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Which season should the next animated reconstruction be from? This poll is closed. |
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| Season 1 (Marco Polo) |
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13 | 18.57% |
| Season 2 (The Crusade) |
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1 | 1.43% |
| Season 3 (Galaxy 4/The Myth Makers/The Daleks' Master Plan/The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve/The Celestial Toymaker/The Savages) |
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25 | 35.71% |
| Season 4 (The Smugglers/The Highlanders/The Underwater Menace/The Evil of the Daleks) |
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16 | 22.86% |
| Season 5 (The Abominable Snowmen/The Web of Fear/The Wheel in Space) |
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11 | 15.71% |
| Season 6 (The Space Pirates) |
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4 | 5.71% |
| Total: | 70 votes | ||
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https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=time-lord-victorious-figurines-hero-collector gold and silver daleks neat
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Jul 23, 2020 18:55
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I'm curious about the latest issue of DWM, which tackles the biggest mystery in Doctor Who history: continuity.
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Jul 23, 2020 18:58
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"Continuity is only whatever I can remember.” - Terrance Dicks
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Jul 23, 2020 19:11
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Vinylshadow posted:https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=time-lord-victorious-figurines-hero-collector Emperor orb isn’t big enough. 
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Jul 23, 2020 19:35
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The_Doctor posted:Emperor orb isn’t big enough. It shrank in the wash and he's real self-conscious about it
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Jul 23, 2020 20:55
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Davros1 posted:"Continuity is only whatever I can remember.” - Terrance Dicks "Wait, the Daleks AREN'T robots!?!?  " - Terry Nation.
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Jul 24, 2020 00:45
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Jerusalem posted:"Wait, the Daleks AREN'T robots!?!? "DOCTOR WHO IS REQUIRED" 
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Jul 24, 2020 03:32
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Vinylshadow posted:https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=time-lord-victorious-figurines-hero-collector The Emperor Dalek looks like he’s been stung by a bunch of bees for trying to eat their honey
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Jul 24, 2020 03:35
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The Emperor Dalek looks like he’s been stung by a bunch of bees for trying to eat their honey "OH I AM A LIT-TLE BLACK RAIN-CLOUD..."
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Jul 24, 2020 09:27
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Astroman posted:"DOCTOR WHO IS REQUIRED" I’m now imagining if there was a super long game in play and Capaldi regenerated into Missy. 
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Jul 24, 2020 09:45
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The_Doctor posted:I’m now imagining if there was a super long game in play and Capaldi regenerated into the Derek Jacobi Master. Fixed it for you https://giphy.com/gifs/Zf7NTlMqshJ3q/html5
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Jul 24, 2020 11:23
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The Emperor Dalek looks like he’s been stung by a bunch of bees for trying to eat their honey "Sir, the Metaltron is speaking. We think it may actually be... singing?" THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT DAAAA-LEKS IS DAAA-LEKS ARE WONDERFUL THINGS THEIR WEAPONS ARE MADE OUT OF PLUNGERS THEY'RE COVERED IN BUMPY ROUND THINGS EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! YOU'RE DONE, DONE, DONE, DONE, DONE BUT THE MOST WONDERFUL THING ABOUT DAAA-LEKS IS I'M...THE ONLY ONE
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Jul 24, 2020 13:47
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Bicyclops posted:"Sir, the Metaltron is speaking. We think it may actually be... singing?" "And then it makes this long wailing sound. We think it's...crying?" "Record it and turn it into a vTube star."
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Jul 24, 2020 18:17
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*Sad, minor key version of "The Wonderful Thing about Daleks" plays as the Dalek sadly drifts across the floors, eyestalk down* Rose: I liked the old, exterminatey Dalek best. Soldier: Me too. Solder 2: And me. *The Doctor stands, triumphant, happy*
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Jul 24, 2020 18:25
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Astroman posted:Say it ain't so! God Tennant looks so young there.
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Jul 25, 2020 09:14
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The Mutants is actually a really good story, thanks for your time
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Jul 25, 2020 19:37
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The Mutants is actually a really good story, thanks for your time It was actually the first-ever DW I saw as a kid! One summer vacation, my older brother turned it on (he'd seen an episode previously I think) when it aired on the PBS station out of Chicago. They aired DW stories in the 90-minute "omnibus" format, so six-parters like The Mutants were split into two 90-minute editions. So we caught the 2nd half, and even without knowing what the hell was going on, I was still intrigued enough as a kid to watch the show to the end. Then I promptly forgot about it, and went on to do whatever it is that kids do on summer vacations. It wouldn't be until a couple of years later, during another summer vacation from school, when my brother once again introduced me to The Doctor (this one being all teeth and curls) that I became hooked.
