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Judge Holden said:
THANK YOU random youtuber

fucking thought I was the only nigger on the net who realised that episode was the fucking worst episode in human history.

I was so fucking pissed off with that episode that not only did I spew a massive fucking drunken rage textwall here on the farms that very night, but I created a new fucking thread solely to contain my outraged autism

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/the-f...-about-any-film-tv-you-want.5154/#post-362438

Here is my tard rage infused bourbon laced review/breakdown from the very night it aired

Foreword (or why im not a doctor who fan anymore)


Ooooooookay guys, this will be a very long one. and i mean a VERY long one, but i am drunk on a dozen tropical martinis and am mad as all hell right now. if you are not a doctor who fan i would advise you not to read this.


I tried to like capaldi. I honestly tried. I withstood half a dozen increasingly bland and mediocre episodes with increasingly bland and mediocre acting from him and i kept faith. I loved doctor who. since I was 7 i have loved the show. But in the arc words of the last genuinely good episode in the series…


NO MORE


Thats right. i quit the show. This episode was so bad I legitimately dont give a fuck about the rest of the series. but while I refuse to watch them, this episode hurt me, and i intend to get my vengeance by throwing a public tantrum on an internet forum while reviewing it and screaming about how shit it is.


because thats how a real badass acts


The Cunt and The Cunt (AKA the annoying secondary characters)


This episode managed to portray clara as a smug, self righteous, hysterical, self pitying, shrill, brainless, callous, spineless and THE most useless ass companion in Doctor who history, have her willing to condemn her entire world to die and smugly ignore the pleas of the billions who lived there to save it…...all because SPACE ABORTION IS WRONG MKAY…...and she is STILL not the worst character in the episode.


That honor would go to Chavish Useless Narcissistic Teenage-bitchbrat (CUNT from hereon) who was supposedly in the last episode (i didn't bother to watch since was busy deworming pigs and demolishing a stable wall just by banging my head against it) who from start to finish spends the episode


  • whining about being bored

  • putting shit on tumblr (more on that later)

  • screaming at everything

  • demanding that everyone drop everything and take her home

  • demanding the doctor give her video games to play in the tardis

  • declaring that the moon is in fact a giant babby

  • sabotaging efforts to save humanity

… all so she gets to go on an adventure in the tardis so the doctor can show her how super speshul and important she is.


also she is the first woman on the moon (just roll with it)...and is revealed to be the future US president at the very end………… because…,


Because….fck it i dont know. my one guess would be that some fuckwit decided that having the characters repeatedly babble about tumblr was not pandering enough, there had to be a fangirl insert who was super speshul super important and super right about everything.


The story starts literally with clara whining (get used to that) at the doctor about how he called her “not speshul” in the previous episode, followed immidiately by CUNT giving a “(i cant fcking emphasise the quote unquotes here) poignant” speech about how hes a big meany whose ruined her life because he doesnt think shes speshul...no exaggeration thats exactly what fcking happens. Which other cunt (clara) smugly approves.


In a good episode the doctor would have beckoned her close to him, and whispered in her ear “No. I dont”, before booting her off the fcking tardis (oh yeah she sneaks into the tardis to steal his stuff. in one fcking episode she achieves more mary sue than a thousand river songs) and going off to fist a dalek or some shit.


Instead this ENTIRE episode is him giving CUNT a role in the story just to show how speshul he thinks she is.


And oh yes.


TUMBLR IS A FCKING PLOT POINT


This episode could almost have been a parody of what doctor who would look like if written by some of its more obsessive fangirls. The problem is the writer was actually demonstrably less talented than your average obsessive fangirl and it shows throughout the whole episode. Also even the most lackwitted hack of a writer aware of tumblr would know that tumblr is utterly opposed to the ultimate message of the episode….but more on that later.


Back to Clara. She literally spends the episode whining about the doctor, whining about the “antagonist” (more on her later), whining about people being mean to CUNT (aka not telling her shes speshul), whining about humanity being so mean for not wanting to all be wiped out because she thinks space abortion is wrong, whining about the doctor being mean because….fck it the story falls apart at this point.


