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Has anyone seen the BBC's latest user terms?
This one is of particular interest. (section 9)
"If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to BBC websites or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on any BBC service, the BBC may use your personal information to stop such behaviour. 16 Where the BBC reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any applicable laws (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), the BBC may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school email/internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour. "
Personally it seems the BBC is part of the nanny state... If you don't behave they'll tell on you.
I'm glad I'm not in England. Apparently the publicly owned enterprise is in favor of doxxing.
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7 hours ago, DEL901 said:
The last scene with Charlotte was killer. Literally.
I laughed so hard when Charlottes wound killed that wannabe kingpin. It reminded me of the ark of the covenant.
Classic Lucifer making things worse.
Score on Amenadiel being Daddy's favorite.-
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That Gay Swat guy was such an offensive stereotype...
Why do I love him so much more than Titus.
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This episode was terrible. The Shadow Doctor Pope Blocking Bill's Lesbian Date was amusing but the rest of the episode was downhill from there.
Why would a sub routine of a holographic simulation have the ability to send an email to sonic sunglasses worn by the actual Doctor? Are we supposed to believe that the Doctor gets emails via his sonic sunglasses? Also doesn't his sonic sunglasses capture rough estimations of object locations and configurations so... that message would be... unhelpful?
I really hope this isn't a repeat of the Silence who were talked up a lot and was mostly taken care of offscreen... or something. I'm still not clear on what the Silence was or how they were defeated or why they were doing anything they were doing.
That Missy thing was so overwrought and tiresome. We all knew the Doctor would never pull the plug on Missy/Master, he's had multiple opportunities to in the past and he's never gone through. Sure he'll kill other aliens who kill one person or threaten to invade the Earth or a city... but the Master who has routinely tried to take over/destroy Earth will always be given a free pass.
Those executioners were weird, did they not look up the doctor before asking him to be an executioner? He should be known as someone not prone to killing someone in cold blood. Also which crime were they killing Missy for ?-
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5 hours ago, Doyounot said:
Agree but also from what we heard he already did change a bit when he met her AND started commentating baseball again because those 10 years he was doing worse than in the show - suicidal thoughts, possibly heavier alcohol and drug use and escorts (but that whatever). I think she was a LITTLE bit of a positive influence (not just for giving him his shot and allowing him to behave in his messed up way making his comeback possible but also for making him care for someone again like he said).
I think Charles is a better influence on Brockmire than his love interest. He caught him up on modern advancements, helped him to work out his parental anxiety. That other relationship is awfully codependent and unhealthy, what with the pregnancy and coke habits. YMMV
I guess we'll see what happens next season. I wouldn't be surprised if he has another spectacular meltdown and returns but I doubt they'd get back together again. -
20 hours ago, bilgistic said:
My point is that those shows with male anti-heros are showered with awards versus the utter disdain and disgust for the main character in this show. That's evidence of systemic and cultural misogyny in America. Putting it extremely simply, we're conditioned to think that it's OK for men to be gross, but women can't be.
Going against that is a feminist message--that women can do whatever a man traditionally does, whether it's being unwashed or starting a business or having no-strings-attached sex. True feminism is about equality, not putting anyone down.
I'm guessing you haven't watched Alias, Weeds, Scandal, Dark Angel, House of Cards, Unreal, Homeland, The Americans, who all have questionably moral women as either main characters or the main character.
Sophia isn't the only problem of this show. The secondary characters weren't particularly interesting either. The only interesting person I saw was the old woman mocking her for her navel gazing diatribe to a complete stranger.-
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4 hours ago, Doyounot said:
The show could still be great with charles there in a different city with different crazy characters for brockmire to interact with! But again i hope he goes crawling back and tries to fix things even though she rightfully told him to go fuck himself!
But why is she right for telling to go fuck himself for wanting to take a better opportunity for his career after a decade of being completely out of the game?
Just because he loves her doesn't mean he should tie himself down in a town that has nothing much going for it other than the abundance of stupid/violent drunks.
While she's perfectly within her rights to want to stay and improve her business and town... That doesn't obligate anyone else to do the same.
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8 hours ago, xaxat said:
I think Jules is right. He's going to come crawling back.
Favorite moments. Charles and Brockmire realizing they are friends. Joe Buck has a white gloved butler. All of Amanda Peet's scenes.
