Doctor Who: "I've finally run out of corridor...there's a life summed up."

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Which non-Power of the Daleks story would you like to see an episode found from? This poll is closed.
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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Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

loving hell.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2016 02:13

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:20

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Big Mean Jerk posted:

Why is Ra's even on a Green Arrow show?

Why not? He's the right kind of power level, and there's not some Batman show around that he should be on.

Plus borrowing heavily from Batman is kinda how Green Arrow got started in the first place.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2016 08:44

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Modern Who is still on Netflix :australia:

, for what it's worth.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2016 09:27

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Wheat Loaf posted:

"Warriors of the Deep".

All that needed to be decent was a better Myrka costume and an electrical failure in the lighting rig.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2016 05:40

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

twistedmentat posted:

BTW, the first Rani epidermis is a 5th doctor one right?

6th (The Mark of the Rani).

# ¿ Feb 16, 2016 06:40

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

And More posted:

You just didn't want us to vote for The Creature from the Pit, didn't you.

The serial itself does a fine job of that.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2016 09:20

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

CobiWann posted:

Ok, how about this? What's everyone dirty little Who secret?

I don't like audios.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2016 09:22

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Box of Bunnies posted:

I've been using ABC2's perpetual Doctor Who reruns for background noise while I've done dishes the last couple of nights and they're up to the end of Eccle's run at the moment and 1) Bad Wolf is the most mid-2000s thing that ever mid-2000sed and 2) I feel really bad for Lynda with a Y

Yeah, I've been having them on for the same reason. I could chuck Netflix on but it's fun seeing the making-of stuff afterwards.

Also I never get tired of the fact they set an episode in 2012, which is now considerably in the past.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2016 12:00

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

MrL_JaKiri posted:

The Tenth Planet is set in the far future world of 1986!

(What's wrong with setting an episode in the near future, it's not like all the other stuff in the Doctor Who background happened either)

There's nothing wrong with it, I just found it funny. It doesn't help that the episode does nothing with the near-future concept, since it could easily be set in 2005, 1986 or 2016 without changing a thing.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2016 04:56

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

cargohills posted:

It's set during the 2012 London Olympics.

I was talking about Dalek, not Fear Her.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2016 02:39

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

It completely wastes Mitchell and Webb too, in addition to its many other sins.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2016 12:09

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Lots of colonies have a Sarff

# ¿ Mar 10, 2016 14:05

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

qntm posted:

The Magician's Apprentice: 19:30
The Witch's Familiar: 19:30
Under The Lake: 19:30
Before The Flood: 21:00
The Girl Who Died: 20:20
The Woman Who Lived: 20:20
The Zygon Invasion: 20:15
The Zygon Inversion: 20:00
Sleep No More: 20:15
Face The Raven: 20:10
Heaven Sent: 20:05
Hell Bent: 20:00

How the gently caress does this happen? Does the arbitrary-length show on before it change each week?

# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 07:34

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

And More posted:

It honestly would still be pretty decent if they had just cut before he gets cartoonishly blasted off into the sunset. A lot of series 9's issues could be fixed with tighter editing.

For instance, editing out the Zygon episodes.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 11:25

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

CobiWann posted:

If Sleep No More HADN�T been a �found footage� episode, would it have worked better in your mind?

I think the plot has some serious issues outside of the found footage gimmick, and removing it would probably just highlight them.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2016 14:38

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

The Angel two-parter? Vincent and the Doctor? A Christmas Carol? God Complex?

Eleventh Hour is still a good choice I think.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2016 12:08

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Toxxupation posted:

Heaven sent would be a bad intro to DW the same way that Blink is a bad intro to DW

Blink is at least a good stand alone episode, whereas Heaven Sent doesn't really work unless you know who Clara is.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2016 14:59

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Nightmare of Eden was my first episode, so I like it for that reason.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2016 15:17

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Toxxupation posted:

You let me be...inside you.

It's a bad line I'd have forgotten almost immediately if it wasn't for people ranting about it.

# ¿ May 13, 2016 14:05

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

CobiWann posted:

Update – my wife asked me to wait until next weekend to watch Jessica Jones since she and the kiddo will be on a Girl Scout retreat and I can watch the show without having to explain anything to my Marvel Cinematic Universer loving stepdaughter should she pop in.

The show’s not THAT bad, is it?

It's a great show overall, it just has a few issues here and there.

Unless you mean "bad" in terms of kid-friendliness, in which case it's easily the most adult thing in the MCU.

# ¿ May 13, 2016 14:19

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

MrL_JaKiri posted:

If you've got someone who's supposed to not be able to blink why can't you reshoot a short shot where the person blinks? God dammit!

That annoyed the ever-loving poo poo out of me.

# ¿ May 13, 2016 14:24

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

CobiWann posted:

How physically violent is it compared to Daredevil?

The violence is much less frequent, but no less severe when it does happen.

# ¿ May 13, 2016 14:36

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

jivjov posted:

I'm still shocked that the BBC or Moffat or anyone didn't issue a statement after that episode and the backlash thereof...

There wasn't much of a backlash to that specific bit, to be honest. The episode sure wasn't popular though.

You could fix that bit fairly easily and you'd still have a loving garbage episode.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 15:47

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Rhyno posted:

Giant Penis Monster.

People always talk about how ridiculous it looks, which is unfair given it's also hilariously silly to listen to.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 06:42

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

My point is that even if you took away its ridiculous appearance you'd have a memorably silly character.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2016 04:27

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

I don't know if Ghost Light works even if you do know what's happening, but it's still more interesting than a lot of classic Who.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2016 16:39

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

jivjov posted:

Yeah, other than 9, all the modern era doctors have loads of time more or less "built in" where they can be companionless, or have a one-off or audio exclusive companion.

Even Nine had references to off-screen stories that have to happen sometime.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2016 14:35

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Season 5 being the peak of the revival helped a lot.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2016 07:22

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

From first-hand experience Zapp Brannigan is a lot of fun to cosplay.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 03:43

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

I started watching Supergirl and was amused to notice that the government organisation responsible for handling alien threats was using Greyhound and Trap callsigns.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

I am shocked that there would be any conservative fans of a show that has recently had episodes about how abortion is evil, medication for mental illness is wrong, and immigrants are secret ISIS agents trying to overthrow us.

One of the most vocal conservative shitlords in Australian parliament is also a massive Doctor Who nerd.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2016 17:23

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Tim Burns Effect posted:

Good God "Planet of the Daleks" is so dull. Dull dull dull. I've been forcing myself through it even though I've fallen asleep twice and I can't even remember what happened in episode 1.

It doesn't help that they change the plot several times over the course of the story.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2016 22:58

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

The Final Cut has a different ending too. FU's death happens in both versions, but how and why differ dramatically.

The US version of Queer as Folk was apparently pretty successful too.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2016 13:05

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Big Mean Jerk posted:

Forgot I posted

Japan and Latin America say hi

On the other hand India.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2016 08:25

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:20

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Wheat Loaf posted:

And Pakistan. And Australia. And a lot of African countries too, I think.

South Africa and Zimbabwe, yeah, but India is the big one in terms of viewers (and money these days).

# ¿ Oct 27, 2016 11:31

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