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Rewatched New Earth the other day and even though it's clearly nonsense it's nonsense that actually works as a story, with strong characterisation, foreshadowing and all that business. Really puts the Chibnall era into perspective.
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Nov 26, 2022 13:49
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Infinitum posted:A good portion of the universe is literally dead at the end of the Flux and this never gets resolved. A good portion of the universe is destroyed in Logopolis and that's not mentioned again either Cleretic posted:Yeah, it's kinda Journey's End taped to The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords, right down to an equivalent musical scene. But at least it's good at those things Disagree really strongly. Chibnall is bad at writing, regardless of the content; there's no flow, no continuity of ideas and themes, and for all that Rusty got distracted by shiny things when writing he at least tries to tie things in. Chibnall's stories all feel like the final part of a TV programme you've not watched any of, where all the stuff to make it make sense is elsewhere.
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Nov 29, 2022 11:19
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Rhyno posted:Isn't that widely considered good because of the view while the Doctor is regenerating? Well, people aren't fans of Planet of Fire very much
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Dec 7, 2022 21:06
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Speaking of racism, this week's randomly chosen story was The Crusade. It's got Julian Glover straight from the RSC giving it the full stage works, which is good fun, but not much plot. It also features a lot of brown face (there are some non-white actors in the background, the first in the show's run I think, but the main roles are all white) which does not age well, but then again the written character of Saladin, and the other Muslims, is much more positive than you'd expect from modern media. So both much more racist and much less racist than today's standards, simultaneously
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Dec 11, 2022 11:31
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This week's random story was Invasion of the Dinosaurs which is probably the low point of special effects of that era - Robot looks like Star Wars in comparison. Pity, really, because there's a load of good stuff in the story. Too many cliffhangers are "someone being threatened by a dinosaur, with them not otherwise appearing in the episode" but that's a small crime compared to some (eg, the very next story has a cliffhanger - due to poorly timed scripts - where someone looks at a floor)
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Dec 16, 2022 12:20
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Yeah, it's incredible. One of the times when having time to breathe really shines. Having Patricia Russell directing (this, Massacre, Horror of Fang Rock, Pyramids of Mars) rather than Barry Letts as he originally hoped was a useful bit of happenstance.
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Dec 16, 2022 13:29
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Random Stranger posted:Part of my problem is Pertwee just did this story, partially, with Invasion of the Dinosaurs. Okay, the robot itself has more going on, but the scientific conspiracy behind it just made me go, "Hey, you guys just did this." It had been a while (Invasion ended in February, Robot started in December), but also compared to the months long periods of "what's the Master's zany plan this week!" it's different enough to not annoy me
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Dec 16, 2022 16:19
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Framboise posted:I've been having a really hard time getting through the Eleventh, which feels weird since it seems to be the general fan favorite series. The Moffat era is a very different kind of programme to the RTD era; people can be fans of both (or neither), but you don't have to be. Framboise posted:Unsure if I want to go all the way back to the beginning since going through decades of content seems daunting, but I've heard the Fourth Doctor's run is really good. Watch The Robots of Death and report back
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Dec 27, 2022 19:17
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The main problem is that neither of these stories are any good
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Jan 5, 2023 11:47
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Jerusalem posted:Seriously, after It's a Sin I have extremely high hopes to see what RTD does on a second run of the show, that was absolutely incredible television. On the other side, Years and Years was a hackneyed brick of nonsense. He's always had this in him - The Second Coming is marvellous*. *Fantastic!
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Jan 8, 2023 14:22
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Spoiler alert: RTD is going very avant garde and is going to expand on The Macra Terror for the next decade, if this youtube sidebar ad is anything to go by Astroman posted:Shapeshifters were always underutilized due to technology in the 80s and 90s, look at Odo. Odo's a bit different because he couldn't do people so you couldn't just have a guest star, always some CG.
