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The_Doctor posted:Wasn't that a line in Kill the Moon? That they could keep shooting, but he'd still be standing. The Doctor is always scrupulously honest, particularly when trying to intimidate people who have guns pointed at him.
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Apr 2, 2015 11:39
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CobiWann posted:Someone get Jamie Mathieson to write The Two Masters, stat. I remember reading somewhere that, possibly Terrance Dicks but I'm not sure, once had the idea of a renegade Time Lord who ran around with all of his incarnations at once in a gang. Clearly this must happen with every surviving actor who has ever portrayed the Master, and I suppose we could round out the difference with CGI snakes.
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Apr 13, 2015 00:29
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One of my favorite things about Other Lives was the subplot wherein someone is absolutely convinced that the Eighth Doctor is her amnesiac husband when, for once, he doesn't have amnesia at all.
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Apr 22, 2015 14:07
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My hope for this year is that the Master shows up in every episode at random just to gently caress with the Doctor, with no larger scheme in mind. The finale could be the Doctor having to save the Master from a ridiculous scheme that backfired.
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Apr 27, 2015 02:33
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Night Thoughts reminded me of Ghost Light in both favorable and unfavorable ways. Also, only people who listen to the Superego podcast will know why I keep wanting to call it Moon Thoughts.
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Apr 28, 2015 20:12
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Wheat Loaf posted:My brother hadn't heard of John Hurt and thought "John Hurt" was the Doctor's real name. It does sound plausible, I'll give it that.
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May 3, 2015 15:09
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It really is kind of inspiring to see how far Chris Chibnall has come as a television writer since the Torchwood days.
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May 6, 2015 11:49
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Angela Christine posted:It hasn't been ruled out, no. But we don't know for sure that Missy even has a TARDIS. She could be getting around with one of those time agent bracelets. And if she does, there's no reason why it would have a broken chameleon circuit that makes it choose an obsolete disguise, so it could look like anything. I think she'd absolutely do this on purpose. I've just been reminded of the bit in The Claws of Axos where the Master is inside the Third Doctor's TARDIS and he's just utterly dismayed at the state of disrepair it's in.
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May 8, 2015 02:29
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thexerox123 posted:My high school english teacher showed us Zefirelli's Romeo & Juliet.... needless to say, most of the guys in the class were enthusiastic about it. Hahaha, yes, mine too. (She didn't know about the nudity ahead of time.)
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May 10, 2015 02:21
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"Just this once, Rose, EVERYBODY LIV-" Joseph Lidster enters with a machine gun and Mickey's severed head.
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May 12, 2015 19:05
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I thought the last-minute fakeout was a bit lame, but I'm glad Clara's sticking around so I can't get too upset. I still think it would have been better to have the Doctor's encounter with the elderly Clara end with her saying "what, no, of *course* that dream crab thing wasn't the last time we traveled together", though.
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May 17, 2015 21:32
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Clearly, since we didn't see everyone on Earth wake up in the episode, it means that the entire planet has been subjugated by the dream crabs, including several companions the Doctor has completely forgotten about. - Joseph Lidster
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May 18, 2015 11:44
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I kind of bounced off the first half of Deep Breath, but the more I thought about it, the more I found to like. (Which is the reverse of the way these things usually work.) I agree that things really pick up at the restaurant, but I don't think that some of the best character moments between the Doctor and Clara can happen without that first half setting the stage for them. I also don't have the common allergic reaction to Vastra et. al, though. So there you go. (I do think they'd be better-served in a spinoff series, though.)
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May 21, 2015 14:25
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I don't really care much about scientific accuracy in my silly space wizard TV show, but Kill the Moon really puts that to the test, and I think that's entirely down to the way it's framed in the story. It's not that it's dumb science, it's that when you should be thinking about the dilemma they're in and the way the Doctor abandons Clara to sort it out on her own, the episode has grabbed you by the lapels and shouted THE MOON IS AN EGG WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT.
