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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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I said this during her announcement and people thought I was crazy, but Whittaker has this way of her face slowly lighting up in joy that is amazing to watch and absolutely 100% the Doctor. e: aaaaaaaaaa where is the new series where is it Chokes McGee fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Jan 23, 2018 |
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Also so far she's 2-for-2 in regards to Capaldi's costume looking absolutely perfect for her to wear as her regular outfit if she wanted to.
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Jan 23, 2018 06:57
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I'm sure she'll sport a few different outfits as that's the norm these days. Hell Twelve rarely wore the same thing twice!
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Jan 23, 2018 07:04
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I hated that sweater with the holes in it that 12 wore, and then even more horrified that it actually belonged to Calpaldi
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Jan 23, 2018 10:06
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The holey sweater was better than the Noel Edmonds shirt.
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Jan 23, 2018 10:31
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Davros1 posted:I hated that sweater with the holes in it that 12 wore, and then even more horrified that it actually belonged to Calpaldi I used to think it had some weird lint-like stuff on it as a design, and it was really distracting.
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Jan 23, 2018 10:46
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The 3rd Diary of River Song just released. I am falling so far behind with Big Finish and it sucks.
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Jan 23, 2018 11:14
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jivjov posted:The 3rd Diary of River Song just released. poo poo I'm still only halfway through the War Master release, have the First Doctor Adventures, the Third Doctor Adventures, The 4th Doctor Adventures, Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition, The Time War etc to listen to AND the monthly range. If I keep up my old strategy of listening to stuff when I'm at the gym, by the time I get caught up I'm gonna be a muscle golem.
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Jan 23, 2018 11:56
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Capaldi’s holey sweater and James May shirt were both excellent 
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Jan 23, 2018 12:50
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Capaldi’s holey sweater and James May shirt were both excellent  He was hoping for minimalism, but he came up with magician. Everything in 12's wardrobe was great.
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Jan 23, 2018 18:52
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jivjov posted:The 3rd Diary of River Song just released. My mother's been ill, so I'm six months behind on my BF, and I get a lot of stuff from them. On the plus side, I'll be able to listen to all of Torchwood: Aliens Among Us and Blake's 7: Crossfire, all in one go. (Just finished up vol 2 of The First Doctor Companion Chronicles boxset, and holy hell, "Across a Darkened City", with Steven and a Dalek, is f'n AMAZING.)
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Jan 23, 2018 20:12
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Jerusalem posted:I used to think it had some weird lint-like stuff on it as a design, and it was really distracting. I hated the Swiss cheese shirt, also the hideous trousers he wore in The Girl Who Died. Those are the only times I've been driven to distraction by what the actor was wearing
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Jan 23, 2018 21:22
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Davros1 posted:
While I won't disagree that that story was awesome, I feel like BF has gone to the "the one good Dalek, we swear" well a few too many times in recent memory.
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Jan 24, 2018 00:30
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Jerusalem posted:poo poo I'm still only halfway through the War Master release, have the First Doctor Adventures, the Third Doctor Adventures, The 4th Doctor Adventures, Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition, The Time War etc to listen to AND the monthly range. War Master was great. Best part was Jacobi in the Special Features "So when can I come back?"  Took a break from DW to get the latest Prisoner release, started it today. Holy Hell I'd forgotten just how well Elatob channels McGoohan, just nails his stattaco cadence and vocal mannerisms. If anything, I think he's gotten better.
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Astroman posted:War Master was great. The utterly callous and unnecessary way he wraps up the first story was so excellently handled as well. It wasn't even anything personal, he just did it because it would have been incredibly minorly inconvenient to do even the neutral option.
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jivjov posted:While I won't disagree that that story was awesome, I feel like BF has gone to the "the one good Dalek, we swear" well a few too many times in recent memory. I just got done reading a short story with Ace and Seven where they gently caress up the universe trying to get out of a temporal zone and end up turning the entire dalek race into a force for peace and enlightenment. Seven has to go back and undo it before the universe implodes with Ace screaming at him the entire time not to. 
