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MrL_JaKiri posted:McCoy is a heartthrob, agreed It's the spoons, right? Chicks love the spoons.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I have to admit that the "Beeb wants a dashing romantic David Tennant type" stories we've been hearing is what makes me a wee bit doubtful about Kris Marshall. No, he doesn't. He's an affable buffoon. He has a niche but it's absolutely not "dashing".
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Turmoil posted:It will most likely lead to a betrayal where the dialog will go something like this. Bill and Nardol's Excellent Adventure.
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Burkion posted:Also uh Well, for a few hundred years they thought they were. Old habits die hard.
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docbeard posted:(And everyone laughing at Bill's genuine distress after shooting the Doctor felt really off to me.) The fact that one guy didn't put blanks in being a fun throwaway line was a bit of a weird tone thing too. Hey, Bill, lol, you could have been tricked into ACTUALLY shooting him and not just fake shooting him!
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Ephemeron posted:IIRC, UNIT soldiers guarding the Third's TARDIS had to be explicitly ordered to load live rounds (which implies that they use blanks by default). See, I can easily see "no live rounds" being at the Doctor's insistence. Mind you I can also see the Brig saying "sod that".
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After The War posted:"They never were immune to bullets, Brrrrigadier, I've been swapping your ammo for years." That would REALLY upset Chunky Gilmore.
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Forktoss posted:Nice to hear someone's as lame as me See now I get it, he was threatening to use the Oubliette of Eternity.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Haha, I live in the one constituency here where the MP isn't with either the terrorists or the homophobes. Now now. The homophobes used to be terrorists too.
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Ephemeron posted:Speaking of controversial preferences, I think I might be the only person whose favorite DW episode is Paradise Towers. I know someone who loves Time and the Rani. I just assume he took a blow to the head sometime in 1987.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Nah, Paradise Towers is pretty drat good. Not my favourite (The Happiness Patrol) but I really like it and a lot of the ideas it's playing with. Red. Duh.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Also, Nick Briggs must be a fan. Otherwise why would he remake it _three_ times in the last four years. Spaceport Fear is a Six story, in fact. And it's pretty fun!
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Rochallor posted:
I can't make it through it. And the only other serial that's happened with for me is the twin dilemma. Even Delta and the Bannermen has more to recommend it.
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FreezingInferno posted:I sort of ironically love Time And The Rani as well. Something about the combination of it being the desperate last gaps of the Colin Baker years, plus how incredibly 80's it looks (but especially how incredibly 80's it sounds with that goddamned Keff McCulloch score) makes it work for me as a once in a while guilty pleasure. Yeah, that's unfair. I don't think there's any season/series of Who that's got nothing of worth in it. Even Trial has the first part of The Ultimate Foe, and Season 24 has the aforementioned Paradise Towers which (long shots of the cleaning robot accompanied by Keff's orchestra stabs aside) is great.
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I think Gatiss just loves historical stuff in general. The Lucifer Box novels start in the Victorian period, move up to the Edwardian and finish in the early stages of the cold war.
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The_Doctor posted:Ooh, BBC Radio 4 has a C.Bakes BF audio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08thzv7 Minor spoiler for this one: Alex McQueen is in it. But isn't playing the Master, so don't get your hopes up.
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Astroman posted:Straight up sequel to Survival. Sadly both Hale and Pace are busy.
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You guys are being unfair on Owen. Remember that time he solved a rape? From the past?
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Box of Bunnies posted:The good thing about Torchwood existing is that now Big Finish can actually tell good stories with it. Though I'm still going to avoid any that involve Owen. There are some things even they can't rehabilitate. No, it was some device that let him see the past and he used it to solve a rape/murder.
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Burkion posted:Don't put the blame on me, I voted for Lord Buckethead. "Lord Buckethead, prime minister." "Yes, we know."
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Yeah, his whole life could just be a chameleon arch memory implant like the Doctor's was in Family of Blood.
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Is it bad that I really want Missy not to be faking?
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Astroman posted:I was wondering how they could do this without having canon issues with Spare Parts, but then I remembered there's probably hundreds of years of Mondasian history between that story and Tenth Planet, so there could be a lot of room. The end of Spare Parts is pretty much the perfect end to a cyberman story. Oh, cool, the doctor won! Oh, one cyberman left? Welp.
