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So I only just got around to hearing about Outcasts. I'm thinking it has potential, we already know it isn't like the deep so just gotta hope it doesn't end up like Defying Gravity (the last 'epic' BBC sci-fi which nobody else has remembered). Personally I'm pretty pissed there hasn't been a complete serious sci-fi since B5 (haven't seen BSG yet). I would say gently caress the kid too but we seem to have a paedo on the loose...Fatkraken posted:it crashes in the loving lake innit If that's a reference to Pandorum I love you! By the way if anyone remembers the end Ashes to Ashes you may recall that Daniel Mays was 'coincidentally' shooting in South Africa when the last episode aired (to avoid being lynched). Guess this was it! Edit: Comments on the BBC are great: "President: We decided to call this planet Carpathia. I can't remember the whole story but I think if they'd had more life boats... Ship's Captain: We don't have enough life boats! President: If only the planet namers had spoken to the ship designers..." "A religious mystic who will no doubt attempt to turn Carpathia into a religious state, a baby whom he would abhor as a product of man's playing at god and the outcasts themselves who could be the salvation or death of the new civilisation " "So far in the first two episodes 9 of the 10 main characters have either committed murder, attempted murder or conspired in murder. This is not an exaggeration. Of the one main character who has not, he engages in casual sex and takes drugs." u fink u hard Percy fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Feb 10, 2011 |
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Defying Gravity was cancelled almost before it had started. But that's what happens when you try and sell America "Gray's Anatomy, but in space".
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Feb 10, 2011 01:30
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Brooker's TV ruined your life was more or less a re-run of a screenwipe segment , yeah, updated to 2011 this time presented by charlie brooker's hair. Made me chuckle a fair few times, he is more suited to this that his channel 4 stuff. Looking forward to civillisation in HD, hopefully on iplayer in HD. Ponce de Le0n fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Feb 10, 2011 |
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Feb 10, 2011 02:17
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Fallon posted:Last night's TV Ruined . .. was identical to Brooker's piece from 2007: No it wasn't. LE0N posted:Brooker's TV ruined your life was more or less a re-run of a screenwipe segment , yeah, updated to 2011 this time presented by charlie brooker's hair. A-bloo loving bloo.
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Feb 10, 2011 02:21
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goatface posted:Defying Gravity was cancelled almost before it had started. But that's what happens when you try and sell America "Gray's Anatomy, but in space". It's what happens when you fill a sci-fi show with tedious, pointless drama. After 8 or so slowly, plodding episodes, it ended on a huge reveal of "here's the magic object we've been hinting at for the last few months"; the next episode (i poo poo you not) was all about the emotional journey of a relatively minor character back on earth for when she discovered it. gently caress Defying Gravity and gently caress Outcasts. There's a dangerously low volume of sci-fi content on TV and churning out this kind of bollocks only puts people off trying to make any more. 
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Feb 10, 2011 02:25
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justcola posted:Is human planet any good? I thought it would be a good direction for the nature documentary to go after planet earth and blue planet. Maybe a documentary about life in the higher atmosphere. It's very good. Of all the animals on the planet man is the most ingenious and widespread, so we deserve a decent nature show about ourselves. It's fascinating to see the diversity of human life covered in the traditional nature documentary style rather than the more 'go native' format of Bruce Perry or Ray Mears (both of whom are great).
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Feb 10, 2011 05:21
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:No it wasn't. He admits that it is on his Twitter page.
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Feb 10, 2011 08:34
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Brooker's effectively been promoted and now he's repackaging his stuff for a wider audience. I don't think it's such a big issue, even as someone who's watched every *wipe episode.
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Feb 10, 2011 11:52
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Really, he couldn't do a complete review of how TV influences you without inspirational TV. If anything the fact that he has not changed his opinion makes me respect him more and I thought the newer stuff was good and showed that things have only become worse. I thought that US show with the two way mirror was another one of the shows interpretations of a real show and was actually feeling ill when I realised that it wasn't.
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Feb 10, 2011 13:34
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I'm personally in favour of it. Brooker is an excellent TV critic, and if he can make more people even slightly more critical of the dreck that's on TV then that can only be a good thing.
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Feb 10, 2011 13:37
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Daimo posted:If that's a reference to Pandorum I love you! nope, never even heard of it I'm afraid. It just seemed like a thing that would happen
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Feb 10, 2011 13:47
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The only problem with this week's How TV... was a distinct lack of the actor Kevin Eldon.
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Feb 10, 2011 13:54
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And Barry Shitpeas  Such an understated genius.
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Feb 10, 2011 14:07
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Ddraig posted:And Barry Shitpeas Hey man sometimes the director's just gotta direct. Also the second episode of Outcasts was better because they got rid of that loving kid banging on about tigers.
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Local Group Bus posted:Really, he couldn't do a complete review of how TV influences you without inspirational TV. If anything the fact that he has not changed his opinion makes me respect him more and I thought the newer stuff was good and showed that things have only become worse. I kept hoping for a seriously aged man to suddenly step into the 'box' and gravely point out that it wasn't a two way mirror infront of them just air and then a big sigh behind those people lighting up displaying two arrows pointing down at them and in bright green neon letters stating TERRIBLE HUMAN BEINGS HERE. It didn't happen sadly .
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Feb 10, 2011 16:54
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Fatkraken posted:nope, never even heard of it I'm afraid. It just seemed like a thing that would happen Its a film about a colonisation ship sent from a doomed earth, that lands in an ocean.
