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OldMemes posted:plus as we all know, Time Lords procreate through LOOMS  From the previous thread: Crapilicious posted:I'm partial to a Chessmaster Doctor style myself. Dunno if they'll bring that back. I'm hoping after seeing Sylvester in action that RTD brings back 8 in a limited series set during the Time War when the Doctor was mostly on the sidelines, "helping where I can" and he brings back 7 as a recurring character, dropping in now and then before the TV movie and advising his future self and setting up quests or whatever. That would OWN.
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SiKboy posted:Even when backtracking from "would not have had the sense of mind to refrain from dropping a reference" himself to "wouldnt have spotted someone else doing it you still say "probably" to kind of insinuate that maybe he would have dropped the n-bomb in a doctor who script. So again, I'm flat out asking you; Is there any evidence, any discourse, any anything to imply that Chibnell is a racist? Its surely not just "I dont like his creative output therefore he must be a Bad Man who does all the Bad Things and has the Bad Opinions"? Because his creative output is real bad, but that doesnt make him a bad human being, just a bad writer/showrunner. Goons can't help but find the racist in the woodpile. 
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Oct 30, 2022 23:58
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The Fugitive Doctor could be good, but there will be lot of useless background mystery about her because even Chibnall didn't seem to know what her actual story was. I think it would take away from the stories.  Unless Big Finish just commits and tries to canonize her a place in the canon and either lean into or retcon the Timeless Child stuff. But they will be hesitant to for fear the tv show might decide to pick her up again and throw a different backstory in. I suppose it could also work if they strongly suggest she's more of an Unbound incarnation, outside of the canon.
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Nov 2, 2022 02:19
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The man wore a tie for audio recording. Class act, all the way.
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Nov 4, 2022 00:04
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Payndz posted:The Master's entire deal is "Didn't you die?" "Nnnnnnope!" I love that they literally did that with Dhawan's Master. Rochallor posted:It's very difficult to assess her performance given how totally different (and bad!) her version of the show was. I'm really curious to see her in an anniversary special in, what, I guess ten years' time now? Certainly she's a good actor in other stuff, but if I think back on what little of the Chibnall era I watched, the only person I can recall giving off charisma is Bradley Walsh, maybe, and that's probably just residual energy from being a presenter for so many years. He's a helluva actor. He was great on Law and Order: UK. That's what I know him from. Jerusalem posted:Still holding out hope that when this current incarnation of the Master regenerates, he turns into Missy and we discover he was the immediate regeneration after Simm, not Gomez, and had no idea 12 preceded 13 all along I think this is pretty much dead, as it would imply that Missy knew about Gallifrey being destroyed and all the Timeless Child stuff. Once it was shown the current Master was involved in all that, it kinda killed the idea that he was a pre-Missy incarnation. Like why would Missy just sit on that knowledge when dealing with a previous incarnation of the Doctor?
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Nov 6, 2022 08:01
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Payndz posted:I loved that L&O:UK had in its cast a former Doctor, a former companion and a future companion (but not the one you would have expected). Also Apollo from BSG. Honestly it was Bamber and Agyeman who got me to watch the series, as I have normally zero interest in police procedurals. Genre actors also hooked me into Hawaii 5-0 (at least til it got goofy in the end) and Longmire. L&O:UK also turned me on to fantastic actors like Bradley Walsh and Ben Daniels. I tend to follow actors I like and will try out other stuff they do. I watched Longmire for Katee Sackhoff, and then read all the books and because of Zahn McClarnon on that show started watching Dark Winds. Now I'm reading Tony Hillerman novels about Tribal Police in the 70s and I never would have imagined I'd be doing that 20 years ago!
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Nov 7, 2022 03:07
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Hopefully none of the Disney stuff has any fallout on Big Finish. If there was ever a time to be glad Russell is back it's when DW does a deal with Disney since he's the one who saved BF before.
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Nov 8, 2022 01:15
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Confusedslight posted:https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1593705809166434306?t=PHFsUrTQ9lsT2AXyTlcVgw&s=19 She has never known a world without Doctor Who on TV. This hasn't happened for a Companion since Sophie Aldred. Arguably, it's only happened for her, Bonnie Langford, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse, maybe Nicola Bryant depending on her memories of watching tv as a toddler.
