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It's like watching that video with a high fever and after taking a fairly sizable bump of coke. Whoever produced this is simply not a well person.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Sort of like this in a way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72TopWbXJg surely
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Aug 3, 2013 20:21
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I hope that it'll get increasingly cynical and miserable as the weeks go by, so by episode 6, the whole show is nothing but: "The Tories are loving us over again. I love my country *sigh*"
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Aug 3, 2013 20:28
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The more classical version. Can't beat the Copper smoking a joint with a very nice Jamaican lady.
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Aug 3, 2013 20:39
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SeanBeansShako posted:The more classical version. Can't beat the Copper smoking a joint with a very nice Jamaican lady. I've only just realised that old lady is at a bus stop and the guy is going "Do you want to borrow my car?" I always thought he had nicked her keys as a little joke.
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Aug 3, 2013 20:43
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How does I Love My Country compare to the mental Noel's HQ thing that Sky had on a couple years ago? I'm guessing it's a bit less "It's PC/H&S gone mad", how does it compare in the nationalism stakes? I'm not really expecting an answer, I don't think anybody ITT actually watched Noel's HQ
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onoflalks posted:How does I Love My Country compare to the mental Noel's HQ thing that Sky had on a couple years ago? I'm guessing it's a bit less "It's PC/H&S gone mad", how does it compare in the nationalism stakes? Noel's HQ was a bit Daily Mail. I live in Scotland and I support the union. I don't really like the SNP and I like the concept of Britain as a nation. Then I saw this and I can't wait to get the gently caress out of the UK.
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Aug 4, 2013 09:21
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Peter loving Capaldi is the new Doctor Who.
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7seven7 posted:Peter loving Capaldi is the new Doctor Who. Is he going to play it English or Scottish?
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Aug 4, 2013 20:05
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My dream of an obscenely foul mouthed Scottish accented Doctor may come true after all.
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Aug 4, 2013 20:06
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7seven7 posted:Peter loving Capaldi is the new Doctor Who. I wonder if he'll leave after a few seasons like ecclestone did, because the writing is inevitably not going to be up to the standard he's used to on shows like the thick of it.
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Aug 4, 2013 20:08
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Ponce de Le0n posted:I wonder if he'll leave after a few seasons like ecclestone did, because the writing is inevitably not going to be up to the standard he's used to on shows like the thick of it. You're right, he's only starred in one episode previously, been a major character on it's spin-off show and is a self admitted life long fan whose auditioned for the role several times - HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S LETTING HIMSELF IN FOR! 
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SeanBeansShako posted:My dream of an obscenely foul mouthed Scottish accented Doctor may come true after all. My dream of a thousand poorly edited-together Tumblr/Youtube mashups of the Thick of It and Doctor Who will definitely come true.
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Aug 4, 2013 20:13
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Ponce de Le0n posted:I wonder if he'll leave after a few seasons like ecclestone did, because the writing is inevitably not going to be up to the standard he's used to on shows like the thick of it. Every Doctor leaves after a few seasons. That's kind of the point of the show. Eccleston was notable for leaving after just one.
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Aug 4, 2013 20:25
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I wish, just for his term as the doctor, they would put the show on after the watershed and let Peter Capaldi go absolutely apeshit on some Daleks.
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Aug 4, 2013 20:29
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PriorMarcus posted:You're right, he's only starred in one episode previously, been a major character on it's spin-off show and is a self admitted life long fan whose auditioned for the role several times - HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S LETTING HIMSELF IN FOR! Work's work, to be honest, i never said he didn't know what he let himself in for, i was just making the point that the writing and story in dr who is really poor compared to a lot of the other stuff he has been in, i was wondering if he might get really disillusioned with the job like ecclestone did, when he has to try and genuinely act surprised and shocked when he is inevitibly battling against the daleks for the umpteenth time. Also there is a massive difference between being a fan when you were 15 and the nostalgia that brings with it and lending your name to something you dont think is the best work later in life, I think he is a really good actor and will do the job well but you can only work with what you are given.
