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Once we deleted the poo poo episodes from the old seasons we were often left with fewer than 10 anyway. Maybe they just saved us the bother and didn't film them.
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I'm really happy. I enjoyed the outer limits feeling to the bits before The Doctor dropped in, and how her involvement was a continuation of the vibe and let it development. Now there were some plot holes but they might be the season. E.g. when buddy said that he gave the guy permission to land - but the aliens had been on earth already. Who gave permission then?
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Oct 7, 2018 22:48
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Well perhaps. The point I want to make is that this episode has lots of good little connection points like that which might be flaws in the writing or which might become strengths depending on the next 9
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Oct 7, 2018 23:09
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TinTower posted:Let's see what the general reaction on Gallifrey Base is… :samjohnson:
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Oct 8, 2018 23:18
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I watched those trailers and it was worth it for "Scary Poppins." But now you don't need to.
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Oct 9, 2018 23:10
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Stairs posted:OMG I love Evelyn! It was so refreshing to have an older companion again! The Marian Conspiracy was great, but Spectre of Lanyon Moor was my fave (Brig!). I've been listening to some Evelyn ones lately too and I enjoy her, but that one about Juli(a/us) Caesar was completely incoherent.
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Oct 10, 2018 16:23
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Idunno. I find there's something charming and hobbit-like about the pants + suspenders and poo poo-stompers.
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Oct 12, 2018 20:04
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I like the new tardis except the big crystals. I'll jump on the "individual parts good but whole a bit weak" review bandwagon. I enjoyed every minute of it but I probably won't watch it again.
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Oct 14, 2018 22:10
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Astroman posted:That tent in the desert was straight outta The Greatest Show In The Galaxy. I was wondering if it was going there
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Oct 15, 2018 04:21
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The survival suits + spaceship design reminded me of Dune
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Oct 15, 2018 13:25
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Vaporware posted:As a filthy casual, I've enjoyed these two EPs more than the deep cuts with the daleks or Cybermen where I have no idea what the history is. The secret  with the daleks and the cybermen is that the history is a white noise of self-contradictions and retcons such that the only applicable thing is "they scary; doctor beats them lots."
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Oct 15, 2018 14:47
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Well it's the Space Nazi Hunter aliens from e1 came and made the scientists do all the bad stuff, so the desolation is a bit of a continuation from Dr. Strange's weird button and the celestial macaroon.
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Oct 15, 2018 14:58
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McDragon posted:Also I had the subtitles on and I appreciate that the sound effect for the Tardis is indeed VWORP It should have been either a bigger reveal or a smaller reveal. An Roanoke / Ozymandias style "they were great and they're gone," with only a few monuments and a "CROATOAN" would have been creepy and good.
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Oct 15, 2018 15:12
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Clouseau posted:You can definitely include me in the surprised about Catherine Tate camp. She was a real delight after three series where the companion was mooning over the doctor. I hated The Runaway Bride and I was just shocked to find that she was returning as the full-time companion, and then I loved her. I'm imagining a Wilf-Donna-Nardole episode right now. There would be some good chemistry.
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Oct 17, 2018 23:06
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Jerusalem posted:Imagine being the Daleks. You've fought some mind-bending insane time war with a bunch of old assholes who have been running poo poo in the universe for 10 million years and you're WINNING, and it's down to the final moments and you've loving won forever and it's over and ultimate victory is finally yours.... and then all 12* Doctors show up and you just KNOW that they're gonna pull some bullshit gently caress I love that scene every time I watch it.
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Oct 18, 2018 22:49
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I liked it quite a bit. It was pretty close to a straight historical, actually - not all the way there, but no aliens getting ready to end the world or anything supernatural beyond the insertion of the bad guy. Even the bad guy time traveller didn't use his tech for anything other than getting into the setting or shooting at the other time travellers.
