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7 May 2013 at 23:11 #8177
No probs @bluesqueakpip is still my pleasure. Can’t believe they shut it on a Tuesday again. Either they sacked all the moderators at Christmas, or even the mods can’t cope with all the madness that nesting brings. I hope it’s the latter 😀
7 May 2013 at 23:01 #8175Forum Etiquette
Dear all, 2 new additions tonight. As the site grows I thought it prudent to post a Forum Etiquette page. This is not in response to anything anybody has done, just a response to some members’ fears about an influx of trolls and posts that are spoilers in more way than one in the run up to the end of the season.
It is also somewhere you can send new members if you think they are over-stepping the bounds of the usual civil conversation we have here.
As mentioned on the new Etiquette page I’ve also opened up the next episode topic early as an experiment to try and contain too many preview posts in the previous episode topic. So if you have info about the next episode, Nightmare in Silver, please post it there and not in the Crimson Horror thread.
If anyone thinks I’m being heavy handed let me know. Am still just trying to find out how best to run this thing. 😕
7 May 2013 at 20:29 #8149@whohar Thanks, it has been mentioned, but actually the hosting is still pretty reasonable, so for entertainment value alone I’m happy to take the hit. It’s more expensive than the first host, but not much more. I spend more on wine and cigarettes in a day than it costs me per month so is not going to break the bank.
But thanks again. If we get so big that we need to move to an even more expensive server then don’t worry, I won’t be shy about asking 😀
Craig
5 May 2013 at 12:55 #7866@Shazzbot Nice idea about opening up next week’s thread early. I might try that, although I still can’t stop where people post.
Regarding underlining, I’m not a fan from a usability perspective. All the advice on web design is to never underline normal text as users will expect it to be a link. I think I could probably make it work, but it could open up comments to unwanted styles being injected, which I’m wary about. I may instead see if I can remove the underline button instead, just to avoid confusion.
And it’s no probs. I think I had about 16 hours sleep yesterday all told, so am feeling a bit fresher today after a week of hardly any.
@jimthefish Thanks.
5 May 2013 at 12:15 #7850@Shazzbot Thanks for spotting that, I never really look at posts times for some reason. Is now fixed (altough it now looks like there have been no posts for an hour, but I can’t do anything about that 😕 ) It was either the clocks going forward or the move to a German server as they are an hour behind us. I’ll try to remember to check what happens when the clocks go back.
4 May 2013 at 22:38 #7810@scaryb and @phaseshift I think that’s a great idea. Been sleeping half of today but I saw your post, PhaseShift, earlier about how to do smilies, which is something we should make more accessible. I think it’s time to activate the blog function (well, it actually already is activated, just not linked to). That will allow us to post stand-alone articles on anything we want, including tutorials / instructions as well as things like news and longer ramblings that may be a bit off topic but of interest to our little family.
I’ll start preparing some stuff too. If you let me know what you’re working on (PM or email me) then I’ll try to cover anything else.
4 May 2013 at 11:42 #7705Aaaaaaaaaaand I’m back! @lula and @phaseshift thanks for the warm wishes for my trip but my hotel was a BBC America-free zone… Aaargh! I swiftly resigned myself to staying away from here for a week and looked forward instead to a double dose of Who today.
The week was pretty hectic anyway, thank God we only do it every two years. When I wasn’t working I was drinking, ehm, I mean making new contacts and strengthening old friendships. I did manage to squeeze a trip to Epcot in on the Sunday before it all started though, which meant I could be a kid again for a day and do some of my own time and space travelling.
A very warm welcome to all the new members. Fantastic to see you all here. And so many posts, I can’t believe it. Looking forward to catching up on them all. And also a big thanks to @phaseshift and @jimthefish for keeping everything in order while I was away.
Now I’m off to watch this very episode…
26 April 2013 at 20:40 #6755Should be packing but can’t be bothered yet. I don’t think anyone has posted a link to this yet.
The Reunion on Radio 4 started a new series with the original cast of Doctor Who. Is pretty good.
Warning, may contain spoilers for “An Adventure in Time and Space” 😀
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rqgz3
Sue MacGregor reunites five people who created and starred in the first series of a television landmark, Doctor Who. Fifty years later, those who crammed nervously into the BBC’s Lime Grove Studios in 1963 recount the triumphs and disasters that ushered in the longest running science-fiction series in the world.
When Canadian TV executive Sydney Newman was drafted in to revitalise the BBC Drama department in the early 1960’s, his idea for an ageing time-traveller who would illuminate both human history and Alien civilisations struggled to be successfully realised.
