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Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

I love the Sontaran 2-parter a whole bunch, mostly because they get the Sontarans spot-on with the added bonus of Christopher Ryan being really loving good.

Probably the most obscure old monster in the revival was the Macra in Gridlock. A mutated (and no longer sentient) version of an old monster from Patrick Troughton's first season (1967) that is COMPLETELY missing and hasn't been seen again since it first aired.

That said, The Great Intelligence coming out of nowhere in The Snowmen has to be up there too, especially since it returns in The Bells of St John and The Name of the Doctor. Another Patrick Troughton villain from his second season, featuring in two stories, one of which is largely missing and the other that was only mostly recovered and made available to view again about a year ago.

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Lampsacus
Oct 21, 2008

Jerusalem posted:

Probably the most obscure old monster in the revival was the Macra in Gridlock. A mutated (and no longer sentient) version of an old monster from Patrick Troughton's first season (1967) that is COMPLETELY missing and hasn't been seen again since it first aired.

That said, The Great Intelligence coming out of nowhere in The Snowmen has to be up there too, especially since it returns in The Bells of St John and The Name of the Doctor. Another Patrick Troughton villain from his second season, featuring in two stories, one of which is largely missing and the other that was only mostly recovered and made available to view again about a year ago.
Holy crap I did not pick up that Macra reference at all. Also, I enjoyed the continuation of the GI. It was nice to have a villain that wasn't Darleks or Cybermen AND the Doctor actually feared. Bravo!

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

DoctorWhat posted:

The following is an addendum to my immediately-previous post:

So I just listened to Deadline. I dunno how I'd put that off for so long. And I have some thoughts.

Robert Shearman, you utter BASTARD!

why would you do this to me

i thought we were friends

you follow me on Tumblr

we've shook hands

and then you turn around, travel back 11 years, and write Deadline!?

stop being so good, Rob. It's killing me, like radiation sickness. And I haven't got the appropriate gloves.

In all seriousness, Deadline is really super incredibly amazingly loving good and you should all listen to it immediately and unspoiled.

The Unbound line in general (barring that one terrible, terrible one with David Tennant that isn't worth mentioning), is incredible. They're still some of my favorite Big Finish stories.

I, on the other hand, just heard the first Iris Wildthyme standalone, which was attempting to be zany just a little too hard, I think. It was fun to listen to after last week's episode though, because it does have Robin Hood in it, carrying a fellow's head around on a stick.

Attitude Indicator
Apr 3, 2009

Lampsacus posted:

What is the most obscure (undiscussed, least watched) revival ep?

well, there was just some talk about 42, but im still going to nominate that one.

Plavski
Feb 1, 2006

I could be a revolutionary

Attitude Indicator posted:

well, there was just some talk about 42, but im still going to nominate that one.

Idiot's Lantern barely gets a look in anywhere.

DoctorWhat
Nov 18, 2011

A little privacy, please?

Plavski posted:

Idiot's Lantern barely gets a look in anywhere.

I try to get angry about the last dialogue exchange in The Idiot's Lantern at least once a month. Keeps my capacity for righteous indignation sharp as a tack.

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

People don't talk about the Agatha Christie episode much. I'm still a little angry about it because although it is an okay episode, it is not really an Agatha Christie episode, which is a thing we should have had and now never will.

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Lampsacus posted:

What is the most obscure (undiscussed, least watched) revival ep?

The Lazarus Experiment.

Alternatively, The Doctor's Daughter.

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

computer parts posted:

The Lazarus Experiment.

That one had some really bad writing but I did enjoy the reverse the polarity joke.

The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."
The Long Game, maybe? Vampires of Venice?

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
Up until the Oxxipation thread got to it I genuinely had forgotten that Father's Day existed.

Plavski posted:

Idiot's Lantern barely gets a look in anywhere.

I reckon that falls under the general Gatiss ouvre

Jerusalem posted:

When that loving dog follows up on the Doctor's suggestion I lost it :allears:

Nefud was right :argh:

Darth Freddy
Feb 6, 2007

An Emperor's slightest dislike is transmitted to those who serve him, and there it is amplified into rage.

Diabolik900 posted:

Here's my best attempt.



Even these new, more generous avatar sizes can still be tough to work with.

You wanting a forums certificate?

Jerusalem posted:

These any good?





Looks great, want a forums certificate?

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

computer parts posted:


Alternatively, The Doctor's Daughter.

The Doctor's Daughter is memorable because of the behind-the-scene meta stuff with Jenny and Georgia Moffett, although I did forget that Martha was in it.

I'll give my vote to 42 since I also completely forgot it existed. Actually I'm pretty fuzzy on all of season 3, was it Shakespeare then the traffic jam or the other way around?

The Action Man
Oct 26, 2004

This is a good movie.

The_Doctor posted:

The Long Game, maybe?

The Long Game manages to be so forgettable that it's an episode with Simon Pegg that almost no one ever brings up. I remember being so unimpressed with it that it took the magnificence of The Three Doctors to get me back into the show.

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

This is Urotsuki.

It's utterly mesmorizing :stare:

Trin Tragula
Apr 22, 2005

Shakespeare Code, then Gridlock.

The Beast Below appears to have sunk without trace (which disappoints me), as has The Curse of the Black Spot (which doesn't).

HD DAD
Jan 13, 2010

Generic white guy.

