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10 March 2015 at 18:37 #38684
@bluesqueakpip Please forgive the late reply, I was up in Newcastle from Sunday.
I didn’t realise that might be a problem (I hardly ever turn my TV on these days and watch most things online). Will try to accommodate that.
In my defence I just wanted a discussion of a few early oddities/rarities before going on to the more mainstream stuff.
The next two weeks will probably be “Lair of the White Worm” and “Dangerous Liaisons” – not major roles but they raised Capaldi’s profile. Unless anyone objects?
I think they should be more easily available.
7 March 2015 at 18:52 #38586@papermoon That’s weird. I have no problems. Here’s the link to it on DailyMotion:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2948k7_the-daemons-pt-1_shortfilms
Hope that works.
5 March 2015 at 18:25 #38525@fatmaninabox I can’t tell as I don’t seem to be able to view their IP addresses in the backend. However, a search for ‘monicaweah4u’ shows that we’re not the only forum to have been sent the messages by ‘her’.
5 March 2015 at 15:03 #38510@ All
Apologies if you received a spammy message via the Private Message function today. The spammer has been dealt with.
It looks like we may have a few more, recently joined up, but I’ll wait and see if they act.
28 February 2015 at 23:20 #38394@ All. As this week rounds up our watch of ‘The Enemy of the World’, and now I’ve had a snooze today, it’s time to start voting on what we should discuss from the Pertwee era.
I have to say that my vote is for “The Daemons” (5 parts by Barry Letts and Robert Sloman) as I think it came very close to being our choice the last time we thought about a Pertwee story. Also, it’s where our current place of libation, The Cloven Hoof, can be found.
But here are some other suggestions:
Spearhead From Space – by Robert Holmes (4 parts)
Inferno – by Don Houghton (7 parts)
The Mind Of Evil – by Don Houghton (6 parts)
The Sea Devils – by Malcolm Hulke (6 parts)
Carnival Of Monsters – by Robert Holmes (4 parts)
Frontier in Space – by Malcolm Hulke (6 parts)
The Green Death – by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts (6 parts)
The Time Warrior – by Robert Holmes (4 parts)Let me know what you think.
28 February 2015 at 17:27 #38377@bluesqueakpip Ah yes. I had a late night last night, it’s my only excuse but I’m sticking to it! 😕
25 February 2015 at 22:57 #38305Just another extra. Y’know that guy Kermode that loves great movies and doesn’t like bad movies. He loves ‘Local Hero’. A lot. Here he meets up with Bill Forsyth on location for the 25th Anniversary. I found this quite moving.
22 February 2015 at 15:20 #38197Found this nice little extra doc which is well worth a watch.
22 February 2015 at 02:41 #38189@barbaralefty You unfortunately reminded me of this – Muppets vs The Wicker Man. Miss Piggy gives me nightmares.
20 February 2015 at 13:36 #38148@bluesqueakpip @jimthefish @fatmaninabox @phaseshift
I’ve started a new blog which can be found here:
http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/trailers/bbc-approved-doctor-who-series-9-spoilers-and-trailers/
However I think policing this forum could become quite difficult, and the forum could become quite boring, if absolutely nothing about series nine, EVEN approved information, can be discussed elsewhere on the forum.
I guess we just play it by ear for now.
14 February 2015 at 00:24 #37996I watched this again this week, and I think it’s relevant to your discussion about writers. I think Moffat may be wrong if he thinks Who is too technical for a newbie. It’s about stories, and it’s about the creatives. This is well worth 45 mins of anybody’s time. Kevin Spacey at the Edinburgh Festival (with added Jack Lemmon).
12 February 2015 at 23:05 #37982@doctor1994 Not everyone can process words easily. Which is why we have punctuation, etc.
@bluesqueakpip is not making it up. When I created the latest design for this site the background was white. When she told me it made it hard for her to read it, I changed it to light grey. Why wouldn’t I?
If you’d like to improve your English we would all be happy to help. First lesson would be to start using more punctuation and paragraphs, so that your writing reflects your speech.
I changed my whole website to make it more readable. The least you could do would be to try and do the same with your posts.
12 February 2015 at 22:34 #37977Not quite sure how I feel about this. I know we have a few U.N.C.L.E. fans. It looks kinda alright, but is also a Guy Ritchie movie so it also makes me cringe. Nice to see Henry Cavill with a personality after Superman but, in contrast, Armie Hammer showed great charm in The Social Network and seems to have lost it all for this.
But you never can tell from a trailer. Do like the retro stuff – is nice they didn’t feel they had to update it.
