "I'm gay btw" of course that terrified those freaks This is why I honestly don't have much of a problem with minor gay characters getting killed in modern DW the way I do in other forms of fiction. They're literally the same as everybody else in the DW universe, there's genuinely no great weight attached to their being gay any more than there would be to another minor character being straight, so they aren't being killed because they're gay, they're being killed because they're a minor character in a Doctor Who episode. It's genuinely progressive in a weird way.
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"Look Doctor, I have a companion too!"
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She’s back! And it’s about time! https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1116658218292449280
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The_Doctor posted:She’s back! And it’s about time! Awesome. This might make me give a drat about Big Finish again.
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and this proves my theory that the world was literally black and white before they invented color in the late sixties
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Lucie Bleeding Miller!  Edit: Oh my God for a second I thought she was rollerskating over a Daleks' head 
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Barry Foster posted:Awesome. This might make me give a drat about Big Finish again. plannin on havin a laff "With your WOOFING and your BARKING! Driving! Me! INSANE!!" Chokes McGee fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Apr 12, 2019 |
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Vinylshadow posted:and this proves my theory that the world was literally black and white before they invented color in the late sixties Don't argue with me! When I say color, color!
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Okay, that does it. I am assigning Thursday as my Big Finish day. Between about 5:30 and 8:30, I am listening to Big Finish while I'm watching the baby and my wife is out of the house so she doesn't have to be annoyed by it. Please scold me on Thursdays if I am not listening to Big Finish. Thanks.
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Bicyclops posted:Okay, that does it. I am assigning Thursday as my Big Finish day. Between about 5:30 and 8:30, I am listening to Big Finish while I'm watching the baby and my wife is out of the house so she doesn't have to be annoyed by it. What’s first up?
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The_Doctor posted:What’s first up? It looks like next up on my list was The Four Doctors. I'm only nine years behind!
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gently caress off, Germany (The release for The War Games) https://twitter.com/luki_thejar/status/1116775938249957376
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I really loved his transition in Utopia when he went from bumbling, cranking, sadly out-of-time but very well meaning scientist to full-on master, had that nice level of unsettling to it. It actually makes me think of Graham in the last episode of the previous season at the beginning where they find out Tim is on the planet. He has that subtle shift too in his manner that felt unsettling. Would have been great if they'd left it like that, but being Season 11 they had to pause the story and have an explicit conversation about how Graham was feeling and what he was planning to do next. The script got in the way of the acting too much in Season 11.
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SecretOfSteel posted:I really loved his transition in Utopia when he went from bumbling, cranking, sadly out-of-time but very well meaning scientist to full-on master, had that nice level of unsettling to it. It actually makes me think of Graham in the last episode of the previous season at the beginning where they find out Tim is on the planet. He has that subtle shift too in his manner that felt unsettling. Would have been great if they'd left it like that, but being Season 11 they had to pause the story and have an explicit conversation about how Graham was feeling and what he was planning to do next. The script got in the way of the acting too much in Season 11. Not to worry. As one door closes, another opens. 
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I'll always love his,"Oh! Now I can say I was provoked!  " reaction to her threatening him. Just the idea that he would a) need provocation to murder anyone and b) as if anybody would say,"Oh well fair enough I guess."
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Jerusalem posted:I'll always love his,"Oh! Now I can say I was provoked! “You can’t just shoot someone for threatening you! That’s not how the law works!” “That sounds like a threat to me.”
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SecretOfSteel posted:I really loved his transition in Utopia when he went from bumbling, cranking, sadly out-of-time but very well meaning scientist to full-on master, had that nice level of unsettling to it. It actually makes me think of Graham in the last episode of the previous season at the beginning where they find out Tim is on the planet. He has that subtle shift too in his manner that felt unsettling. Would have been great if they'd left it like that, but being Season 11 they had to pause the story and have an explicit conversation about how Graham was feeling and what he was planning to do next. The script got in the way of the acting too much in Season 11. And thankfully that wasn't all we got. He's killing it in the audios! The_Doctor posted:She’s back! And it’s about time! Daleks! Castles! Roller Skates!
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Classic Who Season 10 (Pertwee's fourth season) Blu-Ray confirmed, in the best way possible.
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FreezingInferno posted:Classic Who Season 10 (Pertwee's fourth season) Blu-Ray confirmed, in the best way possible. The pro-est of clicks 
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FreezingInferno posted:Classic Who Season 10 (Pertwee's fourth season) Blu-Ray confirmed, in the best way possible. This owns 
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Ohhh, one of the tangential Who people I follow on Twitter had something about being in Devil’s End recently. https://twitter.com/chrischapman81/status/1101081603126763520
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