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Fuck y'all, I'm not getting drafted on this bullshit. Throw me in jail if you want.

Trump started this, and I'd rather get executed by an ally whit my hands behind my head than go to war for that fucking oaf.

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Nice

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For fuck's sake, put him in jail for 3+ years. He's clearly not learning his lesson. He continues to break the law.

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I had dreams as a teenager where I fell in love with women, and then I would wake up and realise they were never real to begin with. Put a damper on my week a couple of times.

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El Mexicano Texano posted...

Let's Get Dirty - Redman

My dress code is all black
When I'm makin' the moves
Similar to the new PlayStation 2

I bet he was paid to put this in his song. The PS2 was a marketing juggernaut.

https://youtu.be/F2lGJMrUUHw

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butthole666 posted...

There is likely to be a forced mass migration out of australia in the next few years. Those who cant afford or refuse to go will die like this.

If my nation can muster up a collective memory of more than a year and a half, we'll vote the fuckers out with any luck.

Australia has a lot to offer - we've just got a religious fucknut at the helm who tells shitty catchphrases at problems and hopes that his sycophantic supporters eat it up, a blatant xenophobe and hypocrite who decries all illegal immigration until his corporate buddies want him to fast track a visa for them, and a sycophant treasurer who parrots the hard Liberal talking points like saying something shitty enough times makes it justifiable.

If we cut these pricks out of Australia like the melanoma they are, and all of their similarly parasitic ilk who've been reaming this nation for profit over the last 9 years, we will be a lot better off. Folks like Rika like to slag off Labor, and they don't have a clean history either, but that's the same line of reasoning that leads to the same lamebrains voting Liberal at every election. We don't need a fucking mouthbreather like Donald Trump, we don't need a populist pig like Jair Bolsonaro. We need to give Labor a chance, give the Greens a bit of wiggle room to affect our environmental policy to prevent fires like this from happening in the future, and cull the absolute fucking farce that has been the entire 2010's of Australian politics. If you want to live in a nation ruled by a senile, drooling moron, then go to America and try not to get shot instead of pushing for Trump's special brand of lunacy to infect us. If you honestly think that shit will improve us, then fucking leave.

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shockthemonkey posted...

And climate change deniers are going to continue to exacerbate these problems. This is so tragic.

Our prime minister, at best, is a climate change downplayer. The people leading our country would rather downplay climate change as a hippy-dippy leftist cause then listen to 24 former and current fire chiefs warning them about the worst bushfires Australia has seen in decades.

Earlier this year Scott Morrison commented on student protests against climate change, saying that they should stay in school. Well, the severity of these bushfires as far back as early November - which multiple experienced fire chiefs have indicated has only been made worse by climate change - caused 600 Australian schools to close in early November. He could have done his best to address these bushfire concerns a full 7 months before they blasted out of control, and while there would have inevitably been bushfires, he could at least have said he tried. Instead, he found it fitting to slag off a bunch of high schoolers who decided to protest because their country decided to risk losing one of the 7 natural wonders of the world for another coal mine.

That's all he does. He sledges easy targets and he talks up Liberal policy, and now because his pack of morons have decided that climate change is a leftist talking point they refuse to mention it because the Liberal-Nationals think it'll make them look weak. After all, he's got to appease the boneheaded conservative dickheads who would see our national parks cut down if it created more blue-collar jobs. Talking about the environment, that's something that bleeding heart Greens do. I'm going to focus on sledging the unemployed, the elderly and climate protesters as each and every one of them asks for help in ending their individual woe, then act like I did something useful and take an unannounced holiday to Hawaii while New South Wales burns to the ground.

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Rika_Furude posted...

They are past mere endangerment. They are already functionally extinct.

I read some articles in the wake of that announcement that chalked it up to misinformation. Koala experts stated that while the koala population has been spotty at times, and that the fires have been a tragedy, it wouldn't take one single event to wipe them all out.

If you heard the "functionally extinct" headline in November, know that it was alarmist rhetoric that caught on because koalas were on the mind, and because our fires in November were well and truly awful. I fell for it too - I snapchatted it to my friends. It was embarrassing having to correct folks after I put the idea in their head.

After this latest spat of fires? It wouldn't surprise me if koalas were actually functionally extinct this time. Let me know when the call goes out next, and I'll believe you.

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Just want to bring up that this is not a new thing being rolled out with this bushfire season. Rather than have people risk their lives escaping a fire that is considered inescapable and having people burn to death in their vehicles in a last ditch effort to escape, the call goes out to let people protect themselves in any other way.


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Medussa posted...

i liked tonights waaaaay more than anything last season. Chibnall continues to have absolutely no subtlety, but at least it was only a few minutes tonight. called Oh being the bad guy. Did not call him being the Master. He seems fine, but i hate how they keep "killing" him only for him to keep popping up anyway. We deserve to see him regenerate just as much as the Doctor, dammit. We know by now that he's never going to go away for good. So stop writing stupid endings for him just so you can keep these "surprise" moments possible.

