luparicommand.center
Former journalist & comedy/theatre marketer, now working in the public sector. Used to run The Velvet Onion [2010-2018] & worked for various arts orgs. Mostly out of the industry now but as Elton says: Ahmdilldahndin. PanDemi Queer. Tubby Lupar. 🚀🐶 💛🤍💜🖤
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BAHAHAHAHAHA without a doubt.
It's all about the Sheldons for me.
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Oh, gawd yes the subtle variants of the Midlands accents all get conflated together a lot. Like how people say Noddy Holder is a Brummie when he's from Walsall.
Happens around Manchester too. The accents here change from town to town. Salford, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Oldham etc. all different.
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Side note: I do think even as you ramp up the alien and tone down the eccentric, The Doctor should be a relatable figure. Someone the audience can be inspired by. It's why I liked the whole "What Would The Doctor Do" thing Yaz has in Flux. That should be ALL of us.
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Absolutely. But at the same time, The Doctor is the one who tells them their life is long and can be filled with adventure and good things if they want it to be. That's the dichotomy of it. It's why moments like their wedding night on Derilium work cos 24 years STILL feels like a long time for them.
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True, but I can also see that in our own lives. We can't help everyone. We can't give to every charity, or be by every bedside. And sometimes there are moments (on a much smaller scale) where you have to let life play its course.
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Indeed, which is why it was so annoying to find Big Finish going down the path of dragging things back to the 1970s.
More thoughts on it from the time in this thread:
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I mean, there were numerous other things about that story I didn't like (such as the Lupari calling themselves dogs and cubs etc. which it's clear in Flux they do NOT do), but the accents thing was just such a horrid decision and the interview comments about it were really disappointing.
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Yeah, and it still permeates. I don't know if you heard Big Finish recent story feat. Four & Leela meeting the Lupari, but they gave them all RP voices instead of matching Craige Els' Greater Manchester vibes he gave Karvanista.
On the extras, Barnaby spun that like a POSITIVE. I was fuming!
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Haha, I forgot about that!
A few years ago a friend asked me who the big dog I had as my Facebook avatar at the time was. I showed him the scenes from The Halloween Apocalypse feat. Jodie, Mandip, John & Craige.
He just said loudly: "WHY IS IT SO NORTHERN NOW?" 😆
Flux is *so* good for that.
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So yes, alien rather than eccentric. But also - neurospicy leftie is pretty much The Doctor's MO, just combined with a wanderlust and excitement for every minute detail of life.
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As for attitudes and perceptions... well, Doctor Who is probably the reason I'm a raging leftie. A lot of my early understanding of what's right and wrong comes from The Doctor going round the universe, helping those in need and standing up for the oppressed. It's not so alien to me to be like that.
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I do agree with this. But at the same time, are they really so different perspective wise? I've long felt that part of the reason the show attracts so many neurodiverse fans is that The Doctor tends to be autistic-coded in many ways, with a sprinkling of ADHD for good measure.
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I don't think it was specifically a Doctor Who problem, but his comments came from a need to tell people this was a new show that had a different vibe and wasn't to be lumped in with what, at the time, was wrongly considered a relic of the past best laughed at for its wobbly sets. etc.
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I suspect there's a degree of conflation going on there. The BBC in general felt like a posho's club. Hell, the entire TV industry is STILL insanely London centric and it's very hard for working class people to push their way into it (I'm one of those who tried and failed in the 2010s, fwiw).
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I can see where Eccleston is coming from, though. He's from just down the road from me, albeit over 20 years older than me. And when I was growing up, I so very rarely heard accents like mine on telly outside of Coronation St. It's very rare to hear them in classic Doctor Who.
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Ps. We did that for Inside No 9 and managed to get great seats while the whole site was down.
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Hope you manage it. Honestly I'm so glad my partner joined ATG. It's saved us so many times now.
Might be worth trying the phone lines tomorrow if the website crashes.
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Good luck! Are you aiming for Glasgow or elsewhere? We're going 20th/21st if that's where you end up!
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Also... funny how this guy looks like later era Dewey Cox, isn't it? One could almost believe those conspiracy theories that Dewey faked his own death after all...
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A pleasure. Presale is only for another day or so.
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More Thirteen era stuff always welcome. We need Dan (complete with a wok!) and The Master, too.
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Judged by Salvador Rosa's philosopher, surely?
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Me thinking Character Options excuse for no Karvanista figure might be the complexity of fur now seeing this figure exists...
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Album run is:
Spiders ('96)
Tin Planet ('98)
Love You More Than Football ('00 shelved til '19)
Suburban Rock n Roll ('04)
THE DRELLAS: Violence is Art ('09 shelved til '22)
Attack of the Mutant 50ft Kebab ('14)
Give Me Your Future ('17)
Music for Pleasure Music for Pain ('21)
New album soon!
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Apparently the version of the "lost" album on streaming is the label preferred remix, rather than the leaked bootleg version which the band preferred.
Their later stuff went a bit psychobilly as during the split Tommy (and two of the later members) were in a heavier band called The Drellas.
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A pleasure! They're lots of fun live if you get chance. Gotten to know Tommy and Phil quite well over the years, and on good terms with the rest of the band. Nice fellas.
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Genuinely love the daft buggers. I was drinking with two of them the other week as it happens! 😉
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Space carried on and put out a third (fourth) album in 2004, but nobody bought it despite it being brilliant. They split, but a version of them with a new line up has been back together since 2011 and still tour regularly. Three new albums since with another coming later this year.
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Ps. Reference link:
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Exactly. Whatever points they might have... why couldn't they find a black actor?
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To put it into perspective for the past 3 weeks we've only had an 18" old bedroom telly with my PC desktop speakers plugged into it to watch the occasional bit of telly.
Looking forward to finally getting the 4k experience again. My Quatermass box set is calling my name...
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I foolishly never got it on vinyl first time around or at the 10th/20th anniversaries. Couldn't miss it a fourth time.
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Rubbish isn't it? They're such a lifeline for many.