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One Swell Foop posted:I'm still a little jealous of people who get to watch The Prisoner for the first time. ...gently caress it, I'm gonna watch Hammer Into Anvil for the 5th time. (I know it's not one of the 'important' ones, but I fuckin' love that episode. Number 6 just destroying a man because of that man's amorality.)
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One Swell Foop posted:I'm still a little jealous of people who get to watch The Prisoner for the first time. I've never seen it, is that the one with the big flying ball thing?
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Jul 14, 2015 16:06
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Gaz-L posted:...gently caress it, I'm gonna watch Hammer Into Anvil for the 5th time. (I know it's not one of the 'important' ones, but I fuckin' love that episode. Number 6 just destroying a man because of that man's amorality.) I don't care if it's not one of McGoohan's original seven, Hammer Into Anvil is pure, distilled Prisoner and easily one of the better episodes of the series. There are loads of great episodes in The Prisoner beyond the "arc" (in the loosest possible sense of the word) stuff. It's Your Funeral is never particularly fondly remembered either, but I've always thought André van Gyseghem was a top-tier Number 2 (and he apparently played the rear end in a top hat Mongol in Marco Polo as well, so his points in my eyes just went up even further).
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I've been watching a lot of Person of Interest of late, and there's some nice references to The Prisoner in there, particularly towards the end of season 3. I think I might just sit down and watch it again.
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Jsor posted:I've never seen it, is that the one with the big flying ball thing? It's about an extremely clever, unnamed character* who leaves a life of privilege and power for unknown reasons and must face off against an ever-shifting series of adversaries, including unquestioned authority figures and duplicitous traitors turning against their allies with any number of dirty tricks including false realities and mind control. Sound familiar? Also, yes, there is a dodgy special effects killer ball thing. And let's not forget...  *While the fan/semi-official theory is that Patrick McGoohan is playing the same character he played in Danger Man (Secret Agent in the US), I prefer keeping Number 6's original name and origin story a mystery like a certain someone else.
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Jul 14, 2015 16:58
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Forktoss posted:"Abbot and Costello meet Dracula". Actually, if they had gone for that as the aesthetic, it might have been a better story!
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One Swell Foop posted:I'm still a little jealous of people who get to watch The Prisoner for the first time. I've only heard about it through the Iron Maiden song of the same name. 
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Jul 14, 2015 18:25
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Added The Prisoner and Quatermass to my to-watch list! Thanks all, those look exactly like the kind of thing I was looking for.
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Rat Flavoured Rats posted:Added The Prisoner and Quatermass to my to-watch list! Thanks all, those look exactly like the kind of thing I was looking for. I've said this before, but get the Blu-Ray if you can. It's scary how good that looks, easily one of the best remasters I've ever seen.
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The Prisoner is one of the best shows ever made period and everyone should watch it. I cannot wait for the BF version, because I know they'll do it right.The_Doctor posted:Ugh, fine just ignore Blinovitch. Seeing all these promo shots Capaldi does with old (or related) Who actors I sometimes wonder...he is actually getting paid for this right? Like he realizes he's an actor playing a role, and not that he won some kind of Doctor Who Ultimate Fan Contest, right?  "Steven, we just go the craziest call from BBC London HR. They said Peter...hasn't been cashing any of his paychecks? Is that right?"  "Oh, don't worry about that."Though it would explain how the budget has been under control the past couple of years.
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One Swell Foop posted:I'm still a little jealous of people who get to watch The Prisoner for the first time. I'm showing it to someone else specifically so I can vicariously experience the first time again.
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Jul 15, 2015 05:10
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No surprise, but it's been renewed for series 10: http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2015/07/doctor-who-series-10-confirmed.html
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After The War posted:I've said this before, but get the Blu-Ray if you can. It's scary how good that looks, easily one of the best remasters I've ever seen. Distressingly I'm enough of a broke luddite that I don't have anything in the house that plays Blu-Rays. EDIT - Has anyone seen the Blu Ray version of Spearhead from Space? How is it? Rat Flavoured Rats fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Jul 15, 2015 10:09
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Bigger news: 8th Doctor comic! http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2015/07/titan-comics-announce-eighth-doctor.html
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The_Doctor posted:Bigger news: 8th Doctor comic! Sadly just a mini-series, like their 9th Doctor run. Hopefully we get a War Doctor mini series out of them at some point too though!
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Jul 15, 2015 11:29
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jivjov posted:Sadly just a mini-series, like their 9th Doctor run. How was this, by the way? It seemed pretty cool, but I haven't heard anything about it since it came out.
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Jul 15, 2015 11:33
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Forktoss posted:How was this, by the way? It seemed pretty cool, but I haven't heard anything about it since it came out. It was alright; it's set in that same brief window when the TARDIS crew is 9, Rose, and Jack; which is starting to feel a little crowded (I know Doctor Who doesn't emphasize continuity like, say, the Star Wars universe, but I've just noticed that a LOT of 9 media gets set right there before Boom Town.) The art isn't the best in the world, but everyone is recognizable, and I enjoyed reading it. And there's 1 or 2 more issues left I believe. (I got behind on reading and was binge reading through a bunch of stuff; I've lost track of issue numbers entirely)
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Jul 15, 2015 11:36
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jivjov posted:It was alright; it's set in that same brief window when the TARDIS crew is 9, Rose, and Jack; which is starting to feel a little crowded (I know Doctor Who doesn't emphasize continuity like, say, the Star Wars universe, but I've just noticed that a LOT of 9 media gets set right there before Boom Town.) To be fair, that gap between Doctor Dances and Boom Town where Jack was with them was the vast majority of 9's life.
