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Were they really that demanding? I haven't watched it in a while but from what I remember they mostly seemed like fairly normal dim people who were sent to venues and dressmakers specifically to talk about their dream wedding. Their dream weddings always sounded ridiculous and boring, but that's because weddings are ridiculous and boring.
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I don't think anyone who agrees to go on that show really gives a gently caress about having a nice wedding.
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Dec 4, 2015 22:52
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I eagerly await Pompey Shores. Wait, no I don't because it would be horrendous I'd watch Pompey Shores if it was about Pompey Magnus being awesome taking over the mediterranean in the Roman Republic. In fact, can someone please do that? Ideally the folks behind Spartacus. Rather enjoying Masterchef the Professionals - particularly enjoyed Stuart, the grumpy chef from Wednesday night who cooked boring but delicious food slowly and aggressively, refusing to smile even when praised by the judges. Tragic he didn't get through. Edit: While looking for a video that demonstrated Stuart, I came upon this article. This seems to be an article which is simply describing point by point whats on TV, I assume for those who want to relive the experience? Stumiester fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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Dec 5, 2015 01:26
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The attraction of DTTB is the beautiful clockwork way each episode ticks round to the inevitable moment where the bride says 'it isn't what I would have done, but he tried hard'. Shame trying to make it BBC 1-worthy seems to have killed it.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:18
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My fiancé said she wouldn't mind being on DTTB, that is until I told her the outline plan of WeddingMania. She has since retracted her stance.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:23
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When I suggested going on there I was shot down. They give you 10k I believe. Tho she's taking me to Wrestlemania after the wedding so she can do whatever she wants tbh
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Dec 5, 2015 13:07
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I went a few years ago. It's amazing (and that was a card the Internet agrees was underwhelming, 29, I wish I'd done the 'smart thing' and saved to go to 30 as well). This is a good wife.
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Dec 5, 2015 13:39
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josh04 posted:The attraction of DTTB is the beautiful clockwork way each episode ticks round to the inevitable moment where the bride says 'it isn't what I would have done, but he tried hard'. Shame trying to make it BBC 1-worthy seems to have killed it. It's obvious the producers put as much effort as possible into persuading the guy to spend all the money on something ridiculous that his fiancée will totally hate, because it makes for better TV.
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Dec 5, 2015 16:12
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The best bits for me were always when you had the bride describing their worst nightmare and then it cutting to the groom planning that exact thing. There was one where she said something about not wanting a certain thing on her dress (ribbons maybe?) and then the groom is looking at dresses and going "hey, I like these ribbons, I'll get her one like this". And then there was one where the worst thing she could imagine was a big lavish Las Vegas wedding, and lo and behold, that's exactly what the groom was planning. I think that one might also have been a double-whammy, because she was also hoping all her friends and family could be there but with flights and everything it would be prohibitively expensive to do that. Felt a bit sorry for her at that point.
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Dec 5, 2015 16:51
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Vegas one was hilarious because the bride was so insufferable. She was the real 'I want to be a princesssss' type, but looked like a potato. The couple were so woefully mismatched. She was completely uptight and he was a total manchild. Quite a few sources say they're divorced which is a HUGE surprise. I mean, it was no Frank Spencer on an empty cruise ship, but at least he tried.
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Dec 5, 2015 22:32
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I don't remember the girl from that one but I remember the guy being a sentient mass of red flags.
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Dec 6, 2015 01:00
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I know there is probably a huge Doctor Who Thread but I'm terrified of it, being an extremely casual watcher. Anyway, I saw last night's episode and came up with a really dark theory. I want to share it and see what other people think. . *spoilers, obviously* So now Clara knows when and how she will die, she can hold it off till she's ready. As she is technically dead, she's pretty much an immortal zombie of sorts. She also has a Tardis and can go all over time and get into space japes. However if she gets injured, she can't heal. She gets more and more decrepid until she gets robot replacements. After however many years she is merely a head, but still living as she cannot die. A Dalek unit is found which can support her. She is mistaken as one, captured and put in a prison on Galifray. Do you remember that Dalek that was begging for extermination in the crypt? Boom. My friend also suggested perhaps it is Me in there (Exterminate Me) or maybe Clara got hosed over by Me (Exterminate Me!!) and could also make Clara the Hybrid? Anyway that is my theory I hope you like it.
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Dec 6, 2015 10:30
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I've not kept up with Who since that one episode about white cubes which was 2 hours long and insanely boring, but I watched last week's and it was pretty good.
