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A 50 year old TV series about a 900 year old alien who travels around space and time with glamourous assistants in a wooden blue box needs more realism?
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I would like to see a Jewish guy archetype for the Doctor. Like George Costanza, Zoidberg, or the brother-in-law Andy from Weeds.
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Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Dinosaurs on a ship? Looks like we need Samuel L Jackson.
On a semi-related note, I would actually like to see a black Doctor.
Yeah, I always found it strange that all 11 regenerations have been white and british. I mean, he's an alien right? I thought his regen had no limit and was completely random. By this point, we should have had an American doctor, an Asian doctor, a female doctor, an Indian doctor, a Black doctor...you get the point. Hell, even an alien doctor would work. I mean on the outside...you know what I mean.
On a semi-related note, I would actually like to see a black Doctor.
I dunno. Jackson as the Doctor would be just.... wrong. Even as a companion he'd be disturbing.
WHAT DOES THE DOCTOR LOOK LIKE?
He...he's white... English...
DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
"SAY EXTERMINATE ONE MORE TIME melon-fether, I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE DARE YOU" .................................. Well, you have to admit, he'll get gak done.
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Peace through power!
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All possible new Doctor archetypes aside, seeing as we all know there's very little chance of them changing it, I think the best we can hope for is an alien companion.
That said, I would love to see Johnny Depp as the Doctor. It would be hilarious.
Shucks, who am I kidding. I just want captain Jack Sparrow in space. Say, anyone here good at photoshop?
Darkvoidof40k wrote: All possible new Doctor archetypes aside, seeing as we all know there's very little chance of them changing it, I think the best we can hope for is an alien companion.
Jar Jar Binks as companion? I think there was an alien companion at one point though...can't remember.
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Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: The series seems to be running out of steam in my view. The Dalek horse has been flogged for too long, and they seem to have lost a lot of their potency. Fresh ideas are needed, but instead, we'll get more daleks and more angels...:(
We've not had a Dalek related story for 1 and a half seasons, this is their first appearance since Victory of the Daleks in series 5 (unless you count the very brief cameo in Closing Time from last series). In what capacity are they being "flogged" or overused? Same goes for the Angels. We've not seen them in almost the same amount of time. both have had a rest and are due for another story.
I personally like that we got the Daleks back; though their appearance raised more questions than it answered, such as why are the power ranger "new paradigm" Daleks working with the brass ones? Where did the brass ones come from exactly? Davros ones? Escapees from the Void? Why/how does Skaro still exist? Who knows? It's a massive elephant in the room that incidentally Tennant's Doctor would have asked.
I'm sure it will be answered and hopefully it's not just the BBC skimping on CGI as they already had the models of the brass ones rendered from previous series. Same goes for the supposed appearance of Dalek Sec in the same episode, as his casing is a physical model and was in the background in one of the scenes (bit where Amy is hallucinating). Continuity error courtesy of the BBC prop dept. or something else?
As for the Angels, I'm looking forward totheir next appearance. Mainly due to the fact that
Spoiler:
there will be a certain landmark in New York turns out to be a massive Weeping Angel (supposedly)
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: The series seems to be running out of steam in my view. The Dalek horse has been flogged for too long, and they seem to have lost a lot of their potency. Fresh ideas are needed, but instead, we'll get more daleks and more angels...:(
We've not had a Dalek related story for 1 and a half seasons, this is their first appearance since Victory of the Daleks in series 5 (unless you count the very brief cameo in Closing Time from last series). In what capacity are they being "flogged" or overused? Same goes for the Angels. We've not seen them in almost the same amount of time. both have had a rest and are due for another story.
I personally like that we got the Daleks back; though their appearance raised more questions than it answered, such as why are the power ranger "new paradigm" Daleks working with the brass ones? Where did the brass ones come from exactly? Davros ones? Escapees from the Void? Why/how does Skaro still exist? Who knows? It's a massive elephant in the room that incidentally Tennant's Doctor would have asked.
I'm sure it will be answered and hopefully it's not just the BBC skimping on CGI as they already had the models of the brass ones rendered from previous series. Same goes for the supposed appearance of Dalek Sec in the same episode, as his casing is a physical model and was in the background in one of the scenes (bit where Amy is hallucinating). Continuity error courtesy of the BBC prop dept. or something else?
As for the Angels, I'm looking forward totheir next appearance. Mainly due to the fact that
Spoiler:
there will be a certain landmark in New York turns out to be a massive Weeping Angel (supposedly)
The statue of liberty...as an angel...
Did Doctor Who just jump the shark? How is that even possible?
What I have
~4100
~1660
Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Darkvoidof40k wrote: All possible new Doctor archetypes aside, seeing as we all know there's very little chance of them changing it, I think the best we can hope for is an alien companion.
Jar Jar Binks as companion?
I think there was an alien companion at one point though...can't remember.
There have been non-human companions before (most obviously Susan and Romana), but the only non-human-shaped companion would be K-9. I doubt we'll be seeing him in Who again any time soon. Since the dramatic purpose of the Doctor's companions is to the audience's PoV character, I wouldn't expect the trend of fairly normal, contemporary earth companions to change. At least the new one doesn't have too much of an estuary accent.
Edit: I forgot (for fairly obvious reasons if you've seen any of their stories) Adric, Nyssa and Turlough, all of whom were explicitly non-human (albeit human-shaped) aliens. (And all of whom were either dull, aggravating or, in the case of Adric, a potent combination of the two.)
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Red Hunters: 2000 points Grey Knights: 2000 points Black Legion: 600 points and counting
The episode was great, the dinosaurs, the companions, the robots were all fantastic. I did think the ending was pretty weak though, leaving five minutes to wrap everything up was a lil strange.
WARBOSS TZOO wrote:Grab your club, hit her over the head, and drag her back to your cave. The classics are classic for a reason.
Ok, Um this episode was all over the place. The Namesake(Dinosaurs make a very short appearence and have little bearing on anything)
The two new companions bring nothing, Nefertiti was supposed to bring some strong women type, but we have that in Amy. We are supposed to act sad when she turns herself over...she was a gag companion.
Rory's Dad was just rory plus 50 or so years.
The Hunter was, Ok i suppose
So many thins Shoehorned, Like the need for two people who share a gene to fly it.
And God the Beach, that was a majorly stupid addition. All it existed for them to get chased.
And The Doctor dealing with the villain was majorly out of character for him. The Docter has save others for higher offenses
My wife disagrees, but i think this might have been the worse Doctor Who episode of all time. To many reasons to list, you lot watched it and can figure out why i might think that. Funny how the sonic screwdriver was nowhere to be seen when he was being held by the two chucklebots.
Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
I actually enjoyed it. Yeah, it wasn't the greatest, none of Smith's have been, and there were a few plain stupid and horribly clichéd moments.. but I was particularly proud about a baddy dying for once. Shows a somewhat darker side of the Doctor resurfacing, much to my satisfaction.
Also, am I the only one who immediately thought of the Gunmen of the Apocalypse way back when the first trailer for this series was released and we saw only a few seconds of the cyborg in next episode?
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5000 points 
Imperial Navy Strike force: 3000 points, all made from styrene sheet and cardboard cracker boxes...oh yea. 
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Red Hunters: 2000 points 
Grey Knights: 2000 points 
Black Legion: 600 points and counting 
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