Capaldi fails at being funny. Capaldi fails at being sincere. Capaldi fails at being inspiring. Capaldi just keeps fucking failing. (AKA the even more annoying doctor)


The doctor begins the episode pandering to the aforementioned CUNT and only goes down from there. when he arrives on the moon he tries physical comedy. its shit. he tries to be serious and scary. He Fails. He tries his hand at the “timeywimey” schtick. He Fails.


And most damningly of all he tries to do an “inspired” tom baker speech on humanity. he fails UTTERLY. this is literally the worst “doctor speech” i have ever seen on the show. it is the worst written, most melodramatically performed speech ever. And again, its all to beef up the “CUNT IS A SUPER SPESHUL SNOWFLAKE” shit the episode is running with.


From the start of the season capaldi has been...well hes been a goddamn disappointment, acting with all the shitty obnoxiousness and unlikability of the early sixth and first doctors but with none of the warmth, likability, humour, or basic fcking acting competence. This episode has sealed the deal in my mind that capaldi may be the single worst doctor of them all. his sole non obnoxiously cuntish moments are ironically when he shamelessly panders to CUNT (and thus tries to pander to the audience), and he comes across as both entirely useless and entirely irritating from start to finish.


Ya know maybe we should have taken moffat’s declaration that this doctor would be “darker and edgier” as the warning it was.


Five seconds of mild peril (AKA the “scare” factor of the episode)


Any Tension is IMMEDIATELY broken by everyone saying “look cobwebs” the moment they come to the base. once inside it almost redeems itself for but a second with the set, which with its dark corridors almost resembles the nostromo….then the lights go on and stay on.


Who needed tense claustrophobia and a creepy set anyway?


And of course there are the spiders…..spiders made of the shittest cgi seen outside of jar jar binx and which don't even have a moment off screen in the dark to build up suspense before they are pouncing on people and making gibbering noises.


All in all they come across as less scary than the vagina plants from the classic series, and the episode is seemingly aware of this as after a supposedly tense 5 minutes they run away from the almost creepy set and are never in danger again. and the spiders? UTTERLY pointless to the story.


Well that sure was pointless


The day science died


The list of scientific, logical, and basic fucking sanity based fuckups in this episode are too long to survey in detail. so here is a handy list


  • nuking the moon will make it stop getting bigger. even the doctor agrees

  • CUNT can kill space spiders with her cleaning spray because it says it can kill germs. and the giant spiders are giant germs

  • oh yeah, the spiders are giant single celled germs. because fck biology

  • the moon is a giant tentacled organism hiding under the crust and WAIT ISNT THIS THE PLOT TO DEAD SPACE 3?!

  • apparently the giant space tentacle babby shouts so loud it can pass through the vacuum and be heard on earth

  • space babby then immediately shits out a full sized moon, just as big as itself, and then flies away. unless its anus is the tardis that is fcking stupid

  • CUNT starts floating in mid air. the episode forgets to explain why

  • the doctor jumps in a unseen puddle of moon semen and from there decides theres a giant space babby under the moon

The shittiest moral dilemma of who history. and yes that includes that shitty silurian episode, and other shitty stuff


Again I am doing this in list form because…...fck it i cant be arsed anymore with this episode.


  • Clara gets Nasa to broadcast her message to the entire world….somehow in which she demands that they let themselves die horribly so unborn space babby can live

  • Clara demands earth turn off its lights if it thinks the “villain” should kill the space babby….and humanity is so fcking resolute in telling her to go fuck herself they organise a worldwide blackout in which every single light on earth goes down

  • When humanity decides they would rather not die for the sake of some creature that's been killing them because a crazy bitch who hijacked their TV told them so, Clara decides to fuck them anyway and stops the real hero (the villain) from sacrificing herself to kill the space babby. Not because there was another way, not because the space babby was sentient. because she had decided SPACE ABORTION IS EVIL because CUNT told her so.

  • And since this is a shitty episode she is proven 100% right, even though the episode has to rape science to death to prove her right.

