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>>6. Colin Baker – Revelation of the Daleks. As loath as I am to pick another Dalek story (and such a comparatively awful one, at that) this is honestly the best from Colin?s era.

>Really? I was going to ask if there were any better ones because I?m having trouble wanting to sit through RotD?s second half.

Well why not try a Big Finish Audio, why not ‘Medicinal Purposes’? That story is fantastic with the added bonus of David Tennant in it playing a mentally challanged guy called Jaime. “Jaime and the Doctor, Jaime and the Doctor!”.

It is certainly the best performance of both Colin Baker and David Tennant, their scenes together are a delight too because we have the hindsight to know that Tennant is the Doctor!

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>> I don?t like RTD as a person
>You don?t KNOW RTD as a person.

From what I have seen in Confidential he comes across as a funny guy, witty, but I just think he is mean with certain comments, he compared fans criticize his stories on the internet to mosquitoes (may have been another insect), I just found that comment completely out of line and it doesn’t make me think highly of him, a few other comments about people on online message boards have been said, the people who mock him as a person are wrong but that is just a vocal minority. I give credit were credut is due and I slaughter episodes which deserve it atleast in my opinion, what is wrong with that I don’t know but RTD seems to think me saying why I don’t like a story makes me a mosquitoe.

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Yay, Colin banner!

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I don’t like RTD as a person (though this raises what I think of him by a mile) but he is a good script writer (unless he goes for epic epicness finales or Christmas specials).
Episodes like ‘New Earth’, ‘Smith and Jones’ and ‘Partners in Crime’ are wonderful series openers which RTD writes fantastic, I have already said this on IMDB that I wouldn’t mind if RTD wrote the opener every year, he always does them well, series finales on the other hand, well I won’t get into that.

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>Have you joined the TORDFC fan club forums yet? Well have you!?
The Red Dwarf Fan Club has its own Fan Club, I wonder if the Red Dwarf Fan Club Fan Club like Red Dwarf.

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Its not.

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>Big Finish have only got the license to cover stuff from 1963-1996.
I know! In a few years they may be able to get the license for new series stuff though, I hope.

>erm.. http://www.audiobookscorner.com/list.aspx?narrator=David%20Tennant
BFA! Full cast audio not reading out of a book, though I think David’s immpression of Billie is realy funny.

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Dear as-yet-untitled Red Dwarf fanzine,

Why the hell is he called Silent Bob anyway?

Randal.

PS. I’m Dante and I’m the biggest idiot ever.

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I listened to the BFA ‘Colditz’ with McCoy the other day, one good thing about it is David Tennant playing a Nazi, every time he talks in the future I will hear that accent.
If only they could get David on audio, maybe in a few years…

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Zagreus sits inside your head
Zagreus lives among the dead
Zagreus sees you in your bed
And eats you when you’re sleeping

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If a person eat beef 771 times in the span of less than 4 years I would call that constant.

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Oh I see, a higher definition HD camera.

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Could you please explain what the fuck a 4k red camera is please? Not to watch the latest WLW.

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It was confirmed in DWM which I just finished reading, I don’t get BBC HD or have a Blu Ray player yet so meh, I will probably buy the DVD of the Specials boxset anyway.

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This will be the opening titles to the new series, Kryten has not changed a bit – http://youtube.com/watch?v=sgC24Ixu2Fg

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Daleks coming out of the Water.
Daleks coming out of Sand.
Now we have Daleks coming out of Snow!

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I remember when I was much younger I thought the Reagan mask was Spock.

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One thing against it – http://www.amazon.co.uk/DOCTOR-WHO-5-DESTROYED-CASSANDRA/dp/B0014DRL72/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=diy&qid=1233617358&sr=8-4

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Carbug is starting to sound like a childrens cartoon.

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I also hate snow, it made me late for college and the shoes I was wearing for the last 4 hours are not the grippiest, I nearly fucking fell at every step, why couldn’t if fucking snow in Liverpool yesterday when I only needed to walk for 30 minutes, it picks the day I walk all around the fucking city, ahh well atleast I got some good bargains at the shop, Lego Indiana Jones for ?5!

