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TinTower posted:Surely Ypres, Christmas Day 1914? Oh, you're probably right.
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The_Doctor posted:Ghost Light is a very good story, the downside is that it can take a couple of viewings to piece everything together. It’s very densely packed, and there’s not a wasted moment (indeed, it could honestly use a little more room to breathe). I always say this when Ghost Light comes up: read the Target novelization. Its by the guy whowrote the episode, and fleshes everything out far more with stuff that got cut. I read it first and had no problem following the episode.
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CommonShore posted:I like Battlefield. It's just a gigantic disorganized pile of gobbledycook, but the Brig is amazing, and so are the scenes in which the doctor is getting pissed off at his future self. It's also got Jean Marsh as Morgaine, who rules. I like the symmetry of her turning up in Nicholas Courtney's last (classic series) story, given the two of them played siblings in his first appearance. If you think about it, Morgaine's kind of a proto-River -- a future character who has a long history with the Doctor, only the Doctor doesn't really know her yet. I also appreciate her being explicitly magical, wielding abilities that make her anathema to Who's pseudo-science heritage.
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marktheando posted:Battlefield is great. The only bad McCoys are Silver Nemesis and Time and the Rani. I thought people didn't care for Delta and the Bannermen?
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Time And The Rani is the only McCoy story I'd hesitate to call "good" and even that at least hits the entertaining note of being the last desperate gasps of the Colin Baker years.
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I like every McCoy TV story in one way or another. Even "Time and the Rani." There's just something weird and great about that era of "Doctor Who." The problem is, I don't really like many of his Big Finish stories. I don't know what it is, but they almost never work for me. I'm listening to "UNIT: Dominion" right now after hearing great things, and it's just boring me to tears.
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thrawn527 posted:Those two Tom Baker calls were brilliant, and exactly what my cold, dead heart needed after the last few days. Thank you. My favourite.
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Sorry folks, the bad McCoys are embarrassingly cringingly bad and if you can't see why the Controller of BBC One would look at Silver Nemesis or Delta and the Bannermen and think "you know, this show needs a few years off so people can forget that we put this badly-acted cheap embarrassing absolute toss on our main channel and invited them to watch it", you need your head looking at
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Those serials are weird, stupid messes and I love them. I don't care what some stuffy old dude from the 80s thought about them
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Edward Mass posted:Still waiting for the English-speaking world to catch up with the Germans on season box sets of the classic series!  do they have English audioI really don't like new Who but I am a whore for the classic series
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Trin Tragula posted:Sorry folks, the bad McCoys are embarrassingly cringingly bad and if you can't see why the Controller of BBC One would look at Silver Nemesis or Delta and the Bannermen and think "you know, this show needs a few years off so people can forget that we put this badly-acted cheap embarrassing absolute toss on our main channel and invited them to watch it", you need your head looking at Counterpoint: 
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Dang, I hit all the Jerusalem reviews for the 12th Doctor. Those were good and I hope you do the rest of season 10.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:
They do! This is what I want to get an international release (in English, obviously)
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https://twitter.com/io9/status/964517444483198976
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I didn’t know Twitter existed in the 1980’s.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:
 I recently started watching a bunch of classic DW and it brings back warm childhood memories. 
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marktheando posted:Battlefield is great. The only bad McCoys are Silver Nemesis and Time and the Rani. I really like Silver Nemesis. Don't ask me to justify it, I can't, it's objectively awful, but for some reason I liked it when it first aired, taped it on VHS and rewatched it over and over and over again v  vCobiWann posted:I thought people didn't care for Delta and the Bannermen? When most people see it airing, they depart... WITH A SCREAM! but some people can bring themselves to almost only think it's kinda awful. Rirse posted:Dang, I hit all the Jerusalem reviews for the 12th Doctor. Those were good and I hope you do the rest of season 10. I absolutely will, it looks like Lick is wrapped up in his (very fun) Every Story Ever roulette over in BSS, so I'll probably just start up again by myself from the Monk Trilogy.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Are the modern comics any good? They try but overall they've been bad.
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Dabir posted:The art is pretty bad in my experience. Rhyno posted:They try but overall they've been bad. That’s what I figured. IDW’s artists range from serviceable to outright awful. That’s why I stopped bothering with their Trek stuff.
