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Which season of Doctor Who should get a Blu-ray set next? This poll is closed. |
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| One of the black-and-white seasons |
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16 | 29.63% |
| Season 7 |
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7 | 12.96% |
| Season 11 |
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1 | 1.85% |
| Season 13 |
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0 | 0% |
| Season 15 |
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2 | 3.70% |
| The Key to Time |
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21 | 38.89% |
| Season 21 |
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0 | 0% |
| Season 25 |
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7 | 12.96% |
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PriorMarcus posted:The bad news is that the pattern will repeat endlessly, and once RTD2 ends we will begin MoffaTwo in vain. If Moffat improves as much as RTD did, that's okay by me, lol. Not that the new specials are perfect, but I do feel like he learned from some of his past mistakes and has evolved. The last time I gave Moffat a chance, he had not, and for some reason he wants to do "The British West Wing" whatever that loving means, so, on second thought, don't hire him for now.
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Jan 5, 2024 16:47
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Hold up. Looking back, did we never see Twelve's time vortex? We saw it in Twice Upon a Time but that was One's.
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Jan 5, 2024 17:20
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MikeJF posted:Hold up. Looking back, did we never see Twelve's time vortex? Only in the opening titles, sadly
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Jan 5, 2024 17:28
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Vinylshadow posted:Only in the opening titles, sadly Was that meant to be the Vortex? It just looked like it was just semi-abstract art, it was all clocks and planets and gallifreyan writing, never a bit that looked vortex-ish. Even the circley bit at the end with the TARDIS flying through was made of symbols. Wierd if they managed to go three seasons of the show without a vortex shot. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Jan 5, 2024 |
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Jan 5, 2024 17:32
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Bicyclops posted:Now that Doctor Who has the Disney money and they're doing spin-offs, pitch five Doctor Who spin-off ideas. Missy-ing Links. The hitherto-unexplored adventures of Missy. Sapphire & Steel backdoor revival. Just have them cameo in one of the other shows and have their universe and the Whoniverse cross over. Blake's 7 backdoor revival. Same principle as above, only now Paul Darrow's dead it's safe from being turned into The Avon Show. Time Lord Notorious. The saga of a renegade Gallifreyan who took his time machine to the late 20th Century and became one of the biggest names in East Coast hip-hop.
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Jan 5, 2024 17:34
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Infinitum posted:*Accents exist* Listen, yesterday, I watched the first episode of Primeval because it looked cool and some of y'all accents are like listening to someone talk with their head in jello.
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Jan 5, 2024 18:31
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Covok posted:Listen, yesterday, I watched the first episode of Primeval because it looked cool and some of y'all accents are like listening to someone talk with their head in jello. I'm kinda interested actually which ones really stand out (I have not seen the crap 00s dinosaur show). Like the West Country accent is notoriously funny-sounding to British ears but actually given that (I think?) that is quite similar to some historical American accents maybe that one actually sounds more normal than, I don't know, Geordie or whatever.
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Jan 5, 2024 18:35
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Infinitum posted:This one? What is this a reference to?
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Jan 5, 2024 18:39
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Resdfru posted:What is this a reference to? It’s a reference to the difference in nature between 10 and 11.
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Jan 5, 2024 18:57
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MikeJF posted:Was that meant to be the Vortex? It just looked like it was just semi-abstract art, it was all clocks and planets and gallifreyan writing, never a bit that looked vortex-ish. Even the circley bit at the end with the TARDIS flying through was made of symbols. Yep, each opening sequence is meant to show/represent the time vortex of that era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNszKKAtEwU quote:I feel bad for the cameraman that shot all of these, must’ve been really stressful constantly having to go hurtling through the time vortex every time the BBC needed a new intro Now we just have to wait for them to add 14/15 to the list
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Jan 5, 2024 18:58
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Vinylshadow posted:Yep, each opening sequence is meant to show/represent the time vortex of that era Aren't a lot of the later classic intros just starfields and stuff? I swear the vortexes (vortices?) in the show then were still trippy visuals during those years. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jan 5, 2024 |
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Jan 5, 2024 19:13
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lines posted:I'm kinda interested actually which ones really stand out (I have not seen the crap 00s dinosaur show). Like the West Country accent is notoriously funny-sounding to British ears but actually given that (I think?) that is quite similar to some historical American accents maybe that one actually sounds more normal than, I don't know, Geordie or whatever. It was the main palentologist I remember having the most problem with. Cutter. Here is a clip. https://youtu.be/WE-PUUN65ME Also, the first episode was fine. Funny enough, it sounds clearer now. Like, I acclimating.
