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Random Stranger posted:I think that could have worked, but I get why they'd decide against it. But no matter how ugly it turned out, it wouldn't have been worse than the clock opening. That one was just bland. I remember Moffat talking about how he'd found the fan video they based it off and being blown away, wondering how no one had ever done it before. Because its poo poo Moffat.
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Anyone here do Big Finish? They got a pretty good catalog, honestly. I have recently been listening to their 11th Doctor Chronicles Volume 3 to 6. That stars Jacob Dudman as an amazing Matt Smith impression and Safiyya Ingar as Valorie Lockwood. The idea is that it is an unofficial Series 7c. It takes place between "Angels In Manhattan" and the "Snowmen." It follows the Doctor's search for Clara Oswald. So far, each of the volumes have had one or two banger stories per boxset. And the others are just forgettable at worse. So, kind of standard for a series of Moffat Doctor Who. They really get the way Moffat writers down, in a good and bad way. There is Moffat's tendency to undo deaths in it so far, but I'm okay with that since the season opening is so brutal. Overall, it's honestly been really strong so far. I'm about to start Volume 5, which just came out. It does feel like a one-off series that just kind of happened off-screen. If you liked the 11th Doctor, I highly recommend it.
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Dec 23, 2023 00:14
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PriorMarcus posted:I remember Moffat talking about how he'd found the fan video they based it off and being blown away, wondering how no one had ever done it before. Though I liked the fan's take on it better, rough edges be damned. It was just more bombastic and enthusiastic.
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PriorMarcus posted:I remember Moffat talking about how he'd found the fan video they based it off and being blown away, wondering how no one had ever done it before. I recently made a video that required a brief shot of a Doctor Who intro as a joke, and landed on Twelve's for a reason I'd never considered, that I'm sure never occurred to Moffat either, but it's an undeniable strength: It's the only New Who intro that's immune to Death By Bitrate. Every single other one, including the Tennant Again intro, is drat near indecipherable if the quality's low enough (or the shot's too quick).
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Dec 23, 2023 00:41
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Covok posted:Anyone here do Big Finish? Not recently due to time constraints. But yes..... so much. So much 
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Rochallor posted:Big... What-ish? Under the chance this isn't a bit, Big Finish is a british audio-drama company founded by a former Doctor Who Fan Film maker that has the official license to make Doctor Who audio dramas. They have been running since the Wilderness Years. They are primarily why anyone likes the 8th Doctor as he, alongside side the 7th, 6th, and 5th, were their main features for their "monthly adventures lines." Since then, the 4th, 9th, and 10th Doctor has joined. They have good impersonators for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 11th Doctor, as well as impersonators for all the Doctors if the main actor can't make it. They have so-so impersonators for the 12th Doctor. Yeah, that one can be rough and when Tenant can't make it his impersonator is a bit rough too. It's actually Jacob Dudman, who is mainly their really loving good 11th Doctor impersonator doing triple duty. They have long since abandoned the monthly adventure line and instead do themed boxsets. For older doctors, this tends to be one long story like a serial. For the new who Doctors, this tends to be a bunch of thematically related stories. Sometimes, they do "seasons" where a bunch of box sets come together at a specific point in time to be like a missing season of the show. Big Finish's quality fluctuates but they generally make drat good work. Honestly, the biggest complaint with them is they produce "a lot" because they release a box set monthly and Doctor Who is their biggest IP. They have other IPs so Doctor Who isn't the only one up to bat every month, but it comes up the most often. Especially because they do every spin-off idea imaginable. A UNIT TV Show? They have multiple with different eras. Stories just about the companions a la the Sarah Jane adventures? Yep, they got that. And sometimes their box set ideas are just REALLY out there. After doing roughly 172 episodes with the 8th Doctor, they decided to do one where...he loses the TARDIS in modern day london and has to adjust to life during COVID while renting a flat and slowly losing his mind. That's one called Stranded and it has a love-hate reception. They also tend to fill in blanks that don't always need filling in. Sure, they did Sharda and gave the 6th Doctor a proper regeneration that made Colin Baker extremely happy, but they also demystified the Time War by doing multiple series on it. Some of which are extremely good, like "Only the Monstrous", but it does show that it was probably better unexplained. Also, their cost can be a bit much since each boxset goes for about 30 USD and that can add-up. But, they go on steep price declines after a year or two. If you want to get into it, spotify has the first 50 of their monthly adventure line free with ads here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2PKm8aJ43kvEqtzTmggKdn If you want to see other stuff they make, here is their website: https://www.bigfinish.com/
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I really tried to get into the 11th doctor chronicles but I couldn't get past Jacob Dudmans impersonation. I mean it's not terrible ie nick briggs 9th but it was just different enough to continuously take me out. He might have improved with later seasons though!
