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OldMemes posted:Tom Baker and Lalla Ward record thier scenes together with a different actor, and they're edited together later. IIRC, Ward lives in Hong Kong and Baker tends to remote record now for the audios. I think it was established in that "Time Crash" short where Ten meets Five, where some sort of time travel gobbledygook explains why one of the Doctor's past selves looks much older than he used to. My guess is they'll just use that again.
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OldMemes posted:Tom Baker and Lalla Ward record thier scenes together with a different actor, and they're edited together later. IIRC, Ward lives in Hong Kong and Baker tends to remote record now for the audios. Though they've been recording separately long before either of those things were the case tbh. Ward's also dropped from their Gallifrey range entirely so she might just be done full stop, who knows.
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Oct 31, 2023 00:37
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OldMemes posted:
I’m just going to assume that The Doctor’s using some kind of cloaking device to display an older version of themselves to make the former companions not feel uncomfortable about how much older they are now. ‘Look I’m old and fat and grey too, it’s ok’. 😌
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Oct 31, 2023 04:42
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I don’t care how old and grey and out of shape he gets, I will watch literally any new Doctor Who with McCoy in it. Eccleston may have been “My Doctor” because of when I got into the show, but Sly will always be “My Doctor” of choice 
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Oct 31, 2023 05:04
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I don’t care how old and grey and out of shape he gets, I will watch literally any new Doctor Who with McCoy in it. I'm the same way with McGann. "Another Big Finish spin-off with a secondary character... oh, Eight's in it. Why is this in my shopping cart?"
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Oct 31, 2023 18:59
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if RTD doesn't give us an "8th Doctor Adventure" special, I'll be disappointed. Dr. Who has the money and the following now. I hope we actually get to see McGann Doctoring Around.
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Oct 31, 2023 19:03
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They should just go and film all the good EDAs. I want to see Eight and some alien tigers, or pottering around New Orleans, or at the auction of his own corpse.
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Oct 31, 2023 19:16
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The_Doctor posted:They should just go and film all the good EDAs. I want to see Eight and some alien tigers, or pottering around New Orleans, or at the auction of his own corpse. I'd love to see it, do you think they'd let someone like Laurence Miles be involved in the show though? I've not followed what he's been up to lately but I seem to recall he was kind of a lovely dude during the Moffat tenure
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Oct 31, 2023 19:24
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Because of the way Moffat treated him back in the Tav days, which fair, I remember he was kind of a cock then too (Moff, not Loz). Somehow one of the BBC books that came out in 2020 had a Faction Paradox agent show up (Wintertime Paradox), so the rights must be up in the air.
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Oct 31, 2023 19:28
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CobiWann posted:I'm the same way with McGann. There's a recent cross media collab you may want to investigate on the BF side I was listening to Doom's Day because it actually is quite fun (has some issues of course), and they've been hinting at the Doctor showing up (TARDIS sounds in the bg, Doom actively hunting him, etc) but guess which incarnation it is...8 and Charley Pollard.
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Oct 31, 2023 20:43
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McGann posted:There's a recent cross media collab you may want to investigate on the BF side So it's a doctor but probably not the one you were expecting?
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Oct 31, 2023 20:54
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1719444128189010276
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Oct 31, 2023 21:24
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Fil5000 posted:So it's a doctor but probably not the one you were expecting?  Well played
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Oct 31, 2023 21:33
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Euugh. Branding.
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Oct 31, 2023 22:29
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I think "Whoniverse" is a stupid word but also if it's got the show being made more accessible and getting more attention then call it Uncle Tom's Crazy Eyes if you want, I'm good!
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Oct 31, 2023 23:24
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advertising for the new specials are really ramping up on social media: 
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Nov 1, 2023 00:27
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Doctor whose on first?
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Nov 1, 2023 00:45
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Yes! Not the pronoun, but a Doctor with the unlikely name of Who
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Nov 1, 2023 00:50
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Doctor Who Nurse What Orderly Where Nocturnist When Intern Why Patient How
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Vinylshadow posted:Patient How I was forced to learn between 1989-1996 and 1996-2005
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Nov 1, 2023 01:41
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AndyElusive posted:advertising for the new specials are really ramping up on social media: "Doctor Who Delivered Her Baby" Great, it's gonna be another one of those goddamn River Song TARDIS babies 
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Nov 1, 2023 02:17
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I still can’t believe I called that reveal in a dumb joke in a decade-old thread
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Nov 1, 2023 02:25
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I've seen ponds in forests that whole thing never made sense 
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Nov 1, 2023 02:38
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I think my joke was something like “Every River begins as a Pond, Doctor”
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Nov 1, 2023 02:40
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What if it begins as a spring?
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Nov 1, 2023 09:13
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They never said she didn't have sisters named spring, brook, and puddle
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Nov 1, 2023 09:58
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Khanstant posted:They never said she didn't have sisters named spring, brook, and puddle cough check the BF stories cough cough
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Nov 1, 2023 10:28
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Just watched a couple of the Tales of the Tardis and yeah, good work RTD, what a fun way to present some of the classic stories. Might even have something in my eye.
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Nov 1, 2023 11:48
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Fil5000 posted:Just watched a couple of the Tales of the Tardis and yeah, good work RTD, what a fun way to present some of the classic stories. Might even have something in my eye. I'm hoping the answer is no, but did they do anything to the classic footage to modernize it? Either new effects, or color grading?
