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Also I think it bears repeating, from the end of the last thread: WHAT!?!
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TinTower posted:Hey, you've redecorated! We never needed Patrick Troughton more than the last special where the Doctor opens up the TARDIS to show the rebuilt console room and it's still the empty dark mess it's been the last 2 seasons 
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Jan 4, 2022 23:54
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Ideal 60th Anniversary: The BBC hold a press conference and say,"Sorry about how sporadic the number of episodes per year has been since series 6, but we can finally reveal that it was because we have already shot 100+ episodes of The 8th Doctor Adventures starring Paul McGann and we'll be airing a run of 6 episodes every time more than 3 months without a new modern series of Doctor Who airs from now until time itself runs down and the universe reaches its heat death."
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Jan 5, 2022 06:36
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Khanstant posted:2) scene where three Doctors stacked in a trenchcoat successfully scare off of the Master by puffing and appearing much larger and dangerous than normal Pfft, they already did that in 1971! 
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Jan 7, 2022 09:33
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The_Doctor posted:
That was Kayvan Novak!?!  God, is there anything he CAN'T do!?! ....well, apart from make Guillermo a vampire I guess.....
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Jan 8, 2022 04:41
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The Hartnell stuff is genuinely great, there's a reason he set the bedrock for a series that has been running for almost 60 years now, even if Troughton is credited by so many fans/actors as the inspiration for working on the show. Which, well, it's justifiable too, since the show could have very easily ended with Hartnell going and instead Troughton showed it could continue on with a new actor in the role. Wonderful chaps (and chapettes), all of them.
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Jan 8, 2022 21:09
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It's REALLY terrible though!
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Jan 8, 2022 23:37
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The John Bishop stuff is hilarious but nothing made me belly-laugh quite as much as seeing 11 in that calendar next to Buffy 
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Jan 10, 2022 03:59
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They tried but when they got to the "Any objections?" portion Tegan just wouldn't stop laughing while pointing directly in the Doctor's face.
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Jan 12, 2022 23:11
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Sydney Bottocks posted:And doing the Charleston 1st Doctor: Barbara will not be pleased 
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Jan 13, 2022 00:12
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Maybe they thought the incredibly passionate, energetic and excitable narration would mask the pointless busywork!
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Jan 14, 2022 09:11
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The_Doctor posted:Jodie’s doing her first con next month! Oh wow, odd that she'd announce she's staying on the show with RTD so early and choose to do it there, but yay!
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Jan 14, 2022 23:47
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If it is a success, the Tories will say this proves the value of public/private partnerships and sell the BBC to Rupert Murdoch. If it is a failure, they will say this proves the BBC's inability to run and sell it to Rupert Murdoch.
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Jan 16, 2022 22:58
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I didn't want to say anything but I keep reading it as "Gay Pear Specials" Every time here as well 
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Jan 17, 2022 22:14
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Yeah, just a really enjoyable episode with a fun gimmick, well worth watching and has me with high hopes for the next special.
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Jan 18, 2022 00:38
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If we had to suffer through the bullshit of a Trump Presidency I'm still mad we never got this in reality to at least kinda make up for it:
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Jan 18, 2022 14:02
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Bicyclops posted:Corbyn cheerfully handing a big jar of something called "carrot jam" to Six, who walks away frowning and whispering "Doesn't he look anti-semitic?" to one of his aides. loving hell 
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Jan 19, 2022 00:57
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Updog Scully posted:Just saw a fan compare Chibnall's run to domestic abuse!?  Yeah.... that's crazy-town talk, Jesus Christ. I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they're being tongue-in-cheek or knowingly hyperbolic but I suspect that me thinking that is more a defense mechanism so I don't have to accept that anybody would be that insane. I mean, I grew up with Doctor Who, it's been a giant part of my life, my all time favorite show, and I've been very let down by Chris Chibnall's run but... it's just a loving television show, you know!
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Jan 20, 2022 05:44
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That trailer ruled, Peri's reaction after being told what the people say about her was 
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Jan 20, 2022 22:06
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Yeah, The War Games is a masterpiece, just an absolutely incredible high note for Troughton to go out on.
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Jan 20, 2022 23:06
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A prestige drama series about Tegan Jovanka telling aliens and monsters to gently caress off 
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Jan 22, 2022 01:10
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Khanstant posted:"We are the Doctors Who" is a good gang-introduction when you're rolling with a squad 13-15 doctors deep. Okay you talked me into posting this video again, I held out as long as I possibly could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H92RbydVwuc
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Jan 22, 2022 03:26
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One of my favorite bits in the first season of the Revival is when the Doctor brings Rose back home after a year instead of a day so they have to bullshit a story about traveling around Europe together, and a cop gets called (because she's a reported missing person), listens to the story and just immediately asks,"So is this a sexual relationship?" because it's absolutely what somebody would think about a older (way older than they think!) man suddenly taking a 19-year-old girl on a year-long trip around Europe. It was great that they broached the subject and made it clear it wasn't. Then of course the Tennant years happened and things got a lot weirder and unsettling culminating in the dildo Doctor, oof.
