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Like the corners of my mind.

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I like it to, because it paints Lister’s reaction to the circumstances in a much more realistic tone, I think.

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Sarah Jane, then, is a Mary Sue. So is Martha. So was Adric, and Romana, and K9, Jamie, Tegan, Mickey, Ace…

We could go on. By that definition, pretty much every companion in the history of Doctor Who who isn’t Barbara, Ian or Susan is a Mary Sue.

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OH-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!

*steals joke for use in his comic*

*Disregards joke, because it’s a bit blue for his comic*

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Re: Torchowod – how the hell does this help shake off the ?It?s childish and hides it by chucking in unnecessary sex and violence for the sake of it?? Now the fucking stores CAN?T be allowed to rely on being adult. Jesus?

Yes, but judging from the reports coming from the Press Screening of the first episode of the new series, it looks like the Production Team have taken a lot of the criticisms people had concerning the first series on board. A lot of people in the UK press are getting very excited about Torchwood Series 2.

Here in the States, however, the media continues to utterly love the first series. I enjoyed it – certainly enough to import the UK version of the box set when it came out – but it wasn’t without its flaws. I’m still looking forward to Series 2, though.

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I seem to recall hearing somewhere that a limited run of 5,000 or so DeLoreans are going to be newly produced some time in the next few months.

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We’ll soon see how totty it is, laddie! The quarantine period’s nearly up!

Bastard!

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I’m surprised no one has thrown in the “VII and VIII actually take place in a reality pocket” theory yet. That one always makes me giggle.

I personally really enjoyed VII, but nothing in VIII really stands out for me now. I enjoy “Cassandra”, despite it mostly being a retread of “Future Echoes”, and there are one or two gags in “Pete” that still elicit a smirk from me, but on the whole VIII feels… wrong. I don’t object to some elements of the basic premise – the Nanobots resurrecting the crew is fine, but incorporating a Prison into a mining ship feels very wrong to me.

As for that ending, which is in fact the real point of this thread… none of the proposed endings work for me, and a it is at the moment, Rimmer’s dead. He has no way of escaping. He’s done for. Kaputski. But then, that’s not the same Rimmer we all know and hate, is it? It’s the show’s second Rimmer, or the fourth if you count the two Ace Rimmers. If that Rimmer is dead then, honestly, I couldn’t give a smeg.

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That was marvelous.

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Red Dwarf:Just the Tott – A collection of crap we missed from the previous releases?includes an extended version of ?Only The Good? :D

“This brand new extended edition includes updated CGI, additional scenes edited out for time, brand new scenes seamlessly inserted (featuring original artwork and all of the characters voiced by Chris Barrie), as well as incorporating all three endings in one.”

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If he wants to interview me, he’s more than welcome.

Wait, what?

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It’s an interesting theory. A load of tot, of course, but interesting all the same.

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And we’re done.

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I have no idea if any of my College work got backed up when I moved from the UK to the US, and I know it’s not on my old UK-based computer anymore as I wiped my personal data when I went to visit a couple of weeks ago. If my essay has survived the immigration, I’ll slap it up somewhere.

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Cheers. I like to do my bit. Interesting sidenote: the character who says that line is named Llewellyn.

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I actually used a Red Dwarf quote (well, technically a mis-quote) into Jump Leads Issue 1 page 19. You can have a look, if you like.

I’m quite fond of “A superlative suggestion, Sir, with just two minor flaws…” which I have used on and off now for about a decade.

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I took AS/A level Media Studies in College, and the first part of our course was covering “gender Representation in British Sitcom”. While the rest of the students were busy analysing The Office, I decided to write my essay on “Parallel Universe”. I received a very high mark for my essay, and I seem to recall being told it was the highest mark in the class.

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My Mum used to put the subtitles on for Top of the Pops, for an impromptu Karaoke session.

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I think I’ve played it three times since I first bought it. It’s not bad but it takes a sodding hour to get through a game. Tch.

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# Up to the highest height,
Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring… #

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I’m sorry, but our love can never be. I just… don’t like beards.

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If it’s anything like the entire “message to Martha” from Doctor Who series 3 two-parter Human nature/Family of Blood it’ll be Chris Barrie saying things like “woo bang titty cah-cah”.

Which might actually be worth watching.

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I think he?s just come back from America.

Bastard. Did he come to LA? if so, then… double bastard.

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ben, where do you work?

Geographically, I work in Burbank, Los Angeles. If you’re asking who I work for, that’d be the Walt Disney Company.

