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  2. The leisurely comic discussion thread

    in General Discussion

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    Digital edition of Judge Dredd: The Pit is only £1.99 today, which is an absolute steal. Generally this is regarded as the start of the second golden age of Judge Dredd. The premise is that Sector 301, aka The Pit, was a part of the city where corrupt or incompetent Judges were sent and, as such has become the worst performing Sector House in the City. Dredd is sent to take over as the Sector chief to turn things around. It was the first long term Dredd story where the premise wasn't rooted in saving millions (the Cursed Earth Saga) or saving the City (The Apocalypse War or Necropolis) and many of the supporting characters that were created for the story are still part of the supporting cast now. The stakes were smaller, but the story was rich and it still featured a huge action piece to end on.

  6. Suggestions of shows we could cover.

    in Twice as Bright, Half as Long

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    If you do Thunderbirds, i feel like you need to cover the live action movie as well. For science.

    I second Lucky Louie. It's a sitcom, but it subverts so much of what the traditional sitcom is about and it's the first sitcom since Roseanne to prominently feature a working class family.

    Threshold should be up for consideration as it has tremendous star power (Carla Gugino, Brent Spiner and Peter Dinklage) but just couldn't seem to find an audience.

  8. The Doctor Who thread

    in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy

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    I think it's named to show a thematic link between Name, Day and Time, but yes I agree that Silent Night was a screamingly obvious title.

    According to Peter Davison, they tried to get Tom Baker for the Five(ish) Doctors but he didn't respond, at which point they came up with the Shada joke. Personally, I think that was the best way to include him in it.

  11. The Doctor Who thread

    in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy

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    Hmm, he did go out of his way to mention the Meta-Crisis Doctor when talking about miscounting the regenerations. I also imagine that he wouldn't really trust anyone else to get around the limit satisfactorily. Also it does look like the Christmas special will be set on Trenzalore, so perhaps he wants to get rid of that so a later head writer doesn't have to worry about the Doctor's end already being decided.

  12. The Doctor Who thread

    in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy

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    Still seems strange to me that The first doctor lived 400 years (stealing the Tardis at 200), the combined next eight get 400 years between them, 9 and 10 get another 100 to take the overall age to 900. Then 11 gets another 300 years all to himself. Whilst we know he plays fast and loose with his age, the proportion of his life spent in his first and most recent incarnations takes up the majority of his entire life.

    I've been thinking about this and I think the only way to reconcile his age is that the War Doctor genuinely lost track of his age or at least stopped counting. He's only the second incarnation of the Doctor to have their regeneration triggered by old age, and, when Eight regenerated in Night of the Doctor, the War Doctor looked much younger than he did at the end of the Time War. Partly it might be that fighting in the Time War is more wearing than his normal travels, but I think that it's mostly that he wasn't planning on surviving and that he didn't count himself as The Doctor so he stopped trying to count how old he was which is how he came to 800. While I'd accept that 5 and 6 didn't get long lives, 4, 7 and 8 seemed to have extended periods where they travelled alone and would have racked up the years.

    Also people seem to be genuinely confused about whether or not "The End of Time" counts and I thought it was clear that it did. As far as I could tell the events, from a Gallifrey perspective, went like this:

    - Rassilon and the High Council make plans to use "The Ultimate Sanction". The War Doctor gets wind of these plans

    - The Daleks throw the biggest possible assault they can on Gallifrey.

    - The Doctor goes to Arcadia to raid the Omega Vault of the one weapon that the Time Lords dare not use, "The Moment"

    - Rassilon and the High Council find out about the War Doctor's plan to use The Moment and realise that the events of the War will be timelocked. They work to put a gap in the Timelock by implanting a small code in The Master, which will terrify him so much that he will hide at the end of the universe. Once he's cloned himself a few billion times, the gap in the timelock is wide enough to send through the Whitepoint Star to act as a more stable bridge. Once they have that, they reverse the Master's cloning process to stop him using them as an army against them. The events carry on as seen in the episode with 10 unaware that he's already helped to save Gallifrey.

    - Meanwhile the high command is overseeing the faltering defence of Gallifrey, unaware of Rassilon's plans. The Doctors get in contact and let them know about the plan to send Gallfrey into the pocket dimension, which succeeds. Gallifrey appears to have been destroyed along with the Daleks and the Moment timelocks the events of the Time War. The War Doctor and Ten lose their memory of the events which leaves Nine believing that he had destroyed Gallifrey.

  16. The Doctor Who thread

    in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy

    Posted

    This is one of my favorite series on Youtube, and they finally did a Doctor Who episode.

    http://youtu.be/z5vLvo9yXpA

    I like when the one girl says we'll find out who the real fans are when the next Doctor isn't a young handsome guy.

    I was surprised when it turned out that the blonde girl wasn't already a fan. From the way she reacted to the trailers, she seemed to be.

  19. The Doctor Who thread

    in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy

    Posted

    I prefer the name "the Warrior". As someone else pointed out, that probably made River's comment in "A good man Goes to War" that to some the term Doctor meant "Great Warrior" sting a little more.

    Also I do wonder if the fact that he starts out as a young Hurt means that his age in the current series counts from that regeneration, hence the odd fact that he somehow lost 50 years in between 6 and 9. (most likely that's due to a writer flub but it would be nice to work that one in)