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Jul 25, 2020 20:33
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Doctor Who must be an absolute minefield for ‘I remember seeing this film as a kid...’
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Jul 25, 2020 21:16
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Sydney Bottocks posted:So we caught the 2nd half, and even without knowing what the hell was going on, The Mutants is probably one of the better ones for that because it keeps on continually raising the stakes all the way through
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Jul 26, 2020 00:50
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Sydney Bottocks posted:It was actually the first-ever DW I saw as a kid! One summer vacation, my older brother turned it on (he'd seen an episode previously I think) when it aired on the PBS station out of Chicago. They aired DW stories in the 90-minute "omnibus" format, so six-parters like The Mutants were split into two 90-minute editions. So we caught the 2nd half, and even without knowing what the hell was going on, I was still intrigued enough as a kid to watch the show to the end. I once saw The Three Doctors on a Saturday afternoon when I was like 8 or so and had some vague memories of that. Then when I was 11 I was flipping through stations late at night (again a Saturday, home of PBS DW in the 80s) and landed on Timelash and was hooked immediately. At one point I could catch 3 different runs each week, Friday at midnight, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night. I devoured it. If I went on vacation or to grandma's I immediately hit the TV Guide to see when the local DW was showing to plan my life accordingly. It was odd though, because due to the vagaries of PBS schedules, where they would run through til "current" (Six) and start over at Hartnell, I saw One and Two's runs a couple times, most of Three, all of Five and Six (and later Seven) but missed most of Four. T Bakes is to this day the Doctor whose episodes I've seen the least of, but I learned to appreciate him with Big Finish.
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Jul 26, 2020 01:39
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I was surprised as heck when I watched Revelation of the Daleks earlier in the year and realised it was a story I'd actually seen back when I was about 7 or so. One of my strongest memories of watching repeats of the show in the early 90s was of Davros's gross detached head in a tube, but I didn't remember anything else about the story and had merged it with Remembrance of the Daleks in my mind - for some reason the terms Imperial and Renegade Daleks had really stuck with me too. I think the BBC ran a selection of repeats in the run-up to the 30th anniversary so those stories had got all tangled together in my head.
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Jul 26, 2020 18:23
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BritBox US on Amazon has Red Dwarf: The Promised Land. I really enjoyed it.
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Jul 27, 2020 03:08
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Davros1 posted:BritBox US on Amazon has Red Dwarf: The Promised Land. I really enjoyed it. Wasn't perfect, but was fun.
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Jul 27, 2020 03:16
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I enjoy pretty much any time they get those folks back together to check in with us save Back to Earth, 'cause they kept the same rhythm for a laugh track and then didn't have one and it's like when WWE had no crowd but still had wrestlers pause for crowd reactions for like two months.
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Jul 27, 2020 04:54
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That was really offputting when I got a video of some series 7 extended episodes as a kid. Pausing every few lines in anticipation of audience laughter that wasn't there
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Jul 27, 2020 05:02
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People poo poo on laugh tracks because shows like the Big Bang Theory used them in place of jokes, but certain kinds of shows are greatly enhanced by them. Nobody complained that Cheers or Seinfeld had a studio audience.
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Jul 27, 2020 05:05
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:People poo poo on laugh tracks because shows like the Big Bang Theory used them in place of jokes, but certain kinds of shows are greatly enhanced by them. I don't think I could watch a new show that used it now. They started to feel out of place around the time of How I Met Your Mother. They sort of worked in the Jim Burrows days because those kinds of sitcoms really did feel like a stage a lot of the time - they just sort of don't make them like that anymore. The same thing happened with The Office mockumentary device - there were a couple of shows where we just sort of accepted that was the reality, and then it started to suspend disbelief in a way that takes you out of the comedy.
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Jul 27, 2020 05:17
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I admit I really like some shows with laughtracks (Red Dwarf being a big standout; The IT Crowd used to stand with it, but then Glinner poisoned it), but it by default sounds a little old-fashioned now. That's not insurmountable, but I feel like you'd have to lean into it now. If I had to make a show that included a laughtrack, I'd deliberately make it a three-camera-sitcom throwback show in some form. Embrace the fact it feels like it was made last century.
