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File: 1442686618416.jpg (37.1 KB, 600x412, 150:103, Genesis of the Daleks 2.jpg)

 No.7916

/who/ is kill, long live /who/

 No.7917

That episode was fucking awesome.

Like I'd been spoiled on Clara and Missy and everything, but hot damn that final moment came as a surprise.

Next week also looks absolutely insane.


 No.7918

Thanks to rumours and spoilers I knew everything that was coming and it was still GOAT.

This is truly one of Capaldi's classics in the making


 No.7919

>>7918

I love how much Moffat is getting his mileage out of Capaldi.

>lead into pre-titles is just a long reaction shot of 12

>final shot is just 12's face


 No.7920

>>7919

It's like the Colin Baker cliffhangers all over again.

And I'm loving every minute.


 No.7921

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>>7918

Same. The Rockstar Tank scene has got to be his best scene thus far.


 No.7922

Was I seeing things or was 12 wearing his GOAT Pertwee coat in the trailer?


 No.7923

File: 1442692211793.png (742.27 KB, 1000x1290, 100:129, 1440020097698.png)

I like moff putting the doctor in difficult moral situations rather than just facing an army of monsters, makes the conflicts more interesting and personal.

It's pretty obvious that missy/clara/tardis will survive though, not sure what he was hoping to achieve with that bit since I think it's a bit too far gone from a believable consequence of the episode. A little odd that the dalek shooting effect had missy and clara disappear instead of fall to the ground, perhaps it's meant to clue you on that it's some kind of elaborate teleportation?

Which bingo squares can we fill out?


 No.7924

>>7923

>It's pretty obvious that missy/clara/tardis will survive though, not sure what he was hoping to achieve with that bit since I think it's a bit too far gone from a believable consequence of the episode

Well yeah, everyone knows Clara will make it somehow. But that scene where they were waiting for her to run was fucking crazy.


 No.7925

>>7923

>Daleks are used well

y/n? They were really more an accessory to davros but they had some level of threat to them

>Old daleks get enough screentime

They got a dedicated reveal, does that count?

>Interesting Doctor/master relationship

Bringing up the suggestion they're best friends is interesting, isn't it?

>Davros appears and is used well

This one's safe to tick, right?


 No.7926

I enjoyed that. Am I alone, or is it just live threads being cancer as usual?


 No.7927

>>7926

Live threads being cancer

I think sticking to mcgann for live and post-live shenanigans will be a good idea, give /who/ a chance to calm down


 No.7928

>>7926

Live thread cancer, with some b8 mixed in.

The ep was GOAT. Everyone with a brain agrees.


 No.7929

File: 1442692849772.png (641.21 KB, 1000x1290, 100:129, platBingo1.png)

Any objections?


 No.7930

I think one thing has gone underappreciated.

Moffat brought back Julian Bleach. Good old Moffat. He recognised that even in the shitefest of Journey's End, Bleach was on a winner


 No.7931

>>7929

I'm a bit concerned that we can't read what's been ticked. Could you reduce the opacity on those Capaldi icons?


 No.7932

File: 1442693466644.png (654.16 KB, 1000x1290, 100:129, platBingo2.png)

>>7931

This visible enough, or should I go even more?


 No.7933

>>7930

I am so, so happy about that.

Even given absolute bollocks to spout in that episode, Bleach was incredible. The one thing that annoyed me about today's episode was the repeat of the "ultimate victory" line from Journey's End, it was crap then and it was crap now.

Davros doesn't care about humiliating The Doctor, he just wants recognition for his genius. His motivation here was good, but that line makes it sound so petty every time.


 No.7934

>>7932

More


 No.7935

>>7932

I think we can tick off "At least one GOAT episode" already.


 No.7936

File: 1442693729883.png (658.72 KB, 1000x1290, 100:129, platBingo3.png)


 No.7937

Does anyone in that /who/ actually like the show? Seems like all of /tv/ has swarmed in to discuss something they know they won't like.


