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Verity Lambert | 30 | 15.31% | |
Barry Letts | 7 | 3.57% | |
Phillip Hinchcliffe | 32 | 16.33% | |
John Nathan-Turner | 6 | 3.06% | |
Russell T Davies | 33 | 16.84% | |
Steven Moffat | 50 | 25.51% | |
Chris Chibnall (I am from the future) | 38 | 19.39% | |
Total: | 196 votes |
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Wheat Loaf posted:I remain unsure whether the Reverend shouting angrily at the guys stealing from his church and interspersing his rant with "BZZT! BZZT!" like a wasp was meant to be funny or dramatic.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 03:17 |
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Vinylshadow posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOfIIqb8Uhg io9 posted:Steven Moffat has long made it known what an insanely stressful time the creation of Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary special was—an event almost so disastrous it nearly didn’t have the Doctor in it at all. But at long last, Moffat has revealed what story he would’ve had to use for the potential reality of “The Day of the Doctor” with no Doctor.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 03:40 |
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I like how half of the dialogue in Wasp and the Unicorn is titles of Agatha Chriatie books awkwardly shoehorned into the conversation.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 03:46 |
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Rirse posted:Also didn't notice the 'Unicorn' was Jyn from Rogue One. Holy poo poo.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 07:35 |
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It's like how Frank from "Daleks In Manhattan" grew up to become Spider-Man.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 11:34 |
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Peter Wyngarde, the Ron Grainer Arrangement Doctor who also appeared in Planet of Fire, has died
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 13:50 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Peter Wyngarde, the Ron Grainer Arrangement Doctor who also appeared in Planet of Fire, has died Which was news to me when I heard it today, because I thought he’d died years ago.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 14:24 |
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He would've made an entertaining Doctor himself. Behold, pictured here alongside the Master:
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 14:34 |
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I wonder if Moffat even considered just asking Paul McGann to be in the larger special?
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 14:51 |
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https://twitter.com/IanLevine/status/954006527786061824 https://twitter.com/IanLevine/status/954024159922794496 https://twitter.com/hellothisisivan/status/954012264016826368 Heh
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 20:39 |
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Makes sense that Ian’s another insufferable Babylon 5 fan I kid... sort of
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 20:45 |
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B5 is amazing; a remake would be terrible. The good parts and the bad parts were of its time.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 22:53 |
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remusclaw posted:I wonder if Moffat even considered just asking Paul McGann to be in the larger special? Something something Fox film problem? I think? Big Mean Jerk posted:Makes sense that Ians another insufferable Babylon 5 fan Don't apologize, B5 fans are terrible. If not for Firefly and GoT they would still be the worst genre fandom.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 23:01 |
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Dr. Who fans are way worse than B5 fans just due to sheer volume I don't even know anyone who watched B5, and I know a lot of sad nerds
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 23:12 |
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Rhyno posted:Something something Fox film problem? I think? I'm pretty sure the BBC owns the character of the Doctor.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 23:23 |
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Edward Mass posted:I'm pretty sure the BBC owns the character of the Doctor. I thought that was the reason given in the past, that they couldn't do anything long form with him without Fox's permission or some nonsense.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 23:28 |
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Rhyno posted:Don't apologize, B5 fans are terrible. If not for Firefly and GoT they would still be the worst genre fandom. To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand all of those shows. Also: has Levine explained why he's opposed to the Doctor being a woman or is it the generic reason (sexism)?
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 23:30 |
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Rhyno posted:I thought that was the reason given in the past, that they couldn't do anything long form with him without Fox's permission or some nonsense. I'm almost certain if anything, NBCUniversal would have those rights, seeing as how they produced the 1996 movie. It was, after all, Universal Studios with whom 2entertain had to negotiate DVD rights with.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 23:51 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:B5 is amazing; a remake would be terrible. The good parts and the bad parts were of its time. Clearly, we need a 24 years later show just to satisfy Levine. Leads will be Claudia Christian as Ivanova, Mira Furlon as Delenn, and Tracy Scoggins as Lochley. Other characters will include Garibaldi's daughter, one of Vir's wives, and the gender-fluid psychic love child of G'kar and Lyta. Then he can scream about how there are too many women on the show and switch to a Space 1999 reboot. It might almost be worth it to see what the show looks like with the Wachowskis directing.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 00:28 |
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I mean, almost all of the major male actors are dead so it's not like they can come back: Michael O'Hare 2012 Jerry Doyle 2016 Richard Biggs 2004 Andreas Katsulas 2006 Jeff Conaway 2011 Stephen Furst 2017 (leaving Boxleitner, Jurasik and Mumy) whereas all of the female leads are still alive. This is a similar ratio to the original Star Trek.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 00:43 |
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Well that's probably why it would have to be a reboot.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 00:48 |
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Rhyno posted:Well that's probably why it would have to be a reboot. When Straczynski was trying to get The Memory of Shadows movie off the ground way back when, he was told he'd have to recast the original characters with better actors.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 00:57 |
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Rhyno posted:I thought that was the reason given in the past, that they couldn't do anything long form with him without Fox's permission or some nonsense. The rights conflict is about Grace, the companion in the film, which is why she never shows up in anything. corn in the bible fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Jan 19, 2018 |
# ? Jan 19, 2018 01:00 |
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Timby posted:When Straczynski was trying to get The Memory of Shadows movie off the ground way back when, he was told he'd have to recast the original characters with better actors. Ouch. corn in the bible posted:The rights conflict is about Grace, the companion in the film, which is why she never shows up in anything. I am also aware of this.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 02:10 |
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Rirse posted:There, I got pass Wasp and the Unicorn, which isn't as bad I thought it would be since everyone in this thread talks about how awful it was. Also didn't notice the 'Unicorn' was Jyn from Rogue One. Don't remember anyone talking about Unicorn for years, if I'm honest. It's pretty forgettable.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 02:16 |
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Best part about the Grace thing is at the end of the otherwise awful Divergent Arc in Big Finish, when Daphne Ashbrook is playing a different character. The bad guy says they should say Grace before eating, and the Doctor quickly insists,"Grace? Grace? There's no Grace here!"
