Jamie Jones

30. He/Him. Fan of fiction. Movies. TV. Books. Games. Star Wars. Doctor Who. Left-leaning. Support LGBTQ folk, everyone deserves happiness. Black Lives Matter.

[Jamie Jones @JamieJones723]

@DLCDonut And Series 12 decided to redo the tired "Gallifrey is gone" arc while diving deep into lore like the Morbius Doctors and a reworked version of the Cartmel Masterplan. That's where the show went off the rails and neither Chibnall nor RTD were able to recover from it.

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@DLCDonut Series 11 was exactly what the show needed at the time - the Doctor going on small-scale adventures with a bunch of friends after figuring herself out in her previous incarnation. New monsters, new companions, no deep lore knowledge necessary... but then the scripts were awful.

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@Readingforknow1 @CobaltGreen1138 @Claagu163 For sure, he's awesome at what he does. And it sucks that he appears to be taking the fall for The Book of Boba Fett, when his acting was absolutely never a problem.

But none of that Bis onaker. It's either Disney or Lucasfilm.

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@Readingforknow1 @CobaltGreen1138 @Claagu163 Even before Baker had been cast, they didn't use solely Morrison to voice the clones if they needed to have them be more individualistic. Republic Commando only had Morrison as Boss, with three other voice actors portraying the other members of Delta Squad.

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@Readingforknow1 @CobaltGreen1138 @Claagu163 Ideally, both would be kept on to voice clones, depending on what each particular project is going for. Hard for me to say if Morrison would be better for Trick, in Zero Company, for example, without knowing what story he's going to have. It certainly could be the case though.

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@Readingforknow1 @CobaltGreen1138 @Claagu163 I've always felt they have different strengths. With Morrison's performance, I can really buy that these guys have been trained up as soldiers from birth. Baker does a better job at making them feel like individuals, which was important for what The Clone Wars/Bad Batch are doing

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@JakeStaFrm Yeah, that's the method I'd prefer also. I don't want to see a story retconning it - that would make miserable TV.

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@90shal @LuunieTuunie We see Bombardier (presumably horrifying reasons for the nickname) in Mandalorian living a pretty great life. If you count that as a kids show as well, then all the visual media sans Andor fall into that bucket.

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@90shal @LuunieTuunie ...you're now considered a "good guy" and all sins are immediately forgiven, aside from some snarky remarks by fellow protagonists.

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@90shal @LuunieTuunie This is true, but Lost Stars was very early into the new canon. They hadn't fully established a lot of the New Republic-Empire continuity yet.

I also feel like the extended media take characters' crimes a lot more seriously than the films and shows, where post-redemption...

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@LuunieTuunie It'd be interesting how that alternate scenario would affect Luke and the public perception of the Jedi. I think Luke would accept the New Republic giving him the death penalty, but would he show up to honour his redemption? That would probably be very bad PR for the NJO.

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@smokewed42 @Kerrcarr01 It's not great that two of our trilogy's female protagonists are super into genocidaires. I do find it a little hard to take Rey seriously as a hero when she doesn't really seem to take Kylo's crimes seriously at all.

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@C_J_PhD @benwhois @ProtagonistIvy I honestly wonder if they should even bother in that scenario. You need a meaty episode count to properly explore who the new Doctor and companion(s) are. It's just going to feel like people are coming and going constantly with that short a number of stories.

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@TheDimmeh The fact he both regenerates from and into a nostalgia return stunt casting will always signal that the show was flailing around in the 2020's.

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@_TheSmartAlec1 The Timeless Children, bringing back Tennant as Fourteen, bi-generation and The Reality War all built up to this. The show could take one of them, but not all four.

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@maggieofthetown The thing is - is it sci-fi collapsing, or television in general?

Without the structure and financial incentives of fall and spring seasons on cable, it just seems like every year it's becoming harder for any drama-adjacent show to get made.

[Gay Exci @JayExci]

Classic Who's final story is about the show's long term villain stripped of his power, trying to survive no matter the cost. The Doctor sees the same thing building within him too and refuses to give in to it. Better to end now than to become slave to such a base urge.

[Quinton Reviews @Q_Review]

The strangest part of this is "Oh, you think Doctor Who isn't coming back? Well, go sit down and wait to be proven right. You'll be waiting a long time."

Yeah, I imagine I will?