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DoctorWhat posted:Class is fine. Lick! The! Whisk! posted:Also jeru we should Do A Thing sometime. I dunno what yet but I think it would be cool. Love is in the air in the doctor who thread
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The_Doctor posted:<walks in> That's not the line and it's my joke dammit 
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Nov 2, 2016 12:52
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CommonShore posted:When I grow up I want to stab someone with a spaceship After The War posted:State of Decay is also awesome. Much like Twelve Monkeys, I enjoy State of Decay more every time I watch it. The texture is just so wonderful
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Nov 10, 2016 23:59
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CommonShore posted:Also, in watching Logopolis I realized that if the universe were infinite, there would be an infinite number of universe-ending evil geniuses ending the universe at any given moment. Nah, this isn't how it works. The natural numbers are (countably) infinite but there's only one "1", for example.
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Nov 12, 2016 13:00
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I think he's doing the "The universe is infinite, so everything must happen infinitely many times in it" thing
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Nov 12, 2016 16:53
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Jerusalem posted:That's good, because my experience of Heathrow was that I had no choice but to wait. For hours At least you didn't travel 140 million years into the past The_Doctor posted:This is usually my experience of Heathrow: Yer posh git
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Nov 14, 2016 02:06
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CobiWann posted:Kind of a ...weird? Dumb?...question, but how prevalent were fascist/anti-fascist themes in 60's British science fiction? Those themes were common, but are also part of a larger theme of "End of empire/post-colonialism" which was fairly topical at the time for obvious reasons.
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Nov 15, 2016 18:41
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The arcs have all been stupid
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Nov 16, 2016 19:45
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CommonShore posted:Ok cool. One thing I said about Who (albeit not here, as far as I recall) that I've seen my friends start quoting is that it's at its best when it goes and does largely disconnected stories in randomly-selected settings, and it's at its worst when it tries to develop its own consistent universe of connected peoples and civilizations. Whereas, on the other hand, Star Trek is at its worst when it goes (to the holodeck) to do largely disconnected stories in randomly-selected settings, and it's at its best when it tries to develop its own consistent universe of connected peoples and civilizations. A lot of the best Star Trek episodes are standalones, though, and their attempt at a consistent universe have lead to things like the Borg being made Very poo poo
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Nov 16, 2016 22:01
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BSam posted:Missed the latest release, Order of the Daleks. Number 23 and the special, please
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Nov 17, 2016 13:02
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It would be a shame if that viewpoint (viz: what male authors think women characters should say) wasn't represented
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Nov 17, 2016 21:56
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Oh yeah, DWSS that was a thing
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Nov 19, 2016 12:18
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Doctor Who thread meet In the north east because I'm not travelling, sorry
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Nov 19, 2016 21:26
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McGann posted:ok, nerd version of trouble - AKA an episode marathon - though I can imagine choosing which ones might get a bit heated Give me Arc of Infinity or give me death Ms Boods posted:I'm on the [currently very soggy] south coast of England [listening to the Peter Cook documentary from downstairs whilst Angus comes rolling in]. London is about an hour or so train ride away. Your posts in the students thread are always amazing so it would be worth a trip down to London just to hear them hot off the presses tbh
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Nov 20, 2016 00:08
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Seriously though the North East is lovely and frankly the amount of money you save on a drink or two would cover the train tickets
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Nov 20, 2016 00:08
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Ms Boods posted:Heh -- when I'm in London, I'm totally in 'off' mode -- it's where I go for a few days to wander and recharge and not think about my students. This does not seem unreasonable, your stuff about Doctor Who history then 
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Nov 20, 2016 12:37
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The only Tom Baker book I've read is his autobiography
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Nov 20, 2016 12:56
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The cliffhanger rehashes aren't usually that bad, it's only when the episode was running really short (Garth Merenghi style) like the third episode of The Sea Devils
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Nov 20, 2016 21:45
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Yes it has
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Nov 21, 2016 01:26
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Huh, I thought I was the only person on Earth who preferred III to II. I preferred 2 when I was young
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Nov 22, 2016 01:27
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What's the joke about Back to the Future covering the essentials of what it means to be human - the past, the future and cowboy?
