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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% |
| Total: | 54 votes | ||
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I love the umbrella though.
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Feb 2, 2024 05:03
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Coward posted:I love the umbrella though.  The umbrella is great. I’d have loved Sylv’s TV Movie costume as how he should been dressed from the start, with the umbrella as the One Acceptable Thing.
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Feb 2, 2024 05:51
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I dunno, his tv movie costume just isn’t quite eccentric enough. It’s too basic, like something you’d see an old man wearing in a nice pub. I absolutely hate Tom’s monochromatic maroon nightmare though.
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Feb 2, 2024 06:30
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Yeah, I am not a fan of the movie outfit either. I think the pullover would be great if it was just a pattern in those colours, or if the question marks were subtly hidden in it. But, honestly, I don't mind it much. Just kind of looks like a pattern and feels less egregious than putting it on the collar.
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Feb 2, 2024 06:47
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Tom's last outfit would have been fine - the huge flappy coat, the boots, the vaguely piratey look to it - if hadn't been so relentlessly burgundy. I mean, I like burgundy, but there's limits
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Feb 2, 2024 06:53
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It’s all the burgundy plus the scarf becoming an absolute parody of itself in terms of length. It’s awful.
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Feb 2, 2024 10:22
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I don't mind the question mark motif at all, the basic problem is that it is usually embedded in a terrible costume concept and it's made overly prominent. If Pertwee had a question mark brooch on one of his velvet jackets nobody would say that ruined it. McCoy's jumper is probably the best iteration of the idea because that's the sort of garment people have slightly garish repeating patterns on anyway. The question marks on the collar look goofy because that's not a spot where people typically put decorative motifs.
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Feb 2, 2024 12:43
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I finished Terminus and it was good, though it could have been better. The central premise was strong and it definitely didn't need the swerve into a universe ending threat revolving around a reverse big bang. It felt like an unnecessary distraction from the core scifi corporate dystopia stuff and I would have much rather that time be spent in fleshing out the setting. Teagan and Turlough were sidelined in favor of the two space raider characters which was an odd decision but I did enjoy their extremely glam outfits.
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Feb 2, 2024 16:59
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I love how incredibly mundane the now treated as almost sacred by the show Heart of the TARDIS! is there
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Feb 2, 2024 18:29
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The 60th anniversary Peter Capaldi Years box set from Germany turned up today. For an official release it feels very bootleggy. The case is massive and the discs are all out of order. It has a little booklet of interviews with the cast though, shame it’s all in German.
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Feb 2, 2024 19:05
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Edward Mass posted:You’re not going to enjoy the 1980s, then. I mean... did anyone? I guess JNT seems to have.
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Feb 2, 2024 19:16
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The CoatTM grew on me and I kinda wish we'd get a modern Doctor with one in spirit (should be a required publicity image, dammit)
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Feb 2, 2024 19:30
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Bicyclops posted:I mean... did anyone? I guess JNT seems to have. I did for the most part*, but then I was a kid for pretty much all of it, so I'm probably not the best judge of how awesome/terrible the 1980s was  *apart from when I hit puberty, that particular period of time was horrible
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Feb 2, 2024 19:30
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Bicyclops posted:I mean... did anyone? I guess JNT seems to have. Heck yeah! Muppet Babies was great.
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Feb 2, 2024 20:09
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I really enjoyed "Actually the world is built on the ruins of a technologically advanced ancient civilisation that fell as the result of a great catastrophe" which happened all the time in things that otherwise had a completely different tone, such as Gummi Bears or The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
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Feb 2, 2024 20:20
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Vinylshadow posted:The CoatTM grew on me and I kinda wish we'd get a modern Doctor with one in spirit (should be a required publicity image, dammit) I like the idea behind it, but feel the execution was poor. Brightly colored and clashing works for the Doctor and making them pop on those fuzzy old TVs. But the choice of patterns in the material doesn't show well and I think the way the panels are laid out for the coat makes it look worse. If C. Baker's thing was asymmetrical, high contrast long coats and he had a few of them that he rotated through, then it might have worked. Streamline the design a bit, too.
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Feb 2, 2024 20:23
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I really enjoyed the "Actually the world is built on the ruins of a technologically advanced ancient civilisation that fell as the result of a great catastrophe" which happened all the time in things that otherwise had a completely different tone, such as Gummi Bears or The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin This is why the 80s were so dire, really. Everything was about total world annihilation from The Butter Battle Book on up. Teddy Ruxpin came back a couple of years ago, haha. My kids really liked it for awhile.
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Feb 2, 2024 20:24
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Warthur posted:McCoy's jumper is probably the best iteration of the idea because that's the sort of garment people have slightly garish repeating patterns on anyway. The question marks on the collar look goofy because that's not a spot where people typically put decorative motifs.
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Feb 2, 2024 21:25
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Maybe we all dress like that 10 years from now.
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Feb 2, 2024 21:31
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Brb going to see if the Cybermen are having an open enrollment.
