Which non-Power of the Daleks story would you like to see an episode found from? This poll is closed. |
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Marco Polo | 36 | 20.69% | |
The Myth Makers | 10 | 5.75% | |
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve | 45 | 25.86% | |
The Savages | 2 | 1.15% | |
The Smugglers | 2 | 1.15% | |
The Highlanders | 45 | 25.86% | |
The Macra Terror | 21 | 12.07% | |
Fury from the Deep | 13 | 7.47% | |
Total: | 174 votes |
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Cerv posted:Nah, Dobbs did do a revised edition of House of Cards that changes the ending to match the TV show among other things. Which I know because I once bought the novel thinking it'd be nice to see if it's really as different as contemporary reviews said and only realised half way through that I'd got the wrong one I see. For some reason, I only ever read To Play the King.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 14:15 |
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 01:18 |
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Cleretic posted:The Office? I try not to remember that there's a British Office (or French, German, Swedish, Chilean, Quebecois, or Israeli)
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 18:05 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Has there ever been a US adaptation of a UK series that didn't suck? I prefer the American version of football over UK football.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 18:46 |
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CobiWann posted:I prefer the American version of football over UK football. Both are equally bad for different reasons. Baseball is the one true international sport.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 18:52 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Both are equally bad for different reasons. Baseball is the one true international sport. Ah yes, the "World Series". Go Cubs! (I'm in Chicago right now, and no-one will shut up about it. They're only a year behind schedule according to my almanac)
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 19:05 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Both are equally bad for different reasons. Baseball is the one true international sport. Literally billions fewer people care about baseball than care about the superior bat and ball sport
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 19:30 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Baseball is the one true international sport. Ive got some bad news for you about the "World Series"
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 19:48 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Literally billions fewer people care about baseball than care about the superior bat and ball sport Sure, but baseball has hit films The Sandlot and Field of Dreams going for it.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 19:55 |
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Bicyclops posted:Sure, but baseball has hit films The Sandlot and Field of Dreams going for it. Cricket has, uh... Backyard Ashes ?
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 20:46 |
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Bicyclops posted:Sure, but baseball has hit films The Sandlot and Field of Dreams going for it. Black Orchid
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 21:05 |
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Pier Pasolini's The Third Test Match
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 22:49 |
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Shaun of the Dead?
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 23:47 |
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Bicyclops posted:Sure, but baseball has hit films The Sandlot and Field of Dreams going for it. Bull Durham is the best movie about whacking a ball with a stick.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 23:55 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:Cricket has, uh... Backyard Ashes ? I can't see that video, so I'm hoping it's about a bunch of snooty English kids moving to Australia to challenge some rag-tag Aussie kids to a game of cricket for some reason.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 00:50 |
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Looks like it's a who's who of D-List Australian celebrities. Starring the dad from Round the Twist as 'Aussie Dad', and the guy who played Keating in that Bob Hawke telemovie as 'Englishman with moustache'.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 00:56 |
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CaptainYesterday posted:I can't see that video, so I'm hoping it's about a bunch of snooty English kids moving to Australia to challenge some rag-tag Aussie kids to a game of cricket for some reason. I can see that video, and that's not as wrong as you think.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 00:58 |
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England will keep the Ashes forever. Forever. Fooooorrrrrrrreeeeeveerrrrrrrrrrrr
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 01:19 |
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Stanfield posted:Round the Twist Oh god, that wonderful show!
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 01:26 |
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Gaz-L posted:Production values are probably difficult since the BBC 3 budget got slashed with the move to online I, personally, thought what I saw of Class both on the set (some shared studio space, some if it shot at another studio) and in the edit, showed it to have just as good or maybe even higher production values than your average DW ep. It may well be lower budget, but fewer eps + common standing sets seemed to mean it looked much better than the words "BBC 3 spinoff" would have you expect. I've not actually watched it though, so, could be wrong.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 08:46 |
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I listened to the first series of the Fourth Doctor Adventures over the weekend and apart from the first script being a bit blah and Tom obviously not giving much of a poo poo for the first two stories (initially I planned on saying "taking a few stories to get back into the role/adjust to doing it on audio before hitting it perfectly" until I saw it mentioned that Destination Nerva was the fourth or whatever story recorded in Cobi's review which threw that idea out) I really enjoyed it. I especially liked Wrath of the Iceni for giving Four a pure historical, which is always a plus for me as a Hartnell era fangirl Box of Bunnies fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Oct 25, 2016 |
# ? Oct 25, 2016 09:08 |
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CommonShore posted:I know it's an older show, but I posted like 5 posts above that I am literally watching it right now and in season 1. I went in entirely fresh. Sorry dude! I did try to be as vague as possible but I should have just used spoiler tags, my bad. Box of Bunnies posted:I listened to the first series of the Fourth Doctor Adventures over the weekend and apart from the first script being a bit blah and Tom obviously not giving much of a poo poo for the first two stories (initially I planned on saying "taking a few stories to get back into the role/adjust to doing it on audio before hitting it perfectly" until I saw it mentioned that Destination Nerva was the fourth or whatever story recorded in Cobi's review which threw that idea out) I really enjoyed it. It's funny, if I go back to each individual episode of that first season of the Fourth Doctor Adventures nothing outside of Renaissance Man really stands out all that much, but the season as a whole I think is really quite good as it develops the theme of education and we see Leela and the Doctor largely treated as equals.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 09:19 |
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Jerusalem posted:Sorry dude! I did try to be as vague as possible but I should have just used spoiler tags, my bad. Eh no prob. I was more looking for a reason to use catbert. I stopped reading right away. The only thing that your post gave away is that they arrest someone and have a trial, which is a minor spoiler, but I was wondering how a second season would be possible - if they were going to Twin Peaks it or something.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 13:48 |
Rochallor posted:The shots with Capaldi are a great demonstration of this. On Doctor Who, he looks like he's in a movie. On Class, he looks like he's in... a low-budget TV show. I really hope they pick it up with the production after the first episode, because it really is a great idea merely executed poorly. I've got to disagree. It's a much more impressive looking show than Doctor Who manages to be outside of the Tardis. Simply because it's budget can go on things other than new sets and props and costumes every week.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 19:47 |
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Alright, back in the UK, let's try Class. This is not even vaguely in Shoreditch. I hate all these people.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 20:21 |
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The_Doctor posted:Alright, back in the UK, let's try Class. Does not compute
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 20:27 |
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echoplex posted:Does not compute Stop knowing my tastes!
