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LividLiquid posted:What's the thread title all about? It's a reference to the WWE 2Kwhatever Create-a-Storyline "Regal, Stretched" that opened with, IIRC, Vladimir Kozlov saying "WRESTLEMANIA IS CANCELED. NO REFUNDS." It was a joke in PSP for a while, and I figured that this was as good a time as ever to reference it, what with Doctor Who not being on the air until 2020.
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https://twitter.com/Robritchie409/status/1107635311805427712 The animation on this recon is way better than previous efforts, I can't wait!
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DoctorWhat posted:https://twitter.com/Robritchie409/status/1107635311805427712 There’s shades of Archer about it, but it looks really good!
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I mean it's not Ghibli but compared to previous efforts from that team in the same style, it's gone from "glorified motion comic" to "actual animation that informs and is informed by the performances". Which, for a Troughton story about conspiracies, is pretty loving important to get right!
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What conspiracy? There are no Macra!
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One day we will have every Doctor Who story released in visual form and I will own them all  Then they will announce giant season boxset collections in UHD....
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Jerusalem posted:One day we will have every Doctor Who story released in visual form and I will own them all
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LividLiquid posted:Except for Big Finish stories, right? Because... wow. Animate Scherzo Nick Briggs you coward.
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We probably won't live until the time at which computers can just recreate actors doing their thing, so we will be forced, forever, to imagine in our minds how Patrick Troughton would have delivered the "Take me!" monologue from The Rings of Ahkahten.
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I often think of that scene where Matt Smith is "captive" at Area 51 or whatever and they're putting together the cell of Dwarf Star metal or whatever it was, and he's freaking out about it till he laughs that it won't be enough to keep him in. Then I think about how Patrick Troughton would have done the same thing and it makes me happy to remember that Wendy Padbury channeled Troughton's soul into the empty vessel that Moffat and a committee of old men had built to hold it 
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Jerusalem posted:Animate Scherzo Nick Briggs you coward. animated natural history of fear
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The Guardian posted:Charles Norton, Nick Briggs and the entire Drama Department of the BBC were arrested today after announcing the first Big Finish animated Blu-Ray release was coming soon. The Guardian Related stories posted:- Anti-Monarchy sentiments at record low Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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I legit thought Robert Mugabe had died 
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Jerusalem posted:I legit thought Robert Mugabe had died That's over in the Berenstein Universe.
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Jerusalem posted:I often think of that scene where Matt Smith is "captive" at Area 51 or whatever and they're putting together the cell of Dwarf Star metal or whatever it was, and he's freaking out about it till he laughs that it won't be enough to keep him in. Then I think about how Patrick Troughton would have done the same thing and it makes me happy to remember that Wendy Padbury channeled Troughton's soul into the empty vessel that Moffat and a committee of old men had built to hold it It's a shame they couldn't capitalise on 'the silence'. When they went through the scenes of Amy marking herself with the texta to record she'd seen them, I thought that was some really creepy, inspired stuff. I hadn't been so scared of a Dr Who story since "Planet of the Spiders", where 3yo me would squash my back against the toilet seat because I couldn't be sure there wasn't a massive spider there... Better include Talons of Weng-Chiang and that damned marionette in that list...
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The silence were a really good monster in a really bad story that then turned out to be a really bad organization in a godawful story
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I still love the way they resolved the Silence threat in their first story, but they did suffer the same diminishing returns as the Weeping Angels where each story that included them afterwards diluted their threat/quality a bit more.
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"Wow, what a clever, entertaining and well written story, I can't wait to find out the solution to this Moffat mystery" Me, in another life that seems impossibly long ago now.
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Actually that's a little harsh, Moffat's first and last series were really good. But gently caress I got sick of everything to do with that silence storyline.
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Hard to fault the ambition of it, but series 6 didn't half crash and burn in the back half. I wasn't fond of the first half of series 7 either
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Did we ever find out why the question that must not be answered is "Doctor Who?"
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The Time Lords got zapped into another universe and were trying to come back into this one, but they wanted to be sure it was safe first so they broadcast the question "Doctor Who?" through their prospective entry point. The idea was that the Doctor was probably the only person who'd be inclined to help them, and a Time Lord's true name is secret enough that it could function as a code word- if they heard the Doctor's true name in response to their question then they would know the path was clear. Unfortunately, the path wasn't clear, because they broadcast their question all through the universe, backwards and forwards in time, so all their enemies knew where they were. The Time Lords coming through into the universe would mean the Time War beginning again. The Church Of The Papal Mainframe was scared that the Doctor would let the Time Lords through anwyay, so they tried to shut him up in the only way that's guaranteed to work: by killing him
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I think I like Time of the Doctor better than most of the thread but it still tickles me that the ending is more or less exactly the same as the ending of The Curse of Fatal Death.
