Tom's putting it in
(Beat)
now.
― Bleeqwot (sic), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
The conversation is ever so slightly stilted.
Only ever so slightly?
― chap, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link
On Ada: OK. Deep breaths from both of them: an iconic pairing.
This shit is ridiculous
― (so serious) (DJP), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
it's worse than i ever thought possible
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
Is it at all likely that these were published in an effort to expose chinballs (not that it wasn't already obvious) for the completely inept and unfit showrunner that he is?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
I really want to see the Broadchurch scripts now because I really liked that first season and everyone on it was amazing
― (so serious) (DJP), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
The one thing I've read about the writing of Broadchurch is that Chibnall didn't put any clues about the murder into it so that if people guessed he would be able to change the ending during the broadcast run, and didn't tell the bloke who played the murderer that he'd been the murderer all along until he got the final script.
― Bleeqwot (sic), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
ha
― (so serious) (DJP), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
how 2 whodunnit
― Bleeqwot (sic), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
I remember thinking it was quite easy to guess the murderer in the first season, just pick the least obvious character, QED
Christie is way too clever for that trick
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
The second season of Broadchurch is the definition of a tension-less mystery and even gets a poor performance out of Howard Stark’s lovely butler
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
shoes that fire deadly laser beams in all directions with no control
Aside from the below reading as though a child dictated it while hallucinating from a fever, I suppose it's mildly satisfying to have confirmation that Chibnall literally doesn't even consider how Graham avoids slaughtering all his best friends with his stampy laser shoes.
And Graham stamps his feet so fast and so insistent --stamp stamp stamp stamp --no musicality at all --Laser bolts firing out of the shoe again and again and again! Hitting other things in the street, (lamp-posts, front doors, bushes!) which either spark as they explode or fizzle away ----But also hitting Silhouettes, which stagger back, their heads slamming backwards and upwards in pain -- screeching --turning magenta --And now Graham is turning --like some mad bullfighter stamping and doing a solo El Paso --hands over his head --stamp bolt stamp bolt stamp bolt --so fast, so fast!!
Laser bolts firing out of the shoe again and again and again! Hitting other things in the street, (lamp-posts, front doors, bushes!) which either spark as they explode or fizzle away --
--But also hitting Silhouettes, which stagger back, their heads slamming backwards and upwards in pain -- screeching --turning magenta --
And now Graham is turning --like some mad bullfighter stamping and doing a solo El Paso --hands over his head --stamp bolt stamp bolt stamp bolt --so fast, so fast!!
― Bleeqwot (sic), Thursday, 21 May 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
so excruciating
― umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 21 May 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
Okay, so Caitlin Blackwood who played Amelia Pond is now the same age that adult Amy Pond was in The Eleventh Hour.(Look, old Doctor Who fans *always* feel old. It's about time young Doctor Who fans starting suffering too.) pic.twitter.com/1i9vYDgV8z— Scott Gray (@Scott1Gray) October 9, 2020
― nashwan, Friday, 9 October 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
Ah Jesus, there's no call for that.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 9 October 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
especially not if one thinks at first it means she's returning in the Chris Chibnall era 😬
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Friday, 9 October 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
Could do a Captain Jack style cameo.
Haven't even thought about what a post-pandemic Who will be like tbh.
― nashwan, Friday, 9 October 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
it's gonna be all in the style of Captain Jack cameos, with no guest actors appearing in the same shot as the regulars
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Friday, 9 October 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
I regret to inform you that they are continuing to make this television show
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-11-11/doctor-who-chris-chibnall-cuts-news/
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
I watched through Torchwood this year and I noticed that Chibz recycled some ideas into the latest season of Who.
The second-last episode of Torchwood season 2 featured short flashbacks of the characters, leading you to think that some might die, just like Who S12 gave the companions some pointless flashbacks in its second last episode. It actually worked better in Torchwood because the characters were in life peril, while in Who it I didn't know why they were doing flashbacks all of a sudden.
Torchwood also has a scene where a hero looks for something in a lighthouse and finds nothing, but then sees something important out of the window -- a scene so unmemorable and unimportant that most synopses of the episode don't even mention it. In Torchwood they see a person walking away; in Who it's a gravestone that could easily have been seen anywhere on the ground.
― wasdnous (abanana), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
8 episodes rather than 12 is a blessing, partic if this is chibber's last series
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
(so final)
― DJP, Thursday, 12 November 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
irl lol
It’s going to be as fun filled and action packed as ever – with plenty of surprises.”
citation needed
I rewatched Oxygen this week. Was dumbfounded at how this program could go from a tight, clever horror story that is explicitly about capitalism hollowing out workers' lives & literally valuing their existence below that of equipment one year, to Kerblam!'s "if Amazon accidentally kill your coworker on the job, then halving your pay is a good compensation bcz you still have a job" as a positive message the next year under Chibnall.
