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One minor but very noticeable thing that annoys me about the new series is the overreliance on disintegration when somebody gets zapped with a raygun. In the original series we had people turned into twisted dolls, melted into goo and transformed into a smoking heap. I even remember one story where they tried an interesting vfx with a burning photo! Call me ghoulish but I want to see more interesting deaths!
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There must be a better 7th doc story than Battlefield? "Boooooooooooooom!"
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Greatest Show In The Galaxy is nice and creepy, also has Sylvester at his most nonchalant!
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DoctorWhat posted:JNT apparently commited some sexual assaults whilst drunk ...but Matthew Waterhouse was ok with it!
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Wheat Loaf posted:And he got into it as an adult (Baker was born in 1943 in the middle of an air raid) so he may very well have had at least some idea of how he would play the Doctor for close to 20 years before he actually got the part. You can't blame Michael really, he was sleeping with Mrs Baker after all.
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Tomtrek posted:Big Finish just announced a whole bunch of new series related content: I assume that Churchill will not be an alcoholic fantasist in the audios and more the exuberant schoolboy he was in Victory of the Daleks.
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Jun 27, 2015 12:12
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Roy Marsden really is a fantastic actor, he was wasted in the brief role he had in Smith & Jones. He is at his best as a character called Neil Burnside in a show called Sandbaggers, a realistic Cold War show you can see on Youtube
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Jul 13, 2015 11:48
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CobiWann posted:Oh, is that the show about men in cheap suits dying in Prague? It is, somehow makes arguing in offices about paperwork very watchable. Callan is another show from the same company (Thames) that is in a similar vein, though more about being at the sharp end. You'll see Doctor Who guest stars appear pretty often, Russell Hunter who played Uvanov in Robots of Death is a regular.
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Jul 13, 2015 12:09
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Jerusalem posted:Oh man, Sandbaggers sounds very much like my type of thing, thanks for the recommendation. Callan is great too if you have never seen it, Edward Woodward's best role.
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Jul 13, 2015 12:56
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CobiWann posted:Wait...a British show Jerusalem hasn’t seen and I have?!? Russell Brand is the Doctor, Keith Boak is the showrunner!
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Jul 13, 2015 12:57
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One thing about Genesis that wasn't mentioned in the review, I think Robert Holmes did a lot of rewrites and fleshing out of the story, that tale is as much his as Terry Nations.
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Jul 29, 2015 12:54
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MrL_JaKiri posted:That's a rumour based on it being better than his last two efforts, I've never seen any evidence of it other than people just stating it as fact Going by Terry's track record, it is very plausible.
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Jul 29, 2015 17:42
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On the subject of music, which story(ies) do you think have the best incidental music? I like the stuff that Roger Limb did with Graeme Harper, namely Caves of Androzani and Revelation of the Daleks. His music sounds minimal but sinister. It is amazing the difference between those two stories and the work he did with other directors. I'm curiously fond of Jonathon Gibbs in Vengeance on Varos too, though I suspect that is more due to nostalgia than anything else. Controversially enough I even think that Keff McCulloch has a few good pieces. Most of his stuff is garbage but I like some of his work in Remembrance of the Daleks.
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Revenge of the Cybermen is notable for getting mundane performances out of two actors, David Collings and Kevin Stoney, who have contributed stellar performances to the show. Further proof that the show was flawed, also the music does not suit a Cyberman show at all, sounds like it should be accompanying the adventures of animated frozen peas instead!
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