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Which season should the next animated reconstruction be from?
This poll is closed.
Season 1 (Marco Polo) 13 18.57%
Season 2 (The Crusade) 1 1.43%
Season 3 (Galaxy 4/The Myth Makers/The Daleks' Master Plan/The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve/The Celestial Toymaker/The Savages) 25 35.71%
Season 4 (The Smugglers/The Highlanders/The Underwater Menace/The Evil of the Daleks) 16 22.86%
Season 5 (The Abominable Snowmen/The Web of Fear/The Wheel in Space) 11 15.71%
Season 6 (The Space Pirates) 4 5.71%
Total: 70 votes
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Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Edward Mass posted:

Under the Lake/Before the Flood wasn't BAD, per se, just unremarkable.
I remember liking the first half more than the second but that's a common problem for two-parters.

Also this was a great alternate title theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE-6gpPYPMQ

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Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Jerusalem posted:

The Rani was a cool character in concept and loving awful in execution, but I adore her spot-on analysis of The Master being somebody who would get dizzy walking in a straight line. :laugh:

Also her TARDIS interior was fantastic.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

The_Doctor posted:

God I’d forgotten about this. The sound bleed in that first episode!

https://twitter.com/graemeallan/status/1243156046635565056

And then an ad for Norton's show turned up during the cliffhanger in the Angels two-parter.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
'Let's have some British people just give away large parts of Australia because "nobody lives there"' is something I keep coming back to and while I'm willing to put it down to ignorance rather than malice it doesn't stop it being an incredibly poo poo concept.

Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Apr 4, 2020

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1246884203419099137?s=19

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

4, 5, 10.

I like Eccleston but with 5 doctors and 3 choices people are going to miss out.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Shiftypenguin posted:

"Planet of the Doctors"

EVERYONE is the Doctor!

I liked The Leisure Hive too.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Adams reuses a few jokes from The Pirate Planet in Hitchhikers doesn't he?

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Wolfechu posted:

To be even fairer, long scenes of sitting in the TARDIS wasn't really a regular thing until the late Tom/Early Davison era. IIRC, we didn't even see the console room in Tom's first season.

Yeah. The TARDIS itself isn't even in Sontaran Experiment or Genesis of the Daleks and only appears at the very end of Revenge of the Cybermen.

The console room only appears once in Pertwee's last season too.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

happyhippy posted:

Haven't watched much of Pertwee's run, how often does his car appear?
And like, where did he park it?

He had two cars! Bessie, who appears in a lot of stories, and the Whomobile, which is in two.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
I thought it was really memorable for how ridiculous it was.

Torchwood was mentioned in the Weakest Link section in season 1.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Chokes McGee posted:

I keep thinking "Oh no, I've seen dumber," and then I fail to come up with a counterexample.

Kill the Moon, maybe? Although that's not dumb so much as just insulting.

Yeah, I got nothin'.

End of Time Part 1?

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Dabir posted:

I like the Sontaran two parter.

There are large sections I don't like but the arrival of the Valiant is fantastic.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Rochallor posted:

It also helps that RTD rarely went ultra-cynical and bleak with his work. There's individual scenes and moments that strive for that, but Midnight really works because of how out of step it is with everything around it. It and Turn Left are sandwiched between the mega-event that is the Series 4 finale and what, the time Agatha Cristie got menaced by a bee?

Library 2-parter, then Midnight, then Turn Left.

One of the strongest sets of episodes in the revival really.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Attitude Indicator posted:

Did the Doctor ever travel to 2020?

Hungry Earth / Cold Blood are set in 2020 apparently.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Cap 1 was shortly after he was in Doctor Who.

Toby Jones has been in a whole bunch of prominent stuff (including Harry Potter before Doctor Who) and worked with Moffat again in Sherlock.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Jerusalem posted:

His episode of Sherlock was a shining light in that awful final season, he was fantastic.

Yeah even though it's hard to disentangle it from the finale it was still the best episode in years and he was a big part of the reason why.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Astroman posted:

RTD wasn't as liberal as Moffat with giving BF space to throw stories in, but there's a lot of room between episodes with Jack/Rose/9, and while it was heavily implied 9 had just regenerated in Rose, it's not necessarily so. There's room for a lot there, though it'd probably be solo adventures or one off companions because IIRC he may have said onscreen he hadn't traveled with anyone til he brought Rose on.

Rose also implies that he's had a bunch of off-screen adventures that turn up on Clive Finch's website and you can squeeze in a lot of stuff in the few seconds before "By the way did I mention it also travels in time"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX-R1lfycmw

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

jivjov posted:

I'm finally sitting down to binge through everything post Spyfall. I'm spoiled on the Jack Harkness cameo and the whole turns out the Doctor is a super special super-alien things, but otherwise know nothing. What sort of time am I in for, generally speaking?

It's a more interesting season than the previous one. A bunch of stories feel like they needed another draft or two though.

Best bits are pretty decent though.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Buffy has lots of quips but the characters being almost all high-schoolers makes it work a bit better than some of the shows it inspired.

Plus the long American seasons give plenty of time for things to breathe.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Also Ruth's Tardis interior looks awesome.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
There were some angry bandages that read the Doctor's mind last season that mentioned the Timeless Child.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Big Mean Jerk posted:

I really think a “RuthDoc is a 6B Doc between 2 & 3” explanation is the best solution for all involved. Just say that 10’s Metacrisis regeneration didn’t count as a full regeneration and you can still adhere to a 13 regeneration limit with Ruth and War Doc as the “forgotten” Doctors. Then have The Master as the actual Timeless Child and you’ve given him another reason to feel so hurt and vengeful toward the Time Lords.

Boom, I just handwaved any potential issues brought up last season even though there’s really no reason a show with an already tenuous adherence to continuity can’t just rewrite its own past at will to inject a little diversity and representation into its DNA at a time in our culture when that sort of thing is sorely needed.

Timelords can grant extra regenerations so the ones that the Doctor got in 6B don't count. Done.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
The idea that the egg would hatch safely and new creature not harm the earth in any way feels like it was written by someone who had never seen a nature documentary.

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Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
Yeah there are lots of examples (E: of her talking to villains) in the second half of the season.

Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 12:53 on Oct 11, 2020

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