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bottle episode about five, tegan, and nyssa being shanghaied into playing D&D with Adric as DM.
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Rhyno posted:Actual events. I am cursed with the ability to mimic actors’ voices and yet the inability to write anything highbrow enough to actually win. 
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Jun 3, 2018 16:32
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Chokes McGee posted:I am cursed with the ability to mimic actors’ voices and yet the inability to write anything highbrow enough to actually win. Clearly your talents lie in making audio recordings of the different entries
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Jun 3, 2018 16:42
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Vinylshadow posted:Clearly your talents lie in making audio recordings of the different entries In writing you goober if I could mimic Six I’d be out there doing it and not here posting
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Jun 3, 2018 16:44
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DoctorWhat posted:bottle episode about five, tegan, and nyssa being shanghaied into playing D&D with Adric as DM. They put the dice into Five's eyesockets because they're constantly rolling whenever Adric talks
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Jun 3, 2018 17:07
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Class is now on UK netflix so I guess I can not watch it there either
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Jun 4, 2018 00:07
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If anyone is a CD-buyer from Big Finish, they've announced some changes to how they'll manage physical releases going forward, due to a large drop off of disc-buyers in favor of download-only customers. The tl;dr is that releases will be stocked on disc for at least 12 months following their release, and past that it will depend on how well they're selling on disc. Anything that they'll take out of physical production will be announced ahead of time on their website and social media such that anyone on the fence has a heads up on how long they have to make a purchase. Also, certain releases will be deemed as a limited physical run from the beginning; such as the 2 Class box sets.
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Jun 4, 2018 12:13
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I'm seeing hubbub on Twitter that it's been somehow "confirmed" that a few missing episodes are apparently known to be in the possession of private collectors, but they haven't been handed over. Is there a real source for this, or is it just rumours again?
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Jun 4, 2018 13:01
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Mugabe's old news dude
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Jun 4, 2018 13:12
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Forktoss posted:I'm seeing hubbub on Twitter that it's been somehow "confirmed" that a few missing episodes are apparently known to be in the possession of private collectors, but they haven't been handed over. Is there a real source for this, or is it just rumours again? Rumors. The only known missing episode to exist is Web of Fear ep 3, which went missing before it could be returned in 2011.
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Jun 4, 2018 13:38
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All of Nu-Who is up on BBC iPlayer now. Awesome, now do The Classic run too.
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Jun 4, 2018 14:25
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Right, now I know what that small-scale Twitter storm was all about. Restoration Team member and missing episode person-in-the-know Paul Vanezis was interviewed on the Radio Free Skaro podcast yesterday, and here's what he said:Paul Vanezis posted:There is absolutely no question that there are missing Doctor Who films out there with private film collectors. I know some of these collectors, and at some point they may be interested in handing over their films, but they are not the kind of people you should pressure into handing things over. So yeah, Mugabe probably, I guess. He specifically says "one or two episodes" that he apparently knows of, though. I don't think we've had this sort of (semi-)official source confirm that collectors are for certain sitting on some episodes before this, or am I wrong?
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Jun 4, 2018 16:20
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Does the "Robert Mugabe is sitting on a hoard of missing Doctor Who episodes" have a specific origin? Was he known for being keen on Doctor Who or something?
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Jun 4, 2018 16:51
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Wheat Loaf posted:Does the "Robert Mugabe is sitting on a hoard of missing Doctor Who episodes" have a specific origin? Was he known for being keen on Doctor Who or something? The BBC sold tapes of Doctor Who to countries in Africa in the 60s/70s, including now-missing episodes. Most of the TV archives belonging to those countries have since been checked for missing episodes. Zimbabwe's TV archives were not checked, because Mugabe banned the BBC from entering the country. And so the faint possibility remains that a copy of Power of the Daleks or whatever might be propping up a table somewhere in the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. That's all there is to it, really.
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Jun 4, 2018 17:03
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Honestly that sounds more like Ian Levine
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Jun 4, 2018 17:54
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sinepost posted:The BBC sold tapes of Doctor Who to countries in Africa in the 60s/70s, including now-missing episodes. Most of the TV archives belonging to those countries have since been checked for missing episodes. Zimbabwe's TV archives were not checked, because Mugabe banned the BBC from entering the country. And so the faint possibility remains that a copy of Power of the Daleks or whatever might be propping up a table somewhere in the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. That's all there is to it, really. I prefer to imagine him sitting on a pile of tapes like Smaug...
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Or, more frighteningly, there's some private collector/fan who is an even bigger douche than Ian Levine, sitting on episodes. Maybe multiple fans. But you'd think if they were true fans, they'd want to share these episodes with the rest of fandom, not get off in being the secret owner of the only copy of The Myth Makers or whatever, and not even being able to tell their closest friends...
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Jun 4, 2018 20:55
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anyone who witholds missing episodes should be subject to the guillotine
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Jun 4, 2018 21:08
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DoctorWhat posted:anyone who witholds missing episodes should be subject to the guillotine Bah, you bleeding heart liberal. You probably think drawing and quartering is 'inhumane'.
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Jun 4, 2018 23:34
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Astroman posted:Or, more frighteningly, there's some private collector/fan who is an even bigger douche than Ian Levine, sitting on episodes. Maybe multiple fans. Oh, I think we all know who is sitting on these episodes. 
