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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 25, 2023 18:43:34 GMT
Those goblins would be quite scary for little kids methinks. Proper disturbing.
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Post by Garfy on Dec 25, 2023 20:23:11 GMT
That was the most Russell T Davies thing that he has ever Russell T Davies
Also I think im gay for the new doctor
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 26, 2023 12:05:36 GMT
Very gremlins. But my little one, who usually nopes out of Doctor Who because it's too scary, thought they were funny rather than scary. I was hoping the Christmas Special would be in the 'fun adventure' rather than 'everyone has turned into scary zombies' ballpark, and it was. I wouldn't say it was amazing, but then the xmas specials never really are as they're kinda their own thing, but it was good fun and the new doctor seems good. Though he loses a few points for going back and stopping that tree accident.
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Post by X201 on Dec 26, 2023 20:15:13 GMT
I liked it. Even more, is the fact that RTD seems to be in maximum “I’m going to do it anyway” mode regarding trying new things.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 27, 2023 1:45:59 GMT
I spent half of it wondering why Davina McCall was less orange. I just realised that I thought her and Claudia Winkleman were the same person. *shrug*
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Post by simple on Dec 27, 2023 1:55:02 GMT
I’m still trapped waiting to watch the Tennant Toymaker episode because my wife decided she wanted to watch the specials with me and hasn’t been ready to finish them in all the weeks since it aired
This is the same reason all our streaming services are littered with series we either only got two episodes into or only have one episode left of
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 27, 2023 1:56:44 GMT
I wanted to watch the Tennant ones, but have skipped them for now as I just didn't have time.
I dunno how the new doc is introduced at the end of the Toymaker one, but the Xmas special seems to be basically a fresh start, so it'd be ok to watch it first.
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Post by nazo on Dec 27, 2023 8:55:48 GMT
I think this was my favourite bit of Christmas TV this year. I wasn't too sure about his introduction in the Tennant special but I absolutely loved the new Doctor in this.
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Post by Warrender on Dec 27, 2023 11:00:50 GMT
The introduction (and consequent resolution) in the Tennant episode wasn't handled to my liking, but I very much loved this new version of the Doctor in his initial episode. I daresay he might be the sexiest Doctor we've ever had and I'm saying that as a 59 year old CIS gender heterosexual male with 3 grown kids.
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Post by BeetrootBertie on Dec 27, 2023 15:01:18 GMT
Anyone had any issues watching Dr Who via a Fire TV device? I'm getting an initially fine image suddenly jumping into a scaled image with a green band underneath it. The image that's behind that jitters whilst the main content still plays in the reduced size window. Then it jumps back to normal for a bit before going back to this... Seems OK if the video quality is changed down to standard though. Wondering if it's due to it being a UHD-labelled vid? Using a Firestick 4K but on a 1080p telly.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 28, 2023 6:57:45 GMT
No, but I'm not using anything particularly HD. I think it's a 4k firestick (not 100% sure without checking), but it's only a regular HD telly.
Have you tried turning the firestick off at the socket, then turning it on again? Seems to fix most issues with it.
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Post by BeetrootBertie on Dec 28, 2023 8:55:40 GMT
It's been restarted several times whilst I've been turning various settings on/off to see if any of those might be the culprit but I haven't actually turned the power off.
At one point I thought turning off the 'Match Original Frame Rate' option sorted it, but it didn't. It only seems to happen in iPlayer with their UHD content which I guess is being offered as the Firestick is a 4K one, even though it's only attached to a Full HD TV.
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Post by simple on Dec 30, 2023 23:09:14 GMT
All caught up now The Toymaker was my least favourite of the Tennant specials and I don’t think this send off for Tennant was as impactful as his original goodbye. But I don’t think it was meant to be, I feel like those three episodes were RTD saying goodbye to the original revival and then saying a proper hello to Disney with the Christmas special. The Xmas episodes are always their own thing but this was a fun one and they’re obviously putting every penny onto the screen. The gremlins were a fun Christmas baddie too. The new Doctor has really hit the ground running and it already feels like a very fresh take on things and to have the balls to put that musical number in and get away with it. I can’t see any other Doctor pulling that off. It could easily have been the Jabba’s palace song. For the upcoming season I’m assuming Anita Dobson at Xmas and the tooth in Toymaker means we’ll see a return of Missy/The Master. Although if they’re digging back to the Toymaker character and a comic book story - it would be fun if the Monk turns up along the way. Either way I think RTD is going to have a lot of fun and freedom this time around.
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Post by Vandelay on Dec 31, 2023 9:07:54 GMT
Watched this Christmas episode last night and enjoyed it enough. Christmas Who always feels a bit detached from everything else and always seems to be made with the consideration that a lot of people will be watching it who will only watch this one episode of Who all year and it will probably mostly just be on for background noise. This episode is no exception to that.
It was a nice introduction to the characters though and it did a fairly good job of rebooting the whole thing. But, I would say this was my least favourite of the specials. My focus switched off a bit following the escape from the ship and didn't really get fully engaged again. I also personally got strong Jabba's palace vibes from the musical number (or, more appropriately, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey's Goblin King song vibes).
Really, really enjoyed the edge of the universe and the Toymaker episodes. I liked the arrival of the Doctor in the latter of those, although I would agree that Tennant's ending was perhaps a little twee.
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Post by X201 on Dec 31, 2023 10:09:32 GMT
Technically, Tennant hasn’t ended
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 15, 2024 14:42:00 GMT
Thanks Disney, this is great news if you want to avoid spoilers. /s
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 23, 2024 17:31:22 GMT
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