docbeard posted:

Or this is the Time Lord equivalent of a mid-life crisis.

marktheando posted:

The Dalek love of stupid sidekick creatures is pretty well established by this point, snake man was fine.

And More posted:

Only if he also somehow plays the Doctor.

Spatula City posted:

The acting and dialogue writing were good in both parts, and the episodes LOOKED really good. The Dalek city looked awesomely retro-weird, and the sewers were a cool idea, though perhaps one that should have been set up earlier.

DoctorWhat posted:

The budget for Series 5 was actually lower than it had been for Series 4 and probably for S3 too.

And More posted:

I mean, I was really excited for CyberBrig and K-9, but I guess I'll take it.

Kikka posted:

the doctors wife isnt a good episode to show to anyone or anything

Enourmo posted:

All this Bond-actor talk just makes me sad we'll never see the Sean Connery Rassilon.

Rhyno posted:

Yeeeeaaaars ago he wasn't too interested in the idea. But I know of late that he's warmed up to the idea.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

MrL_JaKiri posted:

That was the first picture of a companion looking shocked that found. I personally prefer, in no particular order,

Liz Shaw
Leela
Jamie + Zoe/Victoria

just off the top of my head.

Barry Foster posted:

To have in your reach such power...to know that the tiny pressure of your finger, enough to push the button, would end everything...that power would set you up above the gods!

Rochallor posted:

Rob Schrab mentioned on the Harmontown podcast that the BBC wants him to put one of their properties into the sequel to the Lego Movie, which narrows it down to either Doctor Who or Broadchurch, I suppose.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Cyber brig was the most shockingly distasteful thing I've seen the BBC, and the way they aired it on Remembrance weekend makes me think they thought they were being respectful.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

I should do my own version of the Editorium but without being Phil Sandifer, which I hope everyone can agree is a massive natural advantage from the off

saucerman posted:

Are people objecting to monsters because the US term is "booger"? Or is the concept of monsters made from stuff in your eye in general? Because it's a neat idea, especially for kids.

DoctorWhat posted:

Sandifer believes his own hype. This is a wonderful thing when he's running righteous exposes of systemic transphobia among Wikipedia editing cabals and tearing Vox Day new rhetorical assholes on internet radio. It's a less wonderful thing when he gets it in his head that any opinion he holds is self-evidently virtuous and proper because he holds it.

HD DAD posted:

If we're thinking about the same person on GB, then yeah, she's pretty out there.

DoctorWhat posted:

If you're talking about Jane Campbell, she's a goddamn genius and far more compelling a critic than Sandifer is, in my opinion.

Rhyno posted:

The tv film started with Seven so...

HD DAD posted:

Yeah, it was bad. Have Missy take over Coal Hill as the new headmaster, hijinks ensue, and boom you have Clara and Missy meeting right off the bat.

ewe2 posted:

I did Pyramids of Mars, Osirians are mean and they have spooky chair-hands.

CobiWann posted:

The Doctor knowing how to throw a punch goes back to the Third Doctor story Carnival of Monsters where he proclaims John L Sullvian taught him how to box.

Mind Loving Owl posted:

So, what the Hell was that Time Tot (Timepole?) doing in the middle of the desert? Do the Time Lords just have child sentries stationed across the planet in case the Doctor makes a dramatic entrance?

Pizdec posted:

Also, it has always been a fairly off-hand thing, so it's weird that the fandom and the reboot chose to cling so tenuously to this particular off-hand piece of trivia.

Acne Rain posted:

both were actually the master, who has a car shaped tardis, and she goes around running over the doctor's companion's families because she thinks its funny.

dr_rat posted:

I think you mean drummer...

Jerusalem posted:

I believe we have, yes. I understand your argument, I just still find the anti-pacifism stuff a trifle unsettling. Maybe I'd have to watch again, but I recall it being treated like the Thals are in the wrong for even wanting peace with their ancient enemy - maybe that's being unfair of me, but considering that the Thals are the descendants of survivors of a war where both sides almost wiped out all life on their planet, the fact that they've eager for peace and reconciliation was something I would have liked to have been embraced.

Argue posted:

What was it?

Rochallor posted:

He told us his name earlier this season. It's Doctor Funkenstein.

idonotlikepeas posted:

Hey, just letting people who were readers of Toxx's Doctor Who review thread know that it's going to be starting back up again in the near future, since some of you might have stopped following it. (And then backing out of this thread with my eyes shut because I have to catch up on the new series too.)

josh04 posted:

Ah yeah, 'sexist', that crazy buzzword.

The stated urge of more than one person in this thread to see Clara and Ashildr fail to operate a TARDIS successfully or get put in their place by the Time Lords comes from exactly the same place as complaints about whatsherface in the new Star Wars.

After The War posted:

These are the US versions of the Target novelizations that were put out before the series was widely distributed here. Given that this was possibly someone's first exposure to Doctor Who, there's an "Introduction to the cast of characters" page in each one.