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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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Open Source Idiom posted:Jessica Hynes (Human Nature, The End Of Time, BF's Invaders From Mars) is a great actress, but she's loving awesome and completely unrecognisable in this week's Dick Turpin. Really fun seeing her turn up as a hammy sexy troll witch, with ridiculous make-up. Cunk's just turned up too. I shouold listen to Invaders from Mars again, I remember it being very silly but a lot of fun.
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Mar 17, 2024 11:16
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Fil5000 posted:I shouold listen to Invaders from Mars again, I remember it being very silly but a lot of fun. It's so wild, easiest the weirdest thing Mark Gattis has ever touched. The gags with the accents and performances and the sound effects are so tilted, and a ridiculously overqualified cast, incl. Simon Pegg and an uncredited Katy Manning cameo. It basically plays like Doctor Who taking a visit to Batman The Animated Series version of Gotham City. That entire run is excellent. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Mar 17, 2024 |
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Mar 17, 2024 11:23
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I was going to say "I'm surprised Big Finish never adapted Gatis' Nightshade" but a quick google reveals that of course they did, just not in the main range. Might have to give that one a listen.
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Mar 17, 2024 11:25
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Open Source Idiom posted:Jessica Hynes (Human Nature, The End Of Time, BF's Invaders From Mars) is a great actress, but she's loving awesome and completely unrecognisable in this week's Dick Turpin. Really fun seeing her turn up as a hammy sexy troll witch, with ridiculous make-up. Cunk's just turned up too. I have always loved Jessica Hynes' work (and have always had a massive crush on her too) so I'll definitely give that a go
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Mar 17, 2024 11:33
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Order of the Daleks is one of those 'daleks being sneaky with limited resources' stories, with the Sixth Doctor finding a few survivors having embedded themselves within a monastery. There's shades of the lost story "The Elite" here, with the Daleks reshaping a society for thier own ends (there's a dalek made out of stained glass), but the atmosphere doesn't really complement the story: an isolated monastery should have chanting, creaking doors, empty stone corridors, and there's not really that. Oddly, they make a big deal of the planet not having had first contact yet (complete with comedy bureacrat side character), but the monks are referred to as 'human' repeatedly. The story uses Christian monk imagery (so that we have a frame of reference as an audience), but they have some vague plant based drug trip thing instead. Honestly, if the monks had been a bit more clearly defined, it would have improved the story, but it's Colin Baker and the Daleks, always fun together. Aquitaine is great - the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa arrive on a research station where time is out of joint, scattering the scientists up and down in time. We also have Hargreaves, a really charming robot butler. To say too much is to give it away, but this is a clever one. Davison, Sutton and Fielding really are a great TARDIS team. OldMemes fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Mar 17, 2024 |
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Mar 17, 2024 23:06
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OldMemes posted:Aquatine is great I think you meant to post this in the Adult Swim thread.
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Mar 17, 2024 23:17
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lol
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Mar 18, 2024 12:46
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Jodie was on a special GBBO this weekend. For the promotional material they were letting her have it https://twitter.com/BritishBakeOff/status/1769449099613667558?s=19
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Mar 18, 2024 15:12
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The retro music guy on YouTube has done the first in a (hopefully long) series of intakes (putting outtakes back into the episode): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyMg9NywBKI
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Mar 19, 2024 11:01
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12: Never be cruel... well okay, maybe just this one time 
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Mar 19, 2024 11:44
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https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/steven-moffat-returns-to-write-episode-for-new-season-of-doctor-who HE'S BACK
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Mar 19, 2024 19:40
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 oh hell yeah
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Mar 19, 2024 19:43
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A Steven Moffat episode written under Rusty has never missed. I am so excited.
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Mar 19, 2024 19:50
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Please address River, please address River, please address River.
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Mar 19, 2024 20:00
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"Hello, River"
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Mar 19, 2024 20:01
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LividLiquid posted:Please address River, please address River, please address River. I actually sort of hope that he doesn't go back to any of his old wells. I'd prefer some tight, one-off episode that focuses on the Doctor's more human emotions and has a cool monster in it. Somebody else can take a stab at River or the Paternoster gang or whatnot.
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Mar 19, 2024 20:11
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I never want to see the Paternoster gang again. I rewatched the first Capaldi episode a few weeks back which reminded me of how irritating they were.
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Mar 19, 2024 20:41
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Vastra’s smugness is entirely unearned
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Mar 19, 2024 20:54
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They never quite squared the circle on the part where she eats people.
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Mar 19, 2024 21:00
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Bicyclops posted:I actually sort of hope that he doesn't go back to any of his old wells. I'd prefer some tight, one-off episode that focuses on the Doctor's more human emotions and has a cool monster in it. Somebody else can take a stab at River or the Paternoster gang or whatnot. Please let it be something like this. We’ve gotten plenty of episodes featuring River and the Paternosters already. Do something new.
