Doctor Who

On the subject of audios, which are the best ones?

Doctor Who and the Pirates is a fucking triumph. Like, had it been a TV story, it would've gone down as the Sixth Doctor's Caves of Androzani. Also quite fond of Jubilee. And The Fearmonger, there's a good one.

Basically what Wack'd said. I may have given them to him but he's always been the best at recommending stuff. Besides, I can't disagree that those are some of the best ones.

edited 17th Sep '14 12:26:55 PM by MousaThe14

if you want something similar to the new series, the first season of new eighth doctor adventures (starts from blood of the daleks) is bearable.

Well, he was obsessed with "getting off this planet" from the start. It's what the Black Guardian offers him for killing the Doctor (and only later changes it to "kill the Doctor and I'll let you live")

Ah. True. Rather, than, we didn't know anything about his culture or whatever.

Captain Jack Harkness was a brilliant example of a non-audience surrogate companion; he was just a character stolen from an American Space Opera Genre show, and it was wonderful.

Secondary companions should be stolen from other genres more often.

...so.

Turns out "Captain Jack Harkaway" is an actual character that did, actually, appear in a magazine called The Ensign.

Huh.

@Optimus Jamie: Not counting the dozens of spin-off audios, there's still nearly 200 Doctor Who audios to date. (At least.) Asking which are the best from such a huge selection is like asking for the best cocktail from a list of virtually endless combinations.

Er, no, no there aren't. The BNP have not a single seat to their name, not even in the European Parliament (where it is easier for fringe parties to pick up seats). In 2014 they lost everything but a couple of councillors. So.

Wow, what a pagetopper.

edited 17th Sep '14 2:00:47 PM by pagad

My bad. I'm not entirely on top of British politics.

I mean, obviously.

edited 17th Sep '14 2:16:31 PM by Wackd

Aren't UKIP gaining popularity though? (not to derail this into politics, mostly because I know very little about my own country's issues)

UKIP's racism is mainly aimed at Eastern Europeans. Maybe they'd complain if Danny was Romanian.

The BNP are relevant in just how blindingly irrelevant they are.

UKIP is getting more attention after the massive fall out of the last general election. (The ressesion meant there was no confidence in either of the two major parties, so the smaller ones now have a push) but in words written down they're not about race; they're more about how Britain relates to the rest of Europe and the World.

It has a knock on effect; because that dose involve immigration; and if you do try and stop that you are splitting up families and potentially creating a low class of racial minorities. I would not be surprised if there are people in the party who are out and out racist, but their party isn't inherently racism.

BNP on the other hand have direct associations with 'Britain First' which is a ludicrous movement which doesn't make any much sense.

edited 17th Sep '14 2:31:31 PM by Whowho

I think that UKIP are just as nasty. Probably worse, actually.

I mean, the Doctor wouldn't be in favor of isolationism. He's all about throwing himself into other communities and cultures, and building relationships.

Varied Doctor Who episodes or whatever.

...How old are you again? I forget, does the UK have write-in ballots?

edited 17th Sep '14 4:05:51 PM by unnoun

24. Last time I was an idiot who believed Liberal Democrats were actually good guy, but let's not talk about that.

Not to excited about that post, I take it?

Also, speaking of gaffs, I apparently somehow got in my head that The Invasion took place in 1986, which is the more embarrassing fuckup, I think.

Hay, the Lib Dem failed their promises because they lost; not because the decided not to fulfil them.

The Lib Dems didn't get enough seats to form a government, so they had to make do with an offer to form a coalition which in the end didn't grant them any more power than being a minority of seats in the houses of commons would have.

Then again, democracy in the UK is so unrepresentative it's legitimate to condemn parties for not winning. First past the post is messed up; why didn't we vote in AV again?

EDIT: Since when was the Krotons not beloved!?

Woah, I just got hit by severe daja vu.

edited 17th Sep '14 4:46:22 PM by Whowho

So I just realized something about "Listen."

Future-Pink's situation is basically that famous two-sentence horror story. "The last man on earth sat in a room. There was a knock on the door."

I mean, he's not on earth, but still. I wonder if that was intentional.

The short story had another version though.

"The last man on earth sat in a room. There was a lock on the door."

Oh, yeah, forgot that one.

I'm wondering even harder if that was intentional now.

Poll: do the Vervoids◊ strike you as phallic, yonic, both? What was your impression of the prevailing opinion?

The first time I heard it suggested they were indecent, I thought they were yonic, but then everyone else said they looked like dicks. Until I brought it up in a discussion about dick-aliens, and Mukora said they were the opposite.

They're both.

Like if HR Giger got really lazy.

Yeah, gonna go with both.

They're pretty dang yonic but I can see arguments either way.