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Edward Mass posted:A question to fellow Americans - have you seen ANY promotion for Doctor Who this year, either online on on TV? Because I haven’t, which could explain the viewership internationally. Seeing all the new posts in this thread is how I realized there's new Doctor Who and that it's only on Disney Plus now. I like to think I'm pretty up to date on stuff but I've completely missed the premiere of 2 episodes.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:That reminds me, how'd Doom's Day do? I guess not well based on this and nothing else.. But I did listen to the audio portion and it was pretty fun. Shame it got lost in the shuffle, as the doctor and companion cameo is right up this threads alley ❤️
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Doctor + Donna best combo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bASJEchs3N8
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Jerusalem posted:Belated, but... the image of a giant Ian Levine shouting "EXPLAIN UNIT DATING" through a window has haunted me for a decade
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Dec 7, 2023 15:23
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So the Celestial Toymaker is unsurprisingly being animated. Not sure on this one… https://x.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1732762310739997167?s=46
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It's fitting that the story with the heated gamer moment is the one that looks like it was animated in Fortnite.
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Finally caught up on the last episode today. When it was announced that David Tennant and Catherine Tate would be reprising their roles, I thought it was mostly fan-service to reinvigorate a flagging fanbase... ...yeah maybe so, but after two episodes I would easily, easily, sit through another season of these two. They're great.
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Infinitum posted:Doctor + Donna best combo The hands were articulated and controllable by the actors? That's badass. I don't think I noticed finger movement at all in the episode.
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Dec 7, 2023 15:54
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Would someone be willing to give me a short summary of what happened with the Flux? I watched all of those episodes but I really have a hard time with Doctor Who when it comes to remembering all the ins and outs of the overarching plotlines.
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This does a reasonable job summarising the Timeless Child + FluxJerusalem posted:If you take the word of noted liar The Master as the truth, due to him using the infallible Matrix (proven fallible in its own first appearance, due to sabotage by.... The Master!) to prove it, then the Doctor was some kid found on a deserted planet next to a portal to another universe by a contemporary of Rassilon and Omega who adopted her, then discovered she could regenerate when she died and proceeded to vivisect her for years until she figured out how to pass on the ability to regenerate to the Time Lords at the top of Gallifreyan society. Then the Time Lord version of the even worse CIA than the Celestial Intervention Agency from Pertwee's era put the Doctor to work for some reason doing various war crimes or wetwork for them, including capturing the Sugar Skull Gang and something something something Time is a living entity apparently this bit I gotta admit I haven't got a clue about until eventually one incarnation disguised herself as a human in 21st Century Earth until she met Jodie Whittaker and was restored to full awareness again and went back on the run. At some point she got caught and mind-wiped again and became Hartnell (you know, the actual FIRST Doctor. The one who was actually called the Doctor for the first time by Ian and Barbara, the one who got the TARDIS stuck as a police box in the first place, the one that every other instance of the show looking back over past lives showed to be the FIRST Doctor?) who then took off into hiding and this time the Time Lords just.... didn't do anything about it until Troughton summoned them in The War Games? It also ends with literally half the universe destroyed, planets and all, and the Doctor apparently isn't traumatised by this in the 3 post-Flux episodes 13 is in; nor does she seemingly mourn the loss of trillions upon trillions. Flux sucks cause there's a REALLY good Weeping Angels episode in that run, that is unfortunately tied to the rest of the Flux poo poo. Let us never forget Chibnall just straight up deus ex machina'd the Passenger hoovering up a universe ending threat and that was the end of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7IEZ0bc3uk tl;dr Chibnall is an absolute hack of a sci-fi writer, and Whittaker deserved better. 
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Dec 7, 2023 16:42
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The official coronation has taken place!  
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I watched the whole flux thing, and it still just sort of slid off my brain. I was surprised when they mentioned that half the universe had been destroyed. If I tried really hard I might have been able to remember that that happened, but if you put a gun to my head I would’ve sworn that The Doctor came up with some way to undo it all at the end.
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Diabolik900 posted:I watched the whole flux thing, and it still just sort of slid off my brain. I was surprised when they mentioned that half the universe had been destroyed. If I tried really hard I might have been able to remember that that happened, but if you put a gun to my head I would’ve sworn that The Doctor came up with some way to undo it all at the end. Yea that's the part that gave me the brain itch I always get when Doctor Who mentions something from the past that I really think I should remember but for some reason I don't. Seems like I should remember half the universe being destroyed, it's not like this was ten years ago it was only 2021ish. Well anyway, at least it sounds like it wasn't just me, the whole Flux thing was just convoluted and not very interesting.
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You mean to tell me you forgot important lore plot points like how every single human on earth has their own personal magic space dog who protects them? Or how the magic space dogs all used their magic interlocking space ships as a giant shield to stop the flux?
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Infinitum posted:You mean to tell me you forgot important lore plot points like how every single human on earth has their own personal magic space dog who protects them? Or how the magic space dogs all used their magic interlocking space ships as a giant shield to stop the flux? Oh my god, everything about The Flux turns into a suppressed memory so fast that when people describe bit of it it's like when you see a brainwashed character on TV having a memory return. I completely forgot the "one spacedog for every human" spaceship wall
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Dec 7, 2023 16:56
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I actually binged a lot of that run too, which I think is a bad thing for Doctor Who. So much information crammed into a short period of time, some of it is naturally going to slip through the cracks.