 No.7938

Torrents if anybody needs them.

https://kat.cr/doctor-who-2005-s09e01-hdtv-x264-tla-rartv-t11285364.html

https://kat.cr/doctor-who-2005-9x01-the-magicians-apprentice-720p-hdtv-x264-fov-rartv-t11285293.html

>>7925

>They were really more an accessory to davros

I didn't think so. the Hospital was on the outskirts and I got the impression they had entirely separate plans. The Daleks just knew about Davros's plans so they exploited that. I guess we'll see. I think that's a yes on well used regardless.


 No.7939

>>7933

I think it was crapper now from having been used like twice in Journey's End for equally shit reasons.

It makes more sense here in the context that he seems to have just recently worked out what the Doctor did to him all those years ago, and now he's literally on his deathbed he just wants to somehow get his own back for that injustice.


 No.7940

>>7937

Live threads and new season premieres are like that. Just full of retardation. Absolutely pathetic


 No.7941

>>7935

I think we should hold off on that one until the post-episode hype dies down and we can make a rational decision


 No.7942

>>7941

Nope, definitely GOAT


 No.7943

So capaldi with the guitar was pretty cool, not sold on the tank tbh though


 No.7944

>>7943

The tank made that scene for me. I knew about the guitar, the tank I hadn't noticed before. That killed me.


 No.7945

>>7944

I wonder if it'll get brought up next episode or not, or if there's just a tank in the middle of medieval britain now not hidden at all with no consequences


 No.7946

File: 1442694354588.png (29.1 KB, 118x154, 59:77, marker.png)

Just in case I die before the end of the series, this is the little check mark


 No.7947

>>7945

"It's not loaded" - The Doctor, 1113


 No.7948

>>7945

I hope that in the middle of the episode, for no reason at all, it'll just cut away from Skaro and show Kate being called to an archaeological dig where they found a shrine to the god Tank. Just a quick 1 minute scene, then back to Daleks.


 No.7949

>>7944

I'd heard the tank mentioned but hadn't registered it. That was mental.


 No.7950

>>7945

>yfw the tank is a plot point

>the Doctor broke time


 No.7951

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They didn't even film her at the right angle

I'll let it slide but holy shit this looked bad


 No.7952

>>7951

I think it was supposed to, it was designed to be cartoonish


 No.7953

Only irritation: The title sequence is still broken.

Not only is it still desynced, that fucking effect that they fixed for Last Christmas is now broken again.

It's just fucking laziness.


 No.7954

>>7951

The music in that scene was nuts, Gold pushing himself I see


 No.7955

>>7952

That's the thing though, it can be cartoonish and also not look like a cardboard cutout. They tried to make it look like she was popping out of the screen but forgot to make it look like it had any depth.

All it would have taken was filming that shot at a second angle which matched the perspective of this unit shot.


 No.7956

>>7953

My guess is they fixed the effect by re-rendering the titles, but those titles were the special snow ones which they can't use for the main show

Also was it me or were the cogs at the start of the intro more blue now?


 No.7957

>>7955

Psychic projections look like the same angle no matter where you see it from.

Or some shit like that. Happy?


 No.7958

>>7957

Don't get me wrong it's doctor who and cheap effects are expected and excused, it's just I know exactly how they could have made it look passably cartoonish with little extra effort. Just shows a lack of foresight when they were filming


 No.7959

I'm still really happy that they didn't keep Davros for the cliffhanger, the more Davros screentime, the better


 No.7960

>>7959

I think Moff must have hedged his bets and realised that Davros would probably leak, so fuck the 'big reveal' and might as well just get on with telling the story.


 No.7961

>Dark Lord of Skaro

Davros confirmed for Voldemort.


 No.7962


 No.7963

>>7960

Frankly I'm amazed that davros wasn't legitimately leaked until less than 12 hours before the episode aired


 No.7964

>>7962

>open link

>butterfaced teenage cuntwallop doing some 'RANT' at Moffat

N O P E

O

P

E


 No.7965

File: 1442696976444.jpg (71.9 KB, 1280x720, 16:9, Doctor_Who_Series_9_-_1._T….jpg)

The fuck is going on?


 No.7966

>>7965

Maybe the doctor pulls the trigger on davros but gets stopped by some not-time lords and he's trying to escape the prison they put him in

It's a long shot but those things don't look particularly dalek-y


 No.7967

"Imagine, to hold in your hand,

the heartbeat of every Dalek.