  • Clara declares that the space babby should be allowed to live and kill mankind because it is really really really big. Then CUNT tells her “itch nawt evun been bawn” and her mind is instantly made up

  • Clara declares only “the president of amurica” has the right to decide whether to kill space babby.

  • Clara hates the doctor because he doesn't immediately pander to her demands to stop the mean astronaut lady from saving humanity

  • Clara rants about how the giant fragments of the moon wiping out humanity dont matter because they are “actually eggshell”......which somehow means they wont wipe out humanity when they impact

  • Fcking tumblr gets namedropped 6 times by all characters.

  • CUNT says the words “u wot?”

  • pointless fcking slo motion.

Non shitty thing.

  • Hermione Norris: her character manages to portray humanity, snarkiness, heroism, grief, toughness, nuance, and internal conflict, and is pretty much the sole character with any depth or likability. She is probably the best character in this season so far….and will never be seen again after this episode.
    • For this she is treated like the villain for wanting to kill the giant tentacled abomination that’s threatening mankind simply because said lifeform was described by CUNT as a little space babby which thus somehow makes her wrong for wanting to kill a babby…..that makes sense right?

    • Despite this she still gives everyone a chance to prove her wrong somehow and give her a reason not to kill it. no one can give it so clara sabotages her attempt out of pure butthurt at how no one else cares about the space babby

    • Honestly though, she would make a better companion than fcking clara at this point. hell she would make a better fcking doctor than capaldi. and hell her being the doctor would be a better way to please tumblr than this shite.

    • Norris’s quip of “How do we kill it” after the doctors longass shitty speech about how beautiful the little space babby is was the one good line of the episode. god she deserves her own show for this shit.

    • Though she did do a lil too much shatner type gesturing

Conclusion: or why im no longer a Doctor Who fan

This episode was the single worst doctor who episode in history in my honest opinion. the story was beyond abysmal, the dialogue physically painful, the characters detestable (aside from Hermione Norris), the science beneath that of an episode of futurama, the moral dilemma an absolute joke, the CGI laughable, the music overbearing and loud enough to annoy yet not loud enough to drown out the shitty dialogue.


More to the point, this episode was my last hope that Doctor who might have a chance of not being shite. This season for me has been the single worst in Who History, and I know that sounds like typical fangirl whining but I genuinely cannot see anything praiseworthy in the stories, anything interesting in the characters, or anything redeemable about the new doctor. Moffat’s idea well dried up long ago, all his talented writers seem to have jumped ship, and all thats left is mediocre pandering episodes which have all the charm, originality, wittiness, pathos, and enjoyability of latter day Heros seasons.


Basically, scew this show. im going home. im not gonna bother watching shitty tv anymore out of brand loyalty

Basically this episode was the ultimate fucking warning alarm that the show had gone terminal, and I am so fucking glad I bailed that very night
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lol calm down.

I still think Love and Monsters is the worst of new Doctor Who. Didn't help that the next episode was the scribble monster episode as well as series 2 being the weakest New Who season in my opinion.
 
2odastream said:
Anyway, the post came in today (technically yesterday) with some classic DVDs: 'Survival' and 'The Five Doctors'. Unfortunately my DVD player (read: PS3) has broke, so I haven't watched them yet. What's anyone's experience with those stories? We've got nine months to fill out.
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Survival is the very last story of Classic Who before it was cancelled. The end's a bit of a weird place to start, but it's not a bad story and you won't be at much of a disadvantage if you're coming in cold.

The Five Doctors has a bit of a mixed reputation among fans - some love it, some think it's naff and fanwanky. Personally I love it - it's got some great action and seeing all the Doctors interact with each other and their old companions is a joy (even if the "Five" in the title is a bit of a misnomer - you'll see why when you watch it). It's my favourite of the three multi-Doctor stories from the Classic series (with The Two Doctors firmly in last place).

If you're just starting into Classic Who, I'd recommend the story I started with - Earthshock. For fuck's sake, don't google it though, because you need to experience that episode without it being spoiled.

