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Why can't it even remember what episode I'm on? Every other service has no issue letting me pickup where I left off, regardless of how I closed it
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Well, it’s moving to HBO Max next year, so hopefully it works better.
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The_Doctor posted:I like Husbands of River Song, although some of the early scenes are particularly grating. I've re-watched it a couple times and each time I have to remind myself that it's worth sitting through the start. I think starting with the escape to the tardis is when it hits its stride. The setup is definitely noticeably weak, but Capaldi trying to talk up the doctor as a stranger is fantastic and I think is when their chemistry really clicks, and it's just great moment after great moment from then on. I could see some people disliking the number of callbacks, but I felt like it was in-line with the intent of the episode so it doesn't feel out of place.
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Oct 17, 2019 06:56
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Plus I always like to think about how loving crazy the poo poo she sees 11 and finally 12 do is, which makes the fact that in her timeline she then walks straight into 10 who tries to impress her by throwing a chicken bone on a string under a chair all the funnier. 
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Oct 17, 2019 10:15
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Jerusalem posted:Plus I always like to think about how loving crazy the poo poo she sees 11 and finally 12 do is, which makes the fact that in her timeline she then walks straight into 10 who tries to impress her by throwing a chicken bone on a string under a chair all the funnier. On that note, I could do with 13 doing some bonkers crazy stuff in the 11 and 12 vein. She's got the friendly space genius part of the Doctor on lock, but I'd love to see Whittaker do some I Am the Oncoming Storm scenery chewing.
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Oct 17, 2019 10:37
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Khanstant posted:They can't even put Doctor Who up on Amazon without it being weird and obtuse as hell. 15 different TV promos counting as their own season and episode, christmas specials being divided into their own confusing pages forcing you to jump back and forth between season pages and specials for one year. Oh god they did this with New Girl as well. I finished the last episode of season 1 and it went straight into a promo for... season 1. Why would you do this, who would possibly want this or think this is a good idea?
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Oct 17, 2019 11:09
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Fil5000 posted:Oh god they did this with New Girl as well. I finished the last episode of season 1 and it went straight into a promo for... season 1. Why would you do this, who would possibly want this or think this is a good idea? Honestly, I don't think Netflix is a marvel of tech, organization or UI, but apparently it is judging by everyone else's attempts. Netflix used to have Doctor Who in Australia, and that handled just fine!
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https://twitter.com/RedDwarfHQ/status/1184967810855911425?s=20
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Oct 18, 2019 00:12
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Finally, we get the Red Dwarf film promised 20 years ago!
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Oct 18, 2019 04:38
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Cool! The only problem is that it always takes about 40 minutes of listening before my mind is tuned to Craigh Charles' accent and I can understand anything.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Cool! See, I can understand him perfectly, but it takes about an hour for me to stop waiting for him to introduce Razer or Sir Killalot.
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Oct 18, 2019 07:39
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Cleretic posted:See, I can understand him perfectly, but it takes about an hour for me to stop waiting for him to introduce Razer or Sir Killalot. Or to make a joke about shiitake on Takeshi’s Castle.
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Oct 18, 2019 08:03
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i don't think i watched any of the revival stuff after Back to Earth, maybe an episode or two of series ten. has it been any good?
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Oct 18, 2019 08:23
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Box of Bunnies posted:i don't think i watched any of the revival stuff after Back to Earth, maybe an episode or two of series ten. has it been any good? It's just as good as the, like, middle third of Red Dwarf or so? When both Grant and Naylor were still in and they were really hitting their stride, and Rimmer was still there instead of AU Kochanski. So yeah, still really good. Not 'great', but Red Dwarf was never 'great'.
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Oct 18, 2019 08:29
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I've enjoyed the last couple of seasons a lot, but nothing touches the highs of seasons 3 & 4, where every single episode was an all-time classic.
