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Payndz posted:And even then, you're not seeing them as they were broadcast. PAL DVD resolution is 576 lines, compared to over-the-air's 625. You need Blu-Ray for the full original experience. Only 576 of the 625 "lines" are visible the rest are blanking lines (which by the 70s were no longer actually needed as TVs were able to redraw the screen faster so you see them being used for data like teletext, palplus, etc) You can see the same thing with HDTV where analogue MUSE was described as 1125i but then the exact same size of footage was 1080i once it went digital
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ookiimarukochan posted:Only 576 of the 625 "lines" are visible the rest are blanking lines (which by the 70s were no longer actually needed as TVs were able to redraw the screen faster so you see them being used for data like teletext, palplus, etc) You'd get along with Ms Boods, cos he said almost the same thing, word-for-word, when I asked him about the lines and stuff on PAL/British tv.  He's been leaning towards a BluRay, so I need to think of the DW serial that might tip him over the edge. The extras might do it, too -- I've been trying to lure him into the world of commentaries and all the extra bits (I bought Timelash specifically for the commentary with Colin B and my lovely Paul Darrow). It's been fun trying to guess which ones he'll find a hoot -- I love Mark Strickson's dial-it-up to 11 in Frontios and Enlightenment, but while he enjoyed them, they did hit him in the same sweet spot. He loved Timelash and Vengeance on Varos; we've done Mark of the Rani (he spent the entire serial convinced it was Joan Collins, not Kate O'Mara) and The Two Doctors (his first viewing of Patrick Troughton and Fraser Hines, so he had no idea who they were as DW characters, although since seeing a couple of 1960s serials, he's really come to like the dynamic between the Doctor and Jamie). Apologies for interrupting the interesting general chat with our shenanigans! It's just been fun rewatching these serials with someone who's never seen them before -- this all came out of Forces TV I think it was showing a handful each of serials back in the springtime, and me saying, 'Oh, I have a lot of these on dvd if you want to see them without adverts.'
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The commentary on The Invasion is amazing because they just get increasingly happier and more excited as Packer gets more and more disheveled as the serial goes along. By the end when his hair is all over the place and he just looks so loving done with life everybody is howling, it's the best. 
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Ms Boods posted:(I.E. 'Why doesn't he just get K-9 in there?' Or trying to explain who Liz Shaw is -- he vaguely remembers Jo Grant, but was baffled when Liz showed up -- that said, so far Inferno is his favourite Jon Pertwee of the ones we've been through. Or that the Master in The Mind Robber is not that Master.) You mean e.g. I.e is short for id est, in Latin, which means "that is." "E.g." is "exempli gratia," which translates to "for example." 
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Timby posted:You mean e.g. I.e is short for id est, in Latin, which means "that is." "E.g." is "exempli gratia," which translates to "for example." Oh poo poo, I've always just assumed i.e. stood for 'in essence' or something like that.
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Some of Get Shorty hasn't aged especially well but this scene is fun and educational! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_PL8ouEAus
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Timby posted:You mean e.g. I.e is short for id est, in Latin, which means "that is." "E.g." is "exempli gratia," which translates to "for example." now do "q.v." and "c.f."
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Timby posted:You mean e.g. I.e is short for id est, in Latin, which means "that is." "E.g." is "exempli gratia," which translates to "for example." Nah -- I did actually mean it as 'that is, he asks me...[followed by the examples]' but you're absolutely right -- and it was sloppy usage on my part. E.g. would have been much better! No worries, I know what they both mean (and also where the Romans got their bread from). But ta I blame posting before I was fully awake. Ah, brilliant, on the Invasion commentary - if I can't persuade Mr Boods to watch it, I will on my ownsome.
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ookiimarukochan posted:now do "q.v." and "c.f." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDsSMi4zclo
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Hope he just means that he plans to chew a SHITLOAD of scenery 
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So in a Covid-fuelled dream last night, I dreamt that one of the new villains David Tennant would face off against was himself. Bad David Tennant was wearing a weird plastic parody mask of himself, like the William Shatner mask that Michael Myers wears in Halloween. It had very cartoonish proportions, all angular pointed chin and cheekbones, with a big plastic pompadour/quiff/spiked hair, and black eye holes, through which you could just see Tennant’s real eyes against his burnt, blackened skin in a very creepy effect. He had a fake Rose with him too, in a similar style, and just yeesh 
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There's a villain in either The Avengers or The New Avengers (proper, not Marvel) who's pretty much that. He even swaps masks when he wants to change his expression.
