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all-Rush mixtape posted:I'm a fan of a wrestling promotion that people are, at best, apathetic about and, at worst, apprehensive to. What Culture Pro Wrestling?
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Jan 22, 2017 00:10
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Jerusalem posted:I assure you, everything is going swimmingly. my drrrreeeeeeaaaaams of... con-QUEST
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Jan 22, 2017 03:26
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I was in HMV earlier today and they had a bunch of these "From the world of BBC TV's Doctor Who" DVDs like "The Mindgame Saga" (starring Sophie Aldred) and "Downtime" (starring Nicholas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen). Are these old wilderness years fan-productions? How are they getting official-ish-looking home releases?
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Jan 24, 2017 22:31
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Didn't see Shakedown and a cursory search on Amazon seems to indicate that it's not on DVD. This is what Downtime looked like: 
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Jan 24, 2017 23:28
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Daily Mirror report has just come up that John Hurt has just died. Can't confirm anywhere else at the moment. Isn't on the Beeb yet.
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Jan 28, 2017 02:07
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I think the first thing with Hurt I saw him in was the 1984 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, where he played Winston Smith (Richard Burton played O'Brien).
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Jan 28, 2017 17:18
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I thought we already knew (or at least had reasonable grounds for believing) Capaldi was leaving at the same time Moffat was. Anyway, Ruth Wilson for Thirteenth Doctor.
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Jan 31, 2017 00:57
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Rhyno posted:God drat yes please. 
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Jan 31, 2017 03:09
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Beeb has some suggestions. As usual, some fairly unlikely names proposed (Emma Watson? Andy Serkis? Bit busy doing movies these days, I imagine!) but nothing as bad as the Daily Mail suggesting Catherine Zeta-Jones was a very likely possibility to succeed David Tennant.
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Jan 31, 2017 16:00
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Grouchio posted:WELP TIME FOR A NEW DOCTOR Kenneth Clarke for Thirteenth Doctor.
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Feb 1, 2017 14:23
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Gaz-L posted:Liv Colman would be excellent, and as they note, she's got a decent working relationship with Chibnall already. Sure, I imagine that if you're the showrunner, you'd probably like to be able to say you're starring Golden Globe AwardTM-winning and Primetime Emmy AwardTM-nominated actress Olivia Colman in the lead role. 
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Feb 1, 2017 16:40
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They cast Billie Piper, but tell her she has to use that dreadful accent from the first season of Penny Dreadful.
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Feb 2, 2017 11:14
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Sad King Billy posted:There is a logical candidate. Aiden Turner (in a billowy shirt, of course).
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Feb 2, 2017 14:22
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Noah Wyle's been doing a pretty solid Eleven, and the writers aren't subtle about The Librarians being Dr Who with magic. I love the hell out of The Librarians, but you can't not take note of it. Sure, back cover of the season one DVD I have has the blurb "Doctor Who meets Raiders of the Lost Ark" plastered across it in big letters.
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Feb 2, 2017 15:49
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CommonShore posted:I'm not going to link it, but did anyone else see that GQ article about who should take over for Capaldi and "save the series", written by someone who apparently has neither watched nor ever enjoyed Doctor Who in any form? The one which posted stuff like "lolololo" at the suggestion that anyone other than a handsome young white guy could play the role? Ah yes, the one that I believe described Chris Chibnall as a "prestige" writer and offhandedly mentioned that he had written for the show before without describing any of his episodes.
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Feb 3, 2017 01:43
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King Plum the Nth posted:All the talk of women and/or "PsOC" in the role -- and many great suggestions among them -- but It got me wondering why we've never seen an Irish Doctor. Aiden Turner is Irish.  (I should say I'm not trying to advocate Turner as the Doctor - as I've said, Ruth Wilson would be my choice - I'm just going on a magazine article I saw a while ago around the time Poldark started where he said he'd be interested and posed in a Doctor-like costume.)
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Feb 3, 2017 12:45
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King Plum the Nth posted:All the talk of women and/or "PsOC" in the role -- and many great suggestions among them -- but It got me wondering why we've never seen an Irish Doctor. Actually, had a rethink on this and will reiterate an earlier post - they fudge it by casting Billie Piper but making her use her dubious accent from Penny Dreadful.
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Feb 3, 2017 14:47
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Jerome Flynn would be an interesting Doctor. I'm not sure how he'd play it, though. I couldn't see him doing the sort of madcap cartoony sort of thing Tennant or Smith did. I imagine he'd play more of a rough-around-the-edges character if he was the Doctor. They've never cast a bad actor as the Doctor. Who could they cast - realistically, leaving aside fantasy-casting and going on actors who are plausible prospects at the moment - who would be a "bad" choice?
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Feb 5, 2017 16:18
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I want to say that the commentary for The Movie has the moment McGann discovers everyone ignores the Half-Human thing, when Briggs mentions it to him. Which is hilarious. My favourite bit remains when Eric Roberts shows up in full Time Lord regalia at the climax and delivers the "I always... drezzzzzz for the occasion!" line, and on the commentary McGann says, "Oh, look. Are those stairs going to light up as he steps on them?" and Briggs cracks up.
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Feb 6, 2017 00:26
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The_Doctor posted:Huh, to make the Eddie Redmayne/11th Doctor even weirder, Rory is going to be Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts 2. Does that mean he's eventually going to have to snog Johnny Depp?
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Feb 7, 2017 15:00
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I haven't actually seen Fantastic Beasts. It seemed like a "wait for the DVD" movie to me. Was it any good?
