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I actually built a brand new Kamelion, and it works perfectly and will be an enormous benefit to the show. Anyway, I need to write down the operation instructions, but first I'm gonna go stick my head in a hornet's nest and bang a drum loudly.
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Jan 14, 2021 04:23
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Yeah, of all the past writers on the show (short of RTD or Moffat writing one), the one I'd most want to return is Jamie Mathieson. Mummy on the Orient Express is a masterpiece.
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Jan 19, 2021 00:04
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Art. That what they just watched. 
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Jan 20, 2021 01:58
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Many died or went mad making the HD transfer of Time and the Rani. We salute them o7
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Jan 21, 2021 14:22
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It Takes You Away isn't just a great episode of the Chibnall/Whittaker era, it's a great episode of Who, period. I really wish it was the norm more than the exception. The Woman Who Fell to Earth is a fantastic intro to the show, but it struggles to live up to that for the most part afterwards. Please Chibnall, at the very least do less of the writing yourself (and hire back Jamie Mathieson) 
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Jan 21, 2021 23:02
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Sydney Bottocks posted:The Invasion is one of my favorite 2nd Doctor stories for a ton of reasons, but a big one is Kevin Stoney's smugly evil recitation of his henchman's name. Listening to the commentary and hearing their sheer delight as Packer (...  ) gets progressively more and more unkempt and overwhelmed by the crazy bullshit going on around him is so great.
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Jan 30, 2021 02:20
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"Packer..."
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If she ever wants a break she could alway go to her dad's pla... oh yeah 
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Jan 30, 2021 23:49
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Dabir posted:bit mean to take that completely out of DW's budget Look, the BBC Controller really wanted that extra danish 
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Jan 31, 2021 00:02
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If I remember right didn't that also mean that Pertwee's old tattoo got revealed, which made some hyper-nerds from pre-Internet days lose their minds trying to come up with an "explanation" for how a newly regenerated Doctor had a tattoo, and decided it must be a Gallifrey prison-symbol or something to mark him as an exile? 
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Jan 31, 2021 04:48
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:Nick Briggs will NOT return my emails about my fully completed seven box-set Season 6b script series explaining the origins of the tattoo and that is NOT okay Weird, I just sent him an email about "usenet celeb 1992's fully completed seven box-set Season 6b script series explaining the origins of the tattoo.... of the Daleks!" and he immediately started honking his horn outside my house telling me to hurry up and get to the studio so we could start recording.
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Jan 31, 2021 05:51
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Something I adore about An Unearthly Child is the antagonist caveman attempting his hardest to articulate the notion of thinking/speculation/visualization to another cavewoman, because he doesn't quite understand what is going on either but he knows he sometimes can figure out how things are without explicitly seeing them happen. "My eyes tell me what has happened. As they do when I sleep and I see things." Sydney Bottocks posted:IIRC, that story was commissioned back when DW's original remit as a series was "purely historicals" with the only sci-fi elements being the Doctor and pals and the TARDIS, so that's why they didn't do the post-apoc earth, because the idea was to plunk our heroes down in the middle of history as a sort of way to get British schoolkids interested in historical studies. Of course, the very next episode knocked that idea for six. I always heard that the original idea was always meant to be "one historical, one sci-fi" with the idea being that the sci-fi stories would be about exploring potential interesting speculative ideas about the future which in turn would stimulate the minds of kids and keep within the educational remit intended for the show? From memory Neuman was very much about the historicals and wasn't entirely happy about the Daleks even if it was speculative about the dangers of nuclear war, but welp then the ratings came in.... As noted, it basically ends up being largely abandoned and the sci-fi stories are just rip-roaring space adventures and eventually the pure historicals (which I deeply miss) just got eased out.
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Feb 7, 2021 01:40
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Yeah, The Witchhunters is a ton of fun (mostly due to Alan Cumming just loving hamming it up good and proper) and then suddenly it's all about some aliens in a tree or something and the whole thing falls apart.
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Feb 8, 2021 02:23
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Just get the 11th Doctor to explain it all: Eleven: Right, so you know those old kaleidoscopes you could get. You'd look through one end and you'd see this beautiful image, a series of seemingly interlinked images that all contained the same world but somehow each slightly different yet encompassing an overall cohesive whole? Dazzling with its beauty, endlessly fascinating to watch the patterns and light as you turned and each fractured part of the whole seemed to travel and shimmy in perfect lockstep with the other? Amy: .... yes? Eleven: Well it's nothing like that.