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Nov 19, 2022 05:52
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Rhyno posted:perhaps even, the trip of a lifetime? WTF?! Doctor Who in a...leather jacket? And why does he have to be so young? Same as the TV movie, just go for some young guy, we'll never see a distinguished gentleman with white hair again, I suppose! Doctor Who more like Doctor Was! Lord Ludikrous posted:I’m in the process of decluttering/packing to move home and I discovered a model which for a number of years I believed I had given away to a charity shop or lost. Chase drone, classic all the way.
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Nov 22, 2022 01:13
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I'm sure 14's suit pattern will be much more subtle than that, but drat I wish it was that 1:1 on the show. 
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Nov 24, 2022 02:43
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As an American growing up in the 80s and seeing DW inconsistently on various PBS runs, I would devour the Target novels as my only way to see (or resee) certain episodes. Some of them could really give you a totally different take if you'd never seen it before reading an episode. The Space Museum is a great early one. If you've never watched the episode, read it first. It's  Makes it seem a lot bigger and higher budget than it was.
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Nov 26, 2022 03:11
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The_Doctor posted:Yeah, Flux has some excellent ideas and concepts but just refuses to engage or explore them in any way at all. That last sentence is Chibnall in a nutshell. Both him and Moffat have amazing ideas, and while Moffat can stumble and get bloated and OTT, when he connects he knocks it out if the park. Chibnall never seems to be able to execute.
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Nov 29, 2022 03:36
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LividLiquid posted:SHE'S STILL AROUND AND NOBODY'S DONE THIS!? Big Finish has brought her back and continued her story numerous times. Quite frankly I could do without a tv version decanonizing theirs. Jerusalem posted:Chibnall when he wrote for RTD and for Moffat always felt to me like he was aping their styles (usually not all that successfully) and I used to complain about that, but given when he had his own way he brought in the Timeless Child nonsense, maybe that wasn't a bad thing! Has anything come out about behind the scenes issues with his era? I know there were a lot of backstage issues with RTD and Moffat, but I haven't been paying attention lately. If he is good at wrangling production, it's a strong as argument as any to ditch the showrunner model and go back to an Executive Producer and Script Editor. If Chibnall had taken on the John Nathan-Turner role of logistics, cast relations, hiring crew, getting filming locations, being a public facing cheerleader, and dealing with network suits, it would let an RTD focus on pure creative.
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Nov 30, 2022 05:42
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The_Doctor posted:He destroyed one of the Nine Gallifreys made during the Time War as decoys for the Daleks. 
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Dec 2, 2022 05:27
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Calling The_Doctor and all McGann fans: https://www.moviejawn.com/home/2022/11/28/doctor-who-am-i-examines-a-lesser-loved-incarnation-of-the-beloved-franchise Documentary on the 1996 movie and the guy who wrote it, featuring McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, and examination of American Who fans, and a shout out to Big Finish. Turns out the writer is the son of the guy who played Doc Holliday on The Gunfighters. I didn't know that. I want to watch this, though I'm not sure where, as when they say it's appearing on "Streaming" that's a bit vague...
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Dec 3, 2022 04:13
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Some call it a classic!
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Dec 8, 2022 01:51
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Timelash is so great you have to watch it in one setting. You can try to pause, but those who do, do it with a screeeeeeam! Actually if you think about it, they really got some great scenery chewing guest stars to go up against Colin, like Paul Darrow and Brian Blessed. Casting was in point in that era! Also Timelash is the story that got me hooked on Who. I'd seen The Three Doctors one random afternoon when I was like 7, but when I was 9 or so I had a tv in my room. I was already heavy into Star Trek since the previous summer, and was flipping around the channels at 9pm when I hit PBS and saw this sci-fi show with giant crystals and HG Wells and I immediately realized this needed to be paid attention to. Started watching every week and buying any books I could find. Since then, my two favorite franchises bar none are ST and DW, nearly 40 years on. Still feels like yesterday.
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Dec 9, 2022 01:55
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I just figured out how RTD is goint to top Moffat's 50th for the 60th. The first anniversary special was the 10 year. He'll hearken back to that. The 14th Doctor meets The 10th Doctor meets The Metacrisis Doctor in THE THREE DOCTORS II starring David Tennant! 