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2house2fly posted:The Time Lords got zapped into another universe and were trying to come back into this one, but they wanted to be sure it was safe first so they broadcast the question "Doctor Who?" through their prospective entry point. The idea was that the Doctor was probably the only person who'd be inclined to help them, and a Time Lord's true name is secret enough that it could function as a code word- if they heard the Doctor's true name in response to their question then they would know the path was clear. Thanks, I vaguely remember now. I never really rewatch New Who (other than the Eleventh Hour and Blink a couple of times) so all I can remember when I think back to Matt's last episode is his old man makeup and the regeneration. On the other hand, I can rewatch classic Who almost endlessly, and tragically will therefore have watched utter jank like Attack of the Cybermen many, many more times than Time of the Doctor. sinepost fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Mar 21, 2019 |
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lucie miller's story is better than every moffat storyline and you know it's true
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It's easy to forget the details of Time Of The Doctor because for all the lore in it the two main scenes are the pet cyberman dying and Clara's family arguing about Christmas crackers 
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Yes, so easy that I accidentally called it Night of the Doctor in my reply
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BF made an announcement regarding overseas download pricing: https://www.bigfinish.com/pages/v/important-information-for-our-customers-overseas Big Finish posted:Important Information For Our Customers Overseas
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gently caress. I really liked that loophole. It's true I haven't brought any BigFinish in awhile because I got so busy last year I didn't have time to listen to the backlog, but this will probably decrease the rate of my purchases from them in the future. What they're doing isn't unfair, if anything I've been the one exploiting them, but it's still a pity.2house2fly posted:so they tried to shut him up in the only way that's guaranteed to work: by killing him I love that this is actually the guaranteed way to make him show up and completely gently caress you over/tear your entire empire down around your ears and end up doing what you were scared he would do in the first place.
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docbeard posted:I think I like Time of the Doctor better than most of the thread but it still tickles me that the ending is more or less exactly the same as the ending of The Curse of Fatal Death. My theory is that Moffat thought Curse of Fatal Death was going to be the only time he'd ever get to write a TV episode of Doctor Who and so he used up lots of his ideas all in one go.
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He kept aside his "perfect season" idea for the most part as a just-in-case, and then used it all up in Season 5 (and the world is better for it, God that was a great season). Even then, he found out he was actually a couple episodes short for the full season 5 though, so he had Chibnall fill in the gaps for him.
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There's also Continuity Errors, about the time the Seventh Doctor visits a giant library and rewrites someone's past to improve things.
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Davros1 posted:BF made an announcement regarding overseas download pricing: Welp. Switching to straight currency conversion is going to make things cost 1.75x what they currently have been for me. A set I'dve bought in the past for $20, using today's exchange rate for example, will cost $36.96AUD going forward. I understand why they're doing this, but that kind of increase is going to scale back what I would buy considerably if I wasn't already iffy towards them over the James Dreyfus stuff.
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That story also features the line "what do monsters have nightmares about?" "me" which was later used in Girl In The Fireplace and originally used by Paul Cornell somewhere
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2house2fly posted:That story also features the line "what do monsters have nightmares about?" "me" which was later used in Girl In The Fireplace and originally used by Paul Cornell somewhere I just imagined that line being delivered by Jon Pertwee with outraged seriousness, but then the same line being delivered with a  by Tom Baker, and I can't say which I'd love more
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Box of Bunnies posted:Welp. Switching to straight currency conversion is going to make things cost 1.75x what they currently have been for me. A set I'dve bought in the past for $20, using today's exchange rate for example, will cost $36.96AUD going forward. 1.31x in the US. I always thought $12.99 or $20 was fair; when that goes to $17 or $26 it's a bit much. $40 for a season of Jago and Litefoot? Really? It's not like the exchange rate means suddenly you are making more or less salary, so why should I suddenly have to pay more? A guy in the UK who made £50k a year 5 years ago and was paying £12.99 for an audio is paying the same portion of their salary now as they were then. If I made $50k a year 5 years ago and was paying $12.99 for an audio I now have to pay $17. It's not like I was reaping some big benefit over the other guy.When the US Dollar went up I didn't take a pay cut. It's not going to increase their UK sales; people won't say "Finally, now the pricing is fair, I'll buy more!" What will happen is they'll sell less titles to international buyers, but maybe non-UK sales are such a small portion they can lose us? A real shame. I have spent thousands on Big Finish and this is how they feel about my business?  edit: LOL on the Not The Big Finish Forum some guy pointed out this is DOUBLING prices for Canadians. http://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/5367/important-information-customers-overseas 
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Davros1 posted:BF made an announcement regarding overseas download pricing: Oof; well I'm certainly glad I have a bunch of sets preordered, because as others have said, this is most certainly going to cut down how much I buy from them.
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