Really enjoying Class as it progresses. Episode 6, the classroom bottle episode, reminded me a lot of Who's first bottle episode, Edge of Destruction, except Class had a good explanation whereas Edge had a dodgy switch on the TARDIS console... <_<
Six episodes into an eight episode series and it's been pretty consistently good. I've found it's been more consistent than most series of Who and every other Who spinoff except for Children of Earth. The acting's been pretty good, too. I really hope Class gets renewed.
William Russell cameoing as Chairman of the Governors. Seriously, the dude turned ninety-two recently. It was defying the odds that he was still alive when the show came back eleven years ago, if he kicks the bucket before they've done something with him I'll be flipping some tables.
...yeah, that's all I've got. I'm bumping the thread for that.
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Class is great for it's unintentional hilarity in certain scenes that I'm pretty sure were meant to be taken (somewhat?) seriously.
Shadowkin sexy times!
And I wouldn't mind more "Where in the Metaphysical Universe is Carmen Sandiego Miss Quill?!" episodes if they get another season. Which seems unlikely...
Yeah I'm not thrilled for even more Matt Lucas appearances over time.
In general I've gotten a bit grumbly about the show and have cooled on it a lot. Which is coming from an old school into new school Who fan.
Peter Capaldi is great casting, and I enjoy him in the role, but I am super ready for a behind the scenes creative team shakeup at this point.
Scripts and direction just seem so lazy a lot of time.
Not sure Chibnall is going to cut it for me either, but it's Who I'll definitely give it a try.
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I dunno. I think we've gotten as many good (I might argue more) episodes from Capaldi as Tennant at this point. Including at least one that is in my top ten of Doctor Who period.
I dunno that we'll ever have a run as good as season 5 ever again. But Capaldi in the scheme of things is doing alright. Though the comedy episodes have gotten much worse during his tenure.
Series 8 was definitely patchy, 9 was much better though. Matt Lucas is fine in small doses, I think two Christmas specials is just about enough for him not to outstay his welcome with me.
I should start digging into the Big Finish recordings. I finally got around to listening to one I picked up in a humble bundle deal. Was a 5th doctor one called Phantasmagoria. Looks like a fairly old one some they've probably improved a bit. But it was decent. Mark Gatis wrote or directed I think and did one of the voices.
Fun to have some new 5th and Turlough material.
Will download some of the others from that pack.
I'm only 12 or so stories in to the BF main range, but the standout so far is The Fearmonger (7th Doctor and Ace). It really plays to the strengths of the medium and is worryingly relevant even today
The more audios I listen to, the more of a sense I get of what a uniquely challenging medium it is to write for. I mean, all you've got is dialogue and sound effects, obviously. So how do you handle description? It's mostly got to be spoken by the characters, and that's a very delicate balancing act. Too little exposition and you fail to paint a picture in the listener's mind, too much and the characters sound like lunatics, wandering about describing things to people who are already there and perfectly capable of seeing for themselves.
Big battle scenes are tricky too. The ones that work usually do so by sticking with one or two main characters and following their progress through the conflict. You can't do what they'd do in a visual medium, which is have lots of quick cuts from different parts of the battle - guy getting exterminated here, dalek crashing through a wall over there, gosh isn't this all frightfully epic etc. etc. Try that in an audio adventure and it sounds like you've hit shuffle on an explosions sound effects playlist.
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Also Dalek focused episodes are just gunna be hard to listen to at points.
It should be the Fifth Doctor story in the Classic Doctors New Monsters release, which is generally worth a listen. Five + Weeping Angels, Six + Judoon, Seven + Sycorax, Eight + Time War era Sontarans.
It's really time to put him into the actual series in some capacity
I would really love some kind of Four Doctors episode with Mcgann, Tennant, Smith, and Capaldi. I'd have included Eccelston but his clear distance to ever do more Doctor Who has been noted and Hurt would be hard to fit in.
Better yet if it also have McCoy or Colin Baker or Davidson in it.
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Or better yet some episode where Capaldi runs into McGann but since McGann is right in the middle of the Time War Capaldi has to shut up and McGann recruits him as a companion.
