@Doinkadect The Sun Makers kills me because it’s Robert Holmes complaining about paying taxes, but then it quotes Marx and the bad guy is a corporation, not a government, which I really think affects how the critique comes off, politically.
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William Leach
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William Leach
@WAustinLeach95
Just trying to get by, day to day. Canonically ace. He/Him/His
Katılım Ekim 2021
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The legendary Robert Holmes born 100 years ago today
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@KingPootPoot @FrostBiten @aPebbleInTheSky Crazy you can type all that and not be able to read. Chris Kyle wasn’t making “tough choices”, he made that clear in the book this is a film adaptation of. That’s the point of the tweet you are responding to.
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@FrostBiten @aPebbleInTheSky The whole point of the scene is 'soldiers face terrible situations and have to make tough calls'.
But twitter creatures are so braindead, so media illiterate, that the scene is reduced to 'hurrr durr why da american invade contri and shoot pepol :((( oh noes so evil'
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This scene is a pretty great showcase how this film is propaganda. Chris Kyle famously stated in his book how he never felt bad for anyone he killed. They were all lower beings who deserved death.
This film depicts Chris Kyle as not wanting to kill the child and giving him all
EJIKEME🇳🇴🇳🇬@ejykmykel1
🎬America Sniper (2014)
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@TheCyberdevil Somebody gotta post a comparison video of his AI version and the Loose Cannon version again.
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I want to know what version of The Magic Roundabout Ian has seen. 😂😂😂
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@rwmead Netflix had the same issue with Wednesday.. the tie in products only started to come out like a year after the first season released
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It’s still that big, but also it had the same issue that Star Wars did back in 1977: no one wanted to take the license when it was first offered to them before the movie was released so now everyone is playing catch-up to get the license to make up for lost time.
RaisorBlade@BladeRaisor
Not that a marketing deal with McDonald's doesn't make sense, but 9 months after the movie came out? Isn't this a little late or is KPop Demon Hunters STILL that big?
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@Tales_TimeLord The real clincher in this problem is Mawydrn Undead, which explicitly dates the Brigadier as being retired in 1976.
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I never got my head around the UNIT dating thing
So the Brigadier in the 1960's supposedly meets the Doctor '40 years after 1936', which sets him in the
late 1970's
Which means in the 70's, this puts him in the 80's?
Yet in 2005, RTD still decided to set it in 2006 😂😂
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@Tales_TimeLord That still feels more like paying off a brick joke vs introducing a novel concept that the audience should know about.
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@WAustinLeach95 Apparently the script ended with the other side where 3 and Jo went to the past
But they didn't end up filming it
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Hot take:
I always hate these overwritten "how can we be here and there at the same time" scenes
The companion knows time travel. The audience knows time travel. We are sci-fi fans. We are following it
Noone needs BASIC time travel explaining
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@glizy_goblin @NewtNights @Vixi_Artz Walt would like the idea of automated animation via AI until he actually sees what that looks like.
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@NewtNights @Vixi_Artz Eh I think he would want it as like an attraction at the parks but he would never want it in his animation. He was a purist when it came to his animations and hated when they had to do cheaper animation when the studio was losing money.
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I love this idea of Mickey wanting Disney to be better but they just ignore him despite being Mickey the fucking Mouse
Breeze💍@BleuSpheres
"Disney is still trying to implement ai after their collaborator imploded right before their very eyes"
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@radicaltart @skibidi_yuri Persona games do have an annoying amount of shit for perverts, doesn’t mean that’s what the games are about.
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@WAustinLeach95 @skibidi_yuri Do you even know what Ann's outfit is lmao have you actually played the game? This is such a cope, it's okay you like the game with teenage fanservice in it
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@radicaltart @skibidi_yuri It’s pretty easy when it’s not demonstrative of the regular P5 experience and is both optional and easily ignored.
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@skibidi_yuri Persona "fans" that actually get mad at this guy are really funny cause how are you a fan of games with this stuff and then get mad at that
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@JeffMoo62074 @eveofthedaleks It was quite literally designed to be ignored because they didn’t think anybody would bother tuning in on Christmas.
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@eveofthedaleks you kinda can and I say that as someone who likes it
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I am The Feast of Steven’s biggest hater but you can’t just ignore it
Antonio@KrynoidRoots
How would everyone feel if they didn’t include The Feast of Steven in the animation of The Daleks Master Plan and made a reconstruction for special features?
