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Which season should the next animated reconstruction be from? This poll is closed. |
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| Season 1 (Marco Polo) |
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13 | 18.57% |
| Season 2 (The Crusade) |
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1 | 1.43% |
| Season 3 (Galaxy 4/The Myth Makers/The Daleks' Master Plan/The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve/The Celestial Toymaker/The Savages) |
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25 | 35.71% |
| Season 4 (The Smugglers/The Highlanders/The Underwater Menace/The Evil of the Daleks) |
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16 | 22.86% |
| Season 5 (The Abominable Snowmen/The Web of Fear/The Wheel in Space) |
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11 | 15.71% |
| Season 6 (The Space Pirates) |
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4 | 5.71% |
| Total: | 70 votes | ||
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Sophie Aldred has done a ton of work in children's TV over the years, and like a lot of the Doctor Who cast, a lot of voice over stuff. I remember reading that because Anthony Ainley was quite independently wealthy, he did acting in the 80s for fun, rather than needing it for an income. Apparently he'd phone up the Doctor Who production office before the start of each series and ask if they needed him for shooting. If he was told that he was going to be sent a script, he'd do the Master laugh and hang up. Not sure how true that is.
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Oct 31, 2020 02:26
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Bicyclops posted:I'd do a Fallout 4 run using an Ace character and focus on melee, build baseball bats, and go after mutants, except that the very idea of her marrying a man is completely preposterous. I love the anecdote that Rona Munro was once asked about the lesbian subtext in Survival and she basically said “oh, there was no ‘sub’ about it”.
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Oct 31, 2020 03:07
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OldMemes posted:Sophie Aldred has done a ton of work in children's TV over the years, and like a lot of the Doctor Who cast, a lot of voice over stuff. I think truth doesn't matter in this case, that is absolutely what happened now.
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Oct 31, 2020 03:35
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OldMemes posted:Sophie Aldred has done a ton of work in children's TV over the years, and like a lot of the Doctor Who cast, a lot of voice over stuff. That doesn't even sound that far-fetched or weird, like if he's the one calling to ask if they need him, it makes sense he'd kind of have an in-joke sign off to give the production staff a laugh. Routines can be fun. TinTower posted:I love the anecdote that Rona Munro was once asked about the lesbian subtext in Survival and she basically said “oh, there was no ‘sub’ about it”. lol yeah. She imagined the costumes and make up to be a lot different too, it would have been hammered home even more.
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Oct 31, 2020 03:47
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Payndz posted:I was weirded out to realise that in some lovely CBeebies cartoon my son watched Sophie Aldred voiced the ten-year-old boy lead, with annoying sidekick David Tennant. Tree-Fu Tom? Yeah - that combo of voice acting is a strange one. Also, I believe the boy in the live-action segments that bookend the cartoon is Aldred’s real-life son. I’d love to see Ace back in the New Series - that teaser of her with A Charitable Earth (advertising a box set, I think?) made it seem a real possibility.
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Oct 31, 2020 11:12
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quote:“When my wife and I go for a spin, I drive to Tenterden [in Kent] and – we don’t sob exactly – but it gets solemn as we catch a glimpse of the hardware store, and Boots, and Waitrose, and then we turn round and come home again. Then I go down to the paradise of my woods and think: ‘Well, eventually it will pass.’ Another voice, of course, says: ‘Yes, but by then you’ll be gone.’”  https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/30/tom-baker-being-loved-pleases-me-very-much-indeed
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Oct 31, 2020 17:14
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Bicyclops posted:
Always a good excuse for me to post the best scene ever in Moffat's DW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cbQVfVfSrI
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Oct 31, 2020 17:21
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGuduDsKDUw "That's what every city needs: cats in charge."
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Oct 31, 2020 17:38
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Latest random story was The Ark (which is only an ark in space rather than the ark in space), which is solidly middle tier. The first half of the story is generally good - the world building is well done, the monoids are a well realised alien, the threat a society threatened with extinction by a coronavirus - and the cliffhanger is of course fantastic, one of the best, as are the special effects for the time. (Dodo listing all the animals in what seems like a last gasp attempt to have some educational content, on the other hand, could have been cut for time) The second half isn't so strong, though; the monoids are reduced to the monster of the week (although they do have some nice conflict between them, ala the silurians), the humans become far too homogeneous, the invisible creatures (an invisible enemy) don't really go anywhere. It feels like it either needed to be an episode shorter or two longer; still, nothing too offensive.
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Oct 31, 2020 18:28
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Is that the one where Dodo's cold is the cause of the whole thing?
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Oct 31, 2020 18:58
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Yeah I love the first half of the Ark and, as mentioned, the cliffhanger in the middle is loving superb, but it does kind of just become a standard story after that and doesn't really live up to the quality of the first half.Bicyclops posted:
There's a lot of upbeat stuff in the article too though, and I loved this: quote:Being the Doctor is, perhaps, something of a life sentence? Hell yeah, Tom.
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Oct 31, 2020 23:42
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Latest random story was The Ark (which is only an ark in space rather than the ark in space), which is solidly middle tier. The first half of the story is generally good - the world building is well done, the monoids are a well realised alien, the threat a society threatened with extinction by a coronavirus - and the cliffhanger is of course fantastic, one of the best, as are the special effects for the time. (Dodo listing all the animals in what seems like a last gasp attempt to have some educational content, on the other hand, could have been cut for time) Hot Take: The Mondasian Ship in "World Enough/Doctor Falls" was also a human Ark, which had a horrible end.