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Feb 9, 2021 15:56
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Janet Fielding tells a great story about JNT telling her that she was hired to "get the dads in from their sheds" and her telling him to gently caress off with that bullshit 
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Feb 10, 2021 01:22
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Janet Fielding is a beautiful woman and was definitely one of my early teenage crushes back when she played Tegan, but she's also a wonderful absolutely-no-bullshit feminist and I can just picture her saying that to JNT In one of the audios the 5th Doctor catches up with Tegan many years after they stopped adventuring together, and somebody gets it into the Doctor's head that Tegan may have been in love with him. Finally the Doctor gets up the courage to ask her if this was true, and her  in love with YOU!?!?!?!  reaction is a treat.
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Feb 10, 2021 08:58
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bessantj posted:I've been thinking about starting to collect the Big Finish monthly stories do I need to collect them chronologically or can I pick and choose the ones I find most interesting first? You can pick and choose the ones that seem interesting, which is how I did it (before going mad and deciding to go back and fill in the gaps) - they're almost entirely standalone, there are some callbacks (or forwards) here and there but nothing that will make a story incomprehensible to you.
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Feb 11, 2021 02:58
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I always argue that people should never avoid anything and come to their own decisions about whether something is poo poo or good etc. With that said. Do NOT buy/listen to Nekromanteia. Jerusalem posted:I rarely suggest anybody avoid listening to a story because I always feel everybody should watch/listen to shows and decide for themselves... but I can only give my highest recommendation that you forget this story exists and don't ever put yourself through the misfortune of having to listen to it. It's a bad story. It's bad.
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Feb 11, 2021 03:18
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Allegedly after they made it, Peter Davison told Big Finish he NEVER wanted the writer to do anything for them ever again. It really is that bad.
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Feb 11, 2021 03:56
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There's all kinds of utterly repugnant sexualization in there, including a cliffhanger of (content warning for sexual violence) one of the companions being in danger of being raped. "Luckily" we discover several minutes into the next episode that she wasn't raped, "just" brutally beaten for fighting back when he tried to rape her. Also the would-be rapist ends up getting the "happy ending" of the story by being promoted in spite of the explicit text of the story being that this was literally impossible to happen to him in his fascist society. I'm not putting that poo poo behind spoiler tags for the sake of preserving the story, but because some people might not particularly want to read the finer details of the awful poo poo that happens in that story. The only spoiler would be if any of you were unfortunate enough to listen to it. It's dogshit, the absolute worst Big Finish audio I have ever had the misfortune to hear.
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Feb 11, 2021 05:00
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bessantj posted:Well, I've heard about at least one story I definitely shouldn't buy, but what are the ones I should buy? Especially from the first 100? My personal choices would be: The Fifth Doctor 24. The Eye of the Scorpion 34. Spare Parts 81. The Kingmaker (first half is a little dull but the back half is bonkers batshit insane in the best way) The Sixth Doctor 6. The Marian Conspiracy 40. Jubilee 90. Year of the Pig (a personal favorite) The Seventh Doctor 5. The Fearmonger (this feels EXACTLY like the final year of Sylvester McCoy's run on television) 25. Colditz (with David Tennant!) 85. Red (Red! RED! RRRRRED! RRRRRRRRRRRRRREEDDDDD!) The Eighth Doctor 29. The Chimes of Midnight 33. Neverland (though it's the culmination of an "arc" running through most of the 8th Doctor's run, and the follow-up Zagreus is sadly not very good) 52. Scherzo (a goddamn masterpiece) 88. Memory Lane
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Feb 11, 2021 10:03
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Another sad thing (beyond the obvious biggest one being John Hurt's death) is that it felt like they had finally really nailed down the War Doctor's characterization, with his final line ("I may be the worst of them all" or words to that effect) hitting really hard. On the plus side, it leaves the listener to fill in the blanks pretty effectively between that last story and The Day of the Doctor, but man it would have been great to have heard more with him building on where they left things.
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Feb 13, 2021 15:10
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Yeah it's a really cool concept and neat to see in action, but the physical performance is such a key thing, especially for somebody like Troughton. As a fun experiment though it is pretty drat awesome.
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Feb 13, 2021 23:29
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MrL_JaKiri posted:It's not his audio Legit one of my favorite 1st Doctor bits is when he shows up out of nowhere in The Keys to Marinus to save Ian by acting as his lawyer.... except he has zero legal training and zero knowledge of the legal system of the zone (and planet!) they're on and is just there to win by sheer force of personality alone
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Feb 17, 2021 00:08
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The Queen has been getting some stick recently about using Queen's Consent for her benefit, but if things get really bad her people are going to salvage her reputation by revealing she wrote to Parliament in in the mid 2000s saying, and I quote,"Do not gently caress with Doctor Who, or I'll go you with a knife."
