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TinTower posted:What is the round things joke? No idea... 
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rvm posted:Doctor Who is in a perpetual state of being ruined forever. Doctor Who General Wikia is Dead, Long Live Doctor Who General! https://www.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/comments/8d8r32/times_doctor_who_was_ruined_forever/
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marktheando posted:Yeah Star Trek fans are awful for this. The people getting bent out of shape about visual continuity in Discovery (sets and uniforms don’t match 50 year old episodes, oh no!) would not enjoy having several different equally canon versions of the fate of Atlantis. Yeah, except I'm one of those Star Trek fans and I have no issue with DW doing that kinda stuff because it's been established in the show that history and the timelines constantly change. Also Doctor Who has busted out stuff like Mondasian Cybermen whose designs were derided for years as clunky--and showed how awesome and scary they were. And the Hartnell console room for Clara and Me. DW does a far better job of honoring it's history and canon, because it's run by hardcore nerd fanboys.
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marktheando posted:Why don’t you use the same excuse for Star Trek then? There’s enough time travel in Star Trek for the timelines to be constantly changing. Well I still believe in that argument so... They have used that excuse for ST before, in the JJ films, and I did buy it there because it was pretty clear the timeline changed. But when the producers iof DISCO are saying "no it is the EXACT same timeline as TOS" then there's no reason for Anson Mount not to be rocking velour. 
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2house2fly posted:Eleventh Doctor: Twelfth Doctor: 
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Davros1 posted:Dumbest take ever? Well I would never get so pissy about a few pixels on the cover pic on my phone's screen, but not gonna lie if BF used the newest theme instead of the appropriate one for each Doctor...
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This is really well done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbxMg6i0cmQ
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Jan 20, 2019 15:15
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Open Source Idiom posted:No, make me the showrunner and I'll bring back the Raston Warrior Robot.  "Go on..."
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Jan 21, 2019 00:24
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The_Doctor posted:Following the C.Bakes regent video up there, YouTube suggested this McGann/Hurt one I hadn’t seen before. A little rough around the edges, but good. "OK this is kinda coo--OH poo poo THE END!"
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Jan 22, 2019 02:42
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IO9 has a nice write up on Big Finish for newbies in The Year of No TV Who: https://io9.gizmodo.com/there-has-never-been-a-better-time-to-start-listening-t-1831936544 And in the comments, the hottest of hot takes: quote:wl;akj I can't even tell what's real and what's parody anymore. 
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Jan 24, 2019 01:44
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Bicyclops posted:I think the premiere had some pretty good cinematography too.  Like in the first 5 minutes I was like "oh poo poo, this looks like a movie!"
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Jan 24, 2019 03:40
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"Owns all of the New Adventures but has never read one." Well that's no fan.
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Jan 29, 2019 01:01
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Mameluke posted:I'm surprised that nobody's ever tried to do a Cybermen story where becoming emotionless metalmen really is the best option for the Telosians/Mondasians/people. They kinda did this with the last one, but as seems to be de riguer nowadays, they were accomplices to The Master/Missy. A lot of times people don't seem to know what to do with the Cybermen.
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Jan 30, 2019 01:45
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howe_sam posted:Behold, last season in one picture! NOT PICTURED: Bradley Walsh, at the craft services table
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Jan 31, 2019 01:48
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"E-JAC-U-LATE! E-JAC-U-LATE!"
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Feb 2, 2019 02:21
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No not the Mueller Probe.
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Feb 8, 2019 07:06
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"Ha ha, yeah right 73 ro-" quote:Guard / Technician / Cyberman / ... 
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Feb 15, 2019 02:41
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I've only ever heard of this, but it's Doctor Who as gently caress. Literally: quote:Adam Adamant Lives! has been called by modern observers "what Doctor Who did next",[3] because at least three Doctor Who alumni had key positions on the pilot. Most obviously, it reunited producer Verity Lambert with Head of Television Drama Sydney Newman. Together they had been at the core of decision-makers who launched Doctor Who. But the series also brought Donald Cotton, who had the same year written two serials for Doctor Who, back into Newman's orbit. Cotton and partner Richard Harris would write the first script, "A Vintage Year for Scoundrels", and would thus come to be credited as co-creators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOm5dlgQaVk The 1902 scenes are so earnest it comes across as almost an Austin Powers style parody, very camp and on the nose (though the scenes of him being overwhelmed by the future are among the most effective and believable I've ever seen in the genre). Watching a bit of later episodes the hero has that sort of Barnabas Collins "gentleman in the future swagger" and it's also very shades of Jago and Litefoot Series 5. In an alternate timeline, it would have been interesting for it to have run for 10 years and had a modern deconstructing of it--especially when you consider The Prisoner was already deconstructing the swashbuckingly swinging spy archetype at the same time (his voice and cadence sounds a lot like MacGoohan too). Would be interesting to see what BF could make of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOm5dlgQaVk&t=1140s "Who is your Grandfather, Child?"--yep, Doctor Who as gently caress.  "Sam Jones"  Also yeah Tennant could nail this, even in live action...
