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Well no, I’m just suggesting it might be better for him to back off on the writing so much and concentrate the role(s) he does behind the scenes.

Whatever they may be. ;)

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I didn’t much care for the Family of Blood one but I’d have to see it again to point out exactly why.

And I’m of the opinion Mr. Davies should step back from writing episodes and stick to whatever else it is he does on the series since for the most part it feels to me like he jumps between who/what he’s trying to cater for be it old fans, new fans, kids, adults, the gay community, Wales, serial, contained story, himself, pop culture, political satire, romance, action etc. because it doesn’t come across as a sensible balance.

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Oh good, it sounds more Mario Kart DS than Double Dash.

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Reader. Anything I wrote would be a crummy world of plot holes and spelling errors.

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Can’t there just be more like Girl in the Fireplace, Blink and Human Nature?

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I?ve outlined on my blog the massive problem I had with the idea of the Doctor just leaving a family to die while he swans off in the TARDIS

James Moran: Seb, I didn’t get the opportunity to tell you before, but earlier today I discovered that the Doctor is suffering from a stress-related nervous disorder.

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Not absolutely sure how thick the magazine will be?I?m guessing it?ll run about the same length as your average short-story magazine, which is generally in the neighborhood of 200 pages, but I can check with the editors if you?re interested in knowing that beforehand.

No, no, it’s not important, was just part of considering taking a look at it with some spare change.

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That screwdriver is so, so lazy :'(

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How long did it take you to actually type then?

Any idea how thick this magazine is or is that something for May?

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Past issues: “The Ghost of John Hoare”

Hm.

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Hope it comes with an incredibly rare limited archival pressing of the score, composed by Howard Goodall for Red Dwarf.

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I?ve just today purchased the South Park Uncensored Season 12 pass on iTunes, so I?ll probably be watching this episode tonight.

Aren’t they all available on the official website for the US?

I only linked to youtube because most other places can’t access episodes on there yet.

At the minute UK gets this (though what the Canadians and Australians get is much better)

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It?s telling that there was never a scene at the end of LoM or the beginning of AtA where Sam/Alex looked in history books to see if there was any record of Hunt.

They’re saving that for I’m Deranged.

“My name is Liam Radiohead and I’ve just snorted cocaine. Am I dying? In a coma? Who is this? What do you want? Wooargh! WOOOARGH!”

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Quite

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http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=258

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I didn’t like that Ashes to Ashes kept showing other characters interacting without her there.

Life on Mars did it but that was when Tyler was conciously taking control of his brain which Drake can’t. To the point where she acknowledges she’s in a, well at the minute a second from death, but can’t grasp why she can’t take control. If she can’t see Hunt et al talking to each other without her there neither should we.

But hopefully they?ll realise that one of the strongest aspects of LoM was that each episode was a self-contained cops and robbers story, and allow this to come to the fore of Ashes To Ashes.

See, I don’t think Ashes to Ashes focused on Drake enough when it’s supposed to be her (unlikable as she is) story. For the most part to me it felt like: Intro, filler, filler, introduction of mother, filler, filler, ending. If she’s aware all the time then these crimes should be somehow unravelling what she needs to do to escape it piece by piece. Drake’s big on psychology so each crime should have something to do with that car bomb.

Unless they did that and I completely missed it.

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“Mr. Darcy didn’t think Jane would enjoy French apples, but she did. Didn’t you, Jane?”

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Speaking of high definition… Webb seems to have dyed his pubic hair since Confetti.

But that was great when you lost to us when your faces melted, it really was.

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Is everybody here also posting on Graham Linehan’s blog?

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The BBC has a PRS (or is it MCPS?) deal that makes music clearance a bazillion times easier, as a Public Service Broadcaster, than on a for-profit DVD release, or even a commercial channel broadcast.

Just easier? I was led to believe that the BBC has free access to any music in broadcast as long as it’s not a theme tune.

At least that’s how the Monkey Dust DVD commentary explained the awful cover version of POD’s Alive on there (because they couldn’t afford the actual song for the DVD).

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The HTML one.

Ha ha! You lose!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2hA8qCS40

Not really teh 1nternetz but They’re never going to get around to releasing series two and three on DVD.

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I reckon I liked Rebecca, the Narnia wardrobe and Myth Child.

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80 Available
81 Jump Leads
82 Available

Somebody’s antisocial

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I haven?t read any Buffy comics except what I mentioned (which strictly speaking isn?t Buffy as it?s other slayer in that universe.)

You might be interested in http://www.darkhorse.com/search/search.php?frompage=userinput&sstring=Buffy+omnibus&x=0&y=0 aswell then.

