Tie-breaker for serial you'd most like to find an episode from This poll is closed. |
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The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve | 33 | 44.59% | |
The Highlanders | 41 | 55.41% | |
Total: | 74 votes |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 15:53 |
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I'm still not entirely sure on whether or not Power will be available to watch on their streaming service if you're outside of the UK, but I've waited my whole life to see a proper version of this story I suppose I can wait three more weeks for the DVD..... I guess
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2016 04:16 |
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uvar posted:Do Big Finish audios get discounted much? I own something like 80-85% of the main monthly range and I think I've paid full price for.... two of the audios? These are a ton of themed sales all the time, to the point that I sometimes decide to take advantage of one and go to grab the dozen or so titles on discount and realize I already own all of them MysticalMachineGun posted:I'm a fan - between you and Toxx/Lick The Whisks write-ups I'm getting another view on Who separate from my wife's endless "David Tennant... " reviews. uvar posted:P.S., Jerusalem, and the other person who did some in another thread: I haven't read very many, but I appreciate the write-ups! I'm glad, thanks Mostly my original intention was just to have my own thoughts written down so I could remember what my initial take on them was but I'm pleased others get something out of them too
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2016 05:41 |
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:Also jeru we should Do A Thing sometime. I dunno what yet but I think it would be cool. That would be fun for sure Big Mean Jerk posted:FWIW, I read your reviews even though I've only ever listened to one audio.
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2016 07:03 |
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:That's not last year's Christmas special. I kinda wish it was every year's (and every show's) Christmas Special
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2016 22:14 |
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I still think one of my favorite encapsulations of the Doctor as a character comes from The Beast Below Doctor: Amy I have one rule, one unbreakable rule. We never, ever, ever interfere. Immediately interferes
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2016 22:43 |
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I should really listen to Doom Coalition.... which means I should really listen to Dark Eyes! Which means I need to get caught up on the contemporary Monthly Range titles..... oh and there is 4th Doctor Adventures Seasons 2 and up to do as well, not to mention the last War Doctor audio and the upcoming UNIT boxset and.... oh God Martytoof posted:So uh, I don't know if this is blasphemy in here or not but the animation on Power of the Daleks looks pretty awful. This is the best BBC could come up with? I mean that's just the impression I got from the youtube video. I've seen a couple different videos and one of them looked really good and the other looked kinda meh, I'm hoping like hell it turns out more the former than the latter.
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2016 02:43 |
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:I'm just letting you all know. Bain't nobody loving with Billy Hartnell's show
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2016 05:18 |
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:I'm just letting you all know. Doctor Who isn't cancelled!
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2016 05:52 |
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CobiWann posted:I feel that Clara was a much better fit with Twelve as opposed to Eleven on top of getting character development. Yeah, I was a big fan of Clara but that's mostly based on her two seasons with the 12th Doctor. She's very good in Day of the Doctor and Time of the Doctor with 11, but the back half of season 7 and the "Impossible Girl" stuff fell flat for me, and Clara lacked any real sense of identity. Part of that was deliberate, part of it was down to having Amy and Rory stick around a half season longer than they needed to (as much as I loved both of them). I'll miss her as the companion, but I feel like they'd completed a pretty satisfying character arc for her. The_Doctor posted:So the BBC are releasing Power of the Daleks on bluray next year, with a colour version of it on the disc too. Fuccccccck
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2016 21:41 |
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The 21st Century has been so loving good for Doctor Who fans
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2016 22:44 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:Finally decided to pick back up with the Eighth Doctor Adventures after some detours into Benny, T. Bakes, and John Hurt territories and I'm starting series 3 and uh, is it just me being a bit sensitive or is the villain in Orbis skirting pretty close to being uncomfortably transphobic? Like, it feels like some Buffalo Bill poo poo. Orbis is pretty good for the Doctor/Lucie dynamic, especially their reunion scene which is hilarious. Other than that it ranges from dull to frustrating to bad. For my own part I didn't get a sense of transphobia from the villain and their species, mostly because I was too busy being annoyed by the voice effect or finding them utterly underwhelming/unable to take them seriously as a threat since they seemed to be so incompetent.
