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Hi gang, just gonna crosspost this tidbit from the RLM thread in GBS
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Hi gang, just gonna crosspost this tidbit from the RLM thread in GBS The Ncuti photo freaks me out because, minimised, he's looking at the viewer but, zoomed in, he's suddenly looking... over my shoulder. suspicious
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Nov 7, 2022 23:01
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Hopefully none of the Disney stuff has any fallout on Big Finish. If there was ever a time to be glad Russell is back it's when DW does a deal with Disney since he's the one who saved BF before.
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Nov 8, 2022 01:15
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the round things are gonna be rounder than ever
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Nov 8, 2022 01:16
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Big finish and the bbc signed a contract for them to produce doctor who to at least 2030 and nick briggs said on the 2nd to latest big finish podcast the Disney deal will have no impact on that. Thankfully.
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Nov 8, 2022 01:23
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Much like our Welsh Giant savior once held the Big Finish license up over his head and bellowed with laughter at the BBC frantically jumping up and down trying to wrest it away from him, he will do the same to Disney, and God bless him for it 
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Nov 8, 2022 04:20
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BF's Scott Hancock is leaving BF to be the Script Editor on Doctor Who
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Nov 9, 2022 18:26
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Good for him! He's worked on some absolutely brilliant audios at big finish. Crazy I've been following his Instagram for a while and I thought something might have been up just based on how much rtd all of a sudden started commenting on his posts.
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Nov 9, 2022 21:22
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Well drat, good for him! That must be a dream come true.
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Nov 9, 2022 22:04
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Power of the Doctor script Changes: - Scenes were placed differently or removed. - The Spy Dalek is given more background: A Biological Combat engineer assigned to ameliorate defeats in combat with the solution of turning their casing into nukes and destroying the Kaled puppet. The dialog in its first scene is different as well. - The Qurunx reveal scene in the script has the Doctor be a bit more incompetent, requiring probing from Yaz to figure it out. - Cut lines state the Master was a) the real Rasputin (which means that Boney M's Rasputin was in reality, about him) and b) the cause of the Tunguska Event. Fittingly, his second-to-last scene has him get shot several times. - Vinder's lines during his intro scene are different, and said scene is also longer. - There's a scene in the TARDIS shortly after the Master's capture where he plays mind games with Yaz. - The scene before the Doctor arrives in the volcano has Yaz say "Pay me that respect" after "Make time." instead of a brief summary of the events so far. - Ashad has this one badass line: "My army has awoken. And now we shall convert yours." that was replaced with generic Master mocking. - The Master's lines revealing that he has the resources to force a regeneration is different. Same with the actual line before he does so. - The Master-Doctor (as the script calls the bodyjacked Doctor) pages Yaz, and she materializes the TARDIS to meet him. - Deegeneration (the reversal of regeneration) is explained. - The Fugitive Doctor (identified as Doctor F) has a bigger role, first appearing via the HoloDoctor glitching and getting more lines when in Russia. - The joke about the lease on the UNIT base was added later. - There are more lines at the companion meet up. - Thirteen's final speech is different, and is a bit sadder. - The script ends without Fourteen's reveal.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:39
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Vinylshadow posted:- The script ends without Fourteen's reveal. IIRC RTD left Smith's first lines to Moffat to write - was this tradition carried on for Moffat to Chibnall and then again back to RTD?
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Nov 11, 2022 23:10
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If someone’s got the new DWM, they could check there, as it has a feature on the last scene.
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Nov 11, 2022 23:27
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Clouseau posted:IIRC RTD left Smith's first lines to Moffat to write - was this tradition carried on for Moffat to Chibnall and then again back to RTD? I'm pretty sure that is the tradition, yeah. Moffat and his team were in charge of filming Smith's first scene, Chibnall and his team did Whittaker's, and RTD and his team did.... DAVID TENNANT!?!
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Nov 12, 2022 00:04
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Big Finish is offering gift cards once again
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Nov 12, 2022 01:00
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Amazed that there was so much more stuff that didn't get put in, I wouldn't have bet the cutting room floor had much celluloid on it.Vinylshadow posted:- The Master's lines revealing that he has the resources to force a regeneration is different. Same with the actual line before he does so. Yet again, I wonder why we needed a scene of Thirteen being shot by a big space laser when you could just say, "Oh yeah, degeneration hosed me up real bad and I need to turn into David Tennant now." You could've gotten this episode in under an hour if you'd just cut out all the repeated elements.
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Nov 12, 2022 02:52
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Vinylshadow posted:Changes: Is this based on that twitter thread by Jamie? (I'm in a discord with the guy and I suspect he's, like, a clinical narcissist.)
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Nov 12, 2022 04:19
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RTD explains why David's clothes regeneratedquote:“I was very certain that I didn’t want David to appear in Jodie’s costume. I think the notion of men dressing in ‘women’s clothes’, the notion of drag, is very delicate. I’m a huge fan of that culture and the dignity of that, it’s truly a valuable thing. But it has to be done with immense thought and respect.”
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Nov 12, 2022 18:26
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that's ... definitely an explanation
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Nov 12, 2022 22:40
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Lunatic Sledge posted:that's ... definitely an explanation I think it's actually a pretty well-reasoned argument. There's the possibility of it looking like sneering at certain groups, and even though RTD doesn't bring it up I'm sure he's keenly aware that the transphobic media would find a way to play ball with it. Besides, regenerating clothes pretty clearly signals that something has gone wrong this time.
