The Doctor Who Forum | Robert Caligari | Activity https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/robertcaligari/activity/ Activity feed for Robert Caligari. Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:51:00 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 ac0429471ef91a4c5d53d7612b4b93b7 Robert Caligari replied to the topic General thread – fan creativity (2) in the forum Fan creativity https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-thread-fan-creativity-2/page/5/#post-76922 Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:10:34 +0000 Could someone out there PLEASE tell Paul Hanley to stop hating me? It’s making me feel like a piece of dirt, and quite frankly, I don’t know what other options I have aside from taking our conflict public. I swear to God I’ve exhausted every possible means of communication with this man, to no avail.

He wants me to respect his decision, but I…[Read more]

]]> b6bbf30111ea2c8d448cabfe86e94493 Robert Caligari replied to the topic The Giggle in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-giggle/page/2/#post-76878 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:39:26 +0000 I wish this “Fourteenth Doctor” nonsense would just stop. Like…completely.

This is not an entirely separate and unique incarnation unto himself. It doesn’t act any differently from Doctor 10. (At least, Tennant doesn’t perform the part like it is.) Neither John Hurt or Jo Martin have been canonized as part of the “official” line-up; why David…[Read more]

]]> 739ea1d89d451a2876018330d8f5b280 Robert Caligari replied to the topic Dr Who News (5) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dr-who-news-5/page/6/#post-76813 Sun, 28 Jul 2024 17:58:58 +0000 @dentarthurdent But I have this theory that a successful production requires a certain basic level of adequacy in each aspect e.g. script, acting, sets, sound, special effects etc. And any one of those that falls too far below the basic level risks distracting the viewer.

If that were true, movies like Night of the Living Dead and The Texas…[Read more]

]]> fcb7b561ecae7f172a4832a337be28c0 Robert Caligari replied to the topic Dr Who News (5) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dr-who-news-5/page/6/#post-76807 Sat, 27 Jul 2024 21:15:38 +0000 @dentarthurdent Sarcastic but a fairly valid generalisation, I fear.

Silly me. I thought sarcasm was par for the course for the internet.

Anyway: “Pathetic special effects and rubber monsters” could be applied to most of classic Who’s run, for sure, but that’s doing bit of a disservice to the ingenious craftsmen who were able to cook up all…[Read more]

]]> 5dc5738480f7977645a6166deb55390f Robert Caligari replied to the topic Dr Who News (5) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dr-who-news-5/page/6/#post-76805 Sat, 27 Jul 2024 19:42:45 +0000 You want to appeal to American audiences? Just blow more stuff up. Idiocracy and the Transformers movies proved that entertaining Americans really isn’t so hard. Just insert more gross-out gags and give the TARDIS its own Matrix-style minigun that the Doctor can use to decimate Dalek hordes. (Also make sure there’s an explosion every five mi…[Read more]

]]> 6b23bb3d314c86a1e3791d45fd4df89a Robert Caligari replied to the topic Dr Who News (5) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dr-who-news-5/page/5/#post-75478 Sun, 31 Mar 2024 01:37:39 +0000 Here’s what I think the problem is: Managing DW has become too much of a “closed-off” business, with the job only available to a very small elite of men and women. Everybody just <i>knows</i> everyone too much. If not BFFs, Davies, Moffat, and Chibnall are clearly good chums with each other, and while they elbow themselves in the ribs and giggle a…[Read more]

]]> 6feea97430e88f777a0c664c6a7a9179 Robert Caligari replied to the topic The Church on Ruby Road in the forum The Fifteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-church-on-ruby-road/#post-75134 Tue, 26 Dec 2023 05:29:48 +0000 As a Catholic, I’ve harbored a private, admittedly irrational fear that 21st century WHO might have it in for my type. (I know RTD is homosexual, in addition to a Richard Dawkins fanboy, and…well, I would understand why he’d have an axe to grind.)

Imagine my delight upon seeing that wasn’t the case at all. Hell, the Doctor LITERALLY used the…[Read more]

]]> a91ee3d1e8d653e1065b8deda995042b Robert Caligari replied to the topic Companions past and present in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/companions-past-and-present/page/20/#post-75044 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:21:27 +0000 @ps1l0v3y0u I’m more than aware of the kind of B.S. a showrunner has to endure, but that still doesn’t excuse some of the downright mind-boggling creative decisions by Chibnall. Not once did I ever get a vibe of authentic depth or darkness from Jodie’s Doctor; she never stopped being the irritating klutzy bubblehead vs. the brooding, stygian…[Read more]

]]> 1399b1ccdb4049352d69131e120d9448 Robert Caligari commented on the post, The Chibnall Era – A Retrospective https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/the-chibnall-era-a-retrospective/#comment-4604 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 05:51:15 +0000 It was absolutely imperative for the first female Doctor to sell like gangbusters, and Chibnall blew it. Spectacularly.

That alone has earned him a hard, unapologetic slap to the face.

]]> 8051de59514e51c5f7eea768816684c3 Robert Caligari replied to the topic The Giggle in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-giggle/page/2/#post-74982 Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:27:18 +0000 @whohar Correct, AoD is indeed the third movie in the Evil Dead series. Evil Dead II probably didn’t leave as much of an impact on you because it was meant to be horror/comedy rather than straight-up horror like the first one.