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Jan 5, 2024 20:15
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Covok posted:It was the main palentologist I remember having the most problem with. Cutter. I think the word is "learning".
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Jan 5, 2024 20:23
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SiKboy posted:I think the word is "learning". Isn't that what "acclimating" means? It refers to the specifc situation when you go to a new place and get used to their culture and norms? Or is it that "acclimating" has some bad baggage, like colonialism or something?
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Jan 5, 2024 20:26
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The word is acclimatising.
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Jan 5, 2024 21:02
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PriorMarcus posted:The bad news is that the pattern will repeat endlessly, and once RTD2 ends we will begin MoffaTwo in vain. And then Chibnall² "I think I'll skip the rest of the rewind, I hate repeats"
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Jan 5, 2024 21:05
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While there can be some nuances, in most uses acclimate and acclimatise are used to mean the same thing, but Americans will say acclimate and Brits will say acclimatise. It's just a regional variation.
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Jan 5, 2024 21:08
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Yes, I would say acclimatise. That's an interesting variation. He really does just sound like an average Scottish person to me! Fascinating really - I think of American accents as being much more varied than that. Like yon folk up in Minnesota - now that's a lovely accent, very interesting. Could see an interesting Who filmed/set up in that part of the US actually - Who does Fargo or something.
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Jan 5, 2024 21:21
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I've always wanted to see a Doctor Who episode with the setting of the Klondike Gold Rush. Obviously the villains wouldn't be Cybermen, but there's plenty to mine there.
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Jan 5, 2024 21:32
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Edward Mass posted:I've always wanted to see a Doctor Who episode with the setting of the Klondike Gold Rush. Obviously the villains wouldn't be Cybermen, but there's plenty to mine there. Gold Cybermen
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Jan 5, 2024 21:37
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MikeJF posted:While there can be some nuances, in most uses acclimate and acclimatise are used to mean the same thing, but Americans will say acclimate and Brits will say acclimatise. It's just a regional variation. As George Bernard Shaw once said, America and Britain are two countries separated by a common language.
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Jan 5, 2024 21:40
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Holy poo poo, Series 9 is so so good. I've got to The Husbands of River Song in my watchthrough and you know what? I could go for a spin-off series where the concept is that it's about the Twelfth Doctor and River going on little adventures together during their 24 years of living together on Darillium (because you know they didn't just let the TARDIS gather dust in the corner unused during all that time), because the chemistry between them is far better than River/11 and on a par with/might be better than River/10.
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Jan 5, 2024 22:04
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Edward Mass posted:I've always wanted to see a Doctor Who episode with the setting of the Klondike Gold Rush. Obviously the villains wouldn't be Cybermen, but there's plenty to mine there. 
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Jan 5, 2024 22:26
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Warthur posted:Holy poo poo, Series 9 is so so good. I've got to The Husbands of River Song in my watchthrough and you know what? I could go for a spin-off series where the concept is that it's about the Twelfth Doctor and River going on little adventures together during their 24 years of living together on Darillium (because you know they didn't just let the TARDIS gather dust in the corner unused during all that time), because the chemistry between them is far better than River/11 and on a par with/might be better than River/10. Series 9 crew rise up, it's probably the best of the revival IMO. The new episodes got me in the mood and and I watched Face the Raven, Heaven Sent, and Hell Bent a couple of weeks ago, what a fantastic run of stories. After the last several years it was wonderful to hear even tossed-off lines with a wonderful sense of weight to them ("At the end of everything, one must expect the company of immortals.") Just the text doesn't do Capaldi's and Coleman's performances justice, but this exchange shortly before Clara's death is unbelievably good: quote:CLARA: We can fix this, can't we? We always fix it.