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Oct 21, 2018 21:27
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docbeard posted:Thinking about it a little more, I'm struck by the ways in which this compares with probably my other favorite revival-era historical story, Vincent and the Doctor, particularly in that the Doctor and Company don't always have magical solutions to things. You can't make suicidal depression go away by showing someone a good time, and you can't make institutionalized racism vanish by making a speech or smashing a vortex manipulator. The monster is my least favourite part of Vincent and the Doctor. That always felt somehow unnecessary to me. In all of its budget-saving lack-of-glory, the monster there is just a dumb maguffin to force the setting for the more interesting parts of the story. My biggest worry about Rosa was that it was somehow going to be a self referential play on Rose.
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Oct 22, 2018 13:32
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Nodosaur posted:the last episode before this one was about a space race on a desert world where the water is made of death and people are going "WHERE ARE MY SPACE ADVENTURES?" Seriously? Just ignore people who complain about that kind of thing. They've just decided that it's terrible and that they don't like it. If it were clearly space adventures, then we'd have them complaining about the lack of historicals.
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Oct 22, 2018 18:08
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This one felt disorderly and not so great to me. Def my least favourite out of the four we've had.
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Oct 29, 2018 04:12
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Spatula City posted:I sure hope so, it would be kind of cool if in lieu of a series arc, the finale ties a bunch of disparate threads together. It's just hard to imagine Chibnall isn't doing this on purpose. alternately, he could deliberately be characterizing the Doctor as still finding her footing, and there's finally a big moment where the Doctor definitively handles an antagonist. The Doctor hasn't yet met with serious sexist treatment in Earth's past, so that's going to be very interesting, too. This makes me think of the end of The Doctor Dances.
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Nov 1, 2018 02:03
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Wheat Loaf posted:Oliver Cromwell would be an enjoyable historical figure for the TARDIS team to meet. Fil5000 posted:Given how they approached Churchill I'd be ok with them not going anywhere near Cromwell. The best way to handle Cromwell would be to have the first half of the episode showing him as the charismatic, heroic leader who liberal histories romanticized, to get the viewer to identify with him, and then in the next quarter, start to erode that, probably by drawing on Marvell's "Horatian Ode" for tone and content, and then in the last quarter pull back the curtain and show the atrocity behind the cult of personality. HEY BBC I'M AVAILABLE AS A SCRIPT CONSULTANT LETS DO THIS
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Nov 2, 2018 15:57
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I liked it better than the previous, too. I found something quite nice about the set design. It felt evocative of Classic Who, but without feeling cheap like Classic Who
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Nov 4, 2018 22:41
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Azhais posted:It really seemed like a massively low effort sideplot to give Graham and Ryan something to do. I wish they'd have dropped that and given them a task related in some way to the drama of the episode. Have them in the guts of the ship at a fuse box turning power on and off to lure nibbler to the bomb or something. Well it was a clumsy gender inversion juxtaposition. Yaz, the cop, gets the weapon and the GUARD role, so the boys get sent off to the caregiver role. I can see why they'd want to do that, but it would have been better if some more instrumental character were pregnant or needed care or whatever.
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Nov 7, 2018 23:16
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SimplyCosmic posted:Who fandom is large enough that opinions will probably always vary on any individual run of episodes in the show's history. I agree with this part
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Nov 10, 2018 05:12
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Organza Quiz posted:That's why I liked the dude giving birth plotline tbh. Aside from it being queer as all hell, it's all about men grappling with family and babies and other issues that are usually given to female characters to worry about. It's so so far from that godawful WOMAN STRONG BECAUSE WOMAN CARRY BABY from that one Christmas special and so good for kids to see. And (as I noted above) it's parallel to a female cop being given a weapon and put on guard duty with an asexual android.
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Nov 10, 2018 17:42
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Are there any classic episodes where (e.g.) Susan/Vicki and Barbara are sent off to be basically midwives where (e.g.) Ian gets a sword or something? Like, I know that scene has happened, but I'm trying to think of a specific example, and I'm coming up short and it's nagging me.
