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On 5/9/2024 at 12:15 AM, Netfoot said:
And just curious. The judge for the Stones-With-Glyphs challenge. WTF was she wearing?!??
I was wondering if those people's traditional dress would be for the women to be topless (and also no underwear under the loincloth thingy), which of course wouldn't work on TAR. Because yeah, those things seemed only a step up from coconut bra.
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On 5/15/2024 at 12:09 PM, tv-talk said:
So how come when Ruby stepped on the butterfly it turned her into an alien version of herself but when she and the Doctor were cavorting around in 1963 it didnt cause any changes?
Because Davies wanted to do a gag and doesn't care about consistency or the implications of it.
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I liked it more than "Space Babies" but that was a verrrry low bar. I hope this season isn't decaying completely into schlock fantasy. The trailer for next week gives me some hope. Guess we'll see. On the plus side I'm still likeing how Ncuti and Millie play off each other.
And after that final musical "number" I had to go watch Schmigadoon!'s "There's Always a Twist" number to purge it from my ears.
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I like Ncuti but that was the RTD I was dreading. Some good RTD next, please.
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A revamped Season 1 is coming to the stage:
Paul also says that the already-written Season 3 is 80s and 90s musicals and that he hasn't given up trying to find someone to do it.
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17 hours ago, Roccos Brother said:
How long are they going to just stay in Latin America??
Pretty much the entire season :(
My favorite moment in the episode was when Rod finally realized all he had to do to get the soccer goal was to just truck everyone in his way and just kick it in. Especially the background music and clobbering that one guy just before the goal.
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On 4/13/2024 at 8:34 PM, Notabug said:
If people who are multilingual aren't allowed to compete, how far do we take it?
Big difference between being in a spot where a team is native speakers for a leg or two vs doing it for the entire season.
Just like it would be BS for, say, every single roadblock to be super athletic.
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On 2/20/2024 at 10:29 PM, Brown44 said:
I kinda got teary eyed hearing the original theme song when Janice was telling the leap story.
I started to well up a bit at that too. That was the sole good thing about the episode. That and seeing and hearing the original handset.
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Looks like the writers were having trouble with the script deadline approaching and watched Midnight Run and Home Alone.
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If it ends, as rumored, basically the day Rogue One starts, don’t think he or we need to worry about sequels.
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On 12/14/2023 at 6:42 PM, Trini said:
Nice use of the location; although, disappointing that were still 'yellow-filtering' foreign countries in 2023.
I took that more as "intentionally look like something filmed in 1961"
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20 hours ago, Ancaster said:
I think someone said that perhaps one of the brothers works for Google. And I doubt your average mid-twenties Google engineer (I'm sure there are a lot of them) is making $500K a year.
You'd be surprised. I have a friend who's a director at Meta and we've talked about what comp packages are these days and you might be amazed what even right-out-of-school compensation is at the FAANGs. $250+K total comp starting out is not a rare thing. It's a whole other world.
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On 12/14/2023 at 9:18 AM, chaifan said:
A few people keep mentioning that Greg and John "have money". Where is this coming from? Are they uber wealthy? Just solid upper middle class? Obviously they've had a lot of different opportunities in life, so are people just assuming, or is there something in their bio? I don't think it matters. They ran an excellent race, and deserved every bit of that win.
For starters they are, IIRC, software engineers at Google, so each one’s share of the prize is definitely less than two years’ and quite possibly less than one year’s compensation.
There’s also buzz out there that their family is also quite well off, but I don’t know about that one way or the other.
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Soooo....
I thought the bi-generation thing was going to mean that FourTenTeen was now mortal and would be stuck on earth and that's how he'd let go and "stop".
But I guess he's neither mortal nor stuck on earth.
So the letting go and stopping is (I guess?) because with another Doctor out there he doesn't have to do anything anymore and can just have a life because Fifteen and beyond will be out saving the Universe?
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Wow. That episode was a big step backwards on so many axes.
Re-establishing Addison as the hologram, Ian's ridiculous out of nowhere anti-science garbage (especially the "it's ok to believe in nonsense because who knows, amiright?" crap), the obviously not New England landscape (and I swear that in the post-rain scene at the end the buildings looked more like a mid-1800s Old West set), all the stuff people mentioned with William, the apples, Ben not even trying to fit in (not to mentioning whispering/talking to (from other peoples' POV) the air -- that wouldn't be suspicious at all, no sir!) and on and on.
One thing I was curious about -- would there even be an Irish person in 1692 Massachusetts?
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I actually think Ben (and his actor) is doing a good job as the leaper except for the making almost no effort to hide when he's talking to the hologram. And I like Ian and Jenn as holograms.
My problem (not unique to the crowd here) is that I cannot stand Addison as a character and cannot stand her interactions with Ben. And further that I have no interest in any of the "back at QL HQ" stuff.