I actually don't mind Chibnall's style that much. 42 was a pretty solid episode of series 3, and while it was a sillier episode than most I honestly loved The Power of Three from series 7. The villain in that episode was hot garbage, but Chibnall really did the slice of life plot justice. It's only in series 11 that anything stood out as being particularly "bad" to me, and I think it's because he took it upon himself to write over half the episodes himself, and to avoid anything familiar which left him and the cast in a precarious situation.

I enjoy his episodes for being strange and experimental. 42 was an episode that tried to be in real-time, and Tennant's Doctor ended up in some serious danger. I think it might have been David Tennant's best performance of the Doctor in peril. The Power of Three - an Amy/Rory slice of life episode about their lives outside of the Doctor, explaining how they balance their married lives with the Doctor's infrequent visits.

If Chris Chibnall could write the beginning and ending of a season, and write just one oddball episode before leaving the rest of the episodes to other writers, I think I would love his time as showrunner. When you put him in a box, it turns out he cranks out shit like Arachnids in the UK - which is very on the nose.

I guess it's another case of Moffat syndrome. The showrunner makes some outstanding episodes of the show under another showrunner, but when they're given the reins themselves, the flaws really come out to play.

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Alright, sorry - that's my bad.

The other doctors did tinker with TARDIS stuff a lot of the time, and a lot of it did come from Matt Smith. But I feel like her personality is a lot more open, like she'll be working on something and bring the whole gang in to tell them about it. My read on her personality is that she's a lot more focused on the tech stuff, as seen when she makes her own sonic screwdriver, and rather than it be something goofy happening in the background it's something that her character engages in regularly.

She's still very bouncy, comparable to Tennant. I don't think she's as... unbearable as Smith could be at times? Like legit, I had to catch up on series 6 to 10 in 2018 because I just couldn't stand Matt Smith's take on the Doctor when I was a teenager. The Pandorica was when I first started hating Moffat's special brand of wank. He got better in series 7, but series 5 and 6 are a big "nope" from me. If you think she's a carbon copy, then I don't know if Spyfall will change your mind. Regardless, I think it's a very good episode of the show - very strong start to the season.

I reacted harshly to your post because I feel like I've seen some murky posts lately attached to the name, and because I wouldn't think that someone who was interested in the show would go and read a post containing spoilers for the latest season. Now you know the big twist - why not just watch the episode in some manner before reading this post, or before leaving a comment?

I had my reservations about the twist, and I liked the episode, so I can see someone who might be a bit critical not liking the twist? But again, it was a good episode of the show all round. You really should have seen it before reading this thread. Sorry for snapping right out of the gate, but if you want to know if the Doctor "has a personality yet" or see the twist in the context of the show, you should just watch the episode. Can you not stream it from the BBC America app or something? I streamed it from the ABC iView app here in Australia, for free.

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Delta_Force posted...

I really disliked Capaldi but the first few episodes with the new Doctor were somehow worse. I couldn't finish the season and I remember hearing some really bad things about the rest of it.

I don't know if I'll go back and finish the season or just skip to the new one hoping they do something interesting/good. I just hope I don't miss anything too important if I do choose to skip...

You won't be missing much to be honest. I recommend watching Demons of the Punjab, if nothing else - it's a really good historical episode about the Partition of India with a strong heart behind it, that a lot of the season doesn't have.

Otherwise, skip to Spyfall. You might want to catch up on the last episode of series 11 eventually, but you shouldn't have any issues going straight to Spyfall.

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She's had her own personality the whole time. She's a tinkerer - Tennant and Smith were all very techy, but when Whittaker's Doctor isn't doing anything else, she's face first in a pile of wires and tubes trying to make sense of it. She built her own sonic screwdriver in her inaugural episode, episodes like the Tsuranga Conundrum show her scabbing for parts, and she's proven herself to get lost in her work and to take a second to readjust when someone pulls her out of it.

The 13th Doctor has shown herself to be a bit of a scatterbrained engineer. She gets lost in tangents, and she always has something techy going on in her down time.

You know the Master returns, but you ask if The Doctor "has a personality of her own yet". Maybe you should watch the fucking show and find out instead of reading the plot breakdown and bitching about it.

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So, I've defended series 11 for a while. To be frank, even episodes like the Tsuranga Conundrum were pretty alright after Peter Capaldi's run - he had some good episodes, but by the last one and a half seasons the show started to feel really inconsistent and bad. It felt like the show was treading the same ground, Moffat unchecked covering his own footsteps because he had a limited amount of creative ideas. I think a lot of Moffat's creative touches are wank, but the last couple of years of his run were rough, even for him.