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Jul 27, 2020 05:37
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One Day At A Time justifies the continued existence of laugh tracks, and is exactly the kind of old-school sitcom with modern sensibilities you're talking about.
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Jul 27, 2020 07:12
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It's psychological; lots of things seem funnier if you can hear other people laughing at them, because you have your own opinion "this is funny and it's okay to laugh at it" immediately validated. The act of laughing itself is often a highly social one; most people will laugh a lot less when they're watching something alone than when they're watching something with at least one other person.
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Jul 27, 2020 13:21
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I still want to see the edited episodes of MASH without the laugh tracks. I hear they're great.
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Jul 27, 2020 13:35
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The only near traditional sitcom I watch these days is Brooklyn 99, and that would be very weird with a laugh track.
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Jul 27, 2020 13:39
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Trin Tragula posted:It's psychological; lots of things seem funnier if you can hear other people laughing at them, because you have your own opinion "this is funny and it's okay to laugh at it" immediately validated. The act of laughing itself is often a highly social one; most people will laugh a lot less when they're watching something alone than when they're watching something with at least one other person. It's not just that, though. The Good Place or Community would feel very strange with a laugh track, because that's not how the humor is presented. The three-camera, in front of an audience feel at least has to be there. It's not even old vs. new - I think the laugh track feels weirdly out of place in any Monty Python sketch that takes place outside. I have a soft spot for Bicycle Repair Man for example, but the laugh track sounds wooden (even though it's as "genuine" as a laugh track gets - MPFS showed video segments to a live audience for the stuff filmed outside). Sometimes the humor is enough to overcome the awkwardness of it (and there are times when the laugh track on MPFS specifically almost feel ironic, despite how standard it would have been). I think where it gets really bad is when something tries to hit all of the beats of an old studio audience sitcom without the camera-work and the kinds of sets that obviously have that big open wall, at which point it ends up feeling like an alien watched Earth TV and tried to create something similar. I directed a play once about TV warping people in which all of the sitcoms were portrayed as horrific, and a lot of modern sitcoms feel like that when they shoot for the laugh track and whiff. I know a lot of people love Modern Family but the "talking to an invisible film crew" thing took me right out of it. I think that device is thankfully falling by the wayside, though. Brooklyn 99 is a good example of a show that borrows some of the shots they'd do in something like Parks and Rec, but disposing of the interviews and mugging at the camera, and I think it's better for it.
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Jul 27, 2020 14:41
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Astroman posted:I still want to see the edited episodes of MASH without the laugh tracks. I hear they're great.
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Jul 27, 2020 14:53
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Bicyclops posted:Modern Family but the "talking to an invisible film crew" thing took me right out of it. I think that device is thankfully falling by the wayside, though. You should check out What We Do In the Shadows, which is also mockumentary, but hilarious.
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Jul 27, 2020 15:12
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Payndz posted:They were what the BBC showed. I had no idea MASH even had a laugh track until I watched an episode on Sky years after the original run finished. It made it almost unwatchable. ISTR the UK MASH DVDs had the option of playing the episodes with or without the laugh tracks.
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Jul 27, 2020 15:15
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The_Doctor posted:You should check out What We Do In the Shadows, which is also mockumentary, but hilarious. I didn't like it.  I watched with a group over Discord during quarantine and it just didn't click, I think because of the mockumentary thing. I know it's me though, lots of people love it (including the friends I watched it with).
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Jul 27, 2020 15:48
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The_Doctor posted:You should check out What We Do In the Shadows, which is also mockumentary, but hilarious. That show is also a great example of acknowledging the camera crew in key moments for greater humor.
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Jul 28, 2020 00:06
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Astroman posted:That show is also a great example of acknowledging the camera crew in key moments for greater humor. Yeah, I'm not at all a fan of the way shows like Modern Family incorporated mockumentary beats without actually being a mockumentary, but WWDITS does it perfectly, and almost every time they do it in a fresh, clever way. ♪ Oh documentary crew, I want to eat you so baaaad.... ♪
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah, I'm not at all a fan of the way shows like Modern Family incorporated mockumentary beats without actually being a mockumentary, but WWDITS does it perfectly, and almost every time they do it in a fresh, clever way. <films from other end of the room>
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