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Box of Bunnies posted:Think of all the terrible, misogynistic jokes he could recycle from The IT Crowd, though! It's good to know that show doesn't get better from when I immediately gave up on it and decided to watch Black Books instead. I like to think that it was mostly safe from the Linehan bigotry, but I've been afraid to rewatch it.
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Bicyclops posted:It's good to know that show doesn't get better from when I immediately gave up on it and decided to watch Black Books instead. I like to think that it was mostly safe from the Linehan bigotry, but I've been afraid to rewatch it. Nothing comes to mind that's more egregious than any early 2000s show. I think Dylan Moran had a hand in writing it, which might have offset Linehan's shittiness. Like Mathews and Father Ted
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The worst thing that comes to mind is the "Fran's date realises that he's gay" bit that's a bunch of stereotypes but like, even there, it's not really playing up negative stereotypes, it's just a bunch of dumb stuff like 'he talks with his mum a lot, and calls a group of famous gay men fabulous.' Gammon only worked on the first series and all the episodes he did were co-written by Dylan Moran and co-directed by someone else yeah, so it wasn't Full Force Linehan like we finally got with IT Crowd
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May 14, 2019 08:47
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Barry Foster posted:Nothing comes to mind that's more egregious than any early 2000s show. I think Dylan Moran had a hand in writing it, which might have offset Linehan's shittiness. It's mostly Moran with Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley, Linehan's only involved in the first series. Arthur Matthews pops up a bit as well.
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Box of Bunnies posted:The worst thing that comes to mind is the "Fran's date realises that he's gay" bit that's a bunch of stereotypes but like, even there, it's not really playing up negative stereotypes, it's just a bunch of dumb stuff like 'he talks with his mum a lot, and calls a group of famous gay men fabulous.' I'll always remember that scene purely for Fran trying to think of something flirty to say and ending up with,"Well would you just look at these... breasts..."  I loved Black Books and IT Crowd, but Linehan being a gigantic piece of poo poo really does throw a lot of the jokes into a sad new context. What seemed like it was making fun of stupid ideas now comes across a lot more meanspirited.
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If memory serves, Moran wrote most of Black Books season 2 all by himself, which largely didn’t work well.
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Oh boy....I'm arguing with Frazer Hines on Twitter about Dreyfus. Never meet your heroes, kids
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jivjov posted:Oh boy....I'm arguing with Frazer Hines on Twitter about Dreyfus. The french artillery officer, the star of Veep or the Herbert Lom character in the Pink Panther films?
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The Doctor meets The Master ... https://twitter.com/Alex_Macqueen/status/1129374575324729345
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Every time I finally forget about the Space Force, it comes up again and I am in danger of dying from laughter.
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Bicyclops posted:Every time I finally forget about the Space Force, it comes up again and I am in danger of dying from laughter. It always cracks me up because there's like 6 people in space right now, and that's higher than average.
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Now I'm not telling the BBC how to do their business, but personally I wouldn't have picked Ted Cruz as the guy to announce the complete recovery and restoration of those missing episodes 
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The_Doctor posted:It always cracks me up because there's like 6 people in space right now, and that's higher than average. *Mulder voice* That's just what they want you to think. 
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The_Doctor posted:It always cracks me up because there's like 6 people in space right now, and that's higher than average. I'm not sure, but the daleks are behind this.
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I don't think the Space Force is particularly funny. The militarisation of space, something that didn't happen even during the darkest days of the cold war, is continuing to grow and we should all be terrified. How long before there are orbital weapons platforms and anti-sattelite weaponry?
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marktheando posted:I don't think the Space Force is particularly funny. The militarisation of space, something that didn't happen even during the darkest days of the cold war, is continuing to grow and we should all be terrified. How long before there are orbital weapons platforms and anti-sattelite weaponry? As with many things in the new fascist hellscape, it is both terrifying and also extremely funny
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marktheando posted:I don't think the Space Force is particularly funny. The militarisation of space, something that didn't happen even during the darkest days of the cold war, is continuing to grow and we should all be terrified. How long before there are orbital weapons platforms and anti-sattelite weaponry? Right. Like I said, daleks.