Genocide in a moment.

So many backs with a single knife.

Are you ready to be a God?"

Now this is Davros as he should be. Toying with the man he considers to be his intellectual equal, testing his morals, showing off his philosophies.

I have to wonder if he is working with the Daleks. He sent his own non-Dalek related minion to get The Doctor, he is in his own little section cut off from the rest of the city, he admitted to The Doctor that he had no control over them, and the Daleks sent their own sleeper minion to retrieve the TARDIS.


 No.7968

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Even the Shadow Proclamation came off as 100x GOATer, they got the same actress back and the Judoon and everything.

Moffat era redeeming RTD era failures. Admittedly it helps when you have the budget for more than a reused Torchwood set…


 No.7969

>>7968

RTD era had a bigger budget. The BBC's been getting budget cuts for years.


 No.7970

Kind of interesting that they pushed this as a dalek two parter but completely avoided mentioning davros, especially given how early in the episode he's seen

>>7968

The lighting made an immense difference as did the different set, at least now the shadow proclamation looks like a bit more than a white room


 No.7971


 No.7972

cytu.be/r/ThoraxTime

We are gonna watch the new ep soon.


 No.7973

>>7972

STARTING IMMINENTLY

don't tell /who/ ssshh


 No.7974

Has /who/ calmed down yet?


 No.7975

>"What is it about /who/ that makes me so fucking angry? I'm never like this. I think it's the smugness of you, how you act as it you're the patricians and people who hate the show are the plebs.

>Look at this from my POV. I've just sat through some of the worst swill imaginable. I found every element of it completely fucking awful, honestly. Then is see people posting shit like this, and it makes my blood boil. I don't know what you get from the show. I hate all of you so much."

TOP KEK

This is the brand of ass-ruptured autist you get in aftermath threads


 No.7976

There are people still here?

I've been sifting through the shit on /who/ waiting for the autists to leave


 No.7977

So honestly, how would people rate the episode?

I'd give it a clear 10/10, that was brilliant. Depending on the quality of the next part, and it's apparently better than the first one, this will be heralded as one of the best Dalek stories of NewWho. Definitely the best Master story.


 No.7978

>>7975

Pre-live thread i didn't think was that bad at all, I peaked in at the live thread, and am in the post thread and can't hardly believe how bad it is in there.


 No.7979

Man I'm so glad we have Mcgann. I hate live and post-live threads so much.

Anyways, now that I can actually have an intellectual conversation, I thought the episode was great. 8/10. Loved Capaldi, he was GOAT in every scene he occupied. Same with Davros. However, I would like some things to be explained though. Like, how Davros escaped the Crucible. And how all of the Daleks are here. Anyone else feel the same?


 No.7980

>>7976

This is like the ideal shelter from live /who/ autism


 No.7981

>>7980

I set this up before the episode started, and didn't get a post until it finished, so at least it's full of people that actually watched the episode instead of posting non stop about it.


 No.7982

>>7975

People like this irritate the shit out of me. If you don't like the show, don't watch it. And for fuck's sake, don't come to /who/ with your bullshit, autistic opinions.


 No.7983

>>7977

It was just excellent. I felt it was spinning its wheels a bit during the 10 minute long medieval sequence (although Capaltank was indeed GOAT), but everything else was delicious.

Like, you know Missy and Clara will be fine, but the sheer intensity of seeing 12's reaction as they get vaporised was worth it. (speaking of those two, I loved their opening face-off as well. They're just on fire)

Maybe at the moment I'd give it an 8 overall, if only because it's really the final 10 minutes that send it into amazingness overdrive.


 No.7984

>>7979

Honestly, I don't need an explanation on Davros, it's something that happened in 2008, I've long since not cared, as long as it means more Davros.

As for the Daleks, they've never had a consistent design that makes sense, they all look cool together so I'm not that fussed about that either.

As for the Missy thing I've read that her survival does get cleared up, although that might just be referring to the "I always survive" line, which personally I'm also ok with.


 No.7985

>>7983

I can understand the comments about the medieval section slowing down the pace of it, but that tank scene was so much fun I wouldn't want them to have cut a second of it.


