Jonathan Capps

[Jonathan Capps]

> Mmm?Reiko Aylesworth.

But… her face! It’s *far* too big.

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Still, it’s 6 episodes, so at least it’s not from series VII or VIII. Perhaps they’re starting with series 1 and it’ll continue into the New Year?

Anyway, cheers for the info Thomas.

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Looks like they’re sticking to the ridiculous 2003 times for the repeats. For God’s sake, have a bit of *pride* in the show, BBC.

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Sm-EGG, like a bird’s EGG!

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Isn’t viral content meant to be free, though?

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> My apologies. I didn?t know. You hear me? I DIDN?T KNOW!

Well, to be fair, I was originally working on the assumption of a much closer tie to Ealing Studios and The Model Unit than just space rental, so I was wrong there.

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> Does it? I thought they just rented space there?

Well, yes, I should’ve said “I will go and see this, as it?ll support Ealing Studios’ new film which, in turn, supports The Model Unit. Also: uniforms.” because according to their credits, they worked on St Trinian’s as well as Atonement.

> Which is to say – did buying a ticket to Batman Begins support GNP?

I don’t know, did GNP provide services for any films coming out of Shepperton? Not really much of a comparison :P

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I will go and see this, as it’ll support Ealing Studios which, in turn, supports The Model Unit. Also: uniforms.

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> *relocates to the UK*

Don’t tease me with your false promises.

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I’m pretty sure I know whose the first review is. It’s just needless huffing and puffing. Every release is justified, but not every release is to everyone’s taste – that seems to get muddled up in the mind of some people who just want to see distaste in everything they look at.

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Yeah, I’m interested to see what these people are saying.

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Why can’t the series cross over in the schedules?

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Personally, I thought Phil’s post was excellent, but ruined by the blatant deus ex machina at the end.

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See also: ‘Jump the Shark’. A totally arbitrary criticism with no actual meaning what-so-ever.

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The X-Files has an episode where the two fellas are skulking around a dark storage area and the following exchange happened:

– It’s here.
– Where?
– Somewhere.

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Monkey, if you don’t stop quoting spam I’m going to literally kill you.

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Is that why you left so early? :(

Yes, with much gusto!

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Yes, this is ace! It’s even better when you get the little local references. Not that I live in Middlesbrough.

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I think it was Ian (or maybe Mick) who suggested at the weekend that Howard Goodall should present a show called Massive Organs. This HAS to happen.

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To be fair, the ultra-busy John did forward your email to the group, but it kind of got forgotten about. Sorry!

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> I think the Trek remasterings, which seem to have come out very well indeed, certainly prove what we hear on the DVD – it was done a decade too soon.

The thing is, can you even begin to compare their remastering job with the sort of remastering job you’d be able to do on Red Dwarf? Just the sheer weight of money and technical expertise they have as their disposal would render any comparison completely meaningless.

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I’ve been deeply suspicious of the Star Trek remasterings since I heard they were redoing the models in CG. I totally understand the need to do another transfer (to clean it all up and turn it into true HD) but Star Treks models are lovely, and it just seems unnecessary to replace them with something that’s in danger of going completely against the feel of the show.

I’ll tell the one thing that made me boil with rage about the Dwarf remasterings: the Bodyswap chase sequence. The original sequence was completely and utterly beautiful and I am completely at a loss as to why they replaced it all with CG and, as if fully admitting what a limited technology they were using, PUT IT IN A HIDEOUS CAVERN. Oh, god, it makes me vomit just thinking about it.

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I’m sorry, I’ve been having an affair with Austin Ross.

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I AM JEALOUS.

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Do you like movies about gladiators?

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He is serious. And, funnily enough, he IS called Shirley. Ian is just his stage name.

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Arlene, you do realise you’ve never been wronger, don’t you?

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My Firefox showed the adverts when I asked it to. IT OBEYS AND FEARS ME.