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May 22, 2015 22:40
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Cleretic posted:What's wrong with you? There's really nothing wrong with Forest that some (a lot of) polish and a pointed "are you sure this is the message you want to be sending" conversation at one or two points couldn't have fixed. The atmosphere, both visually and thematically, is incredible, there's some solid characterization happening, and the Doctor's interactions with the children when he's not talking about psychiatric medication are nothing short of delightful.
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May 23, 2015 11:18
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"Everybody lives! Just this once, EVERYBODY LI-, oh, never mind, none of them are of historical significance, who even cares?"
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May 26, 2015 01:55
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So which episodes of Doctor Who do you like? This is not a trick question or an attempt to trap you into admitting that you enjoy an episode of Doctor Who in which scientifically implausible things happen or the stakes aren't high enough or whatever, I am genuinely curious at this point where your 'this poo poo doesn't bother me because the episode's so good' line is.
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May 26, 2015 21:20
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Hot Fuzz and Ghostbusters are both excellent movies, but neither of them are the apex of human cinematic achievement or anything. (Now, Back To The Future on the other hand...)
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May 31, 2015 13:26
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Now that I think about it, I love Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead (I haven't seen the other one) but...yeah, Spaced is probably better.
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Jun 1, 2015 12:21
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Pesky Splinter posted:And like you said, that's fine if it leaves some lasting impact, but it never does; Eighth Doctor discovering his mind was wiped and he forgot two companions - brushes it off, Ace has a little brother - nothing comes of it, the reveal about an incident in the Doctor and Master's youth - (stupidity aside) affects nothing. This ending - nothing. This has always seemed like an odd critique to me. Not that it's not a problem that none of Lidster's BIG HORRIFYING TWISTS had any impact outside their own stories, but it's not really a problem you can hold Lidster responsible for. Also, I'm fine with no one ever acknowledging the particularly stupid twists, honestly. Good stories should never be held hostage to bad stories.
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Jun 14, 2015 05:45
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Gaz-L posted:Which made all the complaints about his 'terrible' Irish accent on Angle hilarious. I'm not sure anyone in America has ever heard an Irish person, let alone met one. Maybe they were basing their idea of what Irish people sound like off David Boreanaz's genuinely terrible attempt at an Irish accent.
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Jun 15, 2015 00:59
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I kind of dig Zagreus, but it is absolutely a bloated mess.
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Jun 19, 2015 03:06
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Basically never watch season 5. You will experience substantially less disappointment in the rest of the series. I think the first season did a number of things right in reviving the show. It was exactly the right way to re-introduce Doctor Who to a new generation. (Looking at the proposals for what would have happened had the TV-movie actually resulted in a series is like finding out that the mosquito that you thought you heard was actually a bullet that just missed your head.) But yeah, seriously, nowadays, start with The Eleventh Hour. It does all those correct things and is also about a thousand percent better. (And I say this as someone who doesn't really have a problem with Rose, or with Davies.) And hell yeah, your reviews have been a joy to read, and I'm glad you've done them.
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Jun 23, 2015 04:00
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I listened to The Reaping today. You know, up til the last few minutes, I was kind of impressed. Not the tightest story ever told, but it more-or-less held together, and certainly a downer, but the emotional beats felt more-or-less natural rather than HA HA HA gently caress YOU I AM LIDSTARR DESTROYER OF LIGHT. The various attempts at American accents were pretty sad, of course, but that's a minor enough complaint. And then, of course, that final scene. It wasn't just pointless misery porn, though it certainly was that. It was just dumb. Minuet In Hell dumb. And at least I got some laughs out of Minuet In Hell.
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Jun 25, 2015 00:15
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Which one is the one where they're in the future and they distract Jason with a holodeck simulation of teenagers making out? I think that one has to be, by definition, the best one. I haven't seen any of the Friday the 13th movies in entirely too long.
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Jul 1, 2015 02:15
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Is it wrong that I want the Master to invite herself aboard the TARDIS as a companion next season? Not as part of any kind of elaborate scheme, just hanging out and declaring that she is in fact the Doctor's best bud and trying to "help" and complicating everything because they can't work out how to get rid of her.
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Jul 7, 2015 12:01
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Having now listened to The Reaping, I...honestly thought Lidster both captured and critiqued the Saward era of Peter Davison Standing On A Pile Of Bodies Lamenting That There Wasn't A Better Way pretty well. I'm as surprised as you.