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Mar 19, 2024 21:45
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We haven't actually had that many episodes with the Paternoster gang, but what we have had is far more than enough.
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Mar 19, 2024 21:48
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I just hope we get the Moffat who nailed the balance between wit, whimsy, horror and high concept. I am slightly fearful his time as showrunner and then his time away from Who may have mutated his approach and pushed it further from what I saw as his strengths in writing the show.
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Mar 19, 2024 22:11
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quote:"What can I tell you? There was begging, there was pleading but finally Russell agreed to let me have another go - so long as I got out of his garden." Lmao
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Mar 19, 2024 22:19
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SirSamVimes posted:A Steven Moffat episode written under Rusty has never missed. I am so excited.  this rocks. Still sad we never got RTD writing under Moffat as showrunner, but this is a winning combination 
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Mar 19, 2024 23:08
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What needs to be addressed about River? Seems like her story is wrapped up and they got to spend 24 years just chilling, pretty happy ending all things considered.
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Mar 19, 2024 23:56
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Khanstant posted:What needs to be addressed about River? Seems like her story is wrapped up and they got to spend 24 years just chilling, pretty happy ending all things considered. She's a British citizen but has never paid taxes. Imprisoning her at Stormcage wasn't cheap you know!
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Mar 19, 2024 23:59
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Ah, she has the American spirit and it expresses itself through denying the king his pennies.
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Mar 20, 2024 00:07
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As much as I love River, Husbands is the best conclusion she could have had I think. Also, Husbands was a fantastic episode. "Finally. It's my turn." edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ga6CwyKvr8 SirSamVimes fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Mar 20, 2024 00:09
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Bicyclops posted:I actually sort of hope that he doesn't go back to any of his old wells. I'd prefer some tight, one-off episode that focuses on the Doctor's more human emotions and has a cool monster in it. Somebody else can take a stab at River or the Paternoster gang or whatnot. 
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Mar 20, 2024 00:22
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I'll live in the computer, if it's a take a penny leave a penny kinda situation.
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Mar 20, 2024 01:18
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SirSamVimes posted:As much as I love River, Husbands is the best conclusion she could have had I think. The crime was that Capaldi and Kingston only had that one episode. Putting River on the shelf after the Smith Era was probably the correct decision, but goddamn Twelve and River had chemistry. e: 
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Mar 20, 2024 01:23
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For a second there, your typo had me all hype for a Thirteen episode I'd somehow missed.
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Mar 20, 2024 01:26
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howe_sam posted:The crime was that Capaldi and Kingston only had that one episode. Putting River on the shelf after the Smith Era was probably the correct decision, but goddamn Thirteen and River had chemistry. We only had that one because when Moffat said he was probably done with River, RTD told him it would be a crime to not do an episode with Capaldi and Kingston. He was right.
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Mar 20, 2024 01:27
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You can always imagine her way out of it. Who's going to stop you? Put a new story in your head; that's where the Doctor lives. I like my solution and the Doctor agrees with me.
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Mar 20, 2024 01:27
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LividLiquid posted:For a second there, your typo had me all hype for a Thirteen episode I'd somehow missed. For some reason as I was typing I had the "No sir, all Thirteen!" line from Day of the Doctor running through my head and welp.
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Mar 20, 2024 01:29
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River meeting 15: <gasp> “oh, you’re new! And looking fabulous! Clearly I was a good influence at some point…”
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Mar 20, 2024 01:42
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I liked the Paternosters. Well, I liked Strax. For all his flaws as a person and a show producer, Steven Moffat has written the best episode of a given series more often than he hasn't since 2005, even if you factor in series he didn't write for. Even then, his short story about 13 confronting the Umpty-Ums was better than most of the Chibnall era. So I'm stoked!
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Mar 20, 2024 02:20
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God I absolutely love this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgVJDd5vHfw "Hello, sweetie." Also a huge fan of,"I'm an archeologist from the future... I dug you up." Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Mar 20, 2024 08:03
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2house2fly posted:I liked the Paternosters. Well, I liked Strax. Strax is a one joke character but it's such a good joke that I'm OK with it.
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Mar 20, 2024 08:13
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The Giggle novel is about as surreal as you can get with a novel written by the Toymaker - you get to poke through the president of the US's brain, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart does the Eyes emoji, and there's an entire CYOA section with the corridors...  quote:Down came planets and stars and comets. The planets bounced and then fell still. Some shattered like baubles. Some rolled away never to be seen again. Not a bad representation of the Flux - a celestial hurricane that had devasted half this miserable universe. I'm glad the novels can have that kind of fun - we even get a little scene of the Fourth Doctor picking up little Kate because her father was busy saving the world
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