I'd be happy if some time shit happens and there's two doctors running around for a whole season and one is the eighth doctor. He could just pop up every now and then like Jack Harkness used to
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I'd be happy if some time shit happens and there's two doctors running around for a whole season and one is the eighth doctor. He could just pop up every now and then like Jack Harkness used to
Yes. Very much so. I would love for a whole season of The Two Doctors
Apparently when they made the 50th anniversary episode Tennant and Smith had so much fun they wanted to push to do a whole season together but Smith was already out with Capaldi already signed on.
Yeah, the hag is absolutely a test of how first you can burn down position 3 and 4 while dealing with a potential shuffle.
This is not the darkest dungeon thread
The funny thing is that--since I haven't been following Doctor Who for a while--I thought this was a legit comment about the show and was trying to parse it.
Like, "Huh, they must have done another horror episode."
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The Hag does sound like an excellent Time Lord name, responsible for the prevalence of an Evil Queen in British folklore
“One Doctor at a time is the real rule – ‘Who would be on the lunchbox?’ is always my question when we talk about having more than one Doctor.”
Moffat added that [after the 50th anniversary] Doctor Who will now return “militantly” to the idea of featuring just one Doctor at a time.
“I have a slight paranoia that at the moment it seems like every bugger’s playing the Doctor – more or less all of Equity!” he joked. “Quite soon, it’s going to go back to… ‘There is one Doctor and that’s who he is’ – he’s one man with many faces, he’s not a committee of people with unusual hair.”
But next year's his last, and who knows how Chibnall feels about it.
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Six episodes into an eight episode series and it's been pretty consistently good. I've found it's been more consistent than most series of Who and every other Who spinoff except for Children of Earth. The acting's been pretty good, too. I really hope Class gets renewed.
Wuh oh.
I've got my fingers crossed that it's
Bill's surname is Potts.
...yeah, that's all I've got. I'm bumping the thread for that.
And I wouldn't mind more "Where in the Metaphysical Universe is Carmen Sandiego Miss Quill?!" episodes if they get another season. Which seems unlikely...
I honestly feel that they should have focused their energies into making a shortened season of Doctor Who instead......
but that's me and my opinion......as wrong as it is
This looks naff, but it's been a year so I'll take it.
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I really hate Matt Lucas
In general I've gotten a bit grumbly about the show and have cooled on it a lot. Which is coming from an old school into new school Who fan.
Peter Capaldi is great casting, and I enjoy him in the role, but I am super ready for a behind the scenes creative team shakeup at this point.
Scripts and direction just seem so lazy a lot of time.
Not sure Chibnall is going to cut it for me either, but it's Who I'll definitely give it a try.
I dunno that we'll ever have a run as good as season 5 ever again. But Capaldi in the scheme of things is doing alright. Though the comedy episodes have gotten much worse during his tenure.
Well, shit.
Fun to have some new 5th and Turlough material.
Will download some of the others from that pack.
Big battle scenes are tricky too. The ones that work usually do so by sticking with one or two main characters and following their progress through the conflict. You can't do what they'd do in a visual medium, which is have lots of quick cuts from different parts of the battle - guy getting exterminated here, dalek crashing through a wall over there, gosh isn't this all frightfully epic etc. etc. Try that in an audio adventure and it sounds like you've hit shuffle on an explosions sound effects playlist.
It should be the Fifth Doctor story in the Classic Doctors New Monsters release, which is generally worth a listen. Five + Weeping Angels, Six + Judoon, Seven + Sycorax, Eight + Time War era Sontarans.
It's really time to put him into the actual series in some capacity
I would really love some kind of Four Doctors episode with Mcgann, Tennant, Smith, and Capaldi. I'd have included Eccelston but his clear distance to ever do more Doctor Who has been noted and Hurt would be hard to fit in.
Better yet if it also have McCoy or Colin Baker or Davidson in it.
Yes. Very much so. I would love for a whole season of The Two Doctors
Apparently when they made the 50th anniversary episode Tennant and Smith had so much fun they wanted to push to do a whole season together but Smith was already out with Capaldi already signed on.
This is not the darkest dungeon thread
The funny thing is that--since I haven't been following Doctor Who for a while--I thought this was a legit comment about the show and was trying to parse it.
Like, "Huh, they must have done another horror episode."
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But next year's his last, and who knows how Chibnall feels about it.