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General / Re: Things that went over your...
Last post by sheridan - Today at 03:58:34 AMQuote from: Dash Decent on 03 April, 2024, 06:09:43 AM'Armageddon' derives from the Hebrew, 'Har Megiddo'. Given that Megiddo is a place, we may be able to shoehorn a 'Meg" reference into all this as well.
Megiddo also being the settlement in Israel in which the ancient picture of Damien appears in The Omen II.
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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series
Last post by IndigoPrime - 12 May, 2024, 11:07:04 PMIt felt very... RTD Who. The man doesn't do logic. His plots, such as they are, fall to pieces the second you examine them. But the show is loud and flashy and sometimes fun.
I thought Space Babies was absurd. I'm not sure I liked it, with the thing lurching back and forth between uncanny valley talking babies, the C-list Alien, and the Doctor repeatedly being weirdly callous in scaring the kids. The final act wasn't earned either. This one could probably have been saved with a script editor but this show since the return hasn't cared about giving someone in that position any power.
I thought the second episode was much better. The villain was menacing. The story just about held up. Ish. And the ending was so over the top that you had to admire probably the most expensive thing Doctor Who has ever done being a dance number. Even if the song itself was (ironically, given the plot) terrible.
So a 2/5 and a 3/5 from me for those so far. And that's a quarter of the series done. It'll be interesting to see where it goes and if people are so quick to consider RTD the second coming at every available opportunity. I'm preparing for it to be fine and am not terribly invested. It's six hours of hopefully entertaining telly.
I thought Space Babies was absurd. I'm not sure I liked it, with the thing lurching back and forth between uncanny valley talking babies, the C-list Alien, and the Doctor repeatedly being weirdly callous in scaring the kids. The final act wasn't earned either. This one could probably have been saved with a script editor but this show since the return hasn't cared about giving someone in that position any power.
I thought the second episode was much better. The villain was menacing. The story just about held up. Ish. And the ending was so over the top that you had to admire probably the most expensive thing Doctor Who has ever done being a dance number. Even if the song itself was (ironically, given the plot) terrible.
So a 2/5 and a 3/5 from me for those so far. And that's a quarter of the series done. It'll be interesting to see where it goes and if people are so quick to consider RTD the second coming at every available opportunity. I'm preparing for it to be fine and am not terribly invested. It's six hours of hopefully entertaining telly.
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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series
Last post by Richard - 12 May, 2024, 10:51:11 PMIt's never pretended to be anything but a kids' show for kids. (The spin-off Torchwood was marketed as Dr Who for adults, but it turned out to be less popular than Dr Who.) It's just that some writers are better at writing all-ages material than others.
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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series
Last post by nxylas - 12 May, 2024, 10:28:33 PMQuote from: The Monarch on 12 May, 2024, 09:36:04 PMits always been for kidsI think it's fluctuated over the years, from a kids' programme that adults enjoy to an adult programme that kids enjoy. depending on who is in charge. There were definitely periods starting quite early on when it aroused the ire of Mary Whitehouse et al for being too horrific for kids.
its just the kids grew up and just kept watching it
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Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
Last post by Colin YNWA - 12 May, 2024, 10:02:45 PMSo watching 1987's The Gate and well I've not finished it yet but I'm half way through then the only exciting thing that's happened so far is 27(ish) minutes in Terry the best friend of the led Glen played by Stephen Dorff not less is dancing in his bedroom and on his wall you can clearly see the cover of Prog 458 (The Adrian Cockroach cover) is clearly visible...
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Creative Common / Re: Does my Art look big in th...
Last post by Nightbook - 12 May, 2024, 09:57:52 PMOr chuffed. Definitely one or the other. 
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Creative Common / Re: Does my Art look big in th...
Last post by Nightbook - 12 May, 2024, 09:57:06 PMQuote from: Hoagy on 12 May, 2024, 05:11:32 PMI'm glad the Anderson and Dredd composition is being received well.For what it's worth I'll point to a couple of things I really like: firstly the placement/positioning of Anderson's arms/hands. You've really captured/hinted at something ephemeral (which is probably not quite the right word but I can't think of a better one). Also the way you've tilted Anderson's head back: I find any kind of worm's eye view an absolute [REDACTED] to pull off. It's especially tough when drawing women (blokes are somehow more forgiving). You should be cuffed.
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Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 12 May, 2024, 09:44:28 PMRoger Corman
Forget his acclaimed Little Shop of Horrors, without Death Race 2000 we wouldn't have Dredd as we know him.
RIP Roger.
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Off Topic / Re: RIPs
Last post by Hawkmumbler - 12 May, 2024, 09:44:28 PMOne man film making dynamo Roger Corman has left the studio.
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Film & TV / Re: New Doctor Who series
Last post by pauljholden - 12 May, 2024, 09:43:01 PMHonestly felt for all the many many flaws of that first one, it looked beautiful (well, monster notwithstanding) all the space stuff. And I did laugh at the space startion butt venting all the gas...
(It did feel like a faint echo of rose, Doctor turns up and starts running and keeps running and no-one has any time to relax and just be...)
(It did feel like a faint echo of rose, Doctor turns up and starts running and keeps running and no-one has any time to relax and just be...)