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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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MikeJF posted:Hi, I'm the Doctor and I don't believe in guns, it's not my fault if my companion has a built in nose gun that solves half of my problems by shooting people One Loop Hole they don't want you to know about ! Edit: Oh cool just got to the Douglas Adams serial The Pirate Planet. Its good so far! The doctor using the Jelly Babies like their a grenade and distracting a guard to steal a car is real good.
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Jan 27, 2024 16:13
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Hollismason posted:One Loop Hole they don't want you to know about ! The other loophole of course is just using guns when you feel like it. https://youtu.be/lzmnPs64K74?si=ibJvzZ52bTCAmQI2
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Jan 27, 2024 16:15
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LividLiquid posted:You can show somebody who's never seen a single episode of Doctor Who Heaven Sent and it still just plays out as a loving great short film that you'll still be thinking about days later. I thought about doing that with my wife but given her fondness of Buffy and Vampire Diaries, I knew she could stand some campiness of the RTD era and she's been making her way through the revival slowly. Can't wait for her to get to season 9
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Jan 27, 2024 16:51
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The Pirate Captain from Pirate Planet is a loving great design. Love it. Love that he has a robotic parrot. Pirate Planet is pretty drat good.
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Jan 27, 2024 17:24
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Hollismason posted:The Pirate Captain from Pirate Planet is a loving great design. Love it. Love that he has a robotic parrot. Pirate Planet is pretty drat good.
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Jan 27, 2024 17:34
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Fil5000 posted:WHELL SAAAH, I DOOO DEE-CLARE, YOU ARE MAKING A TERRIBLE MAHSTAKE Open Source Idiom posted:Hey now, that's an authentic Malebolgian accent. My word, no dear lady, we are quite particular here at the Hellfire Club. Sufferin Succ'otash, yada yada. Well, I'm 5 minutes in and already laughing at the obvious "....hell." name drop early on. It's bad when the best accent we have is Peri-level, but I shall trudge forward. "Chaaawww-leee" - Becky Lee from LA ("and locals not shooting each other that often?" Becky describing the differences in LA/London got an actual lol from me, funny then no doubt but even more darkly hilarious now.)
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Jan 27, 2024 18:30
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Fil5000 posted:From what i remember of the very small bit of American history we covered at my English secondary school, Custer was not only a racist but an incompetent leader who got himself and his men killed by refusing equipment, ignoring intelligence and generally being poo poo, so I don't even know how the Doctor could save him short of bonking him on the head and dumping him somewhere away from the battle Hey, he also was so fixated on doing genocide that he made everything much worse! Open Source Idiom posted:Hey now, that's an authentic Malebolgian accent. I'm moving to Malebolgia, a bustling new state that is definitely a real place and absolutely not sinister!
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Jan 27, 2024 19:14
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I can't decide whether I really like that Season 16 has one big long arc about finding the Key of Time or whether I am growing a bit tired of it.
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Jan 27, 2024 20:19
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Hollismason posted:I can't decide whether I really like that Season 16 has one big long arc about finding the Key of Time or whether I am growing a bit tired of it. Yeah, that's kind of how everyone goes. It's not the worst idea to have a season long arc, but at the same time the plotting winds up feeling kind of samey. But hey, it's not the other season long plot arc in classic Who!
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Jan 27, 2024 21:20
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Random Stranger posted:I'm moving to Malebolgia, a bustling new state that is definitely a real place and absolutely not sinister! I’m pretty sure that’s what all the Twin Peaks entities eat
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Jan 27, 2024 21:23
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Jelly Babies are loving weird they're covered in what I am assuming is cornstarch which gives them a strange taste.
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Jan 27, 2024 22:54
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Hollismason posted:Jelly Babies are loving weird they're covered in what I am assuming is cornstarch which gives them a strange taste. Skill issue.
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Jan 27, 2024 23:08
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Hollismason posted:Jelly Babies are loving weird they're covered in what I am assuming is cornstarch which gives them a strange taste. Yeah, so they don’t stick together/to the moulds when making them. It shouldn’t be excessive though, just dust them off if you like.