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Y’know, sometimes I worry that my employers have hired me purely because I have a British accent and thus sound more intelligent than my American co-workers.

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VICTOLY.

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That?s not Talkie! He?s wedge shaped and red, not lozenge. Except that he?s not, he?s a smashed up chrome plated jobbie ?cos the white hole undid history so that Kryten never got around to remaking him.

White Hole, as entertaining as it was, really didn’t seem to make sense to me. Holly shuts herself down because her runtime has been reduced, which makes sense to me. Then they come across a White Hole, which they decide to plug up because it’s causing the crew a minor annoyance. But surely after time is reversed and back to a point before the episode started, Kryten would still have the same notion of restoring Holly’s IQ, and would perform the exact same test on the Toaster. History hasn’t really been changed, it’s just been… y’know… rewound.

Or am I overthinking things?

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is this a Tim Vine Appreciation Thread, then?

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He’s already signed up for the sequel.

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I need to find the letter they sent me first. Either that or find the relevant post on my blog. It basically adds to the whole “BBC don’t like scifi” thing. They “really enjoyed” my script though, and want me to send them anything else I happen to write. At the moment that consists of a short film script about a Bog Monster who’s fed up of being typecast as a Bog Monster, and an unfinished pilot for a sitcom set in a shop that sells videogames and comics books.

Edit: Ah, [here we go].

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I can’t believe some of the shit I used to do with you!

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The out-take where the Pegg buggers that line up by saying it a little bit too deep is perhaps one of my favourite of the Hot Fuzz out-takes.

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David Walliams has his occasional moments. I thought some of Rock Profile was good, and the last episode of Little Britain Series 3 was actually rather good (probably because they were actually trying to do something different with their characters on that occasion. Mostly though, their work is pants.

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Yep. I sort of mentally fused Mark Gatiss and David Walliams together into one entity, for some reason.

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Lovely little catch-all explanation, that…! I should probably come up with something passable for my own writings…

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There is such a thing as “good” fanfiction. You will occasionally come across someone who does “get” what a show is and can write very good stuff. But in order to find that one good fanfic you have to wade through pages and pages of Lister/Rimmer slash, so ultimately it’s not worth it.

I stopped writing Fanfiction a few years ago, and instead focused my energy on writing my own scifi-comedy (there’s an interesting story involving the pilot script, the BBC, what they thought of it and what happened next, but that’s perhaps best saved for another thread).

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“I’m a little biddy” always gets a smile from me.

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I always assumed Lister would be wary about using the Series VII Time Drive to get back to Earth following their incident in Dallas, especially as the Time Drive doesn’t appear to function in an overly reliable manner. But that doesn’t explain how Lister knows it will transport them back to Earth at the start of the episode (which is his motivation for getting the device again in the first place).

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While The Pitch of Fear is by far the best of the Who night sketches, my favourite bit of any of them is in The Web of Caves when Gatiss pops his head out of the TARDIS door and says ?Where have you brought me to this time, old girl???

That’s my favourite of the sketches, as it happens. I’m rather fond of the moment when he sticks his head out of the TARDIS to speak to Mark Walliams and his new little friend and then turns back to look into ther TARDIS and says, rather irately, “It’s for me.”

(Incidentally, wrapping the word “me” in em tags rather boggles my eyes a tad.)

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Big-Finish-style audios would DEFINITELY be something I?m interested in too.

Definitely. I’m surprised it hasn’t been done already, really.

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The guy can write dialogue and has a marvelous way with words and ideas, but his storytelling leaves a lot to be desired. Good reads, nevertheless.

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Blimey.

And probably not. I’d go out for a drink with ’em, though.

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I think the whole situation has been handled badly by the BBC, and perhaps moreso by GNP. The impression I got from the statement on PoV was “Come and have a chat with us about it, love Lucy”, to which GNP release a statement which, to me, seems to say “the BBC told us they weren’t interested so they’ll NEVAR BE INTERESTED, abloo bloo bloo”. I imagine once they wrote this statement they went to their bedroom, put on Hybrid Theory and wrote in their LiveJournal. Or something.

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It?s a nice little piece of Grant/Naylor gold. I think that?s their try, in the earlier series of pushing boundaries in terms of how to tell a story. I did get that line eventually but it didn?t really sink in until i saw it a few times.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that Grant and Naylor had intended to feature similar scenes in later episodes, but it apparently didn’t happen.

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