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Hydra009

Quote from: Mr.Obvious on July 16, 2018, 02:10:16 AM
Yes, based on this, innit?

I tried to join The wiki-group or whatever it was called, once, years ago.
Great lore.
I got declined.
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Cavebear

That looks vaguely like the remake of The Prisoner.  I tried to discuss it with a friend who loved the original (as did I) and he was so annoyed he refused to speak about it.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

trdsf

Quote from: Cavebear on July 17, 2018, 04:36:25 AM
That looks vaguely like the remake of The Prisoner.  I tried to discuss it with a friend who loved the original (as did I) and he was so annoyed he refused to speak about it.
The remake was ill-conceived, but not terrible.  I mean, Ian McKellan.  I think they'd've made a better go of it had the remake just been its own thing and not molded as a remake.
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan

Baruch

#408
Quote from: trdsf on July 17, 2018, 07:20:22 AM
The remake was ill-conceived, but not terrible.  I mean, Ian McKellan.  I think they'd've made a better go of it had the remake just been its own thing and not molded as a remake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdsrOJNeMFs

Can't mix American and English languages ;-(  The original was interesting because it wasn't American.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwLjN5ArUVU

Most original take on the Deep State.  The true Resistance ... "I am not a number!"
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: trdsf on July 17, 2018, 07:20:22 AM
The remake was ill-conceived, but not terrible.  I mean, Ian McKellan.  I think they'd've made a better go of it had the remake just been its own thing and not molded as a remake.

Yeah, sometimes a rip-off can be better than a bad redo...  BTW, I watched 'Day Of The Doctor' and 'No More' about the end of Gallifree and loved the 4 hours...  Looking forward to seeing how the Doctor does as a woman.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

trdsf

Quote from: Cavebear on July 21, 2018, 07:45:00 AM
Yeah, sometimes a rip-off can be better than a bad redo...  BTW, I watched 'Day Of The Doctor' and 'No More' about the end of Gallifree and loved the 4 hours...  Looking forward to seeing how the Doctor does as a woman.
The funny thing is, regeneration was a completely ad hoc play by the BBC.  Doctor Who was spectacularly popular, but William Hartnell was too unwell to continue the role -- in some of his later episodes, you can see him struggling with his lines, but they had to keep the shot because their schedules were so tight.

So Doctor Who is dominating the British airwaves in 1966 and Hartnell can't continue, so they decided to see if they could get away with just directly replacing the main actor and handwaving it away as him being an alien.  At the time, they had none of the twelve regenerations per Time Lord backstory built yet -- that didn't really get settled until the Pertwee era.  But they got away with it.  :)

I'm looking forward to the Jodie Whittaker era -- friend of mine is a fan of Broadchurch, in which she starred with David Tennant, and says she's fantastic (to borrow a Ninth Doctor catchphrase).  I have a "two years to own the role" policy for new Doctors and really, there aren't any I dislike, although there are some I like a lot better than others.  I'm really hopeful that she's going to be in the Pat Troughton/Tom Baker/Sylvester McCoy mold of "first you underestimate me, then I destroy you" Doctor, and the outfit they've chosen for her definitely looks back to the classic series.
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan

Baruch

Has nobody ever talked about this program before?  It is like Big Bang Theory ... with software ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69V__a49xtw
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
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Don't do that.

Hydra009

#412
**Photosensitive epilepsy warning**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5dIwGAYcWk

Heh, this show is going to be such a gigantic trainwreck.  I'm so excited!  I'm super interested in it now since I plan on using this as MST3K fodder - just sit with a friend and rip this a new one in real time.  This is going to be the perfect so-bad-it's-hilarious show!  The jokes practically write themselves.

trdsf

Quote from: Hydra009 on July 23, 2018, 10:21:49 PM
**Photosensitive epilepsy warning**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5dIwGAYcWk

Heh, this show is going to be such a gigantic trainwreck.  I'm so excited!  I'm super interested in it now since I plan on using this as MST3K fodder - just sit with a friend and rip this a new one in real time.  This is going to be the perfect so-bad-it's-hilarious show!  The jokes practically write themselves.

Ugh, there's nothing I hate so much as crapsack universes where everything is violent and angsty and awful.  And Akiva Goldsman is dead to me ever since I, Robot.  I consider him the Jack Kevorkian of script doctors.
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan

Sal1981

Quote from: Baruch on July 22, 2018, 03:51:10 PM
Has nobody ever talked about this program before?  It is like Big Bang Theory ... with software ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69V__a49xtw
Except Big Bang Theory show is a pile of garbage show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxFPmF1puW4

Baruch

Deflection?

Yes, BBT has aged poorly.  But then so have I.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Blackleaf

#416
Quote from: Hydra009 on July 23, 2018, 10:21:49 PM
**Photosensitive epilepsy warning**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5dIwGAYcWk

Heh, this show is going to be such a gigantic trainwreck.  I'm so excited!  I'm super interested in it now since I plan on using this as MST3K fodder - just sit with a friend and rip this a new one in real time.  This is going to be the perfect so-bad-it's-hilarious show!  The jokes practically write themselves.

