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Bogmonster posted:This Is England 90 was pretty enjoyable. Woody's phone call with his mum and dad felt like a lot of calls I've had with my parents. Everyone seems to be having too much of a good time so I'm sure some horrible poo poo will happen as the series goes on. Glad its back though. I loved the film, and always felt it would've been an enjoyable watch even without the racist angle. It had a great feel to it, and the characters were good enough. The plot just added to it and it was an excellent watch. But the first TV series left me a bit sour. It's been years now so I can't remember the specifics (and I even remember writing really positive things about the first few episodes), but I think it bugged me that horrible things constantly followed this group of people everywhere they went, the shoe horning of characters from the film into pointless roles (one of the racists now pals around with the main cast, which was weird), and a few things that made it feel like he didn't get the structuring of a TV show as well as a movie. Did future seasons do anything to make me enjoy it fully again? I kinda just wanted a show about Woody and pals with a really well crafted 80s feel. It didn't need to be all jokes, but it was just so dark and it was cut really uncomfortably between the two.
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You wrote positive things about the first few episodes? There were only 4. Without spoilers 88 is pretty much dealing with the fallout from 86 and Shauns relationship, but the dynamic of Woody and his parents, or Woody and his boss is brilliant. I dont know what to say if you didnt think it worked as well as a tv show, I thought it worked much better as it allowed him to tell a broader story
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The Big Taff Man posted:I ended up rewatching it, I'm so in love with Joe Gilgun. Plz give Woody and Lol a happy ending I really hope Woody and Lol get a happy ending. They're just so good together.
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The Big Taff Man posted:You wrote positive things about the first few episodes? There were only 4. Yeah, the beginning of the rape stuff mainly came at the end of episode 3 yeah? I remember it was only really the last episode that soured me against the whole thing. Maybe I'll give 88 a shot now I don't have expectations and I might get into it a bit more.
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XMNN posted:I like Tamal he's pretty good. Tamal will probably win even though I like Flora (probably because she emails in to Wittertainment with Kermode and Simon Mayo). I love Nadia's expressions more and more every week.
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Tamal will probably win even though I like Flora (probably because she emails in to Wittertainment with Kermode and Simon Mayo). I love Nadia's expressions more and more every week. Her look of googly-eyed horror when poor Mat decided to put his icing sugar sculptures in the oven had me in fits. I like Tamal though, he's a pet, so cheerful and optimistic. Totally deserved Star Baker this week too.
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Sep 16, 2015 22:15
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Incoming privatisation of the BBC
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Ah yes, because the privatise-out & contract-back-in has been such a winning formula for so many industries.
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Sep 17, 2015 00:19
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Catching up on Hunted. Good god Emily is bloody deranged. "oh no facial recognition cameras" "oh no they'll have spies on the bus" *rings home* *rings home again* Jesus wept. She was safe. Untraceable. They had no way to find her. And she loving torpedos herself.
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Peter Kay and that accent in Cradel To Grave  .
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Catching up on Hunted. I've not stated watching this because the ads sounded way more dramatic for my liking. What are the rules around going on the run? Like are you basically to just be unfindable for a week/month? Are they getting time off work to take part in this? Do they get any kind of head start? It's just that it seems like it would be really easy to just take a bunch of cash out of the cash machine, grab some supplies and camping gear and just go out in some hills somewhere/campgrounds somewhere.
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Kin posted:I've not stated watching this because the ads sounded way more dramatic for my liking. They can't use their own bank accounts, they're given one with 450 quid at the start. They're given about two weeks notice that they've been accepted onto the programme, and then an hour's head start. All of them start well, grab some cash, get out really fast. And then do really loving stupid stuff So far we've had: Two Sikh brothers who set a false trail by leaving behind a mobile phone with an obvious "let's go here, they'll never think of that" email on it, resulting in the professionals tailing some asian backpackers. They got passed around friend-of-a-friend a half dozen times, then one of them keeps calling his fiance (  "but i used a burner!" ) and they end up trapped in the back room of a corner shop, watching the fuzz strongarming their way in on the CCTV. Rosemary and Thyme who vanish completely into the bus network, are completely invisible for ages, then both get out cash at the same time and almost immediately get jumped A young mum, perpetually paranoid and ducking down to avoid "siemans facial recognition cameras" who hitchhikes, again, invisibly, for ages. Then keeps calling to check up on her son, and narrowly avoids being grabbed A doctor, obsessed with crime novels, who didn't even clear "average penis length" from his search history, and is generally too drat clever for his own good: he starts well, getting a clapped out car, no questions asked, from a dodgy car dealer and sneaks up to scotland. For some unknown reason he then gives a mate his credit card, and gets her to withdraw cash and send it to him. He then sets a trap by directing the detectives to a house in the middle of nowhere, while he secretly watches them from the forest, presumably while masturbating.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Rosemary and Thyme who vanish completely into the bus network, are completely invisible for ages, then both get out cash at the same time and almost immediately get jumped This was my thought too. Withdraw all the cash you can, then get to the nearest decently-sized city, and just hop between public transport. Constantly on the move, cash only, no other details involved. and transport stations are the only places left you can reliably find payphones. Only problem is all the CCTV.
