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Khanstant posted:As I recall it would be beyond trivial to explain away the awful "we based our fun franchise on child torture" stuff with the Master saying "haha I tricked you with my evil origin idea" Basing regeneration on child torture is IMHO, fine, it's dark but like, the franchise has always dealt with dark themes. It's the whole triplete of "The Doctor gets a new backstory to retroactively fix the Brain of Morbius", "the Master destroys Gallifrey literally only a few years after the 50th anniversary was about the Doctor bringing Gallifrey back", and "the First Doctor wasn't the first and apparently the Doctor has always been having adventures and used a blue police box TARDIS" that just doesn't work imo. But at this point I fully expect RTD to ignore it without decanonizing it.
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I always thought it was hilarious just how enormous of a sonic 11 had.
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May 21, 2023 02:02
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Wasn't there something about it being a very brittle and delicate prop, and later they replaced it with a modified toy one?
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Boxturret posted:Wasn't there something about it being a very brittle and delicate prop, and later they replaced it with a modified toy one? I don't know if it was so much brittle as Smith apparently REALLY loved playing with it so he was constantly breaking it. Kind of reminds me of when they introduced the fez in an episode and Moffat's producer told him,"You have to write an exit strategy for that fez or Matt isn't ever going to let it go."  Then River just throws it in the air and shoots it! 
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May 21, 2023 02:24
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Basing regeneration on child torture is IMHO, fine, it's dark but like, the franchise has always dealt with dark themes. It's the whole triplete of "The Doctor gets a new backstory to retroactively fix the Brain of Morbius", "the Master destroys Gallifrey literally only a few years after the 50th anniversary was about the Doctor bringing Gallifrey back", and "the First Doctor wasn't the first and apparently the Doctor has always been having adventures and used a blue police box TARDIS" that just doesn't work imo. Eh for me it totally deflates any motivation to do anything with Timelords besides destroy them. There are many Doctors real banged up about Galkifrey and poo poo but with considering the new backstory, like, gently caress em. Get some therapy and go live on your true home, Earth, Doctor, don't gotta bend over backwards to resurrect your abusers.
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May 21, 2023 02:28
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Boxturret posted:Wasn't there something about it being a very brittle and delicate prop, and later they replaced it with a modified toy one? Like J-Ru said, it wasn't brittle, but Smith just loved tossing it around and playing with it (and eventually breaking it), and so they finally bought a bunch of the toys and jigged them up to be screen-worthy.
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May 21, 2023 02:29
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Khanstant posted:Eh for me it totally deflates any motivation to do anything with Timelords besides destroy them. There are many Doctors real banged up about Galkifrey and poo poo but with considering the new backstory, like, gently caress em. Get some therapy and go live on your true home, Earth, Doctor, don't gotta bend over backwards to resurrect your abusers. Eh, seems like there'd only be a small handful that were complicit.
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May 21, 2023 03:08
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It's also true that the 9/10 screwdriver prop was prone to fragility and was eventually replaced by a modified version of the toy.
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May 21, 2023 05:51
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https://twitter.com/handsandstars/status/1653754587365482501?s=46 This loving fandom sometimes 
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May 22, 2023 02:19
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If I had to see it, you must all suffer with me.
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May 22, 2023 02:21
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I'm glad Twitter embeds are broken.
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May 22, 2023 02:40
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I assumed the NMS tag was preventing it from embedding? Or that TinTower turned off automatically parsing URLs.
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May 22, 2023 02:52
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I think it’s the NMS tag. The tweet I linked is okay but clicking through is the NMS part.
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May 22, 2023 03:12
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Love that ridiculous episode.  
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May 22, 2023 03:19
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I know Timelords have two farts, but is that like, per normal fart or two farts per regeneration or what?
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May 22, 2023 07:28
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More if they go to Terserus.
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Khanstant posted:I know Timelords have two farts, but is that like, per normal fart or two farts per regeneration or what? I can't give you an answer, but I promise you that there is fanfiction out there somewhere that covers this exact scenario. Probably includes the Ogri. Also I'd watch an Ogri/Weeping Angels crossover.
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May 22, 2023 09:30
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Eiba posted:Doctor Who discussions are where I learned a very important truth about internet discourse: people are attracted to what irritates them, blinding them to all else. The thread during the David Tennant years was particularly hostile. One poster comparing David Tennant to a nazi for accepting "bad" scripts.
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May 22, 2023 14:07
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Yeah I think maybe the most positive this thread was probably around the Eleventh Hour or so when people warmed up to Smith but hadn't soured on Moffat's showrunning. There was also a ton of ~age gap discourse~ about the Doctor being sweet on Rose.
