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I absolutely ADORE Paradise Towers, so Mel will never be a lesser companion in my eyes. And I could barely finish Terror of the Vervoids! I’m still not sure whether I have!
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I remember when I was first seriously getting into the Big Finish stuff, being pleased at how they were allowing Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor to sort of "redeem" himself after he'd gotten hosed over during his TV run...and then seeing The Fires of Vulcan having Seven with Mel in it. While I detested the character of Mel, the completionist in me ultimately made me buy it anyways. So I gave it a listen, and for my first BF audio with Mel in it, I was blown away completely. Bonnie Langford could actually act! And she wasn't shrieking all over the place (in fact, she didn't scream a single time in the story, if memory serves)! So ever since then, I've been glad to see that BF allowed her to redeem the character of Mel the way they did with C. Baker and Six. 
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Jun 9, 2023 16:50
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E: Wrong thread
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Jun 9, 2023 22:48
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The_Doctor posted:I met Bonnie Langford once, she is TINY. *me thinking, oh, how tall is she*... of course there's a webpage dedicated to Dr Who companions and their heights. Random dude, why do you have to be in every photo. Which one of you is this? 
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Jun 10, 2023 13:05
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SecretOfSteel posted:*me thinking, oh, how tall is she*... What are you talking about, there's only one person in each of those photos
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Jun 10, 2023 14:14
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...Why do the Doctors get measurements in both imperial and metric, but the companions only get imperial?
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Jun 10, 2023 23:48
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Does Mastodon embed? Let’s see… https://mstdn.social/@ianzpotter/110516607193681641
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Jun 11, 2023 00:18
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David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor is the third oldest Doctor, after Capaldi and Hartnell.
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Jun 11, 2023 23:17
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When Capaldi's Doctor was strutting the electric guitar, I didn't realise he did music...
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Jun 11, 2023 23:56
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Davros1 posted:David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor is the third oldest Doctor, after Capaldi and Hartnell. We need a young, exciting, adventurous youthful Doctor in the prime of his life again.... that's right, we need Jon Pertwee!
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Jun 12, 2023 02:07
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SecretOfSteel posted:When Capaldi's Doctor was strutting the electric guitar, I didn't realise he did music... He was in a band in the seventies! With Craig Ferguson!
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Jun 12, 2023 07:22
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Put Ryan Gosling in Doctor Who https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1668633926385152004
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Jun 13, 2023 16:00
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Couldn't he just ask to be on it? Surely they'd be happy to have some big names volunteer for a part. I guess if it's your job though you have to consider more things than being on a fun show you like.
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Jun 13, 2023 16:08
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Khanstant posted:Couldn't he just ask to be on it? Surely they'd be happy to have some big names volunteer for a part. I guess if it's your job though you have to consider more things than being on a fun show you like. I would suspect there's also some British immigration and/or work visa requirements that would have to be addressed
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Jun 13, 2023 17:06
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I would suspect there's also some British immigration and/or work visa requirements that would have to be addressed Countries like the US and UK have explicit exceptions carved out for rich people in immigration laws. Most have laws for protecting film production too.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:42
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Yeah I think they'd figure out the paperwork lol, I more figured that even if you love Doctor Who, actually committing means you can't do XYZ, and Doctor Who might not be paying what you usually get for the same work/time commitment, maybe you're not sure how you'd suite the show or embody what you like about it, or maybe don't wanna get in there and end up being a character or part of a story folks dislike. Reckon some people always dislike everything but if you like a thing maybe it'll sting if you as a fan would think your part sucked.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:31
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Harlock posted:Put Ryan Gosling in Doctor Who Gosling seems like the type of guy who'd love to be in a big monster costume and do a weird voice.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:32
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He could absolutely do a Daniel Craig in Star Wars
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Jun 13, 2023 19:33
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That's very sweet, God I can't wait to see Gatwa's Doctor.
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Jun 14, 2023 01:54
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Jerusalem posted:That's very sweet, God I can't wait to see Gatwa's Doctor. Same, I kind of wish we didn’t have the old school fan pleasing return of Tennant to draw people back, and just got straight to Ncuti. I’m also mad the specials mean that his first season is only 8 eps.
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Jun 14, 2023 07:24
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I mean, if you trim out all the 'eh' 'meh' and 'urgh' episodes from some Doctors' runs, sometimes they end up with less than 8 good episodes (or do they only look good because of the episodes they contrast against?) Zygon Inversion's recap of Zygon Invasion almost makes the latter look good, but I wouldn't want anyone to actually suffer through it
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Jun 14, 2023 07:28
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 Yesssss Brooker
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Jun 14, 2023 15:15
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1669374213415661569
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Jun 15, 2023 18:27
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oh so THAT'S why the new TARDIS prop/set was said to be "more accessible" a year or so back
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Jun 15, 2023 19:12
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More pertinently: Ncuti's first episode will air over the Christmas period. I thought we were only going to get three specials this year but I guess we're getting spoiled
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Jun 15, 2023 19:13
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armpit_enjoyer posted:More pertinently: Ncuti's first episode will air over the Christmas period. I thought we were only going to get three specials this year but I guess we're getting spoiled Is it his first full standalone episode? Or will he be playing a larger, more active part in the 60th anniversary specials alongside Tennant, and they're just going to count him in that?
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Jun 15, 2023 19:16
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All it says is:quote:Doctor Who returns in November 2023 with three special episodes with David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor to coincide with the 60th anniversary. Ncuti Gatwa’s first episode as the Fifteenth Doctor will air over the festive period. I choose to interpret it as three episodes airing around the time of the anniversary and then another one over Christmas
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Jun 15, 2023 19:17
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They didn't say what year.