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# ¿ Nov 6, 2016 09:04 |
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CaptainYesterday posted:Does anyone have any personal opinions of the Power of the Daleks episodes released so far? Not in the UK so I have to wait to see it in a theater release in a week or so. An entire week. No Doctor Who fan has ever had to wait so long to see an episode
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# ¿ Nov 6, 2016 23:17 |
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Burkion posted:So I'm watching Talons for the first time because of the above I always remember how enjoyable the actual story is but my mind kind of downplays the racism as "unfortunate" but not THAT bad. Then I watch it again and the racism is just at,"Holy gently caress! " levels. Then a few months pass and I once again start remembering only the really good parts of the story and not quite recalling just how high the level of racism is. The bit that does always stand out for me though is when (late in the story) Chang feels abandoned and so just heads off to smoke some opium.
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2016 04:15 |
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City of Cardiff Council, eh? Do they have a new mayor who doesn't like getting her photo taken?
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2016 21:50 |
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CobiWann posted:The second story of the new War Doctor set is what I've always wanted - the Sontarans telling the Time Lords and Daleks to let them into the Time War. Or else. Ahahaha oh God I gotta get this, I cannot wait to hear that.
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2016 04:42 |
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Edit: Actually there's probably more than enough politics chat in every other thread on the forums right now. Unit: Silenced is out this month, I hope they pull that off. The first audio was really good, second not so great.
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2016 11:15 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Maybe we'll have it easy and be part of the 10% killed by Toclafane For every problem I have with that episode, I will forever love it for the Master using the word "decimate" properly
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2016 22:12 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Much like Twelve Monkeys, I enjoy State of Decay more every time I watch it. The texture is just so wonderful Goddamn do I love Twelve Monkeys for much the same reason. Also State of Decay!
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2016 01:10 |
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CommonShore posted:Just finished 4's run. Good times I really love how the loose theme of entropy in the last season is matched up rather fortuitously (now, probably not so much at the time) with Tom looking noticeably older/more worn-down - it really makes "it's the end.... but the moment has been prepared for" work so well both in the sense of saving the universe from falling apart AND the Doctor becoming this new, young and fresh-faced character. Also it's wonderful how nicely it parallels themes introduced in the Third Doctor's last story, where the Doctor's old mentor has psychically manifested his own future self into the world which the Fourth Doctor ends up doing with The Watcher. Considering that happened 7 seasons apart at a time when it wasn't as straightforward as it is now to get immediate access to previously aired stories, I wonder how many at the time picked up on it and how many didn't see it till years later when they watched everything in a short timeframe (like me!)
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2016 03:41 |
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I went and watched Power of the Daleks in the theater, holy poo poo it was good. Even in animated form the strength of the story shines through and it remains one of the best Doctor Who stories I've ever seen (and now I have properly SEEN it!) - I had forgotten so many of the wonderful little moments and performances, the great supporting characters and their arcs. Lesterson and his slow unraveling into madness stands out, but I think I gained a new appreciation for the "Side with whatever side benefits her personally" Janley. Even just animated, the scene of the camera panning over the corpses of the colonists - rebel and authority alike - after the Daleks set about exterminating EVERYBODY is still really chilling. Can't wait to buy the DVD. Also Patrick Troughton is incredible. Doctor: Read this. Lesterson silently reads it Doctor: Aloud
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# ¿ Nov 12, 2016 05:48 |
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I discovered a vaccine for Big Finish sales.... own everything already!
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2016 00:37 |
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I went with a friend who enjoys Who but isn't crazy into it, and has only seen a handful of classic episodes. She really dug it (and LOVED Troughton), but it sounds like your friend isn't much of a fan of the classic series and this one has all the "problems" you would find with that. The animation is mostly serviceable (at times it is really good, every so often it looks really stilted) - I'd say you'd be better off either going by yourself or trying to organize with some other friends to watch it on BBCA even if you don't watch it "live".
