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@puroandson

“no dude, you did. You said some thing along the lines of “the doctor is nuanced. Yeah right””

Congratulations!  You just won “The Silliest Reason for Flaming Someone Award”.

So expressing incredulity is some kind of insult now?  Nonsense.

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@pedant

“Also, look around you. There’s actually intelligent discussion going on, right now”

Well one could not prove that based on your comments.

 

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@pedant

“Entirely up to you, of course, but “Stampy-footed teen who’s not used to be talked back to” is not a flattering look and it doesn’t make your penis longer.”

Funny, I was thinking the same thing about you.  You’re not used to people calling you out on your BS, are you?

And what’s this snobbery about information obtained via the Internet?  I guess you don’t bother to fact-check your posts?    BTW YouTube is spelled “YouTube”.

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IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan  <—- You failed to met your own standard…

1) Have something interesting and pertinent to say – FAIL

2) Root what you say in a theory of literature or at the very least a clear grasp of storytelling, its purpose and role – FAIL

3) Be witty – FAIL

Striiike 3. Yer out!

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Be careful about laying down standards for others that you are incapable of meeting yourself.

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IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan <– I put your comment in the TARDIS translation circuit and this is what came out…

I do not like the pompous man; I do not wish him for a friend; he’s built on such a gorgeous plan, that he can only condescend; and when he bows his neck is sprained; he walks as though he owned the earth – as though his vest and shirt contained all that there is of Sterling Worth. With sacred joy I see him tread, upon a stray banana rind, and slide a furlong on his head and leave a trail of smoke behind. – Walt Mason

Pertinent enough?  Literary enough?  Witty enough?

Sorry, I was minding my own business and then you started with the name-calling.

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“the most subtle, nuanced actor”

Oh God, I don’t even know where to begin with that one.

Does riding on a tank playing heavy metal guitar ring a bell?  I know, one example, but I don’t have time for more.

So we’ll have to agree to disagree.

 

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I’m sorry guys, but I’m just not feeling it.

Capaldi is the most irritating Doctor since Colin Baker (maybe worse).

I like a multi-layered story but lately it’s getting ridiculous.

Clara is a most forgettable companion (pun intended).  She started out with nuance and mystery only to end with confusion and broken storylines.

She’s in love.  Oh, he dies.  But maybe he can come back.  Oh no, he can’t – hours wasted on a dead end story.  Oh yes, her Cyber-lover ends up saving the world, but that’s pretty tame compared to waiting a thousand years outside the Pandorica for your love or surrendering yourself to the Angels so you can live out your lives together.

How does her story end?  Traveling around with another immortal woman, like two old spinsters on holiday (except for the fact that they both look about 15-years-old).  How anti-climatic.

And it seems to me that the ratio of good stories to tolerable ones has slipped below the 50% mark.  But I’ll admit that Matt Smith/Amy Pond/River Song is a tough act to follow.

Picking Doctors is not a science and I guess three-out-of-four is a pretty good scorecard, but to me Capaldi is a dud.

It’s like they’re not doing Doctor Who anymore – they’re doing a “camp” version of Doctor Who (a style or mode of personal or creative expression that is absurdly exaggerated and often fuses elements of high and popular culture) and Capaldi is Adam West.

I’ll continue to cringe my way through the rest of his reign and wait for either better stories or a better Doctor.

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I’ve been reviewing the old episodes because I created a “Watch list” for a newbie to give them the DW bug.

I had a couple of disappointments with this episode which probably come from being on the US side of the pond.

First the title is a spoiler.  I remember showing this episode to a friend of mine who had a passing familiarity with the Doctor Who series of old.  I told him not to look at the title in the beginning.  When the Dalek was revealed he actually *gasped*.  I never heard anyone in real life gasp before, but he did.

In commenting on this problem a viewer in the UK told me that the news about the return of the Daleks was so prevalent in England that you couldn’t have avoided it.  But I still feel that the spoiler in the title continues to do permanent harm to the episode.

The other point (also relatively minor) was that they always mispronounced the name Goddard.  In the US (which is where the episode supposedly takes place) that name is pronounced with the emphasis on the FIRST syllable (GOD-dard).  It was an annoying reminder that is was British actors imitating Americans without anyone there with enough knowledge of America to tell them that they were pronouncing it wrong.

Of course, I had to include this episode in my list of “must-sees” because it begins to set up the whole Time War storyline.

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