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Jerusalem posted:Yeah, I was a big fan of how they treated Bill and Heather's sexuality. The latter particularly with her feelings of being "alien" and focusing on a "defect" that was just part of who she was and didn't need to be "fixed". She always felt like an outsider whereas Bill is completely confident/at ease with who and what she is. I kind of half disagree. I really like the way they handled the relationship, but they kept reinforcing Billie's sexuality beyond what was necessary. Her first three scenes all had some reference to her liking women. It's like they didn't trust us to recognise flirting.
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Jerusalem posted:Well that was good too, the ending didn't quite live up to the set-up but I liked it. As soon as the emojibot started stressing out over its dead mate and flashing the lightbulb I figured they were recognising what grief is and we were going to get a very sombre ending about reconcilliation, understanding a new species and learning to live with your mistakes. I was all ready to start calling this the best episode of Nu Who. Then the doctor, on discovering a new form of life, immediately erases the memories of an entire species. What the gently caress? That is literally the behaviour of a psychopath. Thats the sort of plot the Master would cook up to install himself as high overlord of earth without anybody complaining. That was an evil thing to do.
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Apr 22, 2017 22:58
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Also that cold open should have been cut entirely because it did a great job of robbing the episode of a lot of mystery. I forgave it that just for the absurdity of "mom's dead keep smiling. Gran's dead too keep smiling. Keep smiling dad's dead" Wheezle posted:I like Bill, but I hope they're not going to keep on with this "she asks weird questions that wouldn't occur to anyone else" schtick. It feels incredibly forced. Which questions rubbed you the wrong way? Nothing felt especially weird this week.
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Apr 23, 2017 14:45
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Bicyclops posted:The overall design of this season, from bigger picture things like what the Vardi look like and the way the TARDIS is lit, all the way down to tiny details like Bill's outfit and the labels on the machines the Doctor is tinkering with, is pretty great in my opinion. CG Elephant notwithstanding, it feels like people are doing a lot with relatively little resources. I don't know what changed between last season and this one, but it just feels more detailed, filled with the good kind of clutter and kipple that make places feel lived in. I was weirdly irritated that during the revelation of the magic puddle Bill was wearing a very obviously asymmetrical checkered shirt, but the actual eureka moment came from the badge on her very unremarkable denim jacket.
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Apr 24, 2017 15:13
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Astroman posted:Anybody who wants to drat Capaldi for putting so much of his own personality and hobbies into the role needs to step back a second and remember Sly. The spoons and a lot of his physical comedy were straight out of his act that he dd before the show where he'd stuff ferrets down his trousers and poo poo. Couldn't he poo poo himself without putting ferrets down his trousers?
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Apr 26, 2017 12:42
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The episode was kind of spotty and a bit cliché, but his speech to Bill after the kid got eaten was fantastic. "I'm 2000 years old, and never in my life have I had time for the luxury of outrage" is such a great look at the Doctors character. The hypocrisy of it, even more so.
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May 1, 2017 21:40
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I find shows about freshers even more annoying than freshers themselves, but I did like the ever-so-slightly-dickhead guy and his terrible flirting.
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May 7, 2017 10:13
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Dabir posted:Thinking about it, the way the conflict was resolved was a lot like The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, wasn't it. Except the spoilered episodes didn't end with a mother murdering her son. That was hosed up.
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May 7, 2017 19:47
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TinTower posted:Speaking of Bill, apparently tumblr fans get really salty when you say that Bill is a lesbian, because of the t-shirt she wore in Smile is more suggestive of her sexuality than, you know, dialogue explicitly saying she's a gay lesbian who's into women… homosexually. I think the important thing here is how does a t-shirt specify your sexuality more than dialogue?
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May 18, 2017 07:36
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Random Stranger posted:Forest of the Night would still have been a terrible episode without those lines, it just wouldn't be a contender for worst Doctor Who episode. There's also a lot of episodes that seem to advocate suicide as a solution. And this episode used a man shooting himself as a punchline to a joke. I'm not morally against that or anything, but it's awfully dark for a family show that routinely saves the day through the power of love.
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May 21, 2017 14:15
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Carbon dioxide posted:Yeah, I agree that was really stupid. "We work with really nasty stuff here, so in an emergency we vent everything into the atmosphere" Also the scientists first response to a lock down is to leave the building. What? How?
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May 27, 2017 23:06
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The_Doctor posted:I'm still enjoying this a lot, I love the monks' design (even if they are a bit Pyrovile), and I kinda want to see what they really look like since they're using the A Form You Are Comfortable With trope. The dusting was absolutely brutal in the way the flesh dusted off eeeeeever so slightly before the bones. Genuinely disturbing.
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May 28, 2017 11:38
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Doctor Spaceman posted:HBomberguy has a long video on his problems with Moffat, focusing on Sherlock but with lengthy digressions on Doctor Who and other things. Never thought I'd be so happy to see a grown man screeching about Jekyll. I have never seen anything go off the rails so spectacularly.
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Jun 1, 2017 09:44
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BioEnchanted posted:It was a shame Jekyll ended so poorly, I enjoyed most of it. Hyde had some fun lines, like "Have you ever killed anyone? It's great it's like sex but there's a winner!" "No...I have people for that" So many great lines: "If it's any consolation I was spying on you from the beginning. There was never any point where I betrayed you". Then it tried to be all profound with its "love is a psychopath" wankery and I wanted to hit someone.
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Jun 1, 2017 10:08
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AndyElusive posted:Has anyone read this book? Oh god I read that when I was 9 or something. It's about devil worship or something? "and do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"
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Jun 2, 2017 10:02
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Jun 3, 2017 20:12
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Ropes were sometimes too long. If I was being hung and my feet suddenly touched the ground I'd assume the whole court martial and execution was some sort of elaborate prank.
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Jun 11, 2017 21:07
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Cojawfee posted:I don't really remember all that much about the Simm master as it was so many years ago when I watched it. What was the conclusion of his arc? Is it possible for him to take off after being prime minister and keep doing Master stuff before turning into MIssy? He ate a whole roast chicken really quickly. And I think started eating people?
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For people who's GCSE English was a long time ago, the title of the episode "World enough and time" isn't just a snazzy description of the episode, but is also the opening line of the fabulous poem "To His Coy Mistress" which can basically be summarised as "you should totally sleep with me, cos you'll be dead eventually"quote:Had we but world enough, and time,
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