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Post by timegirl on Oct 10, 2021 19:01:01 GMT
Part of me wishes that in “Last Christmas” in addition to seeing Clara’s good dream the dream crabs tempt her with, we got to see what 12’s happy dream would be like. Whatever it would be like it would definitely involve him and Clara.
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Post by timegirl on Oct 13, 2021 2:15:25 GMT
12 could have stayed with Clara in Hell Bent if he had simply thought to chameleon arch himself into a human. He would still loose his memory but he could stay with Clara because he wouldn’t attract the attention of the Timelords.
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Post by barnabaslives on Oct 13, 2021 16:48:38 GMT
Nothing happens on Darillium because it ends up taking them 40 years to find Hitler's pants so they can give them back and repair the damage to the timelines that stealing them caused.
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Post by timegirl on Oct 13, 2021 22:32:00 GMT
They really need to do more with the Doctor’s ability to speak to animals.It would cool if we had sort of a Dr. Doolittle incarnation of the Doctor who specializes in communicating with and helping animals. Or at least do a story either on tv, bf, or expanded media where the Doctor only has earth animals to interact and talk to.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Oct 17, 2021 10:55:12 GMT
I will never understand why Class decided to go YA and be a diet-Buffy. Considering how Coal Hill had been portrayed up to that point, surely doing a slightly gruffer CBBC show made a lot more sense? It's not like the channel can't do darker or more challenging shows (Demon Headmaster, Hetty Feather, Eve): it'd be Grange Hill or Press Gang with aliens. You might say that it'd be just SJA 2, but I feel this could've had a different identity that would set it apart: a more urban, working class show versus the more suburban, better off SJA could've allowed for some interesting character types and dynamics (juxtaposing stopping alien bad guys with say, their families struggling to make ends meet or the kids' future prospects in higher education or employment could've done something unique and added a new POV to the Whoniverse).
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 17, 2021 12:17:46 GMT
I will never understand why Class decided to go YA and be a diet-Buffy. Considering how Coal Hill had been portrayed up to that point, surely doing a slightly gruffer CBBC show made a lot more sense? It's not like the channel can't do darker or more challenging shows (Demon Headmaster, Hetty Feather, Eve): it'd be Grange Hill or Press Gang with aliens. You might say that it'd be just SJA 2, but I feel this could've had a different identity that would set it apart: a more urban, working class show versus the more suburban, better off SJA could've allowed for some interesting character types and dynamics (juxtaposing stopping alien bad guys with say, their families struggling to make ends meet or the kids' future prospects in higher education or employment could've done something unique and added a new POV to the Whoniverse). Given the popularity of YA fiction & the enduring appeal of Buffy it seemed like good sense to try this style with a Doctor Who spin-off.
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Post by mark687 on Oct 21, 2021 11:35:44 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 21, 2021 12:12:51 GMT
It wasn't confirmed that it would be Perkins, just Frank Skinner considered for the role. Either way a bad idea. Although Perkins was one of the rare good things about the 12th Doctor's era.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Oct 21, 2021 12:54:38 GMT
So a bit left-field, but whenever someone says Who should just rest or it has nothing more to give, or that kids don't care about it, I bring this up in response:
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Nov 14, 2021 14:33:45 GMT
I think it's interesting how, despite also doing racewashing, The Aztecs has escaped the flack that Talons got: part of it is, I think, is the black and white so it seems a lot 'older', but also because, unlike Talons, Aztecs actually engages with the culture on display and, for 1964, has a pretty radical position: Barbara's, however well intended, white saviour attitude is portrayed as being in the wrong, that's it's not her place to rewrite someone else's culture to her own views and taste. Yes, Toltoxl is the 'antagonist', as in he's opposed to our main cast, but is he 'the villain', as in evil? He's not some genocidal lunatic, or tyrant hellbent on power - he's someone trying to preserve his way of life, the only way of life he's ever known. He's a product of that society.
And unlike Talons with the Chinese, not all the Aztecs are portrayed one way - we have more positive, or neutral at least, characters shown. There's variety.
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Post by Superium on Dec 13, 2021 19:54:06 GMT
1. I don't want serialisation in the sense of one story told across all the episodes over the series. Give me 4-5 stories a series, with each story spread over multiple episodes (akin to Classic Who & Series 9). That way, you still get the cliffhangers. 2. The best/most iconic episodes of Revival Who are usually ones that are tied least to the story arc. Only exceptions are Series 9 (Heaven Sent), Series 10 (World Enough & Time), and Series 12 (The Haunting of Villa Diodati). I'll never understand why fans want filler/standalone episodes gone when they're usually the best.
