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Post by RobinBland on Jan 6, 2023 23:21:04 GMT
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Jan 7, 2023 4:27:15 GMT
For a nanosecond, my old brain read that as "R2D2's new reign as Who supremo."
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Post by RobinBland on Jan 7, 2023 20:30:00 GMT
That's how I'm pronouncing it!
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Post by SherlockHolmes on Jan 10, 2023 23:18:51 GMT
....I just spit up my drink. Thanks Sehlat.
So I am a relatively new Doctor Who fan. I've only been a fan for about 2 months. I bought the Eccleston&Tennant collection and fell in love with the show. My wife even bought me a 10th doctor Sonic Screwdriver pen for Christmas with lights and sounds. I'm driving my Co-workers nuts with it. I ended up buying the Matt Smith collection then the Peter Capaldi Collection.
I'm at the end of the first season of Capaldi, and I feel like the show is starting to go downhill. I feel like they're destroying the character of Clara Oswald, and last season she was my favorite companion to date. Now I want to throw her out of the Tardis. Its as though she's not even the same character anymore. I even feel like the doctor is out of character now. He's not fun like Eccleston, Tennant, and Smith. The Doctor now seems arrogant cold, heartless, and just a plain selfish ego-maniacal (Bleepity BleeP). Also the drama with dealing with Mr. Pink and Clara is so forced its really dragging the show down. And if I hear one more "You do as you are told" from either the Doctor or Clara again, I will throw popcorn at my TV.
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Post by RobinBland on Jan 10, 2023 23:40:15 GMT
....I just spit up my drink. Thanks Sehlat. So I am a relatively new Doctor Who fan. I've only been a fan for about 2 months. I bought the Eccleston&Tennant collection and fell in love with the show. My wife even bought me a 10th doctor Sonic Screwdriver pen for Christmas with lights and sounds. I'm driving my Co-workers nuts with it. I ended up buying the Matt Smith collection then the Peter Capaldi Collection. I'm at the end of the first season of Capaldi, and I feel like the show is starting to go downhill. I feel like they're destroying the character of Clara Oswald, and last season she was my favorite companion to date. Now I want to throw her out of the Tardis. It's as though she's not even the same character anymore. I even feel like the doctor is out of character now. He's not fun like Eccleston, Tennant, and Smith. The Doctor now seems arrogant cold, heartless, and just a plain selfish ego-maniacal (Bleepity BleeP). Also the drama with dealing with Mr. Pink and Clara is so forced its really dragging the show down. And if I hear one more "You do as you are told" from either the Doctor or Clara again, I will throw popcorn at my TV. Heh. Give it time. The twelfth Doctor ends up being the biggest softie of them all. I know what you mean about Clara though - she stayed too long. They should've brought Bill in earlier. That said, Clara's exit is genuinely epic and contains one of the single best episodes of Doctor Who ever made - Heaven Sent. You also have all the joys of classic Who to explore!
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Jan 11, 2023 4:39:58 GMT
....I just spit up my drink. Thanks Sehlat. So I am a relatively new Doctor Who fan. I've only been a fan for about 2 months. I bought the Eccleston&Tennant collection and fell in love with the show. My wife even bought me a 10th doctor Sonic Screwdriver pen for Christmas with lights and sounds. I'm driving my Co-workers nuts with it. I ended up buying the Matt Smith collection then the Peter Capaldi Collection. I'm at the end of the first season of Capaldi, and I feel like the show is starting to go downhill. I feel like they're destroying the character of Clara Oswald, and last season she was my favorite companion to date. Now I want to throw her out of the Tardis. It's as though she's not even the same character anymore. I even feel like the doctor is out of character now. He's not fun like Eccleston, Tennant, and Smith. The Doctor now seems arrogant cold, heartless, and just a plain selfish ego-maniacal (Bleepity BleeP). Also the drama with dealing with Mr. Pink and Clara is so forced it's really dragging the show down. And if I hear one more "You do as you are told" from either the Doctor or Clara again, I will throw popcorn at my TV. Welcome to both Prometheus' wonderful new holodeck reconstruction of Trekcore OS, and welcome to the wonderful universe of Doctor Who!
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Post by SherlockHolmes on Jan 14, 2023 14:18:15 GMT
SPOILERS BELOW....or as River Song would put it....Sppooillleeerrrs
So once they got rid of the Mr. Pink drama and Doctor being a A-h0le dynamic, the show got better. Then they killed off/then forgot Clara. Yeah the show just took a nose dive for me, because Clara has been my favorite character yet.
