|
Wheat Loaf posted:I enjoyed it - it felt a lot like a Tom Baker type episode to me. For some reason it made me think of "The Ark In Space"? There were a lot of lines that felt quite Tom Baker-y as well, though that may have been Capaldi's delivery.
|
#
¿
Oct 3, 2015 21:51
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 21, 2024 03:12 |
|
|
Ms Boods posted:Golly, Paul Kaye is unrecognisable when he's clean and tidy. Bloody hell, until you said that I had no idea that was him.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 3, 2015 22:24
|
|
|
Rochallor posted:Capaldi is definitely the best actor at delivering boring exposition since Tom Baker. I could listen to that man say anything. I thought there was some good facial expression acting when the doctor said she needed another relationship - just enough to know that the loss of Danny still hurt.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 4, 2015 09:41
|
|
|
MrL_JaKiri posted:And now come with me to watch The Claws of Axos (1971), a story later spoofed very very precisely by an episode of the Gatiss-starring audio comedy programme Nebulous in 2005 in something that either was misjudging the audience badly or judging it exceptionally well I can't quite work out whether or not I liked Nebulous - it's really well observed parody but I don't know that it's actually funny much of the time. Except Paul Putner's character who I loving love.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 5, 2015 13:43
|
|
|
Burkion posted:I remember being genuinely impressed by the organic tech the Axos had. I thought that it was pretty stellar for the time. And I love how randomly the Master is just there. I like that that was basically the master's MO for a good long while. Just show up, gently caress with the doctor, run away again.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 5, 2015 16:00
|
|
|
MrL_JaKiri posted:A sound that makes you die Don't listen. Listen and you're dead.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 8, 2015 10:45
|
|
|
The last season of EDA is the one that opens with the companion interviews isn't it?
|
|
#
¿
Oct 10, 2015 15:31
|
|
|
SiKboy posted:Its like the end of a GI Joe cartoon, except explaining a time travel paradox instead of reminding us not to talk to strangers. It put me in mind of Alfie for some reason.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 10, 2015 20:30
|
|
|
"Let's stick together" <immediately splits up> Edit: holy poo poo that deafness effect
|
|
#
¿
Oct 10, 2015 20:57
|
|
|
SHE DAREDEVILED IT
|
|
#
¿
Oct 10, 2015 21:00
|
|
|
Yeah, it's like an episode of Colombo. You know who did it and you know they'll get caught but it's about the ride.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 10, 2015 21:08
|
|
|
Stabbatical posted:That was great and refreshingly understated, compared to the bombast of the past few episodes. It's pretty funny that the episode that starts with ROCK GUITAR is the least bombastic. Wheat Loaf posted:Heh. That grin he did over the top of the control panel was pure Tom Baker. I love it when he's channeling Tom. He's his own Doctor but I like the little throwbacks.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 10, 2015 21:21
|
|
|
The conquered people guy was too much like David Walliams at the start of the God Complex and not enough like David Walliams towards the end of the God Complex
|
|
#
¿
Oct 11, 2015 10:07
|
|
|
Ms Boods posted:Golly, Paul Kaye is unrecognisable when he's clean and tidy. Back to last week, this, but I assumed Paul Kaye was the corporate "I'm off out to get the power cell" guy when you said this. I didn't realise until today that he was actually Alien Funeral Man, which makes more sense.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 11, 2015 13:35
|
|
|
cargohills posted:That wouldn't happen, given that the show is called "Doctor Who" and he is the main character. I dunno man, Taggart ran for about as long without Taggart as it did with him. It's not unprecedented.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 11, 2015 16:59
|
|
|
cargohills posted:That's because the actor died. He didn't get shot onscreen and then the TV show just went on. The character DID die as well though. They didn't pull a Corrie and never mention them again, or recast him or anything else. It was absolutely because McManus died but they killed off the title character too. Edit: I'm totally reaching here, Taggart is all I could think of for a show that carried on without the title character. Fil5000 fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Oct 11, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Oct 11, 2015 17:31
|
|
|
MrL_JaKiri posted:Peter "Darth Chef" Serafinowicz "Tim. Hi."
|
|
#
¿
Oct 11, 2015 18:07
|
|
|
Gravitas Shortfall posted:Oh god, someone please dub Duane Benzie's lines over The Fisher King. Really, quoting Benzie's lines doesn't do them justice. "Why don't you piss off back to Romford? Eh? EH?! .... Clever girl." Elrond Hubbard posted:Whoever plays Charn also played Mawdryn in Mawdryn Undead and Paul in Robots of Death, if the voice is any judge. Also the Doctor in Full Fathom Five. Good ol' David Collings.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 13, 2015 09:27
|
|
|
Is Who airing later than it did previously as well? In my head Who starts some time between 6:30 and 7:30, but it seems constantly to be sitting at 8pm+ these days.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 15, 2015 14:49
|
|
|
SiKboy posted:It never ends. It is eternal and terrible. But who is on in about an hour and 5 minutes. Also Tess Daly is rubbish.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 17, 2015 20:21
|
|
|
DoctorWhat posted:The idea that, when the Doctor talks to himself, he's talking to himself is so great, but until Mummy only really bad fanwanky 90s tie-in novels ever really went into it. When you get to just imply it, on screen with actors and charm and a deft touch, it's so so so gooood. I quite liked it in that New Adventures novel when Seven really needed Three's thoughts on something and basically allowed himself to be possessed by Three for a few minutes to get the info, but I agree it was fanwank.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 20, 2015 11:08
|
|
|
Chairman Mao posted:The last time Gallifrey found out The Doctor had a dead companion they decided to throw her into the oubliette of eternity and blink her out of existence. Pretty sure you're mistaken. They never use the oubliette.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 20, 2015 18:31
|
|
|
Jerusalem posted:"Dear Radio Times, I was very upset at the lack of graphic content during the death scene of Adric. While I could tolerate the lack of blood, I was most disappointed that there was no sound cracking bones or at least the wailing screams of the youth as he perished forever. A real missed opportunity here, won't somebody think of the valuable lesson the children could have learned?" For some reason I read this in Pertwee's voice.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 24, 2015 20:35
|
|
|
twistedmentat posted:I wonder if they have so many evil women on the show so the audience goes "I bet that's the Rani!". The worst thing about The Rani was Pip and Jane. As a character concept I think there's plenty of mileage in her as long as we don't have to put up with that horrendous writing.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 30, 2015 12:23
|
|
|
Rhyno posted:Osgood is such a poo poo character. One of the few things this episode did right was having Osgood point out that which one was real wasn't really the point. THEY knew but they refused to tell anyone else.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 2, 2015 23:03
|
|
|
Wolfechu posted:Believe it or not, this song has failed to be in the US top ten charts - EVER! Still, at least America has that loving Christmas Shoes song!
