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I liked this one! As I said last week, the pacing still feels excellent - once again, it let them delve a little deeper into the emotions of the week's cast than we might have otherwise.

I am also super in favour of All Northern, All The Time Doctor Who. As we know, Lots Of Planets Have A North, so why shouldn't every alien have a northern accent of some description?

Like with the Sontaran bait-and-switch last week, this episode also contained shadows of previous stories. A toxic planet filled with murderbots resonates with Skaro, and this is hardly the first time there's been a literal space race on the show. (Also, if the subtitles were right the Doctor is a Grand Master Pacifist at Venusian Aikido, which is a glorious title.)

We're not sure what we think of the new TARDIS design. I've dubbed it Crystal Industrial, and am generally in favour (the console looks suitably clunky, and it give me high hopes for Mad Science Doctoring), but agree with Kaitlyn that it was way too dark. Even after they turned the lights on, I couldn't see anything beyond the pillars, which is fine if you've only got one companion, but is going to strain things a little with three.

I am totally in favour, however, of the Doctor whispering to Sexy her TARDIS and it opening the door for her. Amazing.

Final note, still from the TARDIS scene: when the Doctor was telling the trio about it, her expression was a perfect 'I really hope you like it'. Normally we get that expressed through dialogue, so having it so clearly written on her face was a good thing to see.

hS

See, this is why my user name is Cringe-Factoryy.😐

... yeah, probably.
I think talking about WBWL fics just gave me the illusion of being productive (lol), because the only other thing I’ve done is scroll around the legendary badfic page and read part of My Immortal (also listened part of the dramatic reading, but I clicked out of it).

Also, I’m kinda curious as to which section the agents who PPCed the WBWL fic were in, since I’m planning on PPCing one for my first mission.

doesn't mean we don't know.

Trust me, I've dived into more WBWL fics than I can remember. And, if you dive deep enough you'll find there are the occasional ones that aren't too bad so don't tar them all with the same brush. You're also forgetting the 'fics that have Neville as the fake Boy-Who-Lived, of which some of those are quite interesting too, both in a good or bad way.

So, I'm not *quite* sure why you felt like you needed to exclaim this, rather over-used fanfic cliche to us, I'm fairly certain Ix has missioned a WBWL 'fic before. But thank you for your... efforts to keep us notified of such things, perhaps tone it down in the future. I'm not saying such spontaneity is bad, I'm just saying perhaps think before you post sometimes.

Novastorme

I just checked AO3 and there are seventeen works in the tag, not 179. But yes, they are awful. All of them. Once I get Permission I might mission one of them.

I'm going to preface this with a disclaimer: I've never played D&D. But I think I can still recognize an awful movie when I see one. And spoilers, I guess?

Alright, so there are three of them: Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God, and Dungeons and Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness. Dungeons and Dragons, amusingly enough, was produced by New Line Cinema and released only one year before The Fellowship of the Ring, one of the best movies and movie adaptations I've ever seen. I guess they were saving all the good stuff for that. So it follows the adventures of Ridley, your typical white boy fantasy hero except worse, Snails, your typical black fantasy sidekick except worse (this character was handled in a pretty racist way), your typical fantasy female love interest whose name I can't remember (but she was an idiot), and a bunch of other people who were super unremarkable so I don't even remember them. I think Halle Berry might have been there? Don't quote me on that, though.

I could go on at length about what makes this movie bad in all the most hilarious ways, but I'll just link you to the Nostalgia Critic review of it. I think he hits most of the main points. The only one I think he doesn't hit is that Ridley and the love interest do the do inside a map. Yup, you read that right. They go inside a map, and then they do the do, and then it's never spoken of again. The whole thing is pretty funny. I'd highly recommend it.

The second movie is kind of boring, honestly. It was made for TV and managed to be good enough that I found myself feeling the most apathetic stirrings of an emotion that just might have been interest in seeing the heroes succeed. The special effects are pretty terrible, though. If you're looking for hilariously bad this might not be the one for you because if nothing else you can tell they were trying. Its biggest failing is that they kept on trying to link it back to the first one.

So the third film completely ignored the existence of the first two. Good move, right? Jury's still out. See, the third film was by far the worst of the three. It starts with an opening narration that goes on for long enough that you start to wonder if the whole movie is going to be like this and it isn't some kind of poorly illustrated audiobook. It isn't, (un)fortunately. Eventually it ends and the characters show up on the screen. What then follows is roughly an hour and fifteen minutes of absolutely nothing being explained ever. It's trying to deal with issues of grey morality but instead of doing that it just kind of never addresses morality at all until something depends on someone's morality, and then it aligns them either good or evil as needed to move the shambling wight that passes for a plot along. Phrases like "purest knight" are thrown about liberally, and the writing is so lazy that the macguffin actually morphs into a different object about two thirds of the way through.

And then the rest of it is torture porn.

