Pretty awesome stuff. I thought the recent afterlife episodes were really great and the train/mummy one.Flex wrote:Cool! What do you think of it?Chuck Mangione wrote:I watch Dr. Who now.
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My TL is losing their collective minds with praise for the latest Doctor Who. Looking forward to watching it tomorrow morning.
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Aaaaand my TL was spot on. Holy fuck that was amazing. After a bit of a slow start, this season has quietly turned in four straight high water mark episodes in a row. This last two parter ranks as highly as... anything.Flex wrote:My TL is losing their collective minds with praise for the latest Doctor Who. Looking forward to watching it tomorrow morning.
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
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Wiggle - you can raise the dead
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This post by Jack:
http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the ... nvocation/
is exactly the kind of counterpoint I expected to what Phil and I said on the podcast ep (which I think is going up today). I knew Jack would provide an excellent analysis and excavation of the faults of the episode, while Phil and I stuck more to positive things**, trying to find nuance and places where it was ideologically defensible.
** which is funny, because I think Phil expected me to provide Moffat hate.
http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the ... nvocation/
is exactly the kind of counterpoint I expected to what Phil and I said on the podcast ep (which I think is going up today). I knew Jack would provide an excellent analysis and excavation of the faults of the episode, while Phil and I stuck more to positive things**, trying to find nuance and places where it was ideologically defensible.
** which is funny, because I think Phil expected me to provide Moffat hate.
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Podcast here:
http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the ... n-podcast/
http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the ... n-podcast/
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I'll say it out here too, Jack's post made me feel like an absolute moron (for not seeing what he elucidated) in the best way.eumaas wrote:This post by Jack:
http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the ... nvocation/
is exactly the kind of counterpoint I expected to what Phil and I said on the podcast ep (which I think is going up today). I knew Jack would provide an excellent analysis and excavation of the faults of the episode, while Phil and I stuck more to positive things**, trying to find nuance and places where it was ideologically defensible.
** which is funny, because I think Phil expected me to provide Moffat hate.
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I definitely saw a lot of that in there, but 1. I'm also much more deferential these days and didn't feel like pushing against the fan consensus too much, 2. in these beleaguered times, we leftists will cling to anything even slightly positive.Silent Majority wrote:I'll say it out here too, Jack's post made me feel like an absolute moron (for not seeing what he elucidated) in the best way.eumaas wrote:This post by Jack:
http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the ... nvocation/
is exactly the kind of counterpoint I expected to what Phil and I said on the podcast ep (which I think is going up today). I knew Jack would provide an excellent analysis and excavation of the faults of the episode, while Phil and I stuck more to positive things**, trying to find nuance and places where it was ideologically defensible.
** which is funny, because I think Phil expected me to provide Moffat hate.
For the record, Jack is now saying that he thinks the podcast is more judicious than his piece, so we've ended up yet again in a circle jerk of polite deference.
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You all suck and are wrong about everything.
(That better? )
(That better? )
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Wiggle - you can raise the dead
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I tried to tell Phil I'd be an awful guest! I will admit that I'm a good go-to guy for non-Doctor Who episodes of Doctor Who podcasts, though.Flex wrote:You all suck and are wrong about everything.
(That better? )
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
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If you nerdlingers are into audiobooks: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/morebooks
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I still haven't seen the final four episodes. Why? Because it's really hard to get me to care about New Who these days.
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I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
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Yeah, I'm pretty stoked. Power is one of of fave classic whos and so I'm pretty excited about this. Have some trepidation on the animation - they've animated lost episodes before, sometimes to great affect and sometimes the results border on unwatchable. If it's a good, watchable animation than this is one of the better Doctor Who related developments of the year.Dr. Medulla wrote:Wow, nerds, nothing in this thread in 2016?
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/long- ... ed-/416829
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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I'm bummed I was hoping for some sort of Torchwood resurgence. I miss Gwen Cooper.Flex wrote:Yeah, I'm pretty stoked. Power is one of of fave classic whos and so I'm pretty excited about this. Have some trepidation on the animation - they've animated lost episodes before, sometimes to great affect and sometimes the results border on unwatchable. If it's a good, watchable animation than this is one of the better Doctor Who related developments of the year.Dr. Medulla wrote:Wow, nerds, nothing in this thread in 2016?
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/long- ... ed-/416829
On 23 July 2016, John Barrowman announced that he was in talks with the BBC to get Torchwood back on TV. The announcement came just hours after Barrowman's appearance at Comic Con 2016.
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First post in this thread in ten months—what's wrong with you nerds? Anyway …
Some people's awful opinions are so predictable. John Byrne's take on the new incarnation of Dr. Who is that it's a cheap stunt and an insult to shoehorn (his word) a female into a male role, when they should just write new strong female characters. In essence, it's tokenism. But given that the character is literally raceless and genderless—correct?—and has only been male due to the biases of past writers and (probably) the fans, that's complete batshit. Hell, if Dr. Who can assume the identity (or is just appearance?) of anyone, it's been well against the odds not to have been female up to this point, so this would be a sensible correction just of probabilities (at least in terms of sex, not race). Jesus Christ, I *might* see some merit in Byrne's line of critique if Batman was rebooted and the Joker or Robin was made female, but given that the essence of Dr. Who is a fluctuating identity, being cranky that it's not another white male betrays a nasty egotistic prejudice.
Some people's awful opinions are so predictable. John Byrne's take on the new incarnation of Dr. Who is that it's a cheap stunt and an insult to shoehorn (his word) a female into a male role, when they should just write new strong female characters. In essence, it's tokenism. But given that the character is literally raceless and genderless—correct?—and has only been male due to the biases of past writers and (probably) the fans, that's complete batshit. Hell, if Dr. Who can assume the identity (or is just appearance?) of anyone, it's been well against the odds not to have been female up to this point, so this would be a sensible correction just of probabilities (at least in terms of sex, not race). Jesus Christ, I *might* see some merit in Byrne's line of critique if Batman was rebooted and the Joker or Robin was made female, but given that the essence of Dr. Who is a fluctuating identity, being cranky that it's not another white male betrays a nasty egotistic prejudice.
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