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Which season should the next animated reconstruction be from? This poll is closed. |
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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% |
| Total: | 70 votes | ||
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Stolen from Facebook...
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May 9, 2020 22:45
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https://twitter.com/manusj/status/1259237425072799744
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May 9, 2020 22:50
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Couldn’t get the image to save on iPhone so I had to screen cap.
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May 10, 2020 00:32
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Lot of terrifying possibilities in the Big Finish catalogue, really:
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May 10, 2020 00:55
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https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1259210509557039105
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May 10, 2020 00:56
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May 10, 2020 01:51
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I could listen to entire running series of 11 and 12 yelling at each other. 
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May 10, 2020 06:42
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Chokes McGee posted:I could listen to entire running series of 11 and 12 yelling at each other. His 11 is spot on, shame about his 12.
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May 10, 2020 06:57
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Chokes McGee posted:I could listen to entire running series of 11 and 12 yelling at each other. The fun thing is I can't even decide which of them would try to avoid death/regeneration more--11 who thinks he can't, or 12 who "didn't want to go" more than 10! I tend to avoid the "Doctor as read by a rando" releases but I may have to do this one.
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May 10, 2020 13:24
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https://twitter.com/bbcwritersroom/status/1259812659710451713
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May 11, 2020 16:11
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Is there some scriptwriting lingo I'm missing or does Chibnall just love to use the word ICONIC?
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May 11, 2020 20:02
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Is there some scriptwriting lingo I'm missing or does Chibnall just love to use the word ICONIC? He writes it and then lets everyone else do the hard work and interpret it. It’s fairly lazy.
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May 11, 2020 20:11
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Largely unrelated, but one of the Red Dwarf novels included the first script for the show's pilot in the back, which they specifically wrote trying to ensure higher-ups it would be really cheap to make. So every prop and set description is stuff like 'BBC basement corridor' or 'whatever computers we've got lying around'. I like to imagine that any good Doctor Who script has similar setting descriptions.
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May 11, 2020 23:50
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http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/andrew-cartmel-thinks-timeless-child-depletes-the-mystery-of-doctor-who-93918.htm IMO, Cartmel has bad takes.
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May 12, 2020 10:21
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I was rereading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the other day and it struck me just how Doctor Who it was from the word go. The Heart of Gold is basically a TARDIS, the Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic and the Thumb together make a sonic screwdriver, and the scenes in book 3 of Zaphod moping around his infinitely powerful ship with infinite possibilities and nowhere to go read pretty much like how the Doctor might act if they had a few more personality problems.
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May 12, 2020 10:36
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Dabir posted:I was rereading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the other day and it struck me just how Doctor Who it was from the word go. The Heart of Gold is basically a TARDIS, the Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic and the Thumb together make a sonic screwdriver, and the scenes in book 3 of Zaphod moping around his infinitely powerful ship with infinite possibilities and nowhere to go read pretty much like how the Doctor might act if they had a few more personality problems. Isn't the third Hitchhiker book the one that's literally a rejected Who script (Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen)?
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May 12, 2020 10:42
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That would make a lot of sense.
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May 12, 2020 10:43
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Douglas Adams' ideas early on for HHGTTG (If I remember that "Don't Panic"book right) lean more towards a Doctor Who piss-take format, with Ford and Arthur bouncing around having adventures. Like a pitch for one episode being about "A planet all dentists have been exiled to until they finally agree on one thing that is actually good for your teeth".
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May 12, 2020 11:47
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Adams reuses a few jokes from The Pirate Planet in Hitchhikers doesn't he?
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May 12, 2020 11:56
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First look at the books from the "Time Lord Victorious" crossover. https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=first-time-lord-victorious-stories
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May 12, 2020 13:43
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Dabir posted:I was rereading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the other day and it struck me just how Doctor Who it was from the word go. The Heart of Gold is basically a TARDIS, the Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic and the Thumb together make a sonic screwdriver, and the scenes in book 3 of Zaphod moping around his infinitely powerful ship with infinite possibilities and nowhere to go read pretty much like how the Doctor might act if they had a few more personality problems. Adams said that the Doctor and Ford are more or less the same person, but where the Doctor would go save a planet, Ford would choose to go to a party.
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May 12, 2020 14:08
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/andrew-cartmel-thinks-timeless-child-depletes-the-mystery-of-doctor-who-93918.htm Eh, I think he actually makes several good points (though the BBC would never let him get rid of the sonic screwdriver, because I'm sure they make bank on merchandising it).
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May 12, 2020 17:01
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As someone who has Ten's, River's, Eleven's, Twelve's, and Thirteen's sonics, yes, yes they do
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May 12, 2020 17:05
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I realize now that the article I saw yesterday and this one aren't the same, so I'm gonna try to find the original source. Here's the source: https://cultbox.co.uk/news/andrew-cartmel-timeless-child-backstory-depletes-the-mystery I personally think trying to put the Doctor back in the mystery box is impossible and inadvisable now, but besides that, this is the part I take particular issue here: quote:“…when I joined the show, the Doctor had become almost like a guest character in his own show. He had become inconsequential. He’d become a victim rather than the sort of powerful figure at the center of the show. And also, over the previous decades, more and more had become known about him and he was supposed to be this complete enigma but gradually that mystery had been chipped away.” It started with… He’s a Time Lord. Then there’s other Time Lords. Then he’s not even the boss Time Lord. And he could be disciplined by the Time Lords and he could be exiled to Earth and all this stuff and there were always good, solid story reasons to do those things, by which I mean they would provide you with a couple of weeks more material for your stories, but they had long-term detrimental effects because the more you did that, the less interesting the Doctor became.” I think to me, Cartmel's desire for an extremely mysterious, powerful Doctor makes for a less compelling character, and I prefer the take of the Doctor as an adventurer that had to slowly learn how to be a good person and only eventually became extraordinary through their deeds. I mean, the Hartnell/Troughton years were great fun, but we can't time-travel back to them. EDIT: That said, in an alternative universe where I was born in the UK, got really into writing and somehow made it to showrunner of Doctor Who with little to no oversight of the BBC, I'd absolutely destroy the TARDIS and mine it for at least a season of consequences.
