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I’m a year behind on Doctor Who and still catching up. The loving Kerblam episode where Amazon is the hero has just about ruined it for me. What kind of bootlicking corporate apologist bullshit is this? The Doctor doesn’t get excited about getting Amazon packages. The Doctor traps Jeff Bezos inside a bowl of alphabet soup where all the letters spell out “help me” because the Doctor always sticks it to the man. A woman Doctor should be fighting the power even harder and freaking out the normies but instead she’s having touchy-feely adventures where she DOESN’T feed Donald Trump to a giant spider. I am very upset by this development.
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Applewhite posted:I’m a year behind on Doctor Who and still catching up. the latist i have seen is the matt smith doctor and eventually i kind of burned out of it after high school in general. the old episodes from the 60s and such seem more fun than weird up its own rear end writting and dumb cgi bullshit. id say id prefer star trek but i havent seen enough of that either outside a bunch of TOS/TNG.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:12
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Modern Doctor Who is good actors being hobbled by bad scripts. You get some great moments and occasionally a good episode.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:15
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13th Doctor would be a good name for a band.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:15
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I will admit that the angel statues were genuinely creepy
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Nov 12, 2020 03:18
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Is it possible to succinctly explain what Doctor Who is "about" to someone who has never watched any of it?
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Nov 12, 2020 03:19
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SubnormalityStairs posted:I will admit that the angel statues were genuinely creepy They were probably introduced longer ago than the gap between the new Dr Who series and the end of the old series.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:20
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Chomp8645 posted:Is it possible to succinctly explain what Doctor Who is "about" to someone who has never watched any of it? Magic School Bus for adults but with a telephone box instead of a bus.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:20
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This show might be watchable if any of the actors were understandable. Such a shame. Kind of like some of the set and costume design but it's like, how did not a single person there say anything about the fact that nobody can understand these people?
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Nov 12, 2020 03:23
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We were huge fans, and we like Jodi as the Doctor, but the stories are so bad now they're just unwatchable.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:24
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Chomp8645 posted:Is it possible to succinctly explain what Doctor Who is "about" to someone who has never watched any of it? The Doctor is a guy with a machine that can travel anywhere in space or time. Everywhere he goes, he ends up righting a wrong. Usually to do with a space monster. The low-budget nature of the monsters is a feature, not a bug, and is likely responsible for the series' enduring charm. There's volumes and volumes of lore, but none of it is important since every single episode seems to make a point of breaking the rules or continuity set in previous episodes. Like James Bond, the part of the titular doctor (who's only on-screen name is "the Doctor") is played by different actors as the series progresses. Unlike James bond, the change in the Doctor's appearance is diagetic. The fandom identifies the doctors by the number order in which they appear. We're currently on the 13th doctor, the first woman to fill the role.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:25
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GORDON posted:We were huge fans, and we like Jodi as the Doctor, but the stories are so bad now they're just unwatchable. Yeah the actress is fine but the writing is dogshit. Say what you will about Moffat, his episodes might have been mostly nonsense, but almost all of them somehow came together in the end, like the David S. Pumpkins SNL sketch. You spend the whole episode wondering where they're going with this and then somehow, like magic, it all clicks and you forgive all the zany crap that came before. But not these episodes. These are just bland garbage.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:29
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"Demons of the Punjab" was the only "good" episode I've seen so far and I think it might have done better to not have space creatures in it.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:32
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Applewhite posted:Yeah the actress is fine but the writing is dogshit. And I seem to recall everyone saw it coming, too. Didn't this current showrunner make some of the least liked episodes, before? It irritates me when they blame the new woman Doctor. So not her fault, she's great.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:33
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My friends introduced me to the show by jumping on board with the current doctor...... the one with the evil towels was pretty rough.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:35
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Applewhite posted:Yeah the actress is fine but the writing is dogshit. Sounds like the first female Doctor is shaping up like the first female Star Trek captain...
