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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 17, 2023 21:27:25 GMT
Ongoing analysis of THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN has revealed that it is in fact a secret Doctor Who spin-off set during the Time War. -Ralph Ralph, Phil has hacked your account and is spouting madness under your name. |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2023 21:41:22 GMT
It's just so obvious.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 18, 2023 7:04:14 GMT
Yeah, Phil should've toned it down a bit.
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Post by legios on Oct 26, 2023 16:45:49 GMT
Tokusatsu. This year I am watching Tokusatsu. Specifically, superhero Toku shows. I've taken a detour this year into Sentai and Kamen Rider and I am finding it rather refreshing. Evil villains which maniacal plans, brave heroes who leap into danger to save others, bright colours, humour, and headlong, breathless pacing... It is exactly the sort of stuff I enjoy in my superhero media that western Superhero shows and movies haven't really been giving me. There is a kind of "commitment to the bit" that reminds me a lot of Doctor Who at its best as well.
I was feeling pretty "eh" about superhero media at the beginning of the year, but I do feel like my interest has been rekindled by taking a step aside from the American tradition. It is nice to have something a bit different, a change of flavours in my televisual diet.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 26, 2023 19:26:39 GMT
Great excitement in THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN. Turns out Bigfoot is real and is a robot played by Andre the Giant who protects space aliens in their underground volcano base.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 19, 2023 19:33:24 GMT
Bodies:
A Netflix mini-series, based on a Vertigo (iirc) comic. Several detectives lives are impacted by an investigation into the mysterious discovery of a naked corpse in a London alley. The catch is that each detective is in different time periods - one in 2023, one in 1941, and one in 1890... Three investigations, three detectives, three different centuries, one victim... It is a clever premise for a series, and one that unfolds beautifully as it goes on. One of the better shows I've seen which has time at the core of its premise. Three different leads who bring some interesting levels and shading to characters who each struggle with being outsiders in their own particular millieu. Plot is well crafted - it only just falls short of Netflix Germany's Dark in terms of how meticulously everything fits together. (Not a complaint, Dark was a masterpiece of precision structural engineering in its writing, to fall a little short of that is still to be impressively rigorous). All told this is an impressive piece of work - and at eight episodes it doesn't ever risk outstaying its welcome.
Well worth giving a go.
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 19, 2023 20:52:47 GMT
Sounds good. I'll put that on the list.
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Post by Bogatan on Nov 19, 2023 21:51:01 GMT
I watched the first half of it, but was unwell and struggling to follow it so must get around to rewatching it.
Large chunks of it were filmed in Hull which was a fun, but distracting game of spot the location.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 26, 2023 15:17:42 GMT
Finally got round to the last Hellraiser reboot.
Solid 6.5 out of 10, light years ahead of any of the films in recent years, liked the new Lead Cenobite, the reuse of lines from the previous films, and music cues hurt it more than helped I would say.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 10, 2023 20:42:40 GMT
We are now into Season 5 of THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and the terrible words "Produced by Fred 'Show Killer' Frieberger" have now appeared on screen for the first time.
Fuck sakes, Fred!
Now I know why there isn't a season 6...
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 10, 2023 23:38:07 GMT
X-Files, Fraser, and Golden Age Hoop. I need no thing else.
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Post by legios on Dec 14, 2023 22:04:33 GMT
Kamen Rider W has turned out to be one of my favourite shows I've seen this year. Managing both fine, fine melodrama and some wonderful sillyness (sometimes in the very same moment) it is just a marvelously unself-concious bit of superheroic nonsense. The fact that one of the leads _thinks_ he is some sort of hard-boiled PI, whilst having such a good heart that almost anyone who knows him declares that he is more like "half-boiled" just endears it to me further.
It is probably a stronger show than the first Kamen Rider series I watched. It won't dethrone that as my favourite, that has an unfair advantage on several levels anyway, but it is a great deal of fun.
Sure, an expensive Disney mini-series might be able to look more "muted" and "realistic", but on the other hand there is something wonderfully exuberant about an oddly costumed bug-mans fighting odd looking monsters on a random Tokyo waterside footpath.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 15, 2023 8:47:27 GMT
We are now into Season 5 of THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and the terrible words "Produced by Fred 'Show Killer' Frieberger" have now appeared on screen for the first time. Fuck sakes, Fred! Now I know why there isn't a season 6... -Ralph You can feel the quality of the show go down... FUCK SAKES, FRED, YOU DID IT AGAIN!!! -Ralph |
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 18, 2023 14:14:01 GMT
Barbie and Strange New Worlds Season 2 Blu-rays purchased.
Now I can watch Those Old Scientists even if the internet goes down.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 18, 2023 21:15:37 GMT
I have just discovered that the Masters of the Universe film is now available on Freevee!!
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Post by Jim on Dec 18, 2023 22:20:19 GMT
It's just turned up on Paramount+ too. I'm determined to get my daughter to watch it, leveraging the fact she's a fan of both Star Trek Voyager and Friends.
