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Davros1 posted:But enough about Ian Levine ... What's that? An incredibly tenuous excuse to post this? Okay if you insist!  God bless Forktoss 
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Rewatched New Earth the other day and even though it's clearly nonsense it's nonsense that actually works as a story, with strong characterisation, foreshadowing and all that business. Really puts the Chibnall era into perspective. That's the one with the cat nurses, and the Doctor ends up pouring all the cures into a giant vat (the elevator?) and using it to make an EveryCure for the EveryDisease?
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Nov 26, 2022 23:57
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Don't know if this says more about me than the writing, but the bit in 'New Earth' where everyone started singing, that apparently was meant to show human resilience and unity under pressure? I thought they were under some kind of evil religious mind control.
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Confusedslight posted:I still don't know if you're doing a bit. Post history shows inactivity since 2021 with a few short posts prior to that in threads titled AMA I’m a Time Traveler and Proof of Time Travel, mocking the OP of those threads, Tapes From the Future. Recent history is two cryptic posts (one looks like a hash) followed by what we’re getting, which is Tapes From the Future right down to the same website with that name attached. Tapes has been probated for “get help” reasons but not banned, so I don’t know why they’d be posting using another account. I don’t think there’s much we can do to assist.
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Narsham posted:Post history shows inactivity since 2021 with a few short posts prior to that in threads titled AMA I’m a Time Traveler and Proof of Time Travel, mocking the OP of those threads, Tapes From the Future. Has anyone contacted the CIA (Celestial Intervention Agency)?
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Nov 27, 2022 01:09
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Payndz posted:Don't know if this says more about me than the writing, but the bit in 'New Earth' where everyone started singing, that apparently was meant to show human resilience and unity under pressure? I thought they were under some kind of evil religious mind control. That was ‘Gridlock’, the sequel from the following season.
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Nov 27, 2022 01:35
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Edward Mass posted:That was ‘Gridlock’, the sequel from the following season. I do love that when the Doctor finds the cat nurse in Gridlock he's all happy to recognize her, then abruptly remembers,"Hang on, we're enemies!"
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Nov 27, 2022 02:02
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The annual Chicago Tardis con is this weekend, and came across this photo on social media, of a group of fans with Sylvester and Sophie: https://twitter.com/Yayxlife/status/1596626785260691456?s=20&t=eUP5firKHEVBNgp-lcL2jw Syl's a madman!
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Nov 27, 2022 03:08
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He was right, they are Ace! 
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Nov 27, 2022 03:25
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god Daleks in Manhattan is loving shite isn't it
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Nov 27, 2022 03:32
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Dabir posted:god Daleks in Manhattan is loving shite isn't it 
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Nov 27, 2022 03:55
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Edward Mass posted:That was ‘Gridlock’, the sequel from the following season.
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Nov 27, 2022 09:33
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Also in Eccleston's season he had a bad bout of flu or something, unrelated to the anorexia I think, and was also providing a shoulder to cry on for Piper, who was going through her divorce to Chris Evans. Adding all that to the other problems, I don't blame him for finding it a miserable experience.
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Jerusalem posted:Beyond that though, in the last couple of years it's come out that Noel Clarke acts very inappropriately on set (not just on Doctor Who, but also on his own productions where he was the driving force behind some apparently very misogynistic behavior), and John Barrowman had a "hilarious" reputation for just taking his cock out and slapping it around on people's shoulders and near their faces. Clarke has some very serious allegations around his own productions Guardian write up from last year. Nothing specific to his time on Doctor Who but I can't imagine he fostered a positive environment and given the clips of him laughing about Barrowman getting his dick out I can only see the pair of them as a toxic mix.
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Wolfechu posted:Also in Eccleston's season he had a bad bout of flu or something, unrelated to the anorexia I think, and was also providing a shoulder to cry on for Piper, who was going through her divorce to Chris Evans. Adding all that to the other problems, I don't blame him for finding it a miserable experience. Wait, that Chris Evans? All things considered, not the weirdest connection between corners of media that I thought were unrelated, but still a surprising one for me. Huh.
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Nov 27, 2022 10:01
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Cleretic posted:Wait, that Chris Evans? The BBC presenter and brief post-Clarkson Top Gear host. Apparently they met and started dating when she was 17 and married when she was 18 
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Nov 27, 2022 10:07
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Even with the noncey vibes from Evans marrying someone half his age (Billie had just turned eighteen when they started dating, IIRC), on balance he’s still most likely a better person than her second husband.
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TinTower posted:Even with the noncey vibes from Evans marrying someone half his age (Billie had just turned eighteen when they started dating, IIRC), on balance he’s still most likely a better person than her second husband. It doesn't say much for Piper's bad-person alarms, though.
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Nov 27, 2022 13:23
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Could be worse, though, it could be Saraya in AEW. Now there’s someone with a really bad radar.
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Cleretic posted:Wait, that Chris Evans? If you think thats weird, he was first married to Carol McGiffin, who is mostly known as the man hater on Loose Women.
