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Cleretic posted:Extremely terrible idea: Fourteen decorates the TARDIS exterior like a nerd decorates the back of their laptop. Finally they clear it all away, and discover graffiti reading,"PEX LIVES!"  Infinitum posted:The inverted colours on the sign So focused on trying to find the St. John's logo I completely missed that! 
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Dec 6, 2022 02:12
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Cleretic posted:Extremely terrible idea: Fourteen decorates the TARDIS exterior like a nerd decorates the back of their laptop. the tardis could use some wheels. even though it can go anywhere, a lot of the time they still end up going to it. if the tardis had wheels they could use a sonic app to have it drive around to be close when they need to run for it and also it won't show up itself for whatever reason.
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Dec 6, 2022 03:25
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Khanstant posted:the tardis could use some wheels. even though it can go anywhere, a lot of the time they still end up going to it. if the tardis had wheels they could use a sonic app to have it drive around to be close when they need to run for it and also it won't show up itself for whatever reason. 
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Dec 6, 2022 03:35
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It’s literally Jodie’s TARDIS still, they’ve not made a new one?
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Dec 6, 2022 11:06
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https://twitter.com/badwolfarchives/status/1600446187051446272?s=46 Really hope it’s 8x60, but I’ll honestly take 8x45 if RTD can deliver a proper schedule.
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Dec 7, 2022 12:40
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No gap year thank you sweet gentle Jesus.
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Dec 7, 2022 13:25
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I just hope they don't try and make every episode a bigger and bigger escalating deal, I want some episodes where they fart around history and basically nothing happens, but in a chill way, not in the "a bunch of destructive stuff happened but also it's nothing and doesn't matter"
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Dec 7, 2022 18:02
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Khanstant posted:I just hope they don't try and make every episode a bigger and bigger escalating deal, I want some episodes where they fart around history and basically nothing happens, but in a chill way, not in the "a bunch of destructive stuff happened but also it's nothing and doesn't matter" The story that's widely considered the best Classic DW story ever, namely "The Caves of Androzani", literally had no stakes greater than "The Doctor and Peri have to get off of Androzani Minor alive ". RTD's constantly escalating stakes at the end of every season got to be rather grating and made each successive finale more and more ridiculous.
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Dec 7, 2022 18:18
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Isn't that widely considered good because of the view while the Doctor is regenerating?
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Dec 7, 2022 18:30
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Khanstant posted:I want some episodes where they fart around history The return of the Slitheen confirmed as season villain arc
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Dec 7, 2022 20:11
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Rhyno posted:Isn't that widely considered good because of the view while the Doctor is regenerating? Well, people aren't fans of Planet of Fire very much
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Dec 7, 2022 21:06
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Rhyno posted:Isn't that widely considered good because of the view while the Doctor is regenerating? If that was the case, then the bulk of the Sixth Doctor's first season must just be considered the all-time greatest season of DW ever
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Dec 7, 2022 21:13
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I assume the Tennant specials took some of the budget of a full 10 episode season + Xmas special
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Dec 7, 2022 21:35
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The_Doctor posted:I assume the Tennant specials took some of the budget of a full 10 episode season + Xmas special Disney's footing the bill so it's probably more just about people's availability in this case
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Dec 7, 2022 21:46
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Sydney Bottocks posted:If that was the case, then the bulk of the Sixth Doctor's first season must just be considered the all-time greatest season of DW ever i'm sorry are you implying that it isn't?
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Dec 8, 2022 00:31
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Rhyno posted:i'm sorry are you implying that it isn't? I tried rewatching it last year and I couldn't even make it through Vengeance on Varos Colin Baker really got the short end of the stick in just about every way during his run on DW
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Dec 8, 2022 00:44
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You clearly didn’t get the DVD with extra features (with even more of Six!)
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Dec 8, 2022 01:44
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Some call it a classic!
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Dec 8, 2022 01:51
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Astroman posted:Some call it a classic! i kept trying to make a GIF of that but it looked like poo poo with every attempt.
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Dec 8, 2022 02:35
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It's no use, I've locked all the doors!
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Dec 8, 2022 02:44
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Timelash is a classic though
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Dec 8, 2022 04:29
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Rhyno posted:Timelash is a classic though Tbf classic doesn't designate quality, so true.
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Dec 8, 2022 16:40
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Timelash is so great you have to watch it in one setting. You can try to pause, but those who do, do it with a screeeeeeam! Actually if you think about it, they really got some great scenery chewing guest stars to go up against Colin, like Paul Darrow and Brian Blessed. Casting was in point in that era! Also Timelash is the story that got me hooked on Who. I'd seen The Three Doctors one random afternoon when I was like 7, but when I was 9 or so I had a tv in my room. I was already heavy into Star Trek since the previous summer, and was flipping around the channels at 9pm when I hit PBS and saw this sci-fi show with giant crystals and HG Wells and I immediately realized this needed to be paid attention to. Started watching every week and buying any books I could find. Since then, my two favorite franchises bar none are ST and DW, nearly 40 years on. Still feels like yesterday.
