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Post by Bogatan on Jul 6, 2021 18:08:15 GMT
Back on an anime binge. Latest season of Seven Deadly Sins, first season on My Hero Academia and finally got around to Gun Gale Online. Kurikos Basketball latest season too and I think Im missing one.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 6, 2021 21:39:06 GMT
Just when I thought The Tomorrow People couldn't get any worse, a young Peter Davison in his pants and a fright wig turns up.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 6, 2021 22:52:51 GMT
We did warn you
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 7, 2021 8:38:24 GMT
IIRC you haven't seen it!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 17, 2021 14:55:35 GMT
Finished Hammer House of Horror in my Britbox queue with The Thick of It (which I have only seen clips of before). It's good! Though, er, it is hard to watch Chris Langham. I hope he isn't in it for long.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Jul 17, 2021 16:21:35 GMT
Oh wow, I had no idea...
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Post by Bogatan on Jul 19, 2021 21:19:46 GMT
So I think I have found the ultimate example of er School sports anime. Er, no. School sport/club/elective anime genre.
Whatever its called.
The sports ones sort of make sense. Schools have sports teams. I thought Food Wars was fairly extreme, a culinery school for teenagers. But alright kids can go to performing arts schools. Its sort of the same thing.
Yesterday I discoverd Girls und Panzers. And er its exactly what it sounds like. No not that!
Girls schools compete in live fire tank battles (tankery) and thats it. Well theres a few character side plots like the girls whose family disowns her because shes opts for tankery over flower arranging. But its basically girls and tankery.
Oh wait. No it isnt. Theres the classic if we dont win the school will close subplot. As if actual tanks actually firing at you shouldnt be pressure enough.
Oh and then there the barely mentioned and essentially irrelevant fact that all these girls school are on top of giant super tankers. The deck is landscaped with a small town that people seem to be living in and parks so it doesnt even come up the first few episodes. Its explained away in one scene and only pops up once or twice after that.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 20, 2021 19:00:55 GMT
This evening I have been mostly watching the Dominic Cummings interview.
Martin
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 21, 2021 17:04:55 GMT
Mrs Shocks is making me watch all of the Great Brush Sewing Bees.
It's pretty good actually! Tremendous skill involved. I won't be whipping myself up a waisket and bustle any time soon, but it's nice easy to watch TV.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 21, 2021 17:20:57 GMT
I misread that as Great Bush and boggled.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 21, 2021 18:37:57 GMT
Should be British!
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 21, 2021 19:15:53 GMT
Bushes should be British?
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Jul 21, 2021 20:23:39 GMT
Always.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 23, 2021 17:24:17 GMT
Fuck you, auto-spell bastard!
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 28, 2021 19:13:48 GMT
If anyone's still going with Disney+, The Mysterious Benedict Society is well worth a go. Like The Umbrella Academy crossed with The Queen's Gambit for kids.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 29, 2021 22:12:15 GMT
Good chess opening, the Queen's Gambit.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 30, 2021 8:16:40 GMT
Good drama series too.
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 3, 2021 16:13:03 GMT
I will see it one day (I don't get netfix).
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 4, 2021 22:37:45 GMT
Watching Crossroads. Send help.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 11, 2021 21:00:46 GMT
Survivors is rather good.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 11, 2021 21:55:33 GMT
OLYMPICS.
Still watching on iThingy. So many different sports!
Skateboarding, Hockey and Table Tennis tonight.
Sport Climbing yesterday which was brilliant.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 12, 2021 8:10:53 GMT
Survivors is rather good. SO good. Season one especially. One of my faves. It's so bleak in places it just batters you over and over again, yet retains the essentials of good BBC 1970s sci fi.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 12, 2021 8:15:03 GMT
I'm halfway through season 1. Proper adult drama and not depressing. Just well done writing and performances.
I'd previously heard the audiobook of the novel which was good but too darn grim for my tastes. I thought the first episode of the reboot show was good then it went a bit generic. I didn't watch the second series of it.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 12, 2021 8:46:58 GMT
Survivors is rather good. SO good. Season one especially. One of my faves. It's so bleak in places it just batters you over and over again, yet retains the essentials of good BBC 1970s sci fi. It has always felt a little grim for my tastes and I wouldn't want to have been watching it recently! But now I know it's on Britbox..... Saw Carolyn Seymour in last night's Space 1999. I believe Lucy Fleming is now in charge of running her uncle Ian's estate.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 13, 2021 9:58:20 GMT
Loads of Doctor Who actors in Survivors.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 15, 2021 21:47:21 GMT
Saw the first episode of 'What If?'. It was ok but felt very flat. Not a fan of that animation style: it's fine, just not to my personal taste.
Season 1 of Ewoks still holds up.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 15, 2021 21:54:22 GMT
The animation itself was good, but the art was mixed. Like the character designs when they went more caricature was quite good. Sadly Agent Carter looked like they had just thrown a bad filter of an image of Hayley Atwell. Some of the fight scenes really pulled off the moving comic book thing well.
Story felt rushed, because it was, but made sense.
Still it was nice to see Carter and the Howling Commandos again.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 23, 2021 22:08:07 GMT
Episode 9 of Survivors ('Law and Order'): bloody hell!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 23, 2021 22:48:01 GMT
Oh yes. Poor Barney.
That's one episode that really does stand out.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2021 7:51:46 GMT
Utterly gripping drama.
What on earth will happen next??!!!
-Ralph
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