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Post by zarius on Jun 8, 2024 7:25:15 GMT
Just setting a thread up for all finale discussion and speculation
Next Time
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Jun 8, 2024 11:39:25 GMT
RTD is capable of writing a good finale. Let's hope he turns up.
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Post by iank on Jun 8, 2024 21:52:01 GMT
Thank God it's nearly over. Just listening to everyone going on about this shit is doing my head in.
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Post by UncleDeadly on Jun 8, 2024 21:59:39 GMT
RTD is capable of writing a good finale. Let's hope he turns up. Am i the only one who hopes he doesn't turn up? Someone for god's sake lend him Michael Mosley's street atlas... |
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Post by zarius on Jun 9, 2024 5:50:33 GMT
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Jun 9, 2024 7:51:28 GMT
Lenny Rush is apparently the scientific advisor in this story. Shame, I was warming to Shirley.
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Post by zarius on Jun 9, 2024 9:47:14 GMT
Lenny Rush is apparently the scientific advisor in this story. Shame, I was warming to Shirley. She'll be back next series |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2024 9:49:56 GMT
I know he's disabled, but that's still a 15-year-old kid. It's unrealistic casting.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2024 11:13:44 GMT
One thing we sometimes fail to realise is how incredibly young the fanbase skews nowadays. I'd say most of the people you come across on the DW Reddit pages are 12-16 years old, which explains the sudden influx of crazy neoliberal woke Twitter fans. A large proportion of them didn't exist in any conscious capacity just a handful of years ago, even during the Jodie era. I just can't take a fandom seriously where half of the fans you'll interact with online are literal children. There are other reasons for limiting child access to forums beyond inappropriate content, the same reason pubs didn't used to let kids in. They're f*cking annoying and don't add anything.
It's why you see so much about the 2nd Doctor and Jamie being a couple, or the Doctor and the Master having been a romantic item. It was very irresponsible of Moffat to even allude to this but at least he didn't outright state it like it was a fact. Wilful misinterpretation of the past only impedes genuine progress into the future, which is why we're stuck in these laborious ruts of canon and lore and bringing back villains who last appeared over 50 years ago, because apparently the production team can't think of new ways to capture the public imagination. Granted, it's a lot harder to do that nowadays what with the decentralisation of entertainment and the collapse of broadcast television as a medium, but certain gems do still get through. Doctor Who is a sort of middleman TV show. It's not complete trash TV like I'm a Celeb or The Wheel, but it's not prestige like Game of Thrones either. So it's stuck in this difficult position where it doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator, but it also doesn't strike a chord with culture vultures or film bros. It exists in a purgatory between two shades of popular culture. I know some people think that bringing in good writers and actors would save it, but I'm honestly not so sure. It's a miracle that it managed to find a place in amongst the 2005 zeitgeist, and even then it had to radically change to survive. Now? Unless you want ultra-nihilistic humour of the likes of Rick and Morty, I don't think there's a niche for it.
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Post by iank on Jun 9, 2024 21:43:30 GMT
I don't recall I or anyone in my peer group being as annoyingly dense as these cloth eared c*nts at 15.
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Post by UncleDeadly on Jun 9, 2024 22:30:38 GMT
Lenny Rush is apparently the scientific advisor in this story. Shame, I was warming to Shirley. Personally, i preferred Isaac Asimov. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2024 20:41:35 GMT
The Mavity thing still pisses me off etymologically. The word "gravitas", from which gravity is derived, ultimately comes from a proto-Indo-European word which has other descendants in English. So the Doctor and Ruby should be saying ammravate instead of aggravate, m(r)ave instead of grave, mrieve instead of grieve, muru instead of guru, mrute instead of brute, mrigadier instead of brigadier, the list goes on. It's just dumb writing for the sake of dumb writing.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Jun 10, 2024 21:18:34 GMT
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Post by rushy on Jun 10, 2024 21:25:50 GMT
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Post by zarius on Jun 11, 2024 8:09:00 GMT
RTD's five adventures to revisit before the finale are:
Spearhead from Space
Bad Wolf / Parting of the Ways
The Bells of Saint John
A Good Man Goes to War
The Church on Ruby Road
(Source: Raido Times)
A Dalek story and one that involves Richard E Grant are among the choices. Spearhead is the only classic Who story mentioned.
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