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Jul 8, 2015 00:49
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CobiWann posted:If it wasn't for the "twist," The Reaping would have been pretty solid and a good quasi-sequel to Attack of the Cybermen. As it is, though, you hit the nail on the head that it is very much an "everyone dies" story with some optimism brought about by Colin and Nicola. ...wait, I'm an idiot, I was thinking of The Gathering. Though yeah, come to think of it, that assessment holds true for everything but the last couple minutes of The Reaping, too. That twist is unforgivably stupid, though, and completely unnecessary even to the extent that it set up the events of The Gathering. It's still head and shoulders above Lidster's previous efforts, with the possible exception of 3/4ths of Master.
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Jul 8, 2015 01:35
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It's somewhere between unlikely and impossible, but I really want her to be Ace somehow.
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Jul 10, 2015 01:51
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Gaz-L posted:I will say one idea that I'm pretty sure is going to disappoint everyone here if true, but was the first thing I though on seeing that trailer: Maisie Williams is probably playing Clara. She's wearing the orange spacesuit that Coleman's shown in earlier in the trailer, and while she doesn't sound especially Northern, that 'old man' crack would be very in character. You mean the same orange spacesuit that drat near everyone who's worn a spacesuit in the revival has worn? That orange spacesuit? My honest prediction is that she is an entirely new character and she's being familiar with the Doctor because she met him earlier in the episode.
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Jul 10, 2015 23:37
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I really hope that it's a thematic callback rather than anything else, the Doctor taking that face to remind him of the situation he faced in Pompeii rather than the SHOCKING REVEAL THAT CAECILLUS WAS ACTUALLY KAMELION or some drat thing.
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Jul 16, 2015 02:21
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Something something looms something. (I would laugh for a month if the ultimate origin of the Time Lords were revealed to be a human scientist called John Smith who invented a time machine and ended up stranded on a planet at the rear end end of the universe at the dawn of time, and that were used to co-opt both the "The Doctor is the descendant/reincarnation of a founder of the Time Lords" thing and the half human thing.)
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Jul 16, 2015 14:54
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Jerusalem posted:I read all the r's as rolling None of my ideas for that thing ever got beyond the idea stage, but I kind of still want to do The End of Time with Seven and the Brigadier just for the "Back to hell with you, Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrassilon" scene.
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Jul 22, 2015 23:39
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Some people, but only the incorrect ones, might call Vengeance on Varos a classic. And it's okay, I've got a key.
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Jul 31, 2015 11:12
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I don't necessarily want to see Moffat gone, but I'd love to see someone else take on the production stuff that he's obviously not good at, and let him focus on writing.
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Aug 5, 2015 23:14
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This may be an unpopular point of view, but I honestly would rather have delays/split seasons if it means we don't get half-assed film-the-rough-draft-and-throw-it-on-screen episodes. Granted, I'd rather have neither (and granted, we may well get both).
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Aug 6, 2015 10:40
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2house2fly posted:That and his put-downs to Clara are the weak links in his character really, though the latter's probably done with now. The put-downs to Clara kind of gained a new texture for me toward the end of the Christmas episode when he genuinely couldn't tell if she was an old woman or not.
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Aug 24, 2015 01:20
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They should really just start telling Lidster that the runtime for his stories is about ten minutes longer than it actually is.
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CobiWann posted:I really need to find a way to watch League of Gentlemen here in the States. The only bit I ever saw was Gatiss doing the cave tour and it was one of the funniest and darkest things I had ever busted a gut over. The League of Gentlemen, at its best, is probably the best I've ever seen at the sort of humor that's just balanced on the razor's edge between funny and horrifying. (It gets even more horrifying when you find out just how many of the bizarre outlandish characters that feature are based broadly off real people that the writers/actors have met, which only goes to show that it's never a good idea to offend or upset or in any way distinguish yourself to a comedian.) It's probably even harder to track down for those of us in the U.S., but Psychoville (which features Reese Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton from League quite heavily) is well worth seeking out too, in this vein.
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