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Nov 11, 2018 01:33
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I liked it a lot - great setting, great story which scales well to the time it has to tell it, and I really like the "fooled you it was a straight historical!" storytelling.
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Nov 11, 2018 22:59
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JustinMorgan posted:So i know absolutely nothing about the partition of India. But I'd like to learn more about it. Any recommended reading or watching? Fiction in that setting is fine. Non fiction is fine if it's not too much like a high school textbook. Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is not exactly about the partition, though it looms large in the post-colonial story. It's also one of the most unbelievably wonderful books ever written and I can't recommend it enough. Several of Rohinton Mistry's novels address it (or related tensions in India) as well.
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Nov 12, 2018 23:22
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Cojawfee posted:I think the spider thing was supposed to be spooky. Or had it already ended that way?
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Nov 13, 2018 04:47
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The_Doctor posted:I think if they’d intended that, there’d have been more of a subtle wink on it, or something. Maybe she could have told Yaz that she was her favourite granddaughter and given her a keepsake that had a direct connection to that meaningful event seven decades earlier 
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Nov 13, 2018 15:22
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LividLiquid posted:Somebody on Twitter pointed out that twelve didn't think a black man could be a math teacher and just... wow, yeah, that's pretty gross. It's a bad look and a valid reading but for this I choose to believe that he was ragging on Danny as the gym teacher because Danny is a big muscle guy.
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Nov 14, 2018 00:38
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Jodie clicked for me in her entrance through the roof of the train. I was fully on board from that second. "Long story, tell you later." "Augh - I hate empty pockets!" "Why are you calling me madam?" "Am I? Does it suit me?"
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Nov 15, 2018 00:25
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DoctorWhat posted:super cool how this episode stans hard for a megacorporation
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Nov 18, 2018 22:27
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Narsham posted:How many episodes of the show pre-Chibnall show things that way? There's some Troughton-era stories, sure, although there's also the Dominators. Happiness Patrol claims that you can talk snipers out of shooting people and that the jackbooted thugs will all switch sides bloodlessly, and that's about as revolutionary as the show gets. Even Oxygen can only tell us that social progress occurs, it can't show us, and does it matter if things get bad again later on? You can punch Hitler but you can't stop the Holocaust. The Sun Makers
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Nov 19, 2018 23:56
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That list of 55 things makes me want to see 13 team up with a 50-something year old Ace.
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Nov 25, 2018 01:07
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I agree with the sentiment that the Morax conclusion wasn't as well-executed as it could have been, but I really like every part of the episode if not the sum. I thought that Lady Savage's motivations were really well-considered and thoughtful given the premises and setting, too. Though that it's a 17th-century episode gives it an automatic +2/10 for me no matter what. I even liked that one where Me was the highwayman fighting the fire breathing lion alien, because 17th century.
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Nov 25, 2018 22:50
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Rosa is soooo close to being a pure historical. The main thing that separates it from something like Black Orchid is the fact that the time travellers arrived in two different groups. The bad dude isn't using his future tech to help in his interference. There are no supernatural implications beyond the non-interference of time travel. In that respect it's quite a bit like many of the early classic historicals - just this time there is disagreement on it!
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Nov 26, 2018 06:00
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Cleretic posted:I do kinda wish we'd instead gotten a story of 'corporation becomes person, turns out to be a better person than the people running it'. That just seems like a really fun idea. Maybe that's where Kerblamm! was going, and they were like "well why is the bad guy pissed off? dunno slap some poo poo together... who hates corporations?"
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Nov 29, 2018 06:23
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That was sweet. Probably the 2nd best episode of the series. The anti-zone was awesome - it felt like a 1970s classic who set sandwiched between the two high-quality higher-production value worlds. I half expected a Silurian or Alpha Centauri to appear!
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Carbon dioxide posted:Listen to this, neither universe was our universe or at least it wasn't our earth. Yeah I noticed that too. Plus that there's no smoke coming out just means it's empty. Weakass dialogue.
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