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Harlock posted:I know it's not a basketball, but confirmed the 9th Doctor can hoop.  [Skips forward a few regenerations] Okay, you got me.
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FINALLY! Something good from Big Finish!
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Apr 1, 2023 11:24
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Wasn't there a thing years ago where British Rail got Tom Baker to record a bunch of specific syllables etc and set up a voice thing where you could make him say anything as part of some odd marketing campaign? Then they took it down very quickly because of course people abused the poo poo out of it?
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Apr 1, 2023 11:42
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BT (British Telecom, the people who run phones) had a text to voice generator so you could text landlines and it would read out the message. They did it with Tom Baker’s voice for 3 months. That was 2006!  quote:BT has scrapped the computerized voice the company had been using for the system, and replaced it with the voice of Tom Baker of Dr. Who fame. Baker spent 11 days recording nearly 12,000 words and sounds, which were then processed by BT engineers for five months in order to be usable by the text-to-speech system.
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Apr 1, 2023 11:50
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That's so crazy, especially the hidden story for why they eventually had to take it down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjCe766Y8mw&t=195s
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Apr 1, 2023 12:11
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Jerusalem posted:That's so crazy, especially the hidden story for why they eventually had to take it down: Still not gotten to Face of Evil yet in our random run through. There's 7 left! (Abominable Snowmen, The Daemons, Carnival of Monsters, Image of the Fendahl, Caves and Survival on top of Face)
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Apr 1, 2023 12:16
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So there's a library of Tom Baker Noises they could potentially use to keep churning out audios with him after he passes... ...actually, same goes for the entire Big Finish range, doesn't it? Imagine running every scrap of Doctor Who audio from the past 60 years through a voice replicator Wonder if he'll give consent like James Earl Jones did, or if there's a new line in his contract that says all ur voice r belong to us hastily written in with crayon
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Apr 1, 2023 18:11
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I’d like to imagine the Tom Baker Maker is better now, it wasn’t amazing back in 2006.
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Apr 1, 2023 18:11
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1642119626485030912
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Apr 1, 2023 18:28
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The_Doctor posted:I’d like to imagine the Tom Baker Maker is better now, it wasn’t amazing back in 2006. I'm highly opposed to building voicebots of actors on ideological grounds, but for meme purposes, even the free utilities you can get on the internet sound pretty uncanny. They struggle with different emotions but sound pretty close even with small samples, and God knows how many hours of recordings anybody working at Big Finish has produced.
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Apr 2, 2023 12:11
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Still not gotten to Face of Evil yet in our random run through. There's 7 left! That's not a bad run to finish out on!
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Apr 2, 2023 12:30
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Jerusalem posted:That's not a bad run to finish out on! Will Survival be last? Hope so
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Apr 3, 2023 09:33
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Will Survival be last? Hope so You can make it be last! "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning..." 
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Apr 3, 2023 09:39
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The_Doctor posted:You can make it be last! That would be against the spirit of it!
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Apr 3, 2023 10:06
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Finishing on Caves would be pretty great because you get to watch an incredible story AND your whole run through the series ends with Colin Baker going 
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Apr 3, 2023 10:35
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1642913986390654976?s=46
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Apr 3, 2023 16:51
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When the picture loaded I thought for a moment it was a dress based on the coat
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Apr 3, 2023 17:07
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I'm not familiar with the actor but that dress is loving amazing.
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Apr 4, 2023 00:32
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That is awesome news. That improper comma of separation is driving me nuts.
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Apr 4, 2023 00:36
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When I read about the announcement in the Drag Race thread, I lost my drat mind. This is the most interested I've been in Who in ages! (I've missed the show soooo much.)
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Apr 4, 2023 03:46
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I'm not too familiar with drag so does that mean they will be playing their drag character or another role with their drag role playing that role?
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Apr 4, 2023 05:04
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Presumably playing a new character (or an old one…)
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Apr 4, 2023 05:55
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Hear me out on this- new Romana
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Apr 4, 2023 08:06
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Maxwell Lord posted:Hear me out on this- new Romana please god let this be true
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Apr 4, 2023 08:24
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Maxwell Lord posted:Hear me out on this- new Romana
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Apr 4, 2023 08:32
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Maxwell Lord posted:Hear me out on this- new Romana Yes!! There is no reason to not bring her back and have two time-lords tackling problems on a equal footing! That would be awesome! edit:
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Apr 4, 2023 09:38
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If only the Rani wasn’t in the weird rights limbo (because both Pip&Jane Baker have passed, no one knows how to contact their estate), I suggest them…
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Apr 4, 2023 10:10
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Jamie Mathieson released the first draft of Mummy on the Orient Express, btw: https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...s+Draft+One.pdf In his introduction he makes it abundantly he thinks it's not very good compared to the final screenplay, btw, so maybe don't expect it to be much better than the average Chibnall script.
