There’s another shelf I can’t really make out.
There’s a poster on another wall, but looking closely, I think that poster is a 15th Doctor one.
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I’m scared to ask why @Koquillion reacted to this with a ‘
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Am I really the only person who didn’t think the animation was that good? Sure, it was smooth and integrated well, but as someone who grew up on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and classic cartoons, I know what hand-drawn animation is supposed to look like, and Mr. Ring-a-Ding is so obviously done with CGI that it completely takes me out of the story. It just doesn’t look right. And don’t even get me started on Belinda and the Doctor getting animated!
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But Mr Ring-a-Ding wasn’t CGI? It showed in Unleashed how they hand-drew every frame.
(But I agree the Belinda and Doctor animation wasn’t great)
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Really? Well, my point still stands. I don’t think it looks right.
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I thought it was incredibly done tbh, even moreso knowing it was hand drawn.
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I think it’s because they were fake. They were two-dimensional versions of fans. The scarf, the mugs and the fact they all love Blink. Clues that they weren’t real and also playing on, as I say further up thread, an episode most of the casual audience would also remember the name of. Whilst it would have been ■■■■■■■ hilarious if one of them had said Delta or Underworld or Heaven Sent it wouldn’t have meant anything to the casuals. Blink does and the repetition of it then leads into Belinda’s genius ‘epic’ line.
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Couple of other thoughts I forgot to post earlier.
The bit where the Doctor and Belinda were coming towards the screen to climb out was so well done it actually felt like they were going to appear in our living room. My daughter really loved that bit.
I loved how Pye’s wife started in black and white and then became colour as they turned in each other’s embrace - it was beautifully subtle and gave that scene an extra element of romance.
Also, my mum didn’t understand what had happened to Lux at the end so it maybe needed a bit more clarity.
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Wow, it was a multi-generational Doctor Who watch at Delta’s house 
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I’ve seen lots of people say they didn’t understand what happened to Lux but I thought it was pretty well signposted early on and then explained as it happened in the episode!
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My mum watched it at home and asked me about it at church this morning. She’s always been a bit of a fan. My dad on the other hand isn’t fussed by it. He didn’t even come round the exhibition in Wales with us like my Mum did. He went off to look at boats or something boring.
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Well, I really really loved it, though I marked it down to a 7 out of 10, 'cause it gave away the ending in the middle, and the villain’s motivation changed.
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Finally watched it just now (well a bit ago now it took a while to read through this very long thread) and I really enjoyed it! A couple minor issues to me but nothing I couldn’t overlook while watching, so I don’t count those. Most importantly, it had me hooked the entire time I was watching. It was scary in parts, emotional in others, the animation and mixture of reality and meta stuff was really cool and weird, I wasn’t bored for a second. And if a Doctor Who episode can do that, then it’s succeeded in my mind
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It’s a shame, but this is a consequence of making it available at 8am on iPlayer before the BBC1 broadcast. Putting it on iPlayer first has been a failed experiment. They need to go back to it being aired on BBC1 and on iPlayer at the same time.
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I really don’t know how many extra people they would have gained by forcing them to wait until 7pm or whatever time it was.
Direct-to-streaming isn’t an experiment, at this point its the default and the BBC were the only ones not doing this.
The overnights don’t mean anything. They aren’t going to make any decisions based on it. It was still the fourth-watched programme of the day, behind things watched by old people (The News, Casualty, a game show…).
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True. I just miss when the BBC1 broadcast used to feel more like a communal event, whereas now the BBC1 transmission has just become meaningless because it has already been available from 8am on iPlayer anyway.
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Overnight TV numbers are such a weird metric, and I don’t get why people care about them so much. Not only are people watching less TV than usual, but overnight is such a baffling timeframe to use for Doctor Who.
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Honestly, that Finetime slug poster is great, too, so I’m surprised it isn’t around.
K9 in yellow on a red circle seems very familiar for some reason…
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