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PriorMarcus posted:This isn't quite right. Moffat had Capaldi in mind for the Doctor and audition him but felt that an older Doctor wouldn't feel right after Tennant so he began auditioning, found Smith, and told Capaldi to hold on for his turn was next. According to Armando Iannucci, what actually happened is that Moffat failed to answer Iannucci's three riddles and so could not win Capaldi's freedom.
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The Eleventh Hour Man I love this episode and man do I love Smith. It also appears that quite a lot of people think Toxx was gonna like this episode as well. Which they should because this episode owns. How many people guessed right? 78 people correctly guessed this episode would score an A out of 98 entrants (27 entered last time if you're interested). Including one person who didn't include their forum name so I have no idea who they are. Sadly for mrlJakiri it appears his use of random.org to pick the results doesn't bode well for this season so far. A thrawn527 Glenn_Beckett Regy Rusty Tiggum cargohills Organza Quiz BSam FreezingInferno Random Stranger Daedleh Burkion Gandalf21 Rochallor Hewlett fatherboxx jng2058 Stumiester Not a Twat Pinwiz11 Stobbit Bobulus Blasmeister M_Gargantua ??? Senerio Juvenalian.Satyr Attitude Indicator Keisse J mind the walrus cool kids inc. ewe2 umalt Squalitude Grouchio Prison Warden Paul.Power Practical Demon egon_beeblebrox idonotlikepeas Fungah! Party Boat radmonger PurpleJesus 2house2fly docbeard Bunnita Colonel Cool DetoxP SirSamVimes Arsenic Lupin John Charity Spring LabyaMynora Jet Jaguar Fucknag adhuin ThePlague-Daemon Kevino07 Captain Capitalism Legoman727 Hannibal Smith BeefyTaco AndwhatIseeisme Senor Tron WeirdSandwich Ohtsam MikeJF thexerox123 Anonymouse Mook Noxville Proposition Joe 30.5 Days Jsor RodShaft GonSmithe Howe_sam NeuroticLich Irony Be My Shield FewtureMD B DoctorWhat Xenoborg death .cab for qt Mo0 Stormgale Smello ThNextGreenLantern Sinestro f#a# Big Mean Jerk Jurgan Go RV! ActionZero hcreight C Andrew_1985 surc Roach Warehouse D Jakiri And More F Sighence This puts our scores out of the starting gate as: thrawn257 0 Glenn_Beckett 0 Regy Rusty 0 Tiggum 0 Cargohills 0 Organza 0 BSam 0 FreezingInferno 0 Random Stranger 0 Daedleh 0 Burkeon 0 Gandalf21 0 Rochallor 0 Hewlett 0 fatherboxx 0 jng2058 0 stumeister 0 Not a Twat 0 Pinwiz11 0 Stobbit 0 Bobulus 0 Blasmeister 0 M Gargantua 0 ??? 0 Senario 0 Juvenalian Satyr 0 Attitude Indicator 0 Keisse J 0 Mind the walrus 0 cool kids inc. 0 ewe2 0 umalt 0 Squalitude 0 Grouchio 0 Prison Warden 0 Paul Power 0 Practical Demon 0 egon_beeblebrox 0 idonotlikepeas 0 Fungah! 0 Party Boat 0 Radmonger 0 PurpleJesus 0 2house2fly 0 Docbeard 0 Bunnita 0 Colonel Cool 0 DetoxP 0 SirSamVimes 0 Arsenic Lupin 0 John Charity Spring 0 LabyaMynora 0 Jet Jaguar 0 Fucknag 0 adhuin 0 ThePlague-Daemon 0 Kevino07 0 Captain Capitalism 0 Legoman727 0 Hannibal Smith 0 BeefyTaco 0 AndwhatIseeisme 0 Senor Tron 0 WeirdSandwich 0 Ohtsam 0 MikeJF 0 thexerox123 0 Anonymouse Mook 0 Noxville 0 Proposition Joe 0 30.5 Days 0 Jsor 0 RodShaft 0 GonSmithe 0 Howe_sam 0 NeuroticLich 0 Irony Be My Shield 0 FewtureMD 0 DoctorWhat 1 Xenoborg 1 death .cab for qt 1 MoO 1 Stormgale 1 Smello 1 ThNextGreenLantern 1 Sinestro 1 f#a# 1 Big Mean Jerk 1 Jurgan 1 Go RV! 1 ActionZero 1 hcreight 1 Andrew_1985 2 surc 2 Roach Warehouse 2 Jakari 3 And More 3 Sighence 4 Pocky In My Pocket fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jan 5, 2015 |
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Jan 5, 2015 00:28
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I don't know what possessed me to give that a B, I really should have re-watched these first.
