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I've been following this thread for so long, just reading the reviews with no desire to go back and watch anything, and now I'm watching the Eleventh Hour. Goddamn it. Side note, because I know I'm going to fall completely off the wagon, how long does it usually take Netflix to get the latest season, anyway?
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"I am the Doctor" is the only piece of the doctor who soundtrack other than the main theme that ever appealed to me. I got the series 5 soundtrack thinking there'd be a lot to like, before realizing that no, it's only the two pieces carrying the whole of series 5. And I feel like all the discussion of it will hinder it's toxx's ability to enjoy it.
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Jan 6, 2015 00:44
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ikanreed posted:"I am the Doctor" is the only piece of the doctor who soundtrack other than the main theme that ever appealed to me. I got the series 5 soundtrack thinking there'd be a lot to like, before realizing that no, it's only the two pieces carrying the whole of series 5. The earlier seasons, particularly Three, had lots more good music to enjoy, whereas Five onwards basically do just have that one piece of really incredible music.
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Jan 6, 2015 00:48
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Octarine Dream posted:
I think it's usually right before the new season starts airing. fake edit: Series 7 was on Netflix starting mid June of last year, and the episodes began airing two months later.
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Jan 6, 2015 01:06
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Here's a video of Murray Gold himself belting out that incredible theme on the piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrt5IVXQ7k
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Jan 6, 2015 01:26
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MikeJF posted:Nah, it's Amy's Theme earlier on in that scene and then it transitions to the Eleventh Doctor's Adventure Theme for the last pan bit. This song is so Doctor Who to me, I forgot it didn't show up until Smith's run, and if I think of Doctor Who music, I probably think of this before the actually iconic Doctor Who theme.
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Jan 6, 2015 01:28
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Stobbit posted:Here's a video of Murray Gold himself belting out that incredible theme on the piano: Song is so loving good. I'm the biggest Tennant fanwanker on earth, still am, and the gap he left, or I thought he'd leave, was MASSIVE. Having Smith come on and so clearly, definitively, in a single episode, be absolutely the doctor was so reassuring. Then, of course, there was the fact that this might be the greatest pure who episode of the revival.
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Jan 6, 2015 01:30
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Toxxupation posted:that piccolo(?) riff that comes in at :35 is so good, it sums up that sort of pure wonderment essence that DW at its best embodies FOR MUSIC EDUCATION PURPOSES: That riff is a unison section being played by an Oboe, a Clarinet and a Flute. The Oboe and Clarinet are deliberately in the forefront, which gives the line a sort of playful, Benny Goodman-esque quality. Appropriate for Eleven, who could have fallen into the 1940s and not missed a beat. It also works as a musical representation of one of the dichotomies of Eleven. The riff is played over Super Serious action music. Eleven is an old man, betrayed by a boyish face, which makes it hard for others to take him seriously. Literally "a face that nobody listens to". It's the punchy-quip, the witty remark. Eleven faces danger with half a smile on his face and a one-liner primed and ready to go. His theme appropriately molds itself to that dynamic. Compare 9/10's theme, which is this sort of ethereal, distant, longing and drat depressing melodic statement. Note, too, around the 2:50 mark in I Am The Doctor how suddenly the tone shifts slightly to include a lot more upper woodwind runs and riffs, along with some high, tinkly metals, piano and unison boys/women's choir melodics. That is 100 percent, pure Fantasy scoring. It's textbook (literally, as a media composition student we were taught this as one of the major ways to score fantasy subjects). Doctor Who is suddenly a fairy tale, and the theme adapts. ComposerGuy fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Jan 6, 2015 02:26
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things I love: fallout bioshock morally ambiguous choices stuff that makes me cry
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Jan 6, 2015 02:38
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Toxxupation posted:things I love: Oh boy oh boy I'm looking forward to this one 
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Jan 6, 2015 02:39
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So much for first place...
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Jan 6, 2015 03:06
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Occ you bastard
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Jan 6, 2015 03:20
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Toxxupation posted:things I love: The Doctor tried to use Plasmids once but he just regenerated.
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Jan 6, 2015 03:22
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drat it, I misjudged this one.
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Jan 6, 2015 03:38
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Toxxupation posted:things I love: Well, I know what I'm watching tonight.
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Jan 6, 2015 04:00
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Toxxupation posted:things I love: Doesn't seem relevant but I agree
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Jan 6, 2015 04:05
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Toxxupation posted:things I love: And since this one bastardizes all of those, it gets an F... I knew it!
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Jan 6, 2015 04:09
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Toxxupation posted:things I love: Quick: Which Fallout and Which Bioshock? New Vegas/Core Region Trilogy FO' LIFE. Also Bioshock 2 probably had the best gameplay but the dumbest story.
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Jan 6, 2015 04:17
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ComposerGuy posted:FOR MUSIC EDUCATION PURPOSES: That riff is a unison section being played by an Oboe, a Clarinet and a Flute. The Oboe and Clarinet are deliberately in the forefront, which gives the line a sort of playful, Benny Goodman-esque quality. Appropriate for Eleven, who could have fallen into the 1940s and not missed a beat. Thank you! I love learning stuff like this.
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Jan 6, 2015 04:33
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Toxxupation posted:things I love: I've got a bad feeling about this. The thing is, with what, nearly a hundred entries in the contest this time? An early slip might not be recoverable, and I think I made that slip. 
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Jan 6, 2015 04:35
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ComposerGuy posted:Compare 9/10's theme, which is this sort of ethereal, distant, longing and drat depressing melodic statement. Well that was really 9's theme, and fit since he was a PTSD-suffering war survivor. It's a bit weird 10 didn't have his own theme, really. Although I kinda think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEcij0ARkmU even though it was really only for one season.
