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AndyElusive posted:I loved that talking frog, gently caress the haters. It was genuinely the best thing all season
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The doctor's ludicrous level of willpower and determination is probably my favourite of his/her superpowers. The hyper intelligence and latest pulled-out-of-the-writer's-arse special time lord bodily functions can both get a bit tired, but the character's almost unreasonable ability to pursue a goal no matter what (usually Doing The Right Thing) is what makes the Doctor a genuinely good fictional role model
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SiKboy posted:I like all of Matt Smiths seasons to a greater of lesser extent, but for my money his first season was overall the best of the revival so far. By far, frankly.
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I wasn't surprised when Davison said what he did. He's always struck me as a bit of a curmudgeon in interviews and things, in that solidly middle England, middle class, 'I don't want to think too hard or challenge my own opinions' kind of way. As we all know now, C.Bakes is an all round class act. Meanwhile, Sly is a freak (and I mean that as a high compliment), and T.Bakes also seems to have become much more mellow and open minded in his old age. Davison is more 'normal', which often translates to having kind of lovely views
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Jan 21, 2019 10:17
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Jerusalem posted:Tangentially related, but that moment where all the Doctor's rage and hatred culminates in him breaking down and despairing,"They're all dead, Rose My biggest Doctor Who kokoro wish is to see Eccleston portray the Doctor just one more time.
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Jan 23, 2019 09:39
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" in what I believe is the first explicit demonstration of his utter grief/guilt is an incredible moment.
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2house2fly posted:The criticisms I've seen of series 11 from the left include a lack of moral/ethical core and LGBT representation coming largely in the form of bit characters saying "btw im gay" before being killed, as well as the bulk of character development among the diverse cast going to the white man. Basically a progressive shell disguising conservatism underneath Which I agree with, frankly
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Feb 7, 2019 21:28
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Also Matt Berry related - if you haven't already, watch the excellent Toast Of London to see Peter Davison as a beer swilling hooligan
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The_Doctor posted:She’s back! And it’s about time! Awesome. This might make me give a drat about Big Finish again.
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Bicyclops posted:It's good to know that show doesn't get better from when I immediately gave up on it and decided to watch Black Books instead. I like to think that it was mostly safe from the Linehan bigotry, but I've been afraid to rewatch it. Nothing comes to mind that's more egregious than any early 2000s show. I think Dylan Moran had a hand in writing it, which might have offset Linehan's shittiness. Like Mathews and Father Ted
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May 14, 2019 08:23
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Doctor Who is mostly pretty progressive but it's ultimately floofy entertainment and is emphatically not the medium in which to discuss one of the worst crimes against humanity in history
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Android Blues posted:Honestly I think it's probably good to talk about the Holocaust in all sorts of media. It happened, we should remember it, and while it should always be treated with sensitivity and respect (and I hope this episode will do that), I also don't think we should remand mention of it to serious, highbrow media. A lot of people don't consume serious, highbrow media - they need to be reminded of it too. I can't say I disagree, you make very good points. I guess I'm just concerned because I have sympathy with Adorno's 'no poetry after Auschwitz', while also recognising that treating it as a once-in-history unique occurrence lets things like Republicans attacking AOC for daring to make reference to it w/regard to current events anathema. It's just not a needle I trust the current DW team to thread (and frankly neither of the previous admins either)
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Jun 22, 2019 23:57
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Vinylshadow posted:Eleven was Two reimagined Thirteen is Five-ish. I don't think Tom Baker can ever truly be imitated
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Jul 8, 2019 16:50
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Mooseontheloose posted:I thought Ten was Five re-imagined That always baffled me a bit, cause he doesn't seem anything like Five. Five was mild mannered and relatively unobtrusive, Ten was a histrionic cartoon.
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The_Doctor posted:
Nothing wrong with being bipolar. Ten's just a self-centred arsehole with very poor emotional control/maturity.