 No.7986

>>7985

True, and part of the fun of two-parters is that you can have longer scenes with more character shit in them.

I don't get the pacing complaints to be honest (honestly most 'pacing' complaints about the show are pulled directly from the arse anyway).


 No.7987

>>7986

I think my favourite comments from /who/ was that the pacing was terrible because the first half an hour was too slow and then the episode stopped just as it was picking up the pace.

It's like these people have never encountered the concept of a two part story before.


 No.7988

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DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE FACE OF MERCY?


 No.7989

>>7988

But really how goat would it be if the Doctor is responsible for Davros' crippled nature? Would the Moff do it? WILL he do it? Probably not, but that would be amazing.


 No.7990

>>7989

I'm anticipating a misdirect, where it turns out he was crippled much later in life and this had nothing to do with it.


 No.7991

>>7990

I'm hoping for a misunderstanding and for the child to be some other kid named Davros.


 No.7992

>>7990

This is what I anticipate as well.

>>7991

This will make me lose my shit.


 No.7993

>>7990

This would also tie in with the Doctor saving kiddy Davros from the hand mines


 No.7994

https://profile.theguardian.com/user/id/3036904

I fucking love this guy's posts about the episode, something about the way he writes his just hilariously GOAT

>jesus was that not just effing great. I can't believe where this series has gotten to. They'll retcon the deaths, but that was a nasty room of psychotic daleks. You could see pretty much see clara realising she was about to be murdered.

>MINTED episode. flaming nora.

> Jesus Christ what a dark, spicy, minted opener. The beeb are going at this hammer and tongs. Those opening arial WW1 style shots looked shagging epic.

>Moffat grabbed the third rail by going back to genesis of the daleks and he landed it with thor's shagging hammer.

>That was a major ep of who. major lazer Major.


 No.7995

Why are people confused about the Doctor thinking it was his final day?

He was literally about to walk alone into a room with Davros and probably a bunch of Daleks, to atone for leaving a child to die. It was not a situation he expected to make it out of.


 No.7997

Help


 No.8000

>all this delusional dicksucking

The episode was far from GOAT

It had some genuinely great moments but as usual there were too many cringey scenes and dialogue.

Who proofreads the scripts? No one? Does Moffat have Lucas-esque control over what goes on in his episodes that nobody has the guts to say to him "this really shouldn't be there, how and why did that couple walking their dog just casually walk through that scene with all the guns n shit, just so Missy can make a quip?" or "maybe lay off killing off characters all the time and magically bringing them back 5 seconds later, it's really unbelievable and cheap Steve" or "Will the audience really buy a fucking school teacher as this super secret agent for UNIT who has the authority to command trained professionals and make decisions that could possibly end the lives of millions?". "This is a silly family Science Fiction show but have you no respect for the viewer's intelligence and general suspension of disbelief? How about a re-write Steve, there's some good concepts in here but it needs just a little more work before we shoot this shite".


 No.8001

>>8000

Who are you and how did you find this place


 No.8002

>>8000

>how and why did that couple walking their dog just casually walk through that scene with all the guns n shit, just so Missy can make a quip?

What suggests that area was locked off from public access? This is an incredibly minor point to get so caught up on

>maybe lay off killing off characters all the time and magically bringing them back 5 seconds later, it's really unbelievable and cheap Steve

He laid off for an entire series, you've only seen half of the story so far so it's too early to make a judgement on if this even counts

>a fucking school teacher as this super secret agent for UNIT who has the authority to command trained professionals and make decisions that could possibly end the lives of millions?

You mean the doctor's companion who has direct contact and experience with the doctor, as well as experience with defeating aliens? It's not just some random school teacher they picked off the streets


 No.8003

>>8002

Snipers, black cars, secret agent looking UNIT guys around the perimeter, a huge fucking airplane suspended overhead, planes suspended all over the world and widely broadcast like it's doomsday

>hey honey lets take the dog for a casual walk!

Killing the Doctor, killing the Master, killing secondary characters and bringing them back with little to no explanation constantly over the last few seasons. Give me a break, do it all the time and it means nothing. It's not shocking, it's not believable, it's detrimental.