Problems:

1. "Fuck Batman." OMG.

2. Raven is just fucking bland. She was my favorite of the Teen Titans cartoon characters, and now she has no personality. Similar problems exist for the other characters too. Looks like Starfire doesn't resemble her original self at all, but is being played as a "badass." Seriously?

3. Speaking of Starfire, she's a fire bender now?

4. I like how they cut away just before we can see Beast Boy transform into his badly animated CGI animal form.

5. They're turning every character into a tragic hero. Gone are the interesting, varied personalities that played off of each other so well in the cartoon. Now they're just going to be competing for the role of most tortured hero.

6. This show looks like it's going to be a worse trainwreck than Teen Titans GO, which means it'll probably get at least five seasons...
"Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,
Born under one law, to another bound;
Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound."
--Fulke Greville--

Cavebear

Quote from: trdsf on July 21, 2018, 09:48:33 PM
The funny thing is, regeneration was a completely ad hoc play by the BBC.  Doctor Who was spectacularly popular, but William Hartnell was too unwell to continue the role -- in some of his later episodes, you can see him struggling with his lines, but they had to keep the shot because their schedules were so tight.

So Doctor Who is dominating the British airwaves in 1966 and Hartnell can't continue, so they decided to see if they could get away with just directly replacing the main actor and handwaving it away as him being an alien.  At the time, they had none of the twelve regenerations per Time Lord backstory built yet -- that didn't really get settled until the Pertwee era.  But they got away with it.  :)

I'm looking forward to the Jodie Whittaker era -- friend of mine is a fan of Broadchurch, in which she starred with David Tennant, and says she's fantastic (to borrow a Ninth Doctor catchphrase).  I have a "two years to own the role" policy for new Doctors and really, there aren't any I dislike, although there are some I like a lot better than others.  I'm really hopeful that she's going to be in the Pat Troughton/Tom Baker/Sylvester McCoy mold of "first you underestimate me, then I destroy you" Doctor, and the outfit they've chosen for her definitely looks back to the classic series.

I have some doubts.  Part of the male Doctor has been his disinterest in the female companions (except River Song) sexually and I'm not sure that will work with a female Doctor.  Though the same disinterest might remain, it wouldn't quite be the same.

But I do look forward to seeing the change.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

SGOS

Quote from: Baruch on April 25, 2018, 07:38:45 PM
The first season was very good, but then the writing got weak ...

Quote from: Hydra009 on April 25, 2018, 11:43:27 PM
Yes, that's it.  But watch out!  Sliders has a very mixed reception.  You might like it or you might hate it.

As I said, I ordered seasons 1 and 2.  Gee that was a long time ago, and put them aside as I had gotten involved with some home improvement projects.  I forgot that I even had them, but remembered when I noticed them still in the plastic wrapped cases in my video library a couple of weeks ago.  I liked them, not blockbuster total immersion kind of like, but definitely worth the purchase.

I wasn't sure through season one, as it seemed a bit too much like childish fantasy, rather than more serious sci fi.  Things like intentionally running into the vortex and then fearfully yelling and screaming until they shoot out tumbling and groaning and crashing into each other on the other end.  By season two, I had adjusted to the tongue in cheek format, and the oftentimes face palm worthy presentation, which may or may not have been intentional.  I have three episodes left of season two, which I'm trying to space out and savor as it will be 10 days before I get season three, which has been sold out at most locations.  I bought it from some outfit I had never heard of, and am looking forward to it. 

When I finish season three that will probably be enough. Almost every review says what you guys have said, but are much more emphatic about how the series fell off a cliff under new but hopelessly misdirected and destructive network management, with the cast walking away from the project and having to be replaced.  I can also see season three using up all of my redundancy tolerance.  I have mixed reactions to every episode being a new dimension that has to be escaped from before one of the foursome is killed or lost.  Wouldn't most dimensions be less dangerous than that, at least some?

It is fun anticipating the new surprises in each new place, and when I'm done, I'll watch it again and see if season doesn't jar me as much as it did the first time around, now that I know what to expect.

SGOS

Quote from: Baruch on July 24, 2018, 05:48:57 AM
Deflection?
Yes, BBT has aged poorly.  But then so have I.
It never got off the ground for me, so I never watched it age.  It just seemed like a 1980s sitcom.  OK, not quite that bad.  The late 70s and early 80s were the years television networks tested the limits of how much crap they could put out and still keep people watching.  I think there was a global conspiracy between networks:  "If you don't produce anything worth watching, then we won't either."  The term "T and A" (kiddie porn) came out of that period.  The trend was broken with Cheers, when some network decided to break out of the mold of low end mediocrity and create something interesting, even cerebral by comparison.