After a number of other directors refused to work on the project, a 24 year-old Waris Hussein took the job. The only Indian-born director within the BBC at that time, he felt the stern gaze of the ‘old order’ upon his work.
The first episode was recorded on the day President Kennedy was assassinated and transmitted the next day, despite concerns that the show might be postponed.
Doctor Who was played by the British actor William Hartnell. His sharp, sometimes grumpy demeanour came out of his increasing difficulty in learning the scripts, but the audience immediately took him to their hearts and the series had nearly six million viewers by Christmas.
Joining Sue MacGregor is Waris Hussein, the director of the episode, Carole Ann Ford who played the Doctor’s granddaughter and companion Susan, William Russell who played the Doctor’s right hand man Ian Chesterton, actor Jeremy Young who was the first Doctor Who enemy Caveman Kal, and television presenter Peter Purves who travelled with William Hartnell in the mid 60’s as companion Steven Taylor.
26 April 2013 at 18:39 #6746@vizier Apologies for the late reply. Yes, part of the reason this forum exists is a reaction to what @bluesqueakpip has called the “nesting consciousness”. @phaseshift ‘s strong feelings about it got him quoted in The Guardian. It’s well worth a read.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/jan/18/manchester-evening-news-facebook-accounts
So, rather than be lynched, I’m going to keep away from nesting!
24 April 2013 at 21:42 #6617@phaseshift I’ve seen that before, and every time I see it I think
The Doctor wears a wrist watch. So why does he also have a fob watch…
May be nothing, but stil grabs my attention every time. It’s pretty much front and centre (so to speak).
24 April 2013 at 21:35 #6614@jimthefish, yeah I love it too, but more just because it’s great fun and a well written, tight two-hander. But the “My Doctor” bit still gets me. I think Moffat’s tidy work for the specials is just as important to him being made show runner as Blink etc.
@Shazzbot Moffat’s done a few of these. Never mind two Doctors, how about two Amys and two Rorys? This two-parter Moffat did a couple of years later is even more risqué than the beard line. I looked for this last night, but only found it tonight.
And if you’ve got 20 mins to spare, Moffat did a Red Nose Day sketch long before Nu Who started. It’s more comedy/farce but features a lot of timey wimey plotting, and several regenerations. And the final one is interesting given some current speculation…
23 April 2013 at 23:04 #6535@htpbdet I don’t do this a lot as I’m not keen on time being rewritten, but I thought your post did deserve a wider audience on the “Hide” board so I moved it. Any objections from anyone and I will put it right back.
As @juniperfish said, we had a little discussion earlier about general posts and I argued for a more Guardian orientated approach, in that each week would beget its own theories.
I’m not wedded to that but am yet to be convinced otherwise. So I’d love to keep each week’s theorising in one place if at all possible.
P.S. Glad your feeling well enough to post.
23 April 2013 at 22:51 #6528@ardaraith I’ll look into that. Thanks.
23 April 2013 at 22:50 #6526@htpbdet Just glad to have you back. Don’t worry, this forum is freeform. Nothing anyone does here is wrong (unless they’re internet spammers – in which case they get deleted without mercy). This is mostly a no apology zone.
Sorry you’ve been laid up. Glad you’re up to posting again.
23 April 2013 at 22:37 #6523@phaseshift Things are slightly complicated by us also now having an @danmartinuk who, despite not having completed sign-up, requested a new password a couple of days ago but has still not completed. Who knows which is which?
@scaryb I take full responsibility. Hoping to pass that off to others soon though. You volunteering? 😀
@whisht I remember the desire lines from January. Is still an interesting theory and fits in with a lot of what Jakob Nielson talks about – let your user design your interface. Am kinda trying to do that, sort of…
23 April 2013 at 20:33 #6490@juniperfish @lula @Shazzbot etc. I want to run this forum kinda freefrom, just to see how it goes. And no one needs to apologise for posting in the wrong place (there’s no such thing). I’ve said before, this is YOUR forum not mine. One of the badwolfs double-posted on Monday in both this forum and the Hide forum and I couldn’t be bothered to delete his/her duplicate posts (haven’t deleted anybody’s yet except for obvious spammers posting links to Beats by Dre – what is it about those headphones?).
I’m not even that bothered about moving posts. The one thing I’m not keen on doing is starting too many forums. It may just be a foible of mine, but I think/hope that conversation will be better when it’s concentrated on a few forums that everyone can concentrate on.