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Jerusalem posted:I've enjoyed the last couple of seasons a lot, but nothing touches the highs of seasons 3 & 4, where every single episode was an all-time classic. <ahem> I think you might enjoy Vengeance on Varos. There's a thing that some people say about it.
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Oct 18, 2019 14:57
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Every so often I think about The Fiveish Doctors, and Colin Baker standing on top of a ride-on lawnmower with his phone in the air just in case the BBC has been trying to call but couldn't get through
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Oct 18, 2019 15:38
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Jerusalem posted:Every so often I think about The Fiveish Doctors, and Colin Baker standing on top of a ride-on lawnmower with his phone in the air just in case the BBC has been trying to call but couldn't get through  EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrbUB2Qd-gw I really hope this 45 minute long recap means new footage is coming soon. York_M_Chan fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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Oct 18, 2019 19:56
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York_M_Chan posted:EDIT: I still hate the cop out of her falling to earth and just getting up from it as if nothing happened. Such a terrible cliffhanger resolve.
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Oct 19, 2019 19:54
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I think the usual ‘within the first 15 hours of the regeneration cycle*’ rules apply there. You can hand wave it that Time Lords are like rubber at that point. *which makes no sense in Christmas Invasion because it’s clearly been way over 15 hours since he regenerated.
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Oct 19, 2019 20:13
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15 Gallifreyan Hours.
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They never said they were sequential!
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Oct 19, 2019 22:47
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Box of Bunnies posted:Same-ish. I'm not super keen on The Girl Who Waited for similarish reasons In fairness, the Doctor was intentionally portrayed as an absolute cold faced bastard in that episode. At least I hope it was intentional. Making a horrific ethical decision is nowhere near as bad as guilting someone else into doing it for you.
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The_Doctor posted:I think the usual ‘within the first 15 hours of the regeneration cycle*’ rules apply there. You can hand wave it that Time Lords are like rubber at that point. See also The End of Time.
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Turns out that is appropriate Trakenite Space Princess Mourning Clothing, don't mock her culture!
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Astroman posted:See also The End of Time. Must I? Also, what about it?
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The_Doctor posted:Must I? Also, what about it?
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Oct 20, 2019 17:25
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OH! Yeah, true. He at least look beat up on doing so.
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I've been reading Paul Cornell's Target-style novelisation of Twice Upon a Time, about a third of the way through, and while having the character's inner thoughts in a way that you can't get on tv mitigates a little bit of the 'haha, what if the old Doctor was a pig' garbage I found in the actual show, and being a book means I can imagine the Doctor actually being the Doctor instead of David Bradley, there is just a complete and massive mischaracterisation of the First Doctor at the core of this story that it makes the whole thing just... ugh Like, this paragraph here is pretty inconsequential in the scope of the larger story, but it kind of really exemplifies the whole thing for me: quote:"What are you?" asked the Doctor.  Cleretic posted:It's just as good as the, like, middle third of Red Dwarf or so? When both Grant and Naylor were still in and they were really hitting their stride, and Rimmer was still there instead of AU Kochanski. Coolio, sounds like it's worth checking on then
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I highly recommend Moffat’s novelisation of Day of the Doctor. It gets a little self-indulgent but it’s never not fun.
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Payndz posted:[Falls out of spaceship] "Aaaaaaaaaaaaa- [smashes through glass and metal skylight] -aaaaaaaaaaaaaa- [slams down face-first on hard floor] -aaaaaOOF! Phew, no harm done." Oh THIS scene? 