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May 12, 2020 18:17
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The Doctor shouldn't be some grand mythical figure They're the kind of person to walk up to and introduce themselves to whatever is trying to kill them and getting away through guile, recontextualized knowledge and a frankly alarming amount of luck ...I mean, that's basically early Eleven, isn't it?
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May 12, 2020 19:00
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Vinylshadow posted:The Doctor shouldn't be some grand mythical figure That's essentially the plot for the Eleventh Hour, yes.
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May 12, 2020 19:16
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God, The Eleventh Hour is so good. "They're spreading the word all over the world, quantum fast. The word is out. And do you know what the word is? .... the word is Zero." 
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May 13, 2020 00:23
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Davros1 posted:First look at the books from the "Time Lord Victorious" crossover. Those look great. Looking forward to Tennant playing it in audio, because he can be chilling when he goes Dark!
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May 13, 2020 01:27
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Astroman posted:Those look great. Looking forward to Tennant playing it in audio, because he can be chilling when he goes Dark! Angry Shouting, got it.
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May 13, 2020 02:26
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The_Doctor posted:Angry Shouting, got it. Shouting? SHOUTING?! I'M NOT SHOUTING
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May 13, 2020 04:52
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When I'm showrunner the sonic will stay but our style guide will have lists of good and lame uses of the sonic, and the general direction will be to avoid using the sonic to solve problems that could be solved without the sonic and/or to avoid introducing problems only to have them removed by the sonic. The sonic under no circumstances should be a weapon. I hate when it's a ray gun or a plot-obstacle skipper. My favourite "didn't use the sonic" is 5 jovially flipping a coin to decide which passage to take in the caves. My favourite big sonic moment is the "it's the same screwdriver!" in Day of the Doctor. Your move, bbc, who is 100% reading this post.
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May 13, 2020 05:38
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CommonShore posted:My favourite big sonic moment is the "it's the same screwdriver!" in Day of the Doctor. Absolute best part of this is after they get done congratulating themselves on being clever, they find out the door was unlocked the entire time
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May 13, 2020 05:55
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"Three of you in one room and none of you tried the door?" "It's supposed to be locked." Such a fun dynamic and more multi-Doctor stories that aren't grand epics would be fun
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May 13, 2020 05:59
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Jerusalem posted:Absolute best part of this is after they get done congratulating themselves on being clever, they find out the door was unlocked the entire time This is my replacement? A fez and some sandshoes?!
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May 13, 2020 22:33
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"Oh you must be his companions... I swear they get younger every time "
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May 13, 2020 23:36
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"Oi! Chinny?" "Yeah, you do have a chin." E: "Loving the posh gravelly thing, very convincing." "Brave words, Dick Van Dyke."
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May 14, 2020 00:43
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Ten: We’re being attacked by a shape shifting alien from outer space formerly disguised as my horse. Queen Elizabeth I: What does this mean? Ten: It means we’re gonna need a new horse. The Doctor: Oi! You! Are you science-y? Osgood: Oh! Um, well um, yes. The Doctor: Got a name? Osgood: Yes. The Doctor: Good. I’ve always wanted to meet someone called Yes. Now, I want this stone dust analyzed. And I want a report. In triplicate. With lots of graphs. And diagrams. And complicated sums. On my desk. Tomorrow morning. ASAP. Pronto. LOL. See? Job! Do I have a desk? Kate Stewart: No. The Doctor: And I want a desk.
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May 14, 2020 06:30
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CommonShore posted:When I'm showrunner the sonic will stay but our style guide will have lists of good and lame uses of the sonic, and the general direction will be to avoid using the sonic to solve problems that could be solved without the sonic and/or to avoid introducing problems only to have them removed by the sonic. The sonic under no circumstances should be a weapon. I hate when it's a ray gun or a plot-obstacle skipper. RTD's original rule of "the plot can be held up because the Doctor needs to solve some fiendishly difficult puzzle, it shouldn't be held up only because there's a lock on a door" was a good one and it should be followed more often.
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May 14, 2020 19:27
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I like the characterisation in how different Doctors deploy the psychic paper to move the plot along. Smith would throw out nonsense and roll with it, Capaldi would often be quite forceful with it, while Whittaker tends to silently present it and go along with whatever the person says. I think Eccleston and Tennant tended to use it in the same sort of basic functional way, with it just being a new tool at that point. Although if I remember right Tennant would often go for claiming positions of authority with it.
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May 14, 2020 20:41
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"I think you’ll find that I’m universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult." "It’s… just a lot of wavy lines." "Yeah. Shorted out. Finally, a lie too big."
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May 14, 2020 20:55
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