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Infinitum posted:The little matchbox reveal as well So good! https://i.imgur.com/U0G1zQr.mp4
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He's just so proud of being an absolute tit about it as well Bless
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Oct 6, 2022 03:07
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Maybe resurrect the spoiler thread if the info starts to be about the content of episodes. I'm pretty spoiler adverse generally but the basic casting the news being that there is not a recasting information we've been discussing here doesn't make me feel as if there's a quarrantine problem
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The Spoiler Thread still lives!
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I think I missed the Sea Devil story in Season 8… Do they really think reminding people about Legend of the Sea Devils on a box set which doesn’t even contain the story was a good idea?
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Oct 6, 2022 20:27
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Wish there will come a time where you could buy these things digitally. I'm going to have to buy a bluray player just for the doctor who classic collection sets. Confusedslight fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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Oct 6, 2022 20:30
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I'm pretty sure the Sea Devils is the story where Three goes off on how Silurian isn't an especially accurate name for that species, and how we ought to call them what they call themselves. This story, again, is called the Sea Devils.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Finished Moffat's new thing It’s amazing how new unknown actor Louis
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The_Doctor posted:It’s amazing how new unknown actor Louis ugh
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Like father, like son.
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In what kind of world are we were there's a teaser for a trailer. Come on.
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Carbon dioxide posted:In what kind of world are we were there's a teaser for a trailer. Come on. They (by which I mean media companies in general, not just the BBC) have been doing this for over 10 years now.
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Oct 7, 2022 20:15
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There's a trend of movie studios doing six-second trailer-trailers, so you have to watch at least that part before pressing "Skip Ad" on YouTube. Max Headroom was ahead of its time, really.
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Carbon dioxide posted:In what kind of world are we were there's a teaser for a trailer. Come on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ZtS7Emado
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Trailer’s up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxaDzBPBuP8
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 I swear that same location was used before in an ep.
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happyhippy posted:
The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit one?
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Nice quarry there.
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Barry the Sprout posted:The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit one? Nah, in 13's time. Don't have the episode to watch, but the planet had red tinged light. Could be wrong, just looks seen it before.
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Oct 8, 2022 16:47
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That sure looks like a lot for a 55 to 65 minute special that also has to include a teaser for the next Doctor, but fortunately Chibnall is good at juggling multiple concepts at once!
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Tegan landing a parachute or was that just my blearly saturday morning (I had a benzo-supported late sleep gimme a break) brain imaginging things? edit: It's Sophie landing that chute, which a quick cut away. My bad. Made more sense. Also oddly timed my listening to the New Doctors Old Companions, 10 gets a run in with both Ace and Dorothy (both versions of the character) and it's...interesting to see the dynamic difference. Tennant and Sophie always a pleasure and nothing makes me more nostalgic than hearing "Professor!" Anyone give the latest Unbound War Doctor a listen? I want to like this concept but first series was just kinda meh for mee McGann fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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happyhippy posted:
The alien dimension seen in Spyfall?
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happyhippy posted:
It looks like the quarry used in the last episode of Chibnall's first season, but then all quarries look the same eventually.
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Vinylshadow posted:The alien dimension seen in Spyfall? Not sure, but I think I found out where I saw it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WutM__v3x0&t=5s I knew I saw that ridge line before, looks like the one you see here. Weird how pattern recognition works in the brain. Could still be wrong though.
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I was going to say "that prison quarry they put the Sugar Skull Gang in"
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Doctor Who Fans: "Thank GOD Chibnall is leaving before he can again bring back some dumb apocryphal Doctor Who thing from the past we never needed to revisit!" Chris Chibnall: "Hold my beer!" 
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Astroman posted:Doctor Who Fans: "Thank GOD Chibnall is leaving before he can again bring back some dumb apocryphal Doctor Who thing from the past we never needed to revisit!" Transit's not that bad. Certainly one of the best Ice Warrior stories Who's ever made, despite them never turning up on the page.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Transit's not that bad. Certainly one of the best Ice Warrior stories Who's ever made, despite them never turning up on the page. Maybe I need to reread it. It's just so tonally way off, "Hey, let's write a cyberpunk story and throw Doctor Who in!" Present for approval, a random selection from the Wikipedia synopsis of "Transit": quote:With the main line shut down till the damage can be repaired, the Doctor cannot retrieve the TARDIS or Benny, and remains with Kadiatu. The pair visit Kadiatu's elderly family friend and blind war veteran, Francine, at her bar on Mars. She agrees to use her underworld contacts to find Blondie (who Kadiatu assumes stole the moneypin while they were making love), and tells Kadiatu that her new friend has two hearts, confirming her suspicions. Long ago, her father told her stories about his grandfather and the mysterious time traveller known as the Doctor. The two go to a cafe in Paris, where the Doctor gets drunk and passes out celebrating the universe's 13500020012th birthday.  Though to be fair, it wasn't even the most bananas New Adventure, probably not even in the top 5...