So I honestly did appreciate series 11. The show felt like it had come back down to earth, in a sense? Like, the Doctor's defining characteristic wasn't vaping his own bullshit. In a similar sense to the 9th Doctor meeting a bit of a chav in Rose, the Doctor found a group of people who felt normal, like they lived on Earth and didn't exist to be half-baked wanky plot devices with a shitty "poetic" name. The Tsuranga Conundrum was just a basic Monster of the Week episode - aspects of it weren't strong, like the pilot lady, but sometimes Doctor Who is about chasing critters down some hallways, y'know. I liked it better than Listen, because it was its own standard one-off and didn't tie itself into the greater mythology. Sometimes it's nice to just have silly throwaway adventures like that.

But you have episodes like Rosa, which aren't wholly terrible except for a paper cut-out of a villain whose defining characteristic is "intergalactic time travelling racist". And you have Arachnids in the UK, which was just a turd all around. They really went in with a Donald Trump analogue, then made him a Democrat who checks Donald Trump by name and says he hates everything Trump stands for. That's just trying to have your cake and eat it too. It was bad. And the worst part is that, while he's clearly selfish and misguided, he genuinely had a point in what he did at the end of the episode whereas the Doctor was wrong.

So no, series 11 wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. But I appreciated that it tried something different. I liked Tim Shaw and the Stenza, even if the last episode was a bit weak. I think the Stenza have lasting potential as Who villains. Demons of the Punjab was the best episode of the season, and I think I liked it over a great deal of Peter Capaldi's seasons. I think it might have been better to give Jodie Whittaker something familiar to work with instead of throwing her into the deep end, but after marathonning Moffat's entire run in 2018, I saw so much repetition and I saw so much of Moffat's wank seeping into the show again and again and again, over two Doctors and 7 years of the show. Doctor Who needed to try something new. Series 11 wasn't perfect, but it was a step in the right direction - just not as Chibnall's and Whittaker's first series.

Which brings us to series 12. Skyfall spoilers from this point on.

Chibnall's hallmarks are still here, in the unidentifiable aliens and the mystery of it all, and now the globe-trotting antics between people off-screen. But bringing the Master back has been a mixed bag.

There was a lot of tabloid drivel happening last year that the BBC were cross with Chris Chibnall, and that Billie Piper would be making a return which was the source of the conflict. As the episode wore on, the Doctor came across a message that implies multiple Earths. That jogged my memories of the Billie Piper rumor. So imagine my surprise when it was the Master instead!

First of all, this new actor plays an unhinged Master very well. I want to see more screen time to see how well he captures the Master. But saying that, I think I'm all Mastered out. The Master was absent from Matt Smith's run of the show, but they returned as Missy in Peter Capaldi's run - in all three seasons. The last story of Peter Capaldi's before his regeneration story was a multi-Master story with John Simm's Master alongside Michelle Gomez's Missy, and while it was good, it capped off three seasons of the Master's involvement with Doctor Who.

So I'm a little apprehensive to see them back again so soon after they effectively had a stranglehold on the show. Can they bring back the Rani, please? We haven't seen her at all yet - maybe bring her back with a dinosaur plot. I enjoyed the reveal in Spyfall, but like I said, I've watched so many Master episodes of Doctor Who in the last two years it isn't funny.

Saying that - Spyfall was a lot of fun. I liked part one a lot, that reveal at the end was good fun and the cliffhanger it ended on was excellent. My favorite part about this episode is that the media propped Stephen Fry and Lenny Henry up as these big draws to mask the reveal of the Master. That was done very well.

My favorite part of this episode was when they split into two teams. A lot of the time, Yaz gets the short end of the stick - she's stuck as a side character while Ryan and Graham have their "grandson" banter, and most of the time she exists as an audience surrogate who has to ask the Doctor for exposition. Hell, in Arachnids in the UK, she plays second fiddle to her mother! She's a main character who's brushed off in favor of her mum! But here, she gets the chance to play off of Ryan - which were some of her better moments in series 11, like Rosa - and have a role in the story that isn't like "supportive friend to the Doctor", which a lot of her roles ended up being in series 11.

That part where she gets like digitised and sent to the computer world or whatever the fuck it is? That fucked me up. The scene where she discusses it with Ryan had something to it. Yaz had something to do, and it came about because the gang split up. That's the best way to get the most mileage out of every single character. I think it's a good sign of things to come when Chibnall learns not to shaft one of his four main characters.

Another good thing - that cliffhanger. Yaz, Graham and Ryan are on a crashing plane, the Doctor's trapped in the weird green electricity world, and the Master is on the loose. When were the stakes that high in series 11? Frankly, this was the shock to the system that the show needed. Again - I've defended series 11, especially because I think Jodie Whittaker is an excellent Doctor and because the show is moving in a more grounded direction - by which I mean "the Doctor doesn't spend the whole time blowing smoke up their ass and going on 3 minute long speeches every 3 episodes every season". It's just good, clean fun, it doesn't have to reassure the audience that the Doctor is the biggest, bestest, most wonderful source of goodness in the universe all the fucking time. It just has to be a fun romp. Spyfall, so far, has been a very fun romp. Series 12 is off to a good start.

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