The reasoning of the Doctor alludes me though. The immortal Maisie Williams character would have been the perfect companion for the doctor. But because he was a dummy, he left her alone to become unguided and pretty much another Nemesis. In fact, not taking that character with him on the Tardis pretty costed Clara her life. I can see where people said the writing started taking a nose dive with the Capaldi era. I dread to see how bad it gets with the Jodie Whitaker era. I heard it gets pretty bad.
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Post by RobinBland on Jan 26, 2023 17:42:41 GMT
The Latest blu-ray box set announced, simultaneous release for the UK and the USA... Season 9 (AKA Jon Pertwee, Season 3)
Features such 70s greats as Day of the Daleks (the third Doctor's best Dalek adventure), The Curse of Peladon and my personal fave Jon Pertwee adventure. The Sea Devils. Click the link above for some new Sea Devils action.
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Post by SherlockHolmes on Jan 26, 2023 22:12:19 GMT
I really need to get sets of the original shows on DVD/Blu-ray. Well, the ones they managed to find anyway. Btw, I always thought that the 1st doctor was old as crap, turns out he was the same age as Peter Capaldi when he took over as the Doctor, and only 4 years younger than David Tennant is now.
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Post by RobinBland on Jan 26, 2023 23:20:22 GMT
I really need to get sets of the original shows on DVD/Blu-ray. Well, the ones they managed to find anyway. Btw, I always thought that the 1st doctor was old as crap, turns out he was the same age as Peter Capaldi when he took over as the Doctor, and only 4 years younger than David Tennant is now. Yeah, Hartnell was pretty heavily made up to look a lot older than he actually was, and he played that doddery old professor thing to the hilt. I have the S2 box set and I've been enjoying the hell out of it. The production values are practically non-existent by today's standards - it's like televised plays on minimal sets - but all the structural stuff of Doctor Who is there. The Tom Baker blu-ray box sets are really, really nice. Loads of extras.
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Post by SherlockHolmes on Jan 27, 2023 4:32:55 GMT
sorry i said that backwards, he was only 4 years older than David Tennant is now.
Yeah, I really hate how the BBC (I hate the BBC in general the draconian authoritarian Daleks and their TV licensing and their too much authority) kept sabotaging Doctor Who at every turn.
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Post by RobinBland on Jan 28, 2023 21:15:42 GMT
sorry i said that backwards, he was only 4 years older than David Tennant is now. Yeah, I really hate how the BBC (I hate the BBC in general the draconian authoritarian Daleks and their TV licensing and their too much authority) kept sabotaging Doctor Who at every turn. Welllll... they didn't. Not all the time, anyway, otherwise it wouldn't have lasted for 27 years. Not in the 60s, when some of the post-Verity Lambert messes were caused by certain producers themselves, and certainly not throughout most of the 70s, when it was mostly celebrated. Barry Letts was certainly supported by his bosses and Hinchcliffe only got fired - sorry, moved - because his bosses gave in to Mary Whitehouse. But in terms of the 1970s Saturday night BBC lineup, Doctor Who was seen as a vitally important ratings winner. Remember, this was in a country that had only three TV stations back then. Channel 4 didn't even begin broadcasting until 1981. It's almost impossible to comprehend now how huge a star actors like Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker were in national terms. It was only at the end of that decade when things begin to go bad and when Michael Grade came in as controller of BBC1 in the 80s. He was completely misguided and downright wrong as to DW's place in British culture, as has been borne out, but I think he had a point that the show was a bit stale at the time he made that judgement (most of Colin Baker's era). It was just blinkered and stupid to axe the show outright though, instead of realistically rethinking the BBC's approach to it. I haven't actually watched the interview by Matthew Sweet with Grade on the second Colin Baker box set yet, but apparently, he admits (at least) to misjudging the affection in which the show was held both by the British public and around the world. Rare for someone in that position to admit such things. I'm not sure if that's humility or just finally acceding to worldwide cultural consensus in an attempt to claw back some credibility on the matter.
