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weird that a show that turns over its entire cast and entire writing staff every decade is sometimes very good and sometimes poo poo
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:weird that a show that turns over its entire cast and entire writing staff every decade is sometimes very good and sometimes poo poo Yeah but those fluctuations happen between episodes written produced and performed by all the same people.
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Nov 14, 2020 06:03
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The Mandalorian has been a better Dr. Who series than the last 3 seasons of Dr Who
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Nov 14, 2020 06:20
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Is it bad I noped out when The Doctor made the old British man sit on the Rosa Parks bus to preserve the timeline? It seemed like it was a bad mistake to give her three companions. Felt they didn't think her or any of the companions to stand on their own.
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Nov 14, 2020 06:52
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Who What Now posted:I've only seen like four Dr Who Episodes. One with David Tenant that ended up with some lady being a face cube. The one where Matt Smith first appears and hits on a little girl and eats some pudding. Then the one where he wears a fez and says bowties are cool. And then the one with the Mighty Morphing Power Daleks. That one with the lady's face becoming a block is universally hated and is considered one of, if not the, worst episodes of the series. It really is godawful too. It's so needlessly mean spirited and just gross and poorly written. FullLeatherJacket posted:imagine it's the original 50s star trek, except now it's about some alien dude from a race of weird alien dudes who disguises himself as a human and travels through time solving mysteries, largely in an attempt to convince a series of teenage girls to move into his place. it's also made for public tv, so you can't do too many episodes where kirk drops a big double axe handle on a lizardman before you've blown all your budget and it also turns out 90% of all the mysteries in the universe happened in victorian england A lot of that also applies to Star Trek. FullLeatherJacket posted:torchwood (it is an anagram) You've made Torchwood sound a lot better than it actually is. GigaPeon posted:Is it bad I noped out when The Doctor made the old British man sit on the Rosa Parks bus to preserve the timeline? That episode was loving terrible beyond words and is the epitome of clueless liberal bullshit. Who thought that was a good idea? Doctor Who should just be about goofy monsters and ghosts and poo poo. Placing the characters in any historical event like that one is not just incredibly clueless white people poo poo but downright disrespectful. CPL593H fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Nov 14, 2020 |
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Nov 14, 2020 07:29
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You know what? I'd gently caress John Barrowman and I have no shame in saying so.
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Nov 14, 2020 07:37
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I remember when spike from buffy was captain jacks ex boyfriend on torchwood
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Nov 14, 2020 10:36
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I only saw the Christopher Eccleston Dr. Who series and that was all the Dr. Who I cared about. (Cause Eccleston's great).
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Nov 14, 2020 11:30
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raditts posted:I gotta admit though, that was nowhere near as poo poo as the 13th doctor retcon You can't just say that and not follow up on it. I've been an on-and-off fan of the revival, but the new Doctor's episodes loving sucked, and I'm not about to start watching it again. I think all 4 or 5 episodes I watched with her all had some dumbass resolutions that felt like a 5 year old came up with them. Still, I'm interested enough in what kind of poo poo they pulled later on.
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Nov 14, 2020 12:22
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GigaPeon posted:Is it bad I noped out when The Doctor made the old British man sit on the Rosa Parks bus to preserve the timeline? Having made the bad decision to do a Rosa Parks episode, the writers were so terrified of actually doing anything with Rosa that instead of coming across as reverential, they make Parks look like an idiot. She is pestered all day by these strange people who question her constantly and are definitely stalking her, and rather than react to it she continues to go about her day as if nothing has happened. Episode highlights include: how the music swells heroically every single time Rosa is on screen The old white British man knowing a lot about the American civil rights movement because his (now deceased) Black wife made the incredibly improbable statement to him “you’d better not be like James Blake.” On finding out he was a bus driver.
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Nov 14, 2020 13:33
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They had not been married long so she would have said this to him in the early to mid 2010s
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Nov 14, 2020 13:36
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after watching a show and it's spinoff for 50 years i've finally determined that it sucks. you're welcome, everyone.
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Nov 14, 2020 14:41
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i watched the first season with the 13th doctor, but after the amazon episode i'm pretty sure i'm not watching any more. torchwood had an episode where they fight a "cyberwoman"  it was written by chris chibnall, the current doctor who show runner.