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Jun 5, 2018 01:20
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Didn't the two recovered ones change hands a few times before the BBC got them?
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Jun 5, 2018 02:24
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DoctorWhat posted:anyone who witholds missing episodes should be subject to the guillotine It's loving crazy to me that anybody could be a fan of Doctor Who and also think it was somehow fine to bogart missing episodes to themselves. Like the cognitive dissonance is insane.
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Jun 5, 2018 12:11
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Narsham posted:Oh, I think we all know who is sitting on these episodes. Well that would explain why these six identical tapes have THIS IS A FAKE written across the top.
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Jun 5, 2018 13:47
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Jerusalem posted:It's loving crazy to me that anybody could be a fan of Doctor Who and also think it was somehow fine to bogart missing episodes to themselves. Like the cognitive dissonance is insane. I imagine the mindset is along the lines of "this makes me more special than anyone else" which is pretty common.
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Jun 5, 2018 14:26
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There's also the BBC's history of shady practices in the past. At one point they threatened legal action against those who held missing episodes, then there's the stories of them not returning missing films that had been loaned to them. And then there was the Bob Monkhouse incident. Monkhouse, a comedian and entertainer, owned a vast archive of TV and films, had his collection seized by law enforcement in 1979 on charges of attempting to defraud when he loaned a film to a friend. Much of his collection wasn't returned even though the case was dismissed. If I had a film collection, I'd be wary too.
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Jun 5, 2018 14:32
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Vinylshadow posted:Okay, but seriously DoctorWhat posted:bottle episode about five, tegan, and nyssa being shanghaied into playing D&D with Adric as DM. Wonder how much money you would have to throw at Tennant and Capaldi to get them to record a D&D session where they play in character as their respective Doctors.
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Jun 6, 2018 06:40
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Senor Tron posted:Wonder how much money you would have to throw at Tennant and Capaldi to get them to record a D&D session where they play in character as their respective Doctors. None, probably.
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Jun 6, 2018 08:41
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Would Matt be the eleventh-hour arrival who bails them out when they inevitably roll Nat1s against the enemy of the week?
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Jun 6, 2018 16:53
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The_Doctor posted:None, probably. "Would you be interested in recording a D&D session in character for twenty thousand pounds?" "Uh... well I don't have that much on me, how soon would you need it?"
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Vinylshadow posted:Would Matt be the eleventh-hour arrival who bails them out when they inevitably roll Nat1s against the enemy of the week? Smith was never a fan of the series before he was cast and by pretty much all accounts he didn't exactly have the happiest time on the show due to all the production shenanigans. I think it'll be a while before he would come back and do anything.
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Timby posted:Smith was never a fan of the series before he was cast and by pretty much all accounts he didn't exactly have the happiest time on the show due to all the production shenanigans. I think it'll be a while before he would come back and do anything. I never heard that. I had heard he wasn't a fan but studied up and became a superfan. I never had heard he was unhappy either.
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Jun 7, 2018 00:39
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He wasn't a fan in that when they first stitched his body together the lab didn't have access to streaming media or a blu-ray player.
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Astroman posted:I never heard that. I had heard he wasn't a fan but studied up and became a superfan. I never had heard he was unhappy either. He did do a lot of studying for the part, but it seems clear that by the time the Clara season came up, he was a little tired with the way things were being managed, in a generic, non-specific sense.
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Bicyclops posted:He did do a lot of studying for the part, but it seems clear that by the time the Clara season came up, he was a little tired with the way things were being managed, in a generic, non-specific sense. He was at the point that he didn't sign to do The Day of the Doctor until like two weeks before it started shooting, and he was pissed-off at the "hurry up and wait" production schedule that had started with the sixth season that he decided he would do that and The Time of the Doctor and call it quits. He said in a later interview, maybe a year or two ago, that he regretted leaving when he did because he loved working with Jenna Coleman, but he was very much not happy with how things were being run.
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Jun 7, 2018 04:07
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Boy it sure does sound like Moffat had a great grasp of how the show should be run.
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Jun 7, 2018 05:04
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Rhyno posted:Boy it sure does sound like Moffat had a great grasp of how the show should be run. He sure did run me away from the show, let me tell you.
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Jun 7, 2018 05:15
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I thought he had it sorted once Capaldi came on board. No more split seasons, one episode after the other twelve weeks in a row, writing obviously not affected by behind-the-scenes clusterfucks... then there was no series in 2016 for some reason. The madman did it again
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Jun 7, 2018 05:51
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Sydney Bottocks posted:He sure did run me away from the show, let me tell you.
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Jun 7, 2018 10:26
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man, that hiatus almost destroyed my interest in Who. and then The Return of Doctor Mysterio came out, and it was....kinda equivalent to a lovely RTD era special. Fortunately s10 was mostly decent, if sort of superfluous, like anything Moffat hadn't managed to say about the Doctor in the Smith years, he got out in 8/9. So season 10's kinda an "ugh, nobody's ready to take over for me? I have to make another season? gently caress. Okay." and for whatever reason he thought it would be a good idea to bring back the guy who wrote In the Forest of the Night. To be fair, Smile comes across as a decent episode that needed another script pass. And then it's Harness and Whithouse who really let him down instead. lol. I'm imagining an alternate series 10 where the Monks three-parter actually works. 
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