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Jan 5, 2015 00:39
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Sighence, can I have a word with you, please
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Jan 5, 2015 00:39
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You might have some problem with your excel-sheet: There's 14 B:s and only 13 1 points. DoctorWhat has mistakenly got 0 points Sighence's F should give him/her 5 points, not 4. There's can be more problems with your sheet, but uniform Aas and Bees hide them well. 
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Jan 5, 2015 00:41
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Oxxidation posted:Sighence, can I have a word with you, please i think he intentionally is sinking his score ...which was smart because I'm giving out prizes differently this time around, first place gets KR0 and last place (since it requires just as much skill but guessing in the opposite direction) gets MGR, with the other prizes either for tiebreakers, rolling into series 6 contest, or notable entries/posters
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Jan 5, 2015 00:42
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Oxxidation posted:Sighence, can I have a word with you, please Yeah, what
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Jan 5, 2015 00:45
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I'm curious how my all B strategy will pan out through this run honestly.
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Oxxidation posted:Sighence, can I have a word with you, please I double checked their submitted grades as well and I don't think they're deliberately going for last  Edit: Gone back and looked yet again and actually I think they might. Pocky In My Pocket fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jan 5, 2015 |
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Jan 5, 2015 00:47
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adhuin posted:You might have some problem with your excel-sheet: Thanks for pointing that out, the calculations were off but i've updated it. F's score 4 because the grade range is A,B,C,D,F so F is 4 away from A
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Jan 5, 2015 00:49
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Little_wh0re posted:Thanks for pointing that out, the calculations were off but i've updated it. My alphabet has E somewhere there.
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Jan 5, 2015 00:50
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It seems like there are a lot more entries for this round!
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Jan 5, 2015 00:51
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adhuin posted:My alphabet has E somewhere there. E isn't used in letter grades..... thexerox123 posted:It seems like there are a lot more entries for this round! Little_wh0re posted:78 people correctly guessed this episode would score an A out of 98 entrants (27 entered last time if you're interested). Possibly
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Jan 5, 2015 00:51
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Regy Rusty posted:E isn't used in letter grades..... Ok. They aren't used around here*, so I've only seen them used in games and such. *Technically there's the Matriculation Examination, which uses, L,E,M,C,B,A,I, but technically those are shorthand for phrases in Latin.
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Jan 5, 2015 00:57
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Regy Rusty posted:Possibly Oh, yup, that definitely is more  I should have read more attentively.
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Jan 5, 2015 00:58
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I'm winning suckers beat that! ...oh Oh. Oh. ...Oh. I'm still technically in first!
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Jan 5, 2015 01:10
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In retrospect I have no idea why I went for B.
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Jan 5, 2015 02:38
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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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Jan 5, 2015 03:50
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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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Jan 5, 2015 03:52
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Grouchio posted:I wonder if we should simulcast the next episode and so on after this... No more simulwatches until the 50th anniversary, I think would make sense.
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Jan 5, 2015 03:55
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Dang, I really should have gone for the "A".
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Jan 5, 2015 04:00
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I almost went for "B" because I tend to hedge my bits and minimize distance to wrong answers. That's why the vast majority of my guesses are "C", unless I really, really predict Occ will feel a certain way about an episode I feel like C is the safest because the biggest penalty is 2.
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Jan 5, 2015 04:03
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Yeah I was winning halfway through last season and look what happened to me. Probably the same thing as this time. Bring on last place!
