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I've always wanted to do that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l15eSAmoDEc How are you this fine Christmas Day? It's fine, I guess. There's a new episode of Doctor Who coming on New Year's Day, and then we have to wait for them to finish the next season. We're lucky to be getting ANY new Doctor Who, given the pandemic, so I'm not mad they're only making eight episodes (as opposed to the Chibnall-standard 11). When we last left our hero, she was trapped in a prison that looks an AWFUL BIT like Shada, while Yaz, Ryan, and Graham are back in Sheffield. What now? Well, if the episode title gives any indication, there will be Daleks. Also, Captain Jack Harkness will appear in the special, hopefully actually meeting the Doctor for the first time in over a decade. Maybe this episode will explain things about last season and have them make sense, but I doubt it. The previous thread can be found here. Now for the formalities. We have a designated spoiler thread, but under Chibnall the amount of spoilers have dried like the lake in that one episode. Use your best judgement. Episode titles can be spoiler-y, so use discretion when discussing episodes yet to air. For example, 'Hide' doesn't spoil anything, but 'OH poo poo IT'S THE DALEKS' does. WHERE DO I START? The Woman Who Fell to Earth is a good starting point, as the current Doctor makes her first starring appearence there alongside her current companions. This is not to discount Doctors 9-12, but so far their stories have not made a major point in the tenure of Whittaker's Doctor. If you want to watch the original series, there are plenty of places to start. You COULD start with An Unearthly Child and watch everything in chronological order. You could also watch individual serials of all the Doctors and determine which you like the best. Keep in mind, don't shotgun a whole Hartnell or Troughton in one go, or else you'll get complacent. Those 60's episodes are meant to be seen one at a time, and if you only just rented the DVD, wait a few hours between episodes. The most popular serials for the original series you can jump into are: First Doctor: An Unearthly Child, The Aztecs Second Doctor: The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Enemy of the World Third Doctor: Spearhead from Space, Carnival of Monsters Fourth Doctor: Pyramids of Mars, The Robots of Death Fifth Doctor: Kinda, Frontios Sixth Doctor: Vengeance on Varos, Revelation of the Daleks Seventh Doctor: Dragonfire, Remembrance of the Daleks WHERE CAN I WATCH DOCTOR WHO? BritBox is the place to watch almost every episode of the original series. In addition, you're in luck if you're an American, as you can watch the original run of Doctor Who on honest-to-goodness TV (Retro TV and some PBS stations)! For the current run: ON TELEVISION UK - BBC One (first run), W USA - BBC America (first run), most PBS stations Canada - CTV Sci-Fi Australia - ABC (first run), ABC ME, Syfy STREAMING UK - BBC iPlayer, Sky Go USA - HBO Max Canada - Crave Australia - Stan, Prime Video SHOULD I BUY THE DVDs AND BLU-RAYs? Just for the bonus features alone. THE NOT-AT-ALL BRIEF GUIDE TO BIG FINISH There are literally thousands of Doctor Who and Doctor Who-related audio dramas released by Big Finish Productions. This is not a post telling you what audio dramas to listen to, because everyone has an opinion that is different from everyone else (some people like Minuet in Hell, believe it or not). This is a post telling you the basic info on the different series of titles there are. I'm only covering ongoing ranges, since devoting a paragraph to the Stage Plays seems a bit silly. If you're wondering why I'm about to spend a good portion of the OP about audio dramas, you are clearly new to the Doctor Who thread. The Monthly Adventures Since 1999, Big Finish have released, on a consistent basis, mostly standalone stories featuring the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh (formerly including Eighth) Doctors. Ending this March after 275 releases. The Fourth Doctor Adventures Tom Baker gets his own line of releases. The Eighth Doctor Adventures / Dark Eyes / Doom Coalition / The Eighth Doctor - The Time War / Ravenous / Stranded Paul McGann's Doctor also gets his own line. Goons love 'em. The Tenth Doctor Adventures David Tennant reprises his role in mini-seasons every chance he can get, and the results are very RTD-like. In a good way! The Companion Chronicles / The Early Adventures This is important: SOME OF THESE ARE NOT AUDIO DRAMAS. These are "enhanced audiobooks" for the most part, which means that one person does all the parts while another gives narration, but also contains sound effects and music cues. The Companion Chronicles originally were one-handers, but now may contain small casts, which the Early Adventure always have. The Ones with Fake Doctors The First Doctor Adventures, the Third Doctor Adventures, and the Ninth/Tenth/Eleventh/Twelveth Doctor Chronicles feature people who are not the original actors playing the roles of the title Doctor. If you're OK with that, by all means give them a try. Spinoffs There are a ton of these, ranging from good (I, Davros) to who gives a poo poo (anything involving a companion from the audio series). THE DISCORD Here it is. The future is now! FINALLY, let's take a look back....all the way to ten years ago! Behold, dramatic irony! Detective No. 27 posted:I don't mind River Song. I just kinda hope we don't get an explanation of her. She's better all mysterious. 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You've redecorated! ...I love it.
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Dec 25, 2020 20:26
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Oh, the round things! I always loved the round things.
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Dec 25, 2020 20:29
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A merry Christmas to all of you at home.
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Vinylshadow posted:Oh, the round things! I always loved the round things. What are the round things?
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I have to be honest, i have extremely low expectations for the special.