|
|
#
¿
Nov 5, 2015 11:44
|
|
|
Rochallor posted:Rob Schrab mentioned on the Harmontown podcast that the BBC wants him to put one of their properties into the sequel to the Lego Movie, which narrows it down to either Doctor Who or Broadchurch, I suppose. Moondial. My money's on Moondial.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 5, 2015 15:56
|
|
|
IceAgeComing posted:nice to see the daily politics getting the recognition that it deserves No one wants a lego Andrew Neill.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 5, 2015 18:27
|
|
|
Jerusalem posted:I enjoyed listening to ...ish so much that I immediately grabbed the next audio to listen to. It's The Rapture, written by Joseph Lidster..... The rapture is loving DREADFUL. A woman in her mid 40s pretending to be a raving teenager in Ibiza would be bad enough without it being a Lidster script. Early Big Finish bounces around so much in terms of quality it's not funny.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 8, 2015 11:18
|
|
|
Open Source Idiom posted:Why do people dislike Lidster? The Rapture's not amazing, but Terror Firma's great, and so's The Reaping, mostly. Plus his other, non-Who stuff tends to be really good, like his Bernice Summerfield work. His Who stuff is almost always mean spirited and DARK which I don't much like in my Who. Also there is always a big twist that in theory affects everything that has come before (Ace has a brother! Eight travelled with two other companions before Charlie!) which then is ignored in all subsequent stories. I've heard his no who stuff is fine and maybe his style works better for stuff like Dark Shadows but it's just not what I'm after in Who. Paladinus posted:I am talking about unfortunate implications of this episode. I am writing to the Queen to ask her to ensure that UKIP are granted appropriate representation in any further Osgood box button pressings. Fil5000 fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Nov 8, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Nov 8, 2015 12:15
|
|
|
twistedmentat posted:Because Doctor Who tends to have people on who are popular in the UK but unknown over here in the colonies, I looked up Ingrid Oliver and found out she's part of a 2 woman comedy show that's terrible. At least that's what people online say. They're not terrible really, just average. She was good in The Brothers Faversham though.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 11, 2015 09:14
|
|
|
Jerusalem posted:Oh God it's Pauline coming to get him for taking her pens! An enormous Steve pemberton should come running down the corridors bellowing "EGREGIOUS?! EGREGIOUS!!!!?" as he hurls pens.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 14, 2015 21:23
|
|
|
I see sheersmith got hold of a babylon 5 uniform.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 14, 2015 21:30
|
|
|
echoplex posted:...there we go. I LIKED the b5 uniforms. The rescue team have a bit of a Soviet uniform vibe going on too, which is nice.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 14, 2015 21:35
|
|
|
Cleretic posted:I had an idea like this ages ago, of a villain who was just a normal modern-age guy but made himself a strong and credible Doctor-level threat by just salvaging enough Dalek/Cybermen/Sontaran/whatever tech and using it himself. He'd disappear somehow at the end of the episode, only to come back in an entirely different place and time, because he knows exactly what the best piece of alien tech that ever hit Earth was, and stows away on it until they take him somewhere good. This guy you mean? http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Sebastian_Grayle
|
|
#
¿
Nov 17, 2015 10:40
|
|
|
cargohills posted:This is the most correct opinion in this thread It was a pretty good tardis. I miss the round things though.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 20, 2015 13:14
|
|
|
Neddy Seagoon posted:He can't actually get to them though. New York's spacetime around the era they got zapped to was hosed up six ways to Sunday by the Angel's constant feeding. It's more like that sneaky little bit on the Elysium when you see Eleven's suddenly got his jacket back on and tells Amy she needs to remember. Yeah but he's a nigh immortal dude with a time machine. He could fix the chameleon circuit, find the nearest point in spacetime to where Amy and Rory ended up that he could get to safely and then just wait for them to show up. Even if he had to show up in the 1700s he could still do it if he wanted.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 22, 2015 12:18
|
|
|
CobiWann posted:They’re all pretty solid (save for Terror Firma which you either love or…well, Joseph Lidster)…but the best of the best? How on earth is Terror Firma in that list?
|
|
#
¿
Nov 23, 2015 15:28
|
|
|
CobiWann posted:The list of 20 is from fan voting – these are the top 20 main range stories as picked by Big Finish fans. Ugh. Well, to each their own, even if their own is a big stinking pile of garbage.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 23, 2015 15:51
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 21, 2024 03:12 |
|
|
CobiWann posted:Hey, one man’s Terror Firma is another man’s The Rapture! I can't help but feel you're doing this on purpose.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 23, 2015 15:57
|
|