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Regy Rusty posted:Finally someone will tell me exactly why this episode is infamous because I genuinely have no idea. The last five minutes are pure, unadulterated dogshit. There you go.
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Evil Sagan posted:Oh yeah. Adric is a real gem. Yeah, he's a real bang-up guy.
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Real ground-breaking character.
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He totally crashes and burns by the end, though. OK yeah I'm done
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Bicyclops posted:Still, the Doctor has only had three companions die while traveling with him (up to the point the thread is up to, not saying anything about future companions!), right? And the two that die with the first Doctor barely count. Most of them either pull the "I found a husband here on Planet X" routine or "Oh, I'm home now. Well, bye." Who's the other one that died with the first Doctor? All I can think of is Katerina (who, for people keeping score, got about the worst raw deal of any companion. Pulled out of the wreckage of Troy, thought she was travelling with a god, spent her last days with the worst case of culture shock possible, then put herself out an airlock the very next story)
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adhuin posted:He was literally God from a blue box. Maybe someone could translate it into Latin. Deus ex hogwash
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Timby posted:Edit: For anyone who's interested in how the Davies years of Doctor Who were actually produced, I highly recommend The Writer's Tale. Yeah Occ I know you don't care about the non-televised stuff but you really ought to give this a look, it's frankly fantastic and speaks about a lot of the stuff you've been bringing up in reviews.
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Oxxidation posted:I liked this show from the start and I like it nowhere near enough to drop money on a 700-page biopic when I can get the relevant points from this thread for free, held together with my wild, baseless speculation. Did I get the name wrong or did you WHO AM I e: that was supposed to be directed at the guy what posted the thread Fungah! fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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Oooh, are we doing rankings and bickering? The Fungah! Top Ten Memorial Station 10. Impossible Planet/Satan Pit 9. Fires of Pompeii 8. Dalek 7. Father's Day 6. Midnight 5. Utopia (but not the other two) 4. Girl in the Fireplace 3. Blink 2. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances 1. Human Nature/Family of Blood Hon. mentions off the top of my head: Doomsday (Daleks vs. Cybermen was dumb as poo poo and I loved every minute of it), Gridlock, School Reunion These are the bad ones 10. Let's go with New Earth 9. Last of the Time Lords (but not the other two) 8. Stolen Planet/Journey's End 7. The End of Time Parts 1 & 2 6. Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks 5. Love and Monsters 4. The Shakespeare Code 3. Fear Her 2. Voyage of the Damned (Not only is it total butt trash, the name's in appallingly bad taste) 1. Planet of the Dead Dishon. mentions: 42, The Idiot's Lantern, Partners in Crime, Smith and Jones Fungah! fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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Question for Occ. If you'd only agreed to review the pre-Moffat stuff, would you keep watching the show?
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armoredgorilla posted:Come on, man, don't go asking if Santa Claus is real. Nope we need to know the truth. I think the answer's yes anyway.
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Bicyclops posted:It's probably the worst audio story I've heard and that is saying something. It's so god-drat bad, gently caress
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Toxxupation posted:RTD, in retrospect, always wanted it to be a show for kids- which is what it, you know, is -but Eccleston in his time on Who clearly thinks that this is a show for adults, and puts in the performance to match. Interestingly, Eccleston had something to say about this in a post mortem interview in 2011: quote:I loved connecting with that audience. Because I’ve always acted for adults and then suddenly you’re acting for children, who are far more tasteful; they will not be bullshitted. It’s either good, or it’s bad. They don’t schmooze at after-show parties, with cocktails.
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Bicyclops posted:plitting the script editor and producer responsibilities I'm definitely in favor of this one at least, if the revival's proved anything it's that having one person doing both has been turning out to be a huge mess.
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Oxxidation posted:The old episodes looked like garbage, dude. There's no getting around that. The acting was so wooden that everyone involved might as well have been mannequins with awful haircuts and all the more interesting lines read better on Wikiquote or something than actually spoken aloud because the sound-capture equipment was so cheap. The sets all looked like they'd blow away in a stiff breeze and the music was trash, even if it was this cargo-cult vanguard of true synth music or whatever. You had four to six hours dedicated to stories with all the verve and production value of a grade-school drama production containing about fifteen minutes of actual content. That's just, like, your opinion, man
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Oxxidation posted:I'm not so invested in this show that I ever gave a poo poo about a scheduling hiccup. Neither should you, honestly, but we all have our faults. Breaking Bad had a split season and I didn't care then, either! And it's way better than Doctor Who on Who's best day! It's not just scheduling hiccups, it's scheduling hiccups, weird budget allocations, crazy staffing issues ("erased from Doctor Who," for instance, and all the people that got fired a few years ago), and a bunch of other poo poo that can feed back into the quality of the episode.