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 02:35 |
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Jerusalem posted:Best part about the Grace thing is at the end of the otherwise awful Divergent Arc in Big Finish, when Daphne Ashbrook is playing a different character. The bad guy says they should say Grace before eating, and the Doctor quickly insists,"Grace? Grace? There's no Grace here!" I liked the story where they're in a big torus
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 03:29 |
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corn in the bible posted:I liked the story where they're in a big torus Scherzo - it still holds up pretty well. The Divergent Arc had such a strong beginning with that, before immediately nosediving into Phillip Martin's wank fantasy, and then a load of stories consisting of people saying "Hmmm, what is this concept of moving from one moment to the next you call, "Time"?" while ironically lasting for loving eternity. To be fair, if it wasn't for the fact that the revival was looming on the horizon, they might not have made such a mad dash towards the end of that arc, and paced it a bit better. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Jan 19, 2018 |
# ? Jan 19, 2018 05:57 |
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I loved the Multihaven. Whoops be praised!
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 06:06 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:"Hmmm, what is this concept of moving from one moment to the next you call, "Time"?" while ironically lasting for loving eternity. "We simply don't understand this thing you call time. We discussed it for hours, and as the days and nights passed we found we were no closer to grasping this alien idea. Look, I even marked down how long it took on my calendar, which is a thing we all have here!"
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 09:19 |
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I don't know how they were expecting to actually pull off "a universe without time", but they utterly failed no matter how you slice it. The doctor being bounced around worlds by a malignant entity was already a decent enough concept for a series or two, then throw in Rasillon as well and you're fine, it didn't need the "Oh but what is this thing you call time, Doctor" nonsense.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 12:06 |
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I didn't like Scherzo, though it was certainly ambitious. (I'm less fond of Robert Shearman than a lot of this thread is, though. Chimes of Midnight was great, of course.) The only Divergent arc story I have any really fond memories of is the one where the Doctor is split into three people, Enemy Within style.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 12:10 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:B5 is amazing; a remake would be terrible. The good parts and the bad parts were of its time. I'm all for a remake if Sinclair is a 50 year old hard-rear end woman and Sheridan marrying the original idea of Delenn, an androgynous (don't remember if supposed to be genderless or dual-gendered) person turning into a full blown - this time around - man.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 13:34 |
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Jerusalem posted:"We simply don't understand this thing you call time. We discussed it for hours, and as the days and nights passed we found we were no closer to grasping this alien idea. Look, I even marked down how long it took on my calendar, which is a thing we all have here!" lol That was the major problem with that whole arc. You really have to be told repeatedly that they have no concept of time because none of the authors have thought about how to demonstrate it (and it would be difficult even if they'd given it a lot of thought)! I guess the idea was "He doesn't have a TARDIS and he's a Time Lord in a place without time - what'll he do?" but it didn't quite work out. Well, that and Philip Martin.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 16:03 |
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I haven't listened to the Divergent arc but Warrior's Gate made a decent fist of doing a story in a (somewhat) timeless world.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 16:08 |
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Yeah, the only one that does it properly is Scherzo and possibly The Natural History of Fear. For the rest it’s more like he ended up in a place where his Time Lord time-senses that hardly ever come up anyway are cut off and therefore that must mean there’s No Time.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 16:16 |
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The final explanation for that guff is that time in the Divergent Universe is an infinite causal loop that means the Doctor can't get his bearings. How this impacted the vocabularies of its indigenous species is an exercise for the listener.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 16:32 |
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 16:51 |
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I rewatched the Eleventh Hour this morning and it's still so much fun.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 19:48 |
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Rhyno posted:I rewatched the Eleventh Hour this morning and it's still so much fun. "Hello! I'm the Doctor! Basically… run."
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 20:03 |