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Nov 12, 2022 22:50
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Didn't that same episode have the Master in the Doctor's clothes, essentially to that effect?
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Nov 13, 2022 00:11
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Eiba posted:Didn't that same episode have the Master in the Doctor's clothes, essentially to that effect? yes, but that isn't going to be his One outfit that the fandom will have to go on for 6+ months at the end of an episode
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Nov 13, 2022 00:21
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Eiba posted:Didn't that same episode have the Master in the Doctor's clothes, essentially to that effect? Russell also didn't have creative control over that part of the ep
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Nov 13, 2022 00:57
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Ive finished up reading Doctor Who and the Cybermen, aka The Moonbase, and I have to say of the four books I’ve read so far this is by far the best one. Relatively it’s the longest adaption of the four, clocking in at a similar length to The Daleks but having been adapted from a four part story instead of a seven parter. The author has taken advantage of the medium to add a good amount of extra fluff to the story, along with expanding the “visuals” and setting beyond the capabilities of the TV show. The most significant changes:
The Cybermen also think like early 2000s SomethingAwful users.  Overall it’s a great TV serial and the book is equally great and I would have to recommend it. Up next is The Invasion and finding out whether the book manages to convey Kevin Stoney’s marvellous portrayal of Tobias Vaughn.
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Nov 13, 2022 18:59
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I had the novelisation of 'The Moonbase' decades before I actually saw the story, so in my head everything was far grander than what was on the screen, which came as a faintly disappointing surprise.
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Nov 13, 2022 22:08
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Payndz posted:I had the novelisation of 'The Moonbase' decades before I actually saw the story, so in my head everything was far grander than what was on the screen, which came as a faintly disappointing surprise. I read the novelisation of The Happyness Patrol decades before i saw it (or any stills from it) and my mental image of the Kandyman was... We'll just go with "Very Different" from what had actually aired.
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Nov 13, 2022 22:42
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Payndz posted:I had the novelisation of 'The Moonbase' decades before I actually saw the story, so in my head everything was far grander than what was on the screen, which came as a faintly disappointing surprise. Same, absolutely loved the book but it built up something in my mind that the story itself - first with the reconstructed episodes, then the animated - could never quite match up to.
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Nov 14, 2022 00:28
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Russell T Davies returns to Dark Season as an audio...with Kate Winslet??? https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/kate-winslet-stars-in-russell-t-davies-new-audio-drama
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Nov 14, 2022 16:10
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Yannick_B posted:Russell T Davies returns to Dark Season as an audio...with Kate Winslet??? Christ, that's a major get for Big Finish.
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Nov 14, 2022 16:22
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Winslet is probably rich enough that she can do projects like this without breaking a sweat. I'd joke about bringing Terrence Hardiman back in a Demon Headmaster reboot just to satisfy my 90s childhood nostalgia but apparently they already did that a couple years ago.
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Nov 14, 2022 16:49
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RTD's also writing his first audio with that Dark Seasons set; everything else (his Lost Story, his Novel Adaptation) was done with him overseeing it, with someone else doing the writing.
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Nov 14, 2022 18:10
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He did some uncredited writing for one of the Torchwood boxsets as well.
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Nov 14, 2022 18:25
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It’s a Doctor’s birthday! But probably not the one you were expecting… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3jrS-uhuo
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Nov 14, 2022 18:56
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The_Doctor posted:It’s a Doctor’s birthday! But probably not the one you were expecting… Always puts a smile on my face. He's such a good doctor.
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Nov 16, 2022 11:57
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I loving knew that was the real reason, even if they'll create a story reason for it. Part of me says they should have just said, "gently caress it, if they can't handle it, that's their problem, not mine." But I understand where he's coming from as a showrunner who A) wants his moment to land, and B) didn't want it to seem like he was making a joke out of drag. Plus, it's not like regeneration hasn't changed over time. I've seen the old clips, I saw The Doctor turn into a mummy or something once while regenerating. Changing clothes really isn't that big of a deal.
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Nov 16, 2022 18:55
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There's going to be a plot reason for it anyway. 13 and 14 looked at their clothes changing with surprise.
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Nov 16, 2022 19:03
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One to Two had their clothes change then as well, so there’s precedence. Also the vaunted DWM comic that takes place immediately after the regeneration starts with the Doctor going to the 1966 World Cup Final at Wembley, which feels a bit ho hum, rather than investigating why he looks like he used to.
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Nov 16, 2022 19:18
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Am I missing something here, because Thirteen's outfit was pretty gender-neutral on the whole.
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Nov 16, 2022 20:04
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It's fine if it's an actual plot point, but half the fun of a new episode is watching them run around in the previous incarnations clothes for most of it.
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Nov 16, 2022 21:51
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Agreed, but given what the British press is doing to trans people right now I'm honestly really thankful Rusty sidestepped it.
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LividLiquid posted:Agreed, but given what the British press is doing to trans people right now I'm honestly really thankful Rusty sidestepped it. Have to agree here. I did wonder myself if it wasn't an attempt to drive more 10 nostalgia, but reading RTD's explanation - yep, absolutely pro move.
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