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Oh no, Clive Swift has died.  https://twitter.com/madeupwho/status/924930939565826048?s=21
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The_Doctor posted:Oh no, Clive Swift has died. This and that one Jerry Lewis interview are always going to be the top two candidates for "needlessly confrontational" of all time. Hopefully the person guarding the pearly gates doesn't use a tape recorder.
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Feb 1, 2019 21:26
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The_Doctor posted:Oh no, Clive Swift has died. It's even sadder when you read the article on VotD in that particular magazine; IIRC, in one segment, after doing a take, he was all but begging the director for praise. So on the one hand he's very dismissive towards the opportunity the show presented to him, but on the other he's so insecure that he has to pester someone for reassurance. Sad that he died and all, but after reading that interview, I never could summon up any sympathy for Richard on KUA whenever I'd see an episode (I always thought Onslow was the best character on that show, anyways).
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Feb 1, 2019 21:39
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Feb 1, 2019 21:41
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"E-JAC-U-LATE! E-JAC-U-LATE!"
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Feb 2, 2019 02:21
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Glad that Calvin finally got to make the snowman he wanted to after all these years.
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Burkion posted:Not in broad daylight in the middle of town I grew up in Alabama and you dont know what the gently caress you're talking about. I had a lot more typed, but you're not worth it. I just hope you ever read a book and get a clue about the Jim Crow South.
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Narsham posted:Rani from the Sarah Jane adventures puts in an appearance... and finds a pocketwatch.
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Feb 2, 2019 09:30
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Watched up through Kerblam! and The Witchfinders. Thoughts: The Witchfinders is a silly story with a forgettable villain and a forgettable plot, redeemed by the companions being loveable, King James hamming it up, and the Doctor getting some classic gurning "I am the oncoming storm!!" moments. Entirely disposable, but decent. Also fun to see the Doctor confronting sexism with this sort of befuddled exasperation. Kerblam! is brilliant up until the nonsensical twist. The system has a conscience and was being tampered with by a person...so it murdered another innocent person to express that conscience...and since the villain thought automation was bad and it needed to be sabotaged and destroyed, and the automatic system actually was what helped to save the day...through murder...the correct answer is to dismantle the automatic system and introduce more people power! Hooray! Just a completely muddled moral that doesn't even know what it's saying, which is disappointing in an episode that has such good social satire bones up to that point. Gorgeous set and costume design though, and Graham really gets to shine here.
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Feb 6, 2019 11:23
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(also Thirteen getting a fez delivered late by space Amazon is a hilarious moment, well worth the price of admission)
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Feb 6, 2019 11:25
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Watch these: https://twitter.com/MaddoxProTweets/status/1093156236055535617
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Android Blues posted:(also Thirteen getting a fez delivered late by space Amazon is a hilarious moment, well worth the price of admission) The sheer joy on her face when she realizes the Kerblam Man has arrived with a package for her is absolutely delightful  
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Feb 6, 2019 22:52
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Why does Series 11 have a 21% audience review on Rotten Tomatoes?
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Feb 7, 2019 17:29
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Grouchio posted:Why does Series 11 have a 21% audience review on Rotten Tomatoes? Same reason why The Last Jedi and Ghostbusters 2016 have audience scores in the 40s.
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Feb 7, 2019 17:32
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Feb 7, 2019 17:45
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Grouchio posted:Why does Series 11 have a 21% audience review on Rotten Tomatoes? Internet chuds are incredibly threatened by women and POCs having lead roles.
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Feb 7, 2019 17:49
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TinTower posted:Same reason why The Last Jedi and Ghostbusters 2016 have audience scores in the 40s. Ghostbusters 2016 was actually really bad though.
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Feb 7, 2019 19:28
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The criticisms I've seen of series 11 from the left include a lack of moral/ethical core and LGBT representation coming largely in the form of bit characters saying "btw im gay" before being killed, as well as the bulk of character development among the diverse cast going to the white man. Basically a progressive shell disguising conservatism underneath
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You only need to look at the comments under any official Doctor Who FB post to see who’s downvoting it. Within seconds of a post appearing there’s a cavalcade of moaning about ‘how boring the show is now’, ‘how it’s aggressively progressive’, ‘catering to SJWs’, and so on. 
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The_Doctor posted:You only need to look at the comments under any official Doctor Who FB post to see who’s downvoting it. Within seconds of a post appearing there’s a cavalcade of moaning about ‘how boring the show is now’, ‘how it’s aggressively progressive’, ‘catering to SJWs’, and so on. It honestly depresses me how loving negative many of the FB comments on nearly every single official Doctor Who FB post is. How and why did a franchise like Who get such lovely loving fans?
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Feb 7, 2019 19:52
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AndyElusive posted:Ghostbusters 2016 was actually really bad though. Nah it's fine.
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Feb 7, 2019 19:55
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I have never cared much about any movie with the word ‘Ghostbusters’ in the title.
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Feb 7, 2019 20:07
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B-b-b-but Doctor Who is sacred. This absolutely ruins the show for me. SPLINK! York_M_Chan fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Feb 7, 2019 20:11
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AndyElusive posted:Ghostbusters 2016 was actually really bad though. It needed a better script and tighter editing that's for sure.
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Feb 7, 2019 20:24
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York_M_Chan posted:B-b-b-but Doctor Who is sacred. This absolutely ruins the show for me. Whatever you do, don't S.P.L.I.N.K. S.P.L.I.N.K and you're dead.