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The_Doctor posted:So in a Covid-fuelled dream last night, I dreamt that one of the new villains David Tennant would face off against was himself. Bad David Tennant was wearing a weird plastic parody mask of himself, like the William Shatner mask that Michael Myers wears in Halloween. It had very cartoonish proportions, all angular pointed chin and cheekbones, with a big plastic pompadour/quiff/spiked hair, and black eye holes, through which you could just see Tennant’s real eyes against his burnt, blackened skin in a very creepy effect. He had a fake Rose with him too, in a similar style, and just yeesh It's the Doctor and Rose from an Auton-ate universe! (sorry not sorry)
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The_Doctor posted:So in a Covid-fuelled dream last night, I dreamt that one of the new villains David Tennant would face off against was himself. Bad David Tennant was wearing a weird plastic parody mask of himself, like the William Shatner mask that Michael Myers wears in Halloween. It had very cartoonish proportions, all angular pointed chin and cheekbones, with a big plastic pompadour/quiff/spiked hair, and black eye holes, through which you could just see Tennant’s real eyes against his burnt, blackened skin in a very creepy effect. He had a fake Rose with him too, in a similar style, and just yeesh This sounds like exactly the sort of thing Doctor Who should do, tbh.
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Four amazing artistic interpretations of the actors at an older age, and one current day photograph of Peter Capaldi  Narsham posted:It's the Doctor and Rose from an Auton-ate universe! 
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That Whittaker gives me Angela Lansbury vibes, and now I'm just imagining Whittaker in a reboot of Murder, She Wrote.
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Smith and Tennant are horrifying but that Capaldi owns.
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Smith looks fine in the cropped twitter preview, but thumbskull above it makes him look so alien.
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I thought Tennant was one of Hale and/or Pace at first.
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Remember, canonically, The Curator can regenerate into older forms of previous incarnations at will.... Apparently he appears off screen as an older 11 in Stranded
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There’s a new Cybus Industries website gone active in the last couple of days, with a countdown going. Cyberspeculation for Jodie’s finale!
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Vinylshadow posted:Can't wait for the new Cyber (Cybus?) Lords ARG Oh, they're not bringing back those Cybermen/Time Lord hybrid things from the really crappy second season finale for Jodie's final episode, are they? Chibnall should know better than making any callbacks to his material by now.
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9 years ago the new Doctor was announced. Yes, David Tennant will be.... wait, no, it must have been Matt Smith..... it was Peter Capaldi!?!?! I could swear it has only been six seasons since the 50th Anniversary spectacular!
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Jerusalem posted:9 years ago the new Doctor was announced. Yes, David Tennant will be.... wait, no, it must have been Matt Smith..... it was Peter Capaldi!?!?! I could swear it has only been six seasons since the 50th Anniversary spectacular!  I don’t like the passage of time.
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The_Doctor posted:There’s a new Cybus Industries website gone active in the last couple of days, with a countdown going. Cyberspeculation for Jodie’s finale! Nice, website powered by International Electromatics. Let's do this.
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Class3KillStorm posted:Oh, they're not bringing back those Cybermen/Time Lord hybrid things from the really crappy second season finale for Jodie's final episode, are they? *Mouth opens.* Cyber voice: "This is the game of Rassilon" *Mouth closes.* I'll accept the Cyber Lords returning if we get us some surprise Omega action.
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Narsham posted:*Mouth opens.* "The Cybusmen of OMEGA!"
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Class3KillStorm posted:Oh, they're not bringing back those Cybermen/Time Lord hybrid things from the really crappy second season finale for Jodie's final episode, are they? Do I think Chibnall can actually do something interesting with them? No. I do not. But it's not an inherently terrible concept, despite being pretty terrible in execution. Whatever concept Chibnall goes for has a pretty big chance of being unpleasant and poorly executed. At least if he's referencing his own stories he's not taking a risk of messing up something more beloved.
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Eiba posted:The worst thing about the Cybermen/Time Lord hybrid things was that they just stood there. If they came back as a higher class of Cyberman and actually did something meaningful related to their Time Lord origin that could be (somewhat) interesting and (somewhat) justify their creation in that god awful story. Yeah, the Cyberlords are an instance of a good idea, done poorly, and trapped in a bad story. Which is not unique among Chibnall stories. I realized when describing the run to a friend that skipped it that while only one or two components of the run are outright bad just on inception, it's just that most of the good ideas are underused.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Moffat revealing that Davros never lost his eyes and he was just Wesley Snipes-ing it for decades. One thing that always annoyed me with Davros is that the shots were always framed with his non-working eyes in the space where eyes should be. Like when they'd do a close-up for his dialogue, the blue forehead "eye" was always too high in the frame, so it doesn't make you think that he's looking out of it. I guess the whole time the camera operators knew!
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DoctorWhat posted:I always assumed that Davros's original body had melted eyes but at some point the Daleks forgot to duplicate that when bringing him back. Oh believe me, the Daleks would not miss out on an opportunity to melt some eyes. ESPECIALLY Davros'!
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