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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Mar 22, 2024 22:52:26 GMT
Can you even remember?
Luckily, I did get some enjoyment out of Power of the Doctor. I realize it was a total mess, but in retrospect it ended up being a better celebration of the series than the actual anniversary specials themselves.
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Post by ClockworkOcean on Mar 23, 2024 0:45:08 GMT
World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls, but only to a very limited extent. It's still extremely flawed for reasons that have already been discussed extensively.
I liked the classic Doctor cameos in Power, though purely for nostalgic reasons. I still haven't seen the full thing as I couldn't possibly stomach a full hour of Jodie and Chibnall.
Wild Blue Yonder came close to being alright, but Fathead couldn't resist showing fans the finger with more of his usual petty, spiteful bullshit. A judicious fan edit could probably turn it into a serviceable lost episode of Series 4.
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Post by rushy on Mar 23, 2024 5:33:44 GMT
I adored most of Wild Blue Yonder
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Post by Ludders II on Mar 23, 2024 5:55:29 GMT
Survival.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2024 18:54:05 GMT
End of Time Part 1
I think a lot of people don't realise that a big part of why the original Davies run worked so well was the social realism, the presence of familiar milieus such as office spaces, council flats, post offices, greasy spoons, chip shops (Mickey even mentions the key-cutter's on Clifton's Parade in one episode) and whatnot peppered between the fantasy elements made it feel much more wondrous when we saw science-fiction cityscapes and alien spaceships. EoT 1, unlike the other less grounded specials, gets this down real well; you have the scene in the cafe, the junkyard, the street scenes with Wilf, Christmas market, shopfronts, what have you.
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Post by RobFilth on Apr 4, 2024 12:19:44 GMT
World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls, but only to a very limited extent. It's still extremely flawed for reasons that have already been discussed extensively. I liked the classic Doctor cameos in Power, though purely for nostalgic reasons. I still haven't seen the full thing as I couldn't possibly stomach a full hour of Jodie and Chibnall. Wild Blue Yonder came close to being alright, but Fathead couldn't resist showing fans the finger with more of his usual petty, spiteful bullshit. A judicious fan edit could probably turn it into a serviceable lost episode of Series 4. Pretty much all of my thoughts too. I attempted to watch Power from the very start after watching it on flick-through for just the classic Doctor/companion scenes, but after 5 minutes of watching Jodie gurning and saying stupid f*cking things, turned it off again before I could even get to the classic stuff. |
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Post by zarius on Apr 8, 2024 15:40:49 GMT
Giggle. Thought it was a decent capper to the first era of NuWho (purely by it's own standards), you could say it's exactly what it deserves.
Power of the Doctor's fun to watch as far as reaction videos goes, just to see the look of confusion on casual's faces as they're faced with the prospect of actually researching the stuff they're watching.