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The_Doctor posted:Aww, that's sad. It's one of my personal favourites. I'm unhappy you're sad...
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Feb 26, 2019 01:15
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Bicyclops posted:Like... does she have to eat or drink? Does she age? Is she going to live in that cement block for eternity? Did the Doctor save her out of rage because she was related to the Family of Blood? quote:He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing. The fury of the Time Lord. And then we discovered why. Why this Doctor who had fought with gods and demons, why he’d run away from us and hidden. He was being kind.
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So does that make him the only legitimate doctor Doctor?
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Mar 3, 2019 02:19
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The Torchwood vs UNIT story where Jack thinks 3 is his Doctor then realizes he isn't and has to avoid loving up causality in the 70s/80s has been a decade in the making and would be an Instabuy for me. The other one I want to see (hear) is when Jack finally gets around to Me. 
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Mar 12, 2019 01:26
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That's like 20 Peter Haining books of material!
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Mar 16, 2019 00:35
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Davros1 posted:Katarina's back, and the First and Second Doctors meet!: What is particularly cool is that they got the best "stand ins" for One and Two--Peter and Frasier--to be in this episode! 
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Mar 19, 2019 00:42
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Box of Bunnies posted:Welp. Switching to straight currency conversion is going to make things cost 1.75x what they currently have been for me. A set I'dve bought in the past for $20, using today's exchange rate for example, will cost $36.96AUD going forward. 1.31x in the US. I always thought $12.99 or $20 was fair; when that goes to $17 or $26 it's a bit much. $40 for a season of Jago and Litefoot? Really? It's not like the exchange rate means suddenly you are making more or less salary, so why should I suddenly have to pay more? A guy in the UK who made £50k a year 5 years ago and was paying £12.99 for an audio is paying the same portion of their salary now as they were then. If I made $50k a year 5 years ago and was paying $12.99 for an audio I now have to pay $17. It's not like I was reaping some big benefit over the other guy.When the US Dollar went up I didn't take a pay cut. It's not going to increase their UK sales; people won't say "Finally, now the pricing is fair, I'll buy more!" What will happen is they'll sell less titles to international buyers, but maybe non-UK sales are such a small portion they can lose us? A real shame. I have spent thousands on Big Finish and this is how they feel about my business?  edit: LOL on the Not The Big Finish Forum some guy pointed out this is DOUBLING prices for Canadians. http://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/5367/important-information-customers-overseas 
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The_Doctor posted:Straight up lava lamps there. That seems lazy, but ok. 
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And of course when this pricing thing happens, they announce cool poo poo like this: https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/seventh-doctor-and-mags1 
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Mar 25, 2019 00:37
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True, but at least they didn't order the prop from the Sharper Image catalog... Like when I watched Remembrance in 89, as awesome as the rest of the episode was, that static globe made me cringe.
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DoctorWhat posted:What are you talking about, Davros? Actually, I think it would be: "WHAT ARE YOU TALK-ING ABOUT, DAV-ROS?!!" Vinylshadow posted:We've got a trailer for The Macra Terror Was Polly always that tall?  I'd be down with seeing some BF Companion Chronicles animated in this style.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJEzf-ehlI Dunno if I missed something in December, but I don't ever recall having heard of these guys. I've never seen so much colorized footage in one place, even the Babelcolour stuff wasn't this extensive! We're like 5 years away from fans being able to colorize the entire 1st and 2nd Doctor runs on their own, even if the BBC won't do it. I mean, seriously, LOOK AT THIS:  
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SiKboy posted:Colourising movies/TV shows which were shot for black and white has never been, and will never be, a good idea. Well to each their own. You can still enjoy the black and white versions if you choose. I think this footage looks great. It's not like they just had grey costumes--even if it was shot in black and white they still spent time choosing color props and costumes and it's cool to see those, especially on stuff like Marco Polo where we have color reference stills. Also like it or not, some fans just cannot get into the black and white versions and this will make early stories more accessible to them.