Lol why ? She's not a catch. She's a red hot mess in charge of a stadium that only started to turn around when he came on the scene and the place had some kind of unique appeal again. He really doesn't need another alcoholic barely holding it together in his life. If he gets a better paying job with more prestige he's bound to meet more stable women... or expensive escorts. It's not much of a loss as far as I can see.
I do like how Charles and Brockmire's relationship has progressed. Seems to be more intergenerational, interracial friendships on tv lately. It's nice. So many subtle digs to be made about technology, race and the unifying theme of malfunctions.-
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This show is terrible... and yet I can't stop watching it.
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12 hours ago, tankgirl73 said:
At least at one point, the computer voice thing said "average breaths". I think when they made the oxygen purchase. So that makes perfect sense. Not only will different people breathe differently under the same conditions, but one person will breathe differently under different conditions. So they talk about typical, average, usually-expected breaths. It's not intended to be an exact count, but a good estimate. There's certainly an algorithm that one standard breath = so many cc's of oxygen, but they just don't refer to it by those measurements because the breath count is more useful. Presumably if an individual has a breath usage which is quite far off the average, they'll be aware of that and adjust for that.
I missed the average breaths part... but I find the concept odd that a computerised/capitalistic society would have such a non standardised unit of measurement for a commodity. Oh well I'll just fanwank it as a poorly designed and run mining station.
I'm kind of curious why Doctor Who seems to be dissing capitalism. Is it just because he has no money? and essentially has his magic machine make/steal anything he wants. -
Was anyone else slightly annoyed by the fact that the Doctor headed towards an emergency situation without any kind of preparation for dealing with it? It'd be nice if he sometimes brought a doctor's bag along to a distress call where people might be in peril. Plus it might be funny to play into the Doctor is supposed to "make people better" angle.
The more you think about this episode the less it makes any sense. Wouldn't breaths be a terrible unit of measurement since every person's breath would require different amounts of oxygen?
Oh well at least I don't have to watch Clara any more. -
This episode was hilarious, the ending was a bit... off (IMO). Lucifer kind of came across as an angry teenager.
Linda was especially great this episode.
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3 hours ago, bilgistic said:
I liked it. The talk of her being "dirty" and "unlikable" seems like an excuse to me.
An excuse for disliking a character ? We don't need an excuse. Lots of people have lots of different reasons for disliking or liking lots of characters.
Someone can be a terrible person and amusing. Like the "B*tch in Apartment 23" she was mostly a terrible person but an interesting character with depth. Or Arya is serial killer with a hit list but she is somehow beloved by fandom. It's all a matter of personal preference and perspective.
She just seemed annoying and boring and I didn't care what her deal was.
What we need is interesting stories told by interesting people. Not more gender quotas. -
On 4/25/2017 at 5:49 AM, Noirprncess said:
She just seems to be an overall jerk. I'm not getting the feminist stuff.
In my experience, feminists are rude, annoying and with an unearned sense of entitlement so seems quite accurate to me.
I disliked the character about a minute into the first episode. Instead of getting help from a couple of people from the tram to help get it off the street she flips off the conductor as if he's in the wrong.
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On 5/9/2017 at 10:26 AM, Doyounot said:
Also the beat it joke made me laugh pretty hard... and how fast he ran!
He may not be able to throw... but he can run :p so he has that going for him.
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I just realized something... The 'dryads' were in the trees outside the house when Felicity escaped... so they would have been perfectly fine when the house collapsed, because we didn't see the trees collapse at the end. So there's at least a couple hanging about in the trees waiting for the next human to make a useful sound to eat...
Another plot hole ? Or am I completely off the mark?
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I hate how RIley just assumed they'd move without even talking with Danny about it first. It's like she still refuses to see Danny as a partner even after their wedding. So frustrating.
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1 hour ago, Ceindreadh said:
There wasn't really a lot of time for Bill to mourn her friends because the danger was still present. When the orphan died there was no immediate threat to Bill and the Doctor, but after the first person was taken by the bugs, Bill was too busy running for her life to grieve.
I wasn't expecting like a dramatic outburst or her to burst into tears but a word of profanity, a tear, a prolonged "NooOoo", something to indicate she lost someone she knew. Evidently she knew her at least a little in order to live with her and 4 other people so I was expecting something a little more than we got with the orphan child, since she actually knew this one at least a day. In the room she was like "she's gone" as if delivering a status report which is to be expected with the Doctor's delivery, he's used to randoms dying around him but she seemed fairly unaffected by the loss of 5 of her acquaintances/friends in a span of 10 or 20 minutes and their subsequent resurrection/revival.