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Ahh one thing I missed out in my new Series positives, Doctor Who Confidential, a fantastic companion show to the series, the only problem I have with it is a thing called Confidential cutdown, anyone who has the DVD will be aware of this. Why can’t they add 3 extra discs and slap on the confidentials in full, I would be willing to pay more for the boxsets if they did.

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Bobby Llew thought it was real =]

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Doug tried to make Series IX of Red Dwarf in 2002 but the BBC were not interested – http://www.ganymede.tv/files/downloads/wallpapers/art/dwarf-tvlicence-800.png

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They will use the intro from the Smeg Ups tape.

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I wonder if they will release ‘Just the Dave Specials’.

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Erm, greasy food is good for you?

I just assumed, I’m sorry, if it has the original versions on I will be happy even though I will probably never watch them again if an xtended version is on the DVD.

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Where did you get a script of the Red Dwarf Movie from?

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My comments make sense, they are mostly just a load of bollocks though.

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Yes it was a joke, after series 2 he had given up on his dream since he knew he gets Kochanski.

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Either the Baker-Davison-Baker logo or the Pertwee and McGann logo for me. I didn’t mind the McCoy logo, well when compared to the Eccleston-Tennant one.

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I would say it was Series IV.

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Since when does Lister want to go to earth? Fiji all the way I thought, Red Dwarf was on course for Fiji.

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>>Beyond a Joke – No fun
>Is this a translation or a critique?
I should have expected that.

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http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cervenytrpaslik.cz%2F&sl=cs&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
On that go onto the episode guide and look at what some are translated to, some favourites are –
Balance of Power – The balance of forces
Confidence and Paranoia – Assertiveness and Mindr?k
Me2 – I, on the other
Kryten – Kryton
Stasis Leak – Cranny in st?zi
Bodyswap – The exchange of bodies
Camille – Kamila
Dimension Jump – Another Dimension
Meltdown – Melted
Holoship – Hololo?
Out of Time – In addition to reality
Tikka to Ride – Hellishly tough trip
Stoke Me a Clipper – Prepare pots
Duct Soup – Test channel
Beyond a Joke – No fun
Back in the Red 1 – Back in June 1
Back in the Red 2 – Back in the June 2
Krytie TV – Television Kryton
Only the Good – Just sympa??ci

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Wait if ‘Planet of the Dead’ is aired on Easter than will it be aired on the Sunday or the Saturday? If it is on the Sunday than I will have seen both parts of the Dwarf special and only have the other 2 specials left, I think I might just fit Doctor Who in there at midnight, thank god for iplayer.

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Mobisodes? Fuck off.
I would rather just watch Series VI for the zillionth time.

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>>I wanted a bloody death and don?t care who it was who dies.
>Ah, I see. You?re an idiot.

Really I just wanted Rose to die.

>>It can look into more depth into a companion, yes. But when the Doctor is sometimes used as a background character just to take a companion to a new place I find it stupid.
>What do you think of Hartnell?s era?
In the Hartnell era he has 3 companions, of course it may seem like he is not the centre but that is because you need to explore all characters.I always find in the Hartnell era it is more a few stories in one splitting each of the cast up, ‘The Time Meddler’ and ‘The Aztecs’ for example. Usually the Doctor will not get the biggest story but he still gets a story!

>They will date at the SAME speed. The Daleks look shite in almost all the colour classic episodes (fair enough, that?s just my opinion).
‘Revelation of the Daleks’ and ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ had those brilliant looking Davros Daleks.

>They now look brilliant, including the CG versions. However, in 20 years time they will look and sound as cheap and sad as the old ones do. Many effects in the classic series were laughed at even then, which is often the case in the new series.
I just think that CGI will date much faster than the effects of the classic series which were usually models on string. Watching some Troughton stories with the TARDIS floating through space it looks more realistic than the TARDIS flying through space in the new series.

>>I wanted a bloody death and don?t care who it was who dies.
>Jack died.
After Jack died Dalek Caan said “One of them will still die”.