But I’m willing to be argued with 😀
23 April 2013 at 20:04 #6480@bluesqueakpip On Tuesday? Somebody say something?
23 April 2013 at 20:02 #6479@juniperfish I agree. The sofa was not planned as a place for speculation, it’s a place for general chat. I like that each episode provokes new theories but I think it’d be best to keep discussions in as few places as possible (although I’m open to challenge on that). I’d rather people post their theories in the episode threads rather than On The Sofa, which I hoped would be for more general non-Doctor chat.
I would have thought that “General Season 7 speculation” could take place on the episode threads. I can’t see a reason, now episodes have started, for splitting things between episodes and seasons. Each new Season 7 episode begets new Season 7 theories.
I don’t mean to be belligerent, and I really don’t want to offend anyone posting speculation here. I liked The Guardian threads where each episode would provoke new ideas, and we have kind-of got the same vibe here. New episode, everyone moves to the new thread.
It’s a balancing act. @blenkinsopthebrave seemed to be getting fed up that we had too many threads (I actually thought we’d scared him off, so good to have him back), other people wanted more threads. It’s hard to please everybody!
So I’m reluctant to add more threads at the mo, but am open to argument.
23 April 2013 at 18:15 #6468@Shazzbot Multiple Doctors? This is how Moffat himself did it for Children in Need a few years ago. Might hold some clues to his thinking…
@ Everyone else, I’ve had a busy few days and I come back and there are novels to read! Must pay more attention. 😀
21 April 2013 at 00:58 #6230@morbius Now you’ve made me think about it there is the problem of the house being created by the empath (Jessica Raine). She should have been long dead by then, thousands of years ago. So I go with @bluesqueakpip and some sort of time synchronisity created by all the wires from the TARDIS! But you’re right, doesn’t really make any sense.
21 April 2013 at 00:42 #6228@morbius I didn’t think it mattered. The Doctor could have been there saving the time traveller for a billion of our years, 3 minutes of hers (and his). As long as he took her back to the right time, which he sort of did, then everything’s fine.
The TARDIS could find him at any point in those 3 minutes (or billion years).
20 April 2013 at 22:31 #6207Welcome @branfish glad to have you aboard. You’re certainly one of the people we hoped would be joining eventually.
And I promise. There will never be any nesting here!
20 April 2013 at 19:14 #6167@jimthefish Yes, just about to confirm Galactus.
20 April 2013 at 19:04 #6162On the Guardian we’ve already had:
That was awful.
Was it any good? Got a bit bored after 10 minutes and was distracted.
I’d rather they just showed an episode of Scooby-Doo.But the winner so far, and I shout “Bingo”, or “House”, or whatever it is you shout…
stupid kids show. Why is this always in the Guardian.
20 April 2013 at 18:54 #6158Loved it (no pun intended). Although think @chickenelly is right, would have been better not to show the monster/lovelorn soul. Will have to watch again.
But for once an episode that had a theme based all around love, so it’s okay if love saves the day this time.
20 April 2013 at 17:47 #6150@lula I guess I can live with that for a one off, as a sort of ‘getting to know the zeitgeist’ kind of thing. Although I know what you mean, US TV drives me mad, even our commercial stations carry less commercials than yours. I go there quite a lot and it drives me insane. Anyway, off to watch Who, sorry to rub it in.
20 April 2013 at 17:18 #6147Oh, I just realised… Doctor Who… with about 15 minutes of adverts for pharmaceuticals stuck in between. Oh… no…. 🙁
Warning: may cause blindness, hairloss, impotence, death etc. etc.
20 April 2013 at 17:13 #6146Thanks @lula I’m going to be stuck in the hotel most of the week so the air conditioning will probably be more of a problem than the humidity. It does have a fantastic pool though. Was there 2 years ago for the same event and about the only time I got outside was the evenings. Was still warm enough to have a swim.
@phaseshift I’ll try and set up everything before I go but if I have issues I’ll let you know. Thanks.
20 April 2013 at 17:01 #6144And how did I forget Jonathan Richman? I’d usually post Roadrunner, or Egyptian Reggae ( @juniperfish would like that), but this is just great fun for his dancing halfway through.
20 April 2013 at 16:29 #6141@lula When is Doctor Who broadcast in the States? I’m travelling to Orlando for work next Saturday (I know, it’s a hard life) and don’t really want to miss it, if possible.