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Nov 1, 2020 00:19
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I liked how Tom said in that interview (and he's said it elsewhere, too) that one of the things he loved about playing the Doctor was that he was basically just playing himself, albeit with a touch more heroism. 
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Nov 1, 2020 00:25
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We really don't deserve him  ...Don't get any ideas, 2020
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Nov 1, 2020 01:39
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Jerusalem posted:
Even that one depressing bit is just a comment among "Well, I'm mostly unaffected, because I have a beautiful garden, and a wife and cats." It's just sort of a hit to the gut when even Uncle T-Bakes gets a little maudlin.
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Nov 1, 2020 02:41
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Bicyclops posted:"and cats."  The good life 
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Nov 1, 2020 02:47
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A artist and writer new to Big Finish has been raising money for the charity Fareshare when this happened: https://twitter.com/sophilestweets/status/1322579327326834689?s=20
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Nov 1, 2020 02:53
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Davros1 posted:A artist and writer new to Big Finish has been raising money for the charity Fareshare when this happened: Good on Chibbers. 
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Nov 1, 2020 04:27
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That rules
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Nov 1, 2020 04:31
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It's nice to know he's a good person.
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Nov 1, 2020 11:03
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Yeah, that's just a nice thing to do. Good.
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Nov 1, 2020 16:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb57A9xFwtQ Ah, trailers whose ratios skip from 4:3 to 16:9 because the material's from before the change from analog to digital Gotta love 'em
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Nov 2, 2020 17:50
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The NY Times has produced this wonderful, if very confusing graphic for this article: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2020/10/30/89587_1_00SOCIAL-ELECTIONS_wg_1080p.mp4
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Nov 2, 2020 20:47
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Bob Baker's going to be after them ...
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Nov 2, 2020 22:02
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Which one is Mk I?
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Nov 3, 2020 01:06
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https://twitter.com/hayleycampbell/status/1323589988462796800?s=20 McGann is cancelled.
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Nov 3, 2020 12:39
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https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1323678829781667841?s=20 https://twitter.com/ManningOfficial/status/1323744984269545473?s=20 Davros1 fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Nov 3, 2020 |
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Nov 3, 2020 18:40
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1323686606822346752
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Nov 3, 2020 20:25
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https://twitter.com/4SylvesterMcCoy/status/1323755959379021824?s=20
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Nov 3, 2020 23:39
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LOL, Sylv, master at Sylvester McCoy trivia!  Also digging the idea that Nyssa finally gets to confront the Master about her father. After having, you know, never mentioned it the other 12 times she saw him on the show...
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Nov 4, 2020 00:49
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I'm positive there is at least one televised episode where she tells him how much she hates seeing him in that body? Or maybe it was just in a Big Finish story?
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Nov 4, 2020 08:30
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Jerusalem posted:I'm positive there is at least one televised episode where she tells him how much she hates seeing him in that body? Or maybe it was just in a Big Finish story? She brought it up once in the TV show I know, but it might have been right after he stole it.
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Nov 4, 2020 10:06
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It's definitely a contender for most baffling decision in Doctor Who history, basically ignoring the fact that the Master is walking around in the body of Nyssa's father.
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Nov 4, 2020 12:51
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Rochallor posted:It's definitely a contender for most baffling decision in Doctor Who history, basically ignoring the fact that the Master is walking around in the body of Nyssa's father. I'm pretty sure after Keeper of Traken they never even acknowledge the fact that he's in a non-Gallifreyan, non-regenerating body onscreen. He's just "The Doctor's Arch Enemy, another Time Lord" and they don't expect anyone to remember the continuity because 80s TV.
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Nov 5, 2020 07:14
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Big Finish have studiously avoided referencing the relationship too, for whatever reason. I think it's alluded to in Psychodrome and Circular Time, which both feature manifestations of the Tremas Master which aren't, in themselves, The Actual Tremas Master. But this will be the first straight up interaction the two have. (That said, I've not heard The Toy.)
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Nov 5, 2020 07:43
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Nyssa spends part of Logopolis thinking the Master is Tremas.
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Nov 5, 2020 09:17
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Astroman posted:I'm pretty sure after Keeper of Traken they never even acknowledge the fact that he's in a non-Gallifreyan, non-regenerating body onscreen. He's just "The Doctor's Arch Enemy, another Time Lord" and they don't expect anyone to remember the continuity because 80s TV. In The Five Doctors the Time Lords offer to give him a new set of regenerations. And then in the BF audio Dust Breeding, it's outright stated that the Tremas body was destroyed when the Tremas Master attempted to steal the living weapon The Warp Core. Speaking of THE MASTER https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1324351260204494848?s=20 Davros1 fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Nov 5, 2020 |
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Nov 5, 2020 14:20
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It's so utterly bizarre and quite impressive that they got Eric Roberts back.
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Nov 5, 2020 22:52
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OldMemes posted:It's so utterly bizarre and quite impressive that they got Eric Roberts back. If you look at his iMDB page, you'd see it's not impressive.
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Nov 5, 2020 23:28
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Edward Mass posted:If you look at his iMDB page, you'd see it's not impressive. 
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