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Nov 12, 2020 03:36
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Doctor Who’s a lady now?! At long last I can fulfill my dream of cranking my hog to The Doctor.  Neither Romona nor Romona II count.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:38
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GORDON posted:And I seem to recall everyone saw it coming, too. Didn't this current showrunner make some of the least liked episodes, before? It irritates me when they blame the new woman Doctor. So not her fault, she's great. Chomp8645 posted:Sounds like the first female Doctor is shaping up like the first female Star Trek captain... Yeah this is definitely some glass cliff poo poo.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:41
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I knew about Dr. Who abstractly for a long time and never saw or read anything about it. For whatever reason, for no real explanation, I fell directly into watching all of David Tennant's 10'th Doctor series and there can't be another Doctor for me and totally understand why fans get upset by this, by I haven't even bothered checking the show out since he left. I'm a terrible person.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:42
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Robo Reagan posted:gbs hates women Not sure if you can tell, but in both cases we're saying the problem was neither the actress nor the concept of the character being female. It's the writing. And it's really unfortunate when the writing for the first female X happens to suck.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:43
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I stopped watching but I think it's because of Chibnall, not Whittaker or the Doctor.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:44
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I just watched the David tennant and Matt smith seasons. The episode with the moon guys who make you forget about them any time you look away was cool.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:45
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Big Beef City posted:I knew about Dr. Who abstractly for a long time and never saw or read anything about it. Totally get this. I didn't care for Matt Smith or Peter Capaldi when they first started. I actually like Jodie Whittaker more than I liked Peter Capaldi at first. But the episode where she goes to work in an Amazon warehouse and all the workers are happy and it turns out the anti-Amazon activist was the bad guy left a REAL sour taste in my mouth. I guess I should have specified when I say "I'm not warming to the 13th Doctor" I refer to the generation as a whole, and not the character specifically.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:58
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The more I think about the Amazon episode the madder I get. How is this allowed? Who okayed this?
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Nov 12, 2020 03:59
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Nobody looked at the script and said "actually the Doctor fights the establishment and Amazon could only ever be a bad guy. This needs a rewrite."
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Nov 12, 2020 04:00
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doctor who is basically action adventure mr. rogers and if you like it your father neglected you
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Nov 12, 2020 04:02
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Dr. Poo
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Nov 12, 2020 04:03
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A precocious Bichon Frise in a bowtie that I call Dogtor Who.
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Nov 12, 2020 04:05
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:doctor who is basically action adventure mr. rogers and if you like it your father neglected you I guess that must mean I'm talking to his biggest fan 
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Nov 12, 2020 04:06
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i liked the energy tennant brought to the role but wasn't impressed by any of the followups. haven't seen the lady doctor episodes either. i love the old poo poo because i'm a sucker for bad old sci fi in general. blakes 7 is the best star trek.
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Nov 12, 2020 04:09
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I don't like how this year the Tardis was changed into a refrigerator full of yogurt
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Nov 12, 2020 04:19
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and how they swapped out the sonic screwdriver for a panasonic self-screwdriver
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Nov 12, 2020 04:19
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Doctor Dogballs posted:and how they swapped out the sonic screwdriver for a panasonic self-screwdriver The next Dr Who is gonna be that Scandinavian guy with a bowl cut reviewing his VCR collection over a green screen
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https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/341236353926852608?lang=en
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Nov 12, 2020 04:31
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Chomp8645 posted:Is it possible to succinctly explain what Doctor Who is "about" to someone who has never watched any of it? White Man's Burden: the Series
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Nov 12, 2020 04:41
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Are they a proctologist?
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Nov 12, 2020 04:46
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The leather jacket guy was ok everything else is pretty much trash
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I mostly stopped watching when Amy Pond died and they brought on some hella boring girl that then stuck around for like 6 years.
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Applewhite posted:But the episode where she goes to work in an Amazon warehouse and all the workers are happy and it turns out the anti-Amazon activist was the bad guy left a REAL sour taste in my mouth. lol jesus christ for real? what's next, the Doctor lands in 1984 UK and helps solve the crisis of people not having enough coal to heat their houses in the winter by putting down the nasty coal miners? then she has a glowing heart-to-heart with Maggie where they talk about how women in positions of authority are never given the same respect as men? that would be super woke!
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