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Big Mean Jerk posted:new thread title right here I like The Wedding of River Song because it's bad and dumb in a fun way. (My tastes are bad and dumb)
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who under RTD is bad and dumb in a fun way, who under moffat is bad and dumb in a way convinced that it's smart. RTD just tells a story with a lot of weird and dumb elements that are insane but somewhat entertaining like people exploding into fat and daleks running a deadly reality show, Moffat has poo poo where he tries to justify Clara calling the doctor on the phone and saying POND as something that could happen and that is oh so clever.
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Jsor posted:I want to be clear that my post was a joke riffing on the episode title, making the most Moffat season I could think of out of just that. It was hopefully not an actual leak. I refer you to the "All Rivers grow out of Ponds" debacle from a few years ago
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Dabir posted:Look they can't just call every episode 'Terror of the Bog-Brush'. But enough about Capaldi's hair.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I refer you to the "All Rivers grow out of Ponds" debacle from a few years ago Martha Jones is a  Big Mean Jerk posted:new thread title right here  The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The TV IV > Doctor Who SPOILERS: We haven't even begun to scale peak Moffat. We've just been sitting at base camp
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I refer you to the "All Rivers grow out of Ponds" debacle from a few years ago That one was absolutely hilarious.
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Dabir posted:Look they can't just call every episode 'Terror of the Bog-Brush'. One would be a start 
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Hey this apparently for kids TV series, should we make one of the titles based on a rape revenge book/movie? Sure why not!
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Burkion posted:Hey this apparently for kids TV series, should we make one of the titles based on a rape revenge book/movie? It's not for kids, it's for young adults.
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Sep 26, 2016 18:48
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Apparently Class isn't actually for kids. It just happens to be set in a school.
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Sep 26, 2016 18:53
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I like that the premise of Class is essentially showing more of the chaos and destruction that The Doctor leaves in his wake.
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Senor Tron posted:I like that the premise of Class is essentially showing more of the chaos and destruction that The Doctor leaves in his wake. Hmmm... I'm split. It's a good pitch for a spin-off but the parent show has used that theme so much since the revival that it feels really cynical now. Like someone suing a fireman for bruising their back when being carried out of a fire. It's a very modern, bitter take on the character.
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PriorMarcus posted:Hmmm... I'm split. It's a good pitch for a spin-off but the parent show has used that theme so much since the revival that it feels really cynical now. Like someone suing a fireman for bruising their back when being carried out of a fire. It's a very modern, bitter take on the character. It's a theme so overplayed by this point that I can't see what could possibly be new or interesting about it.
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Wheezle posted:It's a theme so overplayed by this point that I can't see what could possibly be new or interesting about it. They talk about it nonstop but they never really show him going overboard or doing anything more then what's needed to save the planet for the billionth time.
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The main two i remember are Waters Of Mars and Hell Bent. I think I'm missing something though because I don't remember that theme cropping up much in years.
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2house2fly posted:The main two i remember are Waters Of Mars and Hell Bent. I think I'm missing something though because I don't remember that theme cropping up much in years. It was a thing for Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang. Kind of a theme for the 50th Anniversary (he was finally dealing with all the guilt from what he did during the Time War). Everything with Ashildr after Girl Who Died fits in too.
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It comes up in The Long Game / Bad Wolf too; he shows up, solves a surface level problem, and then leaves, leaving things as bad (or worse) than he found them.
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Sep 28, 2016 01:53
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I'm pretty sure most of the revival companions have also lectured him about the trouble he leaves behind at one point or another.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I'm pretty sure most of the revival companions have also lectured him about the trouble he leaves behind at one point or another. Davros was doing it too in Stolen Earth/Journey's End
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Sep 28, 2016 02:05
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The title Class is really loving awful and they should have just called it Coal Hill Academy instead.
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They should just take old Press Gang scripts and make one of the characters an Ood.
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Senor Tron posted:They should just take old Press Gang scripts and make one of the characters an Ood. Bloody Moffat doesn't have any original thoughts
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The_Doctor posted:Apparently Class isn't actually for kids. It just happens to be set in a school. Of all the dumb ideas this franchise has had, this one's about in the middle.
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Sep 29, 2016 11:29
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So is this ultimately the reason the season is delayed until next year? Like they want starved fans to watch this crap instead?
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Guy A. Person posted:So is this ultimately the reason the season is delayed until next year? Like they want starved fans to watch this crap instead? Seems more likely that Moffat went over budget again and this is a stopgap. That said, it's Patrick Ness. Kinda looking forward to it.
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Joke's on Moffat, I've skipped every spin-off thus far and Class won't be the one to break my streak.
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Sep 29, 2016 15:13
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Sarah Jane's show was okay. I miss Sarah Jane.
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Sep 29, 2016 15:20
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Joke's on Moffat, I've skipped every spin-off thus far and Class won't be the one to break my streak. You even missed this? 
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BSam posted:You even missed this? Why does K-9 look like a prop the the 90's Lost in Space movie?
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The_Doctor posted:Apparently Class isn't actually for kids. It just happens to be set in a school. It was made for BBC 3, a channel aimed at 20-somethings. Then the BBC scrapped BBC 3, because they decided 20-somethings don't watch TV any more. 
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Maelstache posted:It was made for BBC 3, a channel aimed at 20-somethings. Then the BBC scrapped BBC 3, because they decided 20-somethings don't watch TV any more. Actually they moved it online due to severe budget cuts imposed by the Tory government.
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More Class news!quote:The episode titled ‘Nightvisiting’ will premiere on Saturday 29th October on BBC Three. Time to confirmed. Emotional character from the past? Is that something you want to put in episode 3 when it carries virtually no weight? At least it's not an alien sex gas, I guess...?
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I swear I've seen that premise before. Isn't that a TNG episode? The one where the kid loses his mom and then an alien assumes her form or something?
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The_Doctor posted:Emotional character from the past? Is that something you want to put in episode 3 when it carries virtually no weight? TNG put a "Characters act differently!" episode second  The_Doctor posted:More Class news! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0PuqSMB8uU
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I swear I've seen that premise before. Isn't that a TNG episode? The one where the kid loses his mom and then an alien assumes her form or something? I can't speak for Trek, but it's not uncommon -- Buffy and Babylon 5 both did it as well.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I swear I've seen that premise before. Isn't that a TNG episode? The one where the kid loses his mom and then an alien assumes her form or something? More or less what happens in Big Finish's "The Zygon Who Fell to Earth" from the 8th Doctor Adventures
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I swear I've seen that premise before. Isn't that a TNG episode? The one where the kid loses his mom and then an alien assumes her form or something? The very first Star Trek back in 66 had an alien assume the shape of the dead wife of an professor.
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