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Nov 22, 2016 02:33
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That could be anyone!
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Nov 23, 2016 02:46
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Well not me, because I'm not doing it
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Nov 23, 2016 02:46
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Jerusalem posted:It's really depressing because their first televised story was so good, but the Silurians have failed to live up to that potential ever since Their first story was also the only one that could reasonably have been told, given that your brief is "Ancient lizards from beneath the ground who used to rule the Earth"
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Nov 30, 2016 12:06
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Bicyclops posted:Plus they only use that one Cold War "We could be allies, and live together, if only we could get past our fear and communicate" story over and over. The Brigadier and the younger Silurian chap who tries to kill everyone
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Nov 30, 2016 19:14
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Jerusalem posted:It would make no money at all but I'd legit love a 4 hour cinema screening of The War Games If I had a time machine I'd fill a cinema by myself
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Dec 1, 2016 12:40
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The_Doctor posted:"Sorry sir, you're not allowed to see the War Games any more, the cinema's full." I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'VE HAD ENOUGH
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Dec 1, 2016 13:16
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The_Doctor posted:"Timelash starts in 5 minutes, if you like." *departs with a scream*
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Dec 1, 2016 15:45
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jivjov posted:Weekend sale on Gallifrey. Is that in Ireland?
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Dec 2, 2016 17:04
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Fog Tripper posted:So confused. We stopped after the s8 premeir and want to get this all straightened out before we move on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_serials It sounds like Amazon don't have any of the Specials, just the regular series. Which will make things confusing because Tennant and Smith both regenerate in Specials. In particular, you've missed: Planet of the Dead Waters of Mars The End of Time (end of Tennant) Day of the Doctor (end of Smith). Although I don't particularly like any of them so you're not missing out that much 
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Dec 5, 2016 14:43
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The_Doctor posted:Time of the Doctor is the end of the Smith run? Yeah that one
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Dec 5, 2016 15:04
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And More posted:It's why Netflix is good. They sort that stuff for you. Well, sometimes
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Dec 5, 2016 17:00
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CobiWann posted:Not seen in 50 years? If you wanted to be pedantic then you'd say that the last episode aired on the 10th December, which is less than 50 years ago. That aside, the DVD box isn't claiming that nobody has seen it before the owner of this specific DVD because that's clearly silly.
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Dec 6, 2016 14:00
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For Secret Santa last year where I noted down the DVDs I owned on my ratings list, Power had "I wish" next to it. Clearly the rest of 2016 has been balancing this out
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Dec 6, 2016 19:44
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Bicyclops posted:These rom com scenarios just keep getting worse! I'd watch pretty much any romcom if it had a missing Doctor Who story in the middle
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Dec 6, 2016 21:18
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Also I think we need a more optimistic view; The Ice Warriors is improved by the missing episodes, after all! And Fury from the Deep only has surviving bits that got cut by Australian censors for being too terrifying so whenever things start moving you know poo poo is going down
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Dec 6, 2016 22:17
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Bicyclops posted:That's the great thing about Doctor Who, there's always something new to look forward to What a world
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Dec 7, 2016 00:11
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The_Doctor posted:Haha, wow Don't facebook stalk me please
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Dec 7, 2016 14:41
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Their reasoning is dodgy but there was certainly a deep current of opposition to the TVM at the time, due to it being a "bastardised American pastiche" (or whatever)
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Dec 7, 2016 19:53
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Davros1 posted:I was terrified that the TVM was going to be something along the of Virgin's NAs, so I was greatly relieved that it was actually good! The NA have an ok hit rate for what they were, low budget spin offs from a low budget and formerly popular show from the previous decade, written by random fans.
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Dec 7, 2016 21:47
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