/doctorwho/ - Doctor Who

>>6426

So what should we watch next? And when?

>>6445
Well the filename suggests he's called Sabbath, but I still don't remember him.

>>6447
You cheated…he's from the Eighth Doctor novels. Works for Faction Paradox.

What's your favorite picture associated with Doctor Who in some way?

>>6450
That's awful.

>>6455
I was thinking of adding to my message "yes, even pony posting is welcome." And the image is very cute.

>>6455

>Don't even try to say this isn't adorable

Look I like the horse show too, I watch it on livestream whenever a new episode airs, but I'm not going to for one second pretend that that art is adorable. It's all clean and vectory, but nothing about it goes into adorable territory

>>6458
>>6459
As long as you're being facetious, it's cool.

>>6460

Facetious about all the 'objectively correct official' stuff but those are my opinions

>>6457
I wouldn't say it's the art style that's adorable per se, but what's going on in the picture (the Doctor innocently pretending not to have thrown a snowball at Ian while Barbara and Susan build snowmen) and the fact that ponies are inherently cute (if I knew more about character design I could probably describe why, but the large eyes are at least a part of it). It has a real comfy feel like some of the later 1/Ian/Barbara stories had, like they're all one big family.

>I watch it on livestream whenever a new episode airs
God damn, we need more new episodes. The hiatuses just get longer and longer.

>>6461
I haven't seen all of those, but you seem to have good taste.

>>6459
I'm with you on Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel, anon. I don't know why those stories get so much hate.

>>6464
Rise has an awesome Cybermen reveal. It works for both old viewers, who already know what's coming, and new viewers.

>>6464
>>6465

What I like about it is it focuses on the more emotional side of the horrors of people getting processed into cybermen against their will. It's back in the tennant days when things actually did have consequences (something that finally only came back this season). A big part of that is a sense of helplessness, where situations don't have an easy fix and might not have a fix at all (pete's jackie stayed as a cyberman). It's similar reasons why I like Impossible Planet/Satan Pit and Ghosts/Doomsday, they all have genuine complications that aren't easy to resolve, and often sacrifices had to be made for them.

After S2, cybermen were kind of reduced to 'oh no it's the cybermen', almost essentially like they were a less threatening version of daleks. It wasn't until Closing Time they started touching on the conversion stuff again, but even then the focus of that episode was more the doctor being all sad about him thinking he was going to die soon. NiS had some potential but it was ruined by the rushed plot, the cybermen were built up to be some big threatening enemy but what stopped them in the end was a little quick thing that didn't have any impact on the cast, which kind of trivialises them again.


What I liked about DiH was that it focused on the emotional side of how cybermen are actually people. We only saw it through danny pink, but holy shit was seeing him as a rotting corpse with frankenstein nails inside a robot suit effective. It's just so bleak, something doctor who rarely touches on and it was even more powerful because of it. There wasn't a happy side to it, danny was dead and a cyberman and he had to sacrifice himself to save the doctor, a man that he hated. I think DiH is a brilliant episode and probably the best finale in nuwho, but despite all the stuff about danny the cybermen weren't even really the focus so it's hard to call it the best cyberman story. I think for me at least, Rise/Steel is still the best nuwho cyberman story

>>6466
The look of dead Danny was legitimately terrifying. In fact, the whole first graveyard sequence, with Clara looking frightened, was very well done.

Listening to the Word Lord right now.

>>6474
Well post-Series 1 everyone's young compared to him.

>>6477
Is everyone jailbait to Jack?

>>6481
I'm working on the Pie Lord audio, but I'm so tired right now…it might have to be done tomorrow…my apologies.

>>6483
O-okay, man.

.>>6484
It's gonna get done. I'm not going to forget you guys. Also, where the heck is Dream Lord audio anon?

>>6485

Pie Lord project's going well.

>>6491
You'll get the Pie Lord audio tomorrow. It's about 90% done.

I feel weird shilling this when I didn't complete the audio, but here's an Ace with…the Doctor fic:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10892205/1/The-Gate-Beyond

If you read, please review!

>>6466
I like your take on Death in Heaven. I think it's a high quality finish to the season, but seems not to have gone down so well among most fandom places

>>6494
I think people probably got too hyped after Dark Water

>>6470
it just looks fucking painful, and you know eventually he would keep rotting away like the other cybermen they saw in the water.

>>6492
I'm apologize…the audio's gonna be here tomorrow. School got in the way.

What's new, /doctorwho/?

>>6499
I'm halfway through the Seeds of Death, and have been for a week.
It's been alright so far, but I just lost interest

>>6499
I just finished Ghost Light. It was shaping up to be pretty good but then Part 3 was shit.

>>6500
It can happen with the longer stories.

>>6501
What made it shit for you?

>>6502
>"CONTROL WANT BE LADYLIKE"
>that McCoy acting
>Light's appearance (a guy who sort of glows) is frankly underwhelming after being built up for two episodes including the part 2 cliffhanger
>I get the strong impression that Light is an idiot even though I don't think that's how the story wants us to view him. I could be wrong though. Like when the Doctor says there are gaps in his catalog and starts listing off fictional animals and he doesn't realize that the Doctor obviously hasn't read his catalog and is just making shit up.
>the Doctor defeats Light by catching him in a philosophical loophole so that he has to put himself into stasis (I know the Seventh Doctor has a thing for talking enemies to death but this one just seems ridiculous. It confirms my suspicion that Light is just stupid.)

Also I generally just got very little sense of denouement from the ending. Light's defeat was retarded and in the end when the other characters left on the spaceship I was just like "Wait, they're going to space? Oh, Okay. And they're still trying to complete the catalogue? Why? Eh, whatever. Wait, wasn't the ship programmed to explode? Oh, it's not going to explode if they take off. Wait, how do any of them know how to fly the ship? Wait, why is the caveman going with them? I thought he said his loyalty was to this planet. Eh, whatever." I don't know, it just seemed to come out of nowhere.

Also I'm having trouble seeing what Ace gained from the whole experience besides knowledge of the specific details of why the house creeped her our when she was 13. Maybe that was the point? But I thought she was supposed to learn a lesson or something. I guess not. The themes of the story doesn't really seem to have anything to do with Ace. So in the end I was just left with a sort of empty feeling. The first two episodes seemed to promise things that part 3 couldn't deliver.

>>6499
I'm about to finish making that Pie Lord audio (working on it right this very moment). I really do have to thank all the wonderful people who voiced the script.

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