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Yeah. For some reason they can't work out that they won't appeal to the knuckle-draggers, but in trying to appeal to the terminally dense and evil, they're alienating people who would otherwise have voted for then. I can see that. You can see that. Fuck knows why they can't.
It's not like he ever really hid what he was like. He wrote an article about The Dominators in DWM over 20 years in which he was making sarcastic comments about "they call Islam the religion of peace."
Maybe so. On the other hand, I'm 53. I wouldn't say I'm massively well-preserved, but I think it could probably pass for the same age as Jeffries even though he was 25 years younger.
Where was he brought up, in a septic tank?
I'd be interested in seeing that. I've very find memories of him from watching First Men in the Moon as a child.
Watching the first Hammer Quatermass film, starring Lionel Jeffries, who would go on to direct The Railway Children. He's 28. How the fuck is he only 28?
He's already missing one testicle, of course.
He's just a CGB...
Bit optimistic...
Fair enough. Sorry you're getting this to deal with.
Oh, fair enough. Still grim.
I hope I'm being unduly cynical here, but given that the Daily Tism - correct me if I'm wrong - is run by two women, would I be far wrong to guess that most of the people complaining are men?
Note that she does it when he's barred from using twitter.
I've nothing useful to contribute here other than to say I'm sorry you're getting this shit thrown at you. If I had the spoons and thought I could be regularly funny, I'd jump at what you're offering. Sorry people are such arseholes.
Im going to go out on a limb and guess that none of these people who are criticising have actually done anything themselves by way of creating jobs or the like.
Oh, to coin a phrase, fuck.
Linehan's disgusting. Normally, I'd feel sorry for someone whose life has fallen apart as his has, but he's brought it on himself.
It's an amazing bit of stale beer espionage TV. If you like Callan, get this in your eyes.
I first saw part three after coming home from seeing Moonraker at the pictures.
Just started episode 3.
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Has Burton just not aged?
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Are dogs any help? If so, here's two pictures of Ridley - one of him auditioning to be Long John Silver's parrot and one of him as a hairdresser. Also a picture of Spike noticing that I had some cheese.
Thinking about it, I could very much see Hywel Bennett as Gollum.
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Agreed. I worked for the Home Office for 10 years, interviewing asylum seekers and deciding whether to grant asylum. My takeaway from that is, unless there's evidence that they are a danger, then grant them. Let them in.
He was rescuing a squirrel that the piano would have crushed.
It is indeed. The only Doctor Who
That's depressingly credible. Alternatively, he refused to pay a sex worker and either she or her pimp chased him. Let's face it - either of those are exponentially more believable.
Absolutely. He did not refuse to pay a sex worker and was not injured by her pimp. Shame on anyone who might suggest such a thing.
State of Decay and Warriors' Gate might be my two favourite Tom Baker stories. The whole season is glorious, but they are the two highlights for me. Romana believes Biroc "because he was running."
Literally could not do my job without the amazing UMN libraries
To be fair, the 5 Doctors actually has something interesting for him to do - be sent to rescue the Doctor and react badly when the 3rd Doctor tells him to sod off. But stories like Timeflight and Mark of the Rani feel very much "The Master's doing this because he's the Master and it's what he does."
You're probably right - this is after all entirely a personal reaction on my part. One of the problems for me is the Master popping up once or twice a year. After he's succeeded in killing the Doctor in Logopolis, how do you stop further appearances from feeling anti-climactic?
... It feels like everything has to be connected to the past.
For me, it feels different because Underworld is in a run where the only returning villains in three series are the Master and the Sontarans. Frontios follows a two year run of Cybermen, Master, Mara, Black Guardian, Master again, Dalek, Cybermen again, Yeti, Silurians and Sea Devils...
There are a couple of conversations about how the Time Lords mustn't find out about the Doctor interfering. Also the story revolves around the Tardis being destroyed - so it still feels weighed down by the show's mythology.
... it feels as though everything revolves around the show's mythology. Even stories that otherwise have no connection still have references dragged in that really serve no purpose.
Frontios has conversations about the Time Lords. Twin Dilemma is about the Doctor's regeneration and one of the characters is a Time Lord who's an old friend of the Doctor - Azmael may not be a returning character, but is treated as though he is, if that makes sense. At this point in the series...
Actually, make that after Black Orchid, rather than Earthshock. Black Orchid has the joke with the Doctor being compared to the Master.
Agreed. The programme became way too self-referential. I think after Earthshock, the next story that doesn't have some reference to the show's past is Paradise Towers, 5 years later.
"The future has taken root in the present." Pretty sure Snyder stole that line word for word. Much prefer Excalibur to anything Snyder made, although every time I watch it, I find myself wondering if Boormann ever watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Yeah, I agree. Given the choice, I'd far rather Bidmead's mathematical fairy tales than Saward's GRITTY ADULT DRAMA! Particularly since Saward's definition of gritty seemed to be men with two days beard growth firing machine pistols.
As opening lines go, it's up there with, "Through the ruin of a city..."
I rewatched Warriors Gate a couple of weeks ago. Still a favourite story.
