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| Season 1 (Marco Polo) |
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13 | 18.57% |
| Season 2 (The Crusade) |
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1 | 1.43% |
| Season 3 (Galaxy 4/The Myth Makers/The Daleks' Master Plan/The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve/The Celestial Toymaker/The Savages) |
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25 | 35.71% |
| Season 4 (The Smugglers/The Highlanders/The Underwater Menace/The Evil of the Daleks) |
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16 | 22.86% |
| Season 5 (The Abominable Snowmen/The Web of Fear/The Wheel in Space) |
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11 | 15.71% |
| Season 6 (The Space Pirates) |
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4 | 5.71% |
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I'll be your script editor, and I promise to be more like Robert Holmes or Terrance Dicks, instead of Eric Saward. You're hired. There you go, BBC. CommonShore and Sydney Bottocks, presumably with help from a few other thread stalwarts.
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May 4, 2020 18:14
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I’ve got lots of Who story ideas, most of them involve bringing back McGann.
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May 4, 2020 19:26
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:You all are the mindwiped doctor at different points in their timeline. "Planet of the Doctors" EVERYONE is the Doctor!
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May 4, 2020 20:27
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I’ll write a script about a race of extremely litigious aliens.
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May 4, 2020 20:35
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Jerusalem posted:This is going over-the-top, but imagine if 35 years ago there was an episode of Doctor Who where suddenly we got a single shot of the TARDIS being red. Then for decades afterwards the TARDIS was constantly referred to as blue and people pointed out how blue it was and it's blueness kept getting referenced and pointed out, and also the writer of the 35-year-old scene was on record as saying,"Oh I had an idea for that but the showrunner didn't like it so we never did it." .... and then the Master shows up and goes,"Actually the TARDIS is red and always has been!" and the Doctor replies,"Well drat I guess you've convinced me" and then we don't get a new episode for 2 years.
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May 4, 2020 20:38
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CommonShore posted:You're hired. You know how Moffat started off just writing those weird but effective horror stories under RTD's tenure? I'm just going to do that, but nobody will like me enough behind the scenes to make me showrunner. EDIT: I guarantee I'll try to write a good horror story starring the Cybermen at some point, but I can't guarantee it'll be our World Enough and Time and not our Closing Time. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 03:16 on May 5, 2020 |
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May 5, 2020 03:13
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Cleretic posted:EDIT: I guarantee I'll try to write a good horror story starring the Cybermen at some point, but I can't guarantee it'll be our World Enough and Time and not our Closing Time. You can steal my idea about a bunch of salvaged old-model Cybermen parts self-assembling into Cyber-Control and slowly cobbling together parts of tech along with organic parts from the rising body count to produce steadily more advanced proto-Cybermen in a base under siege... from within! story. I call it "Thank you Jerusalem but we've had this idea pitched like 400 times in the last 4 years"
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May 5, 2020 03:26
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Jerusalem posted:You can steal my idea about a bunch of salvaged old-model Cybermen parts self-assembling into Cyber-Control and slowly cobbling together parts of tech along with organic parts from the rising body count to produce steadily more advanced proto-Cybermen in a base under siege... from within! story. Isn’t that kind of Nightmare in Silver?
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May 5, 2020 03:31
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The_Doctor posted:Isn’t that kind of Nightmare in Silver? No no, you're thinking of,"What if Cybermen... but the Doctor!?! Also a precocious child grates on everybody's nerves" which I've only pitched 60-70 times. Wait till you hear about my multi-Doctor story ideas! Here's a teaser: they have to fight Daleks. Edit: Just got a phonecall from Nicholas Briggs warning me to stay the gently caress away from his turf 
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May 5, 2020 03:35
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Cybermen should never be used again except for body horror stories. They're really lame when their primary function is as a militant enemy bith bombs and splosions. They end up just being dollar store daleks. I guess World Enough and Time used them in a kind of force of nature role in that whole relativistic finger trap setup (which I totally love).
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May 5, 2020 04:05
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As script editor, my edict for Cybermen stories will be "They have to be at least as good as The Invasion"
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May 5, 2020 04:25
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As someone who's fine with bad as long as it's not boringly bad, I feel like the main rule for a Cyberman story should be 'you must be able to explain why this is specifically the Cybermen and not just a Dalek story'. Nightmare in Silver isn't a great story, but I'll give it credit that it at least had a story pitch that only works for the Cybermen.
