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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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God, he’s asking to be punched there.
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Jun 2, 2020 15:35
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Well, at least the Doctor warms up to him by Age of Steel ...granted, it's because Mickey's staying in another world, but shhhh
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Jun 2, 2020 15:41
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(Also that genuinely might have been the Doctor going a bit senile and letting different realities bleed into their brain. Remember, Age of Steel Mickey *IS* Ricky)
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Jun 2, 2020 20:55
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This is probably a repost, but there are some good ones in there: https://twitter.com/KevKoeser/status/1049354029346828288
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Jun 2, 2020 23:36
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I was surprised at the sight of Ryan and Yaz in a 2018 tweet and then realised that’s how long ago their first season was.
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Jun 2, 2020 23:50
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Big Finish just released info about their contribution to "Time Lord Victorious". 3 Eighth Doctor audios, and a Short Trips featuring the Delgado and Ainley Masters, performed by Jon Culshaw. https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/new-time-lord-victorious-titles-revealed https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/doctor-who-time-lord-victorious
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Jun 3, 2020 00:12
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I can't really think of a combination of words that excite me less than "faces his old enemies, the Daleks, in the Time War" at this point tbh. Short Trip stories with the Ainley and Delgado Masters are interesting, tho
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Jun 3, 2020 00:38
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Teek posted:This is probably a repost, but there are some good ones in there: 
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Jun 3, 2020 00:49
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Homora Gaykemi posted:I can't really think of a combination of words that excite me less than "faces his old enemies, the Daleks, in the Time War" at this point tbh They're aiming for that mass appeal audience here. 8 is the kinda the "face" of Big Finish doctors, and Daleks are /the/ Doctor Who enemy
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Jun 3, 2020 02:52
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I remember a few years after the show had come back, BF was talking about their relationship with the production office, and how their storylines have to be approved. In the year leading up to the comeback in 2005, RTD wanted to build up anticipation for the Daleks, so he told BF they couldn't use them. BF responded, "If we can have Dalek stories, we'll go out of business!" because that's how much the sales of the Dalek stories contribute to BF's productions. So RTD relented.
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Jun 3, 2020 03:12
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jivjov posted:They're aiming for that mass appeal audience here. 8 is the kinda the "face" of Big Finish doctors, and Daleks are /the/ Doctor Who enemy for sure, i understand the why, it's just that, like, the Eighth Doctor Time War series hasn't even finished yet and I'm personally kind of over Daleks and the Time War for the moment so Big Fin's contribution to Timelord Victorious being "the Eighth Doctor... against the Daleks... in the Time War" really isn't up my alley though I do still have to listen to Susan's War, that's one i'm keen for
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Jun 3, 2020 03:20
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Delgado's is clearly the best, followed by Missy's.
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Jun 3, 2020 03:24
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I don't know why I bother when every ancillary media of any kind has fallen into this trap already, but there's very little of a thing you can show of a thing like the Time War before it gets less and less interesting. For as good as Day of the Doctor is, it makes that stage of the Time War look rather a lot like conventional combat, let alone thirty-two hours worth of stories.
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Jun 3, 2020 04:41
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I'm curious, how did the Time War ostensibly 'start'? Is it a folly to actually try to conceive a literal Time War as... having a start, or is there actually some form of inciting incident? I'm just asking because I've realized I've been picturing the most minor, petty kick-off spiraling out of control.
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Jun 3, 2020 05:22
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Cleretic posted:I'm curious, how did the Time War ostensibly 'start'? Is it a folly to actually try to conceive a literal Time War as... having a start, or is there actually some form of inciting incident? Genesis of the Daleks is one of the first, if not the first, shot of the war. One race trying to eradicate the other from history is a pretty good way to get real weird with time
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Jun 3, 2020 05:28
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One thing I love about Genesis that probably wasn't explicitly intended is that when Davros first shows a Dalek examples of what the "other" they're meant to hate is, the first example they see is the Doctor. The second is a human being. The Thals were supposed to be the Daleks most hated enemies but somewhere deep, deep down I'm sure the lesson that very first Dalek learned about hate continues to resonate to this day: all non-Daleks must be exterminated, but ESPECIALLY the Doctor and human beings MUST be exterminated at all costs. Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Jun 3, 2020 |
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Jun 3, 2020 05:42
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Yet another item on the list of things I’d forgotten; 10 is incredibly quick to bloodshed when it comes to anything other than a human. And even then, his whole solution for the Cybermen is to give them their emotions back, let them realize the body horror they’ve suffered, and then sit back as that realization drives them mad and kills them. It’s loving horrific if you think about it for more than a second 
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Jun 3, 2020 07:50
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But he was so, so sorry about it.
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Jun 3, 2020 12:01
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https://twitter.com/ManningOfficial/status/1268106962283237376?s=20
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Jun 3, 2020 13:34
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That ham-fisted bum vendor. 
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Jun 3, 2020 13:36
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Yet another item on the list of things I’d forgotten; 10 is incredibly quick to bloodshed when it comes to anything other than a human. And even then, his whole solution for the Cybermen is to give them their emotions back, let them realize the body horror they’ve suffered, and then sit back as that realization drives them mad and kills them. Ten's "I got so much worse, used to talk people into taking their lives" is pretty goddamn hypocritical. You gotta try real real hard to get more ruthless than Seven was sometimes.