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The_Doctor posted:Apologies, I meant bipolar as just swinging randomly between manic states, not the actual disorder. No worries man, I know you meant nothing by it. It's just a bit like the colloquial 'OCD', is all. Jerusalem posted:All this reminds me how much I loving adored 11 in season 5. I enjoyed Tennant as 10 but season 5/11/Moffat all felt like such a breath of fresh air. I still enjoyed the two seasons that followed but they had plenty of problems and issues with things getting repetitive, but goddamn was season 5 loving amazing. Season 5 Eleven = best Eleven. When he's still a bit scruffy and nerdy/academic looking and awkward. Also even though he is/looks noticeably younger in his first series, it's also where Smith most seemed like an ancient old man in a weird young body. He got slicker after that, and while that worked for Eleven's 'is basically a ludicrously powerful wizard' side, the portrayal did lose a bit of its early charm.
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Jul 9, 2019 13:53
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The_Doctor posted:Also the Silence being confessionals makes zero sense. You forget that you told them your sins? I mean, if the objective is to have something to hold over the confessor's head (it is) then it's an advantage if they don't know what it is they confessed to/that they confessed at all!
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Jul 11, 2019 17:58
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Finally got round to watching American Gods. It's very uneven but DW-wise my main takeaway was 1) Ian McShane would make an amazing Doctor (it's a pity he doesn't like sci-fi) 2) Crispin Glover is giving off some 11 vibes in this
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Jul 12, 2019 15:14
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SiKboy posted:I can never take Ian McShane totally seriously when hes supposed to be threatening. There is a small part of my mind just going "C'mon dude, you're Lovejoy the roguish antiques dealer". He'll always be, first and foremost, Al cocksucking Swearengen to me. And that's plenty threatening
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Davros1 posted:Seriously? You honestly think that would be Donna and Jack's reactions after seeing this: I'm, like, 95% straight, but Paul McGann is a very, very attractive man. Both classic and (possibly even more so) current versions, to be honest.
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Jul 15, 2019 14:10
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Cool, sounds like latter day Big Finish then
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Jul 18, 2019 14:11
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corn in the bible posted:The problem here is that the episode's gimmick (which they explain immediately, it's not a twist or anything) is that stuff is happening in the 60s and 70s at the same time. But the result is that in the 60s they have to ask Ace what is happening, and in the 70s they have to ask the Doctor what is happening, so you get double the exposition with more throughout the episode. Even at the end they have to ask the Doctor to explain the climax--it never stops I caved and am listening and this episode loving sucks. Awful, awful, awful. It's exactly what you say, and it's not even a cast I could give the slightest poo poo about doing the exposition. The first story held my attention fine, and McGann really gets a chance to show off his acting chops (Oh, Paul McGann  ). This one I drift off every thirty seconds because it's so boring.This whole thing is clearly a bit of a Big Finish love-in before it's a Doctor Who story, and I suppose that's their prerogative, but this episode is self-indulgent as all get out. No-one cares about Counter-Measures
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Payndz posted:Doctor Who fandom in general has an alarmingly high percentage of regressive, [X]-phobic, toxic bellowing shitheads, so it's not that much of a surprise. Look at all the venom that spewed out when Jodie Whittaker's casting was announced. Nerds of all types and fandoms tend to be grotesque, to be honest. I'm not sure Doctor Who is particularly egregious, and it's always had a notably large queer following. Big Finish is made up entirely of upper middle class white people, though, so it's disappointing but surprising behaviour on their part Edit I mean their managing director is named Jason Haigh-Ellery, lmao
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Rochallor posted:As much as I dislike Big Finish I'm mildly impressed that they're not even worse on social issues. The fact that a cadre of mediocre white men are at least embarrassed about employing a transphobe is a bit more than I was expecting. The stories? I don't know about writers, but as it stands the monthly ones are still pretty good, and all the 'event' ones - Time War, 8th Doctor, etc, etc - are trash. And actually now that I think about it those latter ones are definitely written by said cadre of white guys.