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Dabir posted:The art is pretty bad in my experience. Rachael Stott is one of the nicest people you could ever meet and a great artist. She did the early run of the Twelve comics and nailed that character long before the TV show did. It's pretty much the only example I can think of where a show has course corrected to be more like it's comic than the reverse.
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Box of Bunnies posted:Interesting that they have Cartmel and Aaronovitch back for it. Time for some Looms. BITCHES!  jivjov posted:Speaking of Big Finish, they're running a $5 sale on Main Range stores 101-150 til the 22nd One day, I'll be so behind on Big Finish that all the sale stuff in the Main Rainge will be stuff I dont already have... One day. 
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So this got me wondering which Doctor has had the most third-party stories? It's got to be either Seven or Eight, between Big Finish and the New Adventures/BBC Doctor Who novel lines, right?
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Delta and the Bannermen is too silly for me to dislike. Silver Nemesis though commits the cardinal sin of being really boring.
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Delta and the Bannermen really captures the feeling of being trapped in a poo poo holiday resort and being convinced that you're going to die there
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In 2015, Steven Moffat endorsed the fan theory that Goronwy is a future incarnation of the Doctor, and said that the idea fit well with the Doctor's line about retiring to become a beekeeper in "The Name of the Doctor".
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At this hotel that I'm using their free WiFi I sat down and literally three feet away from me Steven Moffat was there. Next to him was peter harness. For a split second I was worried that doctor who had found me and was executing me for my crimes
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I'm finally listening to some Big Finish this weekend. Apparently I was on The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories. It's okay so far, although it feels a bit too fast-paced for what they were going for. Good to get back to it all, though.
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:At this hotel that I'm using their free WiFi I sat down and literally three feet away from me Steven Moffat was there. That's aweso- Lick! The! Whisk! posted:Next to him was peter harness. Oh no! 
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Well, the first story in the Second Doctor Boxset sure is... something.  Dick Sharples must have had a chronic case of horniness while writing it, and Guerrier, unfortunately, caught it somehow before adapting it. I'm amazed that Wendy Padbury could get through half of the descriptions of skin-tight outfits without laughing out loud.
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:At this hotel that I'm using their free WiFi I sat down and literally three feet away from me Steven Moffat was there. Next to him was peter harness. Is this your subtle way of telling us you're attending the Gallifrey One convention, where they're both attending?
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Watched the "Monk Trilogy", which was a pretty get set of episodes, but the finale was a bit disappointing since it felt like a mixture of the finale with Master taking over the world and Martha being the one person left (Master even in this episode!) and the Silence second parter with them going after a foe who in control of all. Probably was hoping Missy would been a wild card that the Monks didn't count on in the simulation who defeated them since they are in her way instead of "love conquerors all" ending.
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Zaroff posted:Is this your subtle way of telling us you're attending the Gallifrey One convention, where they're both attending? No, I had no idea it was there. I literally left the bathroom and sat down and boom there was steven moffat. Also, seeing the types of people who attend doctor who fan conventions, I now have little-to-no interest in attending a doctor who fan convention.
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Rirse posted:Watched the "Monk Trilogy", which was a pretty get set of episodes, but the finale was a bit disappointing since it felt like a mixture of the finale with Master taking over the world and Martha being the one person left (Master even in this episode!) and the Silence second parter with them going after a foe who in control of all. Probably was hoping Missy would been a wild card that the Monks didn't count on in the simulation who defeated them since they are in her way instead of "love conquerors all" ending. This is probably the most positive review I've read of the third monk episode
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2house2fly posted:This is probably the most positive review I've read of the third monk episode I never saw the thread when the episode first aired so I had no clue what opinion was. The setup for the Monks in part 1 and 2 were neat, but they felt like lesser Silence in the end. Man the Silence were pretty creepy villains which surprised they didn't get overused. They and their leader are still alive too since she only died in the alt reality too.
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Astroman posted:Time for some Looms. BITCHES!  Bicyclops posted:Well, the first story in the Second Doctor Boxset sure is... something. Yeeeeah, that's one i very much avoided despite being a big fan on the Companion Chronicles format and some of the other First/Second Doctor Lost Stories simply because I heard such risible things about the first story.
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:Also, seeing the types of people who attend doctor who fan conventions, I now have little-to-no interest in attending a doctor who fan convention. Yeah, I don't want to meet Peter Harness either
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