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Apr 4, 2023 12:35
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Thanks for posting that, it's an interesting look into a very different (and I agree, bad) script. The whole Clara fallout from Kill the Moon is such an essential component of this story that it's really jarring reading a version where that tension is replaced by a lot of bad exposition along the lines of 'yes it's a mummy, but it's like, a sci-fi mummy.' Bonus, out of context line where the general tries to confirm the Doctor's personal timeline: quote:GENERAL QUELL
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Apr 4, 2023 14:05
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I'm beginning my 3rd pilgrimage and I hope I can time it so as soon as I'm done, the next episode comes out! Ian and Barbara are such a good companion pair I don't think any other dynamic between the companions has worked as well as those two. God drat ians charming and also I wonder if anybody has come up with an in universe reason for all the little dialogue hiccups that came with a rushed single take production. Confusedslight fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Apr 7, 2023 |
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Apr 7, 2023 19:13
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Interesting to skim this thread and some of the others from the era Xerol posted:
Lately I've been watching OldWho and then return to Moffat-era Doctor Who. And it's solidified something that continually pissed me off about Moffat's later years; that "The Doctor" slowly had become known throughout the entire universe, like a central figure -- the entire universe had a main character. And now reading through these posts you can see the rot set in in RTD's era. Like, there was no way they were going to do a big finale that was just a small scale story, but the cool surprise and the thing that made it worthy of being a series-ender, was that it introduced The Master. Nope, The Master had to become Prime Minister of the entire world!!!11 Luckily Moffat jumped the shark by having the TARDIS explode so largely and hugely and bigly that the entire universe had to be rebooted!!!!!111 so we shouldn't have to deal with any more plots like that. Wait, wait- I'm hearing now- ok, surely the shark has been jumped now, after the 13th doctor stopped the multiverse from being eaten. R-right? 
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Apr 13, 2023 19:13
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The ending to the whole Impossible Astronaut/Death of the Doctor plotline had the Doctor deciding that maybe he was drawing too much attention with his grandiose antics and should act more secretively, stop bellowing out his name at every opportunity, let people forget about the Doctor. Like the Search for Gallifrey, this resolution did not last beyond the end of that very episode/season.
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Apr 13, 2023 21:16
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It never fails to amuse me that RTD, Moffat, etc. kept upping the ante every season by having the universe/multiverse/time itself/whatever be in absolute peril; and yet, one of the highest-regarded stories of the original series' run featured a relatively uncomplicated plot with the Doctor and Peri accidentally getting poisoned and blundering into a drug smuggling operation, inadvertently getting involved in political machinations and personal grudges, and having no stakes higher than needing to get the antidote for the poison and get the hell outta Dodge before they died from the poison, from superheated mud flows, or from someone's bullets.
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Apr 14, 2023 00:09
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Big TV problem in general lately, least in stuff I watch. They really overestimate how much the stakes matter, when routinely lower stakes with greater character and story focus produces better media almost always. There's no useful or meaningful way to depict that scale of threat or even the reaction to it, on top of those stakes being untenably high once you examine what the supposed consequences are and how they'd even possibly occur if the heroes don't do whatever.
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Apr 14, 2023 00:32
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Plus with mega stakes the audience will never plausibly believe that the heroes might fail so there's actually less tension
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Apr 14, 2023 01:11
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It's just harder to write a meaningful story with small stakes. It's really easy to write a story about a bunch of things getting smushed by CG, but it's hard to write a story about people making dramatic choices or making meaningful decisions. It's why so much Doctor Who ends with a guest star killing themselves to save the day; there's no catharsis or emotional arc otherwise. Another way to solve the problem of having meaningful stakes is to go edgy and dark. Androzani is a great script, all about people making choices and doing dramatic things, but it absolutely goes to that well a lot. It's a story with drugs, attempted rape -- Peri gets traumatised generally -- everyone shoots guns that use bullets instead of space lasers, etc. So part of the reason it has to much power is because it does break a lot of the taboos in the stories around it, rather than just because it's a strong script in and of itself -- which, again, it is. There isn't a lot of appetite for that kind of trauma in contemporary kids programming (which sucks, but that's a separate issue) so the easiest way to do finales is to just raise the stakes for the CGI destruction. Plus there's just the genre expectation that your story is going to end of its biggest set piece.
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CommonShore posted:Plus with mega stakes the audience will never plausibly believe that the heroes might fail so there's actually less tension This. That's actually one of the reasons I stopped reading comic books. It was always someone's "shocking" death to sell books, only to have them coming back somehow sometimes just a few issues later.
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Apr 14, 2023 01:37
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Idk if the stakes get changed from "some of these entire galaxies might get destroyed" to "some of these train passengers might get killed," you get a decent story.
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Apr 14, 2023 02:56
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CommonShore posted:Plus with mega stakes the audience will never plausibly believe that the heroes might fail so there's actually less tension Actually, it'd really be cool to have a whole season come from the fact that the doctor lost the war for time or whatever, and has to deal with the consequences. But then, the writers would have to actually use their brains for once rather than submitting random fan fiction, so it'll go down the drain immediately -- much like Voyager's premise and Trek's "utopian" setting
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ST Picard is doing an excellent job of delivering absolute nostalgia-driven fanslop with almost zero coherence. At least Voyager had episode storylines that said things.
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