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Nicknacks Ding-ding! Going down... from Land Down Under Since: Oct, 2010
Ding-ding! Going down...
#72426: Jan 12th 2014 at 7:30:53 AM

Edlund, yeah. Good man.

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maxwellelvis Mad Scientist Wannabe from undisclosed location Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: In my bunk
Mad Scientist Wannabe
#72427: Jan 12th 2014 at 7:32:58 AM

Ah. I guess we could just go watch his episodes.

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
Nicknacks Ding-ding! Going down... from Land Down Under Since: Oct, 2010
Ding-ding! Going down...
#72428: Jan 12th 2014 at 7:36:28 AM

Julie Siege and Sera Gamble produced good stuff too, but Edlund's probably the most interesting writer to grace the series. I also enjoyed Jeremy Carver's work, prior to becoming showrunner. (Same with Gamble — the qualities they brought to their individual episodes faired poorly across a total season).

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shiningknight S.E.A captain from Professor Xavier's school for gifted lesbians. Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
S.E.A captain
#72429: Jan 12th 2014 at 10:33:16 AM

I love supernatural but its in the same position in my mind as buffy was...

It really should have ended with season 5

" I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end." "In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends."
Oboeplum Antiheroic antivillain from somewhere really boring Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Antiheroic antivillain
#72430: Jan 12th 2014 at 10:51:24 AM

Back on topic, does anyone else know how tall Capaldi is? Roughly. Is he taller than 6'?

The internet is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it-William Gibson
Whowho Since: May, 2012
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#72432: Jan 12th 2014 at 11:26:59 AM

He's exactly 6' according to IMDB.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Oboeplum Antiheroic antivillain from somewhere really boring Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Antiheroic antivillain
#72433: Jan 12th 2014 at 11:29:22 AM

Derp. Forgot about that. IMDB says 6'-1cm taller than matt smith.

And i've been ninja'd. I should just quietly leave...

edited 12th Jan '14 11:36:03 AM by Oboeplum

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#72435: Jan 12th 2014 at 1:18:24 PM

Well, thank you big finish for showing just how great the sixth doctor can be given some competent writers.

Laura from Shintolin Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
#72436: Jan 12th 2014 at 6:42:31 PM

Someone please post, I haven't seen His Last Vow yet and I'm so bored. sad

He's the Doctor. He could be anywhere in time and space.
Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#72438: Jan 12th 2014 at 10:15:57 PM

It definitely needed a more Donna/Tegan-esque companion who could tell Six to shove it.

Also, Six needed to ride a robot unicorn at one point. I can't believe they thought they could air a Sixth Doctor without that. It just sickens me, truth be told.

Forever liveblogging the Avengers
Tanrage Since: Jul, 2010
#72440: Jan 13th 2014 at 2:14:18 AM

It just occurred to me that we never do find out what the Doctor called himself during his Hurt incarnation. Now I'm thinking that he was The Valeyard and the version we saw previously was the one who survived Time War *after* using The Moment, driven a to the dark side by survivors guilt and a desperate need to fix what he done by going back in time and a=changing history with thr first step being getting back a few regenerations...

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#72441: Jan 13th 2014 at 2:31:46 AM

"The Mark of the Berserker is a phenomenal hour of television - a story that, on its own merits, ranks among the best of the Russell T Davies era."

edited 13th Jan '14 2:32:23 AM by unnoun

thekikoperson from Australia Since: Mar, 2010
#72442: Jan 13th 2014 at 3:08:38 AM

[up][up]Didn't he regenerate in the TARDIS when he left 10 and 11? There wouldn't have been time after "using" the Moment. The time line never changed, either, he just couldn't remember anything from when he was about to use the Moment until regenerating in the TARDIS, so he only thought he'd used it. At least that's what I assume/think happened.

EDIT: Unless the Valeyard was from an alternate universe where he did use the Moment.

edited 13th Jan '14 3:11:10 AM by thekikoperson

Tanrage Since: Jul, 2010
#72443: Jan 13th 2014 at 3:20:06 AM

[up] Wibbly-Wobbly and stuff! But yeah the idea is the previously seen Valeyard is from a timeline where The Moment was used, which might have been the main/proper timeline until the events of Dot D where time was rewritten.

edited 13th Jan '14 3:21:05 AM by Tanrage

Wackd Since: May, 2009
#72445: Jan 13th 2014 at 3:27:13 AM

Actual more use of time travel - which is nice considering it’s the main factor of the show
By this logic we'd have to spur almost everyone else save Douglas Adams.

Moffat Who has a depth and mythology to it that RTD never managed to achieve
And by this logic we'd have to spurn everyone else period.

edited 13th Jan '14 3:27:33 AM by Wackd

Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#72446: Jan 13th 2014 at 3:31:50 AM

What there is to like is not the same as what there is to dislike.

edited 13th Jan '14 3:54:53 AM by unnoun

Nicknacks Ding-ding! Going down... from Land Down Under Since: Oct, 2010
Ding-ding! Going down...
#72448: Jan 13th 2014 at 3:34:59 AM

~ad hominem~

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#72450: Jan 13th 2014 at 3:56:26 AM

Sorry.

It's just that the post wasn't directed at any of those other things. And liking an era for one thing doesn't mean disliking every other era for not those things. Maybe.

...Sorry, I'll get back to you when my brain starts working.

Alchemy rules, Campbell drools.

edited 13th Jan '14 9:54:59 AM by unnoun


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