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The Master's new costume edition.

Last election

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Remembrance Sunday this weekend.

Perfect speech for remembering all the fallen.

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Don't cremate me!

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What else has she done that's worth a watch?

>tfw there will be only 6 new Moffat episodes until he stops writing for Who

Wikipedia says Fady will guest star in Doctor Who.
But is he playing Ram or some unrelated character?

>Wikipedia
>accurate?

Would be cool to link the new, but probably brief, spin off more to the Whoniverse tho.

>tfw they will be series 7-tier throw-away Moff scripts because he never even expected to do another series and he had a new series of Sherlock to attend to as well

It's crazy how Moffat's quality shifts around depending on how overworked he is. I still regard him as one of the greatest writers of the show due to the sheer number of absolute crackers he has under his belt, but Christ does the dude fall apart sometimes and write some awful shit

How do you think history will regard Steven Moffat's tenure as showrunner?

>6 more River stories
pls no

Nah he had a long hiatus to work on the scripts.
They're gonna be good.

>Missy will never team up with Harold Saxon.

And she'll continue to show up in Big Finish stories too.

Good.

Just a bit of sad but also inspiring info. This lovely gentleman was married to the beautiful Lis Sladen (Sarah Jane, but am sure all /who/ knows this) for a happy 42 years.

The downfall of the show.

nice meme

Controversial at first, a la the Seventh Doctor's era. But in a decade or so Moffat will be recognised as a God Tier showrunner like Hinchcliffe and Wiles.

My late Gran had a saying, maybe it applies to TV shows?

>too many cooks spoil the broth

>Wiles.
Hi cats.

In the future, Moffat will be considered one the greatest writers of Who, but not the best show-runner because the mess of series 7.

Series 5 - great
Series 6 - still good
Series 7 - wtf happened?
50 anniv - successful somehow
Series 8 - top viewing figures, lower critical acclaim
Series 9 - top critical acclaim, lower viewing figures

Roll on series 10.

FAVORITE DYSTOPIAN CLASSIC WHO STORIES

>The Sun Makers

Why make the video tiny in the corner?

The Happiness Patrol.
Paradise Towers
The Macra Terror

Copyright detection.

Picked up "The Whoniverse" from Amazon. Pretty art, and I'm forty pages in and have yet to find continuity errors.
It sucks reading about the Jagaroth and the Osirans and the Racnoss and the Eternals and then having to read about Ashildr and the Mire like two pages later. I'm trying not to remember.

>Doctor who themed pornstar wedding pictures
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Season Five-Moff behaves himself
Season Six-His terrible fanfic holds it back
Season Seven-The fault of a breakdown apparently
50th-Got it together, probably his finest hour since 5
Series Eight-Saved by Jamie (the writer, not the scotsman)
Series Nine-Consistent, but gets preachy mid-way and the finale becomes the Clara Show, failing to stick the landing

You will never marry a qt nerdy porn star

>marrying a pornstar

The ultimate cuck

We mark Paul McGann's birthday on Monday with an extended run of special offers on his Doctor Who work at Big Finish!

On TV you've enjoyed his performances as the Doctor in Doctor Who - The TV Movie (1996) and Night of the Doctor (2013), but it's with Big Finish where Paul McGann's Doctor took on a whole life of his own - from the first appearance in Doctor Who - Storm Warning, through to September's release of Doctor Who - Doom Coalition Series 3.

This weekend we're celebrating the actor's birthday on 14th November with a huge range of savings across the Eight Doctor Big Finish stories

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I assure you user that goal is completely obtainable.
I think she might actually do cuck porn and that's probably the one tamest on her kink scale.

He hasn't actually had that much more longer than he would've usually had.

Pretty much this. Series 5 is still Moffat's finest hour.

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Wanna bet we're gonna see people whine about a black Celtic man?

It's a little sad to think that his first episode as showrunner, The Eleventh Hour, was also his best.

Pic related is the only thing I can think of when I see Capaldi surrounded by all that youth.