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Jan 24, 2018 05:02
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I love the end of the one War Doctor story where he changes the evolutionary path of both Daleks and Time Lords who were trapped in an eternal battlefield so they are all genetically predisposed to live in peace and harmony.... only for the Kaleds to just constantly be on the verge of flying into homicidal rages anyway until it all reaches a boiling point and they change back to Daleks and start killing the poo poo out of everything again.
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Jan 24, 2018 05:19
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Hit the death of Rory (for real this time serious!) and while it was a pretty enjoyable two-parter, it had a lot of odd writing issues that Jersualem mentioned in his writeup. Still have no clue what the point about the bodies disappearing then never mentioned again after Rory meets up with the Doctor. Also noticed that episode was by the new show runner.
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Jan 24, 2018 08:40
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The actual death of Rory part of that one (the Silurian 2-parter, right?) I'm fairly certain was written by Moffat, because it just has a completely different tone/feel to it than everything that proceeded it. This was when Moffat was firing on all cylinders writing-wise too, he was in a groove and everything he wrote seemed to hit. Chibnall's biggest issue when writing for both RTD and Moffat was that he seemed to just ape whatever characteristics he felt they wanted from "their" type of Doctor Who - his early stuff for Moffat feels very much like a cargo-cult version of Rusty's old scripts without the emotional resonance (and balls-to-the-wall campy madness) that RTD could bring to them. His later stuff for Moffat felt like he was trying to get that slightly oddball feel with an undertone of sinisterness/depression undercutting it that Moffat could do quite well. As I've said many times before, the only truly original work of his I've ever seen was Broadchurch, and the first season of that was utterly brilliant. Season 2 was definitely not, but I think part of that is down to I don't think he ever expected there to be a season 2 at all and he had to scramble to put something together when season 1 turned out to be a giant hit. We'll see how things work out, but he has said he has got a five year plan in mind for how he wants HIS Doctor Who to be, and so far he seems to be making all kinds of right choices.
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jivjov posted:While I won't disagree that that story was awesome, I feel like BF has gone to the "the one good Dalek, we swear" well a few too many times in recent memory. Maybe, but dammit if I didn't start cheering when the Dalek's weapon system came on line
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Jan 24, 2018 09:58
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Just a note that the newest Inside No. 9 features the best Doctor Who companion. That's right, Nicola "Liv Chenka" Walker. (apologies to evelyn) You're welcome.
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Jan 24, 2018 10:14
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It's not the worst aspect of the Silurian two-parter but it really bugs me that there are so few people involved in the drilling operation, especially when you compare it to Inferno or the original Silurian story.
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Jan 24, 2018 10:18
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Huh, just walked pasted a charity shop with the Classic Doctors, New Monsters vol.2 and one of the 3rd Doctor CD sets in the window. I’m really tempted to get them because they’re cheap and I haven’t heard them, but I don’t have anything that even plays CDs any more. 
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Jan 24, 2018 11:43
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The_Doctor posted:Huh, just walked pasted a charity shop with the Classic Doctors, New Monsters vol.2 and one of the 3rd Doctor CD sets in the window. I’m really tempted to get them because they’re cheap and I haven’t heard them, but I don’t have anything that even plays CDs any more. Re: the third doctor, if it's Volume 2, get it. Two good stories, particularly the first. If it's Volume 3, don't. Neither are worth your time.
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BSam posted:Just a note that the newest Inside No. 9 features the best Doctor Who companion. I belive she prefers Nicola "The Last Train/Chalk" Walker.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's not the worst aspect of the Silurian two-parter but it really bugs me that there are so few people involved in the drilling operation, especially when you compare it to Inferno or the original Silurian story. It was the weekend skeleton crew. Speaking of Moffat-era two parters, Rebel Flesh/Almost People is one of those stories that I've seen multiple times, yet can never remember what exactly happens. I forgot how hostile Amy was towards the Flesh Doctor, and the way the show continues to tease cracks in Amy and Rory's relationship is tiresome as hell.
