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Two months, hats, cats, and other folk!
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Sep 15, 2023 17:38
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I'm a month younger than Ncuti 
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Sep 15, 2023 17:56
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Vinylshadow posted:I'm a month younger than Ncuti Heed this warning from the Nice Page: Enjoy your youth while you still have it, lest you become a brittle sack full of nothing but regrets and bad bones (like me)!
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Sep 15, 2023 18:29
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Vinylshadow posted:I'm a month younger than Ncuti His birthday is on the 15th of October, so happy birthday! EDIT: I don't understand time. Clouseau fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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Sep 15, 2023 18:40
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Clouseau posted:His birthday is on the 15th of October, so happy birthday! THAT'S NOT HOW TIME WORKS
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Sep 15, 2023 18:54
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Maybe Clouseau is from two months in the future? Did you ever think of that? 
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Sep 15, 2023 18:57
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Class3KillStorm posted:Heed this warning from the Nice Page: Enjoy your youth while you still have it, lest you become a brittle sack full of nothing but regrets and bad bones (like me)! Doin' my best~  Clouseau posted:His birthday is on the 15th of October, so happy birthday! Edward Mass posted:THAT'S NOT HOW TIME WORKS No one's ever sure. It's all a bit wibbly-wobbly, ya know?
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Sep 15, 2023 18:58
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Davros1 posted:The Ninth Doctor audio "The Butler Did It" is soooo much fun I will second this - but I also enjoyed "Run" from that series. Actually, the whole series is great. He seems to be having such fun in the role again and I am all here for it.
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Sep 15, 2023 20:09
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I had a listen to the audio adaptation of The Ultimate Adventure, and aside from historical curiosity, there's not much to this one. In a short lived 1989 stage play, Jon Pertwee and later Colin Baker reprised their role as the Doctor. For whatever reason, there was no offical recording of the show, so the only way to experience it is via some very low quality fan bootlegs. That is, unless you go for the Big Finish adaptation starring Colin Baker. The Ultimate Adventure has a very thin excuse plot - the daleks want to ruin a peace conference, the cyberman help them, the Doctor stops them. For a low budget stage show that works, for an audio version, it feels bland. There's a lot of telling rather than showing, and things being handwaved away. The songs aren't terrible, but aside from the first verse of 'Strange Attractor', they aren't very catchy. Baker, as always, gives it a good run. It's an interesting oddity, and it's nice that its being perserved properly in some way, but there's not much too it. OldMemes fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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Sep 19, 2023 20:43
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Hilariously, Character Options just released a 6th Doctor and TARDIS set based on his Ultimate Adventure costume.
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Sep 19, 2023 21:26
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The_Doctor posted:Hilariously, Character Options just released a 6th Doctor and TARDIS set based on his Ultimate Adventure costume. 
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Sep 19, 2023 23:12
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Whatever dude. Aside from the Fred Scooby Doo vampire bow thing, any part of that outfit is something I'd totally want to wear. I'm honestly surprised little symbol embroidery on collars for button up shirts isn't a thing.
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Sep 20, 2023 00:11
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He looks like he’s dressed as one of those tents they put up around a house being fumigated.
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Sep 20, 2023 00:19
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Khanstant posted:I'm honestly surprised little symbol embroidery on collars for button up shirts isn't a thing. Right?? I’ve seen it once ever that wasn’t a question mark and it looked really nice.
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Sep 20, 2023 00:37
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I think the jacket, being that there's fewer harshly contrasting colors, might have worked better than the regular show costume did. They wouldn't be able to do any blue screen effects, but I don't remember there being a ton in Colin's time there anyway. The pants, though, don't work, and would need to get replaced with something that doesn't clash as hard.
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Sep 20, 2023 05:34
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Two things about Blu-rays: -There's a gently caress-off-huge New Who set limited to 6,000 boxes containing seasons 27-39 coming out soon -Season 20 still doesn't have a release date for Region A despite being out in the UK
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Sep 20, 2023 06:51
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OldMemes posted:I had a listen to the audio adaptation of The Ultimate Adventure, and aside from historical curiosity, there's not much to this one. In a short lived 1989 stage play, Jon Pertwee and later Colin Baker reprised their role as the Doctor. For whatever reason, there was no offical recording of the show, so the only way to experience it is via some very low quality fan bootlegs. Wait, this was a musical? How did I never hear that?