Series 5 - good
Series 6 - too convoluted for its own good
Series 7 - non convoluted enough
50th anniversary - We can see fanfiction overtaking the professional writing
Series 8 - Balanced, too much of Clara Who fanfiction
Series 9 - Two-parters with stories without enough content for 2 parts. Also some terrible fanfiction in begin and the end

NO CHEMISTRY

That's not Heaven Sent.

what?

Yes.

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What Peter and Pearl have.

YEZZZZZ

fark off shipper

Capaldi is a cool enough to actually look okay next to young people.

What's with this meme of The Eleventh Hour being GOAT? It's not even his best Moffat episode of series 5.

>implying there won't be Mackaldi shippers this time next year

Or Mackmissy? Who nose?

I said they have no chemistry m8, that's literally the opposite of me being a shipper.

You're not wrong.

In fact, I daresay those youngfolk are taking away from the sheer awesome that is Capaldi.

Series 5 - Overall very good, though it is marred slightly by bad episodes like The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, and The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood.

Series 6 - Uninteresting main plot but had the occasional great episode, The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex being my favorites from this series. I don't mind River too much but I think Moffat ought to have stopped to maybe ask some second opinions on her character arc.

Series 7 - Dull and flat. I can't really think of anything from this series that I liked.

50 Anniversary - When it aired, it was probably the most excited I had ever been for Doctor Who in a long time. Now, I still find it fairly enjoyable to watch even though I think the Zygon plot was weak.

Series 8 - Made me regret begging Moffat to give Clara more of a clear-cut personality, honestly. Garbage like Kill the Moon would have put me off the show, if it hadn't been followed up with Mummy on the Orient Express. Honestly, Jamie Mathieson's scripts are pretty much the best part.

Series 9 - Some great ideas in this series that are never followed up on in any meaningful way.

Jenna is gone. Deal with it m8.

What does that have to do with Peter and Pearl not having chemistry?

I don't think he had much with Jenna either, at least not in the show itself. But that's because they kept trying to make them act like they hated each other for half of their time together.

You're a Peter/Jenna shipper projecting your feelings of Pearl onto Capaldi.

This reply has given you away.

Posting "This reply has given you away" has given you away.

Posting "Posting "This reply has given you away" has given you away." has given you away.

kek, I was almost starting to miss this.

This makes absolutely no sense.

Yeah but they were true friends. Also, Pearl looks like she knows nothing about the show. She's literally Patrick "Michelle Lopez is a great Master" Ness-tier. Doesn't help to be friend with him.

>talking to yourself

This post has given you away

Bored, kiddo?

Posting "This post has given you away" has given you away.

>Also, Pearl looks like she knows nothing about the show.

Always time to learn. Remember that Matt Smith had never seen the show before being cast.

He's reeeeeeing like fuck now :^)

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that's nice and all but is it canon?

Love this! Might buy these after all. Fun stuff.

>gurning faces
Yep, that's cats!

Is this a prequel to An Unearthly Child?

Bill isn't a student, she's working at the cafeteria and sneakily attends the Doctor's lectures. She finds out about his real identity and wants to travel but he tells her to have 10/10 at an impossible test, human beings can't pass it. That way he's sure she won't come, but to his surprise she gets everything right and he let's her come in.

That sounds shit, ngl.

You can say that about any new companion story.

Smith and Jones was GOAT

Yeah, space rhinos chasing an alien sucking blood out of people with a straw in a hospital transported to the Moon doesn't sound shit at all.

Susan's crooked cereal

Shop mannequins come to life and a strange man blows up a department store, with Rose caught up in the middle of it.

A hospital is transported to the moon by alien rhinos and there's a blood sucking alien on the loose.

Okay I can't make Donna's Series 4 debut sound good because waddling walking fat.

A little girl has a strange man crash land in her garden, and he becomes her 'imaginary friend', before growing up and helping to save the world with him.

