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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 9, 2014 14:22:20 GMT
Does the Itunes release include the extra features? -Ralph Nope. Andy |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 9, 2014 15:21:56 GMT
Does the Itunes release include the extra features? -Ralph 29.99 for the set though. Andy |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 9, 2014 18:29:43 GMT
Does the Itunes release include the extra features? -Ralph Nope. Andy That's exceptionally poor. You're missing an interview, a new documentary and 11 commentaries. Does it at least have the recons? -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 9, 2014 18:31:27 GMT
Doctor Who aside no TV stuff has the extras attached on iTunes.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 9, 2014 18:32:41 GMT
Itunes is a tad pish.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 9, 2014 18:34:42 GMT
It's the same with all the digital platforms. Not that I am defending iTunes.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 9, 2014 18:39:06 GMT
It boggles my mind that digital platforms have rolled back time to the VHS era in terms of additional content.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 9, 2014 18:41:04 GMT
I don't know whether it's the platform or the content providers. I'd argue probably to start with it would be them.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 9, 2014 19:04:38 GMT
Stranger in the Family was definitely what a UK X-Men would have been at the time.
Damn that was good.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 9, 2014 21:03:41 GMT
I'm glad it's not just me who thought it screamed 'X-Men'.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 9, 2014 21:31:21 GMT
I'm glad it's not just me who thought it screamed 'X-Men'. -Ralph You could see Boy was totally a young Charles Xavier, and in all likelihood what a young mutant telepath would be like. Andy |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 9, 2014 22:42:05 GMT
Saw Time In Advance last night.
Nice to see Mike Pratt, Randall of Randall & Hopkirk deceased, in something else
Music from The Invasion in the bar
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 9, 2014 23:22:50 GMT
Hurrah! The Milkman n Come Buttercup, Come Daisy is Nigel Lambert of Leisure Hive, B7: The Way Back and Look Around You fame!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 11, 2014 15:58:06 GMT
Sucker Bait was so so. Like Some Lapse of Time a lot.
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Post by legios on Dec 11, 2014 19:29:29 GMT
I quite liked "Sucker Bait", although I would agree with Toby Hadoke that Asimov's sly humour can be difficult to translate from prose to screen so a bit of the tone of it comes across a little drier than it needs to be.
Quite enjoyed "Time in Advance", and thought "Come Buttercup, Come daisy..." had a rather nice vein of black humour.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 12, 2014 21:44:56 GMT
Thirteen to Centaurus last night. Good, LOADS of familiar faces, see imdb www.imdb.com/title/tt0279463/ but I spotted the command of Moonbase 3, Lesterson, King Thousand and Herne the Hunter But thought they maybe blew the revelation about the station too early. Midas Plague on now, might be brave and do Lamda 1 if time permits |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 12, 2014 22:52:42 GMT
Midas Plague was cracking, very humorous.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 12, 2014 23:38:37 GMT
Lamda 1: soooooo boring
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 13, 2014 11:03:46 GMT
One of the missing episodes of Out of the Unknown, The Prophet (the one with the Mind of Evil robots, features Beatrix Lehmann (Stones of Blood) as Susan Calvin!
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Post by legios on Dec 13, 2014 12:59:26 GMT
One of the missing episodes of Out of the Unknown, The Prophet (the one with the Mind of Evil robots, features Beatrix Lehmann (Stones of Blood) as Susan Calvin! I didn't expect that, because the original short story is one of the US Robotics stories she isn't in - it is one of the "Powell and Donavon" stories. Wonder why they switched them out for Calvin. Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 13, 2014 13:44:28 GMT
They didn't: www.imdb.com/title/tt0277256/Beatrix Lehmann ... Dr. Susan Calvin
Tenniel Evans ... QT-1
David Healy ... Greg Powell
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Post by legios on Dec 14, 2014 13:35:31 GMT
Oh good. I would have hated to think that Powell and Donovan were cheated out of their rightful screen time.
Saw "Thirteen to Centaurus" last night - Brunner's work is a bit of a hole in my education I admit but I did love this story. I kept finding myself nodding my head as each little aspect of Cult indoctrination techniques surfaced its head. (As a psychologist by initial training I have to say that our good Doctor of Psychology in this episode showed a very selective grasp of professional ethics indeed - sure he initially didn't want the premature ending of the experiment to harm the subjects, but it didn't seem to have ever occured to him that such a barbarous experiment was so far from ethical in the first place that you can't even see it from there, let alone get back to it). I thought the ending of it was quite chilling in the way it made you think ahead to the brutal theocracy that was going to end up prevailing in that enclosed little world, ruled by an emotionally underdeveloped young man who literally chose to rule in a hell of his own creation. If I hadn't been intending to have a quiet pint last night I would have needed one after that. Superbly bleak stuff.
"Midas Plague" left on that disc, and I'm rather looking forward to that. Frederick Pohl has a great sense of satire so assuming that transfers across that should be a good little piece.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 14, 2014 21:39:10 GMT
Watched Man In My Head lastnight, by former DW Producer John Wiles and featuring Tom Duggan/Murdeen Chadborn
Ok.... odd. Nothing to right home about. Nowhere near as good as some of the B&W stuff
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Post by legios on Dec 15, 2014 19:22:11 GMT
Seen "The Midas Plague" now. A bit of a triumph for the series. The wicked satire of Pohl's work comes through wonderfully strongly - it is both hilariously funny and also lands enough blows close to home to make one wince more than a few times. Cracking stuff.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 15, 2014 19:43:47 GMT
Loved it myself but seen a few people say it was rubbish. they just didn't get the comedy.
Got half way through To Lay A Ghost last night before Jonathan was taken poorly.
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Post by legios on Dec 15, 2014 19:57:34 GMT
Loved it myself but seen a few people say it was rubbish. they just didn't get the comedy. That doesn't entirely surprise me - the original short story tends to provoke a similar spread of reactions to be honest, and always has done. For me it is actually one of my favourites of what survives of the first season. Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 17, 2014 23:31:48 GMT
Managed to watch the rest of To Lay A Ghost: disturbing, both in terms of what you see on screen and some of the issues it portrays
Little Black Bag: what we have looks good
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Post by legios on Dec 19, 2014 18:38:57 GMT
Have now seen most of "Lambda 1" - got nearly to the end when my DVD player threw a hissy fit and declared "we will watch no more of this". I've heard the rest of it (long story, involves a Luthor-tech mecha design, some LEGO and some reverse engineering) so I don't feel too deprived. Some nice model work, but not up to much story-wise. Haven't rewatched "The Machine stops" yet. Might leave that until I come back from my Christmas with family - I've always found that story disturbing from an early age.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 19, 2014 22:58:23 GMT
Got Deathday on, the last episode I need to see. Roy Evans just showed up as a postman
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 5, 2015 19:49:58 GMT
The Kaptain tells me he found Level Seven a bit grim....
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