Other starter stories I'd recommend are Genesis of the Daleks, The Beginning boxset (which contains the first three serials of the Classic series), Spearhead from Space, Remembrance of the Daleks or the New Beginnings boxset if you want to see the Master in action and the transition from one Doctor to another. Although if you want to see a regeneration story, I highly recommend The Caves of Androzani. In fact, just watch that anyway because it's the best episode of Doctor Who ever. Like, ever.
 
TheImportantFart said:
Survival is the very last story of Classic Who before it was cancelled. The end's a bit of a weird place to start, but it's not a bad story and you won't be at much of a disadvantage if you're coming in cold.

The Five Doctors has a bit of a mixed reputation among fans - some love it, some think it's naff and fanwanky. Personally I love it - it's got some great action and seeing all the Doctors interact with each other and their old companions is a joy (even if the "Five" in the title is a bit of a misnomer - you'll see why when you watch it). It's my favourite of the three multi-Doctor stories from the Classic series (with The Two Doctors firmly in last place).

If you're just starting into Classic Who, I'd recommend the story I started with - Earthshock. For fuck's sake, don't google it though, because you need to experience that episode without it being spoiled.

Other starter stories I'd recommend are Genesis of the Daleks, The Beginning boxset (which contains the first three serials of the Classic series), Spearhead from Space, Remembrance of the Daleks or the New Beginnings boxset if you want to see the Master in action and the transition from one Doctor to another. Although if you want to see a regeneration story, I highly recommend The Caves of Androzani. In fact, just watch that anyway because it's the best episode of Doctor Who ever. Like, ever.
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Luckily, thanks to the 50th Anniversary, back in 2013 Virgin were doing a good chunk of Classic Who on demand. This is where I got to sample stories like The Three Doctors, City of Death, Genesis of the Daleks, Vengeance on Varos, The Two Doctors, Remembrance of the Daleks and Ghost Light. All pretty great stories, and The Two Doctors.

After that I got The Beginning set and watched all of the serials on there. An Unearthly Child has a great start, while still interesting it slowly dives in quality with the caveman plot. The Daleks is very slow, great moments that even the movie couldn't ruin but if it's not that great outside of being the first appearance of the famous bug-eyed monsters. I loved Edge of Destruction, put me on such a high that I got really annoyed that I couldn't watch Marco Polo right after. I tried the telesnap version, but it's not something I'm into.

Thanks to Dailymotion uploads and repeats on the Horror Channel I was catching a whole bunch of stories now. I watched Planet of Spiders and Ark in Space, the former featuring the least terrifying spiders of all time and the latter being a bit unremarkable for such a well-loved story. Of all the Doctors, I caught on with McCoy's the most and have watched most of his later era with the exception of Survival, which I've only seen the first episode of. I generally love everything about those last two seasons, but stories like Ghost Light and The Happiness Patrol are so weird that I wouldn't want to show them to anyone.

So this week I got DVDs of Remembrance, Survival and Five Doctors. I guess they're like the 3rd set of three I've gotten, along with the Revisitations #1. I only watched Talons of Weng-chiang from that, I don't remember much of it, was like a fever dream. Since I got the DVD now I rewatched Remembrance of the Daleks, again, and it's still pretty kino. I now suspect it might've broke my PS3. I got halfway through Caves and was too busy or distracted to finish it.

I'm well familiar with Earthshock, unfortunately, chalk that up to there being Youtube titles the BBC puts up that spoil the fuck out of the major character exit. The villains are also plastered all over the DVD. Thanks cunts. If no one's seen it, spoilers for a 36 year old story but the Cybermen are revealed to be the villains at the end of part 1. I wish more serials did that with the Daleks, it's mostly a Cyberman thing: Attack of the Cybermen was a good attempt but failed for obvious reasons, Silver Nemesis didn't reveal them til the end of part 1 (which had a pretty cool bit of music to accompany it), Army of Ghosts/Doomsday did the same thing successfully as did I think Dark Water/Death in Heaven.

