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I couldn’t be arsed looking at my shelves. Eh.

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Twenty-four discs?

Of the released DVDs I can count a maximum of twenty-five (I think), but…

16 = I to VIII
+ 3 = Bodysnatcher
+ 2 = Back to Earth
+ 2 = X
+ 1 = Beat the Geek
+ 1 = Just the Smegs

I can’t see them including the smegs assuming the I to VIII are the double-disc copies, can’t see them including Geek and and I would be surprised if they included the remastered episodes (unless the series 1 and 2 docs are on those discs and they are too lazy to move then to a separate disc with the main bonus stuff).

I wonder what the last four discs will be, given the first twenty will presumably be all the episodes and series extras.

Yes, this is interesting.

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I haven’t rally enjoyed any of the new Who series… well, the Eccleston one was okay but Tennant was awful. However I have very much enjoyed Matt Smith and this series. That is all I have to say.

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Their 80s Action section has long been a favourite of mine… I noticed the Dwarf article and thought about posting it here; on a related note, my computer has been dead for some time but I have returned neverthless. Glad to see the number of headlines on the front page hasn’t increased by a number more than two. :)

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It was quite good, though it was certainly nothing spectacular. I know it wouoldn’t have made sense for Sam to appear with the way it went, but I’m still disapointed he didn’t.

I also find it hard to believe they had planned this from the beginning.

I’m also glad my joke speculation before series 2 started has proven correct, at least in some way.

So: entertaining series, but it was no Life on Mars.

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I have read lots of comments that specifically say that it is; granted a lot of them were from reviews and press as opposed to normal people, but I’ve never seen anything else branded as such so many times. Anyway I actually thought it got better as it went on as I didn’t think much of the mini series or a lot of the first season. Generally also I thought the pace of it was far too fast, particularly when Starbuck goes to look for that arrow and they make a big deal about it, then she’s back like two episodes later. In fact I thought the pacing throughout wasn’t very good and there was only time to breath in the last part of season 4, and even that picked up again towards the end. The finale itself was okay I suppose, although they spent too long on new Earth and then the final thing was ridiculous, even though I liked the idea that it was all set in the past.

I’ll give the series consistency, although like I say I thought it was massively over-hyped.

I’m interested though, how many characters did you (or anyone else) really care for throughout the series? If it was more than four I’d be surprised.

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Yes.

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It does annoy me a lot as well. People are lazy I guess, or hate themselves for spending some deal of money on a big tv and feel they have to justify it by watching everything as big as they can, or maybe the bars bother them. It annoys me but not to the extent of trying to change it, as I did this once and gave up after my friend kept switching back to WIDE when we were watching something that shouldn’t have been. Eh.

As for Lost, I still don’t see the big deal about it. I did watch all of it in a couple of months when season 5 started with one of my friends who has been watching it since it began, so the drawn out mystery of a lot of things didn’t bother me as much as it probably would have had I been there since it aird. But then I didn’t think it was that fantastic anyway; entertaining, sure, but nothing more. I think it’s because it’s so new that everyone raves about it, same with the new Battlestar Galactica which I recently finished. No fucking way is that the best sci-fi show ever; it’s not even close, but I think the continuing arc combined with the fact that it’s new helped to make everyone think it was so amazing, or at least the praise I’ve seen of it. To me it just seemed to be the Dominion War for an entire series instead of two seasons except miles more cheesy and with only two or maybe three characters that I genuinely cared for. Again, good (some great moments, don’t get me wrong; same with Lost, and Heroes for that matter) but nothing spectacular.

All of those shows never stayed with me after they were over, either individual episodes or the whole thing the way other things have. With other stuff I have sat in bed still thinking about and caring for the characters, but not at all with any of these.

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I don’t like the idea of a prequel one bit. At least it’ll look nice…

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MJ is a legend. That is all.

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I have to agree that the writers don’t really seem to have many explanations for half the things going on. I’ve thought this for a while and it doesn’t really bother me. AtA is enjoyable enough, especially the second series.

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> I think my new favourite thing is Sophie Winkleman?s outtakes.

This This This x10000000000.

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> Better that he stay in the new timeline, rather than make what Nero did completely inconsequential. If ?our? Spock went through a magic door back to the life he knew why should we give a shit about the characters we?ve just had to re-invest in?

Fair point, but beyond a few moments mostly involving McCoy I can’t say I cared about the characters much.

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Any minute now…

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Even though LoM was better, Ashes will probably benefit from a third series, especially if it ties in a lot with LoM..

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> It?s been planned that way for ages. LoM was gonna have a third series but Simm wisely told them to sod off. And what?s he done since? Fucking nothing. Except for the odd thing. Idiot.

Is that true? I did read something like that somewhere a while ago, although I think it was here. Interesting. I take it that series two wouldn’t have ended the way it did if that had happened, or were there plans to keep going after he jumps?

I am pleased Ashes third series is a definite, though. I thought it was still being talked about.

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Cliffhanger too! Genius!

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Throw in Robocop and you’ve got a film.

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Holy shit that’s amazing. I kind of want to see the US version now.

Anyway, latest ep of Ashes was good. I agree about Alex’s behaviour being quite strange and she was generally annoying for most of this ep, also agree that the way things went with Chris was understandable. I doubt he’ll redeem himself in the next one; they’ll ave that for series three I guess. Plus I can’t see Alex getting back home next week, so a third series looks very likely indeed.