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Hunted's pretty good. They keep doing stupid things even though they know (or have been told forcefully) that they're stupid. It's a shame they can't split up though, that one woman should have ditched the facial recognition paranoid idiot who scuppered them. Surely they could just get a pile of new sims from a pound shop and avoid being tracked on the burners (which they are failing to burn) by using a new one every time?
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^^^^^ paranoid woman is the contestant, the other girl is just along for the ride. The reason the burners are scuppering them is because they're only thinking about one end of the call. Their loved ones phones are all being monitored, so if they get a call from a number the police can't identify, it's blatantly the burner. It's the wife and kids who need the burners too. I've no Idea if it's as easy as they make it out to be. Or how the show is navigating the legal minefield of monitoring the phones of non-suspected criminals. Hijo Del Helmsley posted:This was my thought too. Withdraw all the cash you can, then get to the nearest decently-sized city, and just hop between public transport. Constantly on the move, cash only, no other details involved. and transport stations are the only places left you can reliably find payphones. Only problem is all the CCTV. Most CCTV in the country is privately owned, and I don't think the public cameras are really networked in a way that would make it even remotely practical to find someone with them. They're very much for after the fact identification, when you know when and where you want to look.
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I haven't watched the show, but is there any reason why they couldn't Burkha up?
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They should hide coded messages in emails that look like they're selling viagra.
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EL BROMANCE posted:They should hide coded messages in emails that look like they're selling viagra. That's harder than you'd think.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:It's the wife and kids who need the burners too. The wives helpfully give up all information and passwords on request to the hunters so I'm not sure how effective that would be.
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They'd be better off recording an audio casette, or whatever the more modern equivalent is and posting that back to their family. I was wondering how the whole phone tracking, credit card tracking and CCTV worked though. I'm pretty sure the police don't hand out access to ANPR, and banks don't give CC use info to anyone, so does the cameraman who follows them about just text back "used atm in walthamstow"?
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Angrymog posted:I haven't watched the show, but is there any reason why they couldn't Burkha up?
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Well deserved star baker this week, and glad to see that Victorian week wasn't too gimmicky.
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Anyone watch 6° of separation? Panel show (yawn) with Brian Cox hosting. Ben Miller and Hugh Dennis captain teams of scientists. It's not very funny, only lightly entertaining, and not really interesting. I like Brian Cox but he's not ideal in this role. The host should be an idiot who is amazed by everything sciencey, no matter how banal.
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Is Dragon's Den over? It ended with a "next week on" but hasn't been on since!
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Crankit posted:They'd be better off recording an audio casette, or whatever the more modern equivalent is and posting that back to their family. I was wondering how the whole phone tracking, credit card tracking and CCTV worked though. I'm pretty sure the police don't hand out access to ANPR, and banks don't give CC use info to anyone, so does the cameraman who follows them about just text back "used atm in walthamstow"? Im pretty sure this is exactly how it works - they seem to have decided what would be used in a real situation, and 'triggering' based on that. The CCTV part is a bit off though - CCTV really isn't networked to a central hub (unless you're watching person of interest), they're often just tapes in a back room which is overwritten monthly.
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Well, Black Mirror might be scoring a second point after google glass if this turns out to be true: http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/606695/David-Cameron-dead-pig-private-part-Oxford-University-student-Prime-Minister Story is a bit heavy on 'anonymous MP' at the minute however.
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Well, he did always say he had a normal university experience. Be honest, who here hasn't placed their todger in a severed head as part of a hazing ritual?
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WeAreTheRomans posted:In my day the severing came after I did, though Meh. In my day the severing was done while I was doing it.
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 probablyhttp://www.b3ta.com/challenge/DavidCameronPigGenitals/popular/
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Taear posted:Is Dragon's Den over? It ended with a "next week on" but hasn't been on since! I never know when it's on, either. I've missed whole series because the BBC just doesn't advertise it. I'm also not keen on the changes they've made to the show. I find the incessant music throughout the negotiations really grating and I don't rate the three newcomers. I really miss Theo the Foetus 
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It finished a few weeks ago. I still like it, but I loving hate Touker Suleyman. He comes across like a complete idiot every time and is simultaneously the smuggest one on there. I used to not like Deborah Meaden but somehow she now seems to be the best one
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#baeofpigs and not one of the comedy news shows are on air
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Angrymog posted:#baeofpigs and not one of the comedy news shows are on air I doubt the BBC ones will say much, 8 out of 10 cats would if that's airing still.
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Angrymog posted:#baeofpigs and not one of the comedy news shows are on air Have I Got News For You starts next week. They'll say something, if only to take the piss out of Hislop.
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