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It's happened a few times that I can think of. Kroll is just a massive wild animal, the ultimate threat in Inferno is a natural disaster, and there is no intelligence at work behind Kill the Moon or The Forest of the Night.
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Cleretic posted:The Vashta Nerada were mostly parasites without much intelligence.
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That was thoroughly enjoyable and I want to see more.
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Apr 16, 2017 12:02
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The_Doctor posted:Yes, straight through as far as we know. UK TV doesn't tend to break up seasons like US TV. They used to skip weekends for Eurovision though.
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Apr 17, 2017 11:29
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That was good up until the bit where the Doctor mindwiped a species and then sided with the murderdeath city against the last* remnants of the human race.
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Apr 23, 2017 11:34
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Irony Be My Shield posted:The murderdeath happened due to a poorly thought out protocol that he just deleted.
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Apr 23, 2017 12:21
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Irony Be My Shield posted:They aren't responsible, they didn't write their own programming. The more I think about this episode the more I hate the ending.
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Apr 23, 2017 12:33
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Also that cold open should have been cut entirely because it did a great job of robbing the episode of a lot of mystery.
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Apr 23, 2017 13:17
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The Beast Below's setting is itself a callback to Ark in Space, and this episode had callbacks to both. E: Also I just remembered that the Doctor suggested the Silurians sleep for roughly another thousand years in the 2-parter, which would have led them to wake up right around / after the human exodus.
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Apr 23, 2017 13:52
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https://twitter.com/FairfaxSpoilers/status/857225974714253312 E: A followup tweet has the link.
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Apr 26, 2017 15:24
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That was a solid episode of Doctor Who.
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Apr 30, 2017 11:31
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Plavski posted:Also, potential spoilery thoughts: I heard the sound of drumming behind the knocking. I wonder if it's Simm's Master behind the door.
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Apr 30, 2017 13:44
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happyhippy posted:I must be in the minority here. I HATE Victorian loving London episodes. 1814 was Regency, not Victorian 
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May 1, 2017 01:13
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This is a pretty strong season.
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May 15, 2017 07:33
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One interesting bit was this:James Mathieson posted:I made the Doctor blind but cured him by episode's end. Moffat took it and ran with it... For how long? I have no idea....
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May 15, 2017 14:23
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I didn't say the pipes in my bedroom, I said the pope's in my bedroom.
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May 21, 2017 12:07
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The medicine thing felt like a few (loving terrible) lines that could have been deleted from the script without changing much. I don't know how you fix the Zygon story without starting from scratch.
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May 21, 2017 12:38
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MrL_JaKiri posted:And Extremis it was pretty mediocre at best The best bit was the Pope joke, and that was great 
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May 21, 2017 13:31
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Cleretic posted:Actually, this is the sister trope to 'it was all a dream', the 'it was all a lie'. The main effective difference is a variable quality level; the dream trope almost always means the whole story was useless but provides an interesting stage for things, while the lie trope could, depending on execution, either be a worthwhile and interesting addition or actively a waste of your time. Compare Last Christmas (dream, but interesting) to Time Heist (lie, kinda bullshit) and Heaven Sent (lie, really good).
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May 22, 2017 04:18
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He routed it through the same thing that handles all the phone calls people make across time and space.
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May 22, 2017 08:52
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Season 6 barely reused any antogonists didn't it? efb
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May 23, 2017 11:06
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In the Mark of the Rani he also says ""Come, come, the whole universe knows I'm indestructible! " when asked how he survived in the Planet of Fire.
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May 25, 2017 04:27
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Jerusalem posted:Maybe the Doctor ends up putting them in their own simulation and they "win" and rule the world with an iron fist while never actually threatening reality whatsoever? I think that would be neat if maybe a little obvious. It's more or less what they did to Moriarty on Star Trek.
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May 26, 2017 13:35
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Douglas the Idiot looked familiar but it wasn't until I looked it up that I found out he was Dan Miller from The Thick of It. The episode had far too much poo poo happening because the plot demanded it happen, like all of the lab stuff and the Doctor deducing that it was a superbacteria. First miss of the season.
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May 28, 2017 11:44
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I don't really see the similarities between the Monks and the Silence. The Silence have been shaping our society in secret for millennia without being seen, whereas the Monks literally landed on the planet and said "Take us to your leader".Bicyclops posted:This sums up a lot of what the problem with that scene I was talking about with that Nardole scene I mentioned, and really any scene where the Doctor was giving exposition to the room full of military people. It feels like they're going for that scene where Nine keeps saying "Narrows it down!" except people are just yelling random guesses and the Doctor is saying "Good, yes! It's exactly that!" As it was it felt so arbitrary. Why bacteria and not grey goo? Or some project to drill into the mantle, or to open a black hole at a particle accelerator, or anything else.
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Jun 1, 2017 02:25
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HBomberguy has a long video on his problems with Moffat, focusing on Sherlock but with lengthy digressions on Doctor Who and other things.
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Jun 1, 2017 05:25
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Yeah, I disagree with bits of it. The original Sherlock Holmes stories generally aren't fair-play mysteries and it seems strange to mark the show down for it given that.
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Jun 1, 2017 06:03
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BSam posted:people have been giving dr who monologues to other dr who actors to read out and they've been great. i want the most 'i'm the loving doctor, ain't you ever heard of me? run you fucks!' that someone can find, and for them to give it to Five to read out. someone please make this happen Here's one version. Audio quality is bad though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezwG-h5l-48
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Jun 1, 2017 10:32
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Chakram posted:Why is it that anti-racists and anti-sexists are the only ones I ever see who even care what race or sex a character is?
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Jun 12, 2017 11:42
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Night Terrors is an episode that apparently exists too?
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Jun 13, 2017 03:54
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Alas, I am undone.
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Jun 13, 2017 04:03
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The Sarah Jane Adventures had more respect for the audience's intelligence and maturity than Torchwood did.
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Jun 13, 2017 09:28
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docbeard posted:The equivalent for me is Planet of the Dead. I do not hate Planet of the Dead, because that would require me to have formed an emotional or even an intellectual reaction to it that would differentiate the experience of watching it from having stared at a blank screen for an hour and a half. I hate Planet of the Dead.
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Jun 13, 2017 12:33
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Which Voyager episode out of curiosity, because there is a couple I can think of off the top of my head that are far worse than Threshold.
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Jun 14, 2017 05:53
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The Doctor / Companion-light episodes are the closest the show gets to true bottle episodes.
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Jun 18, 2017 05:20
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Rome very probably had black emperors.
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Jun 18, 2017 05:39
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Mind Loving Owl posted:I like to think of Sherlock as basically being Jonathan Creek filtered through several layers of dumb. Except most of the time Moffat can't even be bothered showing us how Sherlock's magic brain works through the problem. Sherlock stops being a mystery show after a while. Even the actually good episode in season 4 isn't a conventional mystery.
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Jun 21, 2017 08:19
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The Silence work in secret, have actually been around for all of history, and have a specific goal (that isn't conquering the planet), none of which is true for the Monks.
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Jun 21, 2017 11:47
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Thanks to the Lie of the Land it's become impossible to give a poo poo about teased regeneration scenes so the start of the episode fell completely flat. The rest was loving fantastic though, even if you had been spoilt by the trailers.
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To be fair to Ainley it's not a bad direction to take the character, and it suited the stories he was in. Also he would sometimes answer the phone by saying "This is the Master", followed by a cackle.
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