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I’ve just caught up on the show (fell off midway through the previous season, not because I didn’t like it, but work/travel/getting married made keeping up with it difficult), and if nothing else, this episode has me wondering where the hell we go from here. Haven’t felt that in a long time from Doctor Who.
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mehall posted:I don't like that theory, because the only reason to bury the TARDIS is if it's stuck as a police box, which means it's post Hartnell. This could still be worked around. We've been told it's *stuck* in that appearance, but if this is a cycle pre-Hartnell, perhaps it's the Doctor subconsciously switching it back to the appearance it had once before. FWIW, we also don't definitively know that it's the same Tardis, just that it looks similar.
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Jan 28, 2020 20:17
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Davros1 posted:A black, female Doctor, you say? When did Disney buy Doctor who? That is clearly Rocket on the cover there.
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Jan 28, 2020 20:45
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Huh, I was convinced that it would be alternate/split universe to explain why the master came back from being for realsies dead after so little time on screen.
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Jan 28, 2020 20:45
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Zenithe posted:Huh, I was convinced that it would be alternate/split universe to explain why the master came back from being for realsies dead after so little time on screen.
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Jan 28, 2020 20:51
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:The Master has been for realsies dead like 23 times. When they come back, the explanation is "I lived." You do this once, it's hacky. You do it three times, it's lazy. You do this 23 times, it's genius. The Master: *explicitly gets mutilated, vaporized, and erased from the timeline* Also The Master: *strolls into the room in the very next episode without even a hint of explanation*
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Jan 28, 2020 20:56
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I’m not super knowledgeable about Who mythology so I don’t have a dog in the fight about “what it all means,” but I’m glad that Jodie is finally given some depth to work with other than being the “happy let’s go adventuring, fam!” Doctor. I don’t mind her being a more cheerful and optimistic Doctor than the other NuWhos, but I know she can handle more so I’m glad to see it.
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Jan 28, 2020 21:15
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  Dang, that's cold, Kai.And now I've got a real hankering to watch "Children of Earth" again, especially now that I'm familiar with Peter Capaldi.
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Jan 28, 2020 22:14
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Can we just have the rest of the season with Jodie and Jo travelling together? Or just a season or two of Jo. I’m easy either way. My bf is already very fond of who he is dubbing ‘Space Auntie’.
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Jan 28, 2020 22:18
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Chinball only said Jo is not from an alternate universe. What if Jodie is?
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Jan 28, 2020 22:36
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As in our Doctor, or 13 specifically?
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Jan 28, 2020 22:53
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My guess is someone screwed with the Doctor's timeline so hard it's rewriting itself underneath her, and we're going to get one of those ONE OF THESE DOCTORS MUST LIVE moment where they both refuse to be the one that lives since the other one will die 
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Jan 28, 2020 22:59
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Teek posted:As in our Doctor, or 13 specifically? 13 specifically eta this would have to mean the 13 we see 12 regenerate into isn't the same 13 we see fall from the sky in Jodie's first proper episode
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Jan 28, 2020 23:20
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I randomly did the #DWJudoonPlatoon tweet that came up during the episode Sunday. I was just told I won one of the prize packs. Can't wait to see what shows up. I assume it is going to be a full Judoon costume.
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Jan 28, 2020 23:23
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hahahahahaha, someone compared this to wilderness years novels, and while I've not read any of them, the reviews I've read make that comparison scan. the absolute willingness to just do whatever with the canon, because who gives a poo poo, is exciting. the revival hasn't really done anything with the Time Lords beyond make them dead, the bad guys for one special, and then sort of the bad guys again. so let's just dive into insane lore stuff that the next showrunner can ignore anyway! love it. sincerely.
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Jan 28, 2020 23:38
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I’ll take insane and exciting canon-altering lore that probably won’t make a lick of sense when it’s all resolved over whatever boring grounded style Chibnall tried to do last season. gently caress it, give me RTD’s giant mishmash of tones and genres mixed with Moffat’s penchant for mystery boxes and deep lore. Go nuts, this is a show tailor-made to handle that kind of thing. RuthDoc has only been in ten minutes of a single episode so far and I’m already chomping at the bit to see more of her. I also really like how this season is leaning into 13’s characterization as a tinkering inventor. It’s so nice to see not only Jodie but also the writers really get more comfortable with developing 13’s personality.
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Jan 28, 2020 23:50
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Doctor Who has the perfect set up so that you can do literally anything you want to. Who the gently caress cares about canon when the entire premise involves time travel. Fixed points in time can’t be changed? Pfff yeah maybe in timeline 46-Beta, but since we did that weird thing on Mega-Neptune or whatever, that’s out the window. Honestly, I’m surprised Doctor Who hasn’t been tearing itself apart and rebuilding itself more often. It should be taken advantage of.
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Jan 28, 2020 23:52
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The Doctor should go back to that place at the end of the universe and prevent the master from regenerating.
