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I like how Survival anticipates the new show in its run down setting and the allegory of everyone being so desperate that they become feral. Also the ep. 2 cliffhanger is pretty dang cool.
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In retrospect most of what I remember about Robot of Sherwood was Clara having fun playing in costume and that may be enough. Also it's the episode where the Doctor complains about being imprisoned with a laughing person and my gf said "I love the new grumpy Doctor!"
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The only thing I ever thought was wrong with Night Terrors was that the monsters were kinda cliche.
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Apr 22, 2015 17:55
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thexerox123 posted:Farting aliens: exactly the right way to re-introduce Doctor Who to a new generation Can't argue with results.
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Jun 23, 2015 04:08
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Best part of Robot is after Sarah Jane meets said Robot for the first time, the genius cult people are all explaining things to her and she's still very clearly terrified, they ask if she'd like to see it again and she says "I'd like that very much!" She's so dedicated. 
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Jun 27, 2015 23:55
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Watching "The Twin Dilemma" for the first time. The drop in quality between Androzani and it is INCREDIBLE. And I've only just gotten to the infamous choke-out. How did this happen and why? Though it doesn't explain all the problems with the story, Who season finales on the old show were usually less "big epic blowout spectacular" and more "oh poo poo the money's all gone". At the very least some decent lighting might have saved Mestor.
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Jul 10, 2015 02:52
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I really love the chemistry that Capaldi and Coleman developed.
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Jul 26, 2015 05:03
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What I just recently noticed about the Fourth Doctor is that there's an element of Groucho Marx to him. He has this tendency to come into a situation and completely blow it up and deflate the people who are worried about irrelevant things. The previous Doctors did that in sort of a subtle way, the Fourth just strides right in and mocks everyone.
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Aug 2, 2015 18:33
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pinacotheca posted:To modernise the format, apparently. The programme had a lot of problems at that time, for sure, but frankly the last "improvement" it needed was to lose two cliffhangers out of every story, unless they were going to be replaced with appropriately exciting and dramatic material. Which they weren't. They struggled with the format, but I think it was inevitable. When they were forced back into 25-minute episodes that was basically a sign that they were doomed- drama just wasn't being done like that anymore.
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Aug 3, 2015 15:49
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2001 ranks up there. The matte lines and such are near invisible because of how insanely meticulous Kubrick was.
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Aug 15, 2015 04:06
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I still love the TVM theme. Is there any reason they took the middle eight out of the original theme in the 70s?
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Aug 16, 2015 03:31
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Paradise Towers is one where you can really feel the "we can't be too scary" edict- there are a lot of weird, 2000 AD-esque elements in the story that could be really disturbing, but of course they have the villain really play things for laughs, you've got the computer shouting HUNGRY!, and there's rarely a sense of genuine menace. It's not a bad story (Red Kangs are best!) but it has its flaws- and also might have worked better as a three parter. It is interesting to see how the influence of contemporary SF was creeping in those last seasons.
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Aug 22, 2015 06:30
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Delta and the Bannermen is Who at its most threadbare- the plot is mostly offscreen and there's no real attempt to paint the villain as anything other than pure evil for its own sake, and it takes on a weird meta quality as a result. It's not good at all but it's sort of fascinating.
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Sep 7, 2015 06:00
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Jerusalem posted:I remember when I did my own complete rewatch of the classic series, I got to The War Games, saw it was 4 hours long and figured I would watch over multiple nights. 2 hours later I forced myself to stop watching.... and an hour later said,"gently caress it!" and put the next 2 hours on and sat happily through it all. Such an amazing final episode for Troughton. It all went downhill once they stopped focusing on that policeman in the mist.
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Since joining Hulu+ I've dug into their classic Who archive- I'm 2/3rds of the way through the E-Space trilogy, and okay, State of Decay is why everyone hates Adric, right? His introductory story makes him seem normal enough, then he's like "hmm, immortality and all the blood I can drink? Sure!" I know it's another universe and all, cultural mores are different, but drat that's dumb. Still good couple of stories though- The Leisure Hive is uneven but here you can really see JNT's emphasis on trying to give the show more style and atmosphere, and bring in some weird sci-fi ideas.
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Sep 11, 2015 16:57
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Random Stranger posted:When I was a kid watching the show and Adric turned up I knew things were going downhill. Adding a kid (well, teenager in this case) to the cast to appeal to the youngsters was always a sign that a show had turned rotten (this being about ten years before the term "jump the shark" became in vogue). And then Adric was a horrible character, essentially the Westley Crusher of Doctor Who. It was like a double whammy of terribleness. I'm no novice, I've seen Earthshock and a little of every era, just have a lot I haven't seen yet.
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CobiWann posted:On one hand, she is an interesting character and I'm up for diving back into the history of Torchwood a little bit. It does seem like there's something appropriate with Lidster writing Torchwood, though, given how often it went the "this is DARK and GRIM and ADULT" route.
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