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Nov 14, 2020 14:55
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Applewhite posted:Having made the bad decision to do a Rosa Parks episode, the writers were so terrified of actually doing anything with Rosa that instead of coming across as reverential, they make Parks look like an idiot. I wonder what social media would look like if ABC aired something like this in prime time. Like if they shoehorned it into law and order or something. welcome to hell posted:i watched the first season with the 13th doctor, but after the amazon episode i'm pretty sure i'm not watching any more. lol Torchwood In conclusion Hell Yeah posted:after watching a show and it's spinoff for 50 years i've finally determined that it sucks. you're welcome, everyone.
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Nov 14, 2020 16:04
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welcome to hell posted:i watched the first season with the 13th doctor, but after the amazon episode i'm pretty sure i'm not watching any more. "You know who would be great to helm the first ever female incarnation of Doctor Who? The guy who wrote the sexy cyberwoman episode."
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Nov 14, 2020 17:05
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Dr. Who hosed me, 13 times.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:06
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dr who went back in time and had sex with my ancestors
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Nov 14, 2020 17:15
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Applewhite posted:"You know who would be great to helm the first ever female incarnation of Doctor Who? The guy who wrote the sexy cyberwoman episode." Oddly enough, it was his idea to begin with, I think he even said he told the BBC that straight up when they offered him the job.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:16
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So far the theme of the season has been "women in history." Like, I get the impulse. What's the point of having the first woman doctor if you're not going to reference the fact she's a woman now? The problem is, they do it like the Rosa Parks episode where the women are treated as infallible demigods with no actual character beyond the fact that they're strong women. They look stoically off toward the horizon and the music swells as they bear up and press on for what's right while the Doctor and co. sort of flail around. I will say though "women in history" episodes are so far the best in the season because the two episodes so far where they try to just have a regular Doctor Who adventure are utterly, utterly awful. Arachnids in London is a slightly worse version of An episode I wrote as a joke six years ago and ends with Donald Trump killing the giant spider and just getting away scott free. And we've already discussed the failings of Kerblam! at length. The space one where they have to fight Stitch from Lilo and Stitch is boring AND stupid. We're in the middle of the witchsmeller episode and I'm not impressed so far.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:22
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Oddly enough, it was his idea to begin with, I think he even said he told the BBC that straight up when they offered him the job. "His idea" in the sense that critics have been asking why The Doctor can't reincarnate as a woman since the 80s and increasingly so every incarnation since Eccleston.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:23
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Also: Every. Single. Episode. in my Doctor Who thread is a better concept than the entire 13th Doctor's season so far.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:24
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remember when his companions had a baby and it was a weird threeway polycule baby or something because the tardis hosed with its dna and put the doctors in it
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Nov 14, 2020 17:27
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Applewhite posted:Having made the bad decision to do a Rosa Parks episode, the writers were so terrified of actually doing anything with Rosa that instead of coming across as reverential, they make Parks look like an idiot. It's also the most white savior bullshit ever.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:32
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food court bailiff posted:remember when his companions had a baby and it was a weird threeway polycule baby or something because the tardis hosed with its dna and put the doctors in it And that baby grew up to be River Song.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:32
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Dear Doctor Who show: here is a "women in history" episode 100000x better than yours. loving hire me.Applewhite posted:A Fistful of Daleks: The Doctor and his companion visit the old west because she wants to meet Annie Oakley. They arrive in a small frontier town, but there's trouble afoot: several of the townsfolk have been complaining of headaches and blurry vision. The Doctor and Clara arrive just as the town sawbones is about to conduct a trepanning operation to relieve the pressure on a hapless townsperson's skull. The Doctor and Clara are understandably aghast at the barbaric procedure, but are even more disturbed when something starts pushing its way out of the hole: it is a tiny Dalek about the size of a hot wheels car. It squeals "exterminate!" in a high pitched voice and fires a tiny beam at the sawbones before scurrying away out of sight. There is a panic as people begin looking under furniture and stuff, but it's ultimately Annie Oakley who offs the tiny menace with a well-placed shot from her six-gun. More mini Daleks start forcing their way out of people (who are still live while this happens) and soon our heores are faced with a swarm of them, all squealing "exterminate" in tiny voices and shooting tiny sparks of death ray at people. The death rays are obviously not fatal by themselves but enough of them can kill a person "death by a thousand cuts" style.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:34
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Applewhite posted:And that baby grew up to be River Song. *in an extremely River song voice* “spoilers!”
