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BizarroAzrael posted:We lost John Fortune today Really? That's a shame, he was a great satirist. He has looked on his last legs for as long as I've seen him though. University Challenge Christmas Special update: Paxo has stopped assuming everyone knows the rules after they wouldn't stop conferring on the starters.
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Profanity posted:Wait what's this? I'll take any Fulcher I can get. It's just called 'Mashed 2013' and is on 4od now. Worth a watch just for him really.
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Dec 31, 2013 19:24
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NY Fireworks. Boris intoning over the poo poo music. I wish I was drinking.
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itv are bringing back birds of a feather lol, kinda scraping the barrel there surely.
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Jan 1, 2014 22:36
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They made a new episode of Open All Hours. That barrel just sits on top of an open mineshaft.
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Jan 1, 2014 22:41
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Ponce de Le0n posted:itv are bringing back birds of a feather lol, kinda scraping the barrel there surely. They did a really successful run of that in the theater of late. Could have something to do with it.
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Jan 2, 2014 01:59
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Ponce de Le0n posted:itv are bringing back birds of a feather lol, kinda scraping the barrel there surely. I saw the trailers, the ladies playing the sisters are looking appropriately aged, but the woman playing the dark haired one (Dorian or something) looks EXACTLY THE SAME fifteen years after the last series ended (and 24 years after it started), it's spooky.
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I liked 'Sherlock' quite a bit, and think that character wise it's the best they've done (And more than a shade of 'Elementary' in there) but the whole 'flashiness' thing just doesn't work at all. It starts to get a little embarrassing when Cumberbatch has to pull 'thinking' faces while someone at the BBC goes mad with an editing machine.
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Jan 2, 2014 17:58
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I thought it was bad. But then, I didn't like it before.
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Jan 2, 2014 18:12
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The Bridge is back tomorrow.
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DrVenkman posted:I liked 'Sherlock' quite a bit, and think that character wise it's the best they've done (And more than a shade of 'Elementary' in there) but the whole 'flashiness' thing just doesn't work at all. It starts to get a little embarrassing when Cumberbatch has to pull 'thinking' faces while someone at the BBC goes mad with an editing machine. Exact same thoughts. The actors are decent, there's a semblance of an interesting plot, but the direction is loving awful which isn't surprising if Moffat's involved. The episode was basically just flashy effects, character references, fan baiting and plotholes disguising that the entire mystery was just a train car that turned off an un-mapped tunnel which ran under parliament.
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Jan 3, 2014 13:53
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Kin posted:Exact same thoughts. The actors are decent, there's a semblance of an interesting plot, but the direction is loving awful which isn't surprising if Moffat's involved. Now I like complaining about Steven Moffat as much as the next guy, but he's a writer not a director.
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Jan 3, 2014 13:58
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marktheando posted:Now I like complaining about Steven Moffat as much as the next guy, but he's a writer not a director. Stage directions get written into scripts, especially for big signature bits where words flash by a persons face to show a hive of mental activity.
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Jan 3, 2014 14:29
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Sion posted:Stage directions get written into scripts, especially for big signature bits where words flash by a persons face to show a hive of mental activity. Gatiss wrote the episode so this is definitely something you can't pin on Moffat for once.
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Jan 3, 2014 14:40
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Absolutely everything wrong with it can be pinned down to the half that Moffat co-created all those years ago. It's like dominoes and butterfly wings and so on. I feel like interrupting your show's climax with another, less interesting climax is something you should avoid. And does anyone know if the series is running 2 months later than planned. (or if Gatis has read V for Vendetta)
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cloudchamber posted:Gatiss wrote the episode so this is definitely something you can't pin on Moffat for once.
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Binge re watched Green Wing this week. Be mine, Sue White. I would put up with any whimsy you want to pull.
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Kin posted:Exact same thoughts. The actors are decent, there's a semblance of an interesting plot, but the direction is loving awful which isn't surprising if Moffat's involved. Yeah the plot was surprisingly... simplistic. Sherlock comes back from wherever and immediately clocks one of the six random people in London he apparently spies on all the time as being into something dodgy (he's previously worked out that he was a North Korean spy?). Independently some train weirdo shows him a video of a carriage disappearing and that same guy getting on it before it disappears. It wasn't exactly a mystery for the ages and I have to conclude that everyone involved ran out of ideas and decided to go full on fan-service. It even had Sherlock acting like Moffat's quipy whimsical self-insert half the time.