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marktheando posted:I don't think the Space Force is particularly funny. The militarisation of space, something that didn't happen even during the darkest days of the cold war, is continuing to grow and we should all be terrified. How long before there are orbital weapons platforms and anti-sattelite weaponry? Please define "darkest days of the Cold War", as I'm feeling like Ronald Reagan and his "Star Wars" space defense platform ideas from the 1980s are getting sort of glossed over here
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Please define "darkest days of the Cold War", as I'm feeling like Ronald Reagan and his "Star Wars" space defense platform ideas from the 1980s are getting sort of glossed over here That didn't actually happen though, despite all the money spent on researching space weapons it was a fantasy in Reagan's swiss cheese brain. The closest we have come to weaponising space in reality is that there was an AK on board Mir.
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Fil5000 posted:The french artillery officer, the star of Veep or the Herbert Lom character in the Pink Panther films? James Dreyfus the transphobic actor playing the First Master. Frazer Hines cited him as his favorite Big Finish Master and I posted something in dismay about how he's a lovely transphobe, to which Hines responded "I'm talking about his acting, not his politics"
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marktheando posted:That didn't actually happen though, despite all the money spent on researching space weapons it was a fantasy in Reagan's swiss cheese brain. The closest we have come to weaponising space in reality is that there was an AK on board Mir. Sure, and the Space Force is a fantasy in Trump's Swiss cheese brain. Like most everything else he's demanded, he's not going to get it. The USAF holds 85% of the military's space-related budget, and loving lol if Trump thinks they're just going to give that over to some upstart new kid service branch without a fight. So no need to worry; whether in DW or in real life, the Space Force is just pure fantasy. 
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2house2fly posted:Presumably they could create a separate branch and give it its own budget without taking anything away from the USAF
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2house2fly posted:Presumably they could create a separate branch and give it its own budget without taking anything away from the USAF One last word and then I'll jump off the train tracks of this particular derail: IIRC, the plan as laid out is that it would be its' own branch, taking the personnel and budget from the various space programs as run by the Army, Navy, and USAF. To assume that those branches would be perfectly willing to just give up the people and money they get for those various space-based programs is extremely naive, to say the least. However, all this requires Congressional approval though, and Trump couldn't even get a Republican-controlled Congress to agree to dismantle Obamacare, so good luck with that. Now back to Doctor Who! 
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DO YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENED, CHIBNALL?????
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1130926244801974273
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Nice! Not the best of pulls, but it's always nice to see a non-overused classic alien return.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shJRm4sNuhE By the way, anyone watching Rusty's new show? Plenty of Who alumni in it, including Anne Reid (from "Smith and Jones") including T'Nia "How do you cope with all that ego?" Miller, and RTD's biggest crush, Russell Tovey. I want a hand phone now. TinTower fucked around with this message at 22:45 on May 21, 2019 |
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Have the Judoon always had rad mohawks and I just never noticed? 
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Teek posted:Nice! Not the best of pulls, but it's always nice to see a non-overused classic alien return. It's kind of cool that the revival has been going long enough now that the Judoon are considered "classic". I don't mean that in a sarcastic way, I really dig the Judoon and it's cool to see them as a regular recurring alien race. Also.... Davros1 posted:No, that's new. 
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Davros1 posted:No, that's noo. Fixed that for yoo.
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Jerusalem posted:It's kind of cool that the revival has been going long enough now that the Judoon are considering "classic". I'm right there in that same boat. I'd much rather be using that in regards to a true classic Who alien who has yet to appear in the revival, something like the Terileptil or the Sea Devils.
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A Challenger Appears! https://twitter.com/pipmadeley/status/1131166462801010688
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Syl's also doing a movie with Maisie Williams.
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Davros1 posted:Syl's also doing a movie with Maisie Williams. I want to make a joke about a war between Middle-earth and Westeros, but I can't think of a good one.
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Davros1 posted:Syl's also doing a movie with Maisie Williams. "And what do we say to the God of Death?" "Not toda-" "That's right, we mock it relentlessly before exposing this so-called divinity as having feet of clay, outclassed by the true divinity that is the greater aspirations of the human soul defined in truth by its own mortality!"
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From this article about human composting in Washington state: Look! The round things!
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