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"The Flux is coming! Get the soldering iron ready!"
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Oct 9, 2021 22:02
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Oct 9, 2021 22:09
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oh no not sontarans Until the date popped up at the end I thought this was a plug for a mobile game or something. DOCTOR WHO SERIES 13: LET'S GET IT OVER WITH
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Oct 9, 2021 22:20
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I hope they didn't really delete out their official youtube account for a dumb marketing gimmick. Pretty much any time I wanted to see a clip of the modern series they had put it up themselves.
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Oct 9, 2021 22:22
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elf help book posted:I hope they didn't really delete out their official youtube account for a dumb marketing gimmick. Pretty much any time I wanted to see a clip of the modern series they had put it up themselves. It all appears to be back now.
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Oct 9, 2021 22:25
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Rochallor posted:oh no not sontarans That was my reaction as well. Oh no Doctor, how are you going to defeat the dreaded Sontarans? 
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Oct 9, 2021 22:31
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Flight Bisque posted:It all appears to be back now. Cool
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Oct 9, 2021 22:34
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AndyElusive posted:That was my reaction as well. Didn't they mention the Weeping Angels as well? There's some new, untrodden ground there 
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Oct 9, 2021 22:36
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Angels are are legit loving scary though, and they'll mess you up.
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Oct 9, 2021 22:51
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AndyElusive posted:Angels are are legit loving scary though, and they'll mess you up. Personally, I think they've gotten lamer with every subsequent appearance after their first, but that's just me.
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Oct 9, 2021 22:57
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A new Just uhhh.... just make it good, Chibnall. You did Broadchurch, so I know that you know how 
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Personally, I think they've gotten lamer with every subsequent appearance after their first, but that's just me. it is not just you
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Oct 10, 2021 06:53
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Class3KillStorm posted:Didn't No. 10 Downing Street also get blown up by tomahawk missile or something at the end of it (which was the start of the ascension of Harriet Jones, Prime Minister, and thus the First Great and Glorious Human Empire)? How did THAT one get hand-waved away? I've just realised that given what we knew about Harriet Jones, Prime Minister, Britain's Golden Age would have overseen by an Old Labour backbencher who unexpectedly came into the leadership. Dammit, Doctor. Why can't we have nice things?
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Oct 10, 2021 08:15
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Yvonmukluk posted:Harriet Jones, Prime Minister Yes, we know who she is.
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Oct 10, 2021 08:55
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I thought that joke was getting pretty run into the ground but when the Daleks said it to her I still loving lost it 
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Oct 10, 2021 09:00
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And then she got Exterminated. 
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Oct 10, 2021 11:34
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I'm slowly starting to embark on a quest that will probably take me my entire life. To listen to all of big finish, and their first release is a Bernice Summerfield adventure. It's a two hour long pantomime which is a bit of a bold choice for a first release let me tell you! 16 min in and I feel if I can complete this, nothing big finish throws my way will stop me! It does have Nicholas Courtney voicing a cat and he commits 100% which will probably be my highlight. 
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Oct 10, 2021 13:51
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Man I really gotta find more time to listen to Big Finish, outside of the first 9th Doctor Adventures I haven't listened to anything for a couple of years. Last regular monthly audio I listened to was Plague of the Daleks (not a great story to stop at, sadly), and at the time I was only about 70 releases behind being caught up, now it's like twice that amount  Oh No It Isn't looks.... well, I'm not sure I have words to adequately describe it.
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Oct 10, 2021 13:57
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I remember plague just being really really average which sucks because I normally love listening to fifth and nysaa stories! Sneaky edit: Not as much as Colin Baker of course! Confusedslight fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Oct 10, 2021 |
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Oct 10, 2021 14:10
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While I love working from home, losing my commute did completely excise my audio drama listening time from my life. I can't really listen to anything with a narrative while I'm working, I lose the plot and don't retain any of it.
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Confusedslight posted:I remember plague just being really really average which sucks because I normally love listening to fifth and nysaa stories! Perhaps my biggest issue with Plague was that it's the final episode in a trilogy that... largely has absolutely nothing to do with the previous two stories. Suddenly although they're in the same location at a different time, it's all new characters (the returning characters are hyper-diluted facsimiles of various characters from the previous stories and barely in it) and the Daleks are there and that's the big problem they're dealing with. The first story flows seamlessly into the second and features a ton of linked features that inform what is going on, and then the third is just... it's own thing. With Daleks.  jivjov posted:While I love working from home, losing my commute did completely excise my audio drama listening time from my life. I can't really listen to anything with a narrative while I'm working, I lose the plot and don't retain any of it. Yeah, my commute was where I listened to most of my Big Finish stuff, and when I changed that up it really dropped the time I'd have to actually be able to concentrate on the story.
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What really disappoints me about Chibnall is that his teasers always invite more interesting ideas than the ones he actually provides us with. I see that Flux trailer, and hear about the "renegade Doctor" thing, and I think this season arc: The Doctor and her other selves are on the run, pursued by Time Lord special agents from another dimension. They're encountering and battling their old foes in the process. But all of this is just a distraction from a more pervasive and dangerous interdimensional being, one which already conquered the Doctor's universe without her even noticing. Fake spoiler tag: The Flux turns out to be color (OK, colour, but you know what I mean). Several of the Doctors dwelt in a universe where color did not exist, but then this extradimensional being entered the universe and pervaded its every corner. Now, colorizers work to break into every remaining monochrome dimensional pocket. Will the Doctor defeat color itself? Or will she find a way for the universe to live in peace with this incomprehensible entity?