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Feb 17, 2021 01:17
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I mean, she was married to the 11th Doctor after all!
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Feb 17, 2021 02:42
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I gave up on Torchwood after Cyberwoman (though I was ready to pitch the whole thing in the bin after the pilot and the introduction of one of the central characters as a straight-up rapist), never watched season 2 but caught Children of Earth based on the high praise and quite enjoyed it, then made it through I think one episode of season 4 and just gave up on it again.
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Feb 19, 2021 02:08
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The_Doctor posted:This is a shot from upcoming movie Doors. Looks pretty familiar. All the "....of DEATH!" jokes aside, goddamn do I love the visual from this cliffhanger: 
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Feb 19, 2021 13:43
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The Ambassadors....* is definitely a fantastic story and well worth watching, but yes seconding that you should probably watch Pertwee's entire run because even when it got a little self-indulgent it was still great stuff. * OF DEATH! <TWAAANG!>
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Feb 20, 2021 01:05
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The Daemons is a standout, mostly because it understands that there's nothing wrong with ripping off Quatermass and the Pit. 
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Feb 20, 2021 11:16
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Action Jacktion posted:Now, Spearhead from Space, that's a rip-off; they didn't even try to hide it. Also a great episode! MrL_JaKiri posted:Doctor Who rips off Quatermass a lot. And is the better for it 
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Feb 21, 2021 00:47
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Payndz posted:If you're gonna steal, steal from the best. Terrance Dicks: Terry, you're the best. Terry Nation: Thanks  Terrance Dicks: Now I need you to write me a new script. Terry Nation: 
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Feb 21, 2021 01:19
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It really has become almost farcical over the years that no matter how small the stakes might be in a given episode there is inevitably a line thrown in about it wiping out all life on Earth or the Universe or something.Sydney Bottocks posted:gun-running 
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Feb 21, 2021 04:09
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A rewatch is easy if you own every story on DVD (and now increasingly on Blu-Ray too)  Barry Foster posted:love too listen to a Big Finish story which not only indulges in the myth of the clean Wehrmacht but actually has our heroes team up with Nazi POWs against a French resistance member Yeah okay I haven't heard that story and now I have zero desire to. gently caress that.
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Feb 23, 2021 22:10
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Yeah I listened to Dominion long before I heard any other Klein stories and she is quick to fill in any blanks you might have.
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Feb 26, 2021 00:33
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OldMemes posted:Coming soon: RECYCLING OF THE DALEKS Nick Briggs has been incessantly PMing the mods ever since you made this post, demanding your contact info.
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Mar 6, 2021 02:39
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OldMemes posted:Big Finish is ending the monthly series after running it since 1999. That's crazy impressive: I've got copies of the Past Doctor Adventure books with ads advertising them on cassette tape (think they'll still send me Sirens of Time on cassette if I mail them a check?). I think Sirens of Time is actually a free download at Big Finish at the moment, funnily enough! MrL_JaKiri posted:Power remains absolutely terrific, amazingly modern story (modern being "good 1970s" rather than actually modern) compared to the hartnell stories only a few weeks earlier But The Power of Kroll WAS made in the 1970s!  Seriously though, yeah Power of the Daleks is really great, I love the guy who has gone unhinged trying the,"I am your serrrrvant!" line on the Daleks and their response.
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Mar 17, 2021 08:20
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I try to avoid installing apps where possible but I have to say the Big Finish app is pretty loving great in terms of being able to just click any story I've purchased and instantly download it.
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Mar 17, 2021 22:49
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Astroman posted:[ X ] PEX LIVES
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No need to beat around the bush on that one, he's just a straight up rapist. It's one of the most baffling writing/character choices I can ever remember seeing in a television show. They just have one of their main characters be a literal rapist in the first episode and then he's supposed to be the "cool" guy character from that point on and I cannot figure out what the hell they were thinking. I feel bad for Burn Gorman too, because it really put me off him as an actor for a long time even though he wasn't the guy who wrote the character. Happily he still seems to be doing okay, he was the antagonist of season 4 of The Expanse and was really, really loving good at being a hateable piece of poo poo without resorting to being a rapist (which... again, Torchwood had him be a rapist and thought he was still a protagonist!).
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