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Jan 5, 2024 22:36
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I am 99% convinced that "I'm an archaeologist from the future... I dug you up" is a quip which Moffat had wanted to give River Song for ages but never quite had the right story to use, but it really worked well here. Also the only S9 story I'd say is below par is the Zygon one, which is basically weapons-grade centrism combined with an argument that living as your authentic self is an act of violence against society.
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Jan 5, 2024 23:24
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I can take or leave the first ten episodes of series 9, but the last two are some of the best the show's ever done. So on balance it's a good series.
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Jan 5, 2024 23:28
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2house2fly posted:I can take or leave the first ten episodes of series 9, but the last two are some of the best the show's ever done. So on balance it's a good series. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there has not been a single episode of Doctor Who before or since as good as Heaven Sent. Yes, the Caves of Androzani, but that’s four separate episodes.
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Jan 5, 2024 23:36
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That's one hell of a bird.
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Jan 5, 2024 23:44
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Edward Mass posted:I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there has not been a single episode of Doctor Who before or since as good as Heaven Sent. Yes, the Caves of Androzani, but that’s four separate episodes. Heaven Sent is incredible but I think it lands as well as it does because of the legwork the entire Capaldi era does to that point to prepare you for it. The fourth wall narration, his interactions with Clara (and even her catchphrases), all the confession dial stuff so far, the Hybrid hints, they all do a lovely job of setting up the storytelling toolkit the episode uses and it wouldn't land the same without them.
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Jan 6, 2024 00:04
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lines posted:Yes, I would say acclimatise. That's an interesting variation. Here's a dirty secret of American TV: we don't use 90% of our regional accents or dialog in most of our media. Most characters use "neutral" accent, which is actually a midwestern accent. Most Americans see the accent as "neutral." Then, the next most popular would be the "southern" accent, which is actually an exaggerated Texas accent. New York comes up, but they are actually more common in mafia media and period pieces then anything set in a contemporary period. Outside of that, anything is a rarity. You never see a Wisconsin accent on TV or a Missourian or Kentucky, etc. And that's not even getting into the kind of racist "race based" accent casting that has thankfully been dying down over the last 20 years.
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Jan 6, 2024 00:09
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Sylvester McCoy's in ep. 3 of the new Father Brown series, if you can stand it. He's playing a doctor, rolling his R's and even plays the spoons briefly. An easy morning for the casting director there. e: certainly plenty of Scottish noises Unkempt fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Jan 6, 2024 00:31
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Covok posted:Here's a dirty secret of American TV: we don't use 90% of our regional accents or dialog in most of our media. Most characters use "neutral" accent, which is actually a midwestern accent. Most Americans see the accent as "neutral." Then, the next most popular would be the "southern" accent, which is actually an exaggerated Texas accent. New York comes up, but they are actually more common in mafia media and period pieces then anything set in a contemporary period. Outside of that, anything is a rarity. You never see a Wisconsin accent on TV or a Missourian or Kentucky, etc. And that's not even getting into the kind of racist "race based" accent casting that has thankfully been dying down over the last 20 years. Yeah, there are loads of really distinctive regional accents that get little to no exposure in media; I can't think of any time I've seen somebody with a Philadelphia accent, the Chicago accent has only really come up in that one SNL sketch, etc. Especially on the East Coast, you've got a whole constellation of disparate accents close together in a manner similar to the U.K. A bunch of them are dying out due to being perceived as low-class / proliferation of the "neutral" accent. That's something I know happens in Britain as well with RP being considered the default, but for whatever reason other accents are more common in media there than in the U.S.