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Post by burrunjor on Apr 8, 2024 16:25:29 GMT
"Come on Ace we've got work to do." I suspect will be what most people regard as the end of DW in the coming decades. It's funny I remember some panel show recently of all things even making a joke about "DW finishes on a high, too bad that was in 1989." PS I still blame panel shows partly for new who LOL, but it just goes to show you how things are changing. I regret not saying come on Ace we've got work to do after hiring Sophie LOL. |
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Post by rushy on Apr 8, 2024 19:37:16 GMT
"Come on Ace we've got work to do." I suspect will be what most people regard as the end of DW in the coming decades. People like Paul McGann too much to ignore the TV movie. |
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Post by iank on Apr 8, 2024 21:51:43 GMT
"Come on Ace we've got work to do." I suspect will be what most people regard as the end of DW in the coming decades. It's funny I remember some panel show recently of all things even making a joke about "DW finishes on a high, too bad that was in 1989." PS I still blame panel shows partly for new who LOL, but it just goes to show you how things are changing. lols Really? That's hilarious. True, obviously, but hilarious.  |
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Post by burrunjor on Apr 8, 2024 22:17:31 GMT
"Come on Ace we've got work to do." I suspect will be what most people regard as the end of DW in the coming decades. It's funny I remember some panel show recently of all things even making a joke about "DW finishes on a high, too bad that was in 1989." PS I still blame panel shows partly for new who LOL, but it just goes to show you how things are changing. lols Really? That's hilarious. True, obviously, but hilarious. Absolutely. It was on a news quiz type show, one that is normally a bit woke. I can't quite remember the name? There was also a poll on twitter for there's a fire and you have to leave one decade of DW to burn. 60s 70s 80s 00s 00s won by over 40 percent and thousands of people voted. One can only shudder at how badly the 2010s would have fared LOL. I'd only be sorry I could burn the likes of Death in Heaven, Rosa and Twice Upon A Turd once. |
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Post by iank on Apr 8, 2024 22:37:58 GMT
lols I love it. Oh dear, the worm really has turned. |
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Post by ClockworkOcean on Apr 10, 2024 2:38:28 GMT
Absolutely. It was on a news quiz type show, one that is normally a bit woke. I can't quite remember the name? There was also a poll on twitter for there's a fire and you have to leave one decade of DW to burn. 60s 70s 80s 00s 00s won by over 40 percent and thousands of people voted. One can only shudder at how badly the 2010s would have fared LOL. I'd only be sorry I could burn the likes of Death in Heaven, Rosa and Twice Upon A Turd once. This doesn't surprise me. It would be difficult to overstate the damage Russell has done to the reputation of his era, his charaters and himself over the past year. I've never seen someone expend so much effort on telling their fans how hated and unwelcome they are. The combination of his atrocious, spitefully written specials and disgraceful off-screen behavior has severed the nostalgic attachment many felt towards his era, pushing a lot of younger fans towards a position not dissimilar to that of The Hive. |
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Post by burrunjor on Apr 10, 2024 8:51:02 GMT
Absolutely. It was on a news quiz type show, one that is normally a bit woke. I can't quite remember the name? There was also a poll on twitter for there's a fire and you have to leave one decade of DW to burn. 60s 70s 80s 00s 00s won by over 40 percent and thousands of people voted. One can only shudder at how badly the 2010s would have fared LOL. I'd only be sorry I could burn the likes of Death in Heaven, Rosa and Twice Upon A Turd once. This doesn't surprise me. It would be difficult to overstate the damage Russell has done to the reputation of his era, his charaters and himself over the past year. I've never seen someone expend so much effort on telling their fans how hated and unwelcome they are. The combination of his atrocious, spitefully written specials and disgraceful off-screen behavior has severed the nostalgic attachment many felt towards his era, pushing a lot of younger fans towards a position not dissimilar to that of The Hive. The best thing is, he'd won! Even on the Hive, the site that used to call him fathead, we looked back on his first era with a degree of fondness. After all it didn't have Missy, it was actually an attempt at doing a proper sci fi show, not just pc posturing and it wasn't up its own arse, with every character trying to have a "tears in the rain" speech and failing miserably like the Capaldi era (f*ck me is Hellbent the worst offender for that.) He could have slinked away as the only showrunner of the revival who didn't completely f*ck up the lore and show, but his ego was too great, and as you say within the last year he's done a better job of torching his legacy than even George f*cking Lucas ever did. |
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Post by rushy on Apr 10, 2024 12:25:02 GMT
Lucas has barely dented his legacy. The prequels have a huge fanbase nowadays. They've pretty much single-handedly revived Hayden Christensen's career. Ewan McGregor has arguably eclipsed Sir Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan. And even its worst haters usually admit that they at least expanded the worldbuilding in interesting ways. They gave Palpatine his reputation for being a Machiavellian politician, not just a sneering Emperor (as iconic as that original performance is). The Clone Wars is almost as beloved as the original trilogy. The lightsaber duels are second to none.
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