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Best producer/showrunner? This poll is closed. |
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| Verity Lambert |
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30 | 15.31% |
| Barry Letts |
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7 | 3.57% |
| Phillip Hinchcliffe |
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32 | 16.33% |
| John Nathan-Turner |
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6 | 3.06% |
| Russell T Davies |
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33 | 16.84% |
| Steven Moffat |
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50 | 25.51% |
| Chris Chibnall (I am from the future) |
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38 | 19.39% |
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The first series of Companion Chronicles stories are finally available as downloads at Big Finish!
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Dec 31, 2017 11:00
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Box of Bunnies posted:The first series of Companion Chronicles stories are finally available as downloads at Big Finish! I'm really really hoping this is a sign of things to come; I want the first few Gallifrey stories too!
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Dec 31, 2017 11:12
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Edward Mass posted:I’m pretty sure 2011 was the last time he was universally acclaimed on SA. Does no one remember day of the loving doctor? Also night of. gently caress y'all
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Dec 31, 2017 11:14
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BSam posted:Does no one remember day of the loving doctor? I do and I didn't like it
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Dec 31, 2017 13:07
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"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something.... blue" ranks right up there as one of my favorite, most emotionally satisfying and  moments in Who. But then of course there's also: Moment: You know the sound the TARDIS makes? That wheezing, groaning. That sound brings hope wherever it goes. War Doctor: Yes. Yes, I like to think it does. Moment: To anyone who hears it, Doctor. Anyone, however lost. God I loved Day of the Doctor
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Dec 31, 2017 14:14
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I had a feeling that the Moment didn't want to be used - hence her warning to the War Doctor when 10 and 12 are arguing: "They're what you become if you destroy Galifrey... The one who regrets... and the one who forgets..." That argument was pretty good too. Just Matt's cold response to Tennant asking how he could forget something so big/not bother to count: "What would be the point?" He genuinely did a great job of being the Old Man with the Young Face.
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Dec 31, 2017 14:26
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BioEnchanted posted:With the Ponds I kind of liked Amy's outburst when she brings the Doctor back from her own memories of him - "I remember you Raggedy Man and you are LATE FOR MY WEDDING! BioEnchanted posted:I had a feeling that the Moment didn't want to be used - hence her warning to the War Doctor when 10 and 12 are arguing: "They're what you become if you destroy Galifrey... The one who regrets... and the one who forgets..." That argument was pretty good too. Just Matt's cold response to Tennant asking how he could forget something so big/not bother to count: "What would be the point?" He genuinely did a great job of being the Old Man with the Young Face. I sort of think the ending is the Moment being used, just not as a bomb. It's meant to have this vast power, which sounds like what you'd need to let the same guy break through a time lock at 13 separate points in his own timeline. I just popped on Day Of The Doctor (I'm doing Waters Of Mars-Day-End Of Time-Eleventh Hour all in a row, for a laugh) and lmao at the Doctor trying to look smart at the beginning, reading a book called ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS
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Dec 31, 2017 14:48
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" Also Rory was the best. Although River's plot with the silence was a bit weird, when all the conspirators are being killed by the Silence electrocuting them through their eyepatches, then Madame Kovarian ends up begging Amy for help after managing to mostly remove her eyepatch, to which Amy responds "[River] didn't get it all from you, Sweetie" and puts the eyepatch back on her, letting her die. They were going for badass, but it came off as a bit sociopathic.
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Chibbers also wrote the sex gas episode, which was stupider than Cyberwoman.
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Dec 31, 2017 14:51
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BioEnchanted posted:With the Ponds I kind of liked Amy's outburst when she brings the Doctor back from her own memories of him - "I remember you Raggedy Man and you are LATE FOR MY WEDDING!
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Dec 31, 2017 15:02
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2house2fly posted:
He probably just likes pointing out the mistakes.  "Lol, they still think of electrons as a loving cloud... bloody cavemen... well at least they've moved past little balls"
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Dec 31, 2017 15:07
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TinTower posted:Chibbers also wrote the sex gas episode, which was stupider than Cyberwoman. "Look how adult we are, people are getting hosed... TO DEATH!"
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Dec 31, 2017 15:09
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Fil5000 posted:"Look how adult we are, people are getting hosed... TO DEATH!" The Fuckers of Death would have been a great title for TV Torchwood.
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Dec 31, 2017 15:15
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Also I thought the Master/Missy divide was entirely in character - she only changed her name so that the Doctor wouldn't catch on immediately, hence pretending to be a robot and dropping silly hints like "My heart is maintained... by the Doctor." It didn't feel overly pandering to me as a result - everyone else thought of her as still the same old dangerous person, just with a new face and a new pronoun. She was never underestimated due to her gender. Also apparently the little moment after her capture when she started singing Mickey to herself was actually Michelle Gomez messing around and not expecting it to be left in - she was often singing to herself like that, the "Oh Missy, You're so fine, You're so fine it blows my mind, Hey Missy. Hey Hey, hey Missy... sorry  ." was just Michelle playing around on set, then apologising for breaking character/wasting time.
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Dec 31, 2017 15:16
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Fil5000 posted:"Look how adult we are, people are getting hosed... TO DEATH!" *twaang!*
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Dec 31, 2017 15:18
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Stabbatical posted:The Fuckers of Death would have been a great title for TV Torchwood. The Fuckers of Death is why I hate Countrycide, which some people have called one of like three good episodes of Torchwood. It's really hard to do a "maybe the real monster after all is man" when the only monsters you've dealt with so far are alien sex gas and a loving Cyberwoman.