11 February 2015 at 19:52 #37949Sofa or Pub, not sure? Surprised nobody has mentioned (unless they have and I missed it) that David Tennant was on Just a Minute this week, and did rather well. As far as I know BBC Radio is not limited by location (Neil Gaiman keeps telling people so, so it must be true).
For those who don’t know, Just a Minute is a game show on the radio where guests have to try and talk about a subject for a minute without hesitation or repetition (it’s quite hard).
8 February 2015 at 22:54 #37905@jimthefish As a corollary to that, I think it was Stephen Frears who said the reason we didn’t have any great cop movies was because our policemen all wore stupid looking helmets.
3 February 2015 at 23:14 #37786@purofilion @barbaralefty I am sure it is a whole continuous take (with just a bit of a cheat at the end – and of course a little cheat with the speed).
They are know for adventurous videos and multiple attempts to get it right. This one is also one take, but took over 50 attempts to get it perfect. I do have to admire that.
3 February 2015 at 23:01 #37782@purofilion I want one too!
As far as I know it was all real*. A little secret though – it was filmed at half speed, which helps people who are a few milliseconds out with their umbrella choreography. But it also explains how some of the gymnastics and the singing seems a bit jerky.
*The ending – once we’re way up high – I think is completely fake, but I don’t have any proof. But even so, the rest of it is amazing.
3 February 2015 at 20:14 #37779@barbaralefty You mean this work of genius?
3 February 2015 at 18:56 #37777@thekrynoidman I love that film from first frame to last and that final scene is groundbreaking, Morricone’s music lifting it, almost, to perfection. Leone builds on work he’d done in ‘For a Few Dollars More’ and takes the quick draw cliché out of the two-dimentional American western street, one man in front of the other, and puts it in the circular, three dimensional, Italian gladitorial arena once again. It was groundbreaking. Only his work on ‘Once Upon a Time in The West’ is better.
3 February 2015 at 17:37 #37774@thekrynoidman Love The Good the Bad and the Ugly but do prefer Ecstacy of Gold
Is also, for some reason, one of Metallica’s favourites. They play it as their intro at every show now.
But this is my favourite version – Ennio Morricone live (saw him a few years ago and it was amazing – found a new respect for the French horn).
3 February 2015 at 17:06 #37773@scaryb Yes, Danny Macaskill is, in my opinion, an amazingly talented mental case. Have seen that before and it just gives me the willies! Love it though, what skill (or MacaSkill).
And @juniperfish, the aerial shots were done with a drone, as far as I know, no helicopters involved. So reasonable peace was respected. As they get cheaper I’m sure we’ll see many more cinematic YouTube videos made for peanuts.
1 February 2015 at 22:51 #37754Just got round to watching Amazon’s pilot of “The Man in the High Castle”, the adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel, produced by Ridley Scott and adapted by Frank Spotnitz who worked on “The X Files”. I thought it was really, really good, quality TV, and am praying for more.
It’s set in an alternate reality where Germany and Japan won the war and have carved up the world. The USA is split in half, with the Eastern seaboard part of Nazi Germany and the West coast part of Japan. The production design, in realising this, is brilliant.
I love the novel and I thought it was a great treatment of it, from the atmospheric credits onwards. Unfortunately it’s only a pilot so I’ll have to hope it gets made into a series, but from the reviews it seems like it’s the only Amazon pilot that’s got a chance this year. You could do worse than spend an hour checking it out (although, like me, you’ll probably end up frustrated there’s not more).
31 January 2015 at 11:57 #37702Den of Geek (which I’m a fan of) has posted a great interview with Mark Kermode. I feel the universe is maybe becoming entangled in ways I cannot imagine. It’s a long read but it’s very thoughtful and traverses the “it’s good” or “it’s shit” school of criticism. Well worth a read.
25 January 2015 at 11:45 #37604Just being annoying again. When I was learning guitar I thought you only had to learn three chords. Turns out you have to learn four. Damn!
24 January 2015 at 14:34 #37580@rob does it happen every time you try to log in?
This week there was a bot attack and as a security measure the hosts shut log ins down for 20 minutes. I couldn’t log in either!
But it was soon resolved. If it happens a lot for you, let me know times and dates and I’ll look into it.
20 January 2015 at 21:46 #3744419 January 2015 at 19:42 #37433Hi @lisa
I fixed the link. You were posting a link to the playlist the track was in, not to the track itself.
Hope that helps in the future.
