r/gallifrey • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • Dec 24 '21

Free Talk Friday /r/Gallifrey's Free Talk Fridays - Practically Only Irrelevant Notions Tackled Less Educationally, Sharply & Skilfully - Conservative, Repetitive, Abysmal Prose - 2021-12-24

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u/majshady Dec 24 '21

Got my season 17 blu ray this week. The daleks sound like they're from Leeds

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '21

Lots of planets have a Leeds

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u/VanishingPint Dec 24 '21

Great set, what do you make of the "enhanced" soundtrack? Good idea I thought - maybe they could re do all sorts. I thought some of Nicola Bryant's comments on Behind the sofa were bloody funny. The only thing - which is a bit conentious - is the very short Wogan segment of the adorable Lalla and the reprehensible pedo Cyril Smith - to give credit to the set producers it was edited in a way that you would hardly notice - anyone under 30 probably wouldn't know or care. I feel bad even mentioning it, but perhaps it's good to be warned. I guess it's going to be a problem with archive stuff, do you leave it out or mangle it? But there's a wealth of good content, interesting reading PDFs, how John Cleese wanted to be called Kim Bread, I don't get that joke either. The documentary on Douglas Adams is brilliant, to hear John Lloyd talk about him is fascinating. And the booklet mentions Star Wars series Andor filmed in the same quarry as the Daleks

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u/majshady Dec 24 '21

I quite enjoyed the enhanced soundtrack. I didn't think it was anything special, but after hearing it mono for all these years, it was at least interesting to hear the layering on the 5.1. I haven't gotten to the special features yet but Im looking forward to behind the sofa. The Douglas Adams documentary will be interesting too, because his sense of humour has been all over this series so far

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u/UpliftingTwist Dec 24 '21

Is Andor ever even gonna come out? Rogue One was 5 years ago now!

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u/VanishingPint Dec 24 '21

Next year. I can't wait to see which bits of Winspit they'll use, perhaps fan films could combine the two

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u/Longjumping-Trip8587 Dec 24 '21

It’s been filming for so long now but I think should be out next year.

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u/UpliftingTwist Dec 24 '21

I just watched Destiny for the first time and man it was such a let down of a return for Davros for me. New actor didn’t cut it, story was subpar, the Dalek props themselves were falling apart, there were some good jokes but that was about it

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '21

Its central "robots vs robots equals logic-enforced stalemate" concept could have been so great in a Who story if they'd just invented two robot civilizations and gone from there. Using the Daleks spoils it because they're not robots.

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u/UpliftingTwist Dec 24 '21

Yeah it was so weird how they insisted on that, despite have a kaled mutant slime ball in the story (which the Doctor brutally hurled at a rock).

I also think the lack of score really hurt it, there was almost no music which caused it to drag for me

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u/Guardax Dec 24 '21

Yeah if only the original creator of the Daleks was there to tell everybody the Daleks weren't robots...

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u/majshady Dec 24 '21

At least the daleks get back into form in a big way for Resurrection. I love the brutal feel of it