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I do wish we'd had a bit more Eccleston. For all that series 1 has aged badly, he does some great doctoring. "Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!" <waggles explosive device with a massive grin>
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Box of Bunnies posted:They might be. The gay cawgenda Bloody gay crows. Coming over here. Taking our... crows?
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Davros1 posted:The BBC radio series starring Clive Merrison. Merrison is great in those. 4 extra repeats them every so often and I always try to listen.
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Bicyclops posted:Heaven Sent is definitely one of the best episodes the show has done. Hell Bent, I get sort of bored with the drawn out Gallifrey stuff, with the blustering President and the regenerating guard and the Dalek basement, but I do like the interactions between the Doctor and Clara. I think the overall arc of the season was presenting that the Doctor, having lived lifetime after lifetime, you'd think, would be better at dealing with grief, but if anything, is worse at it, and makes bad decisions to prevent himself from having to grieve. I didn't like the Doc killing the general in Hell Bent. I mean yes, he had regenerations left, but he totally murdered that personality purely as a distraction.
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Even so. Doesn't sit right with me. Not even from a "the doctor doesn't kill" standpoint, which is one of those truisms that patently isn't, but in this context, I just don't like it.
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Cleretic posted:And I believe, according to Spare Parts (canon until potentially proven otherwise by this week's episode), this major shift happened around the equivalent of their early-mid 20th century. Technology from that time remained and stagnated because all innovation instead had to go into that whole 'not dying in the cold expanse of space' thing. Yeah, in Spare Parts the city is described as looking like 1950s London, if I remember rightly.
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jivjov posted:https://twitter.com/morganjeffery/status/878282263670046720 Reading that, I don't think that meeting was with the beeb, I think it was just them asking a load of writers to pitch to them. Interesting that Moffat only wanted to write for 8 considering how much of a 5 fan he is.
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remusclaw posted:About halfway through the episode it clicked for me that this was a multi Master ep and that Razor was the Master in a completely pointless mask, and I loved the episode all the more when it was revealed to be so. Hmm, too early to say, but a good Cyberman story? Say it ain't so! I'm an idiot and didn't realise it was him until he ran into Missy. Which meant I did the same thing as I did in Utopia and was going "Nooo, it's not is it? It loving is!" I do wish they hadn't spoiled his presence or the cybermen in all the promotion, because this would have been up there with the aforementioned Utopia as a reveal otherwise.
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Crusader posted:The Master likes teaming up with the Doctor's foes to gently caress with the Doctor, but the Daleks don't trust the Master anymore (there was that whole "put on trial and executed" thing), so what can ya do It'd be funny if the Daleks considered his slate clean because they DID execute him.
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The_Doctor posted:I didn't like Moffat as far back as Time and the Rani. You're being unfair to Pip and Jane. Which I'm fine with, frankly.
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Jerusalem posted:I've never seen one before, no one has... WHITEHOLESPEWINGTIMEENGINESDEADADVICEPLEASE
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Carbon dioxide posted:The only thing I never got is how blocking emotions stops people/cybermen 'caring' about pain. Yeah, the pain thing feels like a misstep. I thought the emotional inhibitor was to get around the existential horror of what you've done to yourself to survive. In Spare Parts it's specifically because people are so used to being inside of Mondas they can't cope on the surface and have mental breakdowns, like they have incredibly severe agoraphobia.
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Of course Sara Kingdom managed to both age 50 years AND be killed off.
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happyhippy posted:So the Doctor inadvertently creates two of his worst enemies, Daleks and now Cybermen. He more failed to stop the Daleks than created them. Unless there's a New Adventures novel where he does or something.
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mycomancy posted:He saves Devros as a child, who goes on to create the Daleks. Wow, I forgot that happened. And that was only last series wasn't it?
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Astroman posted:This has been Moffat's master plan all along. He's had this in mind since he became showrunner, probably since he was a teenager actually. Become in charge of Doctor Who, spend years trying to prove you're not sexist and act as progressive as possible while apologizing for gaffes and doing stuff like MtF Time Lord regeneration, create a gay, black, female character--and have her killed off by a white male. I don't think this timeline QUITE works because Mondasians would still have the same agoraphobia that necessitated the conversion process I'm the first place. Plus Zheng would have been converting them as fast as possible anyway.
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