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Which season should the next animated reconstruction be from? This poll is closed. |
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| Season 1 (Marco Polo) |
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13 | 18.57% |
| Season 2 (The Crusade) |
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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) |
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25 | 35.71% |
| Season 4 (The Smugglers/The Highlanders/The Underwater Menace/The Evil of the Daleks) |
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16 | 22.86% |
| Season 5 (The Abominable Snowmen/The Web of Fear/The Wheel in Space) |
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11 | 15.71% |
| Season 6 (The Space Pirates) |
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4 | 5.71% |
| Total: | 70 votes | ||
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I love Whitehouse's work, and I'd really argue that between his work on Being Human and No Angels he's really not that obsessed with hard men making difficult decisions tbh. Both those shows were pretty great, and in the latter case, almost entirely about women. Also he can write an argument like nobodies business. That said, he's such a chameleon in his Who work that I don't know what his era would have looked like, beyond an emphasis on morality plays. That's pretty much the only consistency between all his works.
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Mar 10, 2020 09:01
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shades of eternity posted:Maybe he just needs to do a remake of the only episode worth a darn that he did: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. Funny way to spell "Adrift", but you do you.
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Mar 10, 2020 12:38
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Yeah, I normally don't truck with Ellard -- his stuff is kind of interesting, but it's super prescriptive, so when an actually weird show pops up like Avenue 5 all he's able to do is say "Those sets are a bit much, eh?" rather than realise that's the point -- but that was a pro click.
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Mar 13, 2020 22:09
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Maybe this is Chibnall's attempt to reintroduce mystery to the character (by ripping off LeGuin, basically) rather than keep telling the same old stories about Gallifrey over and over. The Doctor was always special, something that RTD struggled with and Moffat just flat out loved. I don't see how this is all that different. It's just lore cruft. It's all bad.
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Mar 14, 2020 05:01
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Has the Valeyard ever really worked as character? As a symbol he's a fine antagonist to the Sixth and Seventh Doctors, but I mean as an actual person with interiority? I don't mind Eddie Robson's take on the character in A Very Dark Thing, where he's characterised by a fear of losing his identity and becoming the Doctor again, and they effectively play it as a kind of dementia, but that's basically a mental illness take on the Beevers Master again. I'll laugh so so hard if this plot is actually leading up to some kind of Valeyard reveal.
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Mar 15, 2020 08:39
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Lookit that gurn.
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Mar 17, 2020 10:44
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Took em long enough. What's the average age of their voice cast anyway? 60 plus?
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Mar 22, 2020 22:04
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Do you think she wrote that herself, or was that Chibbers?
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Mar 25, 2020 22:47
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That was very very good and clever and yes-I-called-the-twist because there-was-always-gonna-be-a-twist but who cares. Best 13th Doctor story, yeah?
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Apr 7, 2020 13:19
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Rochallor posted:Who is Milo Parker? It looks like his only BF credit is this story and he's 18 years old. Is he another BF-only Master? I would guess he's far too young to be a sound-alike for Delgado. No one knows, though the thought is that he's playing the kid who looked into the Schism, back from The Last Of The Timelords.
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May 23, 2020 10:01
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Cerv posted:this might be interesting. I have to admit Hulke's not one of the names I'm immediately familiar with from the old days. He's one of the more interesting writers from the third doctor era, I reckon, and, after Robert Holmes, definitely the most influential. He pretty much defined NA continuity with Colony in Space and Frontier in Space. Cool dude.
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Jun 9, 2020 14:10
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So I just read (on another forum) that Whizz Kid (the nerd from Greatest Show In The Galaxy) is based on a pre-fame public appearance by Chris Chibnall. Anyone else heard this, or is it just a random bitter rumour from an odd corner of the internet?
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Jun 11, 2020 10:35
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Anyone else here listen to the Big Finish Torchwood range? The series is very good right now and I just want to fanboy tbh.
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Jun 12, 2020 16:35
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The_Doctor posted:Here, have some cursed knowledge. Sorry, maybe I'm missing the nuance here, but why are those images "cursed"?
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Jun 21, 2020 13:21
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Part of it is that they genuinely get a big spike in sales if they put a Dalek in a story -- like Adam Sandler tentpole films, they help to keep the lights on. The other is that lockdown has seriously impacted the availability of their actors -- Sylvester McCoy was meant to have a bunch of upcoming releases, but he's apparently stuck in France(!?) and doesn't have access to any kind of recording space. Briggs has a booth at home, so he can do Daleks, Cybermen, his terrible Ice Warrior voices, etc. It's an availability thing. (Which is also why we're getting six Davison releases so quickly in succession.)
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Jul 10, 2020 01:36
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Davros1 posted:That spoiler will be really neat if they tie it into an effect of the Time War It sounds pretty similar to the first, later Trenzalor incident. Which, uh, brings up a point I've been wondering about for a while. The Time of The Doctor undoes a lot of what happens in The Name Of the Doctor, yeah? And we've never had much indication as to what's going on with River in the latter either, yeah?
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Jul 10, 2020 23:13
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To be honest, that explanation above is perfectly in keeping with the Davros timeline stuff that somehow became part of RTD's version of the show.
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Jul 11, 2020 03:38
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Carbon dioxide posted:Is this what we wanted to Save Ianto Jones for? Gareth David-Lloyd writes them now, so apparently yes?
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Jul 12, 2020 07:54
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Edward Mass posted:REGULARLY on TV, I think, is the way to put it. Would that describe this era of the show?
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Jul 14, 2020 17:30
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God, the RTD era was the best.