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Oct 10, 2021 18:57
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Narsham posted:Fake spoiler tag: The Flux turns out to be color (OK, colour, but you know what I mean). Several of the Doctors dwelt in a universe where color did not exist, but then this extradimensional being entered the universe and pervaded its every corner. Now, colorizers work to break into every remaining monochrome dimensional pocket. Will the Doctor defeat color itself? Or will she find a way for the universe to live in peace with this incomprehensible entity? I remember somebody posting once that there was legitimately a story written (I assume during the wilderness years) where aliens were traveling backwards through time and making slight alterations to the timestream, and the entire thing was written to "explain" the fact that a 7th Doctor story accidentally misspelled the name of the scrapyard from An Unearthly Child. I used to laugh at somebody being that pedantic about something so utterly irrelevant, silly me I should have known that this was actually a qualification to be showrunner of Doctor Who!
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Oct 11, 2021 00:33
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I mean, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen parked cars covered up by big spraypaint-and-styrofoam rocks in the Tom Baker episodes I watch every Saturday at midnight. I like that the show has the attitude that it’s just going to play things straight with the low budget and you just have to accept that—no self-aware winking or jokes about how lovely everything looks. It actually makes me feel ashamed if I laugh at something, like the Doctor wheeling Stavros from room to room because they’re the only two actors in the scene and Stavros is in an office chair with a bunch of poo poo glued onto it and can’t move it around himself, even if the Doctor is supposed to be his prisoner. Still, that kind of overly serious attention to continuity flies in the face of the nature of the production at a certain point. In last night’s episode, they decided to turn the randomizer off because they decided the black guardian wasn’t a big deal, all in two rushed lines of dialogue at the very end that didn’t seem to have much thought put into them other than as a way to have some variety in the stories again.
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I completely agree about leaning into the small budget being a great part of Classic Who, but I can’t stop giggling at calling Davros “Stavros,” like the Daleks are a bunch of sinister Greeks.
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Oct 11, 2021 02:53
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I spent two seasons of the 2000s Battlestar Glalactica thinking Baltar was named Balthazar. What the gently caress kind of name is Baltar?
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I just want episodes where they can show Jodie having fun playing the doctor, why would I care about big BIGGEST CHALLENGE EVER WILL CHANGE THE DOCTOR FOREVER! type stuff when we know the showrunner is changing and it's not likely to have much impact anyway.
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She has an incredibly expressive face too and I wish they'd lean into that more. Her kind of bored "I'm trying to pretend to be interested in this but I have no idea what the gently caress he's talking about" reaction to Jack Robertson droning on about how he has money and is therefore important was great, and her reaction to Graham putting an arm around her shoulders in Rosa when they were pretending to be married was hilarious. That and more weird poo poo like running into a personified anti-matter universe that decides to be a talking frog.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I spent two seasons of the 2000s Battlestar Glalactica thinking Baltar was named Balthazar. What the gently caress kind of name is Baltar? A surname.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I spent two seasons of the 2000s Battlestar Glalactica thinking Baltar was named Balthazar. What the gently caress kind of name is Baltar? It’s a surname most prevalent in the Philippines, but also Brazil, Spain, and Portugal. The_Doctor fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Oct 11, 2021 09:00
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AndyElusive posted:Angels are are legit loving scary though, and they'll mess you up. I was thinking the exact same thing. Remember the Statue of Liberty being one!
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Oct 11, 2021 17:09
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Oct 11, 2021 19:57
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Payndz posted:Casting a "who?" for Who gave us Tom Baker and Matt Smith, so they shouldn't be afraid to do it. But these are risk-averse times for the BBC, and RTD has a record of casting people he's worked with before, so I would have zero surprise if it was someone from Years And Years or It's A Sin. Edit: Y'know, after I posted this, I asked myself why I think this, and it's not based on anything real. Nevermind. LividLiquid fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Oct 11, 2021 20:04
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LividLiquid posted:From an American perspective, it'd be Capaldi by a country mile. I wasn't around for the Davison era, but not sure how much notice "All Creatures..." had on the American side. From an American perspective, I'd think that Eccleston would actually be the biggest name, mainly due to small roles in biggish hits, a la 28 Days Later and the Nicolas Cage Gone in 60 Seconds. Those would lend him a bit of an "oh yea, that guy" sort of familiarity. I'd imagine that Capaldi would be recognizable due to "The Thick Of It," but I don't remember that having a ton of mainstream appeal here in America. It always seemed like more of a niche show here, even after "Veep" and In the Loop had come out. Maybe he might have had a bit more recognition from World War Z or Paddington, since they came out shortly before his tenure started, but again, small roles, so not sure how many American fans would have recognized him from those.
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Class3KillStorm posted:I wasn't around for the Davison era, but not sure how much notice "All Creatures..." had on the American side. All creatures great and small definitely saw circulation on the PBS scene in the US.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:59
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Capaldi's seemingly-zero-effort costume of a hoodie or holey sweater under the frock coat was just absolutely perfect to me. And I don't really recall the two-parter, but I felt the sonic sunglasses and guitar were also inspired
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Mameluke posted:Capaldi's seemingly-zero-effort costume of a hoodie or holey sweater under the frock coat was just absolutely perfect to me. And I don't really recall the two-parter, but I felt the sonic sunglasses and guitar were also inspired Magician's Apprentice/Witch's Familiar of Series 9 Which was six years ago
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Mameluke posted:And I don't really recall the two-parter, but I felt the sonic sunglasses and guitar were also inspired
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