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Dec 11, 2022 03:34
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Rosa would have been better if the villain hadn't been somebody from Captain Jack's era who was still specifically racist against black people at a time when most humans were accepting of interspecies sex. It implies that this one sort of prejudice is so bad and ingrained into humanity it will never go away. Which is a pretty hopeless thing. Also that changing one specific part of the civil rights movement would be a butterfly effect that would usher in White Utopia. Can't get behind the Mary Shelley one due to the retcon of one of the great companions of Eight. Demons of the Punjab and The Witchfinders were fantastic though.
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Dec 11, 2022 06:51
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Besides, Britain has plenty of its own issues with racism that DW could be addressing, like when Ace discovered the "NO COLOUREDS" sign in the window way back in "Remembrance of the Daleks". The show doesn't need to go across the pond to do a "racism is bad and here's a historical example of why" story. That was a powerful moment and one of the best social commentaries in the show. It was far better to show things how they were, then try to shoehorn in "but actshually there COULD have been a black soldier in Queen Victoria's time" or "we'll have a middle ages village look like modern London with all ethnicities so it looks like now for the viewers" instead of talking about how things really were at the time. Can you imagine if they did Marco Polo now and had white people (not in yellowface, just actual white people) in ancient China and say "well there's lots of white people there in now in places like Hong Kong, so..." Maxwell Lord posted:That's the thing, we can't assume that racism will be gone in the future. We can hope it will be but if the last several years have taught me anything it's that irrational hatreds have a way of clinging on for dear life. And this I'm fine with, and it's important. Showing predjudice can and will still exist even in enlightented societies of the future is a good commentary on our present. It was that specific choice which was jarring. That said, the moment where they had to suck it up and let the bad part of history happen and Graham had to pretend to be racist for history to play out was suitably uncomfortable and moving. The Doctor knows sometimes you can't just kill Hitler (though you can put him in the cupboard).
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Dec 11, 2022 20:15
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Khanstant posted:This is weird to read since that is clearly the worst episode of all doctor who 
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Didn't realize the main thread would be on this, but I suppose it'd be unavoidable to even the most spoiler averse. Like I said in the spoiler thread, I like it. The patterns are pretty cool.
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Dec 18, 2022 02:27
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Sydney Bottocks posted:...in particular, mentioning how Marter's novelization of The Rescue had some severe editing done as he'd decided to open the book with an enthusiastic and none-too-subtle description of the act of fellatio. 
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Jerusalem posted:I'd be delighted if Moffat came back to write a story here and there. One of my few regrets re: the Moffat era was that RTD never got to just come back and JUST be a writer for the show. Though he did do that delightful 11th Doctor episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, which if I remember right Moffat described as: RTD:  Also I've developed a Controversial Theory about 14: he's not the 14th Doctor, he's the Valeyard, and 15 has to come and defeat him at the end.
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Vinylshadow posted:
Once again, Sylvester shows up in his street clothes and they roll with it.
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Jan 1, 2023 16:39
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The real problem will occur after Russell leaves. Unless his retirement plan is to be the Feige or Kennedy of the "Doctor Who Universe" for the next 30 years, someone will take over and they may not have the juice to say no to studio notes. I never got the impression he was doing anything more than coming in for a couple of years to steady the ship. He seems like as much as he loves DW, he's someone with too many other creative ideas to sit in one place long.
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Rochallor posted:After taking a break from Doctor Who stuff to read REAL LITERATURE* I've curated a small selection of 8th Doctor Adventures to read, and hoo boy Alien Bodies has some wild-rear end poo poo in it. Time Lords may come out of looms, but TARDISes? TARDISes gently caress. TARDISes gently caress and make baby TARDISes because they're trying to create genetically diverse TARDISes so that they can't all be wiped out with a single virus. Also, one of the TARDISes is a woman and a Time Lord travels around inside of her, and yes, I've checked the author page three times and Steven Moffat didn't write it. The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > Doctor Who: TARDISes? TARDISes gently caress.
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Angry Salami posted:I never understood why it didn't occur to them that they didn't need to use the prop if it didn't work right. The character is literally a shapeshifter who can look like anyone! Shapeshifters were always underutilized due to technology in the 80s and 90s, look at Odo.
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Jan 9, 2023 05:28
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CommonShore posted:From the gross food thread: Meant to post this ITT but didn't hit back enough time: Please tell me someone has tweeted that to Sean Pertwee for confirmation...
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Jan 10, 2023 01:09
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Robert J. Omb posted:Does that cover feature all the Doctors… and Adric? Bonus points for including both 10 and 14, minus for not including Fugitive, score 0. Minus eleventy billion for not including the Morbius Doctors
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The_Doctor posted:Poor stage Doctor Now THAT is a deep cut!