It isn't a big deal, we can probably just fanwank it as shock in show or lazy writing out of show.
The tone of the episode was somewhat off. The other characters were not scared then panicky scared then simply confused after their resurrection. It all seemed somewhat underwhelming.
Oh well, it was a reasonably entertaining episode which makes it better than most of the last 2 seasons. Hopefully next episode Nardole gets more to do than to scold the Doctor for not honoring his oath.
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10 minutes ago, ZoqFotPik said:
I'm not in the UK, but that was very common when I was in college.
My explanation is that she was like the Sarlacc and would digest the people slowly over the 20 years. Since they had only been absorbed a day at most, the process had barely started.
Yeah the bugs were really confusing. I mean why did the son use humans instead of practically any other more freely available life forms like pigs, sheep, cows, rats or other random animals. You'd think people going missing would attract more attention than you'd want as the keeper of a wood mother monster.
Also mother jumped quickly from "see the world" to "time to end it all". Kind of jarring. I was left wondering about all their stuff being eaten? destroyed?Why did the bugs killing Wood Mother mean the house falling apart, weren't they siphoning energy to the Wood Mother? So after her death, they'd have more resources to use to maintain the house...
This episode was entertaining but sort of weak plot wise and also character wise. Bill saw her friends/randoms die in front of her and was only mildly surprised by it after the big deal about that dead orphan last week. Has she become immune to grief so quickly ?
Shouldn't those other characters been a little bit more traumatized by all the bugs eating them?
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I didn't like the pilot much but I gave it a second chance and I love Fawz. This show plays a little heavy handed with the race card. I get it, there's a Jew, Arab and Black Guy, they don't need to tell me about it so often, once is enough.
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On 5/3/2017 at 6:49 AM, tennisgurl said:
Oh Lucifer, its always one step forward, three steps back with you. He had to have known that Chloe would be (understandably) upset that he disappeared right after her near death experience, abandoning his apartment and not sending so much as a text. I get that he's upset and feels like Dad is manipulating him and Chloe, and that Chloe isn't even really into his because Destiny, but...who cares? He has no idea why Dad did this, and he has no idea if this actually affected Chloe's feelings, he is REALLY jumping to conclusions here. All he knows is that Dad manipulated things to get her conceived. He didn't make her like him, or him her, because free will exists! That's kind of a big biblical deal! At least, in most stories it is, so I assume it is here too.w back!
Well it depends on what you think free will and God entails... because in the Bible he's said to have hardened Pharoah's heart (for some reason) and he is not above interfering with human affairs what with letting angels murder people for the sake of the lols... Or was that the ordeal with Job... It was a boring and confusing book.
Also God is supposedly Omniscient so he knows a human and Angel's every choice... which is presumably how he arranged to have Chloe born into an attractive woman in a position to influence and weaken Lucifer into a position of monitoring his ex wife...
So even though Chloe is free to make whatever choice she wants, God knows how to rearrange all the pieces in order to get her to make the decision he wants her to. If that's falling in love with Lucifer so Lucifer is more engaged in rehabilitating the 'bad souls' then that's what's going to happen.
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The mother is too much, she grates. She should have been fired at least once per episode. I like the blond guy but I struggle to remember anyone's names because I don't care about the show enough.
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1 hour ago, Artsda said:
How does an econ major not know her salary? She should know about cuts, percentages, taxes, she should be able handle her own finances/deals. Shouldn't need the friends to broker it.
Maybe she's as bad at econ as she is at acting... Who knows, this show doesn't really make much sense to begin with.
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If I was being attacked by pixel monsters I think I'd be a bit more curious about the whole pixel monsters being a thing... Oh well stoic protagonists ignoring odd things isn't unusual.
There are a lot of spoilers in this episode thread.
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Small Talk : TARDIS Console Room
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Has anyone seen the latest user terms for BBC ? Section 9
"If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to BBC websites or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on any BBC service, the BBC may use your personal information to stop such behaviour. 16 Where the BBC reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any applicable laws (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), the BBC may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school email/internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour. 10. What if I am a user aged under 18?"
Thoughts about BBC essentially doxxing people for wrong think?