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Which season of Doctor Who should get a Blu-ray set next? This poll is closed. |
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| One of the black-and-white seasons |
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16 | 29.63% |
| Season 7 |
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7 | 12.96% |
| Season 11 |
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1 | 1.85% |
| Season 13 |
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0 | 0% |
| Season 15 |
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2 | 3.70% |
| The Key to Time |
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21 | 38.89% |
| Season 21 |
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0 | 0% |
| Season 25 |
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7 | 12.96% |
| Total: | 54 votes | ||
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Jo Grant did, and she was a civilian member of UNIT, which is a UN-sponsored governmental paramilitary secret police kind of organization, so my original point still stands. Remind me what the word civilian mean?
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Covok posted:It was the main palentologist I remember having the most problem with. Cutter. I think the word is "learning".
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My recommended episodes: Watch all of it you coward.
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Jan 20, 2024 18:09
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Mary Shelley already was inspired to write Frankenstein by actual events. In real life, not in doctor who. Stories of galvanism where early electricians passed currents through the corpses of criminals (sometimes dismembered, sometimes not) were big news at the time she wrote Frankenstein. An author being inspired to write fiction by real life events, their own experiences, and the world around them isn't a failure of their imagination or creativity, and to paint it as such is really bizarre to me, no creative work is ever made in a vacuum, and it's not like the episode is "the exact plot of Frankenstein happens and Mary Shelley just transcribes it".
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Feb 16, 2024 11:15
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Random Stranger posted:I know they're doing it as a joke, but I'm kind of curious how RTD walks out of it because Doctor Who (and most stories that want to use time travel as a concept) really shouldn't get into how it interacts with chaos theory because it means every time you go back in time you change literally everything just by being there. Their presence would proliferate through every chaotic system in the world, randomizing everything within two weeks time. You can do something with that, but it's not especially flexible as a concept so it's better to ignore it. I figure one of 3 things; Most likely, quick one off joke as you say. Either the doctor fixes it immediately, or it fixes itself after a minute and the doctor says "Time is largely self correcting, little changes tend to sort themselves out" or similar. Less likely but still not entirely possible it ties into the episodes plot (this time traveling scientist has invented a time machine that damages the very fabric of space and time and exaggerates the butterfly effect until the doctor fixes it). Or, wild swing here, its tied into a plot arc for the season along with "mavity". Doubt she'll be looking like that for longer than an episode (and probably less than 2 minutes) in any case, for budgetary reasons if nothing else.
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Mar 23, 2024 14:46
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Timby posted:If I had to wager a guess, Davies made the decision to write the majority of the season once the Disney money was secured. We know from The Writer's Tale that Davies is an insane workaholic who can turn around a script from outline to shooting draft in 48 hours--admittedly, not always for the better, in quite a few cases--and there was probably pressure from Disney to start seeing a return on their investment much sooner than later. So my feeling is he said, "OK, gently caress it, I'll write most of it, I'll get Moffat to do one and then I liked this pitch from someone else. And maybe we'll do things different with the next season." Thing is, this guess does kind of require the Disney corporation to not really understand how most TV shows are written and the timescales involved. I think thats unlikely because I believe they have at least some previous experience in "the show business". I personally just put it down to Davies being a workaholic who feels a sense of ownership/protectiveness for the show and isnt great at recognizing when these traits are having a detrimental effect on his output. My evidence for that is the things Davies said and did the last time he was in charge of Who.
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