Mathieson also briefly does the same joke as Chibnall's "Tim Shaw" here, except that the point is that Bill is being unthinkingly xenophobic by hearing a foreign name as English, not repeatedly celebrating her for pwning a forrin.
― @oneposter (⛰️) (sic), Thursday, 12 November 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
I remember when I used to look forward to seeing what this show did next. The end of the previous series was so awful I still get sporadically angry about it.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 12 November 2020 05:33 (three years ago) link
anyway Tracer OTM re 8 eps, but there's no way - given his two-year delays between seasons - that Chibnall won't be planning on staying on, to ensure that the show is in a "safe pair of hands" for the 60th anniversary episodes.
― @oneposter (⛰️) (sic), Thursday, 12 November 2020 06:04 (three years ago) link
bring on more classic blu-ray sets!
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Thursday, 12 November 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
actually belay that blessing - Chibs was credited on writing seven episodes last year, so the reduction probably just means a greater density of chinballs overall
also lol at me using the same scarequotes again
― @oneposter (⛰️) (sic), Thursday, 12 November 2020 06:42 (three years ago) link
i still haven't seen most of the last season - gave up on spyfall halfway through, watched the jo martin one, and the last three. am i missing anything?
the only time i've liked whitaker was her homemade covid vid. more of that next season
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 12 November 2020 12:08 (three years ago) link
You didn't miss anything. The only bits I liked were the parts of Judoon written by Vinay Patel.
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 12 November 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
Which is the Jo Martin one
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 November 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
the judoon one
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 12 November 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
I still regularly think about how bad the Ian McElhinney / Master showdown was
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 12 November 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
I know this sucks to most people, but my son loves it and we've had a blast watching it with him.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
your son is a tasteless n00b who needs to watch some older that's great!
― @oneposter (⛰️) (sic), Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah the Judoon one is inarguably classic but I peeked at the synopses for the other episodes and could hardly remember any of them.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
We've tried to steer him to some older ones, but he really can't get past the older special effects to be willing to try more. Figure we'll give it a go in another year or so.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
Terrible first episode of DALEKS!, paced so glacially it makes a Troughton 19-parter look zippy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-HJqrE0fbk
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 13 November 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link
chibz has full sign-off on this stuff iirc
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 November 2020 09:17 (three years ago) link
holy lol @ DALEKS!
"Chief Archivia, the visitor center is destroyed! The damage is... incalculable!""CALCULATE IT!"
worst boss ever
― DJP, Friday, 13 November 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
Terrible first episode of DALEKS!, paced so glacially it makes a Troughton 19-parter look zippy.📹
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 14 November 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
DALEKS! was like a fever dream, how can it exist? how can enough people have found the energy to make it happen? was anyone in charge?
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Saturday, 14 November 2020 06:47 (three years ago) link
I thought it was on the endearing end of crap
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:00 (three years ago) link
A friend has pointed out that this is the first sight of Ireland in Doctor Who - obviously if we're a race that can turn the last Timelord into the last Cyberman, some buildup was required!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, February 27, 2020 8:57 PM (eight months ago)
we regret to inform you that you were mistaken
Subtitling fail on the Doctor Who series 12 blu ray pic.twitter.com/VQBNSLj0OM— Eddie Robson (@EddieRobson) November 24, 2020
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 05:40 (three years ago) link
out of morbid curiosity i read the wikipedia synopsis of tHe TiMeLeSs cHiLd (which I have not seen) and instantly threw my phone across the room in disgust and also crashed my car and kicked my television in with Ian Levene's hammer
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 06:25 (three years ago) link
irl giggle
thing is that the wikipedia synopsis about plot facts, whatever one thinks about the facts, surely does not convey what a poorly constructed and tediously produced piece of television it is. (basically the Master locks the Doctor in some Xmas lights and reads the wikipedia summary to her for 40 minutes, then someone we've never met touchingly sacrifices themself for, er, something.)
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 06:32 (three years ago) link
Thank you sic, that is the suppurating cherry on top.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 10:42 (three years ago) link
I remember those Island/Ireland subs being wrong in iplayer when it first went out, impressive that it still didn't get fixed between then and the BR.
― JimD, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link
lol wowon the other hand, they should have included the American subtitles as an alternate track on the Danny Pink finale, where him sitting on a bench and telling Clara "I got our bench" was captioned as "What up, bitch?"
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:35 (three years ago) link
hahaha, really?!?!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link