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Heads up, the NWA now has a roster page, I'm currently cutting them for the BUMP pack, posting if anyone else wants to have a go, I suggest to open the images in a new tab and remove everything at the end of the URL after jpeg to get the high quality image.
https://www.nationalwrestlingalliance.com/roster-main

It seems to be a way for RTD to try and fix the issues of the past where the show has tried to answer the past of the Doctor, this is from the Doctor Who: Video Commentaries on iPlayer.

It's also a mostly missing story so it would be easy, the only people who'd know would be the hardcore audience who would understand.

Of the things in The Celestial Toymaker I'd argue that the costume is the least of their worries, and I'm curious how the animation is going to tackle the use of "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" in episode two, which uses an older outdated version of the rhyme which includes the N word, they could get away with it in the audio version by having the narrator speak over it, but you don't need a narrator for an animation.

Also fun fact, the man who religiously recorded off air audio and who we can thank for most of the surviving audio wiped his recording of Celestial Toymaker because he felt it was boring.

Exactly, and it's all due to that exact word "celestial", it originates referring to things in the heavens such as the sun and the moon, and because they would rise from the east to a western perspective, it got connected to the east and to Asia, so when the original costume designer saw "Celestial Toymaker" they lent into that with the asian costume.

It's all due to a bad decision of a costume designer, which in the show is an impressive look, but looking at it with a progressive current year view screams racism, and it can't be glossed over because it has zero effect on the character, it has to be pointed out and emphasised because if they don't the same idiots who would outrage over it being racist would then outrage that they are not addressing it.

It does seem ironic that when one group of people are outraged about concepts in Doctor Who they are shunned and called trolls and their opinions are not valid, yet when another group are outraged they bend over backwards to accommodate their criticisms.

I miss the old, alien hopping across the universe encountering an evil alien of the week.

RTD has done it again, watching Unleashed he points out the Toymaker's old costume being outdated and to correct that, so rather than just pass over it since it was just a bad costume choice at the time, he makes the point to specifically imply that the Toymaker, who was never written as being racist before as being an actual racist.

I'd consider it the better of the three specials, the bigeneration thing seems a bit naff but I got a feeling this may open up options for the extended universe plans that RTD has been open with.

And as usual the trailer for the Crimbo special, seems a little bit meh.

It's a step up from Web of Fear (see spoiler), but still not great, 3D animation can be a little uncanny valley, especally as they have been knocking them out the park with the last set of 2D animations.

What was wrong with the 2D animations?

How good are you are getting over plot points if it needs to be explained it in your behind the scenes show.

1 hour ago, Bobfoc said:

I suppose the female protagonist is still somewhat significant because the playable characters in the first game were just palette swaps. It's still something to point out to those who decry so-called wokeness, though.

I think the key question would be if it is solely a female playable character, or is it the full Bonnie and Clyde rumored set up with a similar character change like in V.

1 hour ago, Bobfoc said:

I also think there are a fair number of people who see GTA 3 as the unofficial "first" game in the series. It was the first 3D one and the point at which the franchise became massive. It's quite telling that virtually nobody asks for a new GTA in the style of the original three (if we're counting GTA London as a separate game) games, whereas you'll see that a lot with series like Resident Evil and Final Fantasy.

They did do a game in that style and improved upon it, but I guess not many were fans of Chinatown Wars on the DS, which is a shame because it added a great drug dealing mechanic.

More interestingly that style was better suited to handheld consoles, with GTA 1 and 2 getting ports to the GBC, and a GTA 3 companion title for the GBA, all in the top down style, I guess with the end of those kind of consoles and being able to port the 3D titles to mobiles there isn't a call for the style anymore.

The key for the radio is that they got you INTO the world, and with Vice City and San Andreas being in the 80's and 90's it just helped solidify that era. The HD universe (4 & 5) were set in the time they were released and it was just meh, I'd just pick the genre I liked and stuck with that.

On another note, it was funny seeing the "first female protaganist in GTA" articles pop up, only to get shut down when it got pointed out that the first GTA let you pick a character from 4 male and 4 female options.

That's why the 2025 timeframe is more logical, gives them a bit or open room to get the delays that are not delays.

The first GTA V trailer dropped in 2011, the game dropped in 2013, the 2025 timeframe seems probable.

