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Come on, admit it. Who here was wishing that it was a validium arrow?
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Sep 6, 2014 22:29
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Batsarse posted:Come on, admit it. Who here was wishing that it was a validium arrow? Agreed, if there's one story that the revival needs to reference and learn lessons from it's Silver Nemesis
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I see we're due for our seasonal dose of Steven Moffat Hates Children next week. Also all I can really say is good lord was the sound hosed this week or else something is wrong with my sound system because the impending exploding spaceship rumbles kept overpowering the dialogue in that scene. Shugojin fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Sep 6, 2014 |
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Sep 6, 2014 22:44
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Just yours, and no need for the spoiler tags
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Good to know. I'll troubleshoot that later on, I guess!
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That poem over the teaser for next week was super creepy. Still had a reference to the Missy lady, with the Promised Land stuff. I like that season arc kinda stuff, and it is very nice how they have slipped in bits without detracting heavily from the rest of the episode or anything. It's a less hosed eyepatch lady!
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I too quite liked the episode. Peasants versus robots was a little wonky and the arrow just touching the spaceship being enough was ridiculous but the other 96% of the episode was just out and out enjoyable. All praise to Capaldi but Robin was great as well and of course whoever it was who came up with the lines for them to speak.
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I, for one, am still shocked that they managed to not only to convince Anthony Ainley to come back from the dead to play the Sheriff, but also took the time to update the Xeraphin central chamber set from Timeflight. The bit at the end about becoming stories and legends makes me want to stick with my longshot theory that Missy is a new Master of the Land of Fiction.
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SimplyCosmic posted:convince Anthony Ainley to come back from the dead to play the Sheriff I know, right? God, it's uncanny.
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Sep 6, 2014 23:37
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I feel like in the village scene at the start they just dusted off the old sets from the Robin Hood series BBC had a few years back. Looked almost exactly like it.
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DoctorWhat posted:I know, right? God, it's uncanny. Glad to see I wasn't the only one thinking that.
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Crazy Man posted:Glad to see I wasn't the only one thinking that. I don't know, I quite liked this description: Tsaedje posted:Ben Miller as Christopher Guest in the Princess Bride
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Tsaedje posted:Ben Miller as Christopher Guest in the Princess Bride was wonderfully hammy. Supremely silly, but also very entertaining. Well bloody spotted, that was bugging me and I couldn't remember what I was being reminded of. For me this ep is Capaldi expanding his Doctor further. Comedy with a dead straight bat, nice callbacks to classic Who, and another great chunk for Coleman. Another Gatiss winner.
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Sep 7, 2014 00:00
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So, I was thinking...what was the children horror episode of S07?
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I'm now waiting for 4 episodes later the Doctor to go "man, I still can't believe you told Robin Hood everything about me" and she'll say "Wait what?" and then it flashes back to that scene of her waking up and making up something totally different, rather than explaining about the TARDIS and such. Because Robin Hood isn't real.
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Yeah so when Robin got cut in the last sword fight I was expecting the Doctor to examine him to see if he really was a robot. Robot's don't bleed. I didn't see blood.
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Sep 7, 2014 00:17
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SimplyCosmic posted:convince Anthony Ainley to come back from the dead to play the Sheriff This is what I kept thinking in every scene with the Sheriff. I was actually kind of waiting for them to reveal that he was the Master the whole time. That was a fun, silly episode, I guess. The scene at the very beginning where they're deciding where to go was absolutely fantastic.
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I just finished listening to Tom Baker at 80 which came today. It was a good listen. I liked the intro/outro music, and noted down a handful of choice quotes, which I guess I won't share because of spoilers? Spoilers for an interview, yes.
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This episode was dogshit. A classic Gatiss exercise in self-indulgent homage at the expense of story. In this case it was an homage to the 1989 CBBC programme Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Which was also dogshit. I award this episode 1.488 papples out of 10.
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Sep 7, 2014 01:45
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I really wish they'd kept the Microsoft Sam voices for the robots.
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Sep 7, 2014 01:54
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It definitely poo poo the bed a lot this episode. Fiddly dee bullshit filler.
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Sep 7, 2014 02:07
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Alan-a-Dale: Aye, the Sheriff, who seeks to oppress us, forever. Twelfth Doctor: Or six months, in your case! I enjoyed how the Doctor pissed off every single one of the Merry Men so far.
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Yea, I love him making GBS threads in everyones cereal. And the Sheriff looks way too much like the 3rd Doctors Master. Have you ever been to Nottingham?
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Sep 7, 2014 02:13
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two episodes in a row with a radiation leak causing the trouble. I don't know why that stood out to me
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Sep 7, 2014 02:24
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Ah the Robots are ancient aliens, because they're always after gold.
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I've been to Nottingham. The Doctor is right. You know, when he pulled that loving spoon out I was sure the episode would either be brilliant or awful. You just can't stay neutral to an episode like that.
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I just want to say that I'm in America watching this on BBCA. I'll check back in and read the past few pages when this is over...but oh my God, I have just seen Peter Capaldi the curmudgeonly old uncle bickering with a stereotypical OTT movie Robin Hood parody. He has referenced mini-scopes, the Sheriff of Nottingham is a clone of Roger Delgado, and the Doctor just did an akido chop and shouted "HAAAAAII!" and also had a swordfight with a spoon. Peter Capaldi is basically cosplaying the 3rd Doctor at this point, and it's glorious. 
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To be precise, it was a clone of Anthony Ainley. Anthony Ainley was, however, himself a clone of Roger Delgado
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Jerusalem posted:To be precise, it was a clone of Anthony Ainley. Ainley didn't have poo poo on Delgado, sadly. He came close in Survival but it was always a pale imitation. But my issues with the Master's characterization are well-established so w/e.
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What Ainley had going for him was that he LOVED being the Master. He had it made financially already so pretty much his only interests were playing cricket or being the Master, and every so often he'd call up JNT just to say,"Hey got any stories with the Master coming up? I'm down!" Also his personal home answering phone message was in character
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Jerusalem posted:What Ainley had going for him was that he LOVED being the Master. He had it made financially already so pretty much his only interests were playing cricket or being the Master, and every so often he'd call up JNT just to say,"Hey got any stories with the Master coming up? I'm down!" Except he apparently refused to come back to Big Finish unless they paid him an exorbitant amount. 
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Awww I didn't know that Then again, he did Destiny of the Doctors so maybe he figured if it wasn't on television it just wasn't worth doing anymore.
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Astroman posted:Peter Capaldi is basically cosplaying the 3rd Doctor at this point, and it's glorious. Good point, but I'm still seeing a lot of Princess Bride in this one too, not just the Christopher Guest Sheriff, it's the action sequences and the general tone of the dialogue, also the generosity of the script to allow Coleman to carry the plot at important points.
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McDragon posted:You just can't stay neutral to an episode like that. I think I managed it, somehow. The spoon fight left me with huge goofy grin plastered all over my face, but large swathes of the episode managed to get so campy and ridiculous that I literally could not make myself sit through them. It was like having RTD back. The "First Nottingham, then Derby, then Lincoln, then..." "...Worksop?" "THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD!!!" scene was solid gold, though.
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