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Hate it | 12 | 16.90% | |
REALLY hate it | 16 | 22.54% | |
Hello, my name is Bob Chapek | 43 | 60.56% | |
Total: | 71 votes |
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Imagine if Saward had had to do Christmas episodes. E: this is adding more horror to my Pip and Jane Baker: Showrunners alternate timeline.
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# ? Feb 6, 2023 04:13 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 06:11 |
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Coward posted:Imagine if Saward had had to do Christmas episodes. Now I'm picturing the alternate universe where Pip and Jane were the script editors under JNT, and Saward had to fill in for them after they quit during Trial of a Time Lord.
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# ? Feb 6, 2023 15:12 |
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Had a listen to a companion chronicle just, The Scorchies. This is a range that can be really experimental, but The Scorchies is really, really out there. Jo Grant gets abducted by a race of aliens who travel the galaxy through television signals, wiping out planets, appearing as puppets putting on a light entertainment show. Obviously, it's a riff on The Muppets, but they don't go too on the nose with the parallels, instead going for the general feel of 70s Saturday variety shows. And it's a musical! It's so utterly strange that it demands your attention. It doesn't feel that much like 70s Who, but I don't think this could be done back then. And Katy Manning throws herself into it wonderfully.
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# ? Feb 6, 2023 22:59 |
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OldMemes posted:Had a listen to a companion chronicle just, The Scorchies. This is a range that can be really experimental, but The Scorchies is really, really out there. Jo Grant gets abducted by a race of aliens who travel the galaxy through television signals, wiping out planets, appearing as puppets putting on a light entertainment show. I appreciate that the script doesn't make too fine a point about it -- anything more would be awful -- but I appreciate the joke about how badly early kids programmes handled race (with the Cool Cat character). It's a really great story generally; it's very very funny, the sound design and music are excellent (as are both the songs). It's all very cheerful and hosed up. Clearly, clearly influenced by Ben Edlund's Smile Time from Angel, but not a bad thing IMO. BF have done a handful of sequels to this (and a cameo in a Torchwood story) and they're all pretty good too. James Goss is just a great, great writer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYeCafn-uuk
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 01:50 |
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Payndz posted:"Look, all I ever wanted was to be in charge of writing a science fiction show where I could put a morally compromised man of violence who shoots lots of people at the centre of the action. In a parallel universe where Blake's 7 went on a few more years...
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 01:57 |
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Astroman posted:In a parallel universe where Blake's 7 went on a few more years... Or where the final scene of the show happens every episode.
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 04:34 |
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https://twitter.com/frombwtocolor/status/1624910454156931072
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# ? Feb 14, 2023 02:36 |
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What the Christ?
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# ? Feb 14, 2023 02:52 |
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I... I was not expecting that.
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# ? Feb 14, 2023 03:13 |
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"Yeah, that intro was a bit clunky but is outdated CGI really that shocking to-- what. the. gently caress."
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# ? Feb 14, 2023 03:27 |
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It's not a lot of effort, but probably a hell of a lot more than it would be today. Retyping all those credits would be a pain in the rear end. What a waste of time.
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# ? Feb 14, 2023 03:28 |
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Ah ha, the answer is in the replies! Blame a local PBS station https://twitter.com/cleverprime/status/1625317727165636608
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# ? Feb 14, 2023 03:34 |
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Such a bizarre waste of effort, and I say that even though the McCoy intro might be my absolute favorite of all the classic Who intros.
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# ? Feb 14, 2023 03:37 |
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Coming next: POLICE
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# ? Feb 14, 2023 04:09 |
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The_Doctor posted:Ah ha, the answer is in the replies! Blame a local PBS station More specifically a European satellite station based in the UK - cant blame the US this time!
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# ? Feb 14, 2023 04:49 |
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Despite that bit of credits blasphemy, I will die on the hill that the 90 minute PBS edits are a great way to experience the original series, and if they were available now more new fans might watch the old episodes.
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# ? Feb 15, 2023 01:28 |
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I mean, the BBC themselves have put up cut down versions of classic stories like Genesis of the Daleks. https://youtu.be/RUNLK2oN5c4 https://youtu.be/zdAdhJyUPcg
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# ? Feb 15, 2023 03:03 |
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For a short time after I discovered the series I thought it was all 90 minute single story episodes like a movie of the week or something.
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# ? Feb 15, 2023 09:00 |
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The version of Genesis of the Daleks they did a theatrical run with a few years ago was a cut down version -- fun time to go see also lol at realizing that was pre pandemic and such so it's a minimum of three years ago
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# ? Feb 15, 2023 21:35 |
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https://twitter.com/DrWhoMoment/status/1624860896760856576?s=20
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# ? Feb 15, 2023 22:44 |
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That sounds like it had a very high potential to have been terrible, but I do like the idea of a character (not even necessarily the Doctor) who has unexpectedly turned swole and doesn't know how to navigate a body like that and is terrified they're gonna break everything they touch.