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Feb 2, 2024 21:33
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Random Stranger posted:I like the idea behind it, but feel the execution was poor. Brightly colored and clashing works for the Doctor and making them pop on those fuzzy old TVs. But the choice of patterns in the material doesn't show well and I think the way the panels are laid out for the coat makes it look worse. If C. Baker's thing was asymmetrical, high contrast long coats and he had a few of them that he rotated through, then it might have worked. Streamline the design a bit, too. It’s also the combination of the coat and the striped yellow pants and the blue polka dot clown bow thing he had going on. The coat on its own is loud but not horrible. The whole ensemble makes me think of a bad clown though. I seem to recall someone here actually has a Colin coat that looked pretty good? I wanna say it was DoctorWhat?
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Feb 2, 2024 23:12
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It’s also the combination of the coat and the striped yellow pants and the blue polka dot clown bow thing he had going on. The coat on its own is loud but not horrible. The whole ensemble makes me think of a bad clown though. I had the honor of seeing DoctorWhat’s coat in person, and it was magnificent.
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Feb 3, 2024 00:20
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It doesn't fit me anymore. My shoulders got too broad. I should probably look into rehoming it.
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Feb 3, 2024 01:30
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DoctorWhat posted:It doesn't fit me anymore. My shoulders got too broad. I should probably look into rehoming it. Get a new one
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Feb 3, 2024 01:55
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Add in a larger panel of another eye-searing colour. Or a vent.
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Feb 3, 2024 02:10
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DoctorWhat posted:It doesn't fit me anymore. My shoulders got too broad. I should probably look into rehoming it. Just regenerate. Probably easier.
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Feb 3, 2024 02:22
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DoctorWhat posted:It doesn't fit me anymore. My shoulders got too broad. I should probably look into rehoming it. I remember you posting a photo at a convention where you were arguing with a McCoy cosplayer, it was an excellent coat.
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Feb 3, 2024 13:29
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Yeah okay sure Time Lords went to war with space vampires . LMAO but it is a good serial. I think I'm about half way through season 18 but its been half way decent so far.
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Feb 4, 2024 00:14
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"Actually, myths about [some supernatural thing] is just folk memories of a sci fi thing" is a well the show unsurprisingly visits a lot, with stuff like State of Decay, Pyramids of Mars, The Horns of Nimon, The Daemons, The Time Monster...
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Feb 4, 2024 00:23
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Hollismason posted:Yeah okay sure Time Lords went to war with space vampires Low key I think this is one of the goofiest bits of lore in the entire show. I love that vampires of all baddies are the ancient eternal foes of the Time Lords. Presumably the monsters in Vampires of Venice are from that one chunk of the universe where everything is vaguely vampire-y, like how most of the show takes place in the part where everyone looks vaguely like a I kinda gave up on my Eight Doctor Adventures read-through, but Vampire Science is great and also has a really funny bit where one of the vampires starts talking about how she saw the Doctor and the others are like, "...but Time Lords aren't real, they're just a fairy tale, right?"
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Feb 4, 2024 00:28
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MrL_JaKiri posted:"Actually, myths about [some supernatural thing] is just folk memories of a sci fi thing" is a well the show unsurprisingly visits a lot, with stuff like State of Decay, Pyramids of Mars, The Horns of Nimon, The Daemons, The Time Monster... ...The Abominable Snowmen, The Curse of Fenric, The Sea Devils, The Stones of Blood, Ghost Light...
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Feb 4, 2024 01:20
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MrL_JaKiri posted:...The Abominable Snowmen, The Curse of Fenric, The Sea Devils, The Stones of Blood, Ghost Light... ...The Satan Pit...
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Feb 4, 2024 01:21
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I'm not super thrilled about the E-Space Trilogy but I do like that this last one has some pretty cool camera work.
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Feb 4, 2024 01:22
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Hollismason posted:I'm not super thrilled about the E-Space Trilogy but I do like that this last one has some pretty cool camera work. Yep. Warrior's Gate looks great, though I think it doesn't work as a story for me. But at least you have Adric!
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Feb 4, 2024 01:40
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lines posted:...The Satan Pit... ...Underworld, Battlefield, The Terror of the Zygons, The Ice Warriors...
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Feb 4, 2024 01:47
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MrL_JaKiri posted:...Underworld, Battlefield, The Terror of the Zygons, The Ice Warriors... Timelash!
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Feb 4, 2024 01:52
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Open Source Idiom posted:Timelash! Paul Darrow's performance is pretty legendary, now you mention it...
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Feb 4, 2024 01:54
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I appreciate that Adric is young and a interesting voice but often his voice is "Look I'm going to do what is going to keep me alive.. gently caress these other people." Its refreshing that his companion is basically a coward who puts his safety first.
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Feb 4, 2024 01:55
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Paul Darrow's performance is pretty legendary, now you mention it... There's a fun bit in the EDAs when the
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Feb 4, 2024 02:00
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When I was a kid I knew another kid who was an even bigger Who nerd that I was (goddamn), and I remember one of the most satisfying things was stumping him on a "quiz" where I asked what the Time Lords' greatest enemy were, because he of course answered the Daleks and I smugly explained that they were the DOCTOR'S greatest enemy, but the Time Lords' greatest enemy were, of course, Space Vampires  God, I was (am) such a loving dork. 
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