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Ponce de Le0n posted:Also there is a massive difference between being a fan when you were 15 and the nostalgia that brings with it and lending your name to something you dont think is the best work later in life, I think he is a really good actor and will do the job well but you can only work with what you are given. Well being a fan of the show as it is now, to the point where he stopped Matt Smith in the street to tell him how much he loved his first episode on the show probably means he's well aware of what he's lending his name for. Do you really think that after a couple of seasons he will realize this isn't the show he signed up for? He's not a moron.
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Aug 4, 2013 20:33
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If it doesn't produce anything interesting and keeps recycling storylines that are just marginally different, yeah, i fully believe that will happen. How many times can dr who face the daleks or cybermen and it still be worth watching.
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I gave up on dr who when they had that Bertie basset monster. I imagine that would prove the final straw for Capaldi too.
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PriorMarcus posted:Do you really think that after a couple of seasons he will realize this isn't the show he signed up for? He knows what he signed up for. All the crazy fangirl sex he can get.
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Ponce de Le0n posted:I wonder if he'll leave after a few seasons like ecclestone did, because the writing is inevitably not going to be up to the standard he's used to on shows like the thick of it. The number of years actors have stuck with the role is: 3,3,4,7,3,3,9,1 (single movie),1,5,5,4. So 3-5 is pretty much the standard range.
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Pissflaps posted:I gave up on dr who when they had that Bertie basset monster. I imagine that would prove the final straw for Capaldi too. Don't pretend you wouldn't like to go mano-a-mano against Bertie Bassett for the fate of the universe, Pissflaps. Be a big goddamn hero while getting to stuff yourself full of delicious sweets in the process? No one would turn that poo poo down.
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Aug 4, 2013 21:36
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Aug 4, 2013 21:43
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PriorMarcus posted:Well I rang up and she is definitely on the 5mb offering, she's not been upgraded since she first got the internet, and all of the equipment is old to match. Virgins terribly expensive. I'm on the XL package and its like £112 pound a month. I had to move to Virgin when we bought a house last year as Sky didnt get any broadband connection or good signal where I am, yet Virgin had the fibre optic already installed. I'd switch back to sky in a heartbeat if I could. Their customer service was always great too, the slightest complaint and theyd give stuff for free. Ive been on Virgin for a year now, and Sky have been sending me leaflets for 25%, 50% and even 75% off if I switch back to them.
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Aug 4, 2013 22:07
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Depends where the local exchange is. Virgin's cables go to some places that can get gently caress-all in the way of decent ADSL.
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Pissflaps posted:One hundred and twelve pounds ?
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Pissflaps posted:One hundred and twelve pounds ? Yeah its their top package and was on a half price deal + £70 credit when I got it. and its been bumped up since From talking to my neighbours before I moved in the phone lines in this area are really old, and anyone who has the standard lines has issues with their broadband and phones whenever the weathers too rainy or too sunny. I want to switch to a smaller package but I just havent got round to doing the calculations, I need to call up and complain anyway because I believe we dont get ESPN/BT now its switched.
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Aug 4, 2013 22:30
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Huh, they've brought back Knightmare for YouTube's Geek Week. With 20-something YouTube nerds rather than kids playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74r-EbIqt9s
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Veotax posted:Huh, they've brought back Knightmare for YouTube's Geek Week. With 20-something YouTube nerds rather than kids playing. I was so stoked to hear that this was going to come back for an episode but, having watched that, it's just a bunch of awkward white people. It's a little too self aware, like everyone's in on a joke that we're not privy to. Treguard still rocks though.
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DaWolfey posted:Knightmare was always a bit self aware and awkward. I think they nailed it, personally. Maybe so, but the contestants were never in on it too. Even the most insufferable kids weren't as bad as people they chose to have on it. I looked them up and apparently they have millions of subscribers to their Youtube channels. Maybe I just don't understand Youtube.
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Dr. Who confuses me because the Doctor himself always seems pretty decently written and acted but then every other character and event happening around him is just a terrible parody of something no one seems quite sure of. I always feel like it's a giant joke I'm on the cusp of understanding but never quite get there.