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LividLiquid posted:Ages ago when I first discovered Who, I tried to watch what was out there in chronological order and found there was literally no way to do that legally, (or even easily via The way I watched Classic was like this: One PBS station was showing 6th Doctor episodes and was on Timelash-in the US they showed 90 minute edits of the whole story. Next week was Revelation of the Daleks, then since that was the newest episode...they started over at An Unearthly Child. I watched all the way through the first couple episodes of Tom Baker before I moved. When new seasons came out from the UK, they'd show them and dip back to the old run when done, so I saw everything up to the end of Sylvester "live" Meanwhile another PBS station was in the middle of Davison, and I saw that back through to Colin. And when I went to my grandmother's for a month, her PBS stations were in the middle of the Key To Time arc of Tom. So there's really no "right" way to watch the old stuff.
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Jan 16, 2023 13:47
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egon_beeblebrox posted:The Animated Adventures of Six and Frobisher, coming soon Animated Doctor Who would be great because a la Big Finish, all the living actors could play their younger selves. But if you wanted a Lower Decks style comedy, 6 and Frobisher would work great.
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Jan 28, 2023 02:38
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Payndz posted:"Look, all I ever wanted was to be in charge of writing a science fiction show where I could put a morally compromised man of violence who shoots lots of people at the centre of the action. In a parallel universe where Blake's 7 went on a few more years...
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 Despite that bit of credits blasphemy, I will die on the hill that the 90 minute PBS edits are a great way to experience the original series, and if they were available now more new fans might watch the old episodes.
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I remember as a reader of the NAs as they came out "live", wishing they would move on and advance the character by regenerating him. This was before the TV Movie and the idea that there could be a new series that continued in the continuity of the old. Not seeing that as even a slight possibility, I imagined a world where the novels continued on with the last Doctor for 20 years becoming ossified and losing steam. I think had the TV movie not happened, it would have been the right move. There were some times when the novels really put the Doctor through the ringer and seemed to hint they were going to do it.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:What the hell did they do to Davros' voice? Is there a version in the original German? 
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Feb 25, 2023 02:00
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Well theres this clip. Davros ranting in German is  Open Source Idiom posted:Miles owns. He wasn't wrong about BF spelling doom for the novels, as sales plummeted during rhe Gary Russel BF era (though he did work for BF on several occasions). He's a fractious dude with mental health issues, but his writing is tight and interesting, and is probably still one of the most influential writers from that period, and he got on with a subset of writers within the range -- many ideas from the RTD and Moffat eras came from him originally. (Moffat's acknowledged the influence, I believe, while RTD has not -- but Miles was the actual guy behind the Time War). I think the case could be made for Miles being a Harlan Ellison figure in DW. Iconoclastic, divisive, but even his haters can't deny his talents and stubborn integrity.
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Feb 26, 2023 12:39
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Sometimes voice actors don't translate well to live action, and sometimes BF needs to slow their roll costuming them for pics and promos...
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah, to be honest I'm a little iffy on calling 10 14 since he's clearly just 10 again (that we've seen so far!), but if that's what they call him I'll go with it. War (between 8 & 9) and Fugitive (between 2 & 3) have always stood apart in their descriptions so even if the numbering doesn't technically make sense, Eccleston is still 9, Tennant 10, Smith 11, Capaldi 12, Whittaker 13 etc. Is this fanon consensus now to retcon the weirder parts of the Chibnall plot, or just you? I've been a bit out of the loop on that stuff. I mean, I think it would work as well as anything to keep Jo Martin's Doctor around but bypass that "1000 previous Doctors oh and also he's not Gallifreyan" mess. Sydney Bottocks posted:It's because Tennant was the most popular by far of the revival series Doctors; even Smith and Moffat's era was basically just them building on what Tennant and RTD had achieved before them. They're not bringing Tennant back because he was the only one they could get, they're bringing him back because he's the one people want to see. I believe and trust RTD 100%. Even if 10/Rose got a bit twee, and his era did have some issues. The guy knows how to do great tv, knows how to do great Doctor Who, and if he says Ncuti is gonna be good (and that the public will feel the same) I'm gonna give him a dimensionally transcendental benefit of the doubt. He's not coming back to DW to gently caress it up. Eiba posted:10 and 11 were very much both Doctors for horny people. 
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