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Jul 22, 2020 16:02
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From what I understand, it's probably Farscape.
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Aug 5, 2020 23:34
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jivjov posted:Oh. Well maybe don't bring Adam back for anything then. Then again, that comic crossover with him is probably more than enough Adam anyway That was Tony Lee, wasn't it? So much bloody fanwank.
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Aug 10, 2020 05:39
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Davros1 posted:David Warner told them that he doesn't want to play villains. He was the main villain in the most recent Torchwood season??
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Aug 11, 2020 11:06
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He and Lisa Bowerman are a couple now. It's cute.
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Aug 11, 2020 12:02
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Big Mean Jerk posted:That’s partly why I love 11 so much; even after Amy and Rory age themselves to death he’s still not moping about for half a season. 11 is a very optimistic kind of “chin up” Doctor. He matures over the seasons but he never really gets jaded or dour. Doesn't he do most of his moping off screen? He's definitely begins The Snowmen and The Bells of St John after an extended period of moping. If anything, they imply he does more moping than, say, Tennant.
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Aug 17, 2020 00:28
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Dude literally locks himself away and refuses to help anyone unless they magically guess the riddle to get past his friends. It's not a competition, it's just lovely either way.
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Aug 17, 2020 00:53
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I assume that's what James Goss's Time Lord Victorious is going to cover. Tennant in full villain mode sounds like a lot of fun. (I'm super super excited for this, btw. Since it's, you know, James Goss).
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Aug 17, 2020 10:23
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The_Doctor posted:For some reason I assumed the TLV stuff was an alternate timeline rather than filling a gap. Nah. Big Finish is no longer licensed to introduce new alternative universe Doctors. The Kisgart Master and Warner Doctor are the only ones they really have any more. I suspect the Warner Doctor is going to be looked back on as one of those weird, floaty offshoots that hung around for a while but basically vanished. (I don't think they're even allowed to regenerate him). But they're fantastic, and James Goss also produced them. He runs the Torchwood range too, and generally does a fantastic job all over the place.
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Aug 17, 2020 14:41
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Voting Floater posted:I particularly appreciate the Classic Who stories that properly take advantage of the serial format, like The Chase or The Keys of Marinus where they're a bunch of unique episode-long vignettes linked into an overall plot. The run from Mission To The Unknown to the end of The Daleks Master Plan is insanely good if you think of it in these terms.
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Aug 20, 2020 10:45
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I've uhh I've never liked the goodbye speeches. (Except for The Cities Made Of Song one. That one owns.) Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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Aug 21, 2020 12:13
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Torchwood is fun. I've always liked how bonkers it is.
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Aug 22, 2020 19:51
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I think the biggest problem with the most recent season - which is a bit tedious, but nothing really they terrible tbh - is that John Barrowman's appearance has apparently prevented the release of Torchwood Season 7. The continuity stuff in the finale is shrug worthy. It doesn't really matter to me in the same way it bothered other posters.
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Aug 23, 2020 04:33
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Doctor Spaceman posted:There were some angry bandages that read the Doctor's mind last season that mentioned the Timeless Child. The bandages reminded her of the Master's snake form. Solved. Canon in shambles.
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Aug 24, 2020 12:31
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Burkion posted:You know if it wasn't for the fact that the first black woman to play the Doctor is also a villain and also a CIA stooge Uh, she's not either of those things really. William Hartnell's first few acts as the Doctor included being mistaken as a paedophile, successfully kidnapping two strangers, an attempted stoning and wreckless endangerment of a minor. Rebelling against against your handler / kidnapper / whatever and saving the day is pretty straight up heroic.
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Aug 24, 2020 23:36
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Chokes McGee posted:What, you would rather he pushed Susan into traffic instead? Hey, the only reason Susan learnt not to run with scissors was to survive The Edge of Destruction. Pushing Susan into traffic was the only way One could be sure she'd survived 20th Century Coal Hill. As is typical of her peers, Gallifreyian children tend to go through many regenerations during their disruptive teenage years. It's the only way for a nigh immortal race to truly understand road safety. Mic drop. Canon in shambles.
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Aug 25, 2020 11:38
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I feel like it's a nice statement, on some level -- not only is it possible for the Doctor now to not be a white man, it's always been the case that the Doctor didn't have to be a white man.
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Aug 25, 2020 22:58
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Yeah, but it's not literal. It's an allegory for, you know, ALWAYS CHOOSING LIFE. It's a real damned if you do, damned if you don't episode. Neither reading is good, but it's at least emotionally compelling (which is more than I can say for Pyramid At The End Of The World, which has everyone so reactionary that nothing ends up being dramatic).
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Aug 26, 2020 12:31
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jivjov posted:I find myself somewhat disappointed that the other two Out of Time stories are also 10 tales. I love 10....but would have much preferred to see teamups of like...9 and 6 or 11 and 7. Guess it's the same reason the Daleks keep popping up everywhere...the popular characters sell. They didn't have nine when these were recorded -- I still don't think Eccelston's actually recorded anything -- and as far as we know Matt Smith isn't currently involved. It's not so much an issue of popularity as it is availability.
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Aug 26, 2020 13:57
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CommonShore posted:KILL KILL THE MOON ALL YOU NEED IS KILL THE MOON
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Aug 27, 2020 21:15
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Rochallor posted:I suspect part of the push is an admission that there's not going to be any televised episodes on the horizon. They need to do something to keep the brand in mind. It's been planned for three or four years (hence the lack of Moffat Doctors, I suppose). But it certainly seems to be filling a gap.
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Sep 6, 2020 04:53
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