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May 5, 2020 04:41
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Both of the Capaldi Cybermen stories made really good use of them, I thought. Giving them rocket boots is dumb (it should be their numbers, single-mindedness, and inevitability that's terrifying, not their weaponry), but Death in Heaven wrung a lot of horror out of the conversion process, and World Enough and Time did the same with Bill. And the idea of Cybermen as the inherent endpoint of human evolution is a particularly chilling one. It's so weird that Chibnall went back to the Cybermen/Master well a third time, especially with how bad his story looks in comparison.
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May 5, 2020 08:48
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Rochallor posted:It's so weird that Chibnall went back to the Cybermen/Master well a third time, especially with how bad his story looks in comparison. I've said it before, but I think it's that the Cybermen and the Master act as a really natural complement to each other. The Master gives the Cybermen an emotive, charismatic face that they otherwise don't have, and the Cybermen give the Master a means of threat that he otherwise has to reach for. Combine with that the fact that the Cybermen are essentially the antithesis of what the Doctor loves about humans while still technically being human, and that the Master loves loving with the Doctor in ways both very big and very small, and they make for a very strong pairing, immediately covering for each other's weaknesses and difficulties in writing them.
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May 5, 2020 10:11
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This is where I'd joke "Happy Revenge of the Fifth," but Five was never a vengeful Doctor...
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May 5, 2020 14:07
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CobiWann posted:This is where I'd joke "Happy Revenge of the Fifth," but Five was never a vengeful Doctor... No, there was no malice in his heart, only joy. Case in point:  See, always looking on the bright side of life! 
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May 5, 2020 14:19
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Needs to be a Cyberman story that takes place after Cyber Control has been defeated, examining the psychological ramifications of the converted-but-free-from-the-hivemind.
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May 5, 2020 16:15
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TinTower posted:Needs to be a Cyberman story that takes place after Cyber Control has been defeated, examining the psychological ramifications of the converted-but-free-from-the-hivemind. I have an idea about that for a story.
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May 5, 2020 16:28
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Cleretic posted:As someone who's fine with bad as long as it's not boringly bad, I feel like the main rule for a Cyberman story should be 'you must be able to explain why this is specifically the Cybermen and not just a Dalek story'. And in the same respect the Sontarans must not be used as 3rd tier Daleks.
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May 5, 2020 16:34
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All this talk really makes me wish my DM would break out the Doctor Who RPG again. His method was a lot of fun - four players, but each player got a turn playing a different regeneration of the same Time Lord (the Journeyman) and the other three played their companions.
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May 5, 2020 16:34
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I think treating the cybermen as this monster with a ton of lore but that *also* has to follow specific parameters of horror makes it basically impossible to meet fans expectations. I think generally ignoring the huge lore and just sort of focusing on small-scale stories with clear takes and allegories is better.
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May 5, 2020 16:35
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CommonShore posted:And in the same respect the Sontarans must not be used as 3rd tier Daleks. The Sontarans differ from the Daleks in that, while they both view other races as inferior, the Daleks have basically been established as "space Nazis" who are obsessed with racial purity. While the Sontarans are more the equivalent of your old-time colonial powers, locked in a seemingly eternal war with a rival power and focused on conquest for the glory of their empire (you could also make a parallel between the Sontarans/Rutans and the US/Soviets during the Cold War, except they didn't bother with proxy wars and just went straight for direct conflict instead).
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May 5, 2020 16:42
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TinTower posted:Needs to be a Cyberman story that takes place after Cyber Control has been defeated, examining the psychological ramifications of the converted-but-free-from-the-hivemind. Rusty, But He's A Cyberman Now (We can use this as a pilot for a Handles The Cyberhead spinoff series)
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May 5, 2020 17:01
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CommonShore posted:And in the same respect the Sontarans must not be used as 3rd tier Daleks. My key Sontaran rule would be "be like Linx, not Strax". I suppose emulating Strax in his first appearance is fine, but nothing beyond that.