Just out of interest, which tag on this site is the one to url link with text instead of the whole web address? :P

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcV78KE38J4

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Anyone know how the Partridge movie is doing?

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So is this just a dubbing of the episode or will it be remake like Das iTeam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vum37p8Ey74)?

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Actually seeing that arseface kid in the comic (that is disturbing by the way isn?t it?) that rings a bell. Also Cassidy?s comment. Completely skipped my mind that did. In my defence I read that book a long time ago.

That’s my defence too, should have remembered Arseface World when I have the issue.

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As for Preacher, I?ve only read one of those comics (the first I beleive.) I?m somewhat surprised they did the bumface gag there as it didn?t come across as that kind of comic. (The book with the supernatural comic with the rather unpreacherlike, er, preacher, the lady and the Irish vampire right? Or am I getting mixed up with something else?) No doubt I need to read the scene in context though.

No, no, you’re right about the book, but Preacher’s Arseface doesn’t literally have an… well, arseface. ;)

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Where have the snooker commentators gone (easily one of the funniest sets of characters)? Why do we still have Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, who I never liked?

Ah, now I never found the snooker commentators funny. But I was surprised they’d dropped so many recurring characters for the second series.

Why can’t we have these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWAAMju8fY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC_QSEvpmyA (if that one loads) back?

First series was much better all round. *cough*green clarinet*cough*

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http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/burntfaceman.html

(These movies have naughty language that may not be suitable for your little ones)

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TOS forum software upgrade?

It’s a new countdown clock!

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I just always assumed the nanobots consciously decided not to duplicate Lister and Kochanski because they were already there.

“If I’m so stupid, explain why I was able to re-create a new set of
nanobots and get them to resurrect the crew.”

I wouldn’t have thought Holly would have been very specific in telling them what to do any more than Kryten’s (DivaDroid International’s?) nanobots being told “We want that planetoid turned back into Red Dwarf, and we also want you to build a new arm for Mr Lister”.

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Petril

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Write another comic? :P

The interesting thing is that some of the crew members, if rebuilt from dead cells, wouldn’t necessarily have to have been on the ship at the time of the radiation leak. And vice versa (like non Dwarf Space Corps. personnel)

Were there be bits of Camille, Jim or Bexley lying around that could and were revived? The polymorph(s)? The Mayor of Warsaw? The mutated pneumonia that made him solid? It’s not like we were shown much beyond what was happening on Floor 13.

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I/ Series IX

II/ Originals (plus new Kochanski. Oop and Kryten)

III/ Both probably

IV/ NEW

V/ Erm… they all got scattered across the universe somehow.

VI/ Hologram. Series VIII Rimmer does die in only The Good but gets brought back and they get his personality off Starbug’s black box. Or something. ;)

VII/ Still there and asking why she was Scottish in this reality etc. Rimmer convinced he’s highest ranked member still aboard because she’s from another reality.

VIII/ Lovett I guess. Though there IS that “other version” of him.

IX/ Stand alone probably.

X/ And left open.

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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation

http://www.floatinghandsstudios.com/comicparodies.html

Actually while I got reminded of I Love Horses magazine… that Beasts & Beings Magazine advert that recently appeared on TV (http://www.beasts-and-beings.co.uk/index.html) seems to be edging into exactly what Peter Serafinowicz did http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klS92A8YzfY

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Even Million Little Fibers?

South Park did the 24 parody better than the Simpsons too. And ‘Up the Down Steroid’ was done better than The Ringer it supposedly ripped off.

Rob Schneider derp de derp.

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The first five minutes or so, with the comic book stuff (and Moore/Spiegelman/Clowes), were absolutely brilliant, and had me thinking ?Wow! The Simpsons knows how to be funny again! Admittedly by narrowing its appeal and making loads of geeky comics-related injokes, but still! Yay!?

Everything before “Maus is in the Haus!”, right? ;)

I liked bits of ‘Midnight Towboy’ but The Simpsons just hasn’t been the same since it became The Homer Show and did things that would usually be reserved for the Treehouse of Horror. Kicks in around Season 10.
The movie was watchable but it was three ‘classic’ episodes put together for the most part. eg Large breasted Inuit woman = Coyote spirit guide. (Though I did think Russ Cargill should have been Hank Scorpio since Brooks was using the same voice.)

But no, I don’t prefer any comedy over Red Dwarf.

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What does s/he think of Moonraker?

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It shares elements but I don’t think the story arc (or setting), for the first series at least, are necessarily needed for most of its humour.

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But the League of Gentlemen is a sketch show for the first two series…

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If you’re counting Arseface then James Vance did it before that.

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