20 April 2013 at 11:29 #6134@haveyoufedthefish Totally agree, I do a lot of video and photo manipulation and it would be almost impossible to get old Who into HD 3D quality. As I said, that report should be taken with a pinch of salt.
However…
If I was going to do it, I’d just use heads (I do seem to spend a tonne of my time putting heads on different bodies) or even just faces. I’d take all the best close-ups I could get, then use them in mid-shot or long-shot on someone else’s body. Then you might, might just get away with it.
20 April 2013 at 11:21 #6133Welcome @ubik and the Dan Dare avatar is looking good. Look forward to your comments on tonight’s episode.
20 April 2013 at 10:33 #6130I don’t think this qualifies as a spoiler, and probably doesn’t even qualify as news, as it comes from the Daily Star so shouldn’t be relied upon at all and should be taken with a huge pinch of salt, but it’s what I would do. I still think of Matt saying “Paintings” on Jonathan Ross. A gallery of Doctors?
DOCTOR Who bosses have boldly gone and copied Star Trek in a bid to bring back all the old Time Lords for the show’s 50th anniversary special.
Viewers will see Matt Smith, 30, mingle with all the actors from the previous BBC series, including the late William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee.
TV chiefs came up with the plan, thanks to fellow sci-fi smash Star Trek.
In 1996, the cast of spin-off series Deep Space Nine had an adventure with the original Enterprise crew Captain Kirk and Mr Spock (William Shatner, 82, and Leonard Nimoy, 82) as they looked in the 1960s.
The show used hi-tech wizardry to digitally insert the young stars from Deep Space Nine into old footage from an episode called The Trouble With Tribbles, which aired in 1967.
Now BBC bosses plan to do the same. In November’s TV special to mark 50 years of Doctor Who, fans will see the current Doctor come face to face with all of the former Doctors who include Tom Baker, 79, Colin Baker, 69, and Peter Davison, 62.
He will be “placed” into clips from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to make it look as though he is really there and interacting with his old Time Lord selves.
Ex-Doctor Who star David Tennant, 42, is the only actor who will appear in the flesh in the episode.
And former show writer Robert Banks Stewart has let slip that as well as bringing back The Zygons, fans will see a carnival of monsters including Daleks and Cybermen.
19 April 2013 at 22:24 #6106So this track sums up where I was about 5 years ago… all you need is a kick drum, a hi-hat and a snare, and some sort of bass. Am actually not sure my opinion has changed since then 😀
“I don’t need fire coming out of the walls…” Peace Division have been producing great dance music for years.
Won’t be, probably, to anyones taste!
19 April 2013 at 21:45 #6100@bluesqueakpip no probs at all. Am happy for the advice. My forum experience has always been either answering technical questions (always on topic) or chatting randomly (never on topic). I see now that this needs to be kept on the path.
Whedon will probably inhabit a little space on our site. Maybe once he gets enough traction in the TV forum. Then you can go wild. 😀
19 April 2013 at 21:15 #6095@bluesqueakpip Apologies, you just get chatting and before you know it…
Agreed. You have definitely taken on some sort of honourary mod role despite yourself, which I’m very happy about. Please keep picking me up on it when I forget. I’m still kinda new to this. 🙂
19 April 2013 at 21:00 #6091@pedant (IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan) The Guardian carried almost exactly the same story twice.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/19/boston-bombing-suspects-reddit-social-media
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/19/reddit-boston-marathon-crowdsourcing
I can’t help thinking that old media is jumping on an opportunity to hit back against citizen journalism/new media, despite old media being just as unreliable in the past.
This is not meant as a defence of what happened, they are idiots and deserve condemnation. But as I say, old media has been just as bad.
19 April 2013 at 20:37 #6088@bluesqueakpip I love The Dish too, fantastic film and great fun. Apollo 13 is also very good but nowhere near my top 10… and as for being better than The Right Stuff, maybe I’ll have to check it out again to get a fuller appreciation. But considering The Big Heat, The Godfather and Millers Crossing don’t beat The Right Stuff in my final list (although close), maybe it’s just a me thing, maybe something in that movie just flicks all the right switches – a bit funny, a bit geeky, a bit heroic, a bit macho, a bit macho-is-actually-pathetic etc. etc.
19 April 2013 at 20:20 #6086As the kids say, @haveyoufedthefish LOL.
I hope someone in the BBC gets to see that list. You’ve just given them about 7 series of episodes 😀
Actually, copyright them all right now. Go do it, quick…
It was supposed to be called “The Last Cyberman”, or something like that, so I think there is a colour thing going on. Especially with “Crimson” in the episode before. Crimson of course was important in “The Doctor’s Wife”.
