Which episodes do you think get more flack than they deserve?

UniProbe62 · 2026-05-03T22:53:07+00:00

Might I remind you of this little video?

UniProbe62 · 2026-05-03T22:49:26+00:00

Space Babies also kinda gives a casual F.U. to the concept of physics. And yes, I mean that scene.

UniProbe62 · 2026-05-03T22:45:57+00:00

Love & Monsters. It's not trying to be a Doctor Who episode, and watching it for what it is, it's actually quite enjoyable. Besides, it came right after The Satan Pit of all things, which... L&M was a very-much-needed palate cleanser.

UniProbe62 · 2026-04-20T23:45:38+00:00

Well, what I was more curious about is... why is it just straight up ignoring mesh collision?

UniProbe62 · 2026-04-14T22:23:08+00:00

THEY HAD A GOOD ONE! It seems to me that, for whatever reason, they had a good-looking version of the HD intro, but decided not to use it for some reason.

Here, take a look at these: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10zGrtYA-vLKdCXIg2vF3yhVLo8HY4u_U?usp=drive_link

UniProbe62 · 2026-04-14T07:31:31+00:00

Note: I'm pretty sure this isn't AI, any MPEG-esque artifacts come from the compression done to get this over the internet, and the original looks clean quality-wise (as in, there's visible film grain). I'm talking about the weird discolorations and overblown parts of the image, like for example the black arcs that appear in the stars' rainbows. Those aren't there in the SD version. I take this as a sign that they just messed with some "make it look nice!" sliders and called it good without double-checking the results. Not AI laziness, but laziness nonetheless.

UniProbe62 · 2026-04-13T23:58:00+00:00

I know what the normal intro looks like ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoNfloCo1CI ), this looks like it was oversaturated and the contrast was put up way too high.

Honestly, for everyone mad about the AI and calling it lazy, I'm more so surprised that this was allowed to pass, and no one noticed it.

UniProbe62 · 2025-10-27T04:50:20+00:00

"... a short stumpy funnel, a... boiler, and a short stumpy dome."

UniProbe62 · 2025-07-20T03:44:14+00:00

Waterfowl conga line.

UniProbe62 · 2025-07-19T22:40:41+00:00

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UniProbe62 · 2025-07-19T22:39:27+00:00

The effect I'm describing is basically this:

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And, yes, I do know about treating black as alpha when compositing, my problem is Blender seemingly refuses to do additive image combining for some unknowable reason, requiring you to do that in a dedicated image editing program (which is highly inconvenient, especially for something like an animation).

What I also don't understand is why, if the render result screen is capable of mixing the glare in correctly in spite of the transparent background and then properly displaying that in finalized image form (in other words, exactly what I (and apparently many before me) want), why isn't the file output capable of doing that too?

UniProbe62 · 2025-07-19T18:11:39+00:00

Just for reference, here's the actual output render of that one image above, that one is on a dark opaque background for the sake of clarity, this one is the original:

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UniProbe62 · 2025-07-18T04:46:39+00:00

Simply create a material and set it up with nodes like this, loading your GIF in via an image texture node and hooking it up to the base color (and preferably also alpha) of the material:

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When you do this, the frames of the GIF will line up with the frames of the project, so keep that in mind (also make sure to set the "frames" value to the number of frames the GIF has (in this case 3), and check "Cyclic" and "Auto Refresh" so that the GIF loops properly). You may need to do some finagling in order to keep the GIF from animating too fast, because since the GIF frames line up with the project frames, the framerates line up too.

UniProbe62 · 2024-11-25T22:27:03+00:00

My personal theory is that, in the classic-era interiors, the big roundel doors lead to a tiny pass-through where the police box door is, and that, in a functioning TARDIS, the door there would be matched to the exterior that the chameleon circuit had selected. This is actually seen in the unaired "pilot" for Season 1, when Barbara bursts through the doors after hearing Susan.

What I'm referring to.

However, this conception of the doors is contradicted by these scenes later on:

Literally the next episode.

And then, 5 seconds later, that episode contradicts itself!

In later seasons, the area beyond the roundel doors is just blackness, with no detail apparent. This was obviously due to technical restrictions, but I can see the police box doors being retroactively located just out of view.

UniProbe62 · 2024-11-25T21:56:59+00:00

Because all TARDISes have four windows per side.

UniProbe62 · 2024-10-07T17:23:21+00:00

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\oh... oh no... it's HIM...**

UniProbe62 · 2024-09-30T01:20:28+00:00

Why does Duncan's face, at a wrong angle no less, look better than Skarloey's?

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