Yeah. Ray Brooks, Chris Bidmead and Biddy Baxter within a few weeks.
Can they also be programmed to prevent people from getting off escalators and immediately coming to a dead stop, so they can wonder what they're going to do next?
And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.
Can't even sing along with Tom Jones any more, coz of WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I'd watched seasons 16 and 17, but it was 18 that turned me into a fan.
Can't even be queer because of folk.
Can't even separate egg because of yolk.
Can't even drink Pepsi because of Coke.
Biddy, and now Bidders, gone in the same month. The architects of our formative television years are leaving us. We've got to be the grown-ups now. RIP, CHB.
That's interesting - thank you.
I didnt know that - who was it?
... he's been cast as John le Carré's George Smiley. I remember Smiley being an elderly Alec Guinness. No way am I ready to be older than George Smiley.
It takes some adjusting too. I'm 53. I've accepted that there'll probably never be another Doctor who's older than me and that whoever plays the next James Bond'll be young enough to be my son. One thing that knocked me, though - Matthew Mcfadyen from Spooks and the last Deadpool film...
Yeah, i would have loved to see Bidmead stay as script editor. My favourite from that series - Warriors Gate - isn't credited to him, but I can't imagine it being made under the aegis of an other script editor.
Yeah. I'm very fond of State of Decay and Warriors' Gate to. Given that the weakest story of the season is Meglos, that's pretty impressive.
I watched seasons 16 and 17 on broadcast, but it was 18 that turned me into a fan.
I watched seasons 16 and 17, but I think it was 18 that turned me into a fan. I was 9. Never looked back.
"One does not simply catch the no. 43 from Emyn Muil into Mordor."
That's a decent choice.
In terms of opening lines to Dr Who novels, that's up with "Through the ruin of a city stalked the ruin of a man."
Agreed. Frontios is pretty good too. And season 18 in general - when Meglos is the worst story in a season, that's not at all bad.
Should have said - Jayston was Bond in a Radio 4 dramatisation of YOLT. As a sidenote, Anthony Ainley was in the Eon film of You Only Live Twice with Connery.
Just thought of an addition. Michael Jayston played Bond in You Only Live Twice and also played the Valeyard, aka the Doctor, as well as appearing in Nicholas and Alexandra with Tom Baker.
Although The Joker and Bond has happened at least twice - Nicholson with Barry Nelson in The Shining and with Brosnan in Mars Attacks
Just realised- Hartnell in The Crusade.
Tom and which other Doctor?
Oh - Julian Glover - FYEO with Moore, Indiana Jones with Connery, Fourth Protocol with Brosnan, Wuthering Heights with Dalton. That's four.
I've got several actors who've appeared with 2 Bonds. Max von Sydow in NSNA and Flash Gordon. Anyone who was in both Hot Fuzz and the End of the World. Michael Lonsdale in Moonraker and Name of the Rose.
If we're counting guest characters, Ronald Leigh-Hunt - Who with Troughton and Tom, The Omen with Troughton (and David Warner), Whodunit with Pertwee and, in the same episode, Richard Hurndall, The Brothers with Colin and Piccadilly 3rd Stop with Hartnell. 6 Doctors (or 7 if you include Warner).
Laurence Olivier worked on stage with Tom Baker and on film with Troughton in Richard III and McCoy in Dracula. Richard Attenborough was in 10 Rillington Place with Hurt, Brighton Rock with Hartnell and Elizabeth with Eccleston.
Assuming we're not counting the likes of Lis Sladen or Nick Courtney, the best I've come up with so far is Christopher Lee- Troughton and Cushing in multiple Hammer films, Pertwee in House that Dripped Blood and McCoy in The Hobbit.
Did Cushing ever appear with any?
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You'll regret it when all the copies merge together, forming some terrible, eldritch thing.
You sent it to your dad yet?
Apparently hes been spotted on a golf course in Virginia. To coin a phrase, bugger.
I think I could put together quite a lengthy list of people who'd be better than Richard Blackwood. I mean, the dessicated corpse of Charlotte Bronte would probably be in with a shout.
Well, to coin a phrase, bugger.
Going by the book, he's supposed to be Cockney. Terence Stamp would've been perfect casting, although it'd cause problems for the sequels.
Does this look like someone who'd remain calm under fire?
That should be "posing", not "passing."
Must admit, I always had my doubts. If he'd genuinely been shot, I think he'd be terrified, not passing heroically and shouting, "Fight! Fight!" to his followers.
When Thatcher went, "Ding dong, the Witch is dead" went up the charts. Any thoughts on what the right song would be if Trump's gone?
Currently imagining Alec Guinness saying, "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out, "Should we get party food in?""
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Does anyone else remember the idiot on twitter a few years ago who was arguing that before Rowling there were no successful female novelists?
I remember, at age 9, being rather indignant at the Radio Times cover, because Gandalf shouldn't be holding the ring, dammit.
Both from New York, both visibly insecure, both prefer women much younger than themselves... Not sure I've ever heard anyone say they prefer Trump's earlier, funnier stuff, though.
And why trans people are evil.
