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Post by rushy on Mar 31, 2024 17:21:05 GMT
It's like the show's on cocaine.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2024 18:00:25 GMT
I've seen the trailer. Not much to see really. Not even a sneaky half a second clip of a Dalek. I'm not buying Ncuti as a legit actor let alone as the Doctor. He just seems like a social media influencer to me. No gravitas, no drama, just rubbish |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2024 18:03:33 GMT
It's like the show's on cocaine. Seriously. These titles are embarrassingly juvenile |
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Post by cyberhat on Mar 31, 2024 18:06:56 GMT
Wow
Loud music
Acting like CGI has just been invented
References to TV shows most people wont get because nobody watches television anymore
I wasn't expecting any of that. My mind is blown.
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Post by rushy on Mar 31, 2024 18:07:38 GMT
It's this whole "EVERYTHING'S FUN! EVERYTHING'S AMAZING! LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION, RAZZLE-DAZZLE, WE'RE THE BEST IN THE UNIVERSE, WE'RE GONNA ROCK AND ROLL...!!" attitude that confuses me.
Reminds me of that montage of Jesse Pinkman partying like a lunatic to block out his memories of killing someone lol.
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Post by rushy on Mar 31, 2024 18:10:20 GMT
I know Red Dwarf has always been intelligent, but the fact that the Dave era is unironically a far stronger science fiction show than modern Doctor Who is worrying. How does a sitcom have more gravitas than a drama series?
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Post by cyberhat on Mar 31, 2024 18:24:58 GMT
It's indistinguishable from a trailer for every Disney flop of 2023.
This show is in a death spiral of repetition. The faux-radicalism of bourgeois liberals don't cut it no more Russell.
Imagine if it was just a short trailer of some very witty dialogue. Like the "you've a lot to unlearn" scene from Shada. Would probably go viral. They can't do that of course, they don't have any witty scenes.
As it is, just checked the BBC Youtube video of it. It's been up an hour and has only reached 4.9k viewers.
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Post by iank on Mar 31, 2024 21:08:39 GMT
So all but two episodes by RTD himself? Ridiculous. If this flops his tantrum is going to be astronomical. Worse than Hillary's when she lost. It's already flopped. Everything now is just going to be damage control and desperate spin. |
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Post by zarius on Apr 1, 2024 11:50:22 GMT
Don't know how accurate this knowing what day it is, but apparently episode 7's working title was "The Legend of Ruby Sunday", then they settled on "Chrysalis and The Sixpence" but then changed it back because they deleted the one scene that gave that episode title meaning.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Apr 3, 2024 16:43:53 GMT
It's like the show's on cocaine. The episodes look more like Children in Need skits than proper Doctor Who episodes, Space Babies and the musical episode in particular. |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Apr 3, 2024 16:45:57 GMT
RTD has written TEN episodes for the show since he returned. Talk about hogging the writer's chair.
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Post by ClockworkOcean on Apr 3, 2024 19:33:41 GMT
The only way this man could be any more of an egotist would be for him to write and star in an episode about himself titled "The Legend of Russell T Davies". Dickens, Shakespeare, Christie, Byron, Shelley... these encounters were merely the Doctor psyching himself up for the day he'd meet his true British literary idol, Russell T Davies. The year is 1999, and Chibnall's Space Racist is back. As consolation for his failure to prevent Rosa Parks' arrest, he's determined to undo the only other event in human history with a comparable civil rights impact - the broadcast of Queer as Folk. Will Ncuti and Russell be able to set aside their insatiable lust for each other long enough to save the tapes from destruction?
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Post by burrunjor on Apr 3, 2024 20:12:35 GMT
The only way this man could be any more of an egotist would be for him to write and star in an episode about himself titled "The Legend of Russell T Davies". Dickens, Shakespeare, Christie, Byron, Shelley... these encounters were merely the Doctor psyching himself up for the day he'd meet his true British literary idol, Russell T Davies. The year is 1999, and Chibnall's Space Racist is back. As consolation for his failure to prevent Rosa Parks' arrest, he's determined to undo the only other event in human history with a comparable civil rights impact - the broadcast of Queer as Folk. Will Ncuti and Russell be able to set aside their insatiable lust for each other long enough to save the tapes from destruction? First of all LMFAO Second you jest but is that any different to this? Say what you will about the Moff, but under his watch the 50th celebrations were. A docu drama celebrating the origin of the show. A loving parody that feature the classic era Doctors and took the piss out of Moffat and new who in an affectionate way. The 50th which I know wasn't everybody's cup of tea, but it did at least bring back the Zygons, Tom Baker, restored Gallifrey (even if that didn't go anywhere.) RTD does three specials that are entirely about his era, and a documentary about himself. Really says it all. |
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Post by rushy on Apr 3, 2024 20:29:51 GMT
I have to disagree here. The 60th was never going to be the 50th. Not even under Moff's watch. It's just not as much of a milestone as half a century.
And the specials, whilst heavily skewed towards RTD's era, are not ENTIRELY about him. There were numerous plot points from previous eras. The Star Beast obviously being an adaptation of a Fourth Doctor comic. The Meep's trial is straight from Stones of Blood, another Fourth Doctor story. Nu-UNIT and Kate got started with the Eleventh Doctor (or Downtime) and have no previous affiliation with RTD. Mel Bush is from the Sixth/Seventh Doctor's era (and we get a Sabalom Glitz callback). The Flux and the Timeless Children, from the Thirteenth Doctor. The Toymaker, obviously the First Doctor. Wild Blue Yonder in general isn't a very modern style episode at all, and harkens to those early 60s serials where the first part is just taken up by slow, methodical investigation. You also get one massive Genesis of the Daleks reference with the minisode.
We can debate on the quality of how those were all executed, but objectively speaking, it's not entirely about his era. He did weave lots of other things in there.
Also worth noting that Davison's idea for a second parody wasn't shot down by RTD specifically, but by its cast. So if he'd written something different, that could still have happened. That's not on RTD.
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Post by rushy on Apr 3, 2024 20:36:32 GMT
oh, and I forgot Tales of the TARDIS. If we're counting stuff other than the specials themselves, that exceeds the number of returning characters we had in the 50th by a mile.
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