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Toku Who
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He/him. Fan of old school British and Japanese sci fi. Obsessed with guitar gear. A Brit that does not drink tea.
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Does the manga ever give them their 'Baywatch moment' running towards the camera with the sun at their backs? 😂
From the 40th anniversary film, OOO, Den-O, All Riders! Lets' Go Kamen Rider. Riders 1 (right) and 2 (left) running towards the camera in slight slow motion. The sun shines from behind them, slightly obscured by Rider 2's body. Their chest pads are unusually stuffed in this film.
September 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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My favourite Doctor and companion.
Two characters from the 60s TV series The Avengers. On the left is John Steed, played by Patrick Macnee. He is wearing a grey suit and bowler hat and carries a closed umbrella in his right hand. On the right is Tara Reed, played by Linda Thorson. She is wearing widely flared purple trousers, a pink top with semi-transparent sleeves, and numerous long silver necklaces. Two extremely thick chains (as might be used on ships) pass either side of them just above the ground. Tara stands wide-legged on the chains with Steed behind her. His left hand is on her waist to steady her.
August 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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In a half-asleep state my brain has linked these two characters and now I can't unsee the similarity in their head designs. 😳
#UltramanRising
#TheWarBetweenTheLandAndSea
An image of a sea devil from the trailer to the upcoming TV series The War Between The Land And The Sea. An image of the character Emi from the animated film Ultraman Rising.
June 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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May 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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I may have discovered the single best subtitle line ever. 😂
#ThunderboltFantasy
A screenshot from the fifth episode of the fourth season of Thunderbolt Fantasy. A puppet with long red hair is holding an instrument with a stylized face on it's headstock. A subtitle line is showing at the bottom of the screen which reads "What is Smokey the Magic Bastard doing down here?"
May 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Hmm, which previous Doctor left these clothes in the second control room? The dialogue implies pre-Hartnell lol.
#DoctorWho
A screen shot from the first episode of the Doctor Who serial Masque of Mandragora. The image is inside the wood-panelled second control room. In the foreground a brown leather jacket and pink shirt are posed. Behind that is the new central console. Behind that, Sarah-Jane Smith stands in the doorway.
January 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Why all the fuss over the bi-generation when this episode gave us a quintuple one?
A screenshot from the Doctor Who serial The War Games. A close up view of the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) in the centre of the image is repeated four more times to form a cross formation.
December 8, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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O flower of Scotland
When will we see
Your like again
A screenshot from the Doctor Who serial The War Games. In the foreground on the left side stands the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) facing away from the camera and waving to two other characters. In the background, in the centre stands Zoe (Wendy Padbury) and to the right of her stands Jamie (Frazer Hines). They are both waving back. Between them is the entrance to the SIDRAT machine they are about to exit through.
December 8, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Death by PowerPoint.
A screenshot from the Doctor Who serial The War Games. Just right of centre stands the Second Doctor (played by Patrick Troughton), addressing characters standing offscreen to the right. Behind him and slightly to the left is a square screen with a projected image of a dalek on it.
December 8, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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The Doctor's been there five minutes and there's already randos trying to steal his ride!
A screenshot from the Doctor Who serial The War Games. An interior view of the tardis. The main console is in the center of the screen. Two unnamed technicians appear to be working on the console. One on the left is knelt down and adjusting something on the underside of the console. Another stands on the right, leaning over the controls as they examine the readout on a dial.
December 8, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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Oh dang he's going to kill the War Lord with his mind?!
Also, earlier on we heard the voice of one of these Time Lords from inside the tardis, and whichever one it was sounded strangely similar to Sutekh (but only in that voiceover).
A screenshot from the Doctor Who serial The War Games. A close up of the face of an unnamed Time Lord (played by Trevor Martin) with his eyes wide open as he uses psychic powers on another (offscreen) character.
December 8, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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Come on guys; At least dust the props off before you film the model work.
A screenshot from the eighth episode of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. The screen is filled by a starfield. Just right of centre is a medium view of the tardis floating in space, covered in what appear to be spiderwebs.