Perhaps the title of every episode of the new season reveals The Doctor’s name? Or just his password.
19 April 2013 at 19:28 #6080I realised today that I’d never posted my favourite movies here. I have a lot. It would be a very long list. When I was at Edinburgh University I helped run the film society, which was the biggest in the UK. We had 3 double bills a week – I saw far too many movies. At The Pleasance (which you may have heard of due to The Edinburgh Festival) I used to do the projection some of the time as it was 16mm – 35mm projection is a lot more complex. Many fun memories of being in the booth.
Anyway, I love a load of old movies, but several of Fritz Lang’s blew me away when I was young. Probably my fave is The Big Heat, which I just looked up on Rotten Tomatoes and it gets 100%, so worth checking out. There’s all the usual 70s and 80s suspects such as Coppola and Scorsese, the Coen brothers I love too. But I think this may be my favourite. Because it’s a true story, that happened to real people, of brave people doing brave things, and it is extremely well told. It only gets 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, but you can’t always please everyone.
I do have issues with it, the female characters are not as well defined as they could be and there are hints of misogyny – but it is a film about men being men so it would be hard to avoid.
So despite some moments making me cringe, I still love it overall. I love Doctor Who flying about space and time, but the true story of the breaking of the sound barrier, and then of the first American astronauts and our own baby steps into space, makes fantastic viewing.
This trailer doesn’t do it any justice, but it is a brilliant film and I highly recommend it if you haven’t seen it.
18 April 2013 at 19:34 #6041@phaseshift You’re right. So here’s a tune that just blew me away when I was 16 (in 1986). It just sounded so different from everything else I’d heard apart from Blue Monday (although in retrospect I can now see it was probably influenced by what was then early Chicago House and Detroit Techno). Is probably why I fell in love with dance music slightly later. Someone deserves an award just for the amazing snare drum sound.
18 April 2013 at 18:31 #6038@htpbdet They may have been referring to this Big Finish production, and they usually end up on Radio 4 Extra.
18 April 2013 at 18:21 #6037@juniperfish Brilliant, thanks. Must be a problem my end then, which is a relief!
18 April 2013 at 18:12 #6035Hi all, many thanks. @juniperfish it’s actually still pretty reasonable so I’m fine with it, but thanks for the offer once again. 😀
I don’t think the site is sending out emails at the mo, so am looking into that. Let me know if you get one from the site.
18 April 2013 at 14:47 #6025Dear all,
We’re on a new server!
I moved the forum to a new server today so hopefully the issues we’ve been having should now be over, and if anyone was accidentally blocked they will now be unblocked. I hope it will be a lot faster as well. It’s the same hosting company @bluesqueakpip uses and comes highly recommended. I also use them for a huge work site and have had no problems with them at all.
I would ask that if you have any issues with the site to tell me as soon as possible so that I can deal with it. The move seems to have gone without a hitch, but I may have missed something.
Here’s looking to a much smoother future.
17 April 2013 at 16:10 #5959Don’t you mean @danmartin is reviewing “The Sea Devils” 😀
17 April 2013 at 14:34 #5925Okay, I’ve got myself slightly more on topic. I’ve posted this before, but is basically Muse doing blatant theme tune rip off. Am I wrong? Is good though…
16 April 2013 at 22:09 #5879Alright, another piece of genius from LCD Soundsystem. Kinda reminds me of the AS Gill types on The Guardian (that may be some sort of meta comment).
16 April 2013 at 20:57 #5847@juniperfish Done. You’re one of those people who keep hitting submit until something happens, aren’t you? 😀
Posting images is a wee bit technical, but the best I can do at the mo as it’s not a built-in feature.
Basically every image on a web page has it’s own address. Your avatar on this page has a different address from my avatar on this page, for example.
There’s often between 10 and 200 images on a web page. So you need to right-click on the image you want to get its individual address.
But yeah, I may know how websites work, but you have a PhD in bonkers theories and I’m still in primary school, or even just taking baby steps. 😀
16 April 2013 at 20:37 #5831@juniperfish You ARE rubbish 😀 . Just checked your code and you used the link to the whole web page:
http://forlorn-faerie.deviantart.com/art/Dalek-Cupcakes-205171107
You have to use the link to the single image that is on the page. If you right-click on the particular image and view image info you will see that the image link is:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/106/f/4/dalek_cupcakes_by_forlorn_faerie-d3e5j1f.jpg
Try using that.
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