Why make UNIT so damn incompetent? What's the fucking point of them when SuperClara is there to save the day time and time again? in fact why even have the Doctor? Just let this tiny little girl and her unbelievable sense of importance and authority do everything.


 No.8004

>>8003

It's an old couple you see for literally seconds, do you expect them to waste time explaining their motives for going about their lives despite frozen planes in the sky?

Did you just ignore what I said? There were no redacted deaths in series 8, missy doesn't count because it's well established the master always returns. It's too early to judge what happened to missy and clara in TMA because you haven't yet seen the explanation of what actually happened. I agree during matt's era moff started killing everyone like it was nothing, but things have moved on since then and it's time you let go of that bias.

How were unit incompetent? They were the ones who found when and where the doctor was, clara just gave them hints which only the doctor's companion could have given. Did you even watch the episode or were you blinded by unwarranted clara hatred?


 No.8005

>>8002

>This is an incredibly minor point to get so caught up on

They were just a few nit pickings off the top of my head. As I said before, It had some genuinely great moments but as usual there were too many cringey scenes and dialogue.

Sorry to break up the GOLDEN AGE GOAT circlejerk, it wasn't as great an episode as anons on here are making it out to be.

No, I've not seen the conclusion so there's some inconsistencies that may be cleared but still. Bad writing is bad writing.

6 or maybe a generous 7 out of 10


 No.8006

>>8005

I'm not suggesting that the episode was perfect either, but to suggest anything in it was 'cringe' is either hyperbole or legitimate autism. Doctor Who is not a 100% serious show nor is it trying to be.


 No.8007

>>8004

>no redacted deaths

Missy

Clara

Davros

Osgood

Can't wait for the return of Danny Splink tbh


 No.8008

>>8007

>in series 8


 No.8009

>>8008

Is 4ch0n back yet fam?


 No.8010

>>8009

Looks like it came back about 10 minutes ago

Took long enough, I actually got work done


 No.8011

>>8000

>Doctor Who is being unrealistic, therefore it is bad.

>I have no sense of humour, therefore it is bad.

Get out.


 No.8012

>>8005

>Implying that the episode wasn't 10/10 GOAT

Cry more.


 No.8013

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>>8011

Unrealistic? Try idiotic, therefore it is bad.

Who said anything about humour? I wasn't complaining about Missy's comedic OTT-isms or the Doctor's tank-riding guitar-slinging joke telling now was I?

>>8012

I'm not implying, I'm straight out telling you that it wasn't.


 No.8014

>>8013

This is what butthurt haters actually believe.

Cry more.


 No.8015

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>>8014

You're not making any sense but meme rhetoric, poor show lad.


 No.8016

>>8015

Cry more.


 No.8017

Breddy gud

A little more worried the sonic sunglasses are going to become a meme item

Also a bit odd moff decided to make such a big deal out of the daleks being able to say mercy when a dalek already said it in Big Bang, another episode moff himself wrote


 No.8018

>>8014

Neyneyneyney


 No.8019

/who/ is actually surprisingly alright at the moment

It's been better but it's nowhere near as bad as last week


 No.8021

>>8017

They strike me as kind of a pointless gimmick. I was hoping we might actually be able to go a series without sonic wizardry, but apparently not.


 No.8022

I really enjoyed that. I think Moff stopped just short of making any huge and seismic statements that would have really catapulted it into phenomenal, but on the whole it was a damn good ride. Even the TARDIS copout won me over with its sly re-mixing of the HADS.

My only disappointment was that Sarff didn't turn out to be some kind of garden of Eden snake metaphor thingy with the 'greatest temptation' involved.

Also I'm not sure how to read those incredibly poignant Doctor/Davros scenes in light of the ruse cruise.

The whole arc setup thing with the 'hybrid' sounds like it's going to be stupid as fuck but I have faith.

Just so I have this straight, the Witch's Familiar was Clara right? With her predicament and being forced to tag along after Missy?


 No.8023

>>8022

Was it just me, or were they for a second there suggesting that Davros might be a future incarnation of the Doctor or some other Timelord?


 No.8024

>>8023

I don't think so, I think the prophecy was just the usual NuWho blather and Davros just happened to be the one to deliver it to the audience in this case.


