Doctor Who

Hey, as long as it still exists in some form, it's living. Doctor Who didn't up and die just because it got kicked off the air, did it?

Medically speaking, there's no word for the form of life Doctor Who lived through the tv movie, big finish, and book serieses

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Dead but dreaming.

Looks like the Arrested Development "focus on individual characters so we don't have to schedule them together" approach.

I hope it's the original team. I miss Tosh, Ianto, and even Owen. I don't miss Owen from the first half of season one, but I miss him.

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Yeah, how that'll turn out may depend pretty heavily on who "the team" is. The originals would really be preferable.

Cast list for that, that, thing will be more than likely following on from the execrable Miracle Day, for the most part. I doubt they will be able to get Mehki Phifer on the budget they can afford at Big Finish.

As long as not-Torchwood never comes back on television, though, it doesn't really bother me.

Well, one, you wouldn't need to know anything about the first RP to do this one.

Secondly, what I'm think of doing is cutting back the first RP to every other week, and doing the second RP every other week, seeing as getting the first one done on a weekly basis is proving to be neigh-impossible.

If every other week is still too stressful, totally understood.

edited 3rd May '15 3:03:09 PM by Wackd

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

Well, it's more that for some of that time I'm not going to have any real Internet and for a lot of the rest of the time I'm going to try to cut back on my Internet use in general and try to be more social. Also, every time I've joined an RP, I start out with a lot of enthusiasm, but I lose motivation really quickly. I'm not really a great creative writer.

So I just finished The Robots of Death or The Robots of Evil or whatever generic name they gave this fucking awesome story.

I don't know what happened—maybe they hired a better writer, or a bunch of good actors stumbled onto the set one day, or what, but that was really, really good. Especially the first two episodes (God, the Snark-to-Snark Combat with the crewmembers is to die for), although the last two weren't bad. Leela doesn't really shine—her schtick seems to be brute strength, from the two stories I've seen her in thus far, and this story pits her against immensely powerful robots, so that's to be expected—and the Doctor himself actually feels rather muted, but the rest of the cast more than makes up for it.

It also helps that they didn't overdo it on the cheesy special effects—the robots are people in unmoving plastic masks (which actually helps the impression they were going for; the Doctor gives a spiel toward the end of the story that could pretty much serve as the description write-up for Uncanny Valley), their eyes glow red when they're attempting to kill someone, and there are occasionally shots of the vehicle on which the story takes place from outside, which are very clearly done with a small model, but otherwise it's mostly just elaborate (and, yes, ridiculous, but somehow it actually works) costuming.

Easily one of the most enjoyable stories of Classic Who up to this point. And considering how much I enjoyed The Face of Evil, I'm daring to hope that this is indicative of a trend—that maybe the upcoming stories will continue to be noticeably higher in quality. I mean, not forever, probably, if opinions about Six anything to go by, but for a while at least. I can hope, anyway. This story is really, really, really enjoyable.

Uh, yeah, about that...

See, it's not as if the upcoming Grram Williams era is bad, persay, but when you get down to it, the Hinchfliffe era (what you're on now,) is arguably the high point of Classic Doctor Who. Don't get me wrong, there's still good stuff after it, including the Ghram Williams era, but only the last two years of the old show really surpassed the Hinchclinffe era in terms of sheer quality. If it weren't for those last two years, then it would all be downhill from here.

edited 5th May '15 8:08:22 PM by kkhohoho

At least he has Caves of Androzani to look forward to.

How to be a dick: Ten style.

How to be a dick: Clara style.

Lots to put up with.

edited 6th May '15 2:32:18 AM by unnoun

This sounds like something Ten would do, but I'm struggling to place what episode this happened in.

Smith And Jones. I forget her name, but she was at least Martha's colleague.

She was also flat fucking flipping out.

So what, are we going into another mass thread rant about how awful Ten is?

I mean, what more is there to say about him?

I'm serious. If there are more bad things we can say, I want to know. Can't let him get away with anything. Lord knows his series did.

One Strip! One Strip!

10's so bad that Tennant could probably just copy&paste his performance as the Doctor for the Purple Man in Jessica Jones and nobody would notice the difference.

edited 6th May '15 10:33:02 AM by kkhohoho

ohhhh that's going to be an interesting watch

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...... I actually thought the exact same thing.

One Strip! One Strip!

This hatred of Ten keeps baffling me.

Apart from the one stemming from his behaviour of people with the last name Jones, that is.

Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.

Every so often, he has the gall to tell everyone in the room that he is 'the highest authority' despite having no real authority, and he also has a tendency to deprive, or at least attempt to deprive, people of their agency. Add in his manic nature and you've got yourself a wonderful villain, but a horrible hero. (Yes, Four was also rather manic, but at least he wasn't sociopathic.)

edited 6th May '15 10:42:14 AM by kkhohoho

Y'know, I was thinking about it and... they never did explain why the Doctor looks like that one guy from Pompeii, did they?

They said they would, but I don't think they even hinted or gestured at an explanation. I'm kinda glad they didn't.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

This post: So, wait, are you saying that the Hinchfliffe era is two stories long? Because when I said "upcoming stories" I didn't mean "all the rest of the stories for the rest of Classic Who", I meant "the immediately upcoming stories that I'm about to watch". Like, I wasn't expecting Classic Who to suddenly take a sharp upturn in quality and stay phenomenal until the movie. I was just hoping that at least the next few stories (maybe the rest of Four?) would be this good. You seem to be suggesting that this is the last good story and it all turns to shit after this. :|

That's not what I meant. The Hinchcliffe Era runs all the way from The Ark in Space to The Talons of Weng-Chiang, (which is the next story you're about to watch,) and that entire 3-year stretch is considered the peak of Classic Who. After that, while things don't go right to shit, the quality level isn't as consistent as during the Hinchcliffe Era, with the upcoming 3-year long Grahm Williams era often considered a step back from the Hinchfliffe years. The classic show never really surpasses the Hinchfliffe Era until the Cartmel era, and even, it takes his second season out of 3 to get to that point.

...No offense, but you don't really know much about the producers of Classic Who, do you?

edited 8th Jul '15 12:19:23 PM by kkhohoho

Twelve's run ain't over yet. There's still time.

"We're home, Chewie."

Yeah, I guess. But I don't really want them to explain it.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."