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Dec 6, 2015 12:07
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Yeah, of course that is what happened. 
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Dec 6, 2015 14:00
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I'll come back to Doctor Who when it starts being entertaining again, instead of Steven Moffat wanking himself off over his overarching mythos.
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Dec 6, 2015 14:08
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:I'll come back to Doctor Who when it starts being entertaining again, instead of Steven Moffat wanking himself off over his overarching mythos. As opposed to Russell T Davis just wanking himself off over nothing in particular and filming the results. (Doctor Who was never good except as an excuse to look at Karen Gillan).
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Dec 6, 2015 14:12
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The sets and props and things are usually pretty nice And Peter Capaldi is just great.
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Dec 6, 2015 15:32
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Christmas special has River-bloody-song in it again.  She was fun once, may be twice, but give it a loving rest.
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Dec 6, 2015 15:37
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McDragon posted:The sets and props and things are usually pretty nice That is the main reason I've been watching it TBH, that and my other half likes it so I watch it with him. I'm not aware really of any of the back stories and stuff, which drives him crazy when he has to explain who that is and where that is 
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Dec 6, 2015 16:45
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:I'll come back to Doctor Who when it starts being entertaining again, instead of Steven Moffat wanking himself off over his overarching mythos. The last season and the current one are pretty good imho. (It helps that the current one is light on the myth arc). Especially after the lakckluster Season 7. englerp fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Dec 6, 2015 17:01
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englerp posted:The last season and the current one are pretty good imho. Was the last season the one that opened with the dinosaur episode? Because that was one of the worst things I've ever seen.
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Dec 6, 2015 17:02
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Angrymog posted:Christmas special has River-bloody-song in it again. It's got Matt Lucas and Greg Davis though as well, which will be fun.
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Dec 6, 2015 18:49
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Steve2911 posted:As opposed to Russell T Davis just wanking himself off over nothing in particular and filming the results. Hell, I don't think that spin off that they're trying to do (On BBC3. A channel that's reached a Zenith of being complete arse not seen since the day Toonami UK fell into Live Action Austrian hell) will reach even an n'th of what Torchwood and SJA did as much as they are DESPERATE to pull it off. Smith and Capaldi have been wasted as The Doctor as things stand and it's really not fair on them. Steve2911 posted:Was the last season the one that opened with the dinosaur episode? Because that was one of the worst things I've ever seen. Oh, christ. Why did you have to remind me 
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Dec 6, 2015 19:00
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I tried to like it, I tried so so hard - but eventually had to accept that it's a bad dumb show for poo babies. The last episode I watched was the moon egg one where the writer was framing the prioritising of the lives of an entire planet's worth of human beings over some mad mystery moon egg creature as being really shameful and selfish. I got SO MAD. Also I was quite drunk and for some reason took it as a commentary on Scottish independence, so was shouting "how dare you" quite a lot until I could be subdued.
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Dec 6, 2015 19:54
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Yeah it's a bad programme for normal adult people. If kids or nerds are into it I can accept that.
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netally posted:The couple were so woefully mismatched. She was completely uptight and he was a total manchild.
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Dec 7, 2015 11:37
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So in London Spy the world's smartest spy hides a lie detector which wouldn't work anyway unless we really do live in David-Icke-land behind the first combination you'd try if you were brute forcing it 
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Dec 7, 2015 11:55
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I was in A&E last week, and It went on for about 10 minutes and he ended it with, "And so you see, it all happened within the confession dial, bigger on the inside!" It was all very informative, I couldn't really be bothered to follow that episode at all. I liked the first few seasons, with Rose and Christopher Eccelston and throwaway plots like or "everyone is trapped in cars" or "the world is now big brother", but it really is all getting a bit too wanky now.
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Dec 7, 2015 13:16
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Nettle Soup posted:I was in A&E last week, and The way I see it, although 4.5 billion years passed while he was trapped inside it, it was a reset Doctor that popped out every time he died and resurrected. So, in his last reincarnation, he just ran around a bit, threw the chair out the window, found room 12 and punched the diamond wall once and it shattered. Piss easy.
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tentish klown posted:The way I see it, although 4.5 billion years passed while he was trapped inside it, it was a reset Doctor that popped out every time he died and resurrected. So, in his last reincarnation, he just ran around a bit, threw the chair out the window, found room 12 and punched the diamond wall once and it shattered. Piss easy. Yeah this is right. He basically went through like 4.5 billion times doing the same thing and coming to the exact same conclusion every time. I thought that was quite neat, especially when they showed his "thought process" To be honest Doctor Who sits in that gap where its good for kids and has enough for the geeky older fans. I stick it on while Im doing something else as I dont have to pay 100% attention to it, and usually afterward I read a review and realise there were poo poo loads of call backs that I missed that I wouldnt have understood anyway.