Granted, we don't know the full context and plot of Bill's debut but her sneaking into lectures (why is he working there? Another cover job while he investigates monsters? Yawn) to win him over just sounds shit to me. Hopefully it's more about her proving herself worthy, to him, and they become friends.

>nothing for Clara
Why?

Is Ireland the only non British acceptable place for a Doctor to come from or would NZ/Australia work too?

Also, isn't the whole education setting done to death? Clala worked at Coal Hill; Class is set there; we first met Danny Pink there; the Doctor has been a science teacher in another school; the Doctor has been a caretaker at Coal Hill; now he's presumably undercover at Bristol Uni lecturing students... oh yeah how fucking original

>Shop mannequins come to life and a strange man blows up a department store, with Rose caught up in the middle of it.
Sounds shit.

>A hospital is transported to the moon by alien rhinos and there's a blood sucking alien on the loose.
Sounds shit.

>A little girl has a strange man crash land in her garden, and he becomes her 'imaginary friend', before growing up and helping to save the world with him.
Sounds GOAT

Cos she had 3 debuts (fitting, really, since she also got like 2 different endings) and I couldn't be arsed going through them desu!

Yeah okay m8.

If we consider Bells of Saint John to be Clara's introduction story, then it was shit.
Asylum was OK at best but it had its problems.
Why should it sound shit? Sure, it sounds silly, but the universe is silly. The Judoon aren't the prettiest design but as a species the whole police-for-hire, stick-to-the-rules shtick is pretty interesting. And the Plasmavore isn't a bad monster. That scene where the Doctor pretends to be a man and fools her into drinking his blood is absolutely brilliant.

This agressive reply has given you away.

Are you people literally trying to judge Bill's debut based on one tiny nugget of possible information? Like, seriously??

Even Moffat has said Smith and Jones is a GOAT example of how to do an introduction story. He praised it and said it was a great template, that it was just brilliant. Wish I could find his exact words.

Steven Moffat said, of Smith and Jones:

>Anyone who’s interested in writing should study that script – it’s one of the most technically brilliant scripts you’ll ever get your hands on. The construction of it is dazzling, and yet – and this is the REALLY dazzling part – it’s designed to feel light and airy and simple. And for that dim-witted reason, people think it IS simple. It’s not, it’s incredible. Look, what’s folded away in all that gorgeous froth. A new main character, whole and complete – an old friend within minutes. Her entire background and family, all there for us, perfectly clear. And while all thats going on, AT THE SAME TIME, a hospital gets stolen and taken to the (bloody) moon. All this in under ten minutes! And never mind all that, the entire format of the entire show is explained and sold to a brand new audience. Stunning. But – and this what makes your blood boil – because it’s made to LOOK easy, idiots and critics think it IS easy. Try it! Go on, get yer pen, TRY it.

>Thing is, I get a lot of praise for the complexity of Blink, and quite bloody right too. But because I know what I’m talking about, I can tell you as a matter of FACT, that Smith And Jones is WAY more complex. But because Blink wears its complexity on its sleeve, cos that was kind of the point, Smith And Jones conceals it, cos it’s a means to an end.

>Really and truly, Smith And Jones, go study. And if you don’t think it’s brilliant, shut up until you understand that it is.

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Martha and the Doctor reflect on the moon.

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The Doctor fools the Plasmavore.

Exactly. Stories are carried by characters, but characters are nothing without good stories. While the series 4 finale will always be my favorite of the RTD era, series 3 is my favorite season.

Oh..OK.

If I had to rate the Moffat seasons
6 > 9 > 8 > 5 > 7

Wierdly,as a Brit, I kinda think of Irish as British too.

Britain, Australia, Ireland and NZ would all work. Nothing else would. As all four places have really similar cultures.

5 > 7A > 6 > 7B > 8 > 9

9>5>8>7>6

5>9>8>6>7

5 > 7 > 6 > 8 > 9

Nailed it

I haven't watched any of the Capaldi stuff yet but I've seen everything before it. How is it? Is it worth watching compared to the Tennant and Smith series?

it's verrrrrrry hit and miss