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thexerox123 posted:Oh, you've redecorated your avatar! ...I don't like it. Don't listen to him Occ, it's a good av mostly because every time i see one of your posts i listen to the song
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Actually don't like Terminator 2 that much either. Cameron goin' on expanding things that work better on their own again. This might be the worst opinion I've ever heard
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Sentinel Red posted:Terminator 2 is a great action film but an absolute garbage follow-up to the perfect original. Merry Christmas! Oh no you don't motherfucker, you don't get to just drop that and run. in what way is T2 garbage compared to T1
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Just want to point out that in five months we've gone from this:Toxxupation posted:Doctor Who loving sucks! to this: Toxxupation posted:Wait there's a doctor who puzzle and dragons clone Toxxupation posted:gently caress that is some doctor who-rear end puzzle and dragons gently caress Room 101 breaks them all in the end
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Bring it on, young man. My opinions are beyond reproach and it's worth bumping revengeance up in the queue, IMO
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Oxx, people who play monster hunter are scientifically proven to be both handsomer and smarter than their colleagues, and also lead fulfilling, spiritually complete lives. You can't let Occ have that leg up on you man
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Hammer bros reppin'
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DoctorWhat posted:I can't quite get the hang of hammers, which is my eternal shame you pick up the light bit, and you hit the monster in the head with the heavy bit
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computer parts posted:Though be warned that it's like 25 GB (I own it and it's cool although I stopped playing about midway through). got shadows of mordor from a friend and that's like 45 
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Oxxidation posted:Yeah, I liked Season 1 a lot before this thread and now I realize that what I mostly liked was Eccleston. Everything else about those episodes (Moffat's excluded) was really dire, even by Who's standards. There's a couple other good stories in there, IMO. Dalek and Father's Day are good, and Aliens of London/World War 3 is a good concept wrapped in farting aliens and really horrible direction
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Toxxupation posted:another good reason to enter if you havent: should have just been seven copies of revengeance, IMO
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Toxxupation posted:what do you think i am, made of money start taking bribes for your reviews. I'd've given you five bucks to give planet of the dead an A
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Practical Demon posted:Dignity sold for cyborgs, katanas, and butt rock. nothing finer in life except monster hunter
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Toxxupation posted:oh man what if they made a metal gear monster hunter i've gazed on the infinite and it is good
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the one who's actually going to win is me, fungah
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David D. Davidson posted:Yeah it's a lot better but also Moffat's own flaws are a lot more pronounced too. He said it was shot a lot better, which, yeah. Say what you will about Moffat's run (i'm not saying a loving word yet), they finally got some cinematographers worth a poo poo
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ActionZero posted:In retrospect I have no idea why I went for B. Because for me to win, everyone else must lose. Sorry ActionZero that you were among the first to fall
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But yeah this episode is so drat good and IMO the single best way to introduce people to Doctor Who. Hands down one of my favorites
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Occ you bastard
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Is this a joke? Did you hear about the killjoy who won an outing with the Happiness Patrol? He was tickled to death.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I was thinking even further back, plenty of the historicals did their best to correct common misconceptions (eg The Crusades) as much as the writers could manage/knew about/etc. Oh, well aware, just didn't want to let a feed line go to waste. Show's never had any bones about addressing that stuff in the past, it'd be a drat shame if it started now
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Toxxupation posted:Doctor Who This has never really been a thing, the reference to it in whatever episode it was (Shakespeare Code? Unquiet Dead? One of those) was more of a joke about how the series has never cared about historical accuracy in clothing except when it does
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Also this is a reference you probably don't know about but the first half of the episode with the Daleks going undercover is basically a straight up-rewrite of a very old Doctor Who story called The Power of the Daleks where a human colony undergoing a massive power struggle unearths a Dalek spaceship. The scientist who studies the spaceship finds a single surviging Dalek aboard sans gunstick. The Dalek pretends to be serving the humans and begins building other Dalek "servants" who eventually strike and wipe out most of the colony during a human-sponsored coup before the Doctor manages to stop them. Reason this is interesting is that this was the very first regeneration story (The doctor had just finished "changing his appearance" from William Hartnell, the first Doctor, to Patrick Troughton) and Smith's said on several occasions that he modeled a lot of his Doctor's mannerisms on Patrick Troughton's. Just kind of an interesting parallel with the semi-reboot the revival underwent when it switched showrunners from Rustie to Moffat.
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