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2011-10-31, 07:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
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2011-10-31, 09:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
The new adventure game is out, if anyone was interested. It's free so I don't see why not.
"Three blokes walk into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey
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2011-10-31, 10:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
So, just caught up, (Got busy) but when the doctor gave his age at lake Silencio he said 1103. Was he being serious that we missed ~200 years of the Doctor, or was he giving himself some lee-way to 'live' after he got 'killed'.
Or does this fall into the We-don't-know-yet/Not even the doctor actually knows his age categories?
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2011-10-31, 12:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
Yup, we missed 200 years of his life. It was strongly implied that between dropping Amy/Rory off at the end of God Complex and the beginning of Closing Time he spent a long time, around 200 years, doing a farewell tour, seeing all the things he needed to see before he died.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of the trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise.
-Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
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2011-10-31, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
Nothing important but littleDoctor Who omage from Greg Dean. Kind of nice I guess.
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2011-10-31, 04:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-31, 05:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
Last edited by Androgeus; 2011-10-31 at 05:36 PM.
"Three blokes walk into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey
Androgeus' 3 step guide to Doctor Who speculation:
Spoiler- Pick a random character
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2011-10-31, 05:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
"'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2011-10-31, 05:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
Well, yes he has adventures we don't see, just by what he mentions on screen we should all know that, 200 years just seemed to be kind of a huge jump for this series. And, he didn't seem to age at all while other things in this series seem to age him. Just checking to see if I missed something that he said that would give a reason for him to lie.
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2011-10-31, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-31, 06:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
It's also very convenient for him to spread that lie. If the point was to fake his death, he spreads the word that he spent "200 years" running around the Universe.
Now he can keep having adventures after Lake Silencio, and the Silence will think their trapped worked, assuming that his appearances took place during those 200 years (On his timeline).
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2011-10-31, 07:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-01, 01:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-01, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-01, 04:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
I thought he didn't switch with the tesselecta until just before the events of Marriage of River Song? In that episode he's shown in a flashback to ask the tessalecta people for their help while wearing the stetson, thus placing it after the events o Closing Time. So it wasn't until that moment that he knew there was a way out of it.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of the trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise.
-Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
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2011-11-01, 04:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
I just remebered that we may actually see some of what the doctor was doing in the 200 year gap at the start of the series. All that waving from history stuff was ment to take place then. (the 1103/teselecta Doctor mentions it, but 907 doesn't).
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"Three blokes walk into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey
Androgeus' 3 step guide to Doctor Who speculation:
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2011-11-01, 10:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-02, 04:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
Oh, right, he said so in closing time... uhm... yeah, good question... maybe he did have some plan anyway? Okay, I don't know... or maybe he lied for the sake of it? Or he said the truth. Period. Man, I wish it was Christmas...
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2011-11-02, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
Just watched the Marriage of River Song
YES! I knew it! He found a way! Well done! It made me actually think he was going to die! Yet I KNEW it! Awesome.
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2011-11-11, 12:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
Oh, its gotta be a bowler after his appearance on LLS, actually a day after you posted this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_TVW7gw0e8
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2011-11-11, 08:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Dr. Si's Old Who Recommendations
Continuing my plan to post what I think to be the highlights of every season of Doctor Who, old and new.
For each series I choose 2 or 3 of what I consider to be the best stories, and a selection of also-rans. "Stories" may comprise any number of actual episodes (somewhere between 1-14, typically 4 or 6). Older Who is nearly always episodic, with NuWho most episodes are self-contained. Feel free to expand on my brief comments, agree, disagree etc. This is, after all, purely subjective.
First Doctor
Second Doctor
Third Doctor
Season Ten (1972-1973)
Third Doctor/Jo
Hard to believe by the time you get to this point that the series has already been running ten years, hence the inclusion of the Three Doctors special. After the dip of last season, things pick up again for Pertwee's Doctor, now into his fourth year in the role.
Carnival Of Monsters – a piece of whimsy, really, but no worse for that. Leslie Dwyer's cynical showman Vorg is the best turn, but all the guests turn in nice performances. Okay, the monsters (drashigs and plesiosaur) aren’t very convincing, but it is Doctor Who.