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Jul 15, 2015 11:49
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MikeJF posted:To be fair, that gap between Doctor Dances and Boom Town where Jack was with them was the vast majority of 9's life. Unless you buy the theory that he went off and had dozens of solo adventures during the end sequence of Rose haha
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Jul 15, 2015 11:50
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MikeJF posted:To be fair, that gap between Doctor Dances and Boom Town where Jack was with them was the vast majority of 9's life. Also it's just a fun combination of characters so
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Jul 15, 2015 11:53
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The_Doctor posted:Bigger news: 8th Doctor comic! Excited. Still not a televised adventure.  How are the Titan/IDW comics? Worth picking up in trade form?
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Jul 15, 2015 11:57
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Box of Bunnies posted:Also it's just a fun combination of characters so Jack should've been the River Song and had fun out-of-order adventures with every single Doctor/companion.
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Jul 15, 2015 11:59
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MikeJF posted:Jack should've been the River Song and had fun out-of-order adventures with every single Doctor/companion. Fingers crossed now that Big Finish have him.
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MikeJF posted:Jack should've been the River Song and had fun out-of-order adventures with every single Doctor/companion. Can definitely see this happening with Big finish now they have rights to him.
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Jul 15, 2015 12:31
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I haven't watched Boom Town in a few years, but didn't they spend part of the episode telling Mickey about all the wacky adventures the three of them had been on together?
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Jul 15, 2015 17:39
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Every time I hear Boom Town I think of that 11 story with the cyborg Clint Eastwood character.
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I heard once that Doctor Who gets their budget cut every season, is that true? Does anyone know if they're still doing it? jivjov posted:Unless you buy the theory that he went off and had dozens of solo adventures during the end sequence of Rose haha
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Why were there several distinct groups of robots trying to find the Promised Land?
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MikeJF posted:Why were there several distinct groups of robots trying to find the Promised Land? You really expect one of the Master's plans to make total sense? I assume she started off recruiting robots, then hit on the idea of Cybermen, realised weeks later that the robot thing was still going... then slung her parasol over her shoulder and shrugged.
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MikeJF posted:Why were there several distinct groups of robots trying to find the Promised Land? Moffat has said that's going to be revealed this season, along with the reason that Twelve looks like the Roman dude Capaldi also played. So... Wait and see I guess .
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Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:I heard once that Doctor Who gets their budget cut every season, is that true? Does anyone know if they're still doing it? Well, in Rose itself, there's the moment after he "blew up her job" and the following day when he shows up at her home. Then when he leaves after telling her "that's who I am" minutes later. We don't know what he's gotten up to then. Maybe he believed both times that he'd defeated the Nestene Consciousness, and to find out that they were still operating when he returned. Then in Aliens of London, don't you think he sounds just a bit TOO apologetic when she calls him after he left to check out the pig alien? As if maybe he hadn't been completely honest about not going anywhere without her? I can see him having loads of adventures, but constantly reminding himself that he had to get back to Rose. In fact, that in itself could be a storyline. After visiting Albion Hospital, the TARDIS is drawn off course, and the Doctor's trying to get back to 2006 London. edit: I've thought way too much about this.
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PriorMarcus posted:along with the reason that Twelve looks like the Roman dude Capaldi also played. I thought that was already covered about as well as could be hoped for in Deep Breath, outside of the infinitely preferable option of just ignoring it entirely. 
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PriorMarcus posted:Moffat has said that's going to be revealed this season, along with the reason that Twelve looks like the Roman dude Capaldi also played. I didn't think any of that would come up again. I've got my fingers crossed if Moffat is really having another go at a Silence style multi-series arc which might actually have a chance of paying off properly now that he seems to have stopped loving up the entire production of the show.
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Jerusalem posted:I thought that was already covered about as well as could be hoped for in Deep Breath, outside of the infinitely preferable option of just ignoring it entirely. No, this is why he looks like the Roman guy. It was covered.
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Jul 15, 2015 23:42
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It's going to turn that the Roman dude was the Doctor, and that his wife was his former companion/Nazi/Non-Nazi/UNIT Scientific Adviser Elizabeth Klein.
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I recently listened to Dust Breeding, an audio story featuring Geoffrey Beevers as the Master. It's the second time I've heard/seen Geoffrey Beevers as the Master (the first time being in The Light at the End), and I really can't say I like him very much. In fact, I absolutely hate his portrayal of the Master - he makes Eric Roberts look like Roger Delgado or Michelle Gomez by comparison. What do others here think of him? Also, does anybody know why he replaced Peter Pratt in Keeper of Traken?
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jivjov posted:Unless you buy the theory that he went off and had dozens of solo adventures during the end sequence of Rose haha He was 800 when he regenerated, 900 by "Aliens of London". That century's got to fit somewhere! Well, not really. PriorMarcus posted:Moffat has said that's going to be revealed this season, along with the reason that Twelve looks like the Roman dude Capaldi also played. If it turns out that the Doctor gets ALL of his faces (except the first one, obviously) from people he meets but doesn't necessarily remember meeting, so like there was a regular human dude somewhere in the Who universe who looked exactly like David Tennant, then that... will be moderately interesting, I guess.
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qntm posted:If it turns out that the Doctor gets ALL of his faces (except the first one, obviously) from people he meets but doesn't necessarily remember meeting, so like there was a regular human dude somewhere in the Who universe who looked exactly like David Tennant, then that... will be moderately interesting, I guess. Well there are certainly a metric poo poo-ton that sound just like him...
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I really hope that it's a thematic callback rather than anything else, the Doctor taking that face to remind him of the situation he faced in Pompeii rather than the SHOCKING REVEAL THAT CAECILLUS WAS ACTUALLY KAMELION or some drat thing.
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