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Feb 7, 2017 16:34
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thrawn527 posted:I mostly enjoyed the world they "created". (Yes, I know it's an existing world, but I mean the American wizarding community, wondering wtf is going on in Europe with that Grindlewald guy.) Sounds cool to me. See, I love pulps and I love stuff that homages or pastiches that style (e.g. Indiana Jones, Rocketeer, most of Kim Newman's novels) so the wizarding community in America in the 1930s sounds like it would be right up my alley.
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Feb 7, 2017 19:39
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Jerusalem posted:Edit: All that said about David Yates, I can highly recommend the British TV series State of Play he directed, because it's excellent (don't watch the American movie version). I believe I watched that years ago. Is that the one with David Morrissey, John Simm, Bill Nighy, and pre-fame Kelly MacDonald and James McAvoy? I always think of it as more of a Paul Abbott project since he wrote it and it's the writing where it shines.
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Feb 8, 2017 01:28
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Haha, I completely forgot she was in Trainspotting. I think her first big Hollywood role was No Country For Old Men, though.
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Feb 8, 2017 02:06
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I'm watching The Omega Factor, which was an old paranormal / science-fiction drama from the BBC which was broadcast in the late 1970s. I imagine it will be of interest to Doctor Who fans for featuring Louise Jameson's (who plays the female lead, Dr Anne Reynolds) first post-Leela role. It has recently received an audio drama continuation from Big Finish as well. However, one of the most amusing things about it is that the lead actor, the late James Hazeldine of London's Burning fame, looked distractingly like Neil Gaiman to me.
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Feb 11, 2017 01:05
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Astroman posted:As Tennant and RTD scripted into Time Crash, Tennant's was Davison. Moffat wrote "Time Crash". vegetables posted:You could be in your thirties and have this apply to you, as you'd have grown up in the long stretch of time when Doctor Who wasn't really a thing. In fact, this could realistically have applied to Matt Smith in 2009, and that's eight years ago now. Sure, Colin Baker was a big fan of the show before he was cast, having discovered it as a young law student in the 1960s.
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Feb 19, 2017 22:50
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FreezingInferno posted:What terrors would we see from an Ian Levine-ran series, though? Doctor quits time travelling full-time and retires to Blackpool in the 1970s, where he becomes infatuated with a certain northern soul DJ at the Mecca.
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Feb 20, 2017 20:30
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As far as that Moffat interview goes, were the episodes he was slagging off available widely on home video at the time? Was he going from 10-20 year old memories of the show or would he have been able to go home, pop a tape in the VHS recorder and go, "Yep, that's a bit rubbish."
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Feb 20, 2017 20:34
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EdBlackadder posted:1995 my family got Sky TV for the first time. A channel called UK Gold showed Doctor Who repeats in a block on a Sunday morning. There would usually be an episode of Blakes 7 or the Survivors then they'd run a serial all the way through and next week you'd get the next serial. When they ran out, back to the start. I believe they showed everything available up to the TV Movie. I used to get up early so I could catch it all, hell of a step up from the odd VHS serials I had before that. Oh, yeah, good old "Doctor Who Omnibus". That's where I started watching the series. I got into it just as it was going through some McCoy stuff, then the first DVD I got was "Remembrance of the Daleks" when I was 10, and then it switched to Davison and I didn't understand why the actor had changed. Well Manicured Man posted:We need a thorough investigation into Lt. General McMaster's possible ties to the Daleks. I have heard that he's deep in the pocket of Big Time Travel.
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Feb 21, 2017 21:44
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McGann posted:Mr Dominus is always a favorite of mine, though Mr Seta comes close. My favourite was crediting one "James Stoker" in "The King's Demons" as the Master's disguise - it is an anagram of "Master's joke".
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Feb 22, 2017 01:23
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remusclaw posted:That is a really early airing. Are they planning on splitting the season in half? I believe they're trying to get it back to normal (i.e. start in spring, runs 13 weeks, Christmas special, starts next spring).
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Feb 25, 2017 20:55
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Looks like an Ice Lord to me.
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Feb 26, 2017 01:18
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David Harewood would indeed be pretty cool as the Doctor but at the same time it would be a shame to lose him from Supergirl.
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Feb 26, 2017 19:37
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cargohills posted:e: On a similar note what's up with the weirdos on those awful Doctor Who forums who claim to only listen to Big Finish instead of watching the new series? I understand being critical about Steven Moffat as a showrunner but at least there's less obsessive continuity porn on TV. Sure, that's hardly new. Did anyone ever see that video Paul "OtaKing" Johnson (who created that anime Third Doctor video that made the rounds a few years back) did a number of years ago, "Doctor Who: Old vs New" which had a right old whinge about how Russell T Davies had ruined Doctor Who by taking death and violence out of it and replacing them with "love" and "drama" and "emotion"? I remember it.
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Feb 27, 2017 16:59
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When did writers decide that Rassilon was explicitly a bad guy? I think he's more ambiguous in "The Five Doctors" than straight-up villainous. Earliest that I'm aware of is when Don Warrington played him for Big Finish but I'm not familiar enough with any of the New Adventures or BBC Books lines to comment there.
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Feb 27, 2017 22:15
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jivjov posted:So I'm listening to the old 4 part UNIT series. I know it's completely unintentional...but hearing "Turn then over to ICIS (pronounced ISIS)" and "Make Britain Great Again"....it's unnerving. When did it come out? Because if it was 2007-2010, that was back when the BNP were sort of a thing. (See also: "Turn Left".)
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Mar 18, 2017 14:33
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MrL_JaKiri posted:You may be surprised to learn that open popularist racism against muslims is not a new phenomenon! I didn't think I was suggesting otherwise.
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Mar 18, 2017 21:57
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I'll be disappointed if "a large crowd, led by Sadiq Khan, taking on Daleks hand-to-plunger" doesn't show up in season 10 now.
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Mar 28, 2017 09:52
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