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Jan 6, 2015 04:37
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MikeJF posted:Well that was really 9's theme, and fit since he was a PTSD-suffering war survivor. Yeah it was more 9's for sure, but it popped up often enough for 10 that it sort of became his, too...and it never really fit. Hell, his regeneration sequence blasts it full-bore.
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Jan 6, 2015 04:39
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ComposerGuy posted:
I don't think I ever heard that specific part in the show, but that does remind me of Mhysa (Dany's theme) from Game of Thrones, and it makes sense because her story was always more "fairy tale" than the rest of the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t987p0f9y54
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Jan 6, 2015 04:42
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computer parts posted:I don't think I ever heard that specific part in the show, but that does remind me of Mhysa (Dany's theme) from Game of Thrones, and it makes sense because her story was always more "fairy tale" than the rest of the show. Exactly. Nothing says "fantasy" like a boy's choir or women's chorus throwing out some sustained "oohs" and "aahs".
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Jan 6, 2015 04:44
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ComposerGuy posted:Exactly. Nothing says "fantasy" like a boy's choir or women's chorus throwing out some sustained "oohs" and "aahs". Just as nothing says "fairy tale" like celesta music.
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Jan 6, 2015 04:46
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My favorite from the 9 and 10 era was definitely the song they played whenever they were talking about the time lords. Best part is the violin(maybe?) solo that start at about 1 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMdN7yZxM3k
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Jan 6, 2015 05:09
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Toxxupation posted:things I love: loving hell right. I genuinely liked this episode even though there were many who didn't. Honestly, I felt like this season was nearly perfect. Not a single bad episode. There was one episode I thought was just 'alright' but nothing bad.
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Jan 6, 2015 05:47
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Is it not discussion of the episode until the review is posted or no discussion until toxx watches it? Because I've got opinions.
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Jan 6, 2015 05:57
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Just post about it in the bad thread like the rest of us who can't wait for these things to happen at a normal pace.
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Jan 6, 2015 06:03
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armoredgorilla posted:Just post about it in the bad thread The Office thread is still around?
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Jan 6, 2015 06:11
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Bicyclops posted:One of the only bad things about reading someone experiencing the beginnings of Matt Smith Doctor Who is that I get the Eleventh Doctor Murray Gold theme stuck in my head. It is not a bad song (it's catchy!), but having it stuck in your head all day imbues your grocery shopping with a kind of desperate, bombastic importance that makes choosing a brand of peanut butter a little too dramatic for my tastes. I remember getting to this point of the series. I wondered if Murray Gold deliberately was channeling the whistle theme of the X-Files, since every Moffat episode to that point was about couches who eat children who hide behind them. Blasmeister posted:Just so we're clear: Only because of Minerva's Den. Bioshock 2 made Little Sisters go from creepy to adorable for player appeal, and had something like Evangelion's unification instrumentality mumbo jumbo as the apparent endgame of fanatical Communism. It took a DLC mission better than the main campaign to save it. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Jan 6, 2015 06:41
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Just so we're clear: New Vegas and Bioshock 2 are the superior games. Craptacular! posted:
I mostly rate 2 best because the game was actually fun and engaging to play while still being as/more rewarding to wander around and explore as the other games. 1 had way to much padding in the last third of the game and infinite was so barebones mechanically it just wasn't much fun to play. Blasmeister fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Jan 6, 2015 07:31
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New Vegas was a better game but I honestly preferred the Capitol Wasteland setting more, The Mojave just felt like a city and surroundings that had fallen on hard times rather than a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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Jan 6, 2015 07:42
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Wasn't the point that it'd been a few hundred years since the war and it makes sense that people had started to rebuild in that time period?
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Jan 6, 2015 07:43
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Vegas was largely spared during the war, so it deliberately was designed to not be as destroyed as the Capitol. Though because the war changes history and keeps culture permanently stuck in a 1950s stereotype, Vegas still has a new generation of schmaltzy lounge lizard casinos that look more like the Sands and Sahara than anything built from Caesars onward.
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Jan 6, 2015 07:47
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The point is that the core-region trilogy (1,2, NV) is about the ruins of post-apocalyptic culture rebuilding into this kind of hosed up neo-imperial power. It's not so much about the end of the world by the time of New Vegas as it is about our refusal to learn from the conflicts that tore that world apart. So the focus is less on the war that happened than on the war and social pressures that exist in the game's present. It's almost as if... War? War never changes...
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Jan 6, 2015 08:08
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Colonel Cool posted:Wasn't the point that it'd been a few hundred years since the war and it makes sense that people had started to rebuild in that time period? Oh, yeah, it made sense in context, but I liked the post-apocalyptic ruins. Or at the very least the chaos of the little outposts and towns of fallout 1/2 where they'd started to rebuild and eke things out. New Vegas was too... clean for me. Works for some but eh, not so much for me. I understand what they were going for though.
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Jan 6, 2015 08:11
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Also New Vegas is way better than Fallout 3 because it actually tries when it comes to narrative design. The quests are actually built around the medium and what makes the medium interesting. The major quests have multiple points of entry or are essentially side-stories designed to explore characters that the player has clearly become invested in like Boone, Veronica or Arcade. It's a game that takes the way the player engages with it and actually bothers to fold that into its story, and while it might not present people with as pat an amusement-park world to run around in, I think it was a better video game because it was built around the sort of subjective video game stories that video games do well rather than hammering home how important your dad was and how said you should be that he died and how noble he was and how you should care about your dad and oh, look, a kooky city of children that's tonally a bit jarring unless you turn up at exactly the right time in the overly forced arc about you and your dad. Plus they tore out all the weird voodoo when it came to shooting so shooting finally didn't feel weird.
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Jan 6, 2015 08:19
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I sure could use some confirmation from Bethesda for some Fallout 4 right now...
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