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Bilirubin posted:What are the round things? No idea. Rhyno posted:I have to be honest, i have extremely low expectations for the special. Not a bad mindset to have - that way you're not disappointed if it's mediocre, and if it's good, you can be pleasantly surprised
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Just gonna continue my gushing over the best Christmas special here.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ga6CwyKvr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgVJDd5vHfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmtdzQyqpnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJqE2onQUSk "I hate you." "No, you don't."
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Dec 25, 2020 21:12
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Wonderful new thread, all of them.
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Dec 25, 2020 21:14
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I say, what a wonderful OP, it's so violent!
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TinTower posted:Just gonna continue my gushing over the best Christmas special here. God I loved that episode
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"I've always wanted to see that done properly." What fourth wall?
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Vinylshadow posted:"I've always wanted to see that done properly." 
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COLBY: Did you say that about twelve million years ago, on a nameless planet which no longer exists, evolution went up a blind alley? DOCTOR: Yes. COLBY: Natural selection turned back on itself and a creature evolved which prospered by absorbing the energy wavelengths of life itself? DOCTOR: Mmm. COLBY: It ate life? All life, including that of its own kind? DOCTOR: Yes. In other words, the Something Awful Doctor Who thread. KELNER: They're just human. DOCTOR: Mmm. Disappointing, aren't they. Nice to see you again.
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If anyone else is in Finland, the NY special will be broadcast on YLE TV2 at 22.30, New Year’s Day.
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Jerusalem posted:One year we're going to have more new threads for this show than actual episodes of the show Time to start naming them after the audios and novels!
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Dec 26, 2020 16:36
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Santa, I haven't heard from you and I just found out my mailman has been delivering some of my packages to the wrong house. Since my neighbors won't see my name on the box, I'm worried they won't have known it was for me.
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Dec 26, 2020 17:00
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Blimey, I'm a new thread? And still not ginger!
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It's smaller on the outside!
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Dinosaurs On A Spaceship is on now on the BBC America marathon. I forgot Chibnall wrote this one. It is so much fun, it's weird that's exactly what I feel is missing from Chibnall's time as showrunner.
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https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1343290218603032576?s=19 Philip Martin has passed away.
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Ah. Well he... Uh, you know he was, um. Sometimes the less said...? Anyway, goodbye Philip.
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Bicyclops posted:Ah. Well he... Uh, you know he was, um. Sometimes the less said...? Anyway, goodbye Philip. he did write what many say is a classic
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So judging from the OP, is the Charlotte Pollard spin-off series generally not considered to be good by fans?
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OldMemes posted:So judging from the OP, is the Charlotte Pollard spin-off series generally not considered to be good by fans? I enjoyed it, but I think I'm in the minority.
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OldMemes posted:So judging from the OP, is the Charlotte Pollard spin-off series generally not considered to be good by fans? That part of the OP needs to be updated. It's fine, though the second season is better than the first.
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I've hit new-Who in my rewatch. The olympics ending of Fear Her is still amazingly terrible.
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Dec 28, 2020 02:36
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I hope Huw Edwards got paid handsomely for that embarrassment of a commentary.
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I did a double take when I saw "Tom Baker" listed in the writing credits for Death to 2020 (not on par with Brooker's other work IMO, it went fishing for jokes a little too often), but alas, the writer is not the Doctor, just a producer who managed to snag a writing credit in a few of his productions.
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York_M_Chan posted:Dinosaurs On A Spaceship is on now on the BBC America marathon. I forgot Chibnall wrote this one. It is so much fun, it's weird that's exactly what I feel is missing from Chibnall's time as showrunner. Chinball's run to me suffers from a lack of focus? Like the themes and episode seem to be everywhere. I generally liked his first season but that 2nd season landed with a thud to me because it petered out with none of the ideas landing anywhere. I also don't like the generally way his episodes are directed/shot. It feels like a step back in term of action, like too dark, too gray? Still, the first Capaldi season was still I think the "worst" of the bunch.
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Skipping around watching different episodes. This guys face always creeped me out so much.  It somehow never changed.
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Harry Lloyd! He's really good, he also played a villain in the first season of Game of Thrones and was very good in that too.
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I've been rewatching some of my favourite episodes recently, and I swear he never blinks at all after becoming Son of Mine. It's the most offputting thing about a performance that's chock full of 'em. It's creepy as heck and I love it.
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Oh hey, I've just reached Human Nature/Family of Blood in my rewatch. That three episode stretch including Utopia is so loving good. It's just a shame it was followed up by some of the worst most stupid poo poo ever seen in this programme. John Simms' Master has grown on me over the years, and there are scenes in Sound of Drums/Last of the Timelords I love, but the Doctor turning into a goblin until everyone prays to him is still incredibly stupid and bad. What the gently caress were you thinking RTD?
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marktheando posted:Oh hey, I've just reached Human Nature/Family of Blood in my rewatch. That three episode stretch including Utopia is so loving good. It's just a shame it was followed up by some of the worst most stupid poo poo ever seen in this programme. *nods sagely* the moffat era
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Open Source Idiom posted:*nods sagely* Oh you. Moffat was really good in series 5 and also the one with Bill in it
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marktheando posted:Oh hey, I've just reached Human Nature/Family of Blood in my rewatch. That three episode stretch including Utopia is so loving good. It's just a shame it was followed up by some of the worst most stupid poo poo ever seen in this programme. They could of done so much better by Martha in that finale.
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Jerusalem posted:Harry Lloyd! He's really good, he also played a villain in the first season of Game of Thrones and was very good in that too. His role in Game of Thrones was... a crowning achievement.
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