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Sep 20, 2023 08:00
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Edward Mass posted:Two things about Blu-rays: Apparently someone in US DVD/BR support said Season 20 is coming out early next year.
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Sep 20, 2023 14:08
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 Compared to the action figure, the actual costume isn't awful, especially considering it was made very quickly, but images where Baker doesn't have the coat look so much better. Jon Pertwee's experiences in the play haven't been recorded in as much detail, but his costume was basically just a typical Third Doctor look. The Sixth Doctor got a new one, and when David Banks had to step in as an understudy, they just cobbled his Doctor's costume from whatever was nearby.  The Sixth Doctor just couldn't catch a break, fashion-wise - I'm not a huge fan of the blue suit either, but there are limits on what PhotoShop can do, so I suppose its not entirely fair. Maxwell Lord posted:Wait, this was a musical? There's three songs. Two are performed by characters who are nightclub singers and one the two original companions just decide to sing a love song for no reason. Sadly, the Sixth Doctor doesn't sing. Apparently they were added at the request of the producers, who also wanted a flying scene and a bit set in the French revolution. Terrence Dicks was not massively happy about this, apparently. OldMemes fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Sep 20, 2023 |
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Sep 20, 2023 14:10
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It really is the awful banana pinstripe pants bringing the costume down. The clashing plaids are one thing but that garish yellow on top of everything else is just a bridge too far.
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Sep 20, 2023 19:36
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Don't know if it's Stockholm Syndrome, but I kind of like the Sixth Doctor's coat. I do wonder if the rest of the outfit was more normal (black trousers and shoes, black waistcoat, no tie, for example), the coat would just become an eccentricity and it would look a lot more palatable as an ensemble.
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Sep 20, 2023 21:39
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All of the individual elements of Six's costume are fine on their own, honestly, it just that they don't mesh at all. The coat would probably work if it was the one over-the-top element of a standard outfit.
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Sep 20, 2023 22:17
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If anything, I think the coat should be even crazier. The design is more mismatched panels than patchwork and for some called out as distractingly garish, it's still mostly just reds. Tone down everything else and crank up the coat and it might have been a good approach, especially since he could take off the coat for scenes.
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Sep 20, 2023 22:32
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Zaroff posted:Apparently someone in US DVD/BR support said Season 20 is coming out early next year. Have they said anything about a Jodie Whittaker Years Blu-ray box set? I'm not buying a DVD set, this ain't 2011.
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Sep 20, 2023 23:17
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Edward Mass posted:Have they said anything about a Jodie Whittaker Years Blu-ray box set? I'm not buying a DVD set, this ain't 2011. Nothing about a Whittaker-specific set like the Smith and Capaldi ones, but it’s going to be a part of the big 2005-2022 set which is coming out later this year (with properly upscaled Eccleston/Tennant sets).
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Sep 20, 2023 23:38
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After The Ultimate Adventure, I decided to listen to the Big Finish adaptation of The Seven Keys to Doomsday and its again, more of a historical curiosity than anything. The Ultimate Adventure had an air of air of fun 80s camp and a Colin Baker performance, instead we get a non-canon Fourth Doctor, played by Trevor Martin. The original play was staged in 1974, with the gimmick being that an image of Pertwee's Doctor would be shown, before Martin entered in a wig, falling over and regenerating, before being joined by two new companions - one of who was originally played by Wendy Padbury, but not playing Zoe. Martin does a decent job as the Doctor, feeling a bit like a mish mash of parts of the First and Third Doctors, but it's a functional, stripped down Doctor. The plot is functional - the Time Lords want the Doctor to get a mcguffin, the Daleks want it, the companions ask questions, daleks shout and blow up. It feels very much like a 60s story, but not a 60s TV story, more like one of those stories from the early annuals or comics that aren't canon now. Amusingly, the planet is called Karn - before Terrance Dicks reused it for The Brain of Moribus a few years later. It's less interesting than The Ultimate Adventure, but it's nice that it's been preserved.