Toilet Rascal
I've forgotten most of Series 3 ever existed. In my mind it goes from "forgot how Martha got here but she's here now" to Family of Blood two parter to "wait the Master thing was three episodes long?".

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

Everyone remembers that Master arc though, partly because of Dobby and partly because Derk Jacobi was criminally wasted on having an extremely small role when he should be playing the Master for seasons and seasons, with the Delgado goatee.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

Bicyclops posted:

Derk Jacobi

New thread nickname

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

Derk Jacobi and his sidekick Biff Malabo

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

Bicyclops posted:

Derk Jacobi and his sidekick Biff Malabo

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539519/ I see

Plavski
Feb 1, 2006

I could be a revolutionary
Inspired by Gridlock chat, I'm watching Gridlock again. I'd forgotten how plastic looking the Tennant-era was. And Oh God, Ardal O'Hanlan as a loving cat-man.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

Plavski posted:

Inspired by Gridlock chat, I'm watching Gridlock again. I'd forgotten how plastic looking the Tennant-era was. And Oh God, Ardal O'Hanlan as a loving cat-man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwN7dVgzh64

Plavski
Feb 1, 2006

I could be a revolutionary

I had just hit that very scene.

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004


It's comforting to know that one can assemble a bunch of random letters and come up with a porn star with an extensive IMDB listing

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!

Bicyclops posted:

It's comforting to know that one can assemble a bunch of random letters and come up with a porn star with an extensive IMDB listing

To boldly come where no man has come before.

Spatula City
Oct 21, 2010

LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU WHY YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING

howe_sam posted:

The Doctor's Daughter is memorable because of the behind-the-scene meta stuff with Jenny and Georgia Moffett, although I did forget that Martha was in it.

I'll give my vote to 42 since I also completely forgot it existed. Actually I'm pretty fuzzy on all of season 3, was it Shakespeare then the traffic jam or the other way around?

I like the Star Wars TOS-ness of the moral lesson, and the plot reveals. And how it has both Donna and Martha. It's not terrible.

My least well-remembered:
Fear Her
The Idiot's Lantern
The Lazarus Experiment
the Agatha Christie one
Boomtown
42
The Fires of Pompeii
the specials I didn't watch: Planet of the Dead, Voyage of the Damned, The Next Doctor
The Curse of the Black Spot (only really remember the stupid CPR)
A Good Man Goes to War/Let's Kill Hitler (I have mentally blocked most of it out due to severe displeasure)
The Wedding of River Song (same)
The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe
The Power of Three

Plavski
Feb 1, 2006

I could be a revolutionary

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

Sam Anderson getting top billing is a good thing.

Android Blues
Nov 22, 2008

That is such a good horror movie poster. Like, wow. I almost want a non-Doctor Who horror movie to be made using that poster as a premise.

Tim Burns Effect
Apr 1, 2011

Trin Tragula posted:

Shakespeare Code, then Gridlock.

The Beast Below appears to have sunk without trace (which disappoints me), as has The Curse of the Black Spot (which doesn't).

This right here, this is the only revival episode I've skipped. I just watched the first few minutes and went "Mmmmm no."

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Tim Burns Effect posted:

This right here, this is the only revival episode I've skipped. I just watched the first few minutes and went "Mmmmm no."
You missed some really good stuff and were probably very confused when a pirate showed up with a spaceship later on.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

LividLiquid posted:

You missed some really good stuff

He said he missed The Curse of The Black Spot, not The Doctor Dances

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
Watching The Moonbase. The chief scientist guy is pretty entertaining - he thinks that the Doctor and co might be involved in the plague and he doesn't lock them up or try to kill them, he just tells them to get off the Moon. His repeatedly denying that Cybermen were involved was just Pedler going "Hey? Remember the Cybermen? THEY'RE BACK"

Also features the quote:

quote:

There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things, things which act against everything that we believe in. They must be fought.

and the very first instance of Jamie going "Oh, it's you" when he wakes up to a horrible alien

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

Is the Moonbase the one where Jaime is like "Hey, Victoria, what do you think of these shiny leotards everyone is wearing?" and Victoria is like :rolleyes:?

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

Bicyclops posted:

Is the Moonbase the one where Jaime is like "Hey, Victoria, what do you think of these shiny leotards everyone is wearing?" and Victoria is like :rolleyes:?

Nah, it's a Ben/Polly/Jamie story

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
Jokes about Victoria and fashion were usually just "man, isn't this permissive!"

Zoe and fashion tended to go straight to permissive, although reading the official BBC page for the story and having lines like this:

quote:

Jamie collides with Zoe whilst climbing in episode one, and in the same scene her knickers are briefly visible.

lends the whole affair a sort of peculiar mixture of pervyness and innocence

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Nah, it's a Ben/Polly/Jamie story

Ah okay. I get the Troughtons confused. I really enjoy his serials but for some reason I really can't keep them straight in my head, I think it's because I went back and watched the repros after I watched everything else.

Gaz-L
Jan 28, 2009
Plus, y'know, Ben and Polly. I think they may actually be more forgettable than Dodo, because Dodo is at least notably pointless.

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Tim Burns Effect
Apr 1, 2011

LividLiquid posted:

You missed some really good stuff and were probably very confused when a pirate showed up with a spaceship later on.

I saw the "NEXT TIME..." bump at the end of the previous episode so when they showed up later in the series I was just like "oh that musta been them pirates what was from that episode i done skipped"

Apart from "they was pirates" I didn't really miss anything.

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