And yes, while this season still contains those flaws it is still better than last season was.
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23 hours ago, Silver-hyren said:
I was so jealous of the subway stations. The ones in my city are grimy and literally crumbling apart from years of neglect. The transit authority had a whole publicity push a few years back about doing deep cleaning on the walls and replacing lightbulbs (a hilarious attempt to distract from unreliable service and an unpopular fare hike).
Boston? Which, by the way, flagrantly stole the Stockholm transit system logo.
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On 11/30/2023 at 7:06 AM, Ottis said:
What happened to the guy Michelle was with (and honestly, his lack of interest in soccer is common and isn’t enough to stand in as “not a great guy”)? Wouldn’t bringing his kid to the UK while still coaching and making tons of money be a better choice for them all (especially if Michelle appears to be interested again)? Why the barest glimpse of the gay kiss and women’s team proposal?
Pretty clear she left him. Maybe she finally realized what an unethical turd he was and dropped him. Though it's more likely because he didn't give a single shit about what the kid was interested in. He was exhibiting way more than "lack of interest in soccer". That was asshole levels of "I'm going to performatively demonstrate how little I care about or share one of your major interests."
I don't think Michelle is interested in Ted again. I think they've reached an amicable co-parenting place.
And why rip the kid away from all his friends, etc. to go to the UK where he probably won't see much of his father anyways? (Being the head coach of a Premiere League team is a huge time sink.). I'm also not convinced that Ted wants to remain in the UK anyways. He took the job as an escapist way to avoid the pain of his personal situation. With that mostly resolved he has no need to stay there. And will be more comfortable back in the US anyways.
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Interesting! So the 14->15 regen is actually going to be in the last 60th special and then Christmas will be all 15?
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6 hours ago, storyskip said:
As a viewer I definitely agree that Doctor Who has always been liberal leaning. That said, I don't enjoy being preached at in my entertainment. I was all on board to watch, until I saw the clips of the "something a male presenting Time Lord will never understand" came out.
Yeah -- some people complaining about people complaining about the show are conflating two things.
There are the people who want to pretend gay and enby and trans people don't exist. And there are the people who are fine with that but put quality storytelling above Making Some Point.
For example, the scene were the neighborhood kids deadname Rose and then Donna and Sylvia talk about that and how Sylvia tries to use the right pronouns and Donna talks about how enraged she was by what happened was natural and was a great scene. (Natural because that taunting is something that really happens and Donna and Sylvia's discussion in the wake of it follow naturally from that.)
But the metacrisis plot resolution scene was eyerollingly anvilicious and clunky and takes one out of the story. (Not to mention that it (a) was a clear contradiction of the point the episode had been trying to make and (b) was blatantly sexist to boot!)
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Thoughts in no particular order...
* Tennant and Tate picked up where they left off like they had never left the roles and still work great with each other.
* Bombastic story, which I guess sorta makes sense for a special.
* Liked the musical nostalgia/callouts
* The discussion between Sylvia and Donna about Rose was so nicely done which made the ending that much worse.
* Couldn't roll my eyes hard enough at the cookie-cutter "we're gonna kill her...hahah no we're not" thing.
* Can really see the effects of the Disney $$$$
* Davies could easily have tied the resolution to Time Lords vs humans (short-lived humans find it easier to let things go) or specifically to Ten who quite famously was unable to let go. But no -- Davies had to instead show his sexist ass.
* Nonetheless, that was still better than almost all episodes of ChibnallWho.-
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It really is amazing how literally everyone who interacts with Ben has better chemistry with him than Addison. They biffed it big time hiring that actor.
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22 hours ago, iMonrey said:
I don't know how well known that cologne is, but right there in Cologne? It's possible some random local would know the answer to that without having to look it up.
In fact, one random local did know it without looking it up!
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I enjoyed the episode — more for some of the funny lines and mistakes though, and not for the tasks which were actually pretty boring.
I wish there was a rule saying you are not allowed to receive help from anyone who uses a cell phone (or asks anyone to use their phone) to try to help you.
How on earth did the eliminated team think Euro coins were “historic coins”?? Though given their ferry screwup I guess they probably didn’t read the clue closely enough to realize they were supposed to get special coins.
And that first roadblock had to be one of the most pathetic if not the most pathetic in Race history — do a simple math problem (which also could be trivially brute-forced with little waste of time), walk a bit, and then do a short rapell. Might as well just let them sit in a sauna for a little bit.
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The Rankin-Bass Christmas Specials - General Discussion
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It does! As a physics major I hate myself for loving “Give Your Heart a Ride” 😁but I do. And “Even a Miracle Needs a Hand” is a lovely, wonderful song. And of course I listen to “Christmas Chimes” several times each year. Heck, I taped that with a cassette deck next to the TV years and years ago!