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Post by Pinwig on Aug 27, 2018 20:13:07 GMT
Two hours is a pretty good run. That's longer than I'd have managed.
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 27, 2018 22:25:38 GMT
46,000 viewers.
Ive seen all the early episodes so I can dip in and out till later in the year.
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 27, 2018 22:30:00 GMT
What was the London 1965 thing about because Im still seeing it in the twitch chat?
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 27, 2018 22:41:31 GMT
It's what Ian and Barbara exclaim when they return home after travelling with the Doctor. It was just a prominent clip in the twitch trailer for the first doctor stories and became symbolic of the excitement surrounding the whole 'who on twitch' thing.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2018 7:46:26 GMT
46,000 viewers. Ive seen all the early episodes so I can dip in and out till later in the year. I know! And She-Ra was struggling to get to 400 views at times. There is no justice on the internet! -Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2018 7:47:42 GMT
What was the London 1965 thing about because Im still seeing it in the twitch chat? From the DW stream! You were there! Surprised to still see some of that. The chat kept its identity when the stream went from DW to Knight Rider but the following show was shown in Northern America only. -Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2018 7:49:47 GMT
It's what Ian and Barbara exclaim when they return home after travelling with the Doctor. It was just a prominent clip in the twitch trailer for the first doctor stories and became symbolic of the excitement surrounding the whole 'who on twitch' thing. I am nostalgic for those days already. It would be nice if there is a stream of the post-1989 episodes at some point. Or even a stream of the 20th century episodes that were skipped last time. It was so nice to see positivity on the internet. -Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 28, 2018 8:04:23 GMT
Positivity? On the internet? Good lord.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2018 8:25:29 GMT
It's why I found dipping in and out of the DW Twitch stream so enjoyable. Even the chat for the Knight Rider stream was positive.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 28, 2018 12:50:08 GMT
This should be celebrated in some way. Perhaps Blueshift's 1965 badge should become a hub seal of approval for people being nice on the internet.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 28, 2018 12:51:37 GMT
Then every time the internet gets five 1965 stickers it earns a reward.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 6, 2018 17:17:52 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 8, 2018 19:50:45 GMT
It's balls.
Digimon has a great theme tune. Beyblade is just wank.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2018 21:28:43 GMT
I know that now.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2018 20:31:22 GMT
After forgetting the last two years I finally have an NUS card for student discounts. This also gets me Amazon Prime free for six months so extra free telly. Wooo. Started watching 'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan'. It's very very good.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 9, 2018 20:47:29 GMT
Nice!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2018 19:19:00 GMT
Indeed. I like free things. Great series though the Prime interface itself is a hugely confusing mess to navigate and confusingly has content on it which is priced and is seemingly mixed in with the 'you can watch this now as part of Prime' stuff. I've not seen an interface this bad since iTunes. It's a stark contrast to Netflix's easy interface.
I find the best way is just to google a show to see if it is on Prime!
Jack Ryan is good though I would have been buggered to find it on there had it not been the currently promoted new show! But hey, free telly for six months.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 10, 2018 19:25:20 GMT
Its truly remarkable just how bad Amazons interface is. Clearly they should have Prime as a seperate app or page, but then couldn't upsell all their other content. Even so its still bloody awful. A company as big as Amazon shouldnt have a site that feels like its designed to trick you in to buying things you thought were free.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2018 19:40:28 GMT
Indeed. It is a real head-scratcher! I truly boggled at how bad the interface is. The Internet has moved on from 1995.
I shall very much enjoy the free 6 months I get via the NUS card by looking into their exclusive TV shows but I will stick with Netflix thereafter. Much easier to navigate.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2018 21:37:06 GMT
'Jack Ryan' was a winner all the way through. The first season of a streaming show I have stuck with from start to finish (other than Star Trek: Discovery). The plotting is first-class with not an ounce of fat. Gets it, tells the story and gets out. It is exactly the length it needs to be and avoids the Bloat Syndrome which seems to suck the life out of so many streaming shows.
Watching 'The Man in the High Castle'. Began well but is showing Bloat Syndrome so it has one more episode to hook me or gone. A low point is when Burn Gorman turned up in full gurn mode as the show veered into ludicrousness. Hopefully it picks up.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 13, 2018 19:04:33 GMT
2 episodes in to season 10 of The X-Files. No spoilers please but so far it is showing signs of...something that should have stayed dead. -Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 13, 2018 19:20:41 GMT
Watching 'The Man in the High Castle'. Began well but is showing Bloat Syndrome so it has one more episode to hook me or gone. A low point is when Burn Gorman turned up in full gurn mode as the show veered into ludicrousness. Hopefully it picks up. -Ralph That is a shame. I saw the first episode when they aired it as a pilot a few years ago, but cancelled my legacy Prime Video subscription (I was grandfathered in for the video content as a pre-existing Lovefilm customer) when I moved so never got to see the actual first season. That first episode surprised me by how much of the book actually made it in (there are things in the book that are very important to the actual philosophical point of the book, but I kind of figured would be downplayed for a TV show as I expected it to get preoccupied with the "Nazi America" setting and lose the central thread) and by how much it managed to draw in the audience. A shame that it may have gone of the boil - I was hoping that it might manage to be a rare example of a highly faithful, enjoyable, adaptation of PKD's work. (There are many PKD adaptations - some are watchable, even great, whilst straying very far from the original material (e.g Bladerunner, "The Hood Maker"), some are good and faithful to the spirit of the material if not the letter ("Safe and Sound"). But very rarely do we get one that is true to the spirit, the letter, and still rather good ("The Adjustment Bureau"). I was hoping "Man in the High Castle" could buck the odds, a bit of a shame if it went off the boil instead... Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 13, 2018 19:31:36 GMT
I haven't given up on it yet, but three episodes in and very little is happening slowly over a short space of time. Episode 3 was pure Looney Tunes though.
I'd also point out that as I don't watch much TV I lack a 'habit' of it taking up much of my leisure time so I can be a bit harsher and quicker to drop a show than most viewers! I don't watch TV shows very often so something really has to grab me in the initial handful of episodes to keep me watching. I have long since fallen out of the way of giving a show a full series watch if unsure. I tend more towards films/cinema for filmed media.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2018 21:57:55 GMT
Lost patience. It seemed to be confusing decompressed storytelling for Deep And Meaningful.
Next!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Sept 20, 2018 10:06:17 GMT
What will be next on your watch list?
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 20, 2018 11:01:44 GMT
I feel a terrible urge for TAKEN: THE SERIES.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 20, 2018 19:14:49 GMT
This week I am mostly binge-watching Supergirl season 3, the Blu-ray set of which contains the four-part 'Crisis on Earth X' crossover with Flash, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow ( www.amazon.co.uk/Crisis-Earth-X-DVD-Various/dp/B07DPWSBDN/ ). The crossover is cheesy, and for a while it seemed everyone was either getting married or calling off weddings, but now that I'm half way through the season it seems they've got past that and have got onto the good stuff with Reign, the Worldkillers and the Legion of Superheroes. Oh, and the flashback 'Midvale' episode was tops. Look forward to binge-watching the second half of the series over the weekend. Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 20, 2018 20:10:14 GMT
Cracking series, Supergirl. Love it.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 5, 2018 8:03:04 GMT
Forum members are alerted to the return of Saturday morning children's show Scrambled to CITV tomorrow.
A favourite of Jonathan, it has an element that has proved popular with many visiting forum members.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 5, 2018 20:48:21 GMT
What's that then?
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