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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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Writing most of the series in this case is still probably fewer episodes than usual
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Big change concerning Daleks going forward
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Apr 1, 2024 11:58
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Timby posted:If I had to wager a guess, Davies made the decision to write the majority of the season once the Disney money was secured. We know from The Writer's Tale that Davies is an insane workaholic who can turn around a script from outline to shooting draft in 48 hours--admittedly, not always for the better, in quite a few cases--and there was probably pressure from Disney to start seeing a return on their investment much sooner than later. So my feeling is he said, "OK, gently caress it, I'll write most of it, I'll get Moffat to do one and then I liked this pitch from someone else. And maybe we'll do things different with the next season." Thing is, this guess does kind of require the Disney corporation to not really understand how most TV shows are written and the timescales involved. I think thats unlikely because I believe they have at least some previous experience in "the show business". I personally just put it down to Davies being a workaholic who feels a sense of ownership/protectiveness for the show and isnt great at recognizing when these traits are having a detrimental effect on his output. My evidence for that is the things Davies said and did the last time he was in charge of Who.
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Apr 1, 2024 12:00
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I mean... as April Fool's Day things go it's at least harmless.
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Apr 1, 2024 12:04
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That trailer really shows what the Disney money can do for their special effects, it looks great. The four second teasers are fun too. Ncuti Gatwa really was the best person to cast for a Russell Davies season. Like just beyond the obvious talent, he somehow makes all the "wink at the camera" type moments not drag the whole thing down. Should be a fun season that takes some big swings and is at least enjoyable even when it whiffs.
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Apr 1, 2024 13:21
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Bicyclops posted:Ncuti Gatwa really was the best person to cast for a Russell Davies season. Like just beyond the obvious talent, he somehow makes all the "wink at the camera" type moments not drag the whole thing down. 
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Apr 1, 2024 14:18
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Seems likely that 73 Yards/Dot and Bubble and Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death are two-parters, since they're the ones which have the same directors in succession.
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Apr 1, 2024 15:07
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Warthur posted:Seems likely that 73 Yards/Dot and Bubble and Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death are two-parters, since they're the ones which have the same directors in succession. I suspect the last two probably are, but I think generally this is just a quirk of block filming. Edit: yeah, I checked my notes and I'm pretty sure Dot and Bubble is the one that had a lot of filming spoiled. It's nothing like the teaser for 73 Yards. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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Apr 1, 2024 15:11
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I like how much horror vibe that 2 second teaser of 73 Yards gives. Very Dæmons.
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Apr 1, 2024 15:19
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Open Source Idiom posted:I suspect the last two probably are, but I think generally this is just a quirk of block filming. Also, I think it's much much harder to come up with 6 story concepts which all need to be suitable for single episodes than 4 story concepts where only two of them need to be tight enough to be over and done in an episode and two of them can afford to sprawl a little more.
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Apr 1, 2024 15:22
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The_Doctor posted:I like how much horror vibe that 2 second teaser of 73 Yards gives. Very Dæmons. It's the Slitheen. They're back on a D+ budget. They can fart up to 73 yards away to kill their targets
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Apr 1, 2024 15:24
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For what its worth, RTD wrote 8 episodes in the 2005 series, so yeah he's probably just setting up the runway for the rest of the show.
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Apr 1, 2024 15:33
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SiKboy posted:Thing is, this guess does kind of require the Disney corporation to not really understand how most TV shows are written and the timescales involved. Have you not seen how messed up and rushed a lot of disney productions have been for the past decade or so??
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Apr 1, 2024 18:25
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Someone on Twitter pointed out that 73 Yards is about 666 feet and between that and The Devil's Chord, they're thinking there might be a sort of "occult" arc this series. The eulogized TARDIS scene looks like it might be one of the most powerful in the series. I'm really looking forward to this series. Has there been any more news about The War Between Land And Sea? Someone speculated that it's the missing episode title and that it's going to be an event during the run. I'm wondering what Doctor Who characters are going to be involved and what exactly makes it a spin-off that they'd choose to do it now.
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Apr 2, 2024 01:09
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There is no missing episode title? Season 1/14/40: 1. SPACE BABIES 2. THE DEVIL'S CHORD 3. BOOM 4. 73 YARDS 5. DOT AND BUBBLE 6. ROGUE 7. THE LEGEND OF RUBY SUNDAY 8. EMPIRE OF DEATH
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Apr 2, 2024 01:20
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The_Doctor posted:There is no missing episode title? Ah, must have misheard. In other news, saw this on Reddit. Stay till the end, it's got a surprise: https://web.archive.org/web/20050528195802/http://p216.ezboard.com:80/ftheanorakzonefrm17.showMessage?topicID=302.topic
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Apr 2, 2024 01:45
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Imagine being a small child saying something vicious and mean when suddenly a giant tears the roof off of the supermarket you're in, leans forward till his face fills up every inch of your vision, and in a booming voice that knocks over the shopping trolleys declares,"SAY THAT AGAIN AND I'LL CAVE YOUR SKULL IN!" Good!
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Apr 2, 2024 01:58
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RichMarinKT posted:Someone on Twitter pointed out that 73 Yards is about 666 feet and between that and The Devil's Chord, they're thinking there might be a sort of "occult" arc this series.
