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OldMemes posted:I've heard people come down harshly on 7 having Dr. Klein as a companion for the same reason - the Doctor trying to rehabilitate a Nazi by showing her the error of her ways and giving her more life experience is a fundamentally flawed concept. To the writing's credit, the plan doesn't work even slightly and Klein remains a fascist all the way through that trilogy. The Doctor is making a huge mistake out of guilt - guilt for creating her timeline, guilt for destroying it, and guilt for Alternate Eight seducing her - and Klein's rehabilitation only comes in the form of a version of her being written into the "prime" timeline without a fascist upbringing. And even then that has consequences in UNIT: Dominion.
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OldMemes posted:Oh 7, with his crazy plans that sometimes horribly backfire..... There are some good stories out of "the Doctor screws up badly" or "makes a huge moral mistake", but taking Klein as a companion still seems like a bad idea. UNIT: Dominion is standalone and excellent. Of course, the big twist is better-known now, but it *got* me when it was new.
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Not only did I go in unspoiled, I firmly believed the twist was *legally impossible* until it happened.
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Feb 26, 2021 23:43
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Johann Schmidt might be the cruelest interpersonal thing the Doctor has ever done and that hugely contributes to Seven's guilt and anxiety in Dominion. Catfishing a woman in order to manipulate her into erasing herself from existence to fix a mistake you made is pretty miserable, even if she is a Nazi and the plan is to stop the Nazis
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Lidster's a very nice guy on Twitter but an absolutely awful writer.
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Actually, I think i was overly harsh - Lidster is a very adept character writer, but his storytelling sensibilities are hard to like. Again, very nice guy.
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Apr 17, 2021 10:29
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The Big Finish thing where Davison threatened to quit after Nekromanteia.
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Apr 20, 2021 08:33
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Big Finish did some stories with the safecracker character and she's basically an adrenaline junkie IIRC, but fun enough. I don't remember her introduction.
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Apr 26, 2021 02:17
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She's obviously bi.
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Apr 27, 2021 00:07
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I know RTD's currently riding a wave of critical acclaim and good press because of "It's a Sin" and all, but people really need to be asking him "what did you know about this, and when did you know about it" in regards to this kind of poo poo happening while he was running the show. Well in The Writer's Tale he talks openly about casting Russel Tovey in Voyage of the Damned for thirst reasons so uh hmm
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May 4, 2021 11:01
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MrL_JaKiri posted:"I'm casting a hot person because I like to look at them" is beyond mild when listing the crimes of TV casting. It's not a searing indictment but it came to mind, is all. It could reflect RTD's attitudes about a professional environment.
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May 4, 2021 12:50
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Khanstant posted:What do you mean? Hasn't the show ALWAYS paired some attractive young woman with the Doctor usually as an older UK-looking dude? Granted, Amy is the first sex-worker companion but I don't think that really had any lasting effect on things. They mean in terms of how the camera works. Gillen and Smith are the same height.
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May 7, 2021 16:40
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Binro has no room to exist anymore.
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May 11, 2021 18:42
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We know for a fact that Barrowman's gross antics were common knowledge because there's a joke about it in The Ballad of Rusty and Julie. On the DVDs.
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May 13, 2021 06:32
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Season 6B is an old, OLD fan theory thing from WAY back. It posits that, following The War Games, the Second Doctor was NOT immediately exiled to earth and forcibly regenerated into Pertwee, but instead spent some amount of time in servitude to the Time Lords, acting as their agent, possibly alongside Jamie and/or Zoe, whose memories were restored to facilitate this and wiped later. This is "supported" by various appearances by Troughton in 3, 5, and 2 Doctors and remarks made therein, and by large amounts of Wilderness Years material produced by the fans running the asylum. Arguably, The Two Doctors was an active effort to "canonize" 6B way back when! The notion that Ruth!Doctor might originate from this same period, between Two and Three, lined up with her narrative role and her position as working for the Time Lords, made people think that the "6B" concept might be being reimagined. I would have preferred that to what they've done here.
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May 29, 2021 01:43
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rian johnson's star wars: "obsession with the past is stultifying, kill your heroes" chris chibnall's doctor who: "our protagonist's present and future is less important than this 40-year-old fanwank" you: these are the same, to me
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Jun 16, 2021 18:11
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it's called season 6b, look it up
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Jun 17, 2021 00:28
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well, it's a story the SEVENTH Doctor is telling to manipulate someone. So who knows.
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Jun 24, 2021 23:36
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An American Dr Who would be an order of magnitude less likely to be a terf (Kohli's cool, I'd be very down for that)
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Jul 30, 2021 18:25
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I’m watching the 1970s Tom Baker season 16 on late-night pbs and I’m really enjoying it, it’s the first Dr Who I’ve ever seen, but I’m starting to wonder how many episodes start with a situation where two opposed sides are against each other and the doctor is captured by one side and the companion by the other after they get separated. So far, I think it’s been the setup for every episode this season. One of the reasons Four and Romana get separated like that is that they are, well, peers - they're both Time Lords. So the stories pair them off each with "normies" so they both get chances to exposit and discover stuff on relatively equal footing until Tom Baker finds an opportunity to be condescending and horny.
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Aug 1, 2021 06:18
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Lemme see if I can find any in my big old Big Finish book
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Sep 17, 2021 04:51
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Sep 17, 2021 04:56
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The narrative device is called a "confessional"!
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Sep 22, 2021 13:58
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Russell The Davies
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Sep 28, 2021 03:07
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Payndz posted:Jesus, seven years since 'Deep Breath' and 'Robot of Sherwood' and 'The Caretaker' and 'Kill The Moon' and 'Forest of the Night' and Moffat thinking that turning the dead Brig into a Cyberman and then exploding him was a great tribute to the character. What a shitshow of a season. (At least we got 'Flatline' out of it.) Kill the Moon and Deep Breath both rule and so does Mummy.
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