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Feb 10, 2011 17:06
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It's obvious now that How TV Ruined Your Life is a Screenwipe remix for the 'terrestrial' channels. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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Feb 10, 2011 18:31
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Seeing someone take the reduced offer on The Chase makes me much angrier than is really healthy. Especially if the reduced offer is a negative amount.
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Feb 10, 2011 18:45
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Charlie Brookers Twitter posted:Will be doing Gypsy Weddings, Top Gear & multiculturalism on tonight's 10oClockLive...
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DiscoJ posted:Brooker's effectively been promoted and now he's repackaging his stuff for a wider audience. I don't think it's such a big issue, even as someone who's watched every *wipe episode. What's the draw, then? I'm a massive Brooker fan, but if I've already seen these on Screenwipe, Newswipe and/or You Have Been Watching, then why am I supposed to watch How TV Ruined Your Life? I guess maybe it's for people who didn't watch any of his other shows. Okay. Thanks, Charlie?
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For me, the repeated content is still interesting enough and the additions funny enough that it's still well worth watching. Also, I feel the show benefits from the way it focuses on a single idea the whole way through. I mean, this stuff may have been covered before, but I don't remember it being this in-depth.
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The draw is that they are presented as more of a narrative about a certain section of TV than screenwipes scattershot approach of this ad sucks, here are some telly-pricks, and don't you hate TV in the morning with all those grinning tossers, oh and here is a cartoon and some soaps. It's allowing expansion on some of the ideas by narrowing the focus down to what an influence TV is rather than just what pisses him off. Also he doesn't really get in there and tear away at people on TV as much which might have something to do with him saying that it's weird to have met people he slagged off before. By the nature of the beast it's not going to be fresh and full of new ideas. Television really isn't, I think that is kind of his thesis on how television is produced, but it does allow him to expand on some ideas he probably thought needed more time dedicated to. We've had screenwipe, newswipe and an episode of gameswipe. I think the 'wipe format has probably shown him that a more serious look at what TV does to you was in order. Brooker has always been funny, but there has been serious intent underneath it all along and I think he is honing that sharper here. As much as I miss the silly little bits I rather like how on message each individual episode has been. Edit: Yep, as above.
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Feb 10, 2011 22:04
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How do the BBC manage to cock up their homepage so often?
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DiscoJ posted:For me, the repeated content is still interesting enough and the additions funny enough that it's still well worth watching. Also, I feel the show benefits from the way it focuses on a single idea the whole way through. I mean, this stuff may have been covered before, but I don't remember it being this in-depth. Yeah it's more in depth and also updated. The UK version of super sweet 16 wasn't on the original Screenwipe episode for example. They have taken something that was only a shortish segment on the original and expanded it to fill a full episode and it works well.
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Feb 10, 2011 22:07
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I wonder if the 10 o'clock show is having a massive last minute re-write as Egypt staggers towards one angry gunman away from a civil war.
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Feb 10, 2011 22:18
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I don't like Jimmy Carr's suit.
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Feb 10, 2011 23:07
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Metrication posted:I don't like Jimmy Carr's suit. One-button arrogance. Although I think 10 o'clock live is actually pretty excellent, and should be on every week forever.
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Feb 10, 2011 23:32
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I don't know about you guys but I think Jimmy Carr just outdid Brooker for laughs with Bankers in Need.
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Feb 10, 2011 23:33
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slotbadger posted:One-button arrogance. It's the shawl lapel that I really don't like. I thought Jimmy Carr's sketch thing was funny but I'm getting a bit bored with banker bashing now.
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Feb 10, 2011 23:39
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Metrication posted:I thought Jimmy Carr's sketch thing was funny but I'm getting a bit bored with banker bashing now. Nobody should ever stop banker bashing.
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Feb 10, 2011 23:41
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"The problem with Richard Hammond, he doesn't know when to stop." Amazing.
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Feb 10, 2011 23:43
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YES. More people need to be exposed to Rastamouse.
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Feb 10, 2011 23:43
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Douglas Murray is perhaps the most annoying Conservative in this country. Jesus loving H. Christ. Why do they keep putting him on Question Time?
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Metrication posted:I'm getting a bit bored with banker bashing now. People like you are why they get away with this poo poo.
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Feb 10, 2011 23:45
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goatface posted:YES. More people need to be exposed to Rastamouse. Stupid hypnotic show. I was babysitting and it was on. At first I was boggled, then I was enthralled. There needs to be more stop-motion mice on our tellies.
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marktheando posted:Nobody should ever stop banker bashing. Yeah but it's such an easy target, bit like the Daily Mail as well. I still have absolutely no idea what the big society is.
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Metrication posted:Yeah but it's such an easy target, bit like the Daily Mail as well. Something about volunteering? I think it's just more bollocks. e: Well, that was a load of shouting and I still don't have a clue what they were talking about. Gram-O-Phone fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Feb 10, 2011 |
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Feb 10, 2011 23:49
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Metrication posted:Yeah but it's such an easy target, bit like the Daily Mail as well. The Daily Mail deserve everything they get. It's a loving horrible, right-wing, homophobic and racist waste of paper. If I were homeless, I wouldn't even use it to keep me warm at night.
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While I actually agree with this Johan fellow on the panel discussion, I can't help but dislike this segment. With the audience present, who I imagine will be made up of liberal people (due to the nature of the hosts and content of the show), it means that just about every Tory that is in a panel discussion never even has a chance to get out of the starting blocks because the liberal panellist only has to say one thing and the crowd practically laugh the Tory off.
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