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OldMemes posted:Isn't the low budget and cheese part of the charm of Doctor Who? Making it a prestige show would be missing the point. I'd agree. The show's never looked better, but I'd sacrifice that in a heartsbeat for something more creative and less polished.
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OldMemes posted:Isn't the low budget and cheese part of the charm of Doctor Who? Making it a prestige show would be missing the point. It's high budget and prestige in terms of a BBC budget. I wouldn't call any of the revival Doctor Who low budget. You can't compare it to marvel/disney levels of budgets.
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Jan 8, 2021 17:07
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It would be pretty great if they did give Doctor Who 15 million an episode like Mandalorean though.
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Jan 8, 2021 22:47
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marktheando posted:It would be pretty great if they did give Doctor Who 15 million an episode like Mandalorean though. I kinda like the budget constraints, it forces them to get creative. I feel like the show tries to cater more to American's and American money now and it hurt the show.
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Jan 8, 2021 22:55
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marktheando posted:It would be pretty great if they did give Doctor Who 15 million an episode like Mandalorean though. You could create an absolutely bonkers Tardis interior using the Volume.
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Jan 8, 2021 23:00
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The Tardis set would just be a video screen at that rate.
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Jan 8, 2021 23:13
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https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1347687601050890240?s=20 My guess is the cover
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Jan 9, 2021 00:37
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I'd rather take Fear Her than a single episode featuring that wanker from the BT advert. 
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Jan 9, 2021 01:04
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Mr Beens posted:FYI those are just made up by bookmakers to get money from gullible people, not based on any fact or insider knowledge of casting processes Oh I know but just wanted to see some kind of list of potential people might be speculating about. Speaking of gambling, it's a moral thing I'm against but that's an antiquated moral when it comes to media. Trying to remember if the Doctor ever took an anti-gambling stance? Seems like the Doctor who be aware of the pain and evils of organized gambling businesses but then again, maybe poverty and debt and money don't mean much to a God.
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marktheando posted:It would be pretty great if they did give Doctor Who 15 million an episode like Mandalorean though. Star Trek Discovery might be a better visual reference point if you wanna imagine Doctor Who with a big budget but not Disney-budget
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Khanstant posted:Star Trek Discovery might be a better visual reference point if you wanna imagine Doctor Who with a big budget but not Disney-budget
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Jan 9, 2021 12:13
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If we're going back to a man, Rahul Kohli has definitely expressed a wish to be the Doctor.
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Jan 9, 2021 13:56
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I hope its all rumor and nonsense, and Jodie stays on as The Doctor. But failing that, how about The Master successfully body swaps, and Sacha Dhawan plays The Doctor and Jodie Whittaker plays The Master.
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SiKboy posted:I hope its all rumor and nonsense, and Jodie stays on as The Doctor. But failing that, how about The Master successfully body swaps, and Sacha Dhawan plays The Doctor and Jodie Whittaker plays The Master.  I’m just picturing the Doctor and the Master getting caught in the same explosion, and when the dust clears they both stand up, see each other’s faces, and go “...what? WHAT?“ right before the music swells and credits roll.
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Jan 9, 2021 19:00
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Big Finish did a third doctor/master body swap story and it was really fun--seeing that dynamic on screen seems like a fun idea
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Jan 9, 2021 19:01
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Big Mean Jerk posted:
Kinda like that Quantum Leap episode where lighting strikes and Al and Sam switch places, only not evil. Also, its just a rumor that Jodie Whittaker is leaving right?
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Mooseontheloose posted:Kinda like that Quantum Leap episode where lighting strikes and Al and Sam switch places, only not evil. Reported in the Mirror, but not officially confirmed by the beeb yet.
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Jan 9, 2021 22:12
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I wonder why they’re not getting Billie Piper.
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The_Doctor posted:I wonder why they’re not getting Billie Piper. Maybe the first set or two is set pre-meeting rose? They put at least one of the 9th doctor chronicles stories there
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Jan 9, 2021 22:36
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This week's random Doctor Who was The Two Doctors, which has a wonderful final episode and an absolutely abysmal first two episodes. One of my fellow watches gave it 5/5 in his review and compared it to The Duchess of Malfi. There's zero accounting for taste.
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Jan 10, 2021 00:29
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The restaurant scene is worth putting up with all the less good stuff in the Two Doctors. I'm watching The Angels Take Manhattan right now and I wasn't paying enough attention, I've forgotten how the Angels work now. Why does Moffat have to change how they work every time they appear?
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The Two Doctors is great, and was my first realization that any trio involving Jamie with ANY Doctor is gonna be great. "Ahhh, always a pleasure to meet two gentlemen.... of the old school." Though in keeping with the earlier discussion of Kerblam!, it always strikes me as odd that Oscar legitimately gets killed as opposed to just being a comedy character who mistakes sauce on his shirt for a wound or something.