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Dec 9, 2022 01:55
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1601547285292204032
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Dec 10, 2022 14:22
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I just read through the whole Flux affair and holy moly is that indicative of the Chibnall series? It loving sucked!
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Dec 10, 2022 18:22
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FilthyImp posted:the Chibnall series? Fixed that for you 
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Dec 10, 2022 18:38
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I had completely forgotten about Barbara's reaction to being 550 years old  Also "What do you think it is? A space helmet for a cow!?!" 
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Dec 10, 2022 21:25
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I just figured out how RTD is goint to top Moffat's 50th for the 60th. The first anniversary special was the 10 year. He'll hearken back to that. The 14th Doctor meets The 10th Doctor meets The Metacrisis Doctor in THE THREE DOCTORS II starring David Tennant! 
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Dec 11, 2022 03:34
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Astroman posted:I just figured out how RTD is goint to top Moffat's 50th for the 60th. i fuckin hate you
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Dec 11, 2022 03:41
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FilthyImp posted:I just read through the whole Flux affair and holy moly is that indicative of the Chibnall series?
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Dec 11, 2022 04:08
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1st season was basically an Afternoon Special each week. Did you know racism is bad? *stares directly at the camera*
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Dec 11, 2022 04:37
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You threw shade at one of the only good episodes of his whole run.
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Dec 11, 2022 04:50
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Honestly, I think there are probably six or so good episodes in the Chibnall run, almost all of them in the first season. Rosa, the P'Ting one, Demons of Punjab, It Takes You Away, The Witchfinders, and the Mary Shelley cyberman one. Mmmmaybe Orphan 55 as well. LividLiquid posted:You threw shade at one of the only good episodes of his whole run. Which one? Demons or Rosa?
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Dec 11, 2022 04:55
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Rosa. Demons is the other one. At least, the other one that didn't have to pull most of the living Doctors out of its rear end to land.
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Dec 11, 2022 04:56
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Rosa would have been better if the villain hadn't been somebody from Captain Jack's era who was still specifically racist against black people at a time when most humans were accepting of interspecies sex. It implies that this one sort of prejudice is so bad and ingrained into humanity it will never go away. Which is a pretty hopeless thing. Also that changing one specific part of the civil rights movement would be a butterfly effect that would usher in White Utopia. Can't get behind the Mary Shelley one due to the retcon of one of the great companions of Eight. Demons of the Punjab and The Witchfinders were fantastic though.
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Dec 11, 2022 06:51
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Astroman posted:Rosa would have been better if the villain hadn't been somebody from Captain Jack's era who was still specifically racist against black people at a time when most humans were accepting of interspecies sex. It implies that this one sort of prejudice is so bad and ingrained into humanity it will never go away. Which is a pretty hopeless thing. Doesn't most Doctor Who kind of imply this? From humans oppressing the Ood, Cassandra in The End Of The World, extreme class societies on Kaldor, humans being locked in alien miniscopes so that other humans can gawk at them... prejudice, slavery, stratified societies etc. etc. seem to be things that most civilisations struggle with. Beyond anything else, I don't mind the idea that this fictional future is still racist because I don't see it as a statement about the human race in the future. It's a statement about the human race in the present. Contemporary science-fiction reflects contemporary anxieties, and in the current moment we're just not doing enough to support minority rights, poverty, environmental collapse, decolonisation, etc. etc. There's space in both Rosa, and in its far bleaker cousin Orphan 55, to acknowledge that humanity can change and can create a better future for itself. But episodes that act like an anti-racist state is an inevitable endpoint of human development seem deeply wrong. I find them the opposite of reassuring. Doctor Who should be about humanity combatting its darker impulses IMO, and shouldn't be about the assumption that humanity will just sort itself out like some sort of "awh he's alright really" absolute fail son. Leave the escapist visions of a comforting utopian future to the point where we deserve to think about that kind of thing.
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Dec 11, 2022 07:28
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Astroman posted:Rosa would have been better if the villain hadn't been somebody from Captain Jack's era who was still specifically racist against black people at a time when most humans were accepting of interspecies sex. It implies that this one sort of prejudice is so bad and ingrained into humanity it will never go away. Which is a pretty hopeless thing. Also that changing one specific part of the civil rights movement would be a butterfly effect that would usher in White Utopia. so long as Republicans draw breath, racism will live on
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Dec 11, 2022 07:36
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That's the thing, we can't assume that racism will be gone in the future. We can hope it will be but if the last several years have taught me anything it's that irrational hatreds have a way of clinging on for dear life.
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Dec 11, 2022 09:44
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I worry we don't have a prayer of fixing that problem until we all collectively decide capitalism sucks first.
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LividLiquid posted:I worry we don't have a prayer of fixing that problem until we all collectively decide capitalism sucks first. It's this and it's the same deal with climate change too
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