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Jan 24, 2022 21:56
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Updog Scully posted:Probably better they don't have the Doctor date their companion The rare thing that all Doctor Who fans 
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Jan 25, 2022 00:29
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The Doctor starting to write his way out of his problem in The Mind Robber, then realizing that doing so would be making himself part of the fiction and thus trapping him forever was  Sydney Bottocks posted:Watched the classic Hartnell story The Romans the other day and that was so good. You could tell everybody was just having a great time doing that story, especially Hartnell. Hartnell laughing his rear end off as he beats the poo poo out of a would-be assassin was amazing 
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Jan 28, 2022 04:08
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From memory, Peter Capaldi was only a year younger in his first season than Hartnell was in his. Being in your 50s in the 1960s is quite different to being that age today!
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Jan 28, 2022 10:13
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LionArcher posted:So like, big new who fan. Matt smith is my fav. Liked season 11 well enough. Jodis cool. 12 fell apart with timeless child, but master was fun. I've been a fan of Who my entire life and you basically just speed-ran my experience of the show
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Jan 30, 2022 05:08
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Random Stranger posted:I stopped watching with the not-Amazon episode and basically cut myself off until Chibnall left. The good news is that you have It Takes You Away to look forward to, which is a genuinely fantastic episode.
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Jan 31, 2022 01:37
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Oh yeah, there are good episodes for sure. It Takes You Away though I think is the pick of the litter, it's not just a great episode for the Chibnall run, it's a great episode purely in its own right and would stand up in any other era of the show.
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A few issues aside I thought Part 1 was excellent, especially the cliffhanger. Part 2 kind of fell apart I thought, but I adore the "Wait a minute, you're supposed to be a good runner...." moment in part 1.
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I think Kerblam! may be the story that.... well I don't know if I can say the worst. The most annoying? The most baffling? It was an episode I was really enjoying and thought was zipping along at a great pace and was a lot of fun and then.... the AI murders a completely innocent woman and the Doctor acts as if this proves it has real humanity and is a good person, then the terrorist achieves all their goals after suicide bombing himself and the Doctor explains that giant corporations are our friends?  Maybe the episode with the most potential that it didn't just squander but actively ruined with how it wrapped up? Edit: I mean, the fact that Oxygen was made only one season before Kerblam! makes it all the more insane. God, Oxygen was a loving awesome episode.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I was always puzzled when people would be like "oh boy we get new Doctor Who soon! Because I'm old enough to remember the miserable 16 years where, apart from the television movie, there was no new Doctor Who and it was assumed there probably never would be again, and that is a hell I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Sometimes at night I still wake up screaming....
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Feb 1, 2022 23:01
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If there's one thing we can all agree on (there isn't, we're Doctor Who fans), it's that the 50th Anniversary was a spectacular success and an incredible time to be watching Doctor Who, and everybody agrees (except for the ones who don't). "You know I rather think you might!"
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Yeah, I'm not a particular fan of the idea of there being alternate timeline versions of the Doctor (they're a Time Lord, you'd kind of think timelines have to adapt to fit around them rather than the other way around) but Colin Baker as the War Doctor is a really, really intriguing idea. I love that one of the stories involves him being put on trial raditts posted:I'm not sure what you mean by this, but I'm certainly not going to google it. Long story short: Rose was desperately in love with 10 and he kept making it clear that this wasn't something he could reciprocate. Then he used his severed arm from The Christmas Invasion to avoid regenerating after being shot by a Dalek, which accidentally created another version of himself who had his mind/memories/intelligence etc but also happened to be entirely human, and the story ends with him making out with Rose and the two of them going to live in the alternate Cybus Universe. The fact that RTD would later write a story where Donna basically gets the brainpower of a Time Lord in a human body and is informed that it is too much for a human body to take and she'll burn out if her mind isn't severely locked down suggests a rather horrifying ultimate end result for Doctor Twho over in the Cybus Universe, which I don't think RTD even remotely intended or ever considered. Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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RTD had some spectacular highs and some pretty astonishing lows, but one constant through almost all his time running the show was that it always felt exciting and that you never really knew what loving bizarre thing was going to happen next. I loved Moffat's run, even if he started to repeat himself by his last couple of seasons, and the revival as a whole I think hit a high watermark in Season 5 that has only been matched by Day of the Doctor, though stretches of Capaldi's first and last season were right up there too. Overall I think the show was better under Moffat, but I also don't think it was ever more exciting and chaotic than it was under RTD. Also, the last thing RTD wrote was last year's It's A Sin which was an absolutely incredible bit of writing, and I'd like to hope he's recharged his batteries and learned his lessons about getting his first drafts in early for this run on Doctor Who 
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Rhyno posted:Someone repost the "first face" Six meme, I can't find it. Muppetjedi posted:https://twitter.com/judgemyvow/status/1469318361993646093?s=20&t=qcBHjk3KKCU9VK6b5iUR2w Simply amazing
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It'll never happen but I would laugh my rear end off if when we get to the end of the Sacha Dhawan Master's run, he decides to one up the Doctor in his next regeneration, and becomes Missy and it turns out she thought 13 was 12, and Missy's entire run she had no idea that the last time Capaldi saw her she was the Simm Master
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Did Big Finish put their prices up? I just got an alert that they were having a big sale on the DW monthly range 151-200 which is great because I have some gaps in that collection... but I went to their site and the "old" price is now twice what it used to be as the "discount" price is the same as what individual titles cost back when I couldn't justify paying the price for them Edit: No I'm stupid, I just realized that these are sales on the actual physical CDs, not digital downloads 
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