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It's not related to this episode, but I've been working my way through the old episodes lately, watching stuff I haven't seen in thirty years again, and I had to share this (probably unoriginal) insight with someone. Dodo was the Poochie of companions. I know ratings slumped during her tenure so I'm assuming the mid-60's audiences agreed with me. I don't remember disliking her this much when I was a kid, though. At least I'm up to the War Machines so she'll be gone soon. Unfortunately I'm entering the bad lands of missing episodes...
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 17:12 |
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 16:27 |
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Bad lands of missing episode, good lands of awesome episodes
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 17:13 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Bad lands of missing episode, good lands of awesome episodes I cheated and skipped ahead to watch Enemy of the World and Web of Fear when they went up for streaming. They were awesome. I'm disappointed that Hulu doesn't offer any of the reconstructed episodes other than the one piece of Web of Fear; I want to check out The Tenth Planet and Invasion. Also, why couldn't they have destroyed The Dominators and kept... well, pretty much anything else.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 17:38 |
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It's worth getting the DVDs of those It's not worth getting the DVD of The Ice Warriors to be perfectly honest; the missing episodes are incredibly boring and kill the flow of the story. It's much better with the 15 minute recon recap in their place.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 17:40 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:It's worth getting the DVDs of those I remember liking the second Ice Warriors story as a kid, but that's one of the complete stories that the Hulu archive skips over for some reason. They also skip over all of Trial of a Timelord so the gaps aren't all bad.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 17:45 |
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The Seeds of Death is excellent
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 18:09 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The Seeds of Death is excellent I can never keep The Seeds of Death and The Seeds of Doom straight.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 18:11 |
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DoctorWhat posted:I can never keep The Seeds of Death and The Seeds of Doom straight. The Seeds of Death has the seeds that kill people, the Seeds of Doom dooms them duh
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 18:13 |
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Individual threads are great for people with archives who want to see past reactions to things, and it doesn't cost us anything to do them, so I don't understand this argument.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 18:40 |
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I still don't see why people dislike Dodo so much while liking someone like, say, Vicki who, despite having watched all of her serials, I can't remember doing anything at all.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 18:42 |
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LividLiquid posted:Individual threads are great for people with archives who want to see past reactions to things, and it doesn't cost us anything to do them, so I don't understand this argument. That'd be more useful if not for the fact that to-be-archived threads and posts from the past few months have been prone to just kinda falling into oblivion.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 18:43 |
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Cliff Racer posted:I still don't see why people dislike Dodo so much while liking someone like, say, Vicki who, despite having watched all of her serials, I can't remember doing anything at all. She's pretty good in some stories (eg Time Meddler), more than Dodo LividLiquid posted:Individual threads are great for people with archives who want to see past reactions to things, and it doesn't cost us anything to do them, so I don't understand this argument. We talk about more than just the episode at hand, new threads tends to kill discussions dead half the time
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 18:57 |
Cliff Racer posted:I still don't see why people dislike Dodo so much while liking someone like, say, Vicki who, despite having watched all of her serials, I can't remember doing anything at all. Vicki was quirky, impetuous and irreverent (at least, when the script allowed her to be anything other than generic Girl In Distress). She had bags of personality compared to her predecessor and successor.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 18:58 |
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Cliff Racer posted:I still don't see why people dislike Dodo so much while liking someone like, say, Vicki who, despite having watched all of her serials, I can't remember doing anything at all. Baring in mind that I'm still reaching Vicki to refresh my memory (she was generic early female companion in Enemy of the World and Web of Fear, and Enemy of the World had two much more interesting women in the cast who I kind of wished would have gotten picked up as companions instead), Vicki had the benefit of being given a personality beyond "hip youngster that the kids will like". Dodo was such blatant pandering that she annoyed me constantly. Oddly enough, I don't think she was that bad in The Gunfighters but that story had its own set of problems. (Edit: Aw hell, I got my early companions mixed up. Oh well.) I don't have any problem with Leela though she was equally pandering (though to a different demographic ) probably because she was a more fun character. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Aug 30, 2014 |
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Barry Foster posted:Vicki was quirky, impetuous and irreverent (at least, when the script allowed her to be anything other than generic Girl In Distress). She had bags of personality compared to her predecessor and successor. I felt Vicki was a highlight of the Space Museum, she had far more balls than those subjugated aliens and did a good job of getting their rebellion properly organised.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:07 |
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Cliff Racer posted:I still don't see why people dislike Dodo so much while liking someone like, say, Vicki who, despite having watched all of her serials, I can't remember doing anything at all. Vicki was basically Susan 2.0 only the writers actually gave her things to do.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:19 |
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Random Stranger posted:Baring in mind that I'm still reaching Vicki to refresh my memory (she was generic early female companion in Enemy of the World and Web of Fear, and Enemy of the World had two much more interesting women in the cast who I kind of wished would have gotten picked up as companions instead) Vicki isn't Victoria
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:25 |
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No more of this Cass bullshit for THIS Doctor!
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:32 |
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Well. I'm liking this one a lot already. e: Wait, no Clara this time?
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:32 |
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Nice little nod to the Fantastic Voyage in there.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:37 |
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Why is this episode trying to split itself between two times/people? No show is helped by this.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:37 |
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If this is introducing a new companion, I already like this guy more than Clara.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:38 |
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rear end in a top hat kid.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:39 |
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I like this guy
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:39 |
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For the record, Glasgow is not that bad!
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:40 |
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it's worse
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:42 |
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This is a very promising start.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:43 |
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Oh my god the name is literal.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:44 |
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"That wasn't a metaphor."
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:44 |
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Wow, Fantastic Voyaging a messed-up Dalek. I am tentatively impressed.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:47 |
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You can really feel their CGI budget this episode.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:47 |
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This Clara best Clara, she's psychic and thinks the Doctor is a hobby.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:47 |
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"Imagine the worst thing in the universe and then don't bother because this is it." I love this new Doctor.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:49 |
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He was dead already I was saving us... Massive love for this doctor.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:51 |
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Heh, the "people soup" is green. Nice touch.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:52 |
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"Top layer if you want to say a few words." - Legendary.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:53 |
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"Yeah, top layer if you want to say a few words." Gotta love Capaldi.
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:53 |
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Everything this Doctor says is pure gold. Capaldi is just the best...
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:54 |
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That. Is actually a pretty cool spin on "resistance is futile".
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# ? Aug 30, 2014 19:55 |
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 16:27 |
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Is this technically Dalek Nihilism? Is this Dalek Nietzsche?
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