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Sep 21, 2023 00:49
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https://twitter.com/BBCSounds/status/1703744864171528631
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Sep 21, 2023 10:23
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Is the first season worth checking out?
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Sep 21, 2023 10:39
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Given that Big Finish a) love alternate Doctors and b) have worked with David Banks and c) never saw a gap in the franchise they didn't want to try and explore, it's weird they've never done a story with Banks as his one-off version of the Doctor he did for Ultimate Adventure when Pertwee was ill.
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Sep 21, 2023 13:17
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Well, gave Dog Hop a listen from the BF Torchwood range. Andy audio, so it was an easy sale. I enjoyed it, mostly because I enjoy the character, but ... Is it a two parter? Or was that just...the ending? . Limited spoiler there, but here's a real one for anyone who knows or doesn't care (ending spoiler here) It ends with Andy realizing the entire dog/human mind swap thing is really happening and it was done by the evil Yoga studio next door. That can't be it, can it? But also, why no mention of part II? . Ok, done. Needed to vent that somewhere and this was a better option than the street corner.
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Sep 21, 2023 21:39
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Warthur posted:Given that Big Finish a) love alternate Doctors and b) have worked with David Banks and c) never saw a gap in the franchise they didn't want to try and explore, it's weird they've never done a story with Banks as his one-off version of the Doctor he did for Ultimate Adventure when Pertwee was ill. The BBC doesn't like them having new actors as alternative universe Doctors. It's why the Unbound series stopped for so long despite apparently selling really well.
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Sep 22, 2023 15:08
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McGann posted:Well, gave Dog Hop a listen from the BF Torchwood range. Andy audio, so it was an easy sale. Yeah, I hope it gets a sequel because there's fun places where it can go, and because it's a good story. But for a light comedy, one that's sort of Darrin Morgan-esque in its treatment of the series and its universe, that ending was loving *brutal* holy poo poo. Nothing's been announced for the next few stories so something could be coming, who knows. But if there's no sequel I'd like to think that Andy tasers the yoga poser and drags her and the dog back next store and fixes things. Also the extras on that one are very fun, if you haven't checked them out.
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OldMemes posted:The BBC doesn't like them having new actors as alternative universe Doctors. It's why the Unbound series stopped for so long despite apparently selling really well.
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Sep 22, 2023 16:49
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Warthur posted:I am genuinely surprised to hear the BBC impose editorial rules on them beyond "don't put implied Ace nudity on the cover like BBV did". No cannibalism*, no black magic(!?), no new Doctors other than ones already previously created before the show came back (so Arrabella Weir would be fine). *not even implying that, say, some biscuits miiiight be made of people.
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Sep 22, 2023 17:14
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Is "no cannibalism" a real one?
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Sep 22, 2023 17:21
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Yeah, they're all real. Happened in a few plays, including Live 34 and Masterful.
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Sep 22, 2023 17:24
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The Doctor: And when I say there is "no cannibalism" in the TARDIS, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we Time Lords are prepared to admit. But, all new companions are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find any toothmarks at all anywhere on their bodies, they're to tell me immediately so that I can immediately take every measure to blame it on the Androgums.
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Sep 22, 2023 17:33
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Open Source Idiom posted:Nothing's been announced for the next few stories Spoke too soon: https://x.com/bigfinish/status/1705235588339712044 These look really good.
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Sep 22, 2023 17:37
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Apparently the BBC asked them to change the use of the word 'terrorists' to 'freedom fighters' in Live 34, because they liked the story, but not the optics of the Doctor helping 'terrorists'. And apparently RTD has always had some say and input into the Torchwood range. The BBC said that they weren't allowed to use The Curator, but Steve Moffat gave them the OK. They did find a loophole for the unbound Doctors by casting Colin Baker as the alternative Doctor in the two part unbound from last year. They can't cast new Doctors, but they can cast existing Doctors as NEW Doctors.
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The new Fifth Doctor story, "Pursuit of the Nightjar" was really beautiful. It might be one of Davison's best performances.
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