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Night Terrors definitely isn't a bad story. It uses the annoying nursery rhyme thing that Moffat does a little too much, but at least it was fitting that time. It's about the Doctor visiting a scared adopted boy to chase the monsters out of his closet.
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quote:A BBC spokeswoman said: 'We will not be commenting on this'.
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quote:The BBC sci-fi show has been branded it 'insensitive' quote:has been branded it Yeah. Sounds like the Daily Mail. Aren't they basically your Fox News?
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Aug 29, 2014 20:53
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I still get waves of self-pride when I remember turning away a Daily Mail reporter who was pestering me for an interview at the Deep Breath premier. Lindalee Rose is a much more reliable news outlet, anyway.
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LividLiquid posted:Yeah. Sounds like the Daily Mail. Aren't they basically your Fox News? They're sort of like a right-wing version of Fox News.
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Bicyclops posted:Night Terrors definitely isn't a bad story. It uses the annoying nursery rhyme thing that Moffat does a little too much, but at least it was fitting that time. It's about the Doctor visiting a scared adopted boy to chase the monsters out of his closet. I liked it too. Wasnt an all time favourite or anything, but I remember the doll-things being reasonably creepy (And one of my personal feelings about the show is that it should occasionally go out of its way to scare children at least a bit, behind the couch being traditional who-watching position), and I liked the doctor responding to a scared child (because it should also reassure them, and because I think its a good character beat, just like it was in the beast below). I'd put it on a par with the minotaur in the motel episode (the episode title escapes me) as a solid episode of Who, although not particular favourites, as evidenced by the fact I did have to google "Doctor Who peg dolls" to find out the name of the episode for my previous post.
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I noticed the similarity, but it seemed like typical set re-use to me. The prop department obviously made at least an attempt to make it look different.
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NRVNQSR posted:I noticed the similarity, but it seemed like typical set re-use to me. The prop department obviously made at least an attempt to make it look different. Location re-use, specifically. It's a real garden.
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Metal Loaf posted:They're sort of like a right-wing version of Fox News. Gaz-L posted:Location re-use, specifically. It's a real garden.
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LividLiquid posted:I'm confused. Fox News is incredibly right-wing. Yuuuuup.
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Today's political update has been brought to you by a guy who dresses up like elderly British men for fun.
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Irish Joe posted:Today's political update has been brought to you by a guy who dresses up like elderly British men for fun. Okay, I laughed at this.
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Irish Joe posted:Today's political update has been brought to you by a guy who dresses up like elderly British men for fun. It's worth it for all the free tea and cakes :geti Oh you mean DoctorWhat
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LividLiquid posted:I'm confused. Fox News is incredibly right-wing.  No, more seriously, I'm completely inured to terrible politicians on the left and right because I live in Northern Ireland, but that's neither here nor there.
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Can I just say I'm now imagining Question Time on Gallifrey with President Romana?
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Irish Joe posted:Today's political update has been brought to you by a guy who dresses up like elderly British men for fun. 
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Oh look at you. Can I expect this sort of low-effort drive-by potshot every Friday just before 4:30 EST? Because that'd be a splendid thing to look forward to - like Christmas every week! Irish Joe in an Exciting Adventure on the Forums! I'll set my TiVo.
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LividLiquid posted:I'm confused. Fox News is incredibly right-wing. I think they did the same with the sets in "The End of the World", "Cold Blood, and "Let's Kill Hitler". The main chamber in "End" looks very similar to the Siluarian meeting chamber, and the restaurant(?) in "Let's".
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And Skaro sure looked a lot like Gallifrey, which looked a lot like a quarry!
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DoctorWhat posted:I still get waves of self-pride when I remember turning away a Daily Mail reporter who was pestering me for an interview at the Deep Breath premier. Your coat's great and all that, but this is easily my favourite thing you did there. Kudos.
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After The War posted:I wish I could be like you and forget the filler sequences in The Armageddon Factor. The only moment I've ever enjoyed the cast being shrunken was in Planet of Giants when Hartnell realized he could start fires in a whole new way. Someone's forgetting the first cliffhanger in Carnival of Monsters...
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Little_wh0re posted:The mail literally supported hitler Don't knock Hitler. He was the guy who killed Hitler after all.
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Tonight I've been watching some classic who eps for the first time. 4 to doomsday, kinda and earthshock. Man Adric is a jerk. But the cyber commander cracked me up every time he spoke. "MORE POWAH"
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Little_wh0re posted:The mail literally supported hitler That was before Rory punched the editor in the face, though.
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Detective No. 27 posted:We had Into the Doctor in series 6. Huh. So we did. Anyway, does anyone have a GIF of the Sixth Doctor's walk-cycle from Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror? Like in Chokes McGee's old av, but animated? There was a "keep on trucking" vibe about it but I don't have the time or energy to dig through like four threads of history. 
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TheChad posted:daleks are fuckin awesome and i will never be tired of them I would also like to express my fondness for this particular recurring villain.
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I'm not sure if my favorite Who villain is the showrunners, the writers, or the fans.
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Jsor posted:I'm not sure if my favorite Who villain is the showrunners, the writers, or the fans. It's the BBC, duh.
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Well, the most hated Doctor Who villain is Michael Grade.
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My favorite Who villain is Shakespeare. My favorite companion is Davros.
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Potsticker posted:My favorite Who villain is Shakespeare. That's good! quote:My favorite companion is Davros. That's bad.
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I'm not sure how any episode can be called the most-hated New Who story when Fear Her exists.
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Fear Her really isn't poo poo until the Olympics stuff starts.
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Jet Jaguar posted:I'm not sure how any episode can be called the most-hated New Who story when Fear Her exists. Just to prove once again the truth that there is no such thing as a consensus opinion on any Doctor Who episode, I think that Fear Her is a perfectly unremarkable, forgettable and standard story. It's just that the last few minutes with the Olympic Torch are SO bad that they color all other reactions to it. That ending is loving atrocious. It's utter poo poo and even taking the message it puts out at face value does nothing to justify how terrible it is.
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You're right, up until the big THE DOCTOR IS LOVE reveal it's merely mediocre. But the sheer awfulness of it all makes me wonder if somebody on set thought, "You know, this seems really silly, do we want to take five minutes and rethink this?" or if they just were slammed for time and broke for lunch. Has a lot in common with the episode before it, where the wretched ending undoes everything else. I liked it until the whole "save a woman into a nightmare of being a paving slab and it's a good thing" ending.
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I still like Night Terrors, although I probably wouldn't pick it to watch out of a lineup. It knows what it wants to do, and does it. It also manages to be one of the scariest 'converting enemies' because it actually gets a companion, and even if Amy's back to normal by the end that's still a strong way to raise the stakes.
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