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Dec 23, 2023 01:32
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Here is a recent trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxVO45Tykn8
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Dec 23, 2023 02:07
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Some of the fan-made stuff is incredible, though. I wish Moffat or Davies had noticed this one and gave us this kind of shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNEjx6XUbfQ
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Dec 23, 2023 06:37
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Wolfechu posted:Some of the fan-made stuff is incredible, though. I wish Moffat or Davies had noticed this one and gave us this kind of shot. That is incredible stuff.
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Dec 23, 2023 06:57
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I've recently started my relisten-through of Big Finish again, my aim is to get to where I stopped listening, which was shortly after the first couple Fourth Doctor Adventures, sort of 2013 or 2014 ish. I'm skipping the ones I remember as bad or the ones that don't really add anything. Currently up to Arrangements for War and then the first season of Gallifrey.
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Wolfechu posted:Some of the fan-made stuff is incredible, though. I wish Moffat or Davies had noticed this one and gave us this kind of shot. Maybe now that they have Disney+ level budgets they can do cool effects like this
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Infinitum posted:Maybe now that they have Disney+ level budgets they can do cool effects like this Actually, looking at his channel, it looks like they hired him some years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwevZzjptYg
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Dec 23, 2023 08:31
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Yeah I believe that's the guy who designed Thirteen's opening credits and her Time Vortex, as well as all those episode effects. They were partly inspired by this fan shot he did: https://youtu.be/rmN91yn3kQ0 I really liked the look of all of his stuff, it was one of the best parts of that era. Lots of fractals and lots and lots of colour and a sort of ethereal fantastic feel to it all. And his generic flickery energy things seem nicer and better looking than other generic flickery energy things. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Dec 23, 2023 |
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I think Thirteen’s intro and theme tune was the only creative decision I unequivocally loved from that era. Though the amount of particle effects were a problem for streaming, as mentioned.
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Covok posted:Under the chance this isn't a bit, Big Finish is a british audio-drama company Heh, if you haven't noticed yet - welcome home, friend! Most of the Big Finish chat appears between episodes, but you should find plenty of it here. I wanted to mention but forgot - on a bf note. The latest eighth doctor release is a Christmas theme has Charley, and of course makes a plumb pudding joke Speaking of, time to do my yearly listen of Chimes this weekend woo!
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McGann posted:I wanted to mention but forgot - on a bf note. The latest eighth doctor release is a Christmas theme has Charley, and of course makes a plumb pudding joke Yeah that set's pretty decent, except the finale forgetting how to write for Audacity.
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Matinee posted:I think Thirteen’s intro and theme tune was the only creative decision I unequivocally loved from that era. “Make the 1963 intro but modern”, for both the theme and the vfx, had been something I’d wanted the show to do for a while. And they nailed it.
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Dec 23, 2023 15:50
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My beloved Chefs are playing the detestible Raiders opposite the episode release so i have to wait three hours to watch it Xmas is ruined...
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Dec 23, 2023 15:54
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Saw a video today of Gatwa talking about his Doctor's look and learning his hair is dyed a shade of blue.
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Also his moustache is fake because “I’ve just spent 4 years playing a teenager”. 
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The_Doctor posted:Also his moustache is fake because “I’ve just spent 4 years playing a teenager”. How is he THIRTY ONE?
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He’s officially the first new Doctor who is younger than me. It was gonna happen some day…
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Got to Night Terrors in my watchthrough and I can only assume there was some sort of BBC regulation in the late 2000s/early 2010s which said that every Doctor Who needed to have at least one episode riffing on that Twilight Zone concept of "child banishes people into other realm/state of being when they are emotionally perturbed" because goodness me it's like Fear Her 2: Actually Fear Him Instead, right down to how in both cases the child actor in question is in no sense ready to deliver the sort of performance the episode is asking them to provide. (Did they dub some of the kid's lines? Some of them sound like an adult putting on a little child voice.)