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Nov 14, 2020 17:39
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Applewhite posted:"You know who would be great to helm the first ever female incarnation of Doctor Who? The guy who wrote the sexy cyberwoman episode." It’s because he did Broadchurch, which looks like prestige TV but is actually pretty bad.
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Nov 14, 2020 17:54
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It's too on the nose not to be a parody, that scantily clad robot lady.
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Nov 14, 2020 18:18
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Colonel Cancer posted:It's too on the nose not to be a parody, that scantily clad robot lady. When you think about it it's actually a brilliant subversive feminist statement and furthermore...
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Nov 14, 2020 18:27
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LabyaMynora posted:It’s because he did Broadchurch, which looks like prestige TV but is actually pretty bad. Agreed. Broadchurch got so much talk in the press and such gushing reviews, but was like an n-th generation photocopy of a better show. It lurched from suspect to suspect (the town seemed to be 50% secret pedophiles), injected random drama that added up to nothing (the heroes illness, fear of water, traffic backstory, while the heroine flails around pointlessly) until pulling a solution out of the air. It's like someone saw The Killing and decided to copy it. My favourite random detail was how the Scottish lead detective has a Scottish doctor. Despite the fact that the show is not set in Scotland.
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Nov 14, 2020 18:35
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i had completely forgotten that i'd seen the first season of broadchurch how hosed up do you have to be to be an old pedophile that just hugs people like, you're married, loving hug your wife ffs
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Nov 14, 2020 19:01
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Applewhite posted:"His idea" in the sense that critics have been asking why The Doctor can't reincarnate as a woman since the 80s and increasingly so every incarnation since Eccleston. Well, I didn't mean it in the sense that it was his original concept do not steal, but rather that he told the Beeb that he was going to have a woman playing the role if he took the job. Which is a noble idea, and Jodie is a good choice for the role, it's just unfortunate that she's had such crap writing to work with.
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Nov 14, 2020 19:13
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Finished the witchsmeller episode. It was a middle to low tier Doctor Who ep that actually managed to balance “women in history” with a generic monster. 3/5 stars.
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Nov 15, 2020 07:15
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I member watching an episode about van gogh fighting an invisible alien, that sure was something 
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Nov 15, 2020 07:17
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i remember a kind of freaky episode with some creepy semi sentient slave aliens or something that held artificial hearts in their hands working on a space station (?) orbiting a black hole (?) and it turned out it was a two part episode but for like a few weeks the second episode wouldn’t load right on Netflix and I never saw it until like years later and i don’t really remember but I think it ended with the doctor yelling at the black hole which may or may not have been satan or something
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Nov 15, 2020 07:27
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The torchwood (?) Space whale epsiode was kinda depressing.
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Nov 15, 2020 07:57
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Colonel Cancer posted:I member watching an episode about van gogh fighting an invisible alien, that sure was something I was very briefly in a Doctor Who Facebook group but then someone said it would be cool to see an episode where the Doctor meets Anne Frank with complete sincerity followed by not a single person saying that was a terrible idea or "What the gently caress is wrong with you?". I took it upon myself to say "That's a terrible loving idea." and then I got a DM from a mod scolding me for saying "loving". food court bailiff posted:i remember a kind of freaky episode with some creepy semi sentient slave aliens or something that held artificial hearts in their hands working on a space station (?) orbiting a black hole (?) These guys? 
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Nov 15, 2020 08:57
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Re:TARDIS woulda been a way better thread title
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Nov 15, 2020 09:27
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i don't really give a gently caress about doctor who but was there actually an amazon propaganda episode?
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Nov 15, 2020 11:32
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the 4th doctor episodes when douglas adams was script editor whipped rear end. unrelated: one time I brushed up against a boob on the subway and it was very cool
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Nov 15, 2020 12:52
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