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The_Doctor posted:It gets a little self-indulgent but it’s never not fun. Sounds like Day of the Doctor alright  But yeah, that's the other one of these I've got lined up to read. That seems like it would be a good one for this kind of thing.What I've read of this Twice Upon a Time one seems like a good adaptation of the actual episode of the show with a few nice touches of its own so far, I guess I'd just kind of hoped for it to do more in terms of getting the story's portrayal of the First Doctor more in line with the actual First Doctor and instead it's just going with what Moffat had on screen. Which, that's a me problem and an issue with my expectations and the content of the episode that it's adapting, not anything wrong with what Paul Cornell's actually written. e: now that I've finished up Twice Upon a Time, I feel a lot the same about the story as I did when the actual episode aired. I like the core of the story and how it's just about the Doctors being introspective about life and death, about changing, and memories, and moving on. I like that there isn't really some baddie to beat; the antagonist, such as it is, really only exists to facilitate the theme of the story. I like the way it uses the Christmas truce . And in the written version specifically, I like some of the extra callbacks that are added like when the First Doctor is first doing the sexist poo poo thing that the story has him do, Twelve mentally chastises him by thinking 'what about Barbara, you prick, she was amazing and a dear friend' (paraphrasing) or how the text echoes the First Doctor's "it's far from being all over" when he's finally in the TARDIS regenerating. It's just... a shame about everything else Moffat felt the need to inject into the character of the first Doctor that was never actually in the text of that incarnation. At least in the book omits the "I say, homosexuals!?" monocle pop that it was the episode Box of Bunnies fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Jerusalem posted:Oh THIS scene? Please. Could he walk away from this? https://youtu.be/EN-pRNfp8cA?t=4867 (1:21:07 to 1:21:18) (And if you've never seen Stone Cold, for the love of God watch it. It's the best 1980's action movie made in the 1990's)
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CobiWann posted:Please. Could he walk away from this? (drat, I miss squib hits and bullet impacts sending people flying out of windows and that "pkow-peeow-ptchow" machine gun ricochet stock sound effect.)
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Haven't watched any Who in years, until I watched all of season 11 of the reboot in a week and (mostly) found it really quite enjoyable. Not amazing, or anything, but pretty comfy and decent. Well, except the second half of Rosa being all about getting people on a bus, and the laughably bad ending with the meteor. What even was that? Working my way through the modern TV stuff and made it up to partway season 5. Thus far, I'd say my favorite season is easily season 4 (Donna is a fantastic companion and almost every episode was amazing, though I'm still not sure how the time bubble got circumvented in End of the World) with season 2 having the three worst episodes to date almost all back-to-back (The Idiot's Lantern, Love and Monsters and Fear Her). That said, even though season 4 was almost all great, I was kinda... disappointed with Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead, since it was the first of Moffat's stuff that he really just went and Moffat-ed all over. Introducing River Song, having her be ~*mysterious*~ and a puzzle that is obviously gonna get expanded in a future season and having the really cool conceit of the "villain" be a swarm that lives in shadows being beaten by... The Doctor just telling them that he's really cool and a badass and then they give up. Season 5 on the whole is pretty decent and entertaining so far, though. I've only seen a few episodes of it so far (next one looks like it has the weeping angels brought back). Matt Smith is way better than I expected; I was expecting him to be overtly quirky and silly and ~random~ and junk. Stuff like eating fish fingers and custard sure didn't help that worry, but at least that was a one-off and he's a lot more biting and dour and surprisingly pessimistic than I'd ever expected him to be, which is one hell of a change of pace. e; Also, in terms of companions, do they ever bring Christina back? Of the few one-off companions, she's legitimately phenomenal and I'd love to see her be around for a full season sometime. The folks from The Next Door were also very cool. Really, all the specials between season 4 and 5 had great one-off companions. Lotus Aura fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Oct 22, 2019 |
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I really liked Idiot's Lantern.
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The Idiot's Lantern is kinda weird to me, in that it's a good episode that feels like a bad episode. It checks a lot of the surface-level boxes of what would make for a Bad RTD Era Episode (like, well, the one-two punch of Love and Monsters and Fear Her), but it actually found the right tone, actors and level of seriousness to make it work. The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit kinda save it in a way, gives it some distance from the real dreck of that season, and lets it act as some decent levity between the Cyberman two-parter than Impossible Planet/Satan Pit.
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