17 January 2015 at 09:46 #37344Hi all, I’m a bit behind again this week, but was just wondering if there were any nominations for a Patrick Troughton story. We’ve done most of his complete stories in the past so it’s starting to get a bit tough (although it might be nice to comment on reconstructions). Here are a few suggestions from me – feel free to add any more:
The Ice Warriors – 5 episodes (2 reconstructed)
The first appearance of, yes, the Ice WarriorsWeb of Fear – 6 episodes (1 reconstructed)
Recently found and restored. The return of the Yeti and the Great Intelligence. Marks the first appearance of Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart.The Invasion – 8 episodes (2 reconstructed)
I won’t say too much because it might spoil it, but it’s a fan favourite and features the first appearance of UNIT.14 January 2015 at 20:23 #37310@lisa Just to clarify, when I said I thought it was brilliant, I thought it was brilliantly put together and was amusing because it DOES represent all that is wrong with a certain type of country that I was, until I heard it, unaware of. What is “Bro-country”? Seems a lot of Country fans don’t like it either which is why it went viral.
I’ve never been a country fan but my Dad was, so I have a soft spot for the likes of Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rodgers, Emmylou Harris, Charlie Pride, Tammy Wynette etc. They remind me of growing up and all had great songs that still pop into my head every now and again. The above is a travesty, but it’s still a brilliantly put together one.
13 January 2015 at 23:51 #37297This made me laugh so much I just had to post. Some guy felt a few top country songs sounded the same so mashed them up. He altered pitch and tempo a bit to make it work but the result is brilliant and has gone viral.
Bit more info here if anyone is interested.
11 January 2015 at 14:17 #37241Hi @all As ‘The Edge of Destruction’ is good, is short and no one was objecting to it, I’ve gone for that this week. You can find and enjoy it here:
http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-edge-of-destruction/
Next week I shall be mostly being less busy!
10 January 2015 at 13:12 #37201Thanks all. And once again apologies. The spammer has been dealt with, again. Unfortunately there’s not much I can do to stop this except remove the Personal Message option, which I am coming close to thinking might be a good idea, despite its benefits. Grrrr 😈
9 January 2015 at 20:39 #37147@All, and especially for their nominations @bluesqueakpip @scaryb @janetteb @barbaralefty @blenkinsopthebrave and others I may have missed.
Everything is still up in the air as to what to discuss over the coming weeks, and I haven’t had time to give it much thought – hopefully can now. Think I will now have more time on here, back into a routine, which is nice 😀
Looking back over the discussion highlighted by @janetteb above there are a lot of options.
“The Edge of Destruction”, “Gunfighters”, A Peter Capaldi ‘Who Universe’ retrospective (that also includes Local Hero, The Crow Road and maybe a bit of Malcolm Tucker) and the “Lost in Time” DVD.
I may have missed a few. Apologies if I have.
Votes are now open and will close on Sunday morning – so I can post something on Sunday afternoon.
6 January 2015 at 23:51 #37038@lisa I think it has been mentioned in the past that we could do a villains retrospective. It does appeal to me. Anyone else have any thoughts?
6 January 2015 at 23:29 #37033@bluesqueakpip Ha, I knew it would be unpopular and obvs Night of the Doctor is better. It’s just I look at our Forum list page and there is no entry at all for poor Paul (every Doctor but Eight – and the War Doctor of course). I hope one day to correct that. I’ll keep trying.
But for now we can go back again, if you like. It’s not like we don’t have about 30 odd years of episodes to go through before we get around to correcting the mistake.
6 January 2015 at 22:51 #37029Apologies for being a bit absent over the last few weeks but was a bit frazzled and needed some time off. Start of the year hasn’t helped much either.
As for next week’s installment of BG Who I was wondering, as we’ve done a bit of 7, a chance to discuss the only ever story re 8 might be appropriate. Yes, The Movie! I know we did discuss it in one of our threads – “Faces of The Doctor” (I think) – but we’ve had a few new members since then.
Another option is to go back to One and start again. In which case The Daleks may be a possible (and of course desirable) choice or The Aztecs is another possibility.
Any thoughts?
31 December 2014 at 12:10 #36735@All So last night, as many of you are aware, we had a spammer sign up and send a load of PMs to people.
PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND. I have deleted the account.
For those who may be interested, the spammer was busy yesterday – a quick search found that “she” was also active on this Doctors’ Networking Site: http://www.doctorshangout.com/profile/jenny407?xg_source=activity
They are really, as far as I can tell, someone called Max Ken from Senegal who seems to have been doing this since 2012. http://www.scamsurvivors.romancescambaiter.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3824
Once again, do not respond to the email (unless, of course, you are the sort of person who likes to play with these sort of people for sport).
Cheers and apologies that this sometimes happens.
31 December 2014 at 10:48 #36732@botheyesshut Hi there, glad you like the forum.
I think, if you go to your profile, under the “Messages” tab there is a secondary tab called “Notices”. I think you can turn it off there, although I may be wrong.