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May 5, 2020 17:41
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Burkion posted:Turns out every single Companion has been the Doctor all along. Splendid chaps, all of us.
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May 5, 2020 18:28
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Sydney Bottocks posted:The Sontarans differ from the Daleks in that, while they both view other races as inferior, the Daleks have basically been established as "space Nazis" who are obsessed with racial purity. While the Sontarans are more the equivalent of your old-time colonial powers, locked in a seemingly eternal war with a rival power and focused on conquest for the glory of their empire (you could also make a parallel between the Sontarans/Rutans and the US/Soviets during the Cold War, except they didn't bother with proxy wars and just went straight for direct conflict instead). They're space Vikings with guns. And potato heads.
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May 5, 2020 18:29
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BBC News keeps mentioning the ‘government’s chief scientific advisor’ and I keep expecting to see Pertwee.
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May 5, 2020 23:40
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The_Doctor posted:BBC News keeps mentioning the ‘government’s chief scientific advisor’ and I keep expecting to see Pertwee. That would only make sense if they were constantly attempting to warn of some preventable catastrophe but being ignored by egomaniacs who are convinced they are righ.... oh God  Edit: This makes me think of the Brigadier - about as stuffy and establishment as they come - in The Green Death, being told about meat-free alternatives and renewable energy, and being initially skeptical but open to the possibility and interested in the potential. Good ol' Brig 
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May 6, 2020 00:22
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1258034417383112706
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May 6, 2020 15:36
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Carrot juice, carrot juice, carrot juice...!
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May 6, 2020 23:16
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Been playing No Man's Sky, and while doing exploration things and grinding up resources in the game, I've been alternating between listening to the Hitchhiker's Guide radio series and the BBC Audio releases of the missing DW stories. Makes for a quite chill and relaxing evening.
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May 7, 2020 11:53
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Shiftypenguin posted:"Planet of the Doctors" I liked The Leisure Hive too.
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May 7, 2020 13:59
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Sydney Bottocks posted:The Sontarans differ from the Daleks in that, while they both view other races as inferior, the Daleks have basically been established as "space Nazis" who are obsessed with racial purity. While the Sontarans are more the equivalent of your old-time colonial powers, locked in a seemingly eternal war with a rival power and focused on conquest for the glory of their empire (you could also make a parallel between the Sontarans/Rutans and the US/Soviets during the Cold War, except they didn't bother with proxy wars and just went straight for direct conflict instead). Too many writers missing Holmes' joke in The Time Warrior: have a clone species, but only ever show one of them. And the secondary joke of a bunch of identical clone warriors who have radically different personalities and kind of can't stand each other. What I really want to see is a Master/Ice Warrior story. But the "stories we'd like to see" discussion also made me realize than when we finally got the Master and Davros in the same episode, they essentially had nothing to do with one another. Hasn't Big Finish done at least one "everyone is the Doctor" story already?
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May 8, 2020 00:29
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Lawrence Miles pulled a fun one in Interference where every member of a circus/freak show was the same Time Lord.
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May 8, 2020 03:10
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Narsham posted:Too many writers missing Holmes' joke in The Time Warrior: have a clone species, but only ever show one of them. Not the Doctor, but Drax, in the Fourth Doctor story "The Trouble with Drax"
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May 9, 2020 01:37
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I just listened to Minuet in Hell tonight and 
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May 9, 2020 01:47
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CommonShore posted:I just listened to Minuet in Hell tonight and It's just such a... baffling story. What the gently caress were they thinking?
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May 9, 2020 02:22
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Jerusalem posted:It's just such a... baffling story. What the gently caress were they thinking? It's as if they had 4 different scripts and they mashed them all together without any thought for coherence, filled every remaining plot hole with the worst cliche they could find, and then sprinked in slaves and rape just for funzies.
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May 9, 2020 03:50
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Naming a purported state Malebolgia wouldn’t get past the first 3 seconds of someone uttering it in the first meeting to discuss what we should name our new state.
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May 9, 2020 03:55
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The_Doctor posted:Naming a purported state Malebolgia wouldn’t get past the first 3 seconds of someone uttering it in the first meeting to discuss what we should name our new state. Because they'd approve it in two?
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May 9, 2020 16:37
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