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DaWolfey posted:Knightmare was always a bit self aware and awkward. I think they nailed it, personally. I don't know, I never cringed quite this much at the old one, even as an adult watching it on Challenge.
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There a a live version of Knightmare happening at the fringe this year and I'm really tempted to go see it. Seems like a lot of the people from this Geek Week version are involved though for people who didn't like that
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PriorMarcus posted:Well I rang up and she is definitely on the 5mb offering, she's not been upgraded since she first got the internet, and all of the equipment is old to match. I had this same issue with Virgin a few years back. They never informed me of different package availabilities and kept on giving me this "loyalty" discount. It wasn't until I looked at the packages that were out that i realised how poo poo a deal we were getting compared against their own services. Basically, an ISP isn't going to tell you of the ways to get their services for cheaper until you've noticed you're being ripped off and make the effort to get it changed yourself. Viva capitalism.
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New Knightmare did the job for a twenty-something minute piece of marketing to us kids of the 80s who loved the original and to reel us in. Treguard, Lord Fear and Lizzard were all nice to see back and obviously enjoying it. What I didn't like: The set (where's my TV chest/mirror/pool?), Isy Suttie did nothing but waste my time at the start & Treguard breaking the fourth wall with contestants present. Speaking of: The contestants just didn't seem to engage with the whole thing, probably torn between cashing the YouTube paycheck and thinking of their younger demographic fans mocking them for taking part in this weird programme they've never heard of. And there was no loving fire in the background  (but we did get an 'Oooooh, naaasty' to even things out)Cringing? Awkward? Like last weekend, Challenge showed an episode with a kid telling a gargoyle he was lovely and looked nice. It was the first Winning Quest... It was a different time, man.
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Maybe its true what they say; you can never go home. It made my flesh crawl with embarrassment at those gormless pricks competing. I used to love it, but could only sit through about seven minutes of this.
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Challenge has been showing episodes of Fun House too. What a pile of shite, the game props were obviously constructed out of papier mâché, it takes loving years to get into the fun house itself, the obviously excruciatingly embarrassed cheerleaders are forced to plunge their hands into goo while smiling manically, and all the prizes are like "glass engraving set" and "leather briefcase" (every child's wildest desire). I used to genuinely enjoy this as a child. I feel ashamed of myself.
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ThomasPaine posted:Dr. Who confuses me because the Doctor himself always seems pretty decently written and acted but then every other character and event happening around him is just a terrible parody of something no one seems quite sure of. I always feel like it's a giant joke I'm on the cusp of understanding but never quite get there. Sci-fi at its best comments on the human condition by obfuscating present issues with the lens of the future and fantastic technology that can achieve things that we can't. These shiny bright things allow you to watch an episode about race relations without it being an episode explicitly about race relations. This means it can be eminently watchable, after all it's a fictional show, not a sermon on how treating X group badly is a bad thing. However like most sci-fi the bright spots are often surrounded by a lot of either poo poo stuff or painfully mediocre crap. Even the best sci-fi writers tend to have some sort of flaw with their work, Asimov's characters aren't anything special, Orson Scott Card is a straight up hateful moron, Philip K. Dick's plots tend to be a little predictable in their unpredictability and so on. To compound that Doctor Who has been running a long rear end time so even with an OK writer you have a bunch of problems in terms of making things new and exciting, the obvious and most fundamentally stupid idea is to increase the threat that the Doctor has to deal with. Which is why you had RTD's first series finale Doctor Who involving future Earth being threatened by the Daleks, next season it was two Earths are threatened, next it was the Universe (because that's the obvious progression see), then you have something about black hole missiles (not really remembering this one), finally at the end of RTD's run it was ALL UNIVERSES EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT TIME AND SPACE. The current show-runner Moffat has his own host of problems that you can pretty much find quite easily (he writes terrible female characters and holds rather dated views on women in general) but people like him because occasionally you get a good scene or episode and there isn't the whole family drama that occurred in RTDs run.
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