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Nov 27, 2022 14:35
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According to Bob Mortimer, Chris Evans is himself one of those people who find it hilarious to get their cock out and put it on people’s shoulder etc. One imagines Piper was pretty tired of the bit by the time she was on Doctor Who. E: they’re bad, but I will defend the Daleks In Manhattan episodes if only for the moment when one of the Daleks checks there’s no-one listening behind him. Matinee fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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Nov 27, 2022 14:45
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Payndz posted:Oh yeah, huh. Forgot there were two not very good far-future stories with cat people. Keep Gridlock's name out of your mouth! Honestly, New Earth isn't even that bad either. It helps that Series 2 is a particularly dire series, but the body-switching stuff is fun. But Gridlock is a fantastic episode. Even the hymn works, IMO. I love all the little vignettes we get about the various drivers, and the final scene of the Doctor finally opening up to Martha about their memories of Gallifrey is wonderful.
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Nov 27, 2022 16:56
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Finally have listened to an 8th Doctor story I actively didn't like. And it sucks cause it's one of my favorite TARDIS teams of all time. The Dalby Spook was just so....mediocre, and 8 was so out of character. Does he sometimes get a little too self assured and convinced he's right? Of course, that's something most of the incarnations fall prey to at some point. But I've never really heard him completely dismiss his companion's very real concerns without there being something like undue psychic influence or something. Wet fart to end the set on -- Paradox of the Daleks was big fun.
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Nov 27, 2022 17:42
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It's been a long standing rumour that there are at least seven episodes in private collector's hands, who refuse to allow them to be copied and returned and someone pinched the missing episode of the Web of Fear when it was being collected for copying and returning to the BBC. Most of the Commonwealth archives have been exhausted now, so only missing episodes are probably going to come from private collectors, people who fished them out of the skip when they were thrown out, or mislabeled or misplaced reels. But you never know, apparently that Australian collector was experimenting with video recording when the end of the Second Doctor era was shown there, so you never know....
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Nov 27, 2022 18:44
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Payndz posted:
Lol wtf is wrong with you
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Nov 28, 2022 02:13
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Happy 7-year anniversary to Heaven Sent
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Vinylshadow posted:Happy 7-year anniversary to Heaven Sent gently caress, the better part of a decade, my god what an all-timer though
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Nov 28, 2022 17:49
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I've had at this point a dozen tedious arguments with a fellow nerd friend of mine who doesn't like that episode specifically because he hates "Hell Bent". I don't mind that episode and I get not liking it, but I mean, Heaven Sent is a goddamn masterpiece. That's Moffat's best ep right? For his various showrunning shenanigans and how much up his own rear end he'd jump some times, he still managed to pull out some spectacular stuff. Clouseau fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Nov 28, 2022 |
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Nov 28, 2022 18:00
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Vinylshadow posted:Happy 7-year anniversary to Heaven Sent Seven years? Get back to us in a few hundred million and you've got something. Is there another point in the show where it dared to do something like that out of something besides desperation (thinking of Midnight as a recent example in that category)?
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Nov 28, 2022 19:22
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My only problem with Heaven Sent and Hell Bent is that I never remember which is which - one is Capaldi living for billions of years and absolutely amazing, the other is complete nonsense and ends with Clara getting to play Doctor Who with Maisie Williams in their own diner TARDIS.
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Nov 28, 2022 19:47
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Hell Bent's greatest sin is coming after possibly the best single episode in the history of the show. When something's in the running like that, you don't wanna' follow it. DinerTARDIS was great.
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Clouseau posted:That's Moffat's best ep right? For his various showrunning shenanigans and how much up his own rear end he'd jump some times, he still managed to pull out some spectacular stuff. It's a toss-up between that and "Day of the Doctor," with "Blink" as the maybe-overrated-but-still-viable underdog waiting in the wings.
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Nov 28, 2022 22:43
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My wife and I have been catching up on Who since we remembered the Doctor was supposed to regenerate again and wanted to see how we got there. However, what was the overall reception to the most recent season? The Chibnall era has been a real letdown to me because I've thought the writing and pacing has been mostly bad with a few good episodes here and there. But the last season was wildly confusing and convoluted to the point where I am downright hate-watching it right now. I think I have one episode to go, but it's like everytime they resolve one plot, someone else pops up out of nowhere twirling their mustache and revealing a whole new bad thing that ends up getting resolved in the silliest way. The whole flux thing just seemed like a massive waste of time as an excuse to introduce as many villains as possible no matter how little sense it made. Even the characterization of the familiar villains all seemed out of whack. I guess my point in bringing this up is I'm wondering if I'm being unfair because I've disliked this season way more than I ever expected.
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Doronin posted:My wife and I have been catching up on Who since we remembered the Doctor was supposed to regenerate again and wanted to see how we got there. However, what was the overall reception to the most recent season? overall reception not good generally but people in the thread are willing to defend a few episodes or scenes here and there
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General consensus was that Village of the Angels was the best episode, and probably one of Whittaker’s best over her entire run. But yeah, the Flux stuff is just oof bad. There’s bright spots, like the sugar skull gang, but stuff just happens and there’s no lead in or follow through and it’s just a mess.
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Nov 28, 2022 23:46
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A good portion of the universe is literally dead at the end of the Flux and this never gets resolved.
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Nov 28, 2022 23:51
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As someone who's only experience of Flux has been skimming this thread, I have to know: are they really called the sugar skull gang
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Nov 28, 2022 23:55
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No, but they look like this.
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The_Doctor posted:No, but they look like this. Dammit am I gonna have to watch Flux
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If Hellraiser was made during the 70s UK 'Confessions of a X' softcore period.
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