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Best Producer/Showrunner? This poll is closed. |
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| Verity Lambert |
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49 | 7.04% |
| John Wiles |
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1 | 0.14% |
| Innes Lloyd |
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1 | 0.14% |
| Peter Bryant |
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3 | 0.43% |
| Derrick Sherwin |
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3 | 0.43% |
| Barry Letts |
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12 | 1.72% |
| Phillip Hinchcliffe |
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62 | 8.91% |
| Graham Williams |
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3 | 0.43% |
| John Nathan-Turner |
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15 | 2.16% |
| Philip Segal |
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3 | 0.43% |
| Russel T Davies |
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106 | 15.23% |
| Steven Moffat |
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114 | 16.38% |
| Son Goku |
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324 | 46.55% |
| Total: | 696 votes | ||
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Jerusalem posted:Plus the Krillitane work better in concept than execution, and the CGI for them has dated so badly that it makes it hard to take them seriously. I think even the Reapers in Father's Day stand up better than the Krillitane do, and I'm glad that all CGI monsters appear to have gone somewhat by the wayside in favor of practical effects. IIRC School Reunion had production problems which caused some of the continuity issues with the monster plot and explains why they keep switching locations for no particular reason. Wiki stuff says asbestos in one of the schools, but I remember there being more to it. I somehow doubt this episode would've seen the light of day if Doctor Who was considered a Family Show in the US. Grade schoolers get eaten by the evil teachers who are drugging them smart through the school lunch program, Mickey rams a car through the front doors, and the Doctor (via K-9) blows up the school to kill the (evil) school staff, cue great cheers from the students. I enjoy all the high character points of the episode, but I find it really hard to look past the dire Catty Companions bit (and I hate that it became (and continues) a recurring joke). It's also kinda problematic that the "He hates goodbyes" explanation for ditching Sarah Jane doesn't make sense unless you have no context outside this episode, which is a bit odd considering that's the point of referencing her character. He didn't want to watch Sarah Jane decay and die from having to call a taxi home at the incredibly advanced age of ~30? Way to be shallow, Doctor.
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Timby posted:Are the audios just a lost cause for me? I have the same problem with audio versions of books, but (from the couple I've heard) the Doctor Who audios run more like radio plays. It may make a difference. In addition to the other suggestions, audio stuff is great for anything that requires a bunch of manual work without a lot of active problem solving. Chores and cleaning, DIY, lawn/garden. Hobbies with big stretches of repetition like woodwork, knitting, videogame grinding, etc.
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Mar 1, 2014 01:25
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Floorgazer posted:I find it really hard to explain to people why I like this show sometimes. Pretty much everything post-Davison and pre-revival is pretty embarrassing to be caught watching. Dealing with people who call it "My Little Pony in space" makes it an uphill battle, really. Sometimes you enjoy a thing in-spite-of. Sometimes you enjoy a thing for what it could be, rather than for what it is. And sometimes you just really enjoy laughing at rubbish monsters and scenery chewing. You don't have to defend its honor or evangelize, just explain what you like and shrug at the rest, like you would while watching. People who can't get that and/or admit there's something they like the same way, that's usually a warning sign anyway. For instance the quoted person likes videogames and anime, which are sugar-glass houses to be throwing stones from (I say with authority as a person who likes videogames). They wouldn't have gotten the same response out of comparing Doctor Who to Adventure Time. edit: I shouldn't phone post Spindle fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Mar 8, 2014 |
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Mar 8, 2014 04:48
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Caecilius is the 12th Doctor in disguise and he's taking Amy for one last trip. There's also Martha's cousin. They probably didn't bother doing the same with Amy (besides it being silly) because she's hooded and in full face makeup, and doesn't have much non-group screen time beyond sneaking behind the Doctor. Her character doesn't have a unique name, and I'm not sure she has any solo dialog.
