BECAUSE YOU WRITING IT LIKE HE'D SAY IT YOU MOTHER FUCKING, FUCKING, FUCK
Seriously though watch the Unit it's really rather good.
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Quote: Marc P @ 26th December 2013, 4:15 PM GMTWhat did we feel about the use of narrative voice over?
I thought it felt tacked on when they realised the whole shebang was too confusing. And it was so badly written that it didn't solve that problem.
Quote: Marc P @ 26th December 2013, 3:56 PM GMTHere's the clincher, and answer honestly boys and girls. Why was the town called Christmas?
Because there's a "tradition" (*) that Doctor Who has a "special" (**) episode on Christmas day. This episode had nothing to do with Christmas. So the town had to be called Christmas.
(*) established after 40-odd years without one
(**) shit
I only found out today that they've released Spearhead from Space on Blu Ray. Interesting that they're releasing classic Who on Blu Ray, but will there be many releases?
Spearhead, obviously, is all filmed on 16mm so the picture quality is going to improve somewhat. Any episodes with scenes filmed on videotape though aren't going to benefit. I'm fairly sure that Spearhead is the only classic Who to be entirely filmed on film, so I suspect this will be a one off.
I like Spearhead from Space, it's a classic that worked effectively within the limitations
I like it too. Never that keen on Liz as an assistant though.
He's having a go at Sara Jane now
Quote: Badge @ 26th December 2013, 5:49 PM GMTI thought it felt tacked on when they realised the whole shebang was too confusing. And it was so badly written that it didn't solve that problem.
Because there's a "tradition" (*) that Doctor Who has a "special" (**) episode on Christmas day. This episode had nothing to do with Christmas. So the town had to be called Christmas.
This but no comment about the lack of imagination of the writer producer shoe runner Demi-god on this ep. So nine out of ten. I'll approve the auto fill of show to shoe so will let it stand.
(*) established after 40-odd years without one
(**) shit
This. What a dreary lack of imagination. Taking the piss out of your audience. It makes no sense on so many levels. Call a town on an alien planet Christmas and explain it as part of the narrative or ... You know.. Don't treat you audience as muppets.
They did it a few times.
I think the thing that got me was they have all these lovely, distinctive alien races. And they just jam them all into 10 minutes of ugly, stupid looking SFX battles. No one else does it, well STNG did it for one episode, but that was a witty piss take.
Sontarans are soldiers, cunning, arrogant the ultimate idea of the imperialist soldier. Featured in a few of the best stories such as the Invasion of Time.
Cybermen are the protoborg, a relentless, pitiless face of science gone wrong.
And of course the Daleks, the first serious, alien, bad guys of any scifi stories.
Creations worked on over 50 years by some of their sharpest minds in UK scifi. Reduced to crap jokes, stupid fx battles and just emptiness.
I hope Moffat never leaves*, and continues to wind you all up so!
*Actually, I'm almost ready for someone else to give it a go now.
Stott when you set yourself apart from us, you're looking the one bean in the tin of beans claiming he's a wolverine.
You're one of us, you deluded bean.
Clara is staying for the forseeable future I assume?
who knows
maybe to reset the tone Peter Capaldi will kill her with swearing in the first 5 minutes.
Quote: sootyj @ 26th December 2013, 7:25 PM GMTStott when you set yourself apart from us, you're looking the one bean in the tin of beans claiming he's a wolverine.
You're one of us, you deluded bean.
One of you and Marc P? Are we the new three musketeers?
Quote: zooo @ 26th December 2013, 7:26 PM GMTClara is staying for the forseeable future I assume?
I would imagine she's in it for at least his first series.
The BCG your family who loves you
old bean
I'm usually almost Stott-like in my ability to forgive most things Who-related, but that was an unbelievable sack of shit that was so bad it made me more angry than any TV family show has the right to do. Moffat must have forgotten that his first 'series split' gave us the two worst series finales ever (Good Man Goes to War, Wedding of River Song, lest anyone has been lucky enough to forget them) as he gave us the pointless (and worse) remakes of them with a few other random 'favourite bits' thrown in for bad measure.
2/10, and only rated that high for the weeping angels bit and Matt Smith's performances - but he was a great Doctor and deserved far far better.