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I’d say the worse crime of Chibnall was having the Master say “oh yeah, I found Gallifrey, but I killed everyone, they’re all Cybermen now btw. This all happened off-screen”. Kind of undoes a lot of the Time War arc that spanned both RTD and Moffat’s eras, the closest thing to a proper through-line that the whole revival has had.
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Nov 5, 2022 20:03
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Like, that was the one thread that tied together Eccleston, Tennant, Smith and Capaldi (and Hurt!), each actor building on how the character thought about Gallifrey, the Time War, their part in it, their relationship with home, the push and pull of yearning for the Time Lords but knowing how dangerous they had become…. all thrown away for a bit of delivered out-of-nowhere exposition that only put across “hey, the master is like, evil”. Ugh.
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Nov 5, 2022 23:12
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A diamond. Of course. RTD’s semiotics game on point lately.
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Nov 23, 2022 13:44
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According to Bob Mortimer, Chris Evans is himself one of those people who find it hilarious to get their cock out and put it on people’s shoulder etc. One imagines Piper was pretty tired of the bit by the time she was on Doctor Who. E: they’re bad, but I will defend the Daleks In Manhattan episodes if only for the moment when one of the Daleks checks there’s no-one listening behind him. Matinee fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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Nov 27, 2022 14:45
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The thing that seems to get missed in conversations about Tennant coming back is that Gatwa already had filming commitments that meant he couldn’t make the 60th anniversary filming block. If RTD’s choices were to do nothing for the 60th, or pull the trigger on a second-best-choice for Doctor, or bring back one (or possibly more! Who knows!) fan favourite old actors for the specials, he made the right one imo.
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May 16, 2023 09:55
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Thats a good shout and I'd love a pure Ruth Doctor episode one day, but I also wouldn't want RTD's first episodes to have anything to do with ChibnalLore
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May 16, 2023 15:10
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Is Big Finish's The Prisoner stuff any good?
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Jul 1, 2023 14:20
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The whole “Timeless Child/Master’s Entirely Off-Screen Genocide Of The Timelords” thing really reads as the work of a showrunner who doesn’t really care about lore etc. It reads as something from the hypothetical Eighth Doctor US series, had the TV Movie gone to season. And yet, and yet, Chibnall clearly cares about lore and the fictional universe. Truly baffling, the whole thing.
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Sep 8, 2023 20:12
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Digging the waistcoat look on Tennant, and also the general “silly sci-fi bollocks” vibe of it all.
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Sep 24, 2023 15:34
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the whole "don't cremate me" thing is really weird looking back on it - it doesn't really go anywhere or factor into any characters' schemes or motivations, it just feels like a jarringly edgelord concept bunged in there for no reason, and really sticks out given Moffat's usual semi-fairytale tone.
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Oct 1, 2023 14:56
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It wasn't even a crucial plot point iirc, it was just a little smug "aha" moment at the end of the first episode to show how clever his "Sherlock Holmes meets Hannibal Lecter but even smarter than both COMBINED" character was. Said character then spent the rest of the series figuring out another mystery that had, if possible, an even more bollocks solution.
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Oct 3, 2023 11:13
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PriorMarcus posted:Its a concept Moffat loved so much that he reused it wholesale in his Dracula TV series. Oh god, you’re absolutely right. I’d blanked most of that dreadful last episode out of my mind. I thought the first two were actually fairly decent but they just couldn’t resist jumping to “what if Dracula had tinder?”
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Oct 3, 2023 13:24
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Tucci was good fun to watch in that series, at least, and I’m sure Moffat had half an eye on another season with him - lest we forget the post-credits scene where the tutor character, presumably fresh from a horrific and traumatising kidnapping experience, visits Tucci in his American jail and coolly asks for his help in murdering her husband
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Oct 3, 2023 17:01
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Good to see the detail of a "Christmas special" there too, hopefully back in the big primetime Christmas Day BBC1 slot.
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Oct 12, 2023 14:26
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It seems like a nice way to spotlight the work of the huge amount of (incredibly skilled, no matter what role) work that goes in to tv/film production. RTD seems like a real “don’t pull the ladder up behind you” kind of guy. It’s an almost an anachronism these days. The decision to do Confidential back in the mid 00s was in the heyday of DVDs having some sort of BTS short as table stakes. One of the many things that streaming took from us. I’m very glad RTD was able to get it commissioned.
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Oct 12, 2023 17:17
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Personally I'd like there to be a bit more synth in the mix, but that rules. e: Love how prominent the choral elements are, I inherited a love of Welsh Choirs from my father Matinee fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oct 12, 2023 19:18
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Heaven Sent really is lightning in a bottle (episode). I really hope RTD, a decade and a half on from writing Midnight - the previous best bottle episode - is going to try and flex and surpass it.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:41
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Let's not forget that RTD also once wrote, on the topic of canon, "Paul McGann doesn't count". In Queer As Folk, about 25 years ago 
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