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Podcasting about films and TV, music and politics - and of course, Doctor Who - so you don't have to
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[I have no idea what I'm talking about either]
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I do my very best never to be entertaining so the only tip I can give you is: if you wanna get high then get high, but if you just wanna get by then tell the world to go scratch its own ass
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I bumped into the eighth Doctor at Glastonbury 25 years ago...
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So very much this
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I don't watch it but I've seen the last few minutes several times and I've only once seen a team walk away with any substantial amount at all (over £9k, amazingly). The premise - that the prize starts to dwindle if you don't answer more or less immediately - feels like a sucker punch to finish on.
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...although the audio won't be done cooking until Saturday morning. And then on Saturday afternoon we'll be recoding the Season 2 Listeners Poll, which again will be out on YouTube by maybe 5 or 6pm, and the audio will arrive on Monday morning.
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It will be one day!
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Does it come hot, or cold?
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If this doesn't hurry up we'll be in the middle of RTD-3 by the time it drops!
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"Only Fools and Farage" would have worked so much better...
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He hasn't been in Doctor Who!
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People speak to each other in "unnecessarily inaccurate" ways in real life all the time. Most TV drama reflects that.
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As, indeed, would Jacqueline Hill!
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Not just Romana, but also the twelfth Doctor, the fourteenth and the sixth (and the Curator).
Freema Agyeman, Karen Gillan and Varada Sethu (not to mention Jenna Coleman) would also have points to make about companions having or having had other roles in the series.
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* puzzle
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This is another thing I hate about fandom, the way they think the writer comes up with things like descriptions and puzzles and then have to fit them onto a resolution. Not that they choose the resolution then create a muzzle or dialogue to fit it.
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In what way? The whole point of the episode isn't that RTD came up with that line of dialogue and then thought "Who does that fit best?" He wanted to use Omega and came up with that dialogue to describe him.
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...which has basically been the subject of this entire series. RTD's revision of how Omega has become regarded (by *some*) isn't particularly at odds with what we saw in 1973, nor is it especially that much of a stretch from the idea that myths and legends grow up around important historical figures
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It's kind of the point of legends that they don't tally up with objective truths. And especially when you're talking about gods, half of the conversation is about mapping your own ideals, expectations and desires onto what you consider the gods to be.
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This is what I hate about fandom. Characters in TV programmes don't always speak in objective truths. Just like people in real life don't always speak in objective truths. But for some reason fandom expects every line of dialogue to match up to an objective reality that other characters experienced.
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I guess you're not acquainted with the idea of "some say" and "legend says" maybe being at a tangent with an objective truth? Omega WAS insane in The Three Doctors. The rest is easily extrapolated if you weren't there to witness what the TV audience saw in 1973.
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That's the when and the where, what I asked for was the dialogue which said he'd been power mad from the start
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Plus, pretty sure a publicist would have reached for a thesaurus rather than use the word "truly" three times in such a relatively short message.
Not sure what it is about people that they think actors (part of the creative industries after all) can't string two sentences together?
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You'll have to remind me of the dialogue describing him as someone power mad from the start, I don't recall that
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For once I think RTD has given us a logical, consistent and yet still surprising and joyous finale (much like Hell Bent) that fans are so wrapped up in mapping their expectations over they've completely missed the point of.