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 21:01 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/790552292453777408
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 21:36 |
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I'm watching Last Days On Mars (apparently out of spite to myself) and I've realised like half the sets/dressing got redistributed exactly between Doctor Who and Red Dwarf.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 21:49 |
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echoplex posted:I'm watching Last Days On Mars (apparently out of spite to myself) and I've realised like half the sets/dressing got redistributed exactly between Doctor Who and Red Dwarf. Oh hey echoplex, if I recall right you're working on the latest Red Dwarf right? Just wanted to say I've really dug the way the latest season has looked, there have been some cool sets and props.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 22:45 |
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Everyone should totes tweet this at me!
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 22:50 |
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Jerusalem posted:Oh hey echoplex, if I recall right you're working on the latest Red Dwarf right? Just wanted to say I've really dug the way the latest season has looked, there have been some cool sets and props. Ah, thanks, but I'm series 12 next year. A few of my bits have leaked into S11 thanks to pickups, but actually DW10 will have finished airing before my series of Dwarf goes out.
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 23:21 |
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echoplex posted:Ah, thanks, but I'm series 12 next year. A few of my bits have leaked into S11 thanks to pickups, but actually DW10 will have finished airing before my series of Dwarf goes out. Well in that case.... don't blow it!
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# ? Oct 25, 2016 23:24 |
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Just listened to "Dalek Empire" part one, episode one, and liked it a lot. How's the rest of it?
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# ? Oct 26, 2016 00:19 |
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Just listened to "Dalek Empire" part one, episode one, and liked it a lot. How's the rest of it? Hoo boy. Not great, honestly. It's the kind of story that could have been a pretty okay single audio, and instead it's 12.
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# ? Oct 26, 2016 00:34 |
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Bicyclops posted:Hoo boy. Not great, honestly. So, continuing Big Finish's weird "Let's put less than great stuff on the Humble Bundle" thing they do.
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# ? Oct 26, 2016 00:45 |
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I kinda regret buying the Big Finish humble bundles...I have to rebuy all that stuff to get it on my BF account anyway.
jivjov fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Oct 26, 2016 |
# ? Oct 26, 2016 00:47 |
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It's why the Rifftrax ones are good, they give you coupon codes for the Rifftrax site.
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# ? Oct 26, 2016 01:52 |
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Just listened to "Dalek Empire" part one, episode one, and liked it a lot. How's the rest of it? If you understand what they're going for as Doorstopper Novel Space Opera (distance between star systems is a big deal, unexpected threats turning up, sudden character deaths regardless of how much "screen time" they've had, massive time skips, very long games, ridiculous ideas treated dead serious, etc.) then you'll have a better time with it. It didn't hit me until I was finishing up season one, and I enjoyed it a lot more after that... especially considering how the Daleks' plan is, and the way it bites their shiny Dalekanium asses in season two. I also liked season three for the Dan Simmons/H.P. Lovecraft creepiness, but I'm kind of in the minority there.
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# ? Oct 26, 2016 04:11 |
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Short Synopsis: Amy and the 5th Doctor are just two of the forty thieves trying to break into a Djinn's cave, in search of something that isn't there. Long Synopsis: The Black Guardian takes the 5th Doctor and Amy on a tour through areas in time and space where the 5th segment of the Key to Time SHOULD be but isn't. Dumped in the Sudan in the 9th Century, Amy becomes a slave while the Doctor finds himself caught up in a political quagmire between the powerless but powerful Guardians. What's Good:
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Final Thoughts: The Destroyer of Delights is a rather fun story that would have served better as a mostly straight historical (beyond the overarching "get the Key 2 Time segments" stuff). Almost all the featured characters are interesting if not always sympathetic, and it plays around with an actual historical incident rather nicely. The writer has an intriguing publishing history, having worked on a great many non-fiction histories and biographies but also encyclopedias on a number of animes, and a great deal of scriptwork for Big Finish. This story runs with the idea of reworking the "origins" of the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and incorporates many elements familiar from that tale - the secret phrase to open the "cave" of treasures, the mighty Djinni, the greedy Cassim, the forty thieves etc. As a part of the Key 2 Time saga it's the best of the stories so far and it would have been a very different story without that framework to be set in, but I would like to see Clement working on a story designed to stand alone and not fit into some other ongoing narrative. It's a big step-up from the previous story and a lot of fun to listen to, definitely one I'd recommend though you'd need at least some of the context from the previous story to really make it work.
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# ? Oct 26, 2016 10:24 |
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Just listened to "Dalek Empire" part one, episode one, and liked it a lot. How's the rest of it? I last listened to it almost a decade ago so memories are hazy, but I remember it taking some really crazy turns once the Dalek's plan is revealed. Some of them I liked, some of them I thought were just weird. And yes, as was said before it is a very different genre from what you might be used to in Doctor Who. It felt more like Blake's 7 overall. Blake himself is even in it!
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# ? Oct 26, 2016 14:17 |