Trailer got leaked, so they dropped it early

4 hours ago, Kyle said:

I recently was recommended Let's Game It Out, and honestly, as someone who really enjoys seeing simulator games used as the tools for ridiculousness they are, it's a treat.

 

I'd highly recommend his Satisfactory series.

The Fallout TV trailer just dropped

3 hours ago, DFF said:

The original serial was heavily bloated, so some trimming was definitely warranted tbh. 

There is a difference between a sympathetic edit to reduce time and the butchery that they did, there are more jump cuts than Kevin Dunn, a key example is the anti-radiation drugs sequence, when they are in the dalek cell and realise they were given the drugs it cuts back twice to show two scenes that aired minutes before to emphasis the drugs, it was totally unnecessary especially when you've cut back the footage so this happened 10-15 minutes before, how stupid did they think the audience was that they can't remember incidents 10-15 minutes prior, and that was before the conctant background music, there was never a point when it stopped, it seemed like due to their butchery of the episode they needed to make the music sync so they just covered everything in new music to the point that it distracts from the diolog.

Well they collect and reprint the comics from the magazines, but that's because they print the magazines. The comics in the magazines do follow the current Doctor for the time, so Liberation of the Daleks started the issue after the 13/14 regeneration and is intended as a bridging story between the regeneration and the start of the specials.

If you're looking into Titan, you might want to look out for Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Facing Fate Volume 2: Vortex Butterflies and Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Facing Fate Volume 3: The Good Companion they have a crossover with the 12th Doctor. There is also Lost Dimension Volume 1 and Volume 2 that is pretty much a 9/10/11/12 crossover story. And the there is their big 50th anniversary story Prisoners of Time, that has all the Doctors.

37 minutes ago, Colly said:

Complete aside, is anyone familiar with the comics? I bought my soon to be 8 year old a crossover 13th/10th Doctor TPB for Xmas which I've now read and deemed perfectly fine despite their 12+ recommendation so I'm probably going to get a few more, but just in case anyone had any thoughts. Probably just going to go for a few of the other crossovers and a some Tennant ones.

I'm only slightly familiar with the DWM comics and I don't think they get too bad, I think the darkest it got would be Ground Zero where they killed Ace, but I'm pretty sure pre-teens was target audience, if they are into daleks I think the latest strip is coming out in a collection Liberation of the Daleks with the 14th, and there is two collections with all the classic dalek strips, and I think there is a cyberman one out or coming out.

2 minutes ago, GhostMachine said:

I own one of the IDW TPBs, but its reprints of Fourth Doctor stories from the 70's. Including the Star Beast one. I'd say that would be fine for an 8 year old, except possibly for one story where the Doctor becomes a werewolf. If you ever want to introduce the kid to Classic Era DW, that would be a good choice. (I got mine at a used bookstore. Was pretty much in new, pristine condition but cost a LOT less than I'd have paid in a bookstore or comics shop.)

Is that the colour version? I think that's a big thing of note between the IDW and Panini versions of classic Doctor Who comics, IDW colourised their releases, Panini reprints them as they were originally in black and white, the IDW ones would be more common in the States and Panini over here in the UK.

Will say it was an improvement on the Chibnall era.

EDIT

A behind the scenes video dropped on the YouTubes

2 hours ago, Colly said:

Don't know if anyone watched (I didn't until Mark Gatiss flagged it), but they changed the end of An Adventure in Space and Time on BBC4 last night to replace Matt Smith with Ncuti Gatwa which was a nice little touch. Nothing more to say other than he's a disturbingly handsome man and I'm immensely looking forward to him starting.

That's not all they changes, they also removed a lot about An Unearthly Child from it, due to the current issues around it, I feel they are trying to retcon it out of existence.

Also that scenes was intentionally shot with the intention to input the current doctor into it if it ever got reaired. Still doesn't help the Star Wars 1997 vibes I'm getting from the Whoniverse era.

Watched through The Daleks in colour and...

The colour is great, but the rest, they've cut 100 minutes from the original, which puts it a little behind the film version, which loses some points, but the worse thing is the addition of the incidental music to make it like NuWho, but it's so over bearing and forced that it's extremly distracting and over shadows scenes.