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This was true even in the original run; 26 years is a long time to be on the air.
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Dec 7, 2016 22:09
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Wheat Loaf posted:Are you saying you don't wish we'd had a series of the Doctor and his evil secret brother the Master adventuring through space and time trying to find their mysterious long-lost father Ulysses? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8
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Dec 8, 2016 11:18
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Jerusalem posted:That Ulysses' opening brought me back to my childhood watching stuff like Galaxy Rangers and Sabre Rider and the Star Sheriffs (in the sky!) No MCOG? For shame
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Dec 9, 2016 01:21
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Wheat Loaf posted:And that was his first professionally-published, wasn't it? I think he'd had something publisher as the winning entry to a BBC writing contest, but aside from that, his NA books were the first "proper" things he'd done. And much like 50 Shades they were reworked fanfiction
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Dec 9, 2016 01:23
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Girls are stupid because they can't do maths! And they can't do maths because they're stupid! - Adric, Four to Doomsday
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Dec 10, 2016 22:19
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Woah now let's not say things we can't take back
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Dec 11, 2016 01:45
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You can't just put animation on an audio story and expect it to be any good, they're different media with different writing (and performance) requirements.
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Dec 11, 2016 02:04
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CommonShore posted:These next few years' worth of Doctor Who may prove a bit of a slog.... The last series has two of the best stories of the whole run
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Dec 11, 2016 20:09
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Fil5000 posted:You're in the worst season now, Trial is a bit better and once you're past Time and the Rani, Sly's run is pretty good. It's all fine, honest. Time and the Rani is not all fine
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Dec 11, 2016 20:09
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He will always be the failed actor from People like Us
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Dec 18, 2016 15:56
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Sad King Billy posted:I'm not a huge fan of Dudley Simpson but this is a hugely catchy little tune, made it seem like Summer again. Hello campers! Also this was Delia Derbyshire not Dudley. He did the music for the episode, but this piece was from stock.
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Dec 21, 2016 18:01
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Sad King Billy posted:Hmm it was credited to him on GBS.FM, so that is why I made the assumption. Would GBS.FM lie??? Nah, just an easy mistake to make: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/45HwF33Dl7Y1BWW7TkK7gSb/the-fourth-dimension quote:Most of the music for The Macra Terror was composed by Dudley Simpson and realised by Brian Hodgson. Delia Derbyshire, who had created the distinctive sound of the Doctor Who theme music, was responsible for the realisation of the ‘Chromophone’ band that that colonists perform to. The music used to represent the hypnotising of the humans was by John Baker and had previously been used for an episode of Out of the Unknown called Time in Advance.
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Dec 21, 2016 19:26
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I have already purchased a present for next year's Secret Santa 
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Dec 23, 2016 01:30
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vegetables posted:Big Finish is giving away Flip-Flop for free! It's probably the most "2016" Doctor Who story there is, by which I mean "the moral is that immigrants are bad and will chase you out of your community." How soon we forget The Zygon Parabox or whatever it was called Ms Boods posted:Not part of the Secret Santa, but I am working on a Doctor Who publication with a colleague up in London. He sent me a little Crimble pres of appreciation -- copy of Marcus Aurelius's Meditiationes and the dvd of The War Machines. Dude has seriously got my number
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Dec 24, 2016 15:51
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 The TV movie was made in America you fuckers
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Dec 24, 2016 17:45
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CommonShore posted:Sylvester McCoy seems alright so far through one story. The only way is up from Time and the Rani
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Dec 24, 2016 17:48
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The correct way to post that is "Happy christmas to all of you at home"
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Dec 24, 2016 19:53
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Shiftypenguin posted:Worse than Timelash? Timelash is fun camp at least
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Dec 24, 2016 20:31
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Maxwell Lord posted:That said I think The Dominators is worse. They cut an entire episode from that one and it's still too long. You know what the Doctor can't stand? Pacifism
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Dec 24, 2016 22:51
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Ms Boods posted:And it has Paul Darrow in it The two are related
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Dec 24, 2016 23:29
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Mind Loving Owl posted:I find it sort of amazing that Doctor Who hasn't really done superheroes before. Between the show, the books, the audios, the comics, the little cartoons on the back of candy wrappers, and the mysterious runes tattooed on Ian Levine's chest, they've done pretty much every other genre known to man. And it's not like human beings with special powers and silly clothes are foreign to Doctor Who.  The Karkus looks down on this post
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Dec 25, 2016 18:18
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Also the Doctor is a superhero, every episode is a superhero story
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Dec 25, 2016 18:19
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Get rekt son
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Dec 25, 2016 18:22
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There are very few stories in the original run that you couldn't replace the Doctor with some degree of a Sherlock Holmes/Alan Quartermain mashup and still have it function perfectly well
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Dec 25, 2016 18:31
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Mind Loving Owl posted:but McCoy was when they started doing the Doctor-as-Super-Batman thing well. I only think that really comes over in, what, four or five stories total? (Remembrance, Silver Nemesis, some or all of the Ace trilogy)
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Dec 25, 2016 18:43
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I'd say it's more the New Adventures that really start that kick, because very few books are written without internal monologues and the NA had them for just about every character except the Doctor because it would spoil the story to know what he was thinking. That rather artificially - and accidentally - promotes the Doctor a stage further still than in the McCoy years proper
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Dec 25, 2016 18:46
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In a strange intersection of the personal and Doctor Who, an ex is now dating the director of Let's Kill Hitler
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Dec 25, 2016 22:05
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Not because of that, let it be clear.
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Dec 25, 2016 22:07
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I didn't watch it (I had more important posts in this thread to make  ) but "meh" is the average response (median, mean and mode)
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Dec 27, 2016 14:56
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Fil5000 posted:The BBC has survived Conservative and labour governments without a significant shifting of tone This is not the case.
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Jan 10, 2017 18:38
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Jerusalem posted:I agree with this wholeheartedly... though we're still burning through Doctors at a sadly speedy rate But not ahistorical
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Jan 13, 2017 23:51
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I see Jerusalem is modding up the place. I don't like it.
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Jan 22, 2017 02:09
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Wheat Loaf posted: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? They weren't fan productions in the sense of (most of) the New Adventures, the former was written by Terrence Dicks and the latter by Marc Platt
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Jan 24, 2017 22:46
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It is truejivjov posted:Well that's dammed depressing. Would you say it hurt?
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Jan 28, 2017 02:28
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SiKboy posted:Dude, at least watch Alien. I mean, he also had bigger parts in, frankly, better movies You what mate
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Jan 28, 2017 15:52
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He was superb in the 1984 version of 1984
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Jan 28, 2017 17:18
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Yeah it's a consequence of christmas specials being part of the regular filming block I guess
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Jan 31, 2017 00:27
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Mortanis posted:That's like three actors in a row that have said something to the effect to breaking Tom's record and then suddenly moving on to bigger and better things. That's because you don't go into early publicity going "yeah I'll be out the door in 18 months". Tennant, in addition, was working under a completely different production team (that he really enjoyed being a part of, by all reports). You're reading a lot into random PR fluff, I think.
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Jan 31, 2017 19:11
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The Name of the Doctor is rubbish in essentially the same ways that the latest Sherlock was rubbish
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Feb 6, 2017 21:31
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Cleretic posted:Oh god, I just realized how perfect this notion is. This is pretty much the Ainley master
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Feb 14, 2017 20:18
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