December 8, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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I always thought we didn't get the tardis physically flying through the air until The Runaway Bride?
Huh.
I guess New Who really does just recycle ideas from Classic.
A screenshot from the eighth episode of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. An image of a clear sky. In the middle of the screen, the Tardis can be seen very far away in the distance.
December 8, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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This is stagey-y but in a way that seems quite charming to me. It seems like kind of a lost art in today's world where so much is recorded on location and cameras can get really close in to the actors' faces.
A screenshot from the eighth episode of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. On the right hand stand of the screen stands the War Lord (played by Philip Madoc) who appears to be looking either directly at, or just above, the camera. On the left side you can see a ramp behind him, rising from bottom left to top right. Halfway up the ramp stands the War Chief (Edward Brayshaw) who is shouting and gesturing towards the War Lord. At the top of the ramp stand two guards in entirely black outfits, pointing sci-fi guns at the War Chief.
December 8, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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The Doctor's Wife had me fully expecting that this would fly around the room rather than just fading out of existence.
A screenshot from the eighth episode of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. A close up of a pure white cube sat on a shiny black floor.
December 8, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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God, the sexual tension is overwhelming!
A screenshot from the eighth episode of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. Two characters are on screen. The War Chief (played by Edward Brayshaw) stands on the left, with his back to the other character, the Security Chief (played by James Bree), who is also further back from the screen. The Security Chief is talking to the War Chief while holding a device called a truth helmet in his hands.
December 8, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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VR headsets haven't changed much, have they?
A screenshot from the eighth episode of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. A closeup image of the Security Chief (portrayed by James Bree) wearing a device called a truth helmet to interrogate someone offscreen.
December 8, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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Time to finish this monster. Time for more war...games.
Jittery computer screen text taken from the movie 'War Games' which states "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"
December 8, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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The fact that the SIDRAT uses the same dematerialisation sound effect as the TARDIS - only without the latter's signature groaning - means River was right when she said the Doctor leaves the brakes one. 😆
A still image from the third episode of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. An interior of an old fashioned barn. In the foreground is a SIDRAT - a large boxy time machine which has just engaged it's engine and is fading away without physically moving. Visible through it in the background are the characters of Jamie McCrimmon (played by Frazer Hines) and Lady Jennifer Buckingham (played by Jane Sherwin), who are crouched down near the back of the barn and watching the SIDRAT disappear.
November 27, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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You can tell this is pre-Time War because when soldiers start shooting at the protagonists, this guy who is helping the Doctor starts shooting back and the Doctor doesn't launch into a big speech about how he was wrong for killing people.
A still image from the third episode of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. The character of Lieutenant Carstairs, played by David Saville, is crouched in the foreground facing away from the camera and hiding behind the side of a 1917 ambulance. He is firing a revolver at an American Civil War era soldier in the background who is firing back at him.
November 27, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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Randomly hearing one character's inner thoughts out of nowhere is...a choice. Also I hear this guy get described as a prototype Master all the time, but my first impression is that he's way too gentle for whatever he's involved in.
A still image from the third episode of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. Actor Edward Brayshaw is playing the War Chief. He is looking to the right while holding onto a metal loop with his left hand.
November 27, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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Honestly there's almost something strange about the sonic screwdriver being used for something as mundane as loosening and tightening a screw.
A still image from the third episode of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. A close up of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver (actually a simple pen light) being used to loosen a screw in the handle of a revolver.
November 27, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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The saga continues...
WWE Superstar William Regal shouting the phrase "War Games!" into a microphone, with subtitled text.
November 27, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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After the war this guy went a little off the rails.
Actor Noel Coleman, playing Smythe in the Doctor Who serial The War Games. Actor Noel Coleman, playing the cat priest in the Red Dwarf episode Waiting for God.
November 25, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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I'm not saying I'm watching this for the first time ever just so I can compare it to the massively cutdown re-edit coming out next month.

But I'm not 𝘯𝘰𝘵 saying that either.
The title card for the Doctor Who serial The War Games
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 PM