>>1) Praised for special effects – They will date much quicker than the classic series.
>This is about as far as I got. What does this actually mean?
I find CGI will date faster than the effects of the classic series, ‘Trial of a Time Lord’ sace station still looks fantastic today and it was over 20 years ago, I wonder if ‘Rose’ will look realisting in 20 years.

>>?Dalek? is superb,
>Arguably one of the best Dalek episodes in new Who.
Well what has it got to contend with? ‘Doomsday’? The only new series Dalek story I find that is up to the quality of ‘Dalek’ is the latest three parter finale.

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Oh do we have to get into this? Fine.

>>1) Praised for special effects – They will date much quicker than the classic series.
>No. They won?t.
I think they will, the way CGI is advancing these days. I mean the Lazerus monster is already dated.

>>2) Companion oriantated.
>God forbid a show should be interested in more than one character.
It can look into more depth into a companion, yes. But when the Doctor is sometimes used as a background character just to take a companion to a new place I find it stupid.

>>3) Ruining certain enemies – Cybermen, Autons, Daleks though not the Sontarans apart from their pre-rugby match chant nor Davros, he was mostly fantastic.
>We?ve discussed the Cybermen, but what did they do wrong with the Autons? And I think you?re wrong about the Daleks. Overused? Yes. But used badly in all those appearances? Only in Manhattan, I?d say. Davies writes Dalek dialogue like almost no-one else can. ?THIS IS NOT WAR! THIS IS PEST CONTROL!?

Not specifically the Autons (though they had bad bits like the Mickey monster) but rather that big blob thing, I found that awful.

>And I think you?re wrong about the Daleks. Overused? Yes. But used badly in all those appearances? Only in Manhattan, I?d say. Davies writes Dalek dialogue like almost no-one else can. ?THIS IS NOT WAR! THIS IS PEST CONTROL!?
The Daleks are overpowered to the point were I find it just stupid and the only way to stop them is a big hoover or a companion opening a thing on the TARDIS to stop them all (should I get into the fact that if she can see everything she can kill all evil and all Daleks ect.)

>>4) Re-making Big Finish – ?Jubilee? and ?Spare Parts? were much better before.
>Spare Parts was better, but also completely different so I?m not sure the comparison to an admittedly lame two-parter is fair. I haven?t heard Jubilee, but ?Dalek? is fucking superb, so yah boo sucks to you.

Listen to ‘Jubilee’, it is bloody brilliant, easily the best Dalek story ever written. I listened to it specifically because as you say ‘Dalek’ was great and I was not expecting it to be very good, I am glad I was wrong.

>>5) The Jesus pose – I hate that so much I put it on, why does the Doctor need to actually get up (?The Stolen Earth?) to regenerate?
>Because it looks cooler than rolling around on the floor with a shimmery blue face.
Cooler? The Doctor wants to be cool when he is regenerating?

>>6) Cheating – One of them will die?
>The Donna who was one of the best companions the Doctor?s ever had did, indeed, ?die?. Layered meaning, there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death
That explains what death is. Itis like saying if you get your memory of your life until you were ten you die, no, I get the meaniong, I just hate the meaning, I wanted a bloody death and don’t care who it was who dies.

>>7) ?Epicness of the epic Daleks? or finales – I don?t like the new series finales, promise so much and never deliver, less is more I say.
>Hang on, so you?re annoyed that they ?promise so much and never deliver?, but you want ?less?? Make your mind up, man! Either you want it big and they don?t deliver, or they make it big when you want it smaller (ooh pardon etc. etc.) You can?t have both!

They are seperate. Less is more is a preferance, I think a finale would benefit being like ‘The Empty Child’.
RTD is hung on being “epic” so what I want is him to deliver on his promises and not just end up using a big giant button to make it all happy.
In ‘The Stolen Earth’ it promised so much and delivered in ‘Journeys End’, I was fine with that, the story felt epic too, he got it right there I felt.

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> So we?re bloody lucky and should quit moaning.

I will quit moaning when others quit moaning about how god-awful they think Series VII and VIII were. I liked ’em and it was 11 years ago.