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It seemed to me it had been written much more than 90 minutes, but they'd have to cut a lot of it out to fit the time frame so there were bits missing. It was a bit choppy, I don't remember episodes being like that before.
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And here I was thinking it seemed padded with all those awful "Sherlock is thinking" scenes!
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Mr. Squishy posted:And here I was thinking it seemed padded with all those awful "Sherlock is thinking" scenes! Not to mention the lovely fan service. "Oh, how i survived isn't important at all."* *After it being important enough to waste time with 3 different versions of it in the episode. 
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Xachariah posted:Sherlock comes back from wherever and immediately clocks one of the six random people in London he apparently spies on all the time as being into something dodgy (he's previously worked out that he was a North Korean spy?). I assume that was a reference to Lord Sempill who was a spy for the Japanese from at least the 1920s up until WW2. The government knew he was a spy, but did nothing, because he was too well connected. (More recently, Lord Mountbatten was tied up in a fascist plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow the government - aristocrats and people from "good families" seem to be far more likely than average to turn traitor, without being punished, so that part really didn't strike me as weird at all)
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It's glossy nonsense and it's only remotely watchable because Benedict Cumberbatch (WHO?!) and Bilbo Baggins are quite good.
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Xachariah posted:It even had Sherlock acting like Moffat's quipy whimsical self-insert half the time. Moffatt plays the
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I'm being forced to watch Celebrity Big Brother against my will, I honestly had no idea this still existed and people wanted to watch it. It's 2014 and Jim Davidson is on my TV 
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Answers Me posted:I'm being forced to watch Celebrity Big Brother against my will, I honestly had no idea this still existed and people wanted to watch it. ditto so far i am hoping the gimmick for this year is that the house releases zyklon b and is a live recreation of the auschwitz gas chambers as the last celeb goes in
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Jim Davidson and Liz Jones may cause the the CBB house to collapse into a black hole of super-dense awfulness, killing us all.
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ookiimarukochan posted:I assume that was a reference to Lord Sempill who was a spy for the Japanese from at least the 1920s up until WW2. The government knew he was a spy, but did nothing, because he was too well connected. (More recently, Lord Mountbatten was tied up in a fascist plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow the government - aristocrats and people from "good families" seem to be far more likely than average to turn traitor, without being punished, so that part really didn't strike me as weird at all) It's not really a mystery that would tax Sherlock's power of deduction enough for like two eyes closed really hard thinking montages.
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Xachariah posted:Sherlock comes back from wherever and immediately clocks one of the six random people in London he apparently spies on all the time as being into something dodgy (he's previously worked out that he was a North Korean spy?). I thought that Sherlock only clocked that one of his "watched markers" was acting dodgy after he was shown the footage of him dissappearing? Before that he was saying to Mycroft that none of the people he watches was acting weirdly, hence the wasting time solving minor cases.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:It's glossy nonsense and it's only remotely watchable because Benedict Cumberbatch (WHO?!) and Bilbo Baggins are quite good. You mean Tim from the Office, surely.
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You mean whats his face from that lovely hardware show, right?
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I thought it was that guy from the very start and very end of Hot Fuzz.
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Arthur Dent? Nah, Simon Jones is the only Dent
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Don't you mean one of the porn stand-ins from Love Actually?
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That guy from one Never Mind the Buzzcocks who hates the Japanese?
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Martin Freeman, self-confessed elf-raper? http://groupthink.jezebel.com/martin-freeman-makes-a-rape-joke-everything-sucks-1485025851 edit:just to clarify, I find ElfGate pretty lame too, I just like labelling people as elf-rapers WeAreTheRomans fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Jan 4, 2014 |
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I'm really annoyed now at people making such a big deal out of a self-deprecating joke about his own attractiveness relative to elves. Bit insensitive, sure, but only dad jokes aren't.
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Its Tumblr freaking out again. I've seen people sincerely label him a racist MRA after a single joke about Lucy Liu.
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One thing I noticed recently is that the Mr T youtube show thing had a bunch of reversions episodes which I think were just the same clips but in a different order and now great movie mistakes turns each episode into 14 differnt episodes. When I'm channel hopping I don't like to be confused as to whether I have or haven't seen something before and whether I want to watch it.
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Xachariah posted:I'm really annoyed now at people making such a big deal out of a self-deprecating joke about his own attractiveness relative to elves. Bit insensitive, sure, but only dad jokes aren't. Anyone offended by that joke is either a care-poser or a genuinely humourless twat. He was clearly putting on an act throughout the interview, one where he was the punchline.
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