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I have long ago reconciled that new Doctor Who is a big dumb spectacle. Occasionally it rises above that, and when it does it is great, but I am fine with the big dumb spectacle I have come to expect. Having been on a long slow watch of the original show, I have decided that a big dumb spectacle is preferable to just dumb, as sometimes the old show could be. Not to say I don't like the old show, I do, I really like it in fact, but when it is bad it is bad in a manner that makes it hard to pay attention. I like the new Master a lot. She is the perfect conciliation of the new show's manic master and the old show's weirdly friendly arch villain Master, attempting to cut a deal with the Daleks nearly gave me flashbacks. Peter Capaldi is great. I have just finished watching Attack of the Cybermen, and I am beginning to see the point of the censors who were so opposed to the violence in the show at this time, The Doctor fucks up some Cybermen and he isn't the only one. Ever since the five Doctors, Cybermen seem to exist only to be ripped to shreds graphically.
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I think there needs to be a level of comfort with adventuring in companions just so they don't become irritating, but that level should not be as high as it has become. Too little comfort with adventuring is what hurts the Fifth Doctors early run a lot, as Tegan, Nyssa, Adric, and Turlogh never stop complaining, it was such a relief when right before the Five Doctors Tegan and Turlogh finally just decided they wanted to keep adventuring, screw going home.
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Sep 20, 2015 23:56
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Occasionally he like to hit the random button.
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Sep 21, 2015 01:14
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M_Gargantua posted:Well have we had a villain who rolls around on 60's roller skates like a drive in employee? Ah yes, the Terrible Zodin.
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Sep 23, 2015 05:40
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Trial of a Time Lord has episode ending cliffhangers that take place before the now of the story.
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Sep 26, 2015 04:32
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Peter Gabriel solo is better still.
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Sep 26, 2015 05:29
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My continued watch of Trial of the Time lords has led me to the Doctor's first encounter with hand mines, in the Matrix.
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Sep 26, 2015 09:33
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Insinuating that he went on the run from Gallifrey because of some Dalek Time Lord Hybrid prophesy is stupid, he didn't even recognize the drat things the first time he met them. The Daleks even successfully laid on enough charm to trick the Tardis crew for a while.
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Sep 27, 2015 04:10
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I am a big fan of the way the show looked during the black and white days, as I feel it helped the shaky sets look more real than they ever did in the highly lit garishly painted late 70's and 80's, but on the other hand, sometimes the lack of any footage at all seems a boon to the show. The last episode of "The Dalek's Master plan" feels and sounds absolutely horrifying in a way that likely would not have carried over if I could have actually seen what was going on. That aside, I actually kind of dread Dalek episodes in the new Who, as they have never attained the high of the very first Dalek episode of the new series, and in all honesty, that episode had a lot of problems itself. False Edit: Same with Cybermen in all honesty,. I feel like every time this show brings back either of the old show's big bad's, it is to diminishing returns.
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Sep 30, 2015 06:22
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Kikka posted:Also, talking about favorite Cybermen, mine is the one that gives the Doctor a badass shoulder massage. I find it amusing that they went that far to avoid showing someone being choked, yet they wallow in Cybergore in every appearance they have from "The Five Doctors" up. I mean one guy just unloads bullets into a Cybermans mouth hole from point blank range.
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Sep 30, 2015 10:23
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The_Doctor posted:...when was this? 42:20 here shows it. I honestly remember it being worse than it is, but this whole serial is filled with cyberman decapitations and such. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrcylh_attack-of-the-cybermen-1-of-2_shortfilms remusclaw fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Sep 30, 2015 |
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Sep 30, 2015 12:01
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The glasses make more sense for when the sonic is used as a Star Trek Tricorder. It was always a little strange when he would look at his screwdriver and dole out extended technobabble and such.
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Oct 4, 2015 15:32
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The Cloister Bell means catastrophic danger. If it is ringing, things are bad. To be fair, New Who has been all about stories with massive stakes and catastrophic danger. Pulling back the stakes a bit now and then would help ground the show more and make the big problems actually feel big rather than routine.