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Dec 7, 2015 14:09
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I know adult people with real and important jobs who think it is art.
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Wormophile posted:I tried to like it, I tried so so hard - but eventually had to accept that it's a bad dumb show for poo babies. My biggest issue with Dr Who is that it feels like very lazy Sci-Fi. So many issues are solved by something totally random and it removes any sort of drama for me. If any situation can be solved by "Well it turns out I have this device that fixes everything that's going wrong" then it's just boring. Yes other shows do it but most of them at least try and tie it into what's happened in earlier episodes. It never feels quite so egregious. And there's more characters so more interpersonal stuff.
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goatface posted:I know adult people with real and important jobs who think it is art. I like watching it and talking about it to friends but I CANNOT BE ARSED to learn the ridiculous and convoluted 50 odd years of back story. Just give me Bertie Bassett being bad and The Cleaners in Paradise Towers, and then I'll go hate-watch Don't Tell the Bride. I always think he is more protective and loving of her in a Father-like way, I get fed up when there has to be a love story in every single programme or film. VVVVVVVV Rondette fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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Dec 7, 2015 14:22
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They have the standard problem of there having to be sexual tension. Thousand year old, multiple-times married alien, but he has to go gooey over the first random bint who rams her way into his box. It cannot be a story if people are not wanting to kiss each other on the face.
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Dec 7, 2015 14:26
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Yep, the companion stuff is so odd to me. Clara is awful - I think that's something a lot of fans agree on, but she's sooo dull. And you'll get fans justifying the contradictions in the relationships between characters, and the weird tone shifts, the plotholes etc. when it's clear to anyone else that it's just pisspoor writing. Probably a result of all the different egotistical fanboy writers they employ who just have to leave their legacy on the series.
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Taear posted:My biggest issue with Dr Who is that it feels like very lazy Sci-Fi. So many issues are solved by something totally random and it removes any sort of drama for me. The focus on this is why other sci-fi shows are a niche concern and Doctor Who, which largely drops it from the plot whenever it's useful to do so, is popular worldwide. People like characters, drama and tense moments. Sci-fi based on imaginary technologies is, well, dead. You can't keep it interesting because the technology isn't real, so at some point the audience will realise that what actually resolves the plot every week isn't technical genius in action but is just some slight of hand with the writing. The problems in Doctor Who for the past season have been about the Doctor's relationship with Clara, which is why all the people who have a mysteriously passionate hate for a fictional character are upset - you can't get involved with a show where the stakes are the relationship between two characters if you hate one of them and spend every episode hoping the relationship will cease to exist. Tbh, if you hate one of the two main characters in a show you're basically never going to enjoy it whatever happens so it's a bit odd that people bother watching.
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josh04 posted:it's a bit odd that people bother watching. They're not watching, which is why the ratings have dropped through the floor.
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goatface posted:They have the standard problem of there having to be sexual tension. Thousand year old, multiple-times married alien, but he has to go gooey over the first random bint who rams her way into his box. It cannot be a story if people are not wanting to kiss each other on the face. I think that's kinda stopped since Peter Capaldi took over, because only the most hardcore of fan girls want to gently caress him and there's a decent age gap between him and Clara. The Smith/Tennant eras were awful for those kind of storylines though. I feel like Dr Who should just go back to its roots and be mostly for kids, with some PG rated scares and lots of colourful aliens. A bit like the Sarah Jane Adventures.
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Dec 7, 2015 15:57
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Children's telly is dead, there is only room for (wo)manchild telly now. Maybe Doctor Who would work better if the Doctor was actually a CBeebies presenter, talking to the camera and gently leading people through mild peril to show them the wonders of the universe. A sort of Brian Cox for the even more documentary-averse.
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I'd been led to believe this series was a lot better than recent ones and caught the series finale, having only watched the first episode of this series. I feel far too many people are willing to forgive what is a really boring story because it has cool moments and a fun aesthetic. Like the bit with the Dalek in the 'database' - unashamedly cool moment. Story? Characters? Bleh. Doctor being trapped in some time thing (apparently?). Yeah, really cool. Everything else, like some Tardis diner with some Viking girl? Meh. Bit lame actually. If anything it just needs to strip itself way way back from the pseudo-complicated wank. Camp is fine but boring is unforgivable.
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