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corn in the bible posted:well, I still think Paul McGann is cool He is a living god and I love him and want to kiss him
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Yeah early Big Finish was weird as hell a lot of the time and was much, much, much better for it. Part of the reason I prefer the monthly series is that it's not desperately trying to ape the reboot. Well, not as much Edit although yes sometimes this didn't work, like Minuet in Hell. Nekro was quite far into the range though. But it's excrable enough that it transcends time Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Jul 26, 2019 |
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Capaldi's last season was good though. Obviously imo. Whitaker is being deeply under-served by very anaemic/flat out poo poo scripts, unfortunately. Also I do have some reservations about her Doctor's characterisation so far
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Jul 27, 2019 17:24
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Paul.Power posted:Series 8 and 9 also have some drat fine moments too (Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline and Heaven Sent, for instance). Sho nuff but I'd also add that those are the only good ones in series 8 and 9
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Jul 27, 2019 17:59
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McGann posted:Aw, I think I'm the only one who liked #2. But I also have listened to all of Countermeasures, which seems a rarity, so.. Surely, though, you have to admit the episode was 90% exposition babble and 10% character work of any kind? The behind the scenes bit was for the most part the usual love in, but it did reaffirm the fact that C. Bakes is the biggest sweetheart on the planet. His bit in the big 'what does Big Finish mean to you?' section is lovely - he's so frankly, genuinely delighted that he finally got to play his Sixth Doctor, and so obviously grateful and enamored with the fans and the franchise as a whole.
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Jul 27, 2019 20:13
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Jul 28, 2019 04:01
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They should get whoever that was to do One for BF, since David Bradley sounds nothing like Hartnell at all
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Jul 29, 2019 09:37
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Latest BF Tenth Doctor Adventures - 'colonialists and anti-colonialists are just as bad as each other' Also Tennant in nonstop full on relentless Scooby Doo mode. Even Wilf wasn't worth this
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marktheando posted:Well obviously, but CHUDs are specifically Trump supporters, I thought? Yeah, pretty much. There's a very strong case to be made for gammonry, though
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Aug 12, 2019 14:31
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The Telepath arc has the easy interpretation of "never help refugees they will just become terrorists" Just like those EDIT - I still can't believe that two-parter got made
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Aug 14, 2019 13:58
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Box of Bunnies posted:It's just a shame he wrote Twice Upon a Time back in the 80s instead of here in the 2010s where all of Hartnell is easily accessible in one form or another, then This. There's no excuse, as DW showrunner and enthusiast, to not watch all Hartnell and to not even approximate his character. I could've written him better, and I'm just some random jackass
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Aug 26, 2019 12:41
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Big Finish's Red Planets - 'In 2017 liberal democracy and capitalism are collapsing, ecological catastrophe is continuing apace, and far right authoritarianism is on the rise, but what if instead of this "petty politicking" [actual quote] instead there was communism  '
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Someone itt a long while ago put it perfectly by saying 'the doctor is an immortal shape shifting alien who makes a policy of transgressing every norm and stepping over every boundary, why should gender be the one hard limit?', and they were quite right. The Doctor is a set of values, and those values are unisex.
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Rochallor posted:My takeaway so far is inverting the usual standard of quality scripts and acting produced on a budget of $16.50 so it's now in the business of lavishly bringing to life the most dire of farts, a status quo made even more agonizing by the actual good stories, Demons of the Punjab and It Takes You Away. Yeah this is exactly how I feel
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LividLiquid posted:I absolutely adore Eleven as a fairy tale just like I love Twelve as a burned out former rock star and Thirteen's enthusiastic adventurer. I liked Eleven best as an awkward crumpled academic, but that was only in his first season. What remained consistent was that he was also a loving wizard who made most of his other incarnations look like chumps. I actually quite liked that Twelve wasn't as competent or confident, despite the bluster - it was all down to willpower for him. Like, his best moment was punching a wall for a couple billion years
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