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah that set's pretty decent, except the finale forgetting how to write for Audacity. Was I alone in being absolutely annoyed by Audacity's personality? It felt like it was speed running through companion themes that had already been beaten to death years ago, and her constant complaining about "society"[my words, not hers...I think, I zoned out a lot of her monologues) felt like a constant stream of "holier than thou" condescension. Maybe that was the point, but boy would I have enjoyed those stories a bit more with a different companion.
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It's been so lovely having Charley back and while I agree that Audacity definitely has that historic companion clichés a plenty having two companions from the past has been great and I really enjoy their chemistry together. They could tone the smugness level down just a bit though.
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I did not pick up on the fact that Audacity is a character's name and thought you were just complaining about the audio mixing as of late.
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I didn't watch The Giggle until yesterday (because we don't have a TV license and so had to wait to get to my mum's for christmas) but that was some proper RTDing, for all of its good and bad. Lots of good, though. Re: the earlier Weeping Angel discussion, the idea that you couldn't then time travel (Mawdryn Undead style) after getting got wouldn't work inside continuity, because the Doctor and Martha getting got is why the TARDIS is in the future to begin with in Blink Rochallor posted:Fun fact that highlights this: Tom Cruise is currently older than William Hartnell when he started playing the Doctor. Tennant's only 18 months or so younger PriorMarcus posted:... Really? I watched it (having not seen it at the time) after catching up on Jodie for a video I'm making on the flavour of the Magic The Gathering Doctor Who cards and in comparison it was a solid 8/10, it had actual coherent story, plot and characterisation! HD DAD posted:Honestly I’ve enjoyed catching up on Whittaker’s run. It’s a very different take on Who with different sensibilities. I can absolutely see how a lot of people bounced hard off of it (like me initially), and there are some big dumb swings in there…but I don't think it's awful. As I've said before, I disagree entirely - Chibnall's episodes have this dream like quality in a pejorative sense, where nothing flows between bits but everything acts like it's all sensible events. Even watching the better episodes make me incredibly frustrated with the whole thing. Rochallor posted:I did not pick up on the fact that Audacity is a character's name and thought you were just complaining about the audio mixing as of late. I would like to complain about the audio mixing, some of the first two specials were only intelligible with subtitles
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The_Doctor posted:Also his moustache is fake because “I’ve just spent 4 years playing a teenager”. I KNEW IT
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Pinwiz11 posted:My beloved Chefs are playing the detestible Raiders opposite the episode release so i have to wait three hours to watch it Xmas is ruined... The Chefs? I didn't know the Chiefs were that banged up to be starting their caterers...
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MrL_JaKiri posted:As I've said before, I disagree entirely - Chibnall's episodes have this dream like quality in a pejorative sense, where nothing flows between bits but everything acts like it's all sensible events. Even watching the better episodes make me incredibly frustrated with the whole thing. This is a very good way of putting it. It all has a kind of floaty, ephemeral quality. It's all just curiously weightless
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CobiWann posted:The Chefs? I didn't know the Chiefs were that banged up to be starting their caterers... Now I'm expecting some sort of Patrick Mahomes cameo. That would delight at least...7 or 8 people, I imagine!
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McGann posted:Now I'm expecting some sort of Patrick Mahomes cameo. That would delight at least...7 or 8 people, I imagine! Based on the Statefarm adverts I want Andy Reid as the Doctor with Mahomes companion
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At Home With Baker Mayfield In The Tardis.
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I've just had a thought, and I think I'm misremembering, but how does the Doctor remember Clara? When the Toymaker says she was killed by a bird The Doctor shouldn't remember he being alive, right?
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PriorMarcus posted:I've just had a thought, and I think I'm misremembering, but how does the Doctor remember Clara? He got his memories back in Twice Upon a Time.
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McGann posted:Now I'm expecting some sort of Patrick Mahomes cameo. That would delight at least...7 or 8 people, I imagine! New wide receiver corp, that's weird.
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Barry Foster posted:This is a very good way of putting it. It all has a kind of floaty, ephemeral quality. It's all just curiously weightless I will never forgive that man for wasting Jodie Whittaker.
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I think if Chibnall's run had been a few years later, we'd all be squinting at it suspiciously as if AI wrote it. I think it was The_Doctor or Jerusalem on here that compared the two, the initial rush of exciting ideas that gradually go nowhere as the AI forgets where the story actually started.
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