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Open caption contest

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Open caption contest

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Really love how Hundred Line establishes, in multiple routes, that the music is diegetic. Or at least, the battle and free time tracks. Like I think they’re probably all meant to just be silly meta jokes but the thing is, you do that one too many times and it’s just canon

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There is a very good play (KENREX) about this case that came out last year - I saw it during its run in Sheffield and it was absolutely gripping. It was a one man show (unimaginably impressive) starring Jack Holden and it has stuck with me for months One review I saw called it ‘Under Milk Wood meets true crime podcast’ and that was shockingly accurate. Highly recommend if a future production ever gets done in your area.

Also it had musical elements! And the music is all online!

news reporting on murders is always like ‘the victim was described by the people who knew them as polite and funny’ like yeah i fucking bet they did what else are they gonna say. breaking news local man stabbed 1000 times to death, grieving friends and family described the deceased to reporters as ‘a bit of a cunt’, ‘mean and bad’ and ‘just generally kind of annoying, you know?’

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Fifteen years ago, every nerdy British girl I knew was in love with a man on the telly because he had floppy hair, and got dressed up in eyeliner and tight trousers and flimsy shirts, and rubbed a pistol down his chest, and was frequently half-naked.

Today, every nerdy British woman I know is in love with a man on the telly because he was sad and pathetic and constantly on the verge of a breakdown on a game show.

The past is a foreign country. People never change.

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I’ve been watching Miracle Day for the first time and last night I dreamt that it ends with the reveal that the whole thing was an elaborate plan by the Vlinx’s species to obtain and horde all of Earth’s Nutella for themselves. So whatever happens in these last two episodes I haven’t seen, I feel I will be disappointed

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So many very, very good reasons that they would never, ever do this but I’d still rather like to see a Doctor Who episode that’s played exactly like when they visit Pompeii or World War 2 or the Mars base or whatever, and the companion wants to change things but the Doctor explains it’s a fixed point, and they have a localised adventure trying to save this one village, and we reflect on the tragedy of the role of the Time Lord and etc etc all the standard that kind of episode stuff - but the setting is Children of Earth.

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I think I did a disservice when I posted this without specifying that the fan fiction comment was posted under a sketch in which Mat Baynton’s character makes a woman piss in a glass and then drinks it in front of her

Presenting: Some Old Comments on Even Older YouTube Uploads of Horrible Histories Sketches

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Mathew Baynton once again being incredibly relatable on Taskmaster (massive tryhard who appears to find receiving any actual positive attention utterly excruciating)

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So when the Master turned everyone on Earth into himself, there would have been some women who were in labour at that moment, right? Which suggests that across the Earth, several thousand Masters suddenly found themselves in the process of physically giving birth to themselves

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The back third of Room of Swords is such an interesting variation on the Eight Deadly Words - I Don’t Understand What Is Happening To These People And I Have Given Up Trying To But I Will Keep Scrolling Through Incomprehensible Plot Swerve After Confusing Exposition Dump In Chase Of Those Little Character Moments That Remind Me That I Do, In Fact, Still Care What Happens To These People

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I really enjoy that this thumbnail makes it look like the Supreme Dalek is the protagonist and Donna and Ten are his sidekicks

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I totally commend TV Tropes for its efforts to avoid spoiling things for people casually exploring their Doctor Who character sheets, I really do, but god does this make it seem like Dot and Bubble must be about the Doctor and co. meeting Gallifrey’s Actual Worst Time Lord

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So Eito’s just going to be one of those characters it’s impossible to go in unspoiled about isn’t he

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Really loved this week’s Doctor Who, very different for the show, which I think is great! Best thing about DW is that it’s a true sandbox of a programme, and I’ve long thought the show runners have never taken full advantage of that. With 73 Yards being very Celtic, specifically Welsh, and this one obviously being heavily inspired by African folklore, I hope that ‘cultural mythology/history story’ is going to be a new at very least once-a-series thing now. If they’re as good as these two, I would personally love to see them try something with East Asian or Indigenous North American stories

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Once again we don’t hear a word about Fourteen or the Nobles this week, which to me firmly implies that part of his Mental Health Lifetime’s self care regimen is staying off social media. Good for him!

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Look, getting a Midnight sequel is cool and all, but WHEN will I get my follow up episode to 1965’s Journey Into Terror, episode four of serial sixteen, The Chase, in which the Daleks fight robot Dracula, lose, and the Doctor leaves genuinely believing that the whole thing took place in an alternate dimension created by the collective unconscious of human fears, before the camera pans over to reveal that they were actually just in a fairground haunted house in the 1990s (he never learns the truth). I NEED to see the robot Frankenstein’s monster that suplexed a Dalek make a return and I will be camping outside your house, RTD, until you make it so