It's not horribly graphic torture or anything. It's like weird agony ray stuff. Personally I'm less uncomfortable with the torture itself than I am with the... ah... evident interest in the torture that the movie has. If you do want to skip that part it should be easy. You'll know where it starts. Just stop watching the movie at that point because I wasn't even joking when I said the rest of it is torture porn. There is literally less than two minutes of movie left after the torture stops.

But for all that it's a glorious train wreck if you like pain. My biggest impression is that it's like they stuck the end and beginning of one movie onto the middle of a different one with Elmer's glue and then released it before it had finished drying.

I just started seeking the Name.

Wish me luck.

Okay so I think I may be the only one here who knows about WBWL fics and that... needs to be fixed.

So WBWL stands for Wrong-Boy-Who-Lived. These stories are... canon!Sues. They usually have Morally Ambiguous/Grey or Dark Harry, Hermione Bashing, Weasley Bashing, Potters Bashing, & Dumbledore Bashing.

So basically, Harry has a twin and that twin is mistaken for the BWL. And his parents are usually alive.

In terms of ‘Sue tropes, these are probably unique because the oc, Harry’s Twin, is not the Mary Sue. The oc, in fact, is usually arrogant, brash, loud, and obnoxious. Also, Harry usually beats him EASILY despite the fact the the oc has been apparently training his entire life (the grammar is also really good... so there’s also that, at least).

Oh, and Harry’s abuse at the hands of the Dursleys’ is often exaggerated or added to unnecessarily, he is usually some sort of prodigy, and at least half have Good!Slytherins. I wouldn’t even be surprised if someone made him have wandless magic.

Also, if Harry’s not sent to the Dursleys, then James and Lily abuse/neglect him. For ABSOLUTELY NO REASON.

Also, there are currently 179 works in it’s ao3 tag. 179 works. And that’s not even counting the ones on FFN-

Why did I add (nm)?

Whoops

I’m in the HP Fandom, but I also tend to partially read/watch things and forget about them so technically I know a lot of fandoms, like the first 3 or so seasons of RWBY, etc, and later I’ll be able to remember with more than a little help from wiki.

I tend to over plan as well. In fact, I’ve already claimed a badfic even though I’m still procrastinating-er, editing my permission attempt.

Well, I just got back from a weekend at Universal Studios in Orlando, and it's definitely given me a fun idea!

So... imagine that somehow, we have the rights and the resources to build a theme park themed around the PPC universe. What would we put in it, in terms of rides, shops and dining, shows, other attractions, and events?

Currently, I have a ride idea that I've grown rather fond of. It would function rather similar to the Universal ride "Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey", with the riders being moved about on seats attached to the ends of hiddden robotic arms and with much of the needed graphics being a projection that creates the illusion of motion. "Plot" wise, it's based on my recent plan for a self-insert agent in the DoSAT, who mainly prototypes new PPC devices and some personal passion projects, with the premise of the ride being that you have volunteered to test a flying machine she has created. I'm currently working out the plot from there. Also like the Harry Potter ride it's inspired by, some degree of exposition is given by projections of characters while the riders wait in line.

Alright, that's my idea, now what flights of fancy do you guys have to offer?

-Twistey

Hi Cringe-Factoryy! My name is Twistey, and I'm a Boarder of one year. I have a lot of ideas that I tend to overplan. I guess that's all I can say about myself right now.

So, I know this has been asked before, but what about you? How did you get here? Why did you decide to join? What are your fandoms? Et cetera. I'd really like to know more about you.

And as for your newbie gift, my present to you is an early access ticket to the grand virtual opening of the theme park in the thread I'm about to start. Stay tuned to watch it develop.

Well, I hope you have a wonderful time here! Welcome aBoard!

-Twistey

Hehe, I was into Ghostbusters for a while (the original, though the reboot wasn't yet a thing when I started), and my favorite character was Gozer, because up until recently I've always gravitated towards the villain of any medium. This thread brought back a couple memories of that.

-Twistey

Now I want to see that. Especially since you said they were bad. I absolutely love poorly made/cheesy things. Can you give me the rundown on what all you found notable about them?

-Twistey

(And the mascot costume has a derpy face, which makes it even better.)

-Twistey

Inarguably, all of Christie's heroes make extensive use of their brains. Arguably, ze little grey cells are also the prime antagonist: specifically, when they're /not/ doing their job and putting the pieces together.

hS

Have a cupcake!

First, on introductions to 40k:
The Gaunt's Ghosts First and Only the first (but not only) 40k novel I read, though I was introduced to the wargame first, and I would recommend it (the novel) highly.

Second, on Gilgamesh:
I just want to say that I really enjoy a lot of ancient mythology, especially when its strange, and the heroes die.

Care to share anything else? You're welcome here either way but I think we'd like to get to know you more,
Oh! Have a geniune WWII-vintage M-22 "Locust" light tank, complete with ammunition and fuel! Now you just need someone to br a driver and a loader!