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Jan 5, 2015 04:32
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The best part of the episode is clearly the look of disappointment the Doctor gives to Jeff when he borrows his laptop.
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Jan 5, 2015 04:39
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He's worse than everybody's aunt.
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Jan 5, 2015 05:34
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Regy Rusty posted:E isn't used in letter grades..... What? 
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Jan 5, 2015 05:51
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Prison Warden easily secures first place. 
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Jan 5, 2015 05:57
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Prison Warden posted:Prison Warden easily secures first place. You wouldn't happen to be a giant floating eye would you? 
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Jan 5, 2015 05:59
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Tiggum posted:What? We're using the standard US letter grade system, where from best to worst you have A, B, C, D, and F. So a grade of F is 4 steps on that scale from A.
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Jan 5, 2015 06:04
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Tiggum posted:What? No no, it's okay Tiggum. The F is for phenomenal! You did great.
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Jan 5, 2015 06:04
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I'm shocked that the random number generator is off to such a good start.
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Jan 5, 2015 06:11
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Juvenalian.Satyr posted:I'm shocked that the random number generator is off to such a good start. I love the idea of a random number generator somehow spitting out letters instead 
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Jan 5, 2015 06:13
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Jerusalem posted:I love the idea of a random number generator somehow spitting out letters instead Hexadecimal?
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Jan 5, 2015 06:13
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Juvenalian.Satyr posted:I'm shocked that the random number generator is off to such a good start. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Just like Toxx.
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Jan 5, 2015 06:14
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Okay, well that was pretty much a gimme. Next episode is where things get interesting, I think.
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Jan 5, 2015 07:26
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thexerox123 posted:It seems like there are a lot more entries for this round! Yeah, I never bothered with Tennant. My first episode of NuWho was that one episode about the game show, and it got so boring that I never gave Doctor Who another chance until Matt Smith's run started. He just managed to make the better first impression, I guess. In retrospect, I don't even remember why I gave this episode a D. The Eleventh Hour was basically the episode that sold me on Smith and NuWho in general. Maybe it was the bad CGI? I really hate bad CGI.
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Apologies for the incoming classic serial recommendation, Toxx and Oxx, but it's a useful footnote on how Matt Smith characterises Eleven: See, Smith was the first Doctor in a long time (first since Tom Baker, possibly even Jon Pertwee) who didn't grow up watching the show - he was about seven when it was cancelled. So to help him get into the role, Moffat sent him an old Patrick Troughton serial called Tomb of the Cybermen. Smith loved it, and immediately asked if he could have a bow tie like Troughton had. Two became Smith's "Doctor", same way that Five was Tennant's (see: that "Time Crash" Children-in-Need special), and it influences how he plays Eleven to a large degree: clownish and good-humoured, but highly manipulative when he needs to be. Yes, I know it's the Cybermen, and its age shows in a few areas like its approach to race relations and the design of some of the props. I'm mostly just mentioning it because of the impact it had on Smith (though saying that, it is really good as well). Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Jan 5, 2015 |
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Paul.Power posted:Smith loved it, and immediately asked if he could have a bow tie like Troughton had. It's supposedly the case that they had a few entirely different and somewhat more conventional outfits planned for Matt Smith to try as possibilities and he basically came in for costume tryouts and convinced them to also let him try one he created one himself and that's what we ended up seeing onscreen. EDIT: here are the costumes they had designed, as well as his one. I love his facial expressions in the obviously stupid ones. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Jan 5, 2015 |
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Jan 5, 2015 10:02
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What everyone is saying is that they hired the real Doctor as a cost saving measure.
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MikeJF posted:It's supposedly the case that they had a few entirely different and somewhat more conventional outfits planned for Matt Smith to try as possibilities and he basically came in for costume tryouts and convinced them to also let him try one he created one himself and that's what we ended up seeing onscreen. It's imteresting how none of those costumes apart from the final one at all represent the old man in a young mans body Doctor that Smith played. Also slight spoiler warning on that link, the header image is of the current Doctor and his companion.
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