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Mar 21, 2014 09:50
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Fandom episodes are usually terrible because of their self-indulgent nature, it's funny how that aspect is the least offensive thing in Love & Monsters. Trivia: Originally the frame story with Elton in the loft had bits with his "mom" yelling from downstairs, to drive home what a loser You're right-on about the episode having the feel of something bumbled because of outside meddling. If I didn't know better, I would've pegged the tone whiplash as someone poorly pasting together a writers' workshop. Some of the blame belongs to the director, though, because there are scenes that fall completely flat and go on forever. Jerusalem posted:The reveal that he has been absorbing Elton's friends into his body is immediately followed by a bad-taste joke about one of their faces being trapped on his rear end-cheek. Jerusalem posted:That's also one of the first signs of an unfortunate RTD tendency to palette swap aliens so people can "hilariously" mistake them for the wrong race
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Mar 30, 2014 08:27
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Jerusalem posted:Perhaps, IF Morris is reluctant to hand over stuff he MIGHT have found, it's down to a fear that once they're handed over it is going to be harder for him to drum up the interest/financing to go hunt up other missing shows, so he has to drip-feed stuff while following up other leads? Anything people weren't willing to finance probably wouldn't make enough money to pay for itself (which applies to Doctor Who as well), but it would fit if one of those other shows is his pet project. Also completed serials are worth more than single episodes. Regardless, he can make more money in the long run by doling them out every few years rather than allowing the BBC to negotiate him into selling the lot. And if he enjoys the attention, well. Nobody should be playing into scolding the internet, though. Besides being lovely, that directly hands him a bargaining chip when screaming at the ocean fails to work. PriorMarcus posted:If Morris does have a collection of missing Doctor Who episodes and for any reason he isn't handing them over then that's awful. I fully believe that the preservation of film is deeply important for the art world, and turning it into a selfish agenda for any reason is pretty awful. Agreed, but this is the unfortunate consequence of allowing the recovery to be a treasure hunt rather than financing it directly. Take comfort in that if he does have them, they're safer than they were rotting in someone's basement.
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Apr 10, 2014 02:48
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Probably from Closing Time.
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Apr 23, 2014 01:08
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Maxwell Lord posted:Honestly the Rani always struck me as a neat character. She's a "villain" who isn't really necessarily about gaining power or control- she's just a scientist with no ethics whatsoever. Mark of the Rani was kind of a muddle, but I remember enjoying it. Time and the Rani less so, but even that wasn't the character's fault so much as the intense "Remember we're a kiddie show!" pressure they were feeling at the time. It's a shame she was used as a generic mad scientist (and the problematic message that comes packaged with) rather than playing into how Time Lords could terribly abuse their power because of their detachment. She's become a fan grudge mostly as a symbol of that era's bad decisions rather than because of her character potential or lack thereof. edit: Also despite the cheap set, her first Tardis console is pretty great. 
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Jun 29, 2014 03:39
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All in the name of developing smash-in-emergency beakers of instant T-rex.
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Jun 29, 2014 17:25
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Thanks for the update on the approved opinion of unaired episodes, I hope we keep getting these every day.
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Jul 9, 2014 10:28
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DoctorWhat posted:It was more that there were people who for one reason or another really wanted him not to count and through sheer loudness and perceptual gravity were able to keep that bizarre opinion on life support for a ridiculous amount of time. Ignoring the new Doctor and declaring him non-canon until the next one is "worse" is a tradition, all the way back to Troughton. It just hit the 8th Doctor a bit harder because of the gap before and after. Jerusalem posted:I do wonder if McGann would have been just relegated to the dustbin of history if he didn't have such a strong presence in the Big Finish audios Probably. One mediocre tv movie where most of the people who remembered it were hostile, and the rights issue had hosed things up for so long that you had to pirate to see it at all. I doubt the handful of novels would've counted for much.
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Jul 12, 2014 03:11
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Jerusalem posted:I don't know if there was an overwhelming consensus one way or the other when it aired, but I remember watching it and thinking that for all the stuff it got wrong, the casting of McGann was spot on and I really wanted to see more of him as the Doctor. Which we ended up getting, happily! Yeah, I should clarify. I was talking from the fandom historical / production-side angle, not my opinion. I don't think the movie is good- I think its main sin is how 90s sci-fantasy generic it is -but there are worse bits of Who. It's more interesting from a forensic look at how RTD took its base elements and turned it into the revival. Putting that aside, I do like the 8th Doctor (and McGann in general). Really great that he finally got his on-screen regeneration.
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Jul 12, 2014 04:40
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