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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 10, 2006 13:17:59 GMT
It was good to see Gareth in Torchwood the other week, even if he was an evil old bastard!
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Post by Ditto on Nov 10, 2006 13:28:34 GMT
Lol. Yeah, I think Torchwood's gonna run and run. There's a lot of squeeing on LJ. Erykah's done some good posts on it and SueWorld. Me and Daph have got it settled into our telly watching routine. There's only so many progs I watch...LOST is one of them and Torchwood the other and Dr Who....needs to be on all the time!
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 13, 2006 21:30:14 GMT
Yay, Sci-fi Britannia has started and so far I have clocked up an old Who ep (well, two glued together) - Jon Pertwee's regeneration arrival and those pesky Autons! I say, the way he flirted with Liz on first meeting reminded me of Eccles and Tennant (no, not them flirting with each other, but wouldn't that be a fine sight  ;D) ). Even after all these years I still hate the Brigadier and UNIT  Then #1 of Day of the Triffids. It holds up comparatively well, I think, although the Triffids themselves do make you snicker. And on now is the first part of the history of Brit sci-fi and it is very edumacational  |
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 14, 2006 20:06:08 GMT
Oh I say! The pilot ep for Adam Adamant Lives was terrific! ;D *curses fact I was just 6 when it came out* I do hope they show some more eps.
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Post by Teebee on Nov 14, 2006 20:39:33 GMT
* stomps foot and pouts* Jing's I'm missing some cool programmes ...... *pouts some more*  |
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 14, 2006 23:30:16 GMT
I have no idea why Beeb4 works for me when no other digital Beebs are, but I am thankful ;D
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Post by Teebee on Nov 15, 2006 0:06:42 GMT
Hopefully I'll be getting them all soon, D was talking to a friend of his that owns a business installing satellite among others things and seemingly you can buy a satellite box and ariel for a one payment including installation, so we might get it in for christmas ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 20, 2006 21:38:00 GMT
It was the second half (two eps rolled into one) of Pertwee's first Who adventures tonight. Pesky Autons! Crikey, the support cast acting on Dr Who used to be dire! And that was in its so called heyday. Still fun though. But makes me appreciate the new Who S1 picking up of the Autons all the more. And infact the whole new series. Anyone who whines on to me about the new incarnation not being a patch on classic Who and I'll chain them to an armchair and make them watch vintage for hours at a time and feed off their discomfort! Of course it was imaginative and thrilling at its best, and we loved it at the time, but perrrlease! And I'm sure it is very wrong of me but I was urging the Day of the Triffids main characters to mow down a bunch of blind people in their car tonight I'm very happy - there's going to be a doc on Blake's 7 next month (12th, I think). ;D |
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Post by BuffyGroupie on Nov 21, 2006 21:03:09 GMT
Are people actually saying that PK? That only classic Who is good? Cause honestly, I think it's all lovely. I like the way its really very mucht he same, feeling-wise, but just updated. I can remember on a Tom Baker ep once that the monster was like a head of cabbage wrapped in cellophane . . . . now the villians are bit more dire.  Either way, I've always loved it. It doesn't ever take itself too seriously and that's how I like my sci-fi. |
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 22, 2006 0:27:37 GMT
Oh yeah BG, there are def some folks that think that. But maybe they only live on the internet ;D
I started watching an episode of Doomwatch tonight in the Sci-fi Britannia strand - remember how I said that the rats episode really freaked out my ma? Well, it was that one! The idea was very scary so I can see how she was squicked; but oh dear lord! Shocking acting, very patchy script; and the rats... I laughed out loud when some stuffed ones masquerading as a super-intelligent strain were attached to our heroes' denim-clad legs and the actors were throwing themselves around in original Star Trek fashion to make us believe they were being attacked. Then I changed channels ;D
The only bright spark was a young Robert Powell - he so stood out from the crowd, all enigmatic and beautiful and actually able to deliver his lines with conviction. I've never thought much of him, to be honest, but crikey, he was a diamond in the quagmire in this!
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Post by Ditto on Nov 22, 2006 14:15:35 GMT
Lmao, like Spike with puppet Angel! ;D Damn, I'd have liked to have seen those rats.
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 22, 2006 14:55:23 GMT
Kinda, yes. Although James carried it off a gazillion times better (and Puppet!Angel looked a damn sight more lifelike ;D)
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Post by Pluto7077 on Nov 22, 2006 17:41:58 GMT
I caught a bit of Doomwatch too and found it very dated ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 27, 2006 21:37:25 GMT
Sci-fi night again, woohoo ;D We got some Tom Baker Who today, and Sarah-Jane, yay. DT's Who's mood swings are more extreme than Tom's (and he's a damn sight prettier ) but he does remind me of him in many ways. Which is a good thing I'm still sticking with Day of the Triffids, being a fan of apocalyptic disasters. And to feed this need, there'a doc on right now about this genre. I want to have Bebb 4's babies ;D Really fancy Random Quest, but as it clashes with WAT I guess I'll catch one of the repeats. |
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Post by debw on Nov 27, 2006 21:43:01 GMT
I'm watching that right now ;D
Survivors and The Stand really freaked me out
as did Day Of The Triffids
but there's no end of stuff they're talking about that I'm not familiar with
lots to read and explore! ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 27, 2006 21:47:00 GMT
I'm glad they mentioned 28 Days Later. I love that movie, and Eccles being frightening ;D
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Post by Pluto7077 on Nov 28, 2006 17:54:54 GMT
Day of the Triffids is still terrifying  My heart was racing when they were trapped in the car and when the old man went out to pick the cabbage I was silently shouting at the  'don't go out'. John Duttine was gorgeous but that beard . |
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 29, 2006 0:55:02 GMT
Beeb4 had a great little prog about parallel worlds in sci-fi tonight ;D Lots of Buffy, Who, Red Dwarf, Sliders etc references.
They followed this with two Star Trek eps - one original series (where Spock has a beard and is on the "bad" side, and "good" Kirk kinda subverts him before getting back to his own world), and the Next Gen ep where Guinan knows something is wrong, especially when she meets Tasha Yar who she knows is supposed to be dead already. This was always one of my fave eps, and it was lump in throat time when Tasha chose to go back through the temporal rift on the doomed Enterprise C to die a worthy death (rather than the senseless one - by gloopy tar monster - that Guinan had hinted at).
And then Random Quest, which was cool, and even had nekked Sam West falling for his ParallelMissus and eventually finding her again in his own world. Aw.
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Post by PokerKitten on Dec 13, 2006 22:31:23 GMT
Enjoyed The Cult of Blake's 7 thing this week.
And did anyone catch Nigel Planer's spoof acting masterclass on How To Do Sci-Fi last week? It was priceless, so good I watched it twice ;D
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Post by nightnurse on May 24, 2007 17:11:21 GMT
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