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Jun 3, 2020 19:36
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Huh. This is so odd. https://twitter.com/jamesstreetmanx/status/1268328283680145408 EDIT: more info here.
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Jun 4, 2020 12:50
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What a truly bizarre and pointless change to make 
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Jun 4, 2020 13:02
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Imagine if the classic blu-ray box sets they've been putting out used the Whitaker intro titles We've already got these:  May as well go all-in, no?
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Jun 4, 2020 15:19
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Rewatching Day of the Moon, and I can't tell you how much I laughed when Canton Delaware III shot a Silence and said "Welcome to America". 
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Jun 4, 2020 21:47
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Edward Mass posted:Rewatching Day of the Moon, and I can't tell you how much I laughed when Canton Delaware III shot a Silence and said "Welcome to America". WELCOME TO EARTH The_Doctor fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jun 4, 2020 |
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Jun 4, 2020 21:48
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The_Doctor posted:WELCOME TO ERF Literally always worth pointing out that in Independence day Will Smith very clearly says "welcome to earth" and the "welcome to erf" meme is... I'm going to go with "problematic" at best.
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Jun 4, 2020 23:04
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SiKboy posted:Literally always worth pointing out that in Independence day Will Smith very clearly says "welcome to earth" and the "welcome to erf" meme is... I'm going to go with "problematic" at best. I’m from London, so Erf is a completely standard pronunciation here. We drop a lot of letters.
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Jun 4, 2020 23:33
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The_Doctor posted:I’m from London, so Erf is a completely standard pronunciation here. We drop a lot of letters. I'm from glasgow, we drop more. Will Smith is also not from London, so the fact you are is not even a little bit relevant. It's a stupid, lovely and inaccurate meme, entirely based on "Lol, black people talk like this!", and I probably wouldnt go hard on trying to defend it if I were you.
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Jun 4, 2020 23:37
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That’s fair, my bad.
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Jun 4, 2020 23:41
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Some top  content from this week's Popbitch mailout:quote:"Back in the early 80s I was a massive Doctor Who fan. I didn't write letters to the Doctors though. I wrote to Anthony Ainley, who played the Doctor's arch-nemesis, the Master. The letter said how, even though I liked the Doctor, I thought The Master was better and I didn't understand why the BBC couldn't let him win occasionally.
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Jun 5, 2020 00:59
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The_Doctor posted:Some top oh gosh, this is the best
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Jun 5, 2020 01:04
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God that story is the best  Edward Mass posted:Rewatching Day of the Moon, and I can't tell you how much I laughed when Canton Delaware III shot a Silence and said "Welcome to America". I love when the Secret Service pull guns on the Doctor when he shows up unannounced to the Oval Office, and he laughs that they're not gonna shoot him just for standing there doing nothing, at which point everybody else runs out of the TARDIS screaming,"THEY'RE AMERICANS!"
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Jun 5, 2020 02:34
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Jerusalem posted:God that story is the best Oof man, that joke is way too real now. In lighter news, I’d forgotten how refreshing the 10/Martha dynamic was coming right off the melodramatic heels of the Rose farewell. Although, I seem to recall them doing a sorta similar will they/won’t they thing with her eventually? It’s been about a decade so maybe I’m misremembering. Either way, I still prefer Martha to Rose. Season 2 is an unfortunate combination of extremely uneven episodes and a grating 10/Rose dynamic. I don’t hate either character like I used to, but I definitely welcomed the end of that relationship by the time Doomsday rolled around.
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Jun 5, 2020 02:48
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My big issue with Martha was that they really seemed to go out of their way to define her as NOT ROSE as opposed to a character in her own right. On the one hand, after two years of Rose it was good that they weren't just doing the same character beats, but they really didn't define who Martha herself was beyond very specifically NOT being another Rose. Now Donna, there was somebody who got a strongly defined character, and God she was the absolute best.
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Jun 5, 2020 02:55
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Jerusalem posted:Now Donna, there was somebody who got a strongly defined character, and God she was the absolute best. I had forgotten The Runaway Bride special existed and I am so looking forward to my season 4 rewatch
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Jun 5, 2020 02:58
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I liked Martha as a character, and i think she was well-portrated, but the Rose baggage was too much and I felt that was overall a weak season. Martha also suffers from being followed by Donna, who is top-tier.
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Jun 5, 2020 03:06
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The_Doctor posted:Some top My favorite Ainley story is about how, as soon as he'd found out Sophie Aldred played cricket, he instantly became her friend for life I believe he'd been left some money by his father, so he didn't need to work very much, and so he could freely indulge his two biggest hobbies and enjoyments in life: playing cricket and being The Master. 
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Jun 5, 2020 04:47
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Sydney Bottocks posted:My favorite Ainley story is about how, as soon as he'd found out Sophie Aldred played cricket, he instantly became her friend for life Being the Master isn't a hobby, it's just something that comes naturally. Mwa ha. MWA ha ha.
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Jun 5, 2020 06:59
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Chokes McGee posted:Being the Master isn't a hobby, it's just something that comes naturally. Mwa ha. MWA ha ha. I'm not the world's biggest NuWho fan, but the buildup to the Master's return in Utopia, featuring that signature Ainley cackle, is by far one of my favorite DW moments of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI_RB2URZPY
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