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Espilae posted:Look, the other three are brilliant, but why do you like Ambassadors so much? It is literally an hour too long, nothing happens in it for huge stretches and what does happen is kind of repetitive. I mean I like the story I guess but the others in that series are nigh-on flawless while all Ambassadors has is the twang. It's a good and generally well regarded story. It's certainly better than The Sontaran Experiment and Robot, which would still be left in series 12.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Honestly I've heard rumours (although I've no idea if they're true) that Smith was willing to stay on another series, but that he got fed up of the production breakdown so he decided to go try his luck in Hollywood (and then chose a part in Terminator Genisys, for some reason.) It probably didn't seem like AS bad a role on paper. Sure, it's a small part, but Genisys was written with the intention of it being the start of at least a trilogy, and that Smith's part was built up to be some major villain, if not the primary antagonist of the overall series. Scrub away all identifiers of Genisys, and look at it objectively. Signing on to a multi-movie deal that's part of a successful franchise, as a character that might be minor in the initial movie but would scale up to being a major figure in the later ones? Basically the only thing going against that paying off is that it's Terminator, perhaps the only sci-fi movie franchise with a worse track record than Alien. Sure, we knew it'd suck when we saw it materialize, but given the release period I'd assume that its pitch was being bandied around at the same time as Jurassic World and The Force Awakens; even if Genisys did look like the weakest of the three, it's not by much.
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He's also got other jobs, it's not like he's chosen "continue to work endlessly in a TV show" or "appear in a bad film"
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Sep 9, 2015 15:22
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Matt Smith visited the bright lights of Detroit and knew right then that limited confines of Who could no longer contain him.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:It's a distressing story because it has lots of great lines but the rest of it is pretty mediocre It does have one of my favorite R-Holmes exchanges: The Power of Kroll posted:ROHM-DUTT: Varlik. Varlik? What is this seventh ritual?
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Similarly the one about the Romana not exaggerating about the Doctor then getting interrupted and both of them taken prisoner before she can say two words
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It really is a rather fun script.
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Yvonmukluk posted:I mean, as good a writer as Moffat is, he doesn't have the same mastery of TV production as RTD did. Funnily enough, there's a story that when they were making the first season of New Who, nobody had ever worked on a science-fiction drama before, so nobody knew how to manage the money, which led to them blowing through most of the effects budget on "The End of the World". 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Funnily enough, there's a story that when they were making the first season of New Who, nobody had ever worked on a science-fiction drama before, so nobody knew how to manage the money, which led to them blowing through most of the effects budget on "The End of the World". And yet we didn't lose a Who because of it? Gasps and amazement. I kid, I kid. Please Moffat convince the BBC to change it back to the traditional Script Editor and Producer jobs.
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Sep 9, 2015 16:31
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If he goes on as he is he just might.
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The Daemons! For fans of finding out what destroyed Atlantis, this is the first story on this watch through that "explains" it. (Meanwhile, exactly one series on is The Time Monster) I'd rate this story more highly if Azal didn't just spend all the time shouting in long dialogue scenes, it makes it very difficult to listen to. And if we lost the Lee-Evans-In-Planet-of-the-Dead UNIT comic relief
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And now, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98MxxpzIoyg
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I love The Daemons, but Azal's voice does kinda grate as he just keeps booming away constantly.
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Sep 10, 2015 01:23
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I mean Omega's a massive ham but he's a loving Ice Warrior compared to Azal
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https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/torchwood-theme-2015/s-PQZ7p The 21st century is when everything changes. 
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Over a year ago I decided that I was going to watch all of classic Who in order, reconstructions and all, and tonight I finally finished Troughton's run with The War Games. It's strange, I never warmed up to Troughton quite as much as I thought I would. I say strange because many years ago I watched The Mind Robber on its own and instantly decided he was my favorite Doctor. But watching everything in order gave me a different impression, in that the feeling that he was "the impostor" that was set forth during The Power of the Daleks never quite went away. If nothing else it might be because I liked Hartnell MORE than I thought I would. That being the case, I completely understand the hype behind The War Games. I'm not the type to binge watch classic Who and yet I blasted through the whole story in a day. I can't think of another Troughton story that even comes close (except maybe the aforementioned Mind Robber). And now for Doctor Who IN COLOR! 
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adhuin posted:https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/torchwood-theme-2015/s-PQZ7p Already enjoyed the theme more than I did the show! Oh drat, that releases today. CobiWann fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Sep 10, 2015 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:He's also got other jobs, it's not like he's chosen "continue to work endlessly in a TV show" or "appear in a bad film" yeah! he's in two upcoming lovely zombie movies too, Patient Zero and Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.
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Yvonmukluk posted:She is in Day of the Doctor. This is all but confirmed actually. He was willing to do a full series following the 50th and was talking about it in interviews as late as the 50th airing, but as soon as it became clear the next series wouldn't air until winter of the following year, meaning basically another two years of his time with promotion included he left and the Christmas special had to rush the conclusion of his arc.
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CobiWann posted:Already enjoyed the theme more than I did the show! I'm re-watching the Miracle Day for preparation.