I heard because Tom Baker was a prissy bitch and Bill Hartnell was busy being dead, The Five Doctors is more like The Three and Half Doctors. The Fourth Doctor had to be replaced with unaired footage from a Douglas Adams story, and a wax work was commissioned to play the part of the First Doctor. So life like!
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I sperg way too much about Doctor Who.
 
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SnowBall said:
lol calm down.

I still think Love and Monsters is the worst of new Doctor Who. Didn't help that the next episode was the scribble monster episode as well as series 2 being the weakest New Who season in my opinion.
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I've always quite liked Love and Monsters my self, but that could be due to first watching in when I was a kid. I feel that it's interesting to see The Doctor through the eyes of basically a regular guy that, in not traveling with The Doctor and in interacting with people that The Doctor has affected the lives of, gets a much different picture of him than we do, and unlike in Rose for example this perspective doesn't really change.
I'm also a fan of having a more comedic episode in general, and given that it's directly after The Satan's Pit, it's probably a good idea to have something like comedic there for what really is primarily a kids show.
 
Mr. 0 said:
Just dropping this here
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ckdpvg22w
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That's a pretty good serial.
Troughton performance as Salamander is probably his best in Doctor Who. It's so unlike 2 in pretty much every way that it's simply amazing yget-re played by the same actor. It does admittedly drag a little in the middle, what with The Doctor being captured and his companions who are in a different location doing the same.
I'm not sure I liked it as much as the Mind Robber, but it is a solid 7/10
 
I've finally caught up with my DVDs, now I've seen Survival as well as the TV Movie.

The Five Doctors - To me, this is the perfect anniversary set up. The Doctors get kidnapped out of their own time zones and have to team up with their respective companions against a hodgepodge of the best villains.

This is an exact idea I had for a Doctor Who story when I was just a kid just playing with my toys. The fact they actually made an episode around this premise and I didn't know about it is amazing. As in, I knew the story existed, just not how that it played out exactly like this. They even have the Doctors represented as little figures, which is adorable.

I really enjoyed the interactions with the Fifth and First Doctors, Richard Hurndall is way less of a caricature than David Bradley's portrayal in Twice Upon a Time. You really can't avoid stereotyping when you write a plot revisiting past Doctors, but at least he wasn't calling women glass and holding his lapels throughout the whole episode. They did tackle a bit of a sexism angle, with a short scene between Tegan and The First Doctor, but it's done well. The First Doctor is not the nicest of guys, so naturally him and his youngest incarnations clash in ideals. A bit of it reminded me of Twice Upon a Time, and new Who as a whole, as it begins with a clip from an old episode before the theme kicks in.

The costume on that hi-tech robot was pretty naff, but seeing a bunch of Cybermen get blown up was good stuff. I don't expect action out of Doctor Who, typically. A Dalek is also in it, which I'm glad they both included and didn't overuse. I remember thinking The Three Doctors was stuffed at times, if I remember right, but this was absolutely ludicrous.

The Caves of Androzani - This one was interesting. It's not my favourite Doctor Who ever, but it is one of those episodes where you just want to stare at a wall for a while. It's depressing, uncomfortable and genuinely frightening. Jek is probably the first villain to frighten me in Doctor Who since I watched it as a wean and was scared by anything. It's not just typical horror where he jumps out and says "boo", he's a human monster and that makes him genuinely chilling when he preys upon people. It's a very adult fear kind of story, with implications of sexual assault.

Unlike others, I highly recommend watching this fully after The Five Doctors, as I did. Or any other story for that matter. You're much more invested when you've grown attached to Peter Davison's Doctor through a previous episode. He's genuinely heroic and lovable here, damn well acted. The Second Doctor I dismiss offhand but I'm always floored whenever I watch a story with him and it's the same with the Fifth. I didn't want to watch his stories because I thought he'd be wooden but he's great in both of these. Looking forward to more.

Survival - I rewatched Remembrance of the Daleks again after Androzani, just something a bit lighter before picking up the viewing session again with this story. The finale of classic Doctor Who, and a weird one. It's all I can really describe of it, that and the last scene's fantastic. Some silly moments like the furry romance and yellow contacts scenes, but overall appreciable for what it's trying to do.