 No.8025

/who/ has been taken over by people who just sit looking for things to whine about Moffat over instead of enjoying the show.


 No.8026

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>>8025

This image never stops being relevant.


 No.8027

>>8025

I can't believe it, did /who/ actually get overtaken by reddit? Just now someone made a completely unironic joke about if they were on reddit


 No.8028

why did they turn the master into a companion/waifu

pls stop moffat


 No.8029

I'm a little fed up with this anti-moff sentiment tbh

live/who/ acts as if literally everything he touches is shit by default


 No.8030

>>8028

Reluctant team ups with the Master are nothing new.


 No.8031

That was a good episode (picked up towards the end, for sure) but next week looks way more interesting.

>>8029

/who/ got infected, it was never this bad before TMA/TWF but now we have some Tumblr tier retards who can't think of Doctor Who outside 'i h8 moffat' gradually tainting the environment.


 No.8032

>>8031

It's not tumblr or even reddit. It's /tv/

It was like it last year, and the year before that. When the episode is on, if people on /tv/ notice or are bored, they watch it anyway, despite not even liking the show.

There were people complaining about it being terrible because they stopped being able to follow the plot halfway through. And that was because they were too busy writing posts about how shit it was instead of actually watching the show.


 No.8033

Episode 3 of Series 9 and it's another winner.

1: 8/10

2: 9/10

3: 8/10

The Platinum Age is truly here at last.


 No.8034

Under the Lake was all setup.

But at least it was good setup. It did everything it had to do for a base under siege story in the best possible way.


 No.8035

>>7994

Oh wow this is great

>IT WAS CRACKING WRITING TIMMY. just was. that was fun presented in a hamper.

>I WILL DEFEND THIS EPISODE BEFORE THE U.N. IF NEEDS BE.

>no you madman - I'm deadly serious. That was a straight up incredible episode. As a two parter that is landmark Who. Flat fact - no come backsies times infinity.

>archeologists will be unpicking lines from that episode for decades.

>ah lads. seriously. you all need therapy or something. tout suite.

>TO MY UNDERSTANDING, MOFFAT AND THE CREW BLEW THE DOORS OFF THAT EPISODE, PICKED THEM UP, BLEW THEM OFF AGAIN, AND THEN HAD A THIRD GO FOR A LAUGH.

>FLAMING FLAMING FLAMING NORA.

>Was the maybe actually the best episode of Doctor Who ever broadcast?

>Enquiring minds want to know.

>You'd think Moffat somehow transmogrified and scampered off on a truffle hunt for dark funny deep heart Who over the break. Honestly. It doesn't feel like he's messing around one iota there. Sure there's Nothing like Who really. You root for the writer the actors and the beeb. Moffat played that one out of his skin.

I love this guy.


 No.8037

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Hi /doctorwho/, I'm new to this dimension, having slipped through a time rift in Slough in the 15th Century escaping some nasty business with the Sontarans but I won't bore you with the details and happened upon this place which may or may not be dead, I'm not entirely sure. Consider this a kick to the goolies to see if there's any life in here.

Anyway, I'll get to the point, shall I? The most recent episode of Durr Hoo left me pondering: There was this whole business about this message left on the inside of a spaceship being an earworm that people see before they die so that when they become ghosts, they can be transmitters shouting really loudly into some ethereal plane (why they didn't just buy megaphones, I'll never know), which is all well and good, but I don't understand one thing. Why couldn't the TARDIS translate that? Did I miss something in the explanation there? Because even though they're hieroglyphics, it's still a language, otherwise the human brain wouldn't have been able to process it, rendering the whole scheme useless - or are we really expected to believe that the human brain is better at alien language comprehension than the TARDIS is? Now, the only way I could see this idea working is using the "signs and signifiers" method à la Baudrillard, with something hardcoded into human DNA that we've largely forgotten in our language but on a base level, we still remember. But that wouldn't work either, because then why would the Doctor know what the signs meant? He's a Timelord and wouldn't share that same base knowledge, because despite looking human, he does not share our biology.