If not, the other easy way is to post on the sofa again but untick the box for notifications when you post.
If neither of those work, please get back to me.
31 December 2014 at 01:24 #36711@scaryb @blenkinsopthebrave @whisht @juniperfish @barbaralefty @spider @pedant @fatmaninabox @jimthefish @phaseshift
Thank you all, and apologies to you all (and anyone else who got a PM). I’ve deleted the offending user. It always seems to happen when I’m out! Just got home after a night out with my brother (first since we fell out over Scottish independence). Was kinda an important night for me. And then I come home to a spammer whose existence seems very insignificant in the balance of things.
Anyway, they’re gone (for now). I’ll look into it more tomorrow but am a bit tired now and may have imbibed the odd alcoholic drink as a warm up to tomorrow night.
29 December 2014 at 20:34 #36628@lisa I’ve deleted the post on the sofa. All future news should go in spoilers. Sorry for quick reply, am in the pub on my phone. At least no harm done.
23 December 2014 at 22:22 #36335As I’ll be travelling to Scotland tomorrow I thought I’d leave you with this (it was in the Guardian yesterday but I’ve seen him live 3 times so I hope that counts more). A Merry Christmas to everyone.
Thank you for all being your brilliant selves.
P.S. (to give some relevance) When David Tennant was on Desert Island Discs, this was the disc/song he would save over all others – even The Proclaimers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pdz1n (may not be available in all territories).
20 December 2014 at 15:49 #36300@blenkinsopthebrave I tried being contrary and answered everything mostly the opposite of what I felt and got the 6th Doctor! “You’re after a slower pace of adventure with a Doctor who is not only arrogant and rude, but will probably try to strangle you at some point. Well done?”
20 December 2014 at 15:44 #36299I got Hartnell too! “You’re after a more tranquil pace of adventure with a Doctor who is more like a grandfather than a friend.” But then again, I’d rather BE the Doctor so much of it didn’t compute.
14 December 2014 at 11:23 #36207@barbaralefty Do like myself a bit of Sultans of Ping. Thanks for that. 😀
For everyone else with access to iPlayer, the last part of “Tomorrow’s Worlds” focussing on time travel was broadcast last night. Contains a big chunk about Doctor Who at the start.
11 December 2014 at 20:53 #36179@blenkinsopthebrave I do dearly hope so. Looks great to me too. Thank you.
When ‘Beyond Thunderdome’ was made the studio felt Miller could only do action so he had to co-direct with George Ogilvie who did the quieter stuff. Since then Miller has proved himself able to direct anything, from ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ and ‘Babe: Pig in the City’ to ‘Happy Feet’ (although maybe he only did the action bits in Happy Feet – there were three directors – then again, maybe he did the quieter stuff).
But this looks like he’s taken the last act of ‘Road Warrior’ (which is awesome) and turned it into the whole movie.
It really could be brilliant. I am so hoping so.
Supposedly they ran out of budget so had to make compromises, but seeing the rough cut the studio gave him a ton more money and told him to finish it the way he intended. Which is kinda a good sign. Fingers crossed.
8 December 2014 at 20:15 #36104Interview with Capaldi on Den of Geek. WARNING: May contain minor spoilers for those who know absolutely nothing, but he does say things like “I can’t go into that…”
Also “I watched The Masque Of Mandragora the other day…” What a fan!
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who/33252/doctor-who-christmas-special-2014-peter-capaldi-interview5 December 2014 at 14:44 #36040@pedant @bluesqueakpip 10/10 for me. 😀 I’m “clearly at home with Big Thinkers and The Great Intelligence.”
2 December 2014 at 12:53 #36009@Purofilion I think you mean the great Mark Kermode. Just by coincidence this was posted on Buzzfeed the other day.
11 Film Posters Improved By Mark Kermode’s Scathing Reviews
1 December 2014 at 23:12 #35997@katharine Just to join in on The West Wing conversation. I think that the last 6 episodes of Season 2 display perhaps the best dramatic storytelling ever shown on TV. Ever… Really… I think it’s that good.
Of course, you have to watch Season One and Season Two to get there. But believe me, it’s worth it.
It kinda lost it a bit afterwards but there were two glorious seasons to enjoy. Just watching Season One, Episode One should make anyone grin by the end. Go for it. You won’t regret it.
1 December 2014 at 22:58 #35996@ All Chat in the pub has now decanted to the next pub, The Cloven Hoof. We’re on a very slow pub crawl, don’t you know. I’d be obliged if you’d join us. Chin chin.
http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-cloven-hoof/
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