The TV Movie - The film gets better in its middle, with the beginning and ending going up and down in quality sporadically. Paul McGann's excellent but the romance with the companion's pretty sudden. It's very Americanised, and those elements are very obvious and obnoxious. Eric Roberts as the Master is pretty shit, but I enjoy the location of '90s San Francisco and thought Chang/Grace/Doc could've made a pretty great TARDIS team.

There's some funny moments for sure, it's interesting watching Rose after this too and seeing the tone this movie went for solidifying in the new series, but it clashes so much with itself. Some moments are very Doctor Who in its silliness, some aren't like Doctor Who at all and are very serious. Sometimes you get a mix. It's a good experiment with a good Doctor, but it doesn't add up to a consistently entertaining film, which surprised me as I expected to like it from what I'd seen before.

I forgot that I also watched The Deadly Assassin, I believe, on Virgin and didn't list that before.
 
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Judge Holden said:
They will never get a fucking iota of constructive criticism either from other writers or from critics because of the whole fucking "DIVERSITY AND WOKENESS PROVES ITS PERFECT AND IMPORTANT AND WONDERFUL AND ANYONE WHO CRITICISES IT IS A BIGOT!" mania the whole critic-sphere has been engulfed in since around about when Capaldi became doctor, which means they will be showered with perfect 10/10 reviews even when they write the most godawful and painfully stupid episodes in the show's history, thus giving them no incentive to improve or change, and you have the perfect fucking storm for the show to once again be fucking cancelled due to low ratings.
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I'm probably late here but if I'm gonna be real, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they didn't get criticism because "progressive". There was a fairly recent awful horror movie that came out called XX. There's so much wrong with it but I won't type paragraphs. No point.

But the thing is, despite it being genuinely awful and hard to sit through because it's likely to cause a tumor, critics praise it because it's "A first of its kind in a male-dominated genre, these four short films are signed, sealed and delivered as a form of empowerment." and because "It's a pleasure to meet with this kind of works, where a group of women use their talent in a genre that continues to be erroneously associated with leading men, which shows us that diversity is necessary. "

So chances are, even if it's awful, "muh representation" is enough to get it ranked pretty high.
 
That's fucking crazy, if it happened, given a good majority of horror movies are led by actresses. Nice name, to be fair, is it a prequel to Xander Cage?
 
2odastream said:
I've finally caught up with my DVDs, now I've seen Survival as well as the TV Movie.

The Five Doctors - To me, this is the perfect anniversary set up. The Doctors get kidnapped out of their own time zones and have to team up with their respective companions against a hodgepodge of the best villains.

This is an exact idea I had for a Doctor Who story when I was just a kid just playing with my toys. The fact they actually made an episode around this premise and I didn't know about it is amazing. As in, I knew the story existed, just not how that it played out exactly like this. They even have the Doctors represented as little figures, which is adorable.

I really enjoyed the interactions with the Fifth and First Doctors, Richard Hurndall is way less of a caricature than David Bradley's portrayal in Twice Upon a Time. You really can't avoid stereotyping when you write a plot revisiting past Doctors, but at least he wasn't calling women glass and holding his lapels throughout the whole episode. They did tackle a bit of a sexism angle, with a short scene between Tegan and The First Doctor, but it's done well. The First Doctor is not the nicest of guys, so naturally him and his youngest incarnations clash in ideals. A bit of it reminded me of Twice Upon a Time, and new Who as a whole, as it begins with a clip from an old episode before the theme kicks in.

The costume on that hi-tech robot was pretty naff, but seeing a bunch of Cybermen get blown up was good stuff. I don't expect action out of Doctor Who, typically. A Dalek is also in it, which I'm glad they both included and didn't overuse. I remember thinking The Three Doctors was stuffed at times, if I remember right, but this was absolutely ludicrous.