Does anyone else see this dilemma? I mean, it would've been easily written out by making them actual pictures or by saying the TARDIS translation system was on the fritz because of water in the works, but the way they actually did it makes it seem like they don't really know how languages/the human brain works which seems a little strange for a show that purports to tell us about the intricacies of both through the wondrous science fiction worlds opened up with the mystery of time travel.


 No.8040

>>8037

Where did the Doctor get that cup of tea?


 No.8042

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>maisie next episode

I hope she replaces clara


 No.8043

Before the Flood: alright on the night but mediocre in retrospect, letdown after a nice part 1

The Girl Who Died: A rollicking good time


 No.8044

This talking to babies shit is getting a little silly. It was just a joke the first time around, but now it's being used as a core plot point of an episode.


 No.8045

Am I going insane or is /who/ not /who/ anymore? It's like 24/7 day/who/ where the default opinion is that the sonic sunglasses are shit and that 12's hoodie is bad

I miss when we could be positive about things


 No.8046

>>8045

Well those two things are shit.


 No.8047

>>8046

I don't know. I want to like them, though it does hurt that it's just going to be turned into another meme item. They actually had a purpose in the episode they were introduced, the writing was consistent (the reason he kept them on his person the whole time and that he took them from Davros being they actually were important) and they were revealed at the right moment. Not just "oh look at this fez aren't they so cool look how random I am!" They had a purpose, and it was something I genuinely didn't see coming at all. I was impressed, because up until the reveal I thought it was definitely just that kind of random humor like the tank and guitar, and that's what you were supposed to think.


 No.8048

So that last episode was… An episode. It was alright, I suppose.


 No.8049

/who/ has descended into autism

any anons alive here?


 No.8050

>>8049

im alive

catz has killed /who/ with his retarded spam


 No.8051

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>>8050

Yeah, at this point fuck /who/.

Has anyone checked out the bbc radio player? They're streaming Davison audio for free. Its really good


 No.8052

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>>8049

>>8050

I live and peer in from time to time but I don't see much activity in this place. Do you all haunt halfchan or something? Or is there another board on Infinite that I haven't found yet?


 No.8053

Well it looks like he figured out how to reset his Ip.


 No.8054

>>8050

>>8050

>>8049

Aye, I just popped over from bloody stupid day /who/. I know where I am, and it's glorious McGann.


 No.8055

So McGann Chan, Pertwee vs. T. Baker in the Graham Williams era/early JNT era. Which would you rather watch?


 No.8063

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>>8055

Tom Baker. I liked Pertwee when he was being curious about things and explaining everything to dimwitted sidekicks and the viewers but he was too action hero and gadgety for me. Tom Baker is the definitive Doctor in my eyes because he just gets the core ideas behind the character of the Doctor so right, mixing the authoritarian tone of Hartnell with the madcap antics of Troughton with ease, and with the right scripts, I believe that the Doctor is astoundingly clever in his hands more than I do in Pertwee's. Just the way he explains things with the classic "Ah yes". His flippancy about everything is just the icing on the cake.


 No.8101

>>8052

Not that I know of. There are occasional threas on 8 /tv/, but if there's another board out there, someone's holding out on me.


 No.8102

I know Christopher Eccleston. He lived in a richer area of New York at one point. I bumped into him in a sandwich shop. He was shooting the shit with the sandwich maker when I came up to give my order. I got a standard turkey on wheat with mayo and pepper jack. It was something very simple. All the while Chris was laughing to himself and pointing at me occasionally mumbling, "Is this guy serious?"

I wasn't sure why I guess he was displeased about me ordering or what I ordered. After I got my sandwich I sat down and ate while he just leaned back into the windowed meat display and watched me. When I got up to throw the trash away he stopped me and offered his hand. I was shy because I knew who he was but he introduced himself anyways. When I shook his hand the other hand came out of his pocket holding a tazer which he used on my neck. When I fell to the ground tense I soiled myself. He laughed, "This guy." And started kicking me in the face quoting Doctor Who over and over, "STUPID APE STUPID APE."

I woke up in the hospital next to a vase of broccoli labeled, "From Chris."

Now every year he shows up to my families Thanksgiving dinner, uninvited, unannounced, and just eats, laughs to himself, and then leaves. Last year he murdered my mother. I fear what hurricane Chris will bring this year..




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