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Post by Dale Rumbold on Dec 3, 2015 21:16:52 GMT
Thing is, you're basically complaining, not specifically about how Doctor Who is made now, but about how most serialised TV drama is made now. It's what people are used to, what they seem to like, and most of the audience of series' like Doctor Who, Gotham, Game of Thrones, Arrow or whatever have no problem recalling events from week to week, month to month or even year to year. This is not a problem with the writers. They are simply making serialised drama as serialised drama is now made. You seem to be expecting them to make it as it was made decades ago, instead. If they did that, half the current audience would just switch off because they'd be bored silly by it. For the last couple of generations, people have grown up with incredibly complex and fast moving movies, TV shows and games which require them to take in and retain a lot of information, it's how their brains are wired these days. Basically, if you want to follow these stories, you really need to pay constant attention or there's just no point. There's the rub : I deliberately avoid nonsense like Game of Thrones, and haven't watched feature films this millennium, precisely because an old git like me can't follow the plot-lines in them. However, Dr Who is a show I've watched since I was 4 years old, and I don't see why new-fangled ideas of what makes good drama for bored teenagers should apply to it. I have to say that I DO pay constant attention to every episode but that doesn't enable me to dredge up obscure ideas from weeks/months/years ago, any more than when I watch a football match can I remember every previous pass/shot/goal in