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 That wasn't a metaphor.  ( Last week: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3661555 ) On with the show. Your writer this week is Mark Gatiss! The line producer is Nikki Wilson, and the director is Paul Murphy (Whocomer with experience on soaps and Wizards vs Aliens). Robot of Sherwood will be the 244th Doctor Who story ever told, and the 803rd individual episode. Timeslot is 7:30pm in the Queen's Own Summer Time Zone, on BBC One. At this time, all suspicious Johnny Foreigner types must vacate the thread immediately (if not quicker) until watching the episode, or risk being foully and irretrievably spoiled! Note also that this episode runs 50 minutes (there's a lot of it about this year). Speaking of spoilers, if you feel the need to satisfy any weird and unnatural urges to discuss what might be about to happen next before it's been aired, there is a no-holds barred spoiler thread where you can pretend that you aren't all sad, broken people who hate fun and mystery. And it seems like a quick restatement of the First Law of Doctor Who Fans is a necessary thing to have here, so. The First Law of Doctor Who fans says: "No substantive discussion group shall be entirely able to agree on the merits of any given story, not even the 'except X, that just plain sucked/rocked' corollary to this law." Please bear this in mind before bemoaning THE THREAD HIVEMIND CONSENSUS. (Wouldn't that make a great episode title? Or at least a great Big Bang Theory episode title?)  RATINGS GO HERE, IF YOU DON'T CARE, SCROLL RIGHT DOWN Full explanation of what all this means is in the Deep Breath thread. TL;DR, it's all fine, chill out, people are still watching and loving the show. code:AND FINALLY, this week in Doctor Who history, both 50 and 25 years ago: 5th September 1964: A Bargain of Necessity, episode 5 of The Reign of Terror, by Dennis Spooner, with William Hartnell, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford and Jacqueline Hill. The episode no longer exists in the archives. 6th September 1989: Part One of Battlefield (gag), by Ben Aaronovitch, with Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Nicholas Courtney. (The first weekend of September, the back-to-school weekend, has seen the beginning of no fewer than 16 runs of Doctor Who; expand it a couple of weeks for wriggle room and you're looking at more than 20 all starting at about this time of year.) Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 12:14 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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Irish Joe posted:While humour is not the main focus of Doctor Who, I personally feel that comedy is important when writing a show about a 2000-year-old space alien bumming around the universe in a flying police telephone box Was this reviewer watching the Brazzers production?
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Sep 6, 2014 17:57
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That was everything The Curse of the Black Spot and Dinosaurs on a Spaceship tried to be and failed miserably at. And it looks like we're making a play for something more than just "entertaining cobblers" next week, too. I do wonder how long Gatiss has wanted to do that story. A lot of that preening and action stuff seemed like it'd have played right into the hands of David Tennant, but I'll bet someone said to him "not while Robin Hood's still being made, mate". Also, I believe that this is the first time there's been a Doctor Who guest actor who's also been employed by a pornographic TV channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhtWNUKtIsQ (I do also enjoy the concept of Paul "Endurance UK" Ross having a pop at bad cable TV shows...)
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Sep 6, 2014 20:30
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Ratings time for everyone to lose their poo poo over! 5.2 million overnight and a 25.4% share, 2nd for the day behind Codpiece Cowell, pretty much exactly the same as last week. For my money the most important number here is "most-watched thing on the most important day of the week for British television when you discount a completely unstoppable ratings juggernaut", but that never stopped anyone losing their heads before, so.
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Sep 7, 2014 21:53
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Jurgan posted:Who are you and what is your objective here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sUz5PbbIzk
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Sep 7, 2014 22:27
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Andrew Cartmel's very rude about them in Script Doctor. Left-click for big, then right-click for bigger still.  If you're at all interested in the production of the McCoy era, you should buy it, you'll enjoy it very much. He's hilariously wrong about some things (like, it was his suggestion to ditch the guy they hired to write the music for Paradise Towers and let Keff McCulloch loose on it instead, he's a massive Keff fan for absolutely no good reason), but it's still a jolly good read.
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Sep 9, 2014 21:53
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Shakespeare Code, then Gridlock. The Beast Below appears to have sunk without trace (which disappoints me), as has The Curse of the Black Spot (which doesn't).
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Sep 12, 2014 16:52
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Metal Loaf posted:I imagine if the series had continued past 1990, the Cybermen would've eventually been beaten when the Doctor tricks them into drinking Nescafe Gold Blend. This is the alternate reality where Tony Head comes out of Rocky Horror and straight into the TARDIS, right?
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Sep 12, 2014 22:25
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Right, let's just take care of some AOBwhatsabattle posted:Hopefully using the same costume for both roles. How'd you do? I see you've met my faithful com-pan-ion. She's just a little brought down, because when you knocked, she thought you were the Kandyman. And let's move along. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3664592
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