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Jun 15, 2023 19:24
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Watching one of the blurays with production notes turned on: Notes: "The design budget came in at £450 or £90 per episode." Me: "Yep, that sounds like Doctor Who's budget alright."
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Jun 17, 2023 18:29
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Yeah, except they misspelled "the entire series from 1984 onwards."
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Jun 17, 2023 23:09
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Yeah, 90 quid seems like too much.
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Jun 18, 2023 00:19
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I decided to listen to The Legacy of Time, the Big Finish 20th anniversary boxset. Unlike the 50th anniversary special, which told a standard multi-Doctor story, but with some nifty pacing, this is six episodes about different Doctors linked by the theme of time distortion, with a big crossover climax. Lies in Ruins is something that seems obvious - River Song meeting Bernice Summerfield, and it works! We've got the Eighth Doctor very near the end of his incarnation, on the verge of a complete mental breakdown. It's not like the manic depression from the opening of Dark Eyes, but the some of the lowest we've seen the Eighth Doctor - there's a bit where he just breaks down sobbing. There's also a clever bit of meta self commentary about companions too. The Split Infinitive is a nicely clever bit of time travel, with the Seventh Doctor and Ace helping Counter Measures foil a rocket men heist in the 1960s and 1970s. I've not heard any of the Countermeasures stuff, so I was going off my memories of rewatching Remembrance of the Daleks last year. The Rocket Men are always good fun - cockney gangsters with jet packs! The Sacrifice of Jo Grant sees Kate Stewart, Osgood and Jo Grant accidentally sent back to the time of the Third Doctor's exile. It's a great character piece for Jo, with a standout scene of Jo and the Third Doctor just sharing lunch and talking about her life. Katy Manning is always great, but she's on top form here. Relative Time is a Fifth Doctor and Jenny story, set on a crashing spaceship. It doesn't really dig deeply enough into the emotional impact this pairing could have. The weakest story on the set, but its got the Nine. The Avenues of Possibility is a Sixth Doctor and Charley story about policing and alternative timelines. Another very solid story with some clever uses of possible futures, and Colin Baker and India Fisher are always excellent together. Collision Course ties it all up in a Fourth Doctor story that becomes a multi-Doctor story. It does end up becoming a bit 'characters shout technobabble', but every Doctor gets a fun moment or two. OldMemes fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Jun 18, 2023 00:32
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OldMemes posted:
I also loved the cameos from David Bradley's First, Frazier Hines' Second, and David Tennant as Ten. Especially Two in Ten's TARDIS: "Can I have a go with the mallet?"
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Jun 18, 2023 13:11
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Big Finish is giving away a free download of the David Warner Doctor Wo Unbound story "Sympathy for the Devil" https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-unbound-sympathy-for-the-devil-2023-promo-2905 Also starring Nicholas Courtney, "Sam Kisgart", and some young guy named David Tennant.
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Jun 19, 2023 23:03
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It's a great play. Kisgart gives a loving great speech in the back half that takes Doctor Who to task for its white colonialism and general racial parochialism, and carries that idea through to the end of the piece in ways that are really effective and interesting. The play of course goes and undermines it by casting a white guy as the lead monk, and the Warner stories never touch on that idea again. BF has a frustrating history with race -- just last month they cast Dan Starkey as a Chinese businessman complete with funky accent -- and the few plays that try to acknowledge Who's overwhelming whiteness are usually undermined by the company's clumsy ignorance when it comes to this issue. e.g. Planet of the Rani's clearly intended to be set on a South Asian colony world, but everyone is played by white people because...? There's a really interesting Bernice Summerfield play that tries to grapple with Pyramids of Mars and its Chariot of the Gods nonsense, and then there are about five separate plays that say that Japanese culture comes from outer space.
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Jun 20, 2023 05:01
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Do they say what the Japanese were like before the aliens? Cause the worst ever example of that trope is probably Star Trek Voyager, which claimed Native Americans had literally no culture at all before the aliens showed up.
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Jun 20, 2023 08:34
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Dabir posted:Do they say what the Japanese were like before the aliens? Cause the worst ever example of that trope is probably Star Trek Voyager, which claimed Native Americans had literally no culture at all before the aliens showed up. No, I don't think they do, but it's been a while. If I recall correctly the implication is that Japan (and Cambodia) were both colonised by different castes of the same alien collective, and they're the ones who gave various Asian cultures their cultural heritage. The Benny play with Egypt is closer to what you'd hope for. Egypt already has a thriving culture, including access to interstellar travel(!?), before the Osirians turned up and usurped the local culture. There's also a play that said that Indigenous Australian culture, including native flora and fauna, was explicitly brought here by an alien terraforming device. When the planet was under threat (I think it might be same solar flare incident that's part of the backstory for Ark In Space and The Sontaran Experiment, though that might be fanon) the alien terraformjng device reabsorbed all indigenous culture and launched itself back into space. That terraforming device? Uluru
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Jun 20, 2023 09:02
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Open Source Idiom posted:The Benny play with Egypt is closer to what you'd hope for. Egypt already has a thriving culture, including access to interstellar travel(!?), before the Osirians turned up and usurped the local culture. They did this in Futurama too  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4a3YhhRVew
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Jun 20, 2023 10:29
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Listened to Master!: Nemesis Express, and this was all kinds of messed up: The Master revealed that the consciousness of the person whose body he's in (aka Bruce the Paramedic), still inhabits the body. The Master has just suppressed him to the depths of his mind. And he's continually screaming in horror.
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I thought the Second Doctor got the short end of the stick in the Legacy of Time, especially compared to the two other cameos in the last story.Open Source Idiom posted:That terraforming device? Uluru If you're able to understand what on Earth was going on in Dreamtime, you've done better than me. A Thousand Tiny Wings is a good story about colonialism and race.
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