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Jan 9, 2023 10:19
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:Mark Gatiss, too. All of them are the Morbius doctors
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Jan 12, 2023 17:01
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This week's random story was The Visitation, an utterly by the numbers story with a terrible ending that is very charming still. Big fan of the "villain" getting just incredibly frustrated by everything that's going on
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Feb 3, 2023 13:32
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Jerusalem posted:It's been awhile since I saw it, but from memory doesn't the entire reason for their presence boil down to: That's Black Orchid, The Visitation is the one with the terileptils and Eric Saward's fanfic version of Henry Jago from some scripts he wrote a decade earlier
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Feb 3, 2023 13:57
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Zaroff posted:Isn’t The Visitation another of those stories where Saward clearly wants to write a story with his own special characters but is forced to include the Doctor - similar to Revelation of the Daleks? This was his first story, and in this one the guy spends basically all of his time around the Doctor. Henry Jago is more proactive in the same archetype, even, and Talons isn't one with the Lytton problem of Revelation or, worse, Attack
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Feb 5, 2023 13:01
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OldMemes posted:That's what I'm hoping RTD doesn't revisit, the melodrama, companion swooning over the Doctor, and the Doctor being written as the most important person ever, with lots of deus ex machina resolutions. Moffat's run has a lot more of the "the Doctor is the most important person ever" than RTD's run did
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Feb 23, 2023 17:48
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The Miles/Wood books About Time are an incredible resource on the original run
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Feb 26, 2023 16:19
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Had a dream last night where I was playing Joseph Smith in a DW story about him being inspired by aliens and feeling very aggrieved that I had to actually learn lines to be an actor, so if this comes up in the near future I'm a prophet
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Feb 27, 2023 12:03
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Forktoss posted:About Time is an absolutely brilliant series. I only own the first three volumes, and all the Lawrence Miles chat reminded me that I have been meaning to buy the fourth one for ages, but looks like it's a good thing I didn't because apparently they're bringing out an extended second edition of About Time 4 this year! The additional material's only by Tat Wood, as Lawrence Miles left the partnership after the initial 6 were complete fwiw
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Mar 1, 2023 11:07
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The_Doctor posted:She’s not going to be anyone’s paving slab any more! That's Sooz Kempner not Shirley Henderson (who's 20 years older, for a start)
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Mar 20, 2023 14:11
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It doesn't look good but I haven't seen a "character in a void announces what they're about and what the plot is" that looks good in general, it's just something that doesn't appeal to me at all
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Mar 20, 2023 15:00
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Revival era. Oh, you mean the McCoy series
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Mar 29, 2023 13:09
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Jerusalem posted:That's so crazy, especially the hidden story for why they eventually had to take it down: Still not gotten to Face of Evil yet in our random run through. There's 7 left! (Abominable Snowmen, The Daemons, Carnival of Monsters, Image of the Fendahl, Caves and Survival on top of Face)
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Apr 1, 2023 12:16
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Jerusalem posted:That's not a bad run to finish out on! Will Survival be last? Hope so
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Apr 3, 2023 09:33
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The_Doctor posted:You can make it be last! That would be against the spirit of it!
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Apr 3, 2023 10:06
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When the picture loaded I thought for a moment it was a dress based on the coat
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Apr 3, 2023 17:07
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Carnival of Monsters is Good Honest Fun, heartily recommend
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Apr 14, 2023 18:57
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Boxturret posted:I don't really recall previous doctor's changing their outfit to blend in to the time period before, neat. Au contraire 
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Apr 21, 2023 09:19
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And that pair was still too small, so he had the flies undone. It's very obvious when watching that scene that he's shot from the waist up.
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Apr 23, 2023 10:27
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The first episode of the Silurian 2 parter is good, I will fight you
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Apr 24, 2023 09:34
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Oh and because it needed saying, Caves (which was our random one for the week) is ludicrously good. A Jacobean revenge tragedy in a sci fi setting with fantastic performances throughout. It turns out that the best way to write for PD's doctor is to write for Tom Baker's, but only if you want the tone to be incredibly grim - Tom's character could easily pull off the "being flippant under danger" (which was a big problem sometimes as it undermined the threat). Davison's Doctor doing that, though, just gives off waves of fatalism. Great stuff.
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Apr 24, 2023 10:13
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What's nice is also that it is actually firing on all cylinders for once - the story would be nowhere near as good if the script was worse, if the direction was worse, if the performances were worse, etc.
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Apr 24, 2023 10:26
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Jerusalem posted:Davison himself said something akin to,"If they could have made more stories like this I would have stayed!" didn't he? That was never going to happen though, JNT didn't think scripts were an important part of television [edit] Or rather he thought they were important, but "quality" was far down a list of priorities with "speed", "cost" and "possibilities for celebrity cameos" at the top MrL_JaKiri fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Apr 24, 2023 |
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Apr 24, 2023 11:10
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Dabir posted:I've seen basically nothing of Six, so I have no idea whether that's a joke or not The comic is a joke based on ES's love of "gritty" material and JNT's producing predilections, it's all "on the theme of real stuff"
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Apr 24, 2023 12:21
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Unkempt posted:In case anyone was wondering if the Borg were 'inspired' by the cybermen, note that the first ever Borg episode was called 'Q Who?'. They were originally going to be an insect hive mind, and got changed to cyborgs for budget reasons; in addition, there's a lot more proximate American inspiration, like Captain Power.
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Apr 26, 2023 14:17
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Unkempt posted:Well, I'm struggling to think of any other reason for naming the episode that. Maybe the name was a last minute thing. It rhymes, it's not like "Hide and Q" or "Deja Q" make much sense with the episodes.
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Apr 26, 2023 16:36
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Khanstant posted:Doctor needs an Arthur Dentish companion. Someone who'd really rather not be there but can't really go home either. That happened a lot in the original run MrL_JaKiri fucked around with this message at 18:27 on May 3, 2023 |
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May 3, 2023 18:14
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Dongicus posted:yeah i dont know why ppl are so pissy about him coming back lol. his tenure (lol) was the show at its best The first bit is at least partially because not everyone thinks the second
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May 15, 2023 22:12
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Part of the reason that Tennant was popular was that he was an attractive young man (which Smith, Capaldi and Whittaker all are not). Gatwa very definitely is.Dongicus posted:i dont believe you Tennant's period is probably the third worst imo, better than Whittaker and CBakes.
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May 15, 2023 23:01
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DoctorWhat posted:Smith was a Tumblr hotboy Whether you think he's personally hot or not, the series leant into it approximately 0% as much as it did in the Tennant era
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May 15, 2023 23:14
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