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Burkion posted:Shame there weren't any Cybermen in that episode The stuff with Danny in the cemetery was the best Cyberman stuff the show has done in ages even if the episode didn't have "real" Cybermen
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Cleretic posted:Well the crows aren't gay They might be. The gay cawgenda
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Cleretic posted:frankly I think John Simm himself is the reason that one worked, you just wanted to see as much of him as possible. Not to take away from Simm being a charismatic actor who played a great manic Master against Tennant's similarly energetic Doctor, but "holy poo poo, turns out the Doctor isn't actually the last of the Time Lords like we thought, here's the Master to really gently caress things up" is also a much greater hook justifying three episodes than "these monsters you just met have a further plan we'll maybe elaborate on in the next episode or two" regardless of who was in the role
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Jun 21, 2017 12:53
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The problem is that Peter Capaldi owns but that a lot of the scripts in season eight wrote him as entirely too harsh (even as a Hartnell fangirl the poo poo he was pulling in The Caretaker put me off for a bit). The characterisation has gotten a lot better and his Doctor is frickin' great (as much as there's the whole "girls don't like him" thing, I in my late 20s have entirely come around on him since the rocky start, my best friend in her early 30s who is the definition of Tennant Fangirl really likes him and has the last few weeks told me how much she is going to miss him when he's gone, and my mother in her early 50s who first saw Tennant and described him as "the best looking Doctor Who" but has this year been watching with me and has expressed how much she likes Capaldi and will be disappointed when he's gone) and apart from the Monk trilogy he's finally getting a solid run of stories with a good companion (I liked Clara well enough but I know she carried a certain amount of baggage with the "impossible girl" moniker).
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Jun 21, 2017 13:56
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The_Doctor posted:So is this negating Spare Parts? Just gonna tell myself that Spare Parts is their pre-Time War origin and that then the fuckery of the war (and the involvement of this post-War Master) changed things so this new origin happened. We can have both!
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Jun 24, 2017 21:24
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Cleretic posted:the ABC equivalent here in Australia is extremely lovely (and hasn't got it yet) huh? I watched it on iView at like 5am this morning. It's absolutely there.
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Jun 25, 2017 01:49
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docbeard posted:I'm probably going to go through and take in a Cybermen story for each Doctor (video or audio) where that's possible. Question. Since I've seen Tomb quite a few times (and I love it, don't get me wrong), which is the best of the remaining Troughton Cybermen stories? (I don't mind reconstructions or just listening to soundtracks, obviously.) I'm thinking Invasion, since I've not seen that one. If you haven't seen Invasion you should probably go for that I guess, though personally I'm a little more partial to The Moonbase. docbeard posted:not sure about Six, Seven or Eight yet For Sixie you probably can't go wrong with Legend of the Cybermen (Six, Jamie, Zoe, and the land of fiction), for Seven if you feel like dipping into the books instead there's Illegal Alien which sees Seven and Ace happening across the Cybermen in Blitz-ravaged London, and for Eight I'm rather fond of The Silver Turk.
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Jun 27, 2017 08:53
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docbeard posted:Plus the REAL Thirteenth Doctor adventures starring Tamsin Grieg as the Doctor, Michelle Gomez as Missy, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt as the Expendables, Mark Heap as the Meddling Monk, and... If we get Stephen Mangan on the show he should be reprising Dirk Gentley in a Douglas Adams AllStars crossover with Martin Freeman also returning as Arthur Dent.
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Jun 30, 2017 11:08
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BSam posted:Yes, that was a lot better than the "next time trailer" threatened it would be. Yeah, it was a lot more personal and character focused than the "big splodey action piece" trailer made it out to be. I liked it.
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Jul 1, 2017 23:01
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glowing-fish posted:So the Doctor had an injury bad enough to make him start regenerating, even before the final blow? What was going on? How far back in this season was he regenerating? Is this important? He got a big zappy hug from a Cyberman while they were still on the roof of the hospital.
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Also anyone that doesn't have the Unbound stories with Geoffrey Bayldon and David Warner as the Doctor should go and grab them while they're this cheapjivjov posted:https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who---series-10-special-offer-finale-week-12
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Watching the rerun of the last episode this evening, I think my main concern with David Bradley playing a recast First Doctor is entirely in the voice. As great as he was as Hartnell in the docudrama, when he's actually playing the Doctor there's something off in his speech. The speed and intonation of it is wrong. His "oh, no, no"s feel like they come out too slowly, Hartnell spoke much quicker and that also comes across in things like the Companion Chronicles narrated by people that actually worked with the man.
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Plavski posted:David Bradley playing Hartnell is like Hopkins playing Nixon or Cox playing Churchill. It's not an impersonation, it's a performance. Bradley was amazing in An Adventure in Space and Time and I have no doubt he'll be the spirit of Hartnell again in the Christmas Special. I mean, as much as I'm kind of against recasting individual Doctors (regeneration is already an in universe explanation for recasting, going beyond that can seem a bit gauche; see: everyone's reaction to Hurndall over the last 25 years), I'm still going to give Bradley a chance and probably will enjoy the hell out of the Christmas special either way. I was just commenting on what stood out as different about their performances of the Doctor so far, especially given that the new Companion Chronicles audio came out fairly recently and so is still fresh in my mind and those are productions that are less about being imitations of the Doctor and more about capturing the essence of his performance. CobiWann posted:So has Robert Holmes regenerated yet? 
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