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Post by malicious_bloke on Jul 24, 2011 5:35:06 GMT -5
But he didn't even FACE the MAster. When Tennant faced the Master, he spent most of the time as a tiny gollum thing until he got turned back by happy thoughts amplified by a satellite, then the Master was finally killed by his wife, then he cried like a little girl while the Master gloated. Jon Pertwee would have pimp-slapped the Master and got it over with Roger Delgado RIP. Best Master there ever was.
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 24, 2011 7:32:19 GMT -5
How do you know? We don't know of any of the 9th's adventures before he met Rose thanks to Davies' "the 9th Doctor can only be seen traveling with Rose!!!" bullshit. By the same token, if it didn't happen onscreen, it doesn't count.
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Post by shadowpanther on Jul 24, 2011 7:37:01 GMT -5
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Post by chad sexington on Jul 24, 2011 9:48:59 GMT -5
Roger Delgado RIP. Best Master there ever was. Seconded.
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Post by Jack Bauer on Jul 26, 2011 5:35:53 GMT -5
Bow ties are cool...
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 26, 2011 7:32:23 GMT -5
Damn that Fez murdering River Song!
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Post by shadowpanther on Jul 26, 2011 9:24:24 GMT -5
Damn that Fez murdering River Song! Hey! That's my line!
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 26, 2011 9:50:08 GMT -5
To be fair, I stole it from Impious Rex, so NYEAH.
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Post by Khaine on Jul 26, 2011 10:01:03 GMT -5
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 26, 2011 10:05:29 GMT -5
Do they kill Hitler?
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Post by malicious_bloke on Jul 26, 2011 11:07:08 GMT -5
Dunno yet, second half of the season doesn't start until the autumn.
On a related note, what is the fucking point in splitting the season in two? Loads of american shows do this too, and it's REALLY annoying.
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Post by Amaranth on Jul 26, 2011 12:17:11 GMT -5
Dunno yet, second half of the season doesn't start until the autumn. On a related note, what is the fucking point in splitting the season in two? Loads of american shows do this too, and it's REALLY annoying. On an earlier page, it was suggested this was done to be the new standard size. Which will be utter bullshit, if they start putting out only 7 eps a year in the long run. I'd read something previous where it looked like Moffat was all for it, so he could do a "big cliffhanger" like one might do at the end of a season. And yeah, I know it hasn't aired. It's just they advertised the Doctor would be back in "Let's Kill Hitler." Mid-season breaks are annoying. I think the industry does it for a couple reasons: One, it extends the shelf-life of the show (You can air new episodes longer, with a break during "off seasons"") and two, it allows for a more segmented production schedule. I'm not sure either of these work for Doctor Who, as it'sonly 13 episodes to begin with, though maybe they benefit from a production break. I remember reading a lot of commentary about the addition of a Christmas special to the regular production as though it were "grueling." This seems weird to me, coming from a country where the standard used to be twice that number of episodes, though that number has quicklycome down. I also grew up on a lot of Japanese adaptations like Volton, where you'd get like fifty episode treated as one "season." Later, it was Power Rangers and the likes, which did the same thing. I'm not sure if the British seem like pansies because our schedules are ridiculous, or they seem like pansies because 13 episodes really isn't all that bad. Probably the former, but I wanted an excuse to call the British pansies. "Oh look at me, I'm Harry potter, and I don't want to film a movie AND go to school!" Shut up and take some pep pills, you big baby! (I kid). I also suspect the mid-season breaks create higher ratings for both the "finale" and "return" eps. Plus, they can start selling DVDs of the first half of the season before the scond one's even out! And since TV seems to be nothing more than a vehicle for DVD sales these days....
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Post by terri on Jul 26, 2011 18:34:20 GMT -5
Roger Delgado RIP. Best Master there ever was. Seconded. Thirded. Delgado had more of a gravitas about his Master... Anthony Ainley, much as I enjoyed meeting him at a convention ages ago (and a lovely gentleman he was), tended to ham it up a bit. And I have yet to see John Simm in the new series. (I'd like to see the old "Sir Francis Drake" TV series with Robert Shaw, just to see Delgado as Drake's adversary Mendoza.)
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Post by scotsgit on Jul 27, 2011 11:07:05 GMT -5
Now that you come to mention it, I had noticed he hadn't been around a lot lately.....
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Post by malicious_bloke on Jul 27, 2011 11:27:08 GMT -5
Now that you come to mention it, I had noticed he hadn't been around a lot lately..... Oddly, have you ever seen Hitler and Neil Morrissey in the same room together? *scratches chin*
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