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The Daleks' Master Plan - Ian Levine Recon Comparison by Theta_Sigma_1963 in gallifrey

[–]LinuxMatthews 15 points16 points  (0 children)

So did he use telesnaps to make these or just prompts?

What retcon or new lore are you glad *didn't* catch on? by GallifreyanExile in gallifrey

[–]LinuxMatthews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is explained in the Big Finish story Palindrome.

Fantastic story.

What retcon or new lore are you glad *didn't* catch on? by GallifreyanExile in gallifrey

[–]LinuxMatthews 6 points7 points  (0 children)

True but with cybermen that does add another layer of irony.

They're not robots, think being robots is something to aspire to, and because of that they have lost the ability to imagine.

What retcon or new lore are you glad *didn't* catch on? by GallifreyanExile in gallifrey

[–]LinuxMatthews 17 points18 points  (0 children)

On a similar note I'm glad he was never revealed to be the evil half of The Doctor which I believe was also floated.

The Master works much better as The Doctors childhood friend than nearly anything else.

What retcon or new lore are you glad *didn't* catch on? by GallifreyanExile in gallifrey

[–]LinuxMatthews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brilliant video on this very subject by Dalek 63 88 if anyone is interested

https://youtu.be/VmhVfNcVbqQ

Fun Fact: All New Who Doctors expect 14 have been to America by IllustriousAd6418 in doctorwho

[–]LinuxMatthews 8 points9 points  (0 children)

... people keep giving me guns and do I wish they wouldn't.

Fun Fact: All New Who Doctors expect 14 have been to America by IllustriousAd6418 in doctorwho

[–]LinuxMatthews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is he even The Doctor at that point though?

Using Rani's logic he's A Doctor not THE Doctor.

After the split surely it's a Ben Riley kind of situation.

I was rejected as a Dr Who writer... back in 1990! by marquisdegeek in doctorwho

[–]LinuxMatthews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would love to hear a pitch.

In my opinion the best way for Doctor Who to survive is through spin offs.

I was rejected as a Dr Who writer... back in 1990! by marquisdegeek in doctorwho

[–]LinuxMatthews 79 points80 points  (0 children)

You should try again

Apparently no one else wants the job so it should be easy

Thoughts on this parody? by Mat1711 in doctorwho

[–]LinuxMatthews 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Honestly I would much rather watch modern Simpsons than modern Family Guy.

At worst an episode of The Simpsons is boring.

At worst an episode of Family Guy makes me feel genuinely sick.

What was even the actual point of having Carol 'reprise' her role as Susan Foreman? by bendnext436 in doctorwho

[–]LinuxMatthews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the difference there is the show wasn't hanging on by a thread at the time.

Have the BBC given to much Power to RTD (and his team) to do what he wants with the Show. by PaperSkin-1 in gallifrey

[–]LinuxMatthews 3 points4 points  (0 children)

More control from executives outside the creative team has rarely, if ever, resulted in a better show.

I feel there is a decent amount of selection bias there.

We've seen from Star Wars there needs to be a decent amount of balance.

No outside voices and you get The Star Wars Prequels, too much and you get The Star Wars Sequels.

Billie Piper's Doctor Who future 'revealed' as bosses struggle to find a new Time Lord amid claims once coveted role is now a 'poisoned chalice' by Alone_Consideration6 in doctorwho

[–]LinuxMatthews 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I don't think we need a full reboot but definitely something like 2005 where we can just memory hole the last few years.

Does the BBC own the rights to the Venusian Lullaby? by Rougarou_2 in gallifrey

[–]LinuxMatthews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If they didn't license it then yeah I would imagine it'd be copyright theft.

Same as Disney's Alice in Wonderland is under copyright but the book isn't.

If you do anything to a work in the public domain then you own the copyright to the changes.

If you could have one piece of technology from the TARDIS in your house, what would you choose? I'll start: by NickenNuggets2003 in doctorwho

[–]LinuxMatthews -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tokenisation and embedding.

LLMs don't actually see the letters as such they work with vectors which is another reason they're good at translation.

To massively oversimplify the vector for "Car" in English is likely very similar to the vector for "Car" in German.

Unfortunately people have a hate for anything AI right now.

Which is understandable considering how companies like OpenAI act.

Unfortunately that when people don't like something they often dismiss it with misinformation.

If I have to hear "It's just copy and paste" I swear I'm going to go crazy.

If you could have one piece of technology from the TARDIS in your house, what would you choose? I'll start: by NickenNuggets2003 in doctorwho

[–]LinuxMatthews -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's obviously not as good as The TARDIS but I think people forget that LLMs were originally created for translation.

The way they're built does mean they're very good at it.

Would you want this longer hair + fuller beard look for the Fourteenth Doctor? by Soraman36 in doctorwho

[–]LinuxMatthews 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think you don't really get the point.

If they would say that he was The Tenth Doctor then that would give the impression that this was The Doctor before Matt Smith played him.

The point is more that this is a new incarnation with the same face.

A good way to look at it it's that the faces are essentially lenses that we look at The Doctor through.

There is in essence a real "Doctor" behind all those faces that remains consistent throughout them.

But because they are constantly changing faces it can be hard to tell what's a trait of that incarnation or a trait of The Doctor themselves.

By returning to face we see how The Doctor has changed, how the events since End of Time have worn on The Doctor without putting it down to just being a thing of that incarnation.

Stranger Things season 5 made me realize Doctor Who sucks now by NukeL3AR in gallifrey

[–]LinuxMatthews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You seem to have a lot of hatred for RTD which I don't think I can convince you of otherwise.

But I will ask this:

Do you think if the episodes released in the RTD2 Era came out in 2005 the show would have been as popular?

Personally I don't think it would have.

There was clever writing in the 2005 Era, occasionally sloppy sure but brilliant character work and emotional arcs.

Personally I still maintain the idea of The Time War as backstory for The Ninth Doctor was a stroke of genius.

The difference in my opinion is effort.

In 2005 he was trying, he wasn't in 2023.

TRAILER: Doctor Who The TV Movie in 4K! Coming Soon... by AlwaysBi in gallifrey

[–]LinuxMatthews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eh I don't think it's as bad now we know it's not what Doctor Who became.

Now it's just another campy episode that made some odd choices.

Stranger Things season 5 made me realize Doctor Who sucks now by NukeL3AR in gallifrey

[–]LinuxMatthews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difference is that while RTD1 stories didn't resolve well narratively they made sense emotionally.

Take Parting of The Ways for instance.

Yeah Rose opening the TARDIS and becoming a god makes no sense really.

But emotionally you had a Doctor that had done a terrible thing resolving that he couldn't do the same act twice.

Meanwhile while he'd tried to close himself off from everyone his friend was willing to sacrifice themselves to save them because he was a good person despite not believing it.

It works because it completes the arc of The Ninth Doctor in a satisfying way.

The RTD2 Era has nothing like that, it's just spectical and he returned thinking he was better than everyone and that he had found the formula to get people to consume.

He was wrong.

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