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> All in all, the internets have been very good to me. (Except whenever I try to find a copy of ?Who On Earth Is Tom Baker?. I figure it?s only a matter of time, howeever, before I find a copy within my price range. The internet?s good that way.)

Wasn’t that only released a couple of years ago? Strange that’d be a rare item already, but I guess that’s the price you pay for being a dirty colonist.

If you have no luck finding the actual book, though, I highly recommend downloading his audio book reading from some dubious source or another, as it’s ACE.

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> a Bog Monster who?s fed up of being typecast as a Bog Monster

You could get Mike Myers to play the lead role.

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It’s really odd watching back to Smeg Ups and the Making Of for that weekend, as it was the start of SO much more than just the film.

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Wait… you have a girlfriend? Is she some sort of masochist?

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> You?re thinking of Gunmen, where Rimmer starts again as soft-light. (Or possibly the first version of the final scene of Legion?)

Aren?t you?!

No, I’m thinking of the Legion scene… I thought that was a clothing cock up?

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> From all evidence previously in the series it does seem to be that blue = hard light.

But hasn’t it already been said that Rimmer’s change to a blue suit after the conversion in Legion was a continuity error? Surely you can’t make up your own laws of the Dwarf universe and then cry foul when they’re contradicted?

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> *eject*

!

[Jonathan Capps]

Calm down, dear, it’s just anal penetration.

I feel unwell.

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I find it hard to concentrate on any of the lines when Jane Horrocks is in that nighty…

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I MUST be in the room when John first watches Airplane, as it’s quite possibly the most John Hoare friendly film ever made.

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> Bah. Our house was DOCTOR WHO FREE when I was growing up. I have no idea why, as I would have loved it. Bastard parents.

Snap.

My mum was a big Tom Baker fan as a kid, but she chose to make me watch Star Trek instead of Doctor Who. She hated Sylvester McCoy, though, and since for some reason I only watched shows she liked, I never saw it.

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Fair enough, if there was no real interest in the films was there to start with. I’d just hate to think that TFM crushed any seeds of curiosity you were starting to have about Star Wars. Having said that, though, the Original Trilogy are among those films I’d recommend that everyone watched, because they’re brilliant.

To even out the score, I hadn’t seen Blade Runner until very recently and I was left completely cold by the Incredible, which seems to be distinctly against the majority view of almost every fellow geek I know and respect.

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To even slightly allow one of the prequels to affect your perception of the original trilogy is, to put it blunty, fucking stupid. Watch them and forget The Phantom Menace ever existed.

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Now covered in the news:

http://www.ganymede.tv/atspeed/2007/10/bodysnatcher-bits

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I suggest you watch it right after you’ve watched Airplane.

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The problem with Mitchell and Webb playing the roles is that we’d not get Arthur and Ford… we’d get Mitchell and Webb. It’s the same problem I see happening with Simon Pegg as Scotty – their performnces are just too grounded in their own personalities.

I don’t mind the film too much, but that’s probably because its got by far the best version of Trillian in it. Mmmm.

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There was, however, one small problem with Tonguetied?s post…

It was bollocks.

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Whereas I’m delighted that you’ve returned to rile everyone up, would it be at all possible for you to fuck fucking off?

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> But isn?t it interesting that a year later the same actress returns to play the part again?only this time she has the accent and attitude that Rimmer implies?

You know I’ve never even twigged that was the same actress before.

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I love that CD so much. I was totally unaware of its existence before I spotted the set on eBay. It’s lovely to hear the three of them having an obvious laugh and being the most interesting men in the world at the same time.

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Didn’t Mike mention it at this year’s DJ? I can’t remember exactly where I heard it, but when Danny mentioned it here it rung a bell.

I could be making things up, though…

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One bit of dodgy sound that always bothers me is in Marooned when Rimmer says “What about your guitar?”. He’s gone slightly out of range of the mics and it really sticks out for me. Can’t remember if it was fixed in re-mastered, though.

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