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 01:20 |
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Doctor Who and the World of Cardboard
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 01:39 |
does the UK have any wrestlers turned actors who could make for a good Muscle Doctor?
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 02:22 |
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Khanstant posted:does the UK have any wrestlers turned actors who could make for a good Muscle Doctor? Cast Vinnie Jones as a surprisingly timid and anxious Doctor.
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 02:29 |
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Jerusalem posted:That sounds like it had a very high potential to have been terrible, I mean, it was Virgin's New Adventures
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 02:56 |
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🎵Say his name, and he appears I believe in the Doctor🎵 *clap clap*
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 03:08 |
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I remember as a reader of the NAs as they came out "live", wishing they would move on and advance the character by regenerating him. This was before the TV Movie and the idea that there could be a new series that continued in the continuity of the old. Not seeing that as even a slight possibility, I imagined a world where the novels continued on with the last Doctor for 20 years becoming ossified and losing steam. I think had the TV movie not happened, it would have been the right move. There were some times when the novels really put the Doctor through the ringer and seemed to hint they were going to do it.
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 03:58 |
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https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1626187085823545345
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 14:29 |
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That's a really nice photo! Reminds me I need to check out more 9th doctor big finish.
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# ? Feb 20, 2023 02:21 |
Just a Mike Haggar Doctor drop kicking Daleks
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# ? Feb 20, 2023 03:24 |
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I'm watching journeys end for the first time in several years and I remember it being melodramatic but just not how melodramatic. It sure is uh something and I really want to be onboard for it! but I just can't. Just slightly too much for even me.
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# ? Feb 22, 2023 05:53 |
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That's what I'm hoping RTD doesn't revisit, the melodrama, companion swooning over the Doctor, and the Doctor being written as the most important person ever, with lots of deus ex machina resolutions. That's why Waters of Mars works so well, it holds the Doctor accountable. Moffat did the same thing really well.
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# ? Feb 22, 2023 23:30 |
Each doctor is something between a baby genius newborn and infinitely old demigod so it's always a bit weird when he gets flirty with whatever kid he picks up for a couple seasons. Between River and Clara, the Doctor has enough women tangled up in a timely wimey way with his own timeline. Cool if they lay off the doctor romances for a bit.
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# ? Feb 23, 2023 01:09 |
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OldMemes posted:That's what I'm hoping RTD doesn't revisit, the melodrama, companion swooning over the Doctor, and the Doctor being written as the most important person ever, with lots of deus ex machina resolutions. Moffat's run has a lot more of the "the Doctor is the most important person ever" than RTD's run did
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# ? Feb 23, 2023 17:48 |
Maybe that could be a good Master plot, just to humble The Doctor. Show the Doctor an alternate universe where the Doctor or even Time lords in general depending on which origin they go with, and everything is just fine, nearly the same with different solutions not involving a random time Traveller interfering. But maybe that's going too far so they can just make it a trick of the Master and have a montage of people saying naw Doctor good and helped me it's cool, play the music: kick Master rear end.
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# ? Feb 23, 2023 21:29 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Moffat's run has a lot more of the "the Doctor is the most important person ever" than RTD's run did I'd say they downplayed it a lot, with the Doctor trying to cover his tracks as much as possible due to his guilt over the silence blowing up the universe, and 12 had a lot more self doubt.
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# ? Feb 24, 2023 15:35 |
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Not before playing it up to an absurd degree though -- The Wedding of River Song is bigger and more aggrandizing than anything anyone's ever done for the character. And there are similar moments throughout even the Twelth Doctor era.
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# ? Feb 24, 2023 15:52 |
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I'm about six books into the Eighth Doctor Adventures, thinking of reading maybe four more or so. I really dug the first one I picked up, Vampire Science, despite really hating the "Time Lords and vampires are ancient enemies" thing, and it took me several more books to figure out why. The characterization of Eight is all over the place, which isn't really surprising when the authors had maybe 45 minutes of McGann footage to base their version on. Lawrence Miles basically writes a generic Doctor, Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum go for sort of a patient but firm Doctor whose lines you can easily hear McGann delivering... except for in Vampire Science, where they have somehow written the best Thirteen story several years too early. A couple excerpts that I think you can easily imagine Jodie delivering:quote:'See that one?' he asked, tapping his finger on the glass. 'The red star, just to the right of the building across the street.' quote:'You're not just going to walk away from this one,' the Doctor said levelly. There's the sense of glee at being on a grand adventure, a stronger commitment to non-violence without the TV version of being a complete wimp about it. It's definitely vying with the covid safety video for me of being Jodie's second-best story.
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# ? Feb 24, 2023 16:17 |
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I think the BBC Eigthth Doctor, after some character development, ends up being the most violent Doctor. He shoots a dude in the head and kicks another into lava. One of his companions cleaves a guy's head apart with an axe. They all deserve it though, and it's a fairly well done arc. The Richards era is one of my favourites, I should go back and reread them some time.
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# ? Feb 24, 2023 16:37 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 06:11 |
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I think I have a problem
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# ? Feb 24, 2023 19:31 |