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Nov 1, 2023 11:54
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I was honestly just expecting the classics to be on iPlayer, but i wasn't expecting all the full length confidentials to be on there as well.
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Nov 1, 2023 11:59
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PriorMarcus posted:I'm hoping the answer is no, but did they do anything to the classic footage to modernize it? Either new effects, or color grading? I didn't really notice anything though I didn't give them an especially thorough watch. I've just put Greatest Show in the Galaxy on and it doesn't look regraded or even especially upscaled. 
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Nov 1, 2023 12:00
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Jerusalem posted:I was forced to learn between 1989-1996 and 1996-2005 In a different universe, Doctor Who fans would commonly refer to themselves as "patients".
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Nov 1, 2023 12:32
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Fil5000 posted:I didn't really notice anything though I didn't give them an especially thorough watch. I've just put Greatest Show in the Galaxy on and it doesn't look regraded or even especially upscaled. Realistically I don't know what you can do with 50 year old videotape, even assuming this wasn't a budget operation, which it probably was. And personally, upscaling and digital effects in 70s TV always look like poo poo to me. It's wonderful that we get Spearhead From Space in HD due to the happy accident of its shooting.
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Nov 1, 2023 13:06
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So the Tales of the TARDIS thing is up and I had a quick peek to see what it is. Essentially, each episode is a repackaging of an old serial, stripping out the old intro and credit sequences and putting in the odd bit of commentary from the characters. The explanation is given in the last one by the Seventh Doctor fairly directly but is alluded to in other episodes - it's a "Memory TARDIS", which seems to exist to bring people together to remember stuff. Picking Jamie and Zoe seems an especially poignant choice in that case. Either way, it is literally a nostalgia vehicle, which shows some self awareness. It's basically a professional version of the sort of fanfic you get where characters sit around and have conversations about stuff that happened in canon, though the intro and outro segments of the Seventh Doctor and Ace ones are the most interesting, partly because in the intro of that the Seventh explains the gimmick and also says that timelines are a funny thing and in some he regenerated, in some he didn't, which effectively means New Adventures and Big Finish and your fanfic are all canon, and partly because in the outro of that, unlike in the others, the Doctor and Ace aren't satisfied to just sit there and fondly remember as the credits fade out (I think it's implied that people get sent back where they were summoned from once they've given the memory TARDIS its fill, or maybe they were only memory-phantoms and they dissolve or something) they hijack the thing and go on adventures. The story choices (in the episode order they've picked): Fifth Doctor - Earthshock Second Doctor - Mind Robber Sixth Doctor - Vengeance On Varos Third Doctor - Three Doctors First Doctor - Time Meddler Seventh Doctor - Curse of Fenric The commentary sections are really saccharine. Basically new series in full emotional manipulation mode saccharine. As I said, it's a very fanficcy concept. I am sure some people will enjoy them but, beyond being reassured that all the off-camera adventures you want Doctors to have happen in some timeline and seeing 7 and Ace reunited for implied new adventures, I'd prefer to just watch the old episodes. Oh, biggest problem. Because of the way they have edited the episodes, they strip away the episode-closing synthesiser sting, which means that unfortunately the re-edited episodes are doomed to be rubbish. EDIT: After further clicking around, the other endings: Fifth and Tegan decide to take the whole thing as a form of therapy and just keep chatting. Zoe and Jamie sit there and vow not to forget again. Six and Peri also hijack the Memory TARDIS/their iteration of it and go on new adventures. Jo sends Clyde home and then has an implied encounter with Doctor Jones, who it's suggested has died. Vicki and Steven use the Memory TARDIS to summon the shade of the First Doctor. Warthur fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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Warthur posted:the Doctor and Ace aren't satisfied to just sit there and fondly remember as the credits fade out . . . they hijack the thing and go on adventures. That's loving awesome. Warthur posted:they strip away the episode-closing synthesiser sting https://i.imgur.com/4c9rZAt.mp4
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Nov 1, 2023 13:35
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It's even worse. Because of the way the edit works, they ruin the best bit of Vengeance On Varos - namely the episode 1 cliffhanger.
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Nov 1, 2023 13:36
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I wonder when they'll be available to the rest of the world (if ever).
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Nov 1, 2023 13:38
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Confusedslight posted:I wonder when they'll be available to the rest of the world (if ever).  But seriously, is it frowned upon in general to use a VPN and lie about having a license to access iPlayer as an American or should I expect a bobby sometime this afternoon?
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Nov 1, 2023 13:47
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Yeah I'm watching them now and am in agreement that they're sickly sweet. Which is occasionally what you want, but also we've had the chance for these characters to be having reunions in audio form for over 20 years now. It is pretty funny that the memory TARDIS is basically the church from the end of Lost.Warthur posted:It's even worse. Because of the way the edit works, they ruin the best bit of Vengeance On Varos - namely the episode 1 cliffhanger. Heavy agree, my jaw dropped the first time I saw that cliffhanger. It feels very biting and more than a little self-referential in a way that's years ahead of its time.
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A funny detail: Steven and Vicki are sad enough about the First Doctor to be able to conjure a memory-shade of him. Jo is sad enough about her dead husband to call up a memory-shade of him. The Fifth Doctor and Tegan are sad about Adric... but are happy to leave him in the past. Don't even consider calling up a memory-shade.
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