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Oct 4, 2015 15:55
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The Master is pretty similar to Nyarlathotep.
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Oct 25, 2015 22:17
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adhuin posted:Is everyone else reading the fifteen times like this? I read it like you did immediately and thought maybe I had missed some dialog when reading the thread and seeing everybody acting like this meant there were 15 different uprisings.
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Nov 9, 2015 01:21
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Well , it is ambiguous, he didn't go into the details, so it could be either. The 15 different uprisings reading leaves a lot more questions unanswered, but it's Doctor Who, you wont know which reading is correct until Big Finish get's its hands on it.
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Nov 9, 2015 01:56
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Or it could be joke from a Man trying to relieve some of the tension in the room.
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Nov 9, 2015 02:06
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What are the time frames on Doctor 1 and 3 dying? If I remember right, 3 floated around poisoned for quite a while, and 1, well any number of things could have led to his batteries finally running out.
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Nov 29, 2015 23:48
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Oh I know, but if I remember right he had some pretty traumatic events happen to him in recent serials when the time came.
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Nov 29, 2015 23:51
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I think that is what I was thinking, as the Smugglers doesn't seem quite so traumatic looking at the summary now.
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Nov 30, 2015 00:08
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Though of course, the Shot Doctor at the lake wasn't actually him.
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Nov 30, 2015 01:19
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Six however, he went pretty quick.
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Nov 30, 2015 01:35
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Vanderdeath posted:...That explains all of the Sherlock-like mathematical bullshit he does now. That is just a problem of our times and pop culture. Try an find a genius character who doesn't do that poo poo these day's, it loving impossible. Makes honest to goodness geniuses who actually have to take their time and work things out look like slow nitwits. It's an issue of modern story telling really, cant have a lull, got to keep moving, no time for lab scenes or working out the details. They burn through multiple stories worth of ideas in single episodes now and it doesn't look likely to change any time soon, if anything, at least its hard to get bored.
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Nov 30, 2015 06:30
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So, I wonder how Moffat was going to force the final regeneration into the Eleventh Doctors run if he had managed to get Eccleston in the 50th special? Where do you find the loophole there, or do you think he just waits?
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Dec 4, 2015 08:26
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Probably just rewrite it into the Doctor still lasting 300 years to the point he's not sure he can still regenerate because of how old he's gotten. Not that continuity matters for much in this show, but that read's way too close to "wearing a little thin" to me for it to affect regeneration.
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Dec 4, 2015 09:19
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Any writer not looking to force that story in probably would not have called back to the Tennant almost regeneration in the first place.
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Dec 4, 2015 19:42
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Yes, they referenced it when the Master turned into a shambling corpse creature in the Deadly Assassin, so it dates back at the very least to the Fourth Doctors run.
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Dec 4, 2015 20:25
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I don't thinks is that weird, its one of the few concrete things we learned about the Doctor and the Time Lords. It makes him mortal and therefore it makes each incremental regeneration more dramatic as it ticks down to his last chance. Shame it had to be rushed, had a lot of dramatic potential if given the proper build. I mean, you know he was going to cheat it somehow, but there is drama in the build, and we missed out on that because someone wanted to rush it.
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Dec 4, 2015 20:32
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Dabir posted:It was an offhand thing in the classic series, which barely got halfway past the limit.
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Dec 4, 2015 20:39
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I would say that that a military coup is absolutely the right choice of words for what happened when the Gallifreyan military stopped listening to the lord president and surrounded him with gunships.
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Dec 7, 2015 11:31
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Considering how argumentative and obnoxious the fifth Doctors companions are most of the time, It's no wonder Six turned out the way he did.
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Dec 10, 2015 00:05
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A tear, Sarah Jane?
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Dec 10, 2015 00:46
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All you need for a companion from the past is the occasional reminder of lessons and a few shots of them in the background reading a book or examining something.
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Dec 14, 2015 09:40
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Until now I always had the extremely low probability of a Thin White Doctor to make me happy.
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