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Post by Superium on Dec 15, 2021 8:42:41 GMT
There are more duds in Smith's era than there are in the 60s and 70s combined. Agree (though to be fair there are fewer Eps in the Smith Era) Regards mark687 You know what? I'll go even farther. There are more duds in Smith's era than there are in the entirety of Classic Who.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Dec 20, 2021 14:31:48 GMT
There is something to be said about the type of internet comment that reads '(insert internet reviewer) spotted these issues with x episode, why didn't the writer/director/showrunner fix them?' - writing a review or video essay months, if not years, removed from production is completely different to working on a tight deadline during and with a lot of things to balance. When you've got five hundred other things to worry about, from actors' schedules to securing locations to testing special effects to see if they work, of course you're not going to have the breathing room to deep dive and catch everything.
That doesn't make the criticism invalid, but more that you can't simply transfer one type of analysis into a fundamentally different situation, and expect it to be used.
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Post by grinch on Dec 26, 2021 0:52:39 GMT
I wouldn’t say this is necessarily a controversial opinion but I always thought Clive would have made one hell of a companion. It’s probably helped by the fact that Mark Benton is so damn likeable and I’ve liked him in everything he’s been in.
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Post by Kestrel on Dec 26, 2021 23:12:22 GMT
There is something to be said about the type of internet comment that reads '(insert internet reviewer) spotted these issues with x episode, why didn't the writer/director/showrunner fix them?' - writing a review or video essay months, if not years, removed from production is completely different to working on a tight deadline during and with a lot of things to balance. When you've got five hundred other things to worry about, from actors' schedules to securing locations to testing special effects to see if they work, of course you're not going to have the breathing room to deep dive and catch everything. That doesn't make the criticism invalid, but more that you can't simply transfer one type of analysis into a fundamentally different situation, and expect it to be used. Also it's difficult to even see certain issues in your own work, because your brain will automatically fill in the gaps. This is why editors are vitally important! I've gone through a half dozen revisions--editing passes included--on my own work, never noticing an error that gets found in seconds the moment I hand it off to someone else.
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Post by Superium on Jan 27, 2022 0:21:27 GMT
Regeneration isn't truly random. I believe the body and personality of each incarnation is already predetermined by default, unless that Time Lord/Lady chooses their next self, ala Romana. For example:
- If 10 changed his face in the Series 4 finale, I think he still would've ended up looking like Matt Smith.
- If 12 actually went through with his regeneration in The Lie of the Land, I think he would've turned into Jodie. - 6 was always going to end up the way that he did, regardless of 5 meeting Maxil.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 27, 2022 2:21:20 GMT
Part of me wishes that in “Last Christmas” in addition to seeing Clara’s good dream the dream crabs tempt her with, we got to see what 12’s happy dream would be like. Whatever it would be like it would definitely involve him and Clara. Arguably We did - creepy monsters, isolated base under Seige by aforementioned monsters, surprise reveal of the hero (vis a vie Santa).
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Post by grinch on Apr 15, 2022 9:20:16 GMT
I think the Silurian design from the Classic series is far more imaginative and just simply better than the ones from the modern era.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Apr 29, 2022 11:42:48 GMT
Read someone just say, with a straight face, Human Nature was a better exploration of racism than Rosa. I don't think there's a table in existence strong enough for the amount of head-desking I want to do: never mind apples to oranges, it's capybaras to the Vatican such is the colossal different between the two stories. Ignoring one major life difference between the stories' respective authors, the use of racism in Human Nature is so ancillary (because that's not what the story is about, never mind the original book) and 'generous' from a historical perspective that it's not in the same room as what Rosa is engaging with. Frankly, if you look at real things that happened during segregation and Civil Rights (like what they did to Ruby Bridges, or some of the horrid things the KKK did), one could argue Rosa was still being too kind in its portrayal of how irrational and sinister engrained, systemic racism is.
Of the two, I prefer HN as entertainment, but that's not the question in this specific case.
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Post by shutupbanks on Apr 30, 2022 1:29:09 GMT
Saw someone just say, with a straight face, Human Nature was a better exploration of racism than Rosa. I don't think there's a table in existence strong for the amount of head-desking I want to do: never mind apples to oranges, it's capybaras to the Vatican such is the colossal different between the two stories. Ignoring one major life difference between the stories' respective authors, the use of racism in Human Nature is so ancillary (because that's not what the story is about, never mind the original book) and 'generous' from a historical perspective that it's not in the same room as what Rosa is engaging with. Frankly, if you look at real things that happened during segregation and Civil Rights (like what they did to Ruby Bridges, or some of the horrid things the KKK did), one could argue Rosa was still being too kind in its portrayal of how irrational and sinister engrained, systemic racism is.
Of the two, I prefer HN as entertainment, but that's not the question in this specific case.
There’s a lot of fans who have amazingly supple minds because of the gymnastics they have to do in order to make out that anything is better than what they’ve “had to suffer” over the last few seasons. Theres a lot of fans who just haven’t enjoyed the last three seasons. I don’t have an issue with that. I just object to the hysterical whining from guys (and it is pretty much entirely guys) who are taking the artistic decisions a show makes so personally that they are using it as an alternative to a personality.
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