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Post by RobinBland on Apr 24, 2023 19:13:18 GMT
Can't say this is a surprise, as the man says, but it's not one I'm wild about. I never much liked Gold's scoring throughout RTD's first tenure as showrunner as it was always so brash. He improved a lot under Moffatt, so I'm pretty sure it's not Gold's fault - he did as directed. (Apparently a lot of this was due to producer Phil Collinson's tastes and as he's back as well, I'm not sure things will have changed that much.) Shame. I was hoping for something all-new. http://instagram.com/p/Crbaxgdtmdw
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Post by RobinBland on May 13, 2023 22:49:46 GMT
This is pretty cool! A "fan" animation of one of the missing Hartnell stories (episode 1) that is actually better, in some ways, than the official animations based on missing stories. Give him a job!
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Post by RobinBland on May 14, 2023 11:08:54 GMT
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Post by RobinBland on Jun 7, 2023 17:40:14 GMT
Bonnie Langford to Return as Mel! BBC official Tweet
I personally am actually really happy to hear this. Her character of Mel was massively underserved during her original time on the show.
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Post by RobinBland on Oct 30, 2023 17:52:18 GMT
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Post by RobinBland on Nov 1, 2023 3:53:19 GMT
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Post by Yorick on Nov 23, 2023 18:57:41 GMT
This whole Davros thing, I mean, I know RTD says he’s sincere but do you think it could be trolling? Has anyone ever formed a negative prejudice against disabled people or wheelchair users because of Davros? I mean, in as early as the second ever Dalek story, The Dalek Invasion of Earth (and its movie equivalent), the Earth rebels were lead by Dortmun, a scientist in a wheelchair. Harrison Bergeron here we come…
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Post by RobinBland on Dec 20, 2023 16:41:06 GMT
Well, I rather enjoyed all three specials. I thought The Star Beast was the weakest at first, but on a rewatch found it very enjoyable.
Wild Blue Yonder is a thematic sequel to RTD's own Midnight, but this time the incomprehensible lifeforms imitate faces and physical shapes rather than voices and, for that, are maybe a little less inexplicable and scary, although this was still excellent tea-time horror. Wonderful to see Cribbo at the end there for a last hurrah. How I miss him.
The Giggle was also wonderfully surreal, and I'm liking this direction. Doctor Who is at its best when it links the fantastical with the everyday, the ordinary with the fabulous. Hoped we'd see a bit more of Mel, but maybe in future episodes?
All three episodes were delightfully watchable!
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Post by ashleytinger on Jan 3, 2024 19:07:28 GMT
I loved all three of the specials but I'm really liking the new Doctor.
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Post by RobinBland on Jan 10, 2024 11:55:39 GMT
I loved all three of the specials but I'm really liking the new Doctor. Gatwa was the Doctor right out of the gate, in The Giggle, like Tennant was first time around in The Christmas Invasion. For me, it was instantaneous - loved him. Hasn't always been thus: I took time to warm to Capaldi - though he wound up being my fave new series (21st century) Doctor. But the signs are really, really good. I also really liked Millie Gibson as Ruby, and her mum, played by Michelle Greenidge, who is a fabulously funny British comedienne a lot of the time. I also love that 15 is less existentially compromised than 14 (and several previous incarnations)! Happy Doctor.
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Post by SherlockHolmes on Feb 5, 2024 22:22:01 GMT
I like Gatwa as well. I didn't have to warm up to him like I did with Matt Smith and Capaldi (Love Capaldi BTW). I HATE the new Sonic though. Its the worst one since Capaldi's sunglasses. I swear it looks like a 90s tiger electronic toy...like a 3 second voice recorder or something.
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Post by RobinBland on Feb 8, 2024 0:11:30 GMT
I like Gatwa as well. I didn't have to warm up to him like I did with Matt Smith and Capaldi (Love Capaldi BTW). I HATE the new Sonic though. It's the worst one since Capaldi's sunglasses. I swear it looks like a 90s tiger electronic toy...like a 3 second voice recorder or something. Yeah. Apparently a directive from RTD. Bizarre choice. Very odd and unexciting design direction. But as long as the stories are good, I can overlook details like that.
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Post by SherlockHolmes on Feb 8, 2024 17:08:59 GMT
I can't, 14's Screwdriver was the best yet. I wanted to see more of that thing in Action. It looked very functional too. Like I could set it on top of a TV and get every channel from here to Alpha Centauri to Gallafrey. Like I can still enjoy the stories, but I cannot overlook that
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Post by RobinBland on Feb 29, 2024 16:13:22 GMT
I think we will see 14 and 14's screwdriver in action again at some point...
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