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2016 06:27 |
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I've been catching up on the second season of Gotham (and pondering why, since it's at best okay and often terrible, and never quite realizes its hammy potential) but hey if Michelle Gomez didn't just show up! I can only assume she's there to poach Sean Pertwee for a Third Doctor appearance, there's no need to correct me I'll just assume I'm right.King Plum the Nth posted:Sorry to drop in at random and I hope this isn't an old matter but I don't get to follow the forums as closely as I'd like these days and I wanted to seek the opinion of Whovians I can trust. I suppose there is a very basic similarity that I wouldn't have seen if you hadn't brought it up, but I think that's probably more of a coincidence. Now if Kirk had speared the bad guy through the heart with a starship on the other hand....
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2016 08:04 |
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CobiWann posted:Heathrow? That's good, because my experience of Heathrow was that I had no choice but to wait. For hours
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2016 22:13 |
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British power outlets look like very concerned Cybermen
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2016 23:14 |
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Short Synopsis: Sluggish from a run-in with the Ex, the Doctor finally remembers where he left his keys Long Synopsis: The Doctor and Amy find themselves on a doomed spaceship from the beginning of time under assault from a spaceship from the end of it. Mistaken identities abound as former powers desperate to regain what they've lost seek the final segment of the Key to Time. The Doctor must choose between chaos and order, black and white, revenge and forgiveness - the universe WILL survive, but in what form? What's Good:
What's Not:
Final Thoughts: The Chaos Pool is, by itself, quite a fun story. As is The Destroyer of Delights before it. The trouble is both stories are part of a larger whole and the whole is NOT greater than the sum of its parts. There is some neat character stuff for Amy and Zara, both of whom I assume are only around for these three stories and no more meaning that by the time they become solid characters in their own right its time for them to leave. There are some neat fake-outs and cliffhangers but they're quickly negated or twisted back to the status quo - one very cool cliffhanger moment revealing the final segment is so well handled but, once established, the story seems most concerned with completely reversing this all back to the initial expectations. They also go back to the well of using the Guardians after going out of their way to get rid of them in the previous story and the attempt to create a new massive universe-shaking threat/baddie the Doctor almost casually deals with them and then moves on. There's a lot of negativity here, but it's as a result of being part of a larger "season" arc, a sequel that nobody was demanding and that never really justifies its creation. The actual story by itself is really quite entertaining and the character interactions are for the most part solid and well-written. If this story was able to stand-alone (which I do not think it is, sadly) I'd happily recommend listening to it. As it is, this one (and the Key to Time as a whole) are mostly for listening to for completion's sake, and thinking about what might have been if all three stories had been stand-alone. By themselves, each one could have been very good, but put them together and the flaws just become too magnified.
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2016 04:28 |
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BSam posted:Yeah. I like all three of those stories, but I don't really give a toss about the overarching plot. McGann posted:Agreed. Reading your reviews made me want to re-listen to them all, especially Destroyer of Delights because of the Guardians absolute pity-party attitude about being stuck in so few dimensions but I could be damned if I can think of a point to the plot, besides introducing The Grace. Yeah, The Judgement of Iskarr suffers the most but you can see the core of an interesting story in there. The Destroyer of Delights is probably my favorite of the three. But thinking back over the trilogy, all I can think is somebody at Big Finish saying,"Let's do a sequel to The Key to Time!" and nobody asking the relevant question,".....why?" vegetables posted:I thought you guys might like to read my review of the 9/11 episode of Doctor Who. It was fun, though I have to admit rolling my eyes at the idea of Davros showing up until I read a little further. I dug the idea of Davros' personal and physical changes, and the concept of the companion choosing to go with the "better" man echoes what they did in the 8th Doctor Adventures with the Monk and Tamsin. Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Nov 14, 2016 |
# ¿ Nov 14, 2016 22:32 |
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The_Doctor posted:Three years ago today... Oh goody, a less tenuous than normal excuse to post this! http://i.imgur.com/WMCkkvx.gifv
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2016 22:33 |
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The Power of the Daleks is yesterday's news, where's my Evil of the Daleks!?!