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I have a job in typing?

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You could get in atleast 8 space core directives.

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>From everything you?ve said, I get the impression that you won?t be happy if it?s anything other than a glorified fan fiction audio drama starring Colin Baker.

Don’t get me wrong I am happy to see new Who but it is like having a scale of happiness. On the top is a new Classic Series DVD, then we have listening to a Big Finish (only listened to about 30) and then at the bottom is new series episodes. I don’t like the way the new series is –
1) Praised for special effects – They will date much quicker than the classic series.
2) Companion oriantated.
3) Ruining certain enemies – Cybermen, Autons, Daleks though not the Sontarans apart from their pre-rugby match chant nor Davros, he was mostly fantastic.
4) Re-making Big Finish – ‘Jubilee’ and ‘Spare Parts’ were much better before.
5) The Jesus pose – I hate that so much I put it on, why does the Doctor need to actually get up (‘The Stolen Earth’) to regenerate?
6) Cheating – One of them will die…
7) ‘Epicness of the epic Daleks’ or finales – I don’t like the new series finales, promise so much and never deliver, less is more I say.

Though I think saying things like that makes me come across as a real twat, think? Wrong word, it does, I will balance my argument with a few things I like from the new series –
1) Moffat – A fantastic writer has been revealed through the new series.
2) Tennant – I think him as an actor, person and Doctor are all brilliant.
3) Nods to the past – ‘The Next Doctor’ with all the Doctors, love anything like that, small but a nice nod.
4) The original theme – The first 3 series had a brilliant theme.
5) An extras 60 minutes of Who than before.
6) Spin-offs – Torchwood is weird but entertaning, nothing special but entertaining. Sarah Jane Adventures is pretty good too.

I will admit this, while typing for the series I started typing a negative comment I had’nt thought of.
To say Big Finish or the Classic Series is perfect is far from the truth *ahem* ‘Time and the Rani’ *ahem*, I just find them to be over all much better than the new series, I could sit down and listen to 3 Big Finish audios or 3 CS stories but I could not watch 6 episodes of new Who.

Oh and ‘Planet of the Dead’ will probably be bad atleast for me is because I think Tennant as the Doctor is running out of steam, every episode he gets a new catchphrase and it is getting to me, I enjoyed ‘The Next Doctor’ warts and all but the writers are starting to get lazy with the Tenth Doctor, “What can the Doctor reply here?” “Oh just shove Allons-y there”, I love his Doctor but if he says Allons-y one more time I may have to, erm, turn off in anger for ten seconds, yeh that will show him.

Despite what I say I am easily pleased, I loved ‘Just the Smegs’ for one thing. It is just as I said, I have a scale, I can be easily pleased with the likes of Family Guy which are good but not great, Big Finish and Red Dwarf hit the top of that scale though. I do tend to favour the Colin Baker audios but that is because he is my favourite Doctor and Evelyn and Peri are my two favourite companions.

I type too much.

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I payed ?40 for two seasons of TNG each and ?45 for one season of Voyager. Now they are ?13 each in a much shelf friendlier case.

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I actually don’t really care, if I cared about original versions I wouldn’t love Who DVDs so much, I would say “Eh restoration team, stop ruining my Who by giving it a clearer picture and better effects on certain releases”. I would love to have the original cut on the DVD but if it is not on there well I will just bitch under my breath for a few seconds.

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I thought it would have a 40 minute slot like the repeats.

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I think you should call the fire brigade first.

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Though he doesn’t regenerate at Easter, I am talking through the whole specials.

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>I say this as someone with working critical faculties, you?re talking out of your arse.

I’m typing out of my arse. I hope I am actually, I want the special to be good it is just I doubt it will be. Hell I will be happy as long as Tennant doesn’t regenerate in the Jesus pose.

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>I didn?t actually mean that, hence the edit. Now shut the fuck up.
Ahh, shut the up fuck.

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Shut the up fuck?

I’m not actually angry but I am sad that I will not have 28 minutes of Listy and Krytie on 10th of April, I will only have 24 minutes.

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