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Jan 10, 2021 01:31
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Oh look people acting like it's cool to talk poo poo about Six again. I will assault you with unsold copies of the Timelash novelization.
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Rhyno posted:Oh look people acting like it's cool to talk poo poo about Six again. drat, 100% of the publishing run? 
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THEY SOLD ONE
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Jan 10, 2021 03:06
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Congratulations on the monopoly
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I've just watched the new episode. The Doctor.... just let Chris Noth get away with it. No repercussions, no consequences, not even a scolding. I just cannot get over that. When I saw him in the preview, I thought for sure, they're bringing him back after the spider episode just to get his comeuppance. I'm... baffled.
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Flight Bisque posted:I've just watched the new episode. Doing literally anything to stop the bad guy makes you just as bad, if not worse, than the bad guy, duh.
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Jan 10, 2021 06:10
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Season 39 is where Jack Robertson (I had to look up that character's name) teams with Tzim-Sha for some MacGuffin that is never defined.
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Rochallor posted:Doing literally anything to stop the bad guy makes you just as bad, if not worse, than the bad guy, duh.
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Edward Mass posted:Season 39 is where Jack Robertson (I had to look up that character's name) teams with Tzim-Sha for some MacGuffin that is never defined. Yeah and that's another thing, all that bullshit buildup of why are the lights changing colors??? oh it's because of a plot point in the prequel to this episode. That poo poo might as well have happened to Tom Baker for as long as it's been.
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Flight Bisque posted:I've just watched the new episode. Honestly what I suspect here is that, since that character is so blatantly a Donald Trump analog and the episode was filmed in 2019, they maybe didn't want to give the character a wish-fulfilment ending in case things went differently to how they ended up going. Imagine if they DID give him a full-bore comeuppance ending, but Trump got re-elected, it would've felt WAY worse. Better to set up for a third story with him that they can write when they KNOW how Trump plays out in the next few years and what kind of ending they can properly give him. Plus, it means Chris Noth comes back to be an rear end in a top hat idiot again, and that's great.
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Flight Bisque posted:I've just watched the new episode. I think that's one of the main thing that made the person inspiring the character such a strong villain, the ridiculous lengths to which they could do horrible things and never face real repercussions or instead get rewarded.
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Cleretic posted:Honestly what I suspect here is that, since that character is so blatantly a Donald Trump analog and the episode was filmed in 2019, they maybe didn't want to give the character a wish-fulfilment ending in case things went differently to how they ended up going. Imagine if they DID give him a full-bore comeuppance ending, but Trump got re-elected, it would've felt WAY worse. they could have just not had him in it
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Dabir posted:they could have just not had him in it Not as easy as it seems there, because he's kinda what makes the whole plot work in the way it does. Who else could you really get in the position of 'guy who unintentionally bankrolls a Dalek army'? You need the Daleks being sold 'innocently' as securitech since that's the core of the whole thing, and they clearly wanted that to be a known figure, who else even is there that's feasibly 'in play' in the current era? It's basically just Robertson and that tech CEO from Spyfall, and I think they made the right choice between those two; the Spyfall guy was already actively malevolent and had a plan that would've killed humans for aliens, so he's out because it's too similar. Robertson's kinda perfect for his role in the story. Plus, as far as I can tell from people I talk to about Doctor Who outside of this thread, that character was actually pretty drat popular. Of course they'd bring him back, he's a lot of fun as a villain. They were just kinda hamstrung about how they could conclude his presence in the story.
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Cleretic posted:Not as easy as it seems there, because he's kinda what makes the whole plot work in the way it does. Who else could you really get in the position of 'guy who unintentionally bankrolls a Dalek army'? You need the Daleks being sold 'innocently' as securitech since that's the core of the whole thing, and they clearly wanted that to be a known figure, who else even is there that's feasibly 'in play' in the current era? It's basically just Robertson and that tech CEO from Spyfall, and I think they made the right choice between those two; the Spyfall guy was already actively malevolent and had a plan that would've killed humans for aliens, so he's out because it's too similar. Robertson's kinda perfect for his role in the story. They could have just introduced a new character as "billionaire tech guy" just like they introduced a new character to be "Too dumb to live scientist" and "Theresa May". There was no real reason for it to be a known character, its not like the plot hinged on it being specifically this guy.
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I suspect they're doing an arc. I mean, they go to the trouble of shipping the guy all the way out from New York every few years, he's not just some random casting.
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With potentially only 8 Jodie episodes to go, and covid stopping US-UK air travel, it probably won’t be next season.
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SiKboy posted:They could have just introduced a new character as "billionaire tech guy" just like they introduced a new character to be "Too dumb to live scientist" and "Theresa May". There was no real reason for it to be a known character, its not like the plot hinged on it being specifically this guy. Or they could have have made the collaborator Theresa May and try and actually say something about pol--ah, hold on, I've just been informed that the most competent episode the showrunner ever wrote is titled Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.
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