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Jan 6, 2024 00:41
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It's kind of funny, because Ncuti's outright said in interviews that he feels his Scottish accent makes him sound posh (there is a slight whiff of middle class about it, for sure)Rochallor posted:Yeah, there are loads of really distinctive regional accents that get little to no exposure in media; I can't think of any time I've seen somebody with a Philadelphia accent, the Chicago accent has only really come up in that one SNL sketch, etc. Especially on the East Coast, you've got a whole constellation of disparate accents close together in a manner similar to the U.K. A bunch of them are dying out due to being perceived as low-class / proliferation of the "neutral" accent. That's something I know happens in Britain as well with RP being considered the default, but for whatever reason other accents are more common in media there than in the U.S. RP isn't the default. It was never really a 'real' accent. What's actually happening is there's more sort of regional accents for wider areas. So instead of distinct Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle, there's more of a general 'Northern' accent developing. Multicultural London English is becoming kind of the predominant accent in the city.
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Jan 6, 2024 00:45
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I have another prediction about the upcoming season: it's going to be a secret musical. We already got the Goblin King song, and the upcoming season has a Beatles episode. The goblins didn't need a musical number to work plot wise but they got one anyway. Yes it was a Christmas episode, but Christmas episodes still generally followed the structure of main series episodes in the past. It would fit the looser and more fantastical tone they're going for with this season. Secret musicals are a huge trend right now in cinemas, with Wonka, Mean Girls, and The Color Purple hitting theatres around the same time. I therefore predict that the season will have at least one musical number per episode.
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Jan 6, 2024 00:50
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I want The Beatles episode to be about them being attacked by a giant beatle
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Jan 6, 2024 01:16
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I predict the Beatles thing is a fakeout and most of the action of the episode takes place a few years later, dealing with what really happened to Syd Barrett.
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Jan 6, 2024 01:40
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Warthur posted:Heaven Sent is incredible but I think it lands as well as it does because of the legwork the entire Capaldi era does to that point to prepare you for it. The fourth wall narration, his interactions with Clara (and even her catchphrases), all the confession dial stuff so far, the Hybrid hints, they all do a lovely job of setting up the storytelling toolkit the episode uses and it wouldn't land the same without them. Hell yeah! I'm all in on 12th Doctor revisionism. It was a good time, even though it felt like a bad time, at the time. Because it felt like a bad time, even
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Jan 6, 2024 01:51
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Barry Foster posted:Hell yeah! I'm all in on 12th Doctor revisionism. It was a good time, even though it felt like a bad time, at the time. Because it felt like a bad time, even I binged Calpadia last year. I really enjoyed it. People are way to mean to Clara. I peaced out on Spyfall because my Doctor Who game died when I was the watching the episode. Like, literally. I sent a text about how I was going to handle my time as The Doctor in the game and then it died. Since I was the GM, the player thought I was torturing the Doctor in the last season to justify my Doctor being sad. But it was actually just a concidence and I wanted an epic final confrontational with the Master to mean stuff. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Calpadi is great. I should finish the Jodie era eventually. Oh fun fact about that TRPG campaign, I came up with this idea where the Doctor's companion was a girl from Victorian England who actually died and was a living paradox because someone changed the past. Last Christmas, my sister in law bought me the Charlie Pollard arc for the 8th Doctor. Imagine my loving surprise.
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Jan 6, 2024 02:11
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I'll say this for Chibs, the last Jodie Whitaker episode is a fun blowout continuityfest in a completely different way to what you'd get from RTD or Moffat. I don't know if I like it (it falls into the same Silence-esque place as the rest of Chibnall's era where I can't remember a drat thing about it when I'm not actively watching it) but I like that it made some of the choices it made
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Jan 6, 2024 02:31
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Barry Foster posted:Hell yeah! I'm all in on 12th Doctor revisionism. It was a good time, even though it felt like a bad time, at the time. Because it felt like a bad time, even
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