Speaking of which:

Doctor Who vs. The Evil Dead

]]> 3da0146733cbd2f1935f462a22bd185c Robert Caligari replied to the topic The Giggle in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-giggle/page/2/#post-74964 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:39:31 +0000 @whohar Army of Darkness. Give it a watch, and you’ll see what I mean. What you saw in The Giggle was basically the kid-friendly version with less body horror.

Fun Fact: The scene from Army of Darkness was inspired in turn by a 1959 b-movie called The Manster, where the protagonist also undergoes a radical “split.”

]]> f7a526cb795d89e0ca93b7df05b4add6 Robert Caligari replied to the topic The Giggle in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-giggle/page/2/#post-74951 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 06:01:32 +0000 @whohar I’d have less of a problem with the “bi-generation” concept if it wasn’t so creepy. And gross. (Not just because it strongly reminded me of a similar moment from my favorite Sam Raimi movie, either.) Ash bi-generatesI mean, what’s stopping RTD from revisiting this idea over and over again? Is this going to be a recurring thing now, with the Doctor…[Read more]

]]> cfbb1df7edcc8b7e05e6f0d7cd617687 Robert Caligari replied to the topic The Giggle in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-giggle/page/2/#post-74949 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 04:21:49 +0000 Can we all agree that RTD’s “just let it go” message from STAR BEAST looks a little bit hypocritical in light of this episode? I mean, Good Lord…his flat-out refusal to EVER let go of David Tennant has become downright comical. The next time someone chides me for never being able to get over the Tom Baker years, I’ll fling this story right b…[Read more]

]]> 099d928e5f272bee25504a34d4817299 Robert Caligari replied to the topic The Giggle in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-giggle/#post-74922 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 11:56:24 +0000 @unitpicker Given how RTD has flat-out stated that he’s going out of his way to rile up the fans this time, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were one and the same. Perhaps he’s going to have Susan regenerate into a Lovecraftian cthulhoid horror?

]]> 162e0a3e67c456c549a09082e8bba9a9 Robert Caligari replied to the topic The Giggle in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-giggle/#post-74919 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 05:57:20 +0000 For those of us who AREN’T fawning Tenheads, can we please be allowed to refer to Tennant as “the Doctor who will never f*** off and die?” Seriously, I hope Sutekh comes along and nukes “BiGen” Doctor  alongside his family of happy, daffy glass-klinking gits.

…okay, that was mean. I’m sorry.

]]> 575a9b6126414e532bfda7180c18d62b Robert Caligari replied to the topic The Giggle in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-giggle/#post-74918 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 05:55:54 +0000 For those of us who AREN’T  fawning Tenheads, can we please be allowed to refer to Tennant as “the Doctor who will never f*** off and die?” Seriously, I hope Sutekh comes along and nukes “BiGen” Doctor  alongside his family of happy, daffy glass-klinking gits.

…okay, that was mean. I’m sorry.

]]> 1f6e65b211bd0a1e75b8b7f6978b9c04 Robert Caligari replied to the topic Wild Blue Yonder in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/wild-blue-yonder/page/2/#post-74830 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:40:26 +0000 It’s kind of a shame Michael Gough wasn’t around to reprise the Toymaker, although by now he would’ve been…what, 105 years old? Phew.

]]> e38c2bbccdee81655f6b9a535d2d6587 Robert Caligari replied to the topic Wild Blue Yonder in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/wild-blue-yonder/#post-74809 Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:20:57 +0000 @juniperfish See, my concern with a show like Bridgerton is the fact that it basically exists in a utopian alternate history where racism was never a problem. I would give almost anything to live in such a world, but sadly, we don’t. On the other hand, what exactly is preventing our children and our children’s children from getting the idea in…[Read more]

]]> 62022e5deee1f4bf8dd295ab2e258554 Robert Caligari replied to the topic Wild Blue Yonder in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/wild-blue-yonder/#post-74757 Sun, 03 Dec 2023 13:33:24 +0000 At the risk of sounding like yet another hyper-conservative creep…I’ll admit to feeling a tad uneasy about Nathaniel Curtis’s casting as Isaac Newton. (He’s Indian on his father’s side.) Fictional characters in historical stories are one thing, but when you screw around with a real-life figure in history who was…well…an actual white guy,…[Read more]

]]> 46b26c03bc285b3184e18a5f5f2830a3 Robert Caligari replied to the topic Wild Blue Yonder in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/wild-blue-yonder/#post-74754 Sun, 03 Dec 2023 11:27:22 +0000 I almost feel like falling down to my knees in the front of all the Tenheads among the viewing audience, clawing at their feet and sobbing like a pathetic wretch:

“There! You’ve been given THREE WHOLE EPISODES of Tennant! One of them was LITERALLY just Tennant and Tate! Tom Baker was NEVER that lucky! Will you PLEASE move on now?! Will you PLEASE…[Read more]

]]> 732f6cf2a4b3e5ee6cce5577e8994c71 Robert Caligari replied to the topic General thread – fan creativity (2) in the forum Fan creativity https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-thread-fan-creativity-2/page/3/#post-65381 Sat, 03 Nov 2018 23:10:18 +0000 Forget “Archie Meets The Punisher.” THIS is the crossover to die for. (Art by Paul Hanley)

Doctor Who and The Evil Dead

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