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Dec 7, 2023 17:00
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Edward Mass posted:A question to fellow Americans - have you seen ANY promotion for Doctor Who this year, either online on on TV? Because I haven’t, which could explain the viewership internationally. If I wasn't following this thread or the BBC Doctor Who Instagram I'd have no idea.
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Edward Mass posted:A question to fellow Americans - have you seen ANY promotion for Doctor Who this year, either online on on TV? Because I haven’t, which could explain the viewership internationally. Disney+ didn’t even put up a launch page for Wild Blue Yonder until about 2 minutes before releasing it and it was a separate entity to The Star Beast, so if people want to catch up you’ve got to search out each episode individually (unless they’ve fixed it since Saturday)!
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Zaroff posted:Disney+ didn’t even put up a launch page for Wild Blue Yonder until about 2 minutes before releasing it and it was a separate entity to The Star Beast, so if people want to catch up you’ve got to search out each episode individually (unless they’ve fixed it since Saturday)! I also noticed when I went to Disney+ to watch the new special, I couldn't find it in the featured stuff that's on the front page. I had to specifically search for it, then it wouldn't even show up in the search until I fully spelled out the word DOCTOR, you'd think it would be a top result even after I just put in the letter D.
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Oh I can't wait for the weekend  Edit: Original official link went private? Have a backup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htRA5E96_N8 Bernard Cribbins stunt double spotted 
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Infinitum posted:Oh I can't wait for the weekend Colonel Ibrahim more like colonel ibra-hunk Toymaker's pretty great in this glimpse, love the little focus-rack MikeJF fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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Infinitum posted:You mean to tell me you forgot important lore plot points like how every single human on earth has their own personal magic space dog who protects them? Or how the magic space dogs all used their magic interlocking space ships as a giant shield to stop the flux? lmao jesus
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Zaroff posted:So the Celestial Toymaker is unsurprisingly being animated. Not sure on this one… You know, I'm okay with keeping this one for last. Or, you know, not at all. I am looking forward to the shittiest of lovely assholes getting mad when they edit it. Infinitum posted:You mean to tell me you forgot important lore plot points like how every single human on earth has their own personal magic space dog who protects them? Or how the magic space dogs all used their magic interlocking space ships as a giant shield to stop the flux? It's perfect Chibnall. "What is everyone had a guardian dog instead of a guardian angel!" "So everyone walks around with dogs to protect them..." "No! The dogs are in space!" "So this is another planet and there are space dogs...." "No! It's earth! Today! Wouldn't it be cool if you had a space dog watching over you right now!" "What?"
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At the very least give us some cat guardian people too. Or at least say they exist but they are mysterious and whimsical weirdoes who might not show up at the time you want.
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A cat would never guard you. At best, a cat would watch you get killed with a look of concern.
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Random Stranger posted:You know, I'm okay with keeping this one for last. Or, you know, not at all. I didn’t watch past the first half of S11, but I feel like I could just get the Chibnall Who experience by downing a bunch of Ambien.
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HD DAD posted:I didn’t watch past the first half of S11, but I feel like I could just get the Chibnall Who experience by downing a bunch of Ambien. Read a few New Adventures novels and then bang your head on a wall
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Oh god, there really are space dogs, I thought that was a joke
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Zaroff posted:So the Celestial Toymaker is unsurprisingly being animated. Not sure on this one… It looks like an unfinished TellTale game  What happened to the Archer-esque style they’ve used for lost/unfinished stories before?
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Pyroi posted:Oh god, there really are space dogs, I thought that was a joke Random Stranger posted:Oh god, I just remembered the guardian angel alien dogs that everyone on earth has that never were around before who just got blown up and no one cares and they didn't really matter. This was a major part of the Flux storyline and I flushed it out of nmy head until four days ago because it's just that stupid.
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https://twitter.com/ianlevine/status/1732724542202589687?s=46 Oh no, the Doctor is in danger. In distress, one might say.
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:I've never once done costume play at a convention, but every time I see this I kind of want to get a custom-printed "GUNS" t-shirt... Do it 
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/ianlevine/status/1732724542202589687?s=46 Was mildly amused by someone getting upset at a misical number in Doctor Who. Then I noticed who was upset by a musical number in Doctor Who.
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There's seriously never been a musical number in the show before?
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I can't decide should count!
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Boxturret posted:I can't decide should count! The Master even sings along! (Genuinely my favourite detail. I assume the experience on set was Simm just singing Scissor Sisters at the top of his lungs to utter silence as he hit his marks and choreo.) Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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The ringmaster's little songs in Greatest Show in the Galaxy too!
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"(sniffing haughtily) Rap isn't music"
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How quickly we forget The Gunfighters
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How soon people forget... the Ultimate Adventure. Edit: goddamn, same joke different punchline. Mine's an actual stage musical though. 
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