The Caves of Androzani - This one was interesting. It's not my favourite Doctor Who ever, but it is one of those episodes where you just want to stare at a wall for a while. It's depressing, uncomfortable and genuinely frightening. Jek is probably the first villain to frighten me in Doctor Who since I watched it as a wean and was scared by anything. It's not just typical horror where he jumps out and says "boo", he's a human monster and that makes him genuinely chilling when he preys upon people. It's a very adult fear kind of story, with implications of sexual assault.

Unlike others, I highly recommend watching this fully after The Five Doctors, as I did. Or any other story for that matter. You're much more invested when you've grown attached to Peter Davison's Doctor through a previous episode. He's genuinely heroic and lovable here, damn well acted. The Second Doctor I dismiss offhand but I'm always floored whenever I watch a story with him and it's the same with the Fifth. I didn't want to watch his stories because I thought he'd be wooden but he's great in both of these. Looking forward to more.

Survival - I rewatched Remembrance of the Daleks again after Androzani, just something a bit lighter before picking up the viewing session again with this story. The finale of classic Doctor Who, and a weird one. It's all I can really describe of it, that and the last scene's fantastic. Some silly moments like the furry romance and yellow contacts scenes, but overall appreciable for what it's trying to do.

The TV Movie - The film gets better in its middle, with the beginning and ending going up and down in quality sporadically. Paul McGann's excellent but the romance with the companion's pretty sudden. It's very Americanised, and those elements are very obvious and obnoxious. Eric Roberts as the Master is pretty shit, but I enjoy the location of '90s San Francisco and thought Chang/Grace/Doc could've made a pretty great TARDIS team.

There's some funny moments for sure, it's interesting watching Rose after this too and seeing the tone this movie went for solidifying in the new series, but it clashes so much with itself. Some moments are very Doctor Who in its silliness, some aren't like Doctor Who at all and are very serious. Sometimes you get a mix. It's a good experiment with a good Doctor, but it doesn't add up to a consistently entertaining film, which surprised me as I expected to like it from what I'd seen before.

I forgot that I also watched The Deadly Assassin, I believe, on Virgin and didn't list that before.
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Deadly Assassin is a great one, arguably one of the best Master stories (which is saying a lot considering that it was the first post-Delgado Master story).
 
2odastream said:
That's fucking crazy, if it happened, given a good majority of horror movies are led by actresses. Nice name, to be fair, is it a prequel to Xander Cage?
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It happened. It's available on netflix to view at your leisure. Or you could buy it on DVD but i don't know how much it would cost. Last time I had the opportunity to do so, it seemed a bit expensive for such a piece of shit movie where the only thing I liked was the cover design.
If they wanted to really showcase what female talent in direction could do, they really should have worked on independent movies, instead of each making 20-30 minute shorts- that's not nearly enough time to prove to me that you can make a decent movie.
The movie American Mary (which I enjoyed) was made by Jen and Sylvia Soska, who are twin sisters. In my opinion, it was a pretty good movie and didn't overly spout out an overbearing feminist message. It showcased their talent for direction and writing in a great way without pulling on the heartstrings of any progressives. Women can direct, yes. Sure, there aren't many well known female directors (especially not in such a polarizing genre as horror), but with movies like XX, you don't exactly wonder why.

I have no idea what the title has to do with the movie. It's some anthology horror flick made by four female directors. If you want to see the asspats going down just look at rotten tomatoes and the critic response compared to average audience response: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/xx/

Sorry for getting a bit :offtopic: there, i just thought there were a few things worth pointing out
 
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I'm not sure what I consider the worst Dr.Who episode I've seen.

You'd probably have to split it into old series/new series, though thinking about it whilst The Twin Dilemma was awful, I didn't actively hate it like I did Kill the Moon. That one made me want to stick my hand into a blender.

If you narrow it down to seasonal specials though, the most recent special whilst shit at least felt like a shit Dr.Who episode (plus it had the Brig's great-uncle in it, and callbacks to the Brig are nice.) whereas The Return of Doctor Mysterio feels like an awful superhero film with the Doctor tacked on.
 
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