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Dec 31, 2017 15:29
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BioEnchanted posted:He probably just likes pointing out the mistakes. Personally I'm of the opinion that it was a fake dust jacket over a Dandy annual
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Dec 31, 2017 15:32
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2house2fly posted:lmao at the Doctor trying to look smart at the beginning, reading a book called ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS What bothers me is it has a picture of the TARDIS on the cover. I guess you could argue that it’s an ‘ex libris TARDIS’ edition with extra jokes and wackiness. 
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Dec 31, 2017 15:41
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Now I'm sad all over again  https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/947422346607861760
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Dec 31, 2017 15:46
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If nothing else, I'm glad for the re-confirmation that we're getting Series 11 in 2018.
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Dec 31, 2017 16:02
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howe_sam posted:Now I'm sad all over again Aww, I’ve been in that room. Walking onto that TARDIS set was amazing.
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Dec 31, 2017 16:06
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howe_sam posted:Now I'm sad all over again Huh, that's not what I expected an exterior shot of the Tardis to look like. The exterior is less spacious-looking than I expected, given how large the interior seems. 
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Dec 31, 2017 16:24
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Soothing Vapors posted:Huh, that's not what I expected an exterior shot of the Tardis to look like. The exterior is less spacious-looking than I expected, given how large the interior seems. The fabric coverings at the top let through light, especially the fluorescent lights on the studio ceiling when they’re on. You don’t see it in the show so they look solid.
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Dec 31, 2017 16:38
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Oh, they're redecorating... I don't like it 
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Dec 31, 2017 16:58
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2house2fly posted:I just popped on Day Of The Doctor (I'm doing Waters Of Mars-Day-End Of Time-Eleventh Hour all in a row, for a laugh) and lmao at the Doctor trying to look smart at the beginning, reading a book called ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS Physics/maths textbooks called "Advanced [whatever]" are usually mid-tier undergrad; the ones you really have to look out for are the ones titled "An Introduction to [whatever]", those are the hard ones
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Dec 31, 2017 17:01
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One of the reasons I'm not completely despairing of Chibnall taking over (aside from that excellent first thirty seconds of Jodie Whittaker and the excellent first season of Broadchurch) is that there's a solidly linear quality progression over his career in Who-land (which I think is broadly his career in general up until Broadchurch and Law and Order UK). It goes from Early Torchwood (poo poo) -> Later Torchwood (not entirely poo poo) -> 42 (Not weaponized awfulness but still pretty bad) -> That Silurian Two-Parter (Still pretty bad) -> Dinosaurs On A Spaceship (not high art, but loads of stupid fun) -> The Power Of Three (is this...is this good?!?)
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Dec 31, 2017 17:12
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BioEnchanted posted:Also I thought the Master/Missy divide was entirely in character - she only changed her name so that the Doctor wouldn't catch on immediately, hence pretending to be a robot and dropping silly hints like "My heart is maintained... by the Doctor." Missy sucks because they continually used her as a Clever Foreshadowing thing and it was awful. gently caress off with your tea
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Dec 31, 2017 17:12
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The Power of Three is a two parter that forgot it wouldn't have a second part.
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Dec 31, 2017 17:19
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2house2fly posted:I'm doing Waters Of Mars-Day-End Of Time-Eleventh Hour all in a row, for a laugh) Ok so to continue this in chronological order, you'd go Eleventh Hour>straight to Time Of The Doctor, then World Enough And Time, which is when the John Simm Master next shows up after End Of Time, then Dark Water/Death In Heaven and Heaven Sent/Hell Bent to close out the Gallifrey bits. What a tangled web we weave
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Dec 31, 2017 17:46
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The_Doctor posted:What bothers me is it has a picture of the TARDIS on the cover. I guess you could argue that it’s an ‘ex libris TARDIS’ edition with extra jokes and wackiness. It always bothers me that he breaks the 4th wall looking right at the camera during that scene, I desperately try to rationalize it in my head as "well people do that to the imaginary 4th wall in RL if someone does an 'oh you!' thing, he just coincidentally looked where the camera actually was".
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Dec 31, 2017 20:27
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Jeffe posted:It always bothers me that he breaks the 4th wall looking right at the camera during that scene, I desperately try to rationalize it in my head as "well people do that to the imaginary 4th wall in RL if someone does an 'oh you!' thing, he just coincidentally looked where the camera actually was". 12 looks at the camera all the time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  
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Dec 31, 2017 23:11
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4: "Even the sonic screwdriver won't get me out of this one."
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Dec 31, 2017 23:53
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I’m stuck at home sick, so I’m watching the TV Movie Blu-ray I got for Xmas, and hopefully it’ll line up to midnight. This Blu-ray transfer is both good and really bad. Some of it might be my tv though.
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Dec 31, 2017 23:57
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Physics/maths textbooks called "Advanced [whatever]" are usually mid-tier undergrad; the ones you really have to look out for are the ones titled "An Introduction to [whatever]", those are the hard ones And then there's Mathematics Made Difficult, which is one of my favourite books of all time.
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Jan 1, 2018 00:01
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I love this man to bits
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Jan 1, 2018 00:02
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Man, the HADS really let 7 down. 
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Jan 1, 2018 00:07
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Ah, my second favourite Master, CGI Snake. 
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Jan 1, 2018 00:12
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Doctor Spaceman posted:And then there's Mathematics Made Difficult, which is one of my favourite books of all time. I recommend this to everyone who is a mathematician
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Jan 1, 2018 00:21
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And a happy new year to all of you at home
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Jan 1, 2018 00:21
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Davros1 posted:4: "Even the sonic screwdriver won't get me out of this one."
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I love Lee’s little ‘nuh uh, nope’ head shake when he enters the TARDIS.
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