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Jan 27, 2024 23:17
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kill the moon: still bad. oh well, the rest of the episodes of this season are good! mummy, flatline, dark water, death in heaven. just banger after banger. definitely no other episodes in that mix.
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Jan 27, 2024 23:29
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Hollismason posted:Jelly Babies are loving weird they're covered in what I am assuming is cornstarch which gives them a strange taste. It's not so much the taste, it's a bit of a squeaky feeling on your teeth. Easily dealt with though, just suck them a bit before you chew.
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Jan 27, 2024 23:44
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Dabir posted:It's not so much the taste, it's a bit of a squeaky feeling on your teeth. Easily dealt with though, just suck them a bit before you chew. Works with so many things!
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Jan 28, 2024 00:06
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I laughed pretty hard at The Androids of Tara when the Doctor steps out of the hut and they start blasting and he ducks back inside but not before ducking back out to shout "Liar!" . Honestly Season 16 is pretty good. I've liked all the serials so far.
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Jan 28, 2024 00:14
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I was only aware of four and his love of Jelly Babies through osmosis, really, as all of him I've seen is clips and Genesis of the Daleks, but I still marked out during Orient Express when Twelve pulled out a cigarette case of them and offered one up.
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Jan 28, 2024 02:07
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I think it's one of those things that was relatively small in the original context, but sort of became massively outsized in the retelling. Always feels weird when it turns up in another incarnation that isn't the fourth too.
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Jan 28, 2024 03:18
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Open Source Idiom posted:I think it's one of those things that was relatively small in the original context, but sort of became massively outsized in the retelling. Always feels weird when it turns up in another incarnation that isn't the fourth too. The fourth Doctor uses and eats Jelly Babies all the drat time. Like they come up in multiple serials through out the seasons.
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Jan 28, 2024 03:26
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Hollismason posted:The fourth Doctor uses and eats Jelly Babies all the drat time. Like they come up in multiple serials through out the seasons. I'm not saying he doesn't. I think we're operating on different definitions of "relatively small".
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Jan 28, 2024 03:27
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I'm almost done with Season 16 and am finishing up The Power of Kroll. Its just alright. The other serials have been really good this one is not that great.
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Jan 28, 2024 03:33
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I mean I think Mummy On The Orient Express partly included them so Capaldi could show off his Baker impression again.
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Jan 28, 2024 03:36
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Open Source Idiom posted:I think it's one of those things that was relatively small in the original context, but sort of became massively outsized in the retelling. Always feels weird when it turns up in another incarnation that isn't the fourth too. It was, when you considered that it was originally a Second Doctor thing. He offered them only twice - once in The Dominators and once in The Three Doctors. Then when Terrance Dicks was writing Robot, the casting decision hadn't been made yet but they did know they were going to aim for a more whimsical Doctor than Pertwee, so Dicks just fell back on Second Doctor motifs and the rest was history.
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Jan 28, 2024 03:40
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Capaldi had the jelly babies added to Orient Express himself, and almost certainly ad-libbed the Fourth Doctor impersonation when he was talking to himself. That kind of thing is why he's the GOAT
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Jan 28, 2024 03:41
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Gaz-L posted:I mean I think Mummy On The Orient Express partly included them so Capaldi could show off his Baker impression again. I was convinced that line read was Tom himself. 
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Jan 28, 2024 03:45
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Hollismason posted:I'm almost done with Season 16 and am finishing up The Power of Kroll. Its just alright. The other serials have been really good this one is not that great. The Power of Kroll always baffles me because they cast Philip Madoc as.... just some guy!
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Jan 28, 2024 03:47
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Immortal use of a jelly baby from Face Of Evil:quote:(The Doctor holds a jelly baby under the nose of the red-haired warrior.)
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Jan 28, 2024 03:51
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Something I have noticed with watching the old Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes is how very little he actually uses the sonic screwdriver. Compared to the later new Who where he basically uses it as a magic wand.
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Jan 28, 2024 04:03
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Power of Kroll has some interesting behind-the-scenes stuff and if you squint you can see it as a first draft of Caves of Androzani but as a story in its own right it doesn't really work.