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@TARDIStime2 @acequeenkingpin The idea that Doctor Who wasn’t always gonna figure out some way around the regeneration limit when it eventually came up. Lol, okay. Technically, Doctor Who has done that twice now!
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@acequeenkingpin yeah its crazy like they want dr who to just end in 2013? 😂even before moffat sorted it out ive always hated it
so dumb a rule to follow just because one ep mentioned it once years ago doesnt mean we cant say its wrong and ignore it for the good of the shows future
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This is so true for dr who 😂
12 regenerations limit
900 years old
60 rels
Fugitive Doctor
There’s will always be 97 missing episodes
Axio 🔶@axiochrono
This is unironically the single greatest piece of writing advice I've ever seen.
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@Topinka222 @eveofthedaleks That wasn’t a popular opinion at the time. People freaked out about Capaldi’s “Am I a good man?” arc, and Series 9 saw the show drop below 7 million average viewers for the first time since the revival. History would be far less kind to the Capaldi if the show got canceled then.
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@eveofthedaleks Are you kidding, Capaldi literally had some of the greatest episodes in all of Doctor Who's history
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It’s kinda funny because HAD the show ended after Capaldi these same people would be saying it died with Smith and Capaldi had bad writing
blayn@gyroidd
almost commented something so heinous it would’ve been immediately removed
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@JustinDMillard @ehyeahwhatever Named after the Star Trek movie where letting whales go extinct made Earth vulnerable to an alien probe.
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@ehyeahwhatever Space Whale Aesop means a valid moral lesson demonstrated with implausible or fantastical consequence (aliens, monsters, magic,
etc). You are thinking of Lost Aesop (where the message is incomprehensible) or Fantastic Aesop (where the message isn’t relevant to real life).
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It's so funny that TVTropes has a trope that means "super confusing moral that's impossible to understand" and it's named "Space Whale Aesop", after the literal most straightfoward and easily understandable stock sci-fi allegory for a social issue ever.
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@ehyeahwhatever I’m not sure demonstrating you’re illiterate strengthens any point you’re trying to make about TVTropes.
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@andrastimot @Fitz_Farseer @brett02e Oh certainly, I agree with you that Trelawney being black would be a disaster for that reason. People don’t think of that because the movies correctly fixed it to where even Hermione finds Umbridge’s actions appalling even if she finds Trelawney a loon.
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@WAustinLeach95 @Fitz_Farseer @brett02e Yeah, I agree with that. But do you want to have one of the characters we're supposed to like saying that Umbridge is right and specifically that Trelawney is a diversity hire, on-screen?
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@andrastimot @Fitz_Farseer @brett02e I feel like a forgotten element from the books is the main characters lowkey agree with Umbridge sacking Trelawney, they’re really only concerned with the precedent it sets and how she could go after teachers they like (like Hagrid).
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@Fitz_Farseer @brett02e It's fine for the audience, I agree. The point where it really gets awkward is where Umbridge attempts to fire Trelawney. Umbridge would 100% call Trelawney a diversity hire, and most of the characters would low-key agree - which you want to avoid.
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@Tales_TimeLord @transtemporal87 Oh really? That’s awesome, I loved how The Wheel in Space was done.
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@transtemporal87 There is a fan animation coming this year, or soon anyhow
Same people who did Wheel in Space
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As it would have been Patrick Troughton's birthday, I'm listening to The Highlanders on the way home from work today. It's a story I know is good, but have always struggled with a bit on audio. Hopefully it'll turn up one day! #DoctorWho
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William Leach retweetledi
Time to get on my bullshit about how RTD initially wrote Doctor Who almost like a metaphor for being out of the closet. For Rose, Martha, and Donna, traveling with the Doctor is this fun more exciting way of living life. But there is a catch to just how fun this all is. 1/?
Doctor Who Production News@DoctorWhoPN
Russell T Davies at Series Mania: “In many ways, I kind of think of Doctor Who as a gay show – which it isn’t, technically, buy he’s an outsider who doesn’t fit in with the world and lives his own life and… he’s very othered.”
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@Tales_TimeLord The Master’s greatest fear is The Doctor thinking he’s a loser, wonderful things happening here. Plus THE DOCTOR’S greatest fear being a reference to Inferno.
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Watched The Mind of Evil today
Really interesting idea, to harness the dark thoughts of prison inmates and weaponise them. And to get a villain the Doctor can't defeat
Also enjoyed Chin Lee -slightly sad she's a murderer and all the men keep saying she's hot but it's the 70's
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