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Closed Film and TV threads

A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.

Marvel superheroes are discussed over at the MCU thread.

Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.

Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.

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billytea - Oct 18, 2015 4:08:57 pm PDT #28511 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Doctor Who: that was my favourite ep of the season so far. The story was well paced and structured, the means of defeating the bad guys was really quite inventive (though I'm lost as to how electric eels - which aren't eels anyway - wound up in a Viking village) and the character work by the three main actors was superb. (On the Doctor's plan, someone noted that it involved showing the aliens dodgy CGI over a dubious puppet, thus defeating them by showing them both classic and new Doctor Who at the same time.)

Some random thoughts:

  • Yakety Sax!

  • I loved the Doctor speaking Baby again. In Closing Time it was pretty funny; this one was remarkably haunting, and still true to baby.

  • I never get tired of Clara facing down aliens.

  • "Okay. You mash up Vikings to make warrior juice. Nice." Very Children of Earth.

  • Bit of trivia: the director was previously the lead singer of the Vapours, of "Turning Japanese" fame.

  • The Doctor talking about losing companions. Where Tennant and Smith would go all angsty (Tennant would probably find a rainstorm somewhere to stand in), Capaldi just sounds so exhausted by it all.

  • "Reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. Bet that means something, it sounds great." Electric eels, incidentally, generate their electric charge by reversing the polarity of its abdominal organs.

  • Finally, great work by Maisie Williams on the last shot.

beekaytee - Oct 18, 2015 4:25:17 pm PDT #28512 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

Tennant would probably find a rainstorm somewhere to stand in

Snerk.

::remembers undying 10loyalty::

HEY NOW!

billytea - Oct 18, 2015 4:42:48 pm PDT #28513 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I'm a big fan of 10nant, but lord the man could angst.

Scrappy - Oct 20, 2015 12:34:56 pm PDT #28514 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

>but lord the man could angst.

Angsty Tennant. {Stares yearningly off into space.}

Oh, were you saying something?

Tom Scola - Oct 20, 2015 3:47:43 pm PDT #28515 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Holy fucking shit Jesse L. Martin.

Steph L. - Oct 20, 2015 3:51:06 pm PDT #28516 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Holy fucking shit Jesse L. Martin.

YES.

Wentworth Miller is no slouch, either.

quester - Oct 20, 2015 3:54:05 pm PDT #28517 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I just lost my signal! It was fine and then it just went away! Wah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dcp - Oct 20, 2015 5:49:54 pm PDT #28518 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

There was an amusing Veronica Mars reference in iZombie tonight.

Steph L. - Oct 20, 2015 6:06:12 pm PDT #28519 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

1. Is Captain Cold going to do a PRISON BREAK???? (What? We all thought it.)

2. I...think I ship Captain Cold and Barry now. What would that be named? ColdFlash?

Vortex - Oct 20, 2015 6:32:51 pm PDT #28520 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

A quick check of AO3 says you are correct.

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