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Jan 24, 2018 14:57
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My biggest problemw ith the Silurian two-parter is that it's a two-parter. It might have been a mediocre, forgettable one-parter if they had cut the fat.
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CommonShore posted:My biggest problemw ith the Silurian two-parter is that it's a two-parter. It might have been a mediocre, forgettable one-parter if they had cut the fat. For a show built on multi part stories, the post 2005 run has a very bad track record in general when it comes to two parters. Empty Child/Doctor Dances is the only real unqualified success I can think of.
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Jan 24, 2018 15:13
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remusclaw posted:Empty Child/Doctor Dances is the only real unqualified success I can think of. I'd add The Pandorica Opens/Big Bang to the list as well.
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Silence in the Library? Depends how much you like River Song, I guess.
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Jan 24, 2018 15:21
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The devil 2-parter was pretty good too.
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I think River Song is the character in both of those episodes that made people question them when they came out initially. Library for the obvious reason that it was built around her character, and Pandorica having to do with that one Dalek being terrified of her. That said, I don't mind those eps, likely because I don't mind River Song. I might have overstated things a bit. remusclaw fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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Jan 24, 2018 15:24
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The devil 2-parter was pretty good too. The Impossible Planet is one of my favourite episodes for tone. It’s got this great sense of just how isolated the crew are, billions of miles from absolutely everything, all alone in the night. Murray Gold does a really good Firefly pastiche with his lonely cello score which helps sell it all. Plus it’s all capped with the very Lovecraftian unknown slowly creeping horror. Honestly it’s just aces. Shame about Part 2.
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Jan 24, 2018 15:44
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River is hit or miss, but I really like her in the library two-parter.
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Jan 24, 2018 15:53
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The Library two-parter is really difficult to evaluate on review, imo. Part of its appeal is the a mystery of a person who knows everything about the Doctor, but whom he has never met. We get to watch her go through an weird, fatalistic, set of motions and sacrifice herself for no apparent good reason. For some reason she gets a fairly major character send-off. When I first watched that I found it really fascinating, but it's less so for a viewer who has watched the Moffat era and sees it as a viewer who is carrying all of the River Song baggage. Other than the "Brains-Beauty" thing, the rest of the plot is pretty cool, and I like it. It's nowhere near as good as The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls is a pretty good two-parter, though it slipped a little when I re-watched it this Christmas. It's too bad that The Almost People is already in two parts, because to treat that as one story and combine it with A Good Man Goes to War would be a loving perfect two-part episode.
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Jan 24, 2018 16:53
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World Enough and Time/The Doctor’s End has the major problem for me that the Simms Master is just an obstinate arsehole, immediately shedding any of the more gentle side of him that Bill was living with for 10 years. He’s very punchable.
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Jan 24, 2018 16:58
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New Torchwood release coming in April from Big Finish: Torchwood: Believe. Features the full TV Torchwood Team. EDIT: Oh, and it has Arthur Darvill in it (not as Rory, tho) jivjov fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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Jan 24, 2018 17:06
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The Family of Blood two part episode is amazing and is probably David Tennant's best episodes.
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Jan 24, 2018 17:21
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Mooseontheloose posted:The Family of Blood two part episode is amazing and is probably David Tennant's best episodes. Oh yeah. Also good.
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The_Doctor posted:The Impossible Planet is one of my favourite episodes for tone. It’s got this great sense of just how isolated the crew are, billions of miles from absolutely everything, all alone in the night. Murray Gold does a really good Firefly pastiche with his lonely cello score which helps sell it all. Plus it’s all capped with the very Lovecraftian unknown slowly creeping horror. Honestly it’s just aces. Shame about Part 2. I love part two just for the look of sheer joy on Ten's face when the cavern is collapsing around him and he looks up to see the TARDIS.
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