The 90s really are in again
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 18, 2023 22:39:22 GMT
If only, for then Global Hypercolour would rise again!!!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 27, 2023 15:12:03 GMT
Started watching Star Trek: Prodigy on Christmas Day. I am now ten episodes in - an absolutely blistering pace of consumption for me. Good god, what a fantastic show! It feels very new and fresh - very much its own animal compared to other ST shows of the Streaming Generation. Genuinely enjoying this loads - good stories, with some very uplifting central themes. A very likeable core set of characters as well, whom it is a joy to watch grow over the first half-season.
It is beautifully designed too! I think the Protostar may be my favourite Star Trek ship in a good many years. Yes, more than the Titan-B. Yes, more than the Star Trek:Online designs that made it into Picard S2 and S3. And Yes, even more than the Shenzhou from ST: Discovery.
Main Title music is fantastic as well. Jaunty and adventurous, and ending with a lovely flourish, it has a real energy to it.
I think that this might turn out to my my favourite Star Trek spin-off since Deep Space 9.
Karl
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 27, 2023 20:43:31 GMT
It just gets better as it goes along as well. Enjoy!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 28, 2023 0:38:34 GMT
It's been a very pleasant surprise for me. It sounds awful on paper but is my favourite of the Trek shows of the streaming era.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 29, 2023 10:51:31 GMT
Tonight's telly viewing takes care of itself.
8.30pm - new Would I Lie to You? on BBC1
9pm - new Gone Fishing Hogmanay special on BBC2
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 29, 2023 10:57:07 GMT
But it's not Hogmanay.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 29, 2023 10:58:36 GMT
Fred Frieberger was a fucking hack! Why did he have to kill off THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN too?? Damn his eyes! It's a tosh show but has a certain internal logic and then Fred appears and it turns to SHITE.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 29, 2023 11:18:04 GMT
7pm BBC4 1983 TOTP End of Year special PinwigThen probably followed by some furry Ribena Berrys |
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 29, 2023 11:33:19 GMT
9pm - new Gone Fishing Hogmanay special on BBC2 Martin YES! I was hoping there would be a special. I hadn't got that far through the Radio Times. |
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 29, 2023 11:42:56 GMT
7pm BBC4 1983 TOTP End of Year special PinwigThen probably followed by some furry Ribena Berrys Mike Oldfield and Howard Jones! How musical tastes change. I had, may still have, Phil Collins, You Can't Hurry Love on 7 inch single. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 29, 2023 13:22:27 GMT
I believe Martin will find the lyrics of the Mike Oldfield song instructive....
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Post by legios on Jan 1, 2024 15:46:10 GMT
Spent the day yesterday watching most of the second couer of Star Trek: Prodigy. I'm not sure that I am enjoying the second half quite as much as the first, In think that it is less "exploring the unknown" and more "exploring things the audience is already familiar with". It is still really good television though - I think my favourite episodes have been the one where Kate Mulgrew gets to play three different characters in twenty minutes (and knocks all three out of the park), the neat twist on a holodeck episode, and the episode that dealt with folks backstories. I've got the last two episodes pencilled in for this evening - going to "special double-length conclusion" event them.
Prodigy had interested me from when I heard the premise, mostly in terms of being something that if it worked well could be great, but would be very easy to get wrong. They really have done wonders with it though. Of the three Star Trek shows I've seen of this generation I genuinely think it might be the most interesting, and definitely the most sure-footed. Much, much more assured that I expected it to be, such a pleasant surprise.
Is there a physical media release for it? I think I could go adding this to my stash.
Karl
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 1, 2024 17:54:41 GMT
I also have spent the last two days watching Prodigy, but found the second half better than the first.
I think mostly down to the characters developing over the season.
Hologram Janeway is a significantly better written charcter than real Janeway on Voyager ever was.
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 1, 2024 17:55:19 GMT
Spent the day yesterday watching most of the second couer of Star Trek: Prodigy. I'm not sure that I am enjoying the second half quite as much as the first, In think that it is less "exploring the unknown" and more "exploring things the audience is already familiar with". It is still really good television though - I think my favourite episodes have been the one where Kate Mulgrew gets to play three different characters in twenty minutes (and knocks all three out of the park), the neat twist on a holodeck episode, and the episode that dealt with folks backstories. I've got the last two episodes pencilled in for this evening - going to "special double-length conclusion" event them. Prodigy had interested me from when I heard the premise, mostly in terms of being something that if it worked well could be great, but would be very easy to get wrong. They really have done wonders with it though. Of the three Star Trek shows I've seen of this generation I genuinely think it might be the most interesting, and definitely the most sure-footed. Much, much more assured that I expected it to be, such a pleasant surprise. Is there a physical media release for it? I think I could go adding this to my stash. Karl First half of season 1 has a UK release. I think the US got a complete season 1. |
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