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Feb 7, 2019 20:31
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AndyElusive posted:It honestly depresses me how loving negative many of the FB comments on nearly every single official Doctor Who FB post is. It’s nearly every major franchise nowadays because chuds are the loudest people on the internet and social media sites refuse to shut them down. Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, at this point it wouldn’t even surprise me if the Jif peanut butter Facebook page had people screaming about SJWs in their comment sections.
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Feb 7, 2019 20:33
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I had a guy on Twitter try to tell that the big problem with S11 was how every ep they kept making a big deal about how the Doctor was now a woman 
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Feb 7, 2019 20:51
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It's funny the same kind of people who don't want their entertainment to be "political" have also decided that any kind of diversity in casting is a "political" act, such that the mere inclusion of a woman or a person of color in something is an expression of ideology. You wonder, if a guy asks to bring his boyfriend over, if these people bemoan how the party suddenly got political.
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Feb 7, 2019 21:04
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Bicyclops posted:You wonder, if a guy asks to bring his boyfriend over, if these people bemoan how the party suddenly got political. Judging from the way people talked about Bill Potts last year, even here, I don't think you have to wonder.
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Bicyclops posted:It's funny the same kind of people who don't want their entertainment to be "political" have also decided that any kind of diversity in casting is a "political" act, such that the mere inclusion of a woman or a person of color in something is an expression of ideology. You wonder, if a guy asks to bring his boyfriend over, if these people bemoan how the party suddenly got political. I was talking with a friend about the new Twilight Zone series and before I could get into why I'm really hopeful and excited for it, he commented that he didn't think it was going to be good because it was probably going to be too social issues-y and too heavy handed And I just What? It's the loving Twilight Zone. If it isn't that at least HALF the time, you've failed utterly at what you're doing. This was a show that hated racists and Nazis almost as much as Mel goddamn Brooks. Then you see these chucklefucks complaining about similar stuff with Doctor Who, which has ALWAYS took a hard stance against facisim and being a lovely person and argued towards the better nature of all people, and you have to wonder what the gently caress they ever took from these properties
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Feb 7, 2019 21:22
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2house2fly posted:The criticisms I've seen of series 11 from the left include a lack of moral/ethical core and LGBT representation coming largely in the form of bit characters saying "btw im gay" before being killed, as well as the bulk of character development among the diverse cast going to the white man. Basically a progressive shell disguising conservatism underneath Which I agree with, frankly
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Feb 7, 2019 21:28
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Burkion posted:I was talking with a friend about the new Twilight Zone series and before I could get into why I'm really hopeful and excited for it, he commented that he didn't think it was going to be good because it was probably going to be too social issues-y and too heavy handed Conservatives have this amazing ability to watch something on a purely surface level and never once understand that the story’s central conflict is allegory or metaphor. Willful ignorance or genuine stupidity, either way it’s incredible.
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Feb 7, 2019 21:33
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I think I always knew in my mind that aggregated user scores were useless, but the review bombing of stuff like the latest season of Who, of The Last Jedi, of Ghostbusters and the like kinda proves it plain-faced. Hell, it might actually be worse than useless. Yeah, there's valid complaints to be made about all of those; we know our own issues with Who pretty well, and while I've never seen those other two I've heard drat good and well-reasoned criticisms about what's wrong with them. But a nuanced, considered and explained opinion carries exactly as much weight as an idiot screaming 'BUT WOMEN' at his computer screen, so why bother.
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Feb 7, 2019 21:42
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Burkion posted:I was talking with a friend about the new Twilight Zone series and before I could get into why I'm really hopeful and excited for it, he commented that he didn't think it was going to be good because it was probably going to be too social issues-y and too heavy handed Yeah, being political and heavy-handed pretty much is The Twilight Zone. I'm hopeful for it too, but I really, really hate the CBS leadership and I'm not sure I can pay for their streaming service.
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Feb 7, 2019 21:45
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Conservatives have this amazing ability to watch something on a purely surface level and never once understand that the story’s central conflict is allegory or metaphor. I will take every opportunity to point out how often Republican Presidential nominees use Born in the USA at their rallies, having clearly never listened to a single lyric beyond the chorus.
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Feb 7, 2019 22:32
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Conservatives have this amazing ability to watch something on a purely surface level and never once understand that the story’s central conflict is allegory or metaphor. Yep they do the same thing with Star Trek. It’s like have you even SEEN Star Trek before?!
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Feb 7, 2019 22:43
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Fandoms are conservative in nature, if you think about it. It’s why so many people say their favorite James Bond is Sean Connery.
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Feb 7, 2019 22:54
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Edward Mass posted:Fandoms are conservative in nature, if you think about it. It’s why so many people say their favorite James Bond is Sean Connery. He's my favorite to be honest, but I think it's because the whole concept of James Bond is so hopelessly regressive that you may as well go with the person giving it their all instead of phoning it in like Brosnan or Moore. Plus it's somehow easier to stomach the 60s era sexism than the movies that think they've moved past it but are mostly just as bad.
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I have no real reference here as I've never seen a James Bond movie, but on a very related note, Kirk is definitely my favorite of the Captains. But that owes more to OG STar Trek not really giving a poo poo about the science a lot of the time and not being up their own rear end about their made up poo poo and just being good sci-fi adventure stuff.
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Cleretic posted:I think I always knew in my mind that aggregated user scores were useless, but the review bombing of stuff like the latest season of Who, of The Last Jedi, of Ghostbusters and the like kinda proves it plain-faced. I mean, I think the Ghostbusters reboot is actually quite bad? I'm sure there's people who were angry because WOMEN GHOSTBUSTER but it's also a movie with basically no script or directorial vision
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