Frontier In Space – a good, solid bit of space opera with a pleasingly sprawling storyline and convincing aliens. As with most Pertwee six-parters it feels a bit padded by endless escapes, captures and Venusian karate, but there are some great moments such as the prison colony on the Moon and some nice interaction between the Doctor and Jo.
Honourable Mentions
The Three Doctors – good to see the Doctors interact, and some interesting Time Lord backstory, but it fails to fulfil its potential, coming across as a bit insubstantial (like Omega himself). Unusually for a Pertwee story, you wish this was a six-parter.
The Green Death – often cited as a fan favourite, and probably freaky if you don’t like maggots but for me there was never much sense of threat. Nice, for a change, though, to get a convincing build-up to a companion leaving.Last edited by Dr. Simon; 2012-10-10 at 07:56 AM.
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2011-11-13, 08:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
AAARRGH!
Well. I have now seen the Wedding of River Song (cursed mutter mutter River Song), and I have to say that this is the first of the finales that I just didn't like. Honestly, the high point for me was live chess. I'm getting sick of the universe needing saving and time blowing up and the doctor being the centrepoint and yes he's dead and no he's not and AAAAARGGH!
I'm really, really glad that, going by the end of the episode, we'll be seeing a lower-profile doctor now, just to have less of that stuff. I'm significantly less glad that the Doctor is going to make reality blow up at least one more time, but hopefully we'll have some good, solid episodes between now and then. Maybe even more Craig! Craig is awesome. Shush, too, is awesome. The universe collapsing yet again? Boring and humdrum.
EDIT: Looking back over what Moffat has written, I can't help but feel that he has deteriorated. The Empty Child was great, a serious contender for best of NuWho season 1. The Girl in the Fireplace was likewise brilliant. Blink? Marvellous. Time Crash was adorable. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead was alright, although it could have been better. The Eleventh Hour was a bit iffy, though good. But this last season... Let's Kill Hitler was, IMHO, far from spectacular, and my thoughts on the latest are above. A Good Man Goes to War I liked except for mutter mutter River Song (who admittedly probably colours my perception a bit), and The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon were neat, but that's a far higher miss ratio than ever before. So... yeah. I'm less convinced about Moffat than ever.
On an unrelated note, I want more of psychopath Melody. Psychopath Melody was awesome.Last edited by Fortuna; 2011-11-13 at 09:13 PM.
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2011-11-13, 09:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-13, 10:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
The thing I've noticed about Moffat (and this is a thread I've seen beyond his writing for Doctor Who, a lot in Jekyll and a little in Sherlock) is that he is really bad at resolution. He excels at building up a intricate plot that is revealed bit by bit to the audience and everything leading up to the climax leaves you wanting more, to know what is going on and why. However, when the reveal happens it tends to fall flat. This is very apparent in season 6 because in a sense the whole season is the reveal and climax of the River arch and it really emphasizes how bad Moffat is at this kind of thing. Even in his earlier two-parters this can be seen, it was the beginning and middle of Empty Child/Doctor Dances that was so great, the ending not so much (it wasn't bad per say, just not as good as the rest).
Despite all of this I think he is my second favorite TV scriptwriter (coming in a bit behind Sorkin and a little before Whedon), mostly because of his impeccable use of foreshadowing and how he treats his audience like intelligent adults. You don't have the trend of modern TV that avoids complexity because it is too confusing, Moffat embraces complexity and revels in laying a baffling network of red herrings, foreshadowing and false trails for the viewership to chew on.At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of the trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise.
-Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
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2011-11-14, 05:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
Looks like they're planning a Dr. Who film.
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2011-11-14, 05:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
I'm not sure wether to be horrified or elated
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2011-11-14, 05:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-14, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
yeah...I've seen the american film...with eric roberts
I'm scared now.
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2011-11-14, 06:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
According to the Doctor Who magazine, the whole thing is just a rumor. Nothing to freak out about.
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2011-11-14, 06:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Doctor Who thread II: "I should have a hat like that." [SPOILERS]
This is the most worrying line of the whole thing:
'It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.'
No, Doctor Who does not need a radical transformation. Not by any stretch of the imagination.At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of the trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise.
-Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
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