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Seeing as how this conversation has shifted to homosexuality, I feel the need to say that I actually ended up getting that second big finish War Master box set I had previously asked about here. "The Master of Callous."

Oddly enough, the War Master himself is barely a character in this. (He only really appears in 2 of the 4 episodes... Much to the detriment of the set.) It goes without saying that this box set is *nowhere near* as good as the first one was, but one praise I will give this is that the lesbian main characters who take the main stage for much of the story are portrayed in the way that I have always said homosexual characters should be done. (i.e. it is not a defining character trait for either of them... And at no point do either of them feel the need to inappropriately remind someone that they are lesbians, Bill style.)

Even though there are 4 episodes in this set, it's *mostly* told as one contiguous story (With one exception). And I will even say that I at least somewhat cared about 3 of those 4 stories- Other reviews I've read seem to especially praise the third story, but it was a major downside for me. Enough to drag the rest of this set down even... I found that third episode in particular to be equal parts pretentious and stupid. (It's basically the less interesting of the two lesbian characters all by herself tripping balls, and really nothing interesting happens, aside from her eventually going completely nuts.) And it breaks up the flow of the rest of the story because it's presented out of order to boot.

Thankfully, Jacobi is still as amazing as ever as the War Master. I wouldn't honestly call any of the other in this cast "bad" (Aside from Big Finish regular Barnaby Edwards, doing a somewhat shitty french(?) accent.. Thankfully he isn't a large part of this story) But yeah, the biggest flaw in this for me is that for a "War Master" box set, The War Master barely did anything.
 
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I suppose RT will soon find a reason to get rid of those pesky audience scores.
 
Panic Dance said:
It's telling that the average critic score is a mediocre 7.36. Even the shills can't muster full enthusiasm for S11.
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I honestly couldn't care less what the fucking "critics" thought. They've more than proven their proclivity for "wokeness" (I.e. shit) And Rotten Tomatoes is frankly worthless as a metric for how "good" any particular work is, it's clear that anything that sucks the social justard dick (or lack thereof) gets a good grade from these hacks, and anything that doesn't gets a bad grade, no matter how much the rest of us like it.
 
Oscar Wildean said:
So is does she smell something horrible in all these scenes? Because that's what it looks like.
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I have a theory that her lips and nose know how shitty the show is with her in it, and are trying to leave her face and the show. This is of course impossible, resulting in the face that you see.
 
2odastream said:
It's an attempt to be le quirky like Tennant and Smith ("the good Doctors", according to normies).
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Wait- multiple actors thought this was quirky? Damn, and I thought they were considered good actors too.
 
Oscar Wildean said:
Wait- multiple actors thought this was quirky? Damn, and I thought they were considered good actors too.
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I didn't even really *like* Tennant all that much (aside from *maybe* when he had Catherine Tate to bounce off of) and even still, I find it offensive that anyone would compare Whittaker to him.
 
I'm no acting expert but using a scrunched nose to portray quirkiness is a lazy move. There are better ways to do it.
 
You know what, I didn't even think of this in my watching of "Resolution"... (Because I have already mentioned how retardedly ineffectual U.N.I.T. has been in the past few series'... To the point that I still think they *deserved* to be dismantled..) But the "UN" of "U.N.I.T. Stands for "United Nations." I don't care if you love or hate Brexit, that didn't take the UK out of the United Nations, hell the US is still inexplicably a part of the UN, and we've obviously never been a part of the EU.
 
Oscar Wildean said:
I'm no acting expert but using a scrunched nose to portray quirkiness is a lazy move. There are better ways to do it.
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Pretty much all of the "quirkiness" written into NuWho (I've never seen classic Who) reeks of "mediocre writer". Whenever you get the point but it gets bashed over your skull anyway, like say any given hacking sequence. "Oh I've still got legs." Yeah no shit Time Lords have always been physically human aside another heart.

 
Marco Fucko said:
Pretty much all of the "quirkiness" written into NuWho (I've never seen classic Who) reeks of "mediocre writer". Whenever you get the point but it gets bashed over your skull anyway, like say any given hacking sequence. "Oh I've still got legs." Yeah no shit Time Lords have always been physically human aside another heart.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=id=sVEY5AL5zzk;t=70
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This is my favorite bit of "classic Doctor Who" being "quirky."
(Note, The Doctor totally fucking kills those two dudes who were about to kill him.)
 
Know what I've realised. She's trying to "gurn", Jon Pertwee's Doctor had a tendency to do the same thing. Thing is Pertwee could actually pull off a multitude of different expressions beyond looking like he'd smelt a bad fart.
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2odastream said:
Know what I've realised. She's trying to "gurn", Jon Pertwee's Doctor had a tendency to do the same thing. Thing is Pertwee could actually pull off a multitude of different expressions beyond looking like he'd smelt a bad fart.View attachment 631472
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You know what, No. Pertwee is *obviously* being attacked/strangled in at least half of those images you linked... In the other half of them, it was the 70's. To be frank, it isn't even close to begin with regardless, but Whittaker isn't being attacked in ANY of those, she's just an ugly woman making an ugly face.
 
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