Xelkelvos posted:

So Class was also a thing. I give it two series before getting canned.

echoplex posted:

Wheezle posted:

In this case it was the bit about not bringing the seats closer to the console. After nonsensical poo poo like remarking that the Tardis looks like a kitchen, it just feels like Moffatt trying way too hard to emphasise how down to earth and practical this person is by making her *absurdly* so. It feels like a parody.

Outside of these moments she's delightful, though.

Jerusalem posted:

That was solid, nothing groundbreaking but a fun watch.

Fair Bear Maiden posted:

None of those links work for me

Regarde Aduck posted:

They have. Especially the Eccleston season. I'm not sure how it wasn't canceled. It's loving awful. It gets better every season after that. Your mileage may vary as I think the Matt Smith era just after RTD left was the high water mark.

The_Doctor posted:

Honestly, who looks for a 6 bedroom place? You're all going to end up hating Pavel and his late night DJ sets. Just look for a couple of 3 beds close to eachother. Be sensible, guys!

hanales posted:

Is developing a custom app cheaper than cgi at this point? Or is it just more flexible?

Either way, fascinating.

echoplex posted:

I have A Guy who has been my go-to for involved motion graphics or APK-based apps for a couple of years (DW, Red Dwarf, etc). All the design side stuff comes from me, who is paid for in the show budget, and then he does the coding as a supplier with a day rate. Way way cheaper than handing it to the post department (mostly), as then facilities + people are booked up. I don't know because I've never asked but I would assume the show budgets a set amount of post per episode, in terms of man hours and workflow, so the art dept interfering with that is presumably frowned upon.

It doesn't cost much to comp a phone screen in, true, but the stby art directors/actual episode directors/DPs etc tend to like to have real screens generating real light/interactivity, and generally it's better to have something real on screen if not just for the actor to interact/thumb to.

edit: here's the phone sequence flow from Ep 3 - most of which was unseen. I design the layouts in AI, and send it with annotations to my animator. Usually no more than a day my end and a day his end.

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E-mail addresses used to login to the iPlayer will be matched with records kept by TV Licensing to see if individuals are dodging the £145.50 fee to watch content, the BBC said. However, people still pay their telly licence in a variety of ways, including via debit or credit card over the phone, by post, or over-the-counter.

Presumably, the logic is that if someone is watching the iPlayer via a laptop or device, then they'll also be paying their licence fee online. But the BBC is also seemingly relying on those individuals to use the same e-mail address for the iPlayer and TV licensing.

"You’ll soon need to sign in to watch and listen to things on BBC iPlayer and iPlayer Radio," the BBC is now telling users via its iPlayer service. "And the same goes for some other parts of the BBC. This is so we can make the BBC more relevant and personal to you."

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http://i.imgur.com/YNdwSPU.mp4

Mr Beens posted:

Shonky as gently caress "lab" - an airlock thing that has no safety measures to prevent both doors being open, but can be shut when the lab is in lockdown mode, but can be opened with a dumb rear end combo lock that you get on luggage. Standard office ceiling tiles and vents. An enviroment where the scientists have to wear full body protection, but just choose to take the protection off (also the suits were not even sealed) and can also just bring coffee in. Scientist just sees plants dissolve into goo in front of him, reaches in a scoops it up in a jar and runs out into the non sealed part of the lab.

Maxwell Lord posted:

The one issue I have with the blindness thing is- surely disability law would require that a lab not have a combination lock that ONLY works visually. ATMs all have to have Braille, after all.

Of course you could still have the Doctor not having bothered with Braille because of his specs seeing for him, but the point is, that's a lawsuit from a blind biologist waiting to happen.

Not like a major flaw but whatever.

Anyway, I'm getting kinda pissed at how BBC America is handling this show. The last few episodes have had sort of cliffhangery endings, and each time it hasn't really registered for me right away that the episode is over because of that loving "And now with no fanfare, Class" transition. There needs to be SOME kind of vaguely outro-ish thing. Honestly it's made me more resolved than ever to ignore Class completely.

Astroman posted:

At the end of the day, the regeneration fake out was entirely for the audience. Not much more to it than that.

Jerusalem posted:

Something else from this episode that reminded me of Red Dwarf were the super-fast elevators. They mostly abandoned it after the first season, but I loved that idea that traveling from one end of the ship to another was such a lengthy process that the lifts were actually set up really luxuriously because you were probably going to spend at least a dozen+ hours in one before you arrived at your location.

The idea of the lifts in this one is pretty terrifying, how would your perception of time be affected by moving closer towards the Black Hole at the same time the ship is (slowly) pulling away from it?

HopperUK posted:

I assumed that since we see her human eye and human face, that she hasn't been wholly converted as we understand it. Maybe this is an early prototype version of that and it's reversible.

glowing-fish posted:

I imagine that any ship that was close enough to have that amount of time dilation across decks would be torn apart by tidal forces in under a second, but:

1. The ship has a Structural Inertia Field that holds it together against acceleration
2. The blackhole is made of quark matter and is emitting non-polarized gravitinos
3. Doctor Who isn't a hard science fiction show


I think that they did a good job at taking a basic scientific concept and turning it into a story idea, even if the math and engineering didn't quite work out.

The black hole scenario in the movie Interstellar had a Kip Thorne, a physicist from CalTech go over it and decide it actually could work, but even then they had to use a lot of spherical cows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)#Wormholes_and_black_holes

thexerox123 posted:

Finally caught up. It was a good season!

Honestly, I think the title for this thread was part of why I put off watching it... I figured if "It speaks emoji!" was the only line worth keeping as the title for the entire season, that there must not have been anything good going on.

Turns out it's just a terrible thread title.

Cojawfee posted:

I doubt he will regenerate until the end of the Christmas special anyway. He'll spend a few minutes talking to the first doctor about regenerating and maybe they will go on an adventure together. If not, they will split up, and Doctor Who will have one last adventure before regenerating at the end of the episode. Then we'll see Ed Sheeran bounce around the set or whatever excited to go on his new adventures. Maybe pick up the new companion.