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Apr 2, 2024 03:19
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Yeah but if you multiply 219 by 3 you get 657, which is 9 away from 666, and the 9th Doctor was where RTD started on the show, and every single person who saw the title "73 Yards" immediately understood this without even having to think about it.
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Apr 2, 2024 03:22
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If you turn 73 upside down you get EL Then if you add DEVIL to the front you get THE DEVIL We're through the looking glass people
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Apr 2, 2024 03:36
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73 Yards Valyard
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Apr 2, 2024 03:47
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I think it's close to 66.6 metres, so maybe that was what was going on there.
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Apr 2, 2024 03:48
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Raeg posted:I think it's close to 66.6 metres, so maybe that was what was going on there. It was 66.6 Metres until the Disney money hit.
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Apr 2, 2024 03:51
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RichMarinKT posted:Ah, must have misheard. Kind of funny that this seems to be in response to a complaint about a homophobic line, as the show went on more people would complain (as RTD correctly predicted here) about the prevalence of pro-LGBT themes. Also the entire scene they describe has vanished from my memory entirely, probably a sign that I should get going with that rewatch
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Apr 2, 2024 03:56
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2house2fly posted:Also the entire scene they describe has vanished from my memory entirely, probably a sign that I should get going with that rewatch The OP posts their original letter/email further down and it’s apparently a line in Aliens of London. I don’t remember it at all either though.
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Apr 2, 2024 04:00
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Yeah, I also have zero memory of it, which I don't know if it is a good thing or not, but at first I thought RTD's response was talking about a hypothetical scenario.
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Apr 2, 2024 04:21
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To be fair it's right before an alien spaceship smashes into Big Ben, most memories are going to be hard pressed to compete with that
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Apr 2, 2024 04:42
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Raeg posted:I think it's close to 66.6 metres, so maybe that was what was going on there. Right, my mistake. The United Kingdom hasn't switched over to the metric system yet.
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Apr 2, 2024 05:38
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What would happen if The Doctor bi-regenerated or something and ended up in a male and a female Doctor? Would they consider traveling together? What would that series be like? I don't know how often The Doctor in love gets addressed in the extended media, just the episodes, but would they consider falling for themselves? Thirteen did tell herself that she looked pretty cute. There seemed to be some minor flirting.
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Apr 2, 2024 05:43
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RichMarinKT posted:What would happen if The Doctor bi-regenerated or something and ended up in a male and a female Doctor? Would they consider traveling together? What would that series be like? Why would that necessitate male and female?
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Apr 2, 2024 05:44
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Regardless of gender if there's one defining characteristic of multi doc stories it's that they get on each other's nerves. Edit: which makes a lot of sense to me, if I had to hang around with multiple younger versions of myself I'd be sick of them pretty quickly.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:18
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Fil5000 posted:Regardless of gender if there's one defining characteristic of multi doc stories it's that they get on each other's nerves. Oh my god, I have never thought of it like this before but.. Yeah. I would come across as a smug prick to earlier vision versions of myself, and vice versa would seem like immature morons. Definitely wouldn't bone myself though. More than once, Yknow, for science.
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Apr 2, 2024 12:44
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RichMarinKT posted:What would happen if The Doctor bi-regenerated or something and ended up in a male and a female Doctor? Would they consider traveling together? What would that series be like? New Doctor hates Old Doctor, cause they can't believe what an idiot they used to be Old Doctor hates New Doctor, cause they can't believe what an idiot they're going to turn into Each one knows they're the smartest one in the room More Doctors just extrapolates this out further Gender doesn't matter They never like the new interior
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Apr 2, 2024 12:48
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McGann posted:Oh my god, I have never thought of it like this before but.. Periodically when I'm feeling down, I imagine having conversations with myself from 5 years ago and 10 years ago, 15, 20, and so on and I realize that even if things aren't going fantastically, they could always be worse: I could be me from when I was younger.
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Apr 2, 2024 13:09
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2house2fly posted:Kind of funny that this seems to be in response to a complaint about a homophobic line, as the show went on more people would complain (as RTD correctly predicted here) about the prevalence of pro-LGBT themes. I was mostly referring to the bit where RTD threatened to punch a 12 year old girl in the face for calling her brother a " gay boy" on queue at the grocery store.
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Apr 2, 2024 15:27
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Yeah... I can see how you'd want to drill into a kid's head not to talk that way, but threatening a strange child with violence in a big, booming voice is bad IMO.
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Apr 2, 2024 15:39
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At least the Doctor never has to cope with what their younger selves did to their bodies, since they always get a new one. I'll spend a regeneration just to get away from my horrible lunch decision today.
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Apr 2, 2024 18:15
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RichMarinKT posted:What would happen if The Doctor bi-regenerated or something and ended up in a male and a female Doctor? Would they consider traveling together? What would that series be like? I want to see this but have a third, previous Doctor show to sneer. I mean, we know how well multiple incarnations get along. Have Colin pulling a face, "And I thought *I* was narcissistic..."
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Apr 2, 2024 20:57
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Wolfechu posted:I want to see this but have a third, previous Doctor show to sneer. I mean, we know how well multiple incarnations get along. "Narcissistic? *NARCISSISTIC?* I simply know my own value, it's hardly MY fault if others find this difficult."
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Apr 2, 2024 21:17
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Happy Fish Fingers and Custard Day to all who celebrate
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