I would like Sam until show up, but I guess that will probably be saved for series three as well now.

And Ray is amazing. Bit of a twat mostly yes, but he is a bad dude none the less.

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> ignore this

Duly noted.

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If the film is some sort of exploitation piece then yes it most definitely is.

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I once bought a Bond soundtrack album and they were all covers.

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No, films such as 80s action and blaxspoitation. Although I suppose shit DVD transfers are also acceptable.

I tell you, I remember watching Road House at a friend’s house a while ago on DVD and it looked great. I thought to myself, “what the fuck is this shit,” and had to watch my VHS copy as son as I got home to erase the memory.

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Excellent cartoon. I liked I Am Weasel as well, and Cow and Chicken.

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When we watched it on new years eve the end of it linked up exactly with the start of the new year. It was a pleasing coincidence.

I want to read 2063 and 3001.

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I too think it is a bit shit that Nimoy isn’t actually in the proper Trek universe anymore. Eh.

Still, I’m sure if it isn’t addressed in the sequel (and frankly I doubt it will be) it will be dealt with in a novel.

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VHS is the only way to watch some films.

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> (remember when one brief shot of the ship in space was all you’d seen?!)

Ahhh.

Also, this is an amazing photograph.

http://reddwarf.co.uk/news/2009/05/29/chris%2Dis%2Dback%2Damong%2Dthe%2Dmachines/chris-is-back-2l.jpg

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There were definitely Shatner moments in the last scene he was in when he came onto the bridge, before Nimoy’s voice-over.

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> ?Make it so, evasive maneuvers, Tea Earl Grey Hot, Engage!?

This made me go haha inside.

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I assumed it was TNG given Patrick Stewart’s aborted phone call to his lawyer.

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Yeah but that’s not really the same.

Also, I just remembered another point I’d like to make: the music reminded me a lot of the score in Starship Troopers.

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As fail as it is, I also kind of like Nemesis.

But the new film… I went in with zero expectations (well, actually they went up a bit after after watching all of Heroes and most of lost in the last few months, but they were still pretty minimal) and was not surprised.

It was alright. Mostly a liked the classic references. Character wise, mostly it was all okay; I liked the guy who played McCoy especially. Didn’t like whoever it was playing Uhura, but that she had virtually nothing to do may have had something to d with it. Also, a few of the early bits with Kirk were a bit shit. Actually, after the first battle,I didn’t think much of it until they leave the Academy.

Now wait, here’s some more stuff I thought was shit: the big creature that chased Kirk before he meets Nimoy, the space diving thing (Sulu’s fencing line was cool, but did we really need to have them sword fighting bald Romulan’s in the middle of the atmosphere?) and the pacing of the film in the last half an hour as it seemed to be in a massive rush to finish. I mean, Kirk and Spock beam on to the stupidly huge Romulan future ship, have a quick phaser fight and then suddenly Spock is off flying his ship and then the film ends. More or less.

However, the final bit was amazing. Probably the best bit of the whole film actually.

I thought it was okay, a bit too average with an unfortunate ratio of good bits against shit or okay bits.

That said, the sequel will probably be better.

Also, if actual Spock is now in this new universe/alternate past, then that is a bit silly.

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Of course they are friends. They just don’t want to admit it.

I have always loved the bit where Lister convinces Rimmer to become Ace in Stoke, and in fact if you compare their goodbyes in both Stoke and Holoship it’s pretty obvious they like each other.

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This is an amazing site. There is potentially lots of potential fun to be had there, potentially.

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I’ve been doing a commentary rewatch and hit VII last night. I would like to point out that I forgot the commentary on Tikka is the extended remastered version, and that the look Craig gives in the final extended bit at the end before he successfully gets the curry is a thing of beauty.

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^ That.

Anyway, I think Bruce probably is a little fed up of being known by a lot of people purely for ED, but he wrote to Empire after they ran an interview that pretty much said he didn’t want to do any more and said he enjoys them and would be up for more.

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^Spider-Man.

Anyway, even of they are all fakes (which is very likely), I’ll be tempted not to see it if they put Carnage in it. Venom was bad enough, goddamn fucking symbiotes.

Lizard is the most logical choice given he’s pretty much been in every film so far, sort of.

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Tyler! Hmm…

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I prefer snooker.

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Looney Toons are amazing. Bugs Bunny is such a slut.

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The Bucky O’Hare figure on my desk has been telling me for ages to get the boxset of the series. I think I will listen to him soon.

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One of the two had Samantha Janus in. That’s about all I can remember.

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Everybody in the final twenty or so minutes of Police Story.

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I remember it slightly, its now confused in my mind with Coupling.

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Raccoons!

But I always preferred Bucky O’Hare.

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I always liked DS9’s theme, but the original one before they quickened the pace a bit (although the new titles themselves were very nice). Still, for a lot of Voyager eps the theme was the best bit.

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I did think it was time travel for Alex, and as such any references to LoM are just what Alex remembers from reading Sam (whose own experience was evidently a fantasy world he created)’s files and reports.

But someone I know reckons that patient at the start of the episode is the mystery man who attacked Alex, which essentially leads to thing not making any sense.

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Will this gentleman ever be heard from again, I wonder?

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The comments in that article, while speculation one would assume, do seem to hint towards another series. And Robert’s Radio 5 comments hint further that, we could be on a course set to successville.

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