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 00:30 |
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DoctorWhat posted:God, the Daleks in this are real poo poo-eating-grin-having little bastards, huh? Lots of personality. Hearing them pull up short when they're about to go on a typical Dalek tirade, then agonize through pretending to be subservient is so great. "With Static Power, DALEKS WILL BE TWICE AS...... useful....." Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Nov 15, 2016 |
# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 03:30 |
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Lesterson whispering,"I am your serrrrrr-vant" and the Daleks' response still gives me chills. If only he had listened, Lesterson. Listen Lesterson. Listen Lesterson. Listen Lesterson. Listen Lesterson. Listen Lesterson.
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 04:24 |
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Rhyno posted:Also just put Victory of the Daleks on for more snarky Dalek goodness. "You..... do NOT want tea?" Edit: Which reminds me, it cracks me up in Power when the Dalek brings Bragen his drink, then comes back like 30 seconds later all,"HAVE YOU FINISHED YOUR LIQUID YET!?!"
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 04:45 |
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Oh yeah, I hope everybody stuck around after the credits for the extra feature, it was quite fun. Even if when,"Nick Briggs, Modern Series Dalek Operator" came up I harumphed because that's,"Nick Briggs, Big Finish Executive Producer and Redeemer of Colin Baker" to you
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 05:15 |
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Another great little moment: Daleks: THE DALEKS SHALL HAVE THEIR POWER! THE DALEKS SHALL HAVE THEIR POWER! THE DALEKS SHALL HAVE THEIR POW- Lesterson cuts off the power Dalek: ....please put the power back on.....
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 06:52 |
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CobiWann posted:What's The Prisoner? Don't make me hurt you, Cobi
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 21:47 |
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The best Doctor Who episodes are the ones that are really well written and performed Whether that means a complete standalone episode or part of some longer storyarc, quality will out. Now where is my animated or recovered Evil of the Daleks? Bicyclops posted:The Borg are probably the best example, because they're a modestly good villain that first time, and only that at best, and then they become worse and worse Space Zombies every time they appear, with almost no improvement ever. It'd be like if Doctor Who changed the Cybermen to have "Excellent!" as a catchphrase and have a weakness to gold, or to shout "DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!" One day we will get our amazing modern Cyberman story. One day.....
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2016 22:42 |
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uvar posted:Curious: Is there a list of all the "X of the Daleks" titles, including the audio/books/etc? I feel like it's 100% certain that somebody has compiled it already, but I couldn't find one. If you go to the wikipedia page for any individual televised Dalek story (Power of the Daleks, for instance), down the bottom you should be able to click to show a list of televised Dalek stories and a separate list of Dalek novelizations. Similarly, going to the wiki page for any individual audio Dalek story (Brotherhood of the Daleks, for instance) there will be a list down the bottom of Dalek audio stories. So they're not all in one place, but you can get a working list from there.
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2016 02:33 |
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Yeah that cover is pretty horrendously put together.echoplex posted:The episode where Enterprise tries to make a canon explanation for why 60's Klingons had different foreheads was definitely the point where it had bludgeoned itself to death with it's own continuity. Especially since DS9 already handled it in the best way possible (apart from completely ignoring it which is the absolute best and most correct way to handle it). Bashir: Those Klingons don't have forehead ridg- Worf: We do not talk about that
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2016 21:11 |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 15:53 |
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Rhyno posted:The next few months will probably feature a series of interviews where Moff makes himself look worse and worse and end with the show getting canceled. If he's not careful he might not be the showrunner after season 10!
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2016 00:41 |