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Sep 10, 2015 10:17
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He's also doing some tv show about rowing
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Tim Burns Effect posted:That being the case, I completely understand the hype behind The War Games. I'm not the type to binge watch classic Who and yet I blasted through the whole story in a day. I can't think of another Troughton story that even comes close (except maybe the aforementioned Mind Robber). I remember when I did my own complete rewatch of the classic series, I got to The War Games, saw it was 4 hours long and figured I would watch over multiple nights. 2 hours later I forced myself to stop watching.... and an hour later said,"gently caress it!" and put the next 2 hours on and sat happily through it all. Such an amazing final episode for Troughton. Tim Burns Effect posted:And now for Doctor Who IN COLOR! Whenever I hear people talking about how Doctor Who isn't REALLY Doctor Who anymore, I remember that back when Pertwee took over there were people saying,"Well this basically isn't even Doctor Who anymore, they're just using the name but it's a completely different show now. I mean for God's sake it's in COLOUR!  "
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CobiWann posted:Already enjoyed the theme more than I did the show! Huh. It's an hour long with only 3 characters, one of whom is Jack. Not exactly an auspicious start.
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Jerusalem posted:I remember when I did my own complete rewatch of the classic series, I got to The War Games, saw it was 4 hours long and figured I would watch over multiple nights. 2 hours later I forced myself to stop watching.... and an hour later said,"gently caress it!" and put the next 2 hours on and sat happily through it all. Such an amazing final episode for Troughton. How old are you?
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The_Doctor posted:Huh. It's an hour long with only 3 characters, one of whom is Jack. Not exactly an auspicious start. It'll make it easy to review then. Hopefully this isn't the only episode that Barrowman appears in. PriorMarcus posted:How old are you? Three words. Carry On Jersualem.
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Little_wh0re posted:He's also doing some tv show about rowing And therefore a good career move  (Are you talking about Bertie and Dickie, which was made for the 2012 Olympics?)
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PriorMarcus posted:How old are you? I don't personally remember people talking about that 
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CobiWann posted:It'll make it easy to review then. Hopefully this isn't the only episode that Barrowman appears in. The next one is Ianto (with one other character), and the third is Gwen and Rhys (with a full cast). Hopefully they actually start putting them together as a team at some point.
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Jerusalem posted:I remember when I did my own complete rewatch of the classic series, I got to The War Games, saw it was 4 hours long and figured I would watch over multiple nights. 2 hours later I forced myself to stop watching.... and an hour later said,"gently caress it!" and put the next 2 hours on and sat happily through it all. Such an amazing final episode for Troughton. It all went downhill once they stopped focusing on that policeman in the mist.
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Jerusalem posted:Whenever I hear people talking about how Doctor Who isn't REALLY Doctor Who anymore, I remember that back when Pertwee took over there were people saying,"Well this basically isn't even Doctor Who anymore, they're just using the name but it's a completely different show now. I mean for God's sake it's in COLOUR! My dad hasn't watched Doctor Who since 1966, because he's never completely got over the childhood trauma of his biggest hero falling down and turning into someone else.
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Trin Tragula posted:My dad hasn't watched Doctor Who since 1966, because he's never completely got over the childhood trauma of his biggest hero falling down and turning into someone else. He should watch An Adventure in Space and Time.
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Revenge of the Cybermen is notable for getting mundane performances out of two actors, David Collings and Kevin Stoney, who have contributed stellar performances to the show. Further proof that the show was flawed, also the music does not suit a Cyberman show at all, sounds like it should be accompanying the adventures of animated frozen peas instead!
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Sad King Billy posted:Revenge of the Cybermen is notable for getting mundane performances out of two actors, David Collings and Kevin Stoney, who have contributed stellar performances to the show. Good God I want a Cyberman with the voice of Marlon Brando
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computer parts posted:He should watch An Adventure in Space and Time. Everybody should, really.
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Burkion posted:Good God I want a Cyberman with the voice of Marlon Brando Orson Welles, surely, if you're going off frozen peas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4GaPcLgOs
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Sad King Billy posted:Revenge of the Cybermen is notable for getting mundane performances out of two actors, David Collings and Kevin Stoney, who have contributed stellar performances to the show. Hinchcliffe spends a few minutes on the behind-the-scenes documentary talking about music can help salvage a bad scene by setting the right mood. Sadly, the production on this one was so rushed, the music ended up making things worse! The documentary is worth watching with one finger on the pause button as they use a lot of internal BBC memos about this serial for backgrounds, and some of the language is…very diplomatic!
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Orson Welles, surely, if you're going off frozen peas I am not going to lie I may have made that post immediately after coming out of the comic book movie thread and got several wires crossed about overweight amazing actors who despised their roles late in life.
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I just found out that someone is doing a Happiness Patrol burlesque act at a show I'm going to tonight. I am so excited someone besides this thread loves that story!
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The Action Man posted:I just found out that someone is doing a Happiness Patrol burlesque act at a show I'm going to tonight. I am now very curious how that's going to work. Keep us posted
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Burkion posted:I am now very curious how that's going to work. I doubled checked to make sure it was a Happiness Patrol act and not just a 7th Doctor act, and it's the former. I still can't believe it.
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