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Jan 28, 2020 23:57
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HD DAD posted:The Master: *explicitly gets mutilated, vaporized, and erased from the timeline*  Chokes McGee posted:My guess is someone screwed with the Doctor's timeline so hard it's rewriting itself underneath her, and we're going to get one of those ONE OF THESE DOCTORS MUST LIVE moment where they both refuse to be the one that lives since the other one will die I really dig this idea
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Jan 29, 2020 00:17
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Jerusalem posted:I really dig this idea A high-stakes version of that time when everyone's too nice and willing to shoulder the burden and so nobody ends up just Doing The Thing. I'm into it.
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Jan 29, 2020 00:23
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Rhyno posted:I'm sure the explanation is going to piss everyone off. There's absolutely no way it won't.
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Jan 29, 2020 00:28
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HD DAD posted:Doctor Who has the perfect set up so that you can do literally anything you want to. Who the gently caress cares about canon when the entire premise involves time travel. I'm gonna agree with the general sentiment of "'gently caress canon". It's what turned Legends of Tomorrow into my favorite DC comics show (Harley Quinn's a close second). I'm 45, and old, and tired of nothing but depressing, horrible news, I'm just not into the whole grim-dark, series-long arc thing right now. I don't want the Oncoming Storm, or War Doctor, or the bleak 8th Doctor novels I read in the wilderness years where he's trapped on Earth with amnesia for, like centuries or whatever (I kinda blanked out some of that). I know after Bad Wolf and Moffat's run, newer fans crave that continuity through a series, but as an old fart I miss some episodes that are just "monster of the week" or "well, that didn't make a lick of sense" Brain of Morbius plots from growing up watching an episode a night every night at 7:30 pm on my local PBS station. That said, I am drat curious about this other Doctor. I'm not gonna stop watching, if only because Jodie is just so loving fun.
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Jan 29, 2020 00:49
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mehall posted:I don't like that theory, because the only reason to bury the TARDIS is if it's stuck as a police box, which means it's post Hartnell. It might not be to hide it from others but from the Doctor herself, with worries that encountering the TARDIS could trigger memories. That said I do like that they tracked them down to Earth based on an old medal, and not from her TARDIS sitting just up the road.
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Jan 29, 2020 00:57
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Oh god. Might the Ruth Doctor be Graham’s type?
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Jan 29, 2020 01:09
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The_Doctor posted:Oh god. Might the Ruth Doctor be Graham’s type? I think, if anything, they're both each other's type.
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Jan 29, 2020 01:27
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The_Doctor posted:Oh god. Might the Ruth Doctor be Graham’s type? Right proper classy woman, this one. You could learn a thing or two from this Doc, Doc.
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Jan 29, 2020 02:13
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If the Lone Cyberman is Danny Pink I will be all the various meanings of amazed simultaneously
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Jan 29, 2020 02:32
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evenworse username posted:If the Lone Cyberman is
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Jan 29, 2020 02:34
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Danny Pink does play a sort of cyber man in Another Life.
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Jan 29, 2020 02:38
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I hope either it's something morally awful, like not giving the One Good Cyberman a hug or a treaty or a holiday house or something, or just something really ridiculous, like Bundt Cake. In order to bring attention to the fact that our lives are meaningless and random tangle of interesting arbitrary events. Obviously.
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The Intergalactic Space Judge of Forever: Doctor, you absolutely 100% cannot be the Lone Cyberman's friend. Doctor: Bullshit!
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Jan 29, 2020 03:43
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The first Chibnall episode to get really exciting for me. I'm really into Doctor Ruth and like the idea that Doctor Who can go wild with canon, but I hope it's going to have a satisfying character journey and somewhat of a logical answer.
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Yannick_B posted:The first Chibnall episode to get really exciting for me. I'm really into Doctor Ruth and like the idea that Doctor Who can go wild with canon, While I just hope that, whatever this ends with, they go full-power on it. This is too insane a plot twist for them to half-rear end the resolution. Go full RTD melodramatics, or Matt Smith-run baffling temporal nonsense, I don't care, just as long as it blows up big at the end. This latest episode already felt a bit 'don't think too hard, just DO IT', just roll with that!
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Cleretic posted:While I just hope that, whatever this ends with, they go full-power on it. Go full David Lynch “what even the gently caress is going on” insanity.
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HD DAD posted:Go full David Lynch “what even the gently caress is going on” insanity. YES THE DOCTOR ARGUES WITH A MONKEY FOR 17 MINUTES AND THEN IT TURNED OUT THE MONKEY WAS ACTUALLY DEAD
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Jan 29, 2020 05:09
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Personally, I’ve decided that instead of continuing to call her Doctor Ruth, I’m just going to refer to her as R Doctor. Both of the other Time Lords had three-letter names. I wonder if that’s significant?
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Jan 29, 2020 06:15
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Cleretic posted:While I just hope that, whatever this ends with, they go full-power on it. Like, literally have Matt Smith show up in the middle of the whole thing going,"What the hell is goin-" before getting whisked away among all the madness.
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Jan 29, 2020 07:46
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CommonShore posted:YES But enough about “Hell Bent”.
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Jan 29, 2020 08:16
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Guys, what if the Lone Cyberman is... Kroton?!?
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superLINUS posted:Guys, what if the Lone Cyberman is... Kroton?!? What if it's Martha Jones and also a Rutan?
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