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Jan 28, 2024 04:14
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Zaroff posted:When (or where) did you watch it? The two shows were being shown around the same time, so anyone who’d have watched MM in the UK would have been aware of The Crystal Maze. The ABC, and then also the Comedy Channel, on early Foxtel (cable television) in Australia, probably late 90s. I had no idea what the Crystal Maze was because I don't think it ever aired here or we even had a version.
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Jan 28, 2024 07:49
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The Crystal Maze has such an odd production history. In 1989, French tv was making a show, Fort Boyard, a game show about solving puzzles, doing challenges, and collecting keys to a treasure room at the end of the episode. British tv company Chatsworth acquired the format, but couldn’t schedule time to film at the titular Fort Boyard (a real fort completely surrounded by the sea off the coast of France!) so they initially made a FB pilot using sets and filmed it at Elstree studios. It looked dreadful, so they asked FB’s creator for help and he suggested the Crystal Maze format. Eventually the UK did get its own Fort Boyard with Geoffrey Bayldon, Leslie Grantham and Melinda Messenger hosting/as characters (and eventually Tom Baker!) and is one of 34 countries to have their own version of the show! My companion and I watched an ep last year while in France and it’s wild. For one, the episode was 2.5 hours long, and there’s a huge amount of lore behind it all where the characters in the fort all have their own motivations and history, which evolves season to season.
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Jan 28, 2024 17:07
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The_Doctor posted:The Crystal Maze has such an odd production history. I've heard the Boulanger era is held in plus respect.
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Jan 28, 2024 17:15
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Hollismason posted:Something I have noticed with watching the old Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes is how very little he actually uses the sonic screwdriver. Compared to the later new Who where he basically uses it as a magic wand. I like how it's circled to magic in the universe and the magic wand is not very effective on it.
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Jan 28, 2024 18:40
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The Armageddon Factor is pretty drat good serial. I'm enjoying it and I like the mythos behind The White Guardian and Black Guardian. Has that been explored any further in Doctor Who or has it kind of been forgotten? I don't recall the new series (I stopped after Matt Smith) ever addressing the White Guardian or Black Guardian.
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Jan 28, 2024 20:25
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Hollismason posted:The Armageddon Factor is pretty drat good serial. I'm enjoying it and I like the mythos behind The White Guardian and Black Guardian. Has that been explored any further in Doctor Who or has it kind of been forgotten? I don't recall the new series (I stopped after Matt Smith) ever addressing the White Guardian or Black Guardian. The black guardian turns up again (only one time I think?) on TV and there have been a few audios with them.
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Jan 28, 2024 20:32
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Fil5000 posted:The black guardian turns up again (only one time I think?) on TV and there have been a few audios with them. Three stories, but it's a short arc all tied together. They're the fifth Doctor stories Mawdryn Undead, Enlightenment, and Terminus. Enlightenment is one my favorite fifth Doctor stories, too.
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Jan 28, 2024 21:20
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Khanstant posted:I like how it's circled to magic in the universe and the magic wand is not very effective on it. Gatwa's screwdriver is fine but it's especially weird that in a season where it looks like magic and myth are more real than ever the sonic has changed to look like a magic wand than ever.
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Jan 28, 2024 21:28
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Random Stranger posted:Three stories, but it's a short arc all tied together. They're the fifth Doctor stories Mawdryn Undead, Enlightenment, and Terminus. Enlightenment is one my favorite fifth Doctor stories, too. Yeah, Enlightenment rules (as the Buddhists have been known to never say), just a loving weirdo out-there concept. I always loved that after Tom Baker played the Doctor as a character with complete self-confidence, Davison played him as a big brother/uncle who somehow got stuck babysitting the kids (companions) and is doing his best to struggle through everything without revealing he's doing it all by the seat of his pants. Especially since the oldest kid (Tegan) is constantly pushing his buttons 
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Jan 28, 2024 21:34
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That one guy in Thirteen's run namedrops the Guardians in a "I am like the thing you are nostalgic about, therefore you should like me too" way.
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