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Astroman posted:Maybe I need to reread it. It's just so tonally way off, "Hey, let's write a cyberpunk story and throw Doctor Who in!" IMO, this was partly down to quite a lot of british scifi in the 90's being some flavour of cyberpunk -- The Demon Headmaster, Dark Season etc. If the show had been on TV we'd have absolutely got a bunch of cyberspace sequences. Another big aspect was down to the NAs arguing that Doctor Who was effectively a series without a distinctive genre. Drop the Doctor, Companion and TARDIS into any story, any setting, and go. It's something I inherently believe about Who, too. There's mostly no genre that it hasn't tried at some point or another. It's done sexploitation, video nasties, ML James Horror, Christian sci-fi, magical realism, southern gothic, pantomime, musicals, unironic Starship Troopers style fascist stories, at least two stories that were written as board games (as opposed to licenced board game tie-ins)... and I'm not just talking about stories "about"' these genres, like the way Bad Wolf is more "about" reality TV than an example of the show "doing" reality TV, but stories that, for better or for worse, attempt to explore what these genres are like and see how Doctor Who can accommodate them into its ever flexible framework. The results can vary, and I don't think all genres are inherently worth pursuing in and of themselves (though most are). But in all honesty that owns, Doctor Who owns. It's a big reason for the series' longevity. The moment it just starts being derivative of itself, coming back to the same old set ups and xeroxed copies of what the series "should be" is when it starts to die. IMO of course.
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Having (I think) now finished Kadiatu's arc in the New Adventures, the character really does nothing for me. But the rest of Transit is great, if not exactly an easy read. I mean, the plot involves an interstellar subway system that becomes self-aware and gets possessed by an entity dwelling in the dimension it's short-cutting through, what's not to love?
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Confusedslight posted:Wish there will come a time where you could buy these things digitally. I'm going to have to buy a bluray player just for the doctor who classic collection sets. Even content you've paid money for beyond your monthly subscriptions aren't safe. Services are removing those too, and not giving refunds for them or anything.
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Yeah, I'm still a big believer in physical media, particularly for Doctor Who. Gaming I embraced digital but even then it's troubling seeing music get replaced when the licenses run out or in some cases characters getting entire makeovers because the real person who did their voice/gave their likeness ended up in some minor scandal in Japan or something. Not such an issue for Doctor Who where the BBC - if I remember right - has rights to particular music forever once they get the agreement (which is how at least one recording of a Beatles performance actually still exists today, because it featured in a Hartnell episode!), but imagine Britney Spears or the Scissor Sisters having their songs removed from their episodes of Who, that would suck. Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Oct 9, 2022 |
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Jerusalem posted:or in some cases characters getting entire makeovers because the real person who did their voice/gave their likeness ended up in some minor scandal in Japan or something I see you too are a fan of Judgement
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Infinitum posted:I see you too are a fan of Judgement I actually haven't had a chance to play them yet, but it's happened a few times with the Yakuza games by the same studio - characters got caught with like some marijuana or something and got blacklisted from the entertainment industry, and they just completely replaced the character model and they got in an entirely new voice performance.
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Was nudged by the trailer for her finale finally to start watching Thirteen's stories. Quick trip report: 'The Woman Who Fell To Earth': the aesthetics of a high-end crime drama with the irritating goofiness of modern Who (I stopped watching after the Capaldi episode with the lion-man who looked like a costume from Rentaghost). Jodie had the usual syndrome of post-regeneration mania, where nobody knows how the new Doctor is going to be played so defaults to 'hyper and wacky', so it was hard to get a read on where she's going to go. The companions started out pretty strongly, though - I liked them. Grace's death just came off as wrong from a writing perspective, though - the main villain had already been dealt with, so her dying from poking the Little Bad with a stick for no good reason felt pointless and empty. Maybe that was the intent, but it didn't work. Would have been better for it to happen before the villain is defeated and actually help the Doctor in some way. (There was an undercurrent of the story revelling in ironic cruelty - "Where's my sister?"/"You will never know" [dead]; "Goodnight, lovely grandchild" [dead] - so maybe Grace's death was one more example. Wasn't keen.) 'The Ghost Monument': the story boils down to 'a character we've never seen before becomes less of a jerk, and the Doctor gets her TARDIS back.' Oh, and the Doctor has hints dropped about the season arc by a telepathic fajita wrap. Just a string of Things That Happen of no real consequence. (Maybe I'm wrong and every single obstacle is called back to later in the season, but eh.) Also had the classic "we're trying for a movie-style action sequence on a TV budget and schedule" fail of characters running in straight lines across open spaces as the baddies shoot everything but the large, slow-moving targets. Forgettable.
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