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jivjov posted:PSA: we get two more months before the Big Finish international pricing changes quote:Ahead of the launch of our new website tomorrow, we have an important update on international download pricing. Good. I will actually buy a few more now that I have some time. If they are bent on still doing this, then maybe they would consider lowering the cost of older audios sooner. That might make a good compromise--all international customers pay more, but everyone gets a price break on older stuff--moreso than the 1st 100 Main Range. Cerv posted:is it healthy to indulge such immaturity? Well again, it's not like the original versions won't be available for purists. Getting more New Series fans to watch, say, some Troughton and maybe buy more Big Finish with Frazer and Anneke and Wendy is not a bad thing. I mean you can say "well they should just have better taste" but that won't get them to watch. You could also make the argument that when Big Finish does stories with Doctors 1-7 set in eras past when they were filmed but with realistic and accurate settings (ie One, Susan, Ian and Barbara visiting our 2006 and referencing modern events and technology) is somehow impure. Or when those audios have them visiting vast places the tv budget never could have pulled off. And for me, it's an interesting new look at episode I've seen before. I watched every black and white episode available multiple times. I would gladly rewatch them all in color.
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totally not Peter Capaldi posted:I would like a version of Twice Upon a Time re-edited into 4:3 black & white with 25-minute episodes.
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Davros1 posted:Big Finish's redesigned website is now up and running!  I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually, but sitting in a parking lot before a long road trip trying to find a couple audios I was looking for with a new interface was not ideal.
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DoctorWhat posted:you should re-examine that - examine why the same egotism and confidence and flaws that have characterized Doctors for years were unacceptable coming from Clara. Why are you automatically seeing misogyny here when he didn't even say why he found her insufferable? I didn't like her in the beginning not because she was a "strong female" but because at first her whole characterizaton was a Mystery Box Impossible Girl who was like the Serpentor of Companions--distilled to be the Perfect Doctor Who Companion who literally saved every Doctor 1000 times. Once they dropped that she was much better and I ended up liking her. She also performed a great Sarah Jane role of being a fairly long term companion across two regenerations.
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Davros1 posted:Should've had a different Clara for each ep, and as the eps progress the version in that ep begins to remember more and more about the Doctor because of his interactions with her other selves. This would have been the bomb. Although I imagine in a few years there will be upteenzillion Clara box sets for BF exploring the many, many lives of Clara with every Doctor so we'll see something like that. One interesting counterpoint to Clara is River. Now River is basically the same thing as Clara--an Ur-Companion created solely to love (and kill) the Doctor. But the thing is she was never introduced that way--we instead saw her at the end of her time with the Doctor, "older" and wiser than him, competent at both her profession and in being a time travelling adventurer. She seemed to have a full life and personality, and the mystery box stuff was only brought in later. Of course the offscreen explanation is that (most likely but not definitely) Moffat had no idea who she was going to be, that there would be companions who bang in the TARDIS and have a time babby with a Time Head and that he would be showrunner and be able to do all that. But I say not definitely because this is a guy who wrote a story about the Doctor in a giant library like 20 years ago and probably had most of his "if I was in charge" poo poo mapped out since the 90s... Still though, it works out much better that River's Super Specialness wasn't laid out til later.
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LividLiquid posted:Because when there's an incredibly online, incredibly toxic, and incredibly vocal contingent of nerds warring for control of every genre fiction franchise, it's kind of on you to explain how you're not one of them rather than on everybody else to expect that nobody is. Of course there's also the problem with online, that even if someone says they aren't coming at it from a view of hating women and black people having agency, people still won't believe them and will try to assume "they're lying, I know in their heart they are a shitlord" and disregard everything they say. If you want to see sexism, racism, etc everywhere, you're going to see it. Chokes McGee posted:what all of them I don't think it's any other than the 4 listed. But on that topic, they've just about come out and said in The Two Masters and the River story that Beevers IS the Delgado Master after being injured and unable to regenerate; and in the interviews on the River one Beevers says he's pretty much playing him that way. I could see Beevers being able to pull off a convincing Delgado if he just changed his cadence to be a bit more suave, confident and less sepulchral, and I would love to see him playing a full on uninjured Delgado Master in something with Tim Treloar. I also see that even the Dark Shadows line has become more amenable to recasting dead actors because they are bringing back Julia Hoffman with Julie Newmar (yes, Catwoman!) playing the part. Hopefully they can get someone to convincingly play Original Barnabus, Professor Stokes, Roger, and Elizabeth and really do some old school stories.
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SecretOfSteel posted:I really loved his transition in Utopia when he went from bumbling, cranking, sadly out-of-time but very well meaning scientist to full-on master, had that nice level of unsettling to it. It actually makes me think of Graham in the last episode of the previous season at the beginning where they find out Tim is on the planet. He has that subtle shift too in his manner that felt unsettling. Would have been great if they'd left it like that, but being Season 11 they had to pause the story and have an explicit conversation about how Graham was feeling and what he was planning to do next. The script got in the way of the acting too much in Season 11. And thankfully that wasn't all we got. He's killing it in the audios! The_Doctor posted:She’s back! And it’s about time! Daleks! Castles! Roller Skates!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FiT5U1rWmo "SIR, YOU ARE CLEARLY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS!"
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