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May 22, 2023 14:50
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Ugh, "Dr Who" was trending on Twitter earlier. RTD teasing spoilers? A pic of the new TARDIS interior? Nope, bigots and blueticks ranting about "wokery" and how they'll never watch the show again. It's transphobia.
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May 22, 2023 16:55
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The trending section is fishy as hell, mine always has at least one Star Trek related thing and if I'm fool enough to click it, it's like weeks and months or years old posts, it's just one of the things Twitter knows my account will sometimes click on relative to other bait it puts in there. It was always a lovely site but now it's a straight up bigot safe space
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Mooseontheloose posted:The thread during the David Tennant years was particularly hostile. One poster comparing David Tennant to a nazi for accepting "bad" scripts.
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May 23, 2023 03:00
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I think I got my only ever probation for slagging off unicorn and the wasp. Which having watched recently ish had aged ok. Reminded me of the 5th Doctor one orchid something.. short , no aliens. Davison might actually play cricket foe a bit. Love and monsters has aged well too, apart from the end. But most the episode is nice. And the reading on how obsessive fans ruin everything is taking to the logical conclusion by actually ruining the episode. So yay. Fear her hasn't aged well though.
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May 23, 2023 03:16
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Unicorn and the Wasp almost did not age well at all.
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May 23, 2023 06:05
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Ben Soosneb posted:I think I got my only ever probation for slagging off unicorn and the wasp. Which having watched recently ish had aged ok. Reminded me of the 5th Doctor one orchid something.. short , no aliens. Davison might actually play cricket foe a bit. Just checked, it was Closing Time you didn't like, and can't blame you.
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May 23, 2023 12:18
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According to Catherine Tate apperently each of the specials are going to be 60 minutes. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLRea35X/
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May 23, 2023 14:14
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Ben Soosneb posted:Reminded me of the 5th Doctor one orchid something.. short , no aliens. Black Orchid, which has the bit where someone refers to WG Grace as "the master" (which afaik was not a common nickname, he was much more frequently called "the doctor") and the Doctor panics. It started an obvious running gag in the random classic who watch through groupchat. (Speaking of which, there's two stories to go - next week is Face of Evil, and then the dice gods have appropriately given us Survival to finish with)
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Black Orchid, which has the bit where someone refers to WG Grace as "the master" (which afaik was not a common nickname, he was much more frequently called "the doctor") and the Doctor panics. It started an obvious running gag in the random classic who watch through groupchat.  There are worlds out there where the sky is burning…Black Orchid, the show’s last ever pure historical.
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May 23, 2023 15:51
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LividLiquid posted:Okay, I have to know. Don't want to, but have to: was this just somebody employing hyperbole in some way, like, "everybody who used the Nuremberg defense still hanged," or did they actually compare him not quitting his job when an episode sucked (and pretty much none of his did anyway) with being a loving nazi? i am working off memory but it was like Peter in Office Space which was like, you know who else didn't refuse orders? Nazis. The dude HATED David Tennant, RTD, and modern Doctor Who where he would accuse other people of not getting Doctor Who. He hated the sexy doctor stuff that was in the RTD (and lets face it, Moffat) years. Keep in mind, this is now almost * shudder * 20 years ago and women were also starting to into Doctor Who too and having more broad appeal and scripts KINDA reflected that. But yah, that's how I recall it.
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The intersection between "Doctor Who stories must have monsters in them" and Black Orchid ends up in a bad bad place.
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DoctorWhat posted:Unicorn and the Wasp almost did not age well at all. 
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May 23, 2023 16:14
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Doctor Who is still available on the newly-rebranded Max, which is interesting.
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1661386578797772801 I hope they don't keep killing her.
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May 24, 2023 16:08
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Stupidly, I underestimated how much transphobia would be dogging this season of Doctor Who.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Stupidly, I underestimated how much transphobia would be dogging this season of Doctor Who. Did you accidentally go into the comments on FB? The official account posted the new DWM cover with Yasmin Finney and they were already a dumpster fire about 30 seconds later.
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May 24, 2023 18:12
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I mean, I know Twitter was not a great place, but ever since Musk, I could kinda be on it without seeing the internet's worst opinions about fan-stuff. No such luck anymore. I'm getting the worst terf takes from the dumbest people in the world right into a pricy telephone that I agree to have at all times with me!
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May 24, 2023 18:19
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The idea that Jinkz Monsoon – or more ridiculously, Yasmin Finney – is over-sexualising a family entertainment show is ridiculous once you realise that one of the Doctor’s recent companions was canonically a sex worker who was so hot that said attractiveness almost accidentally destroyed the universe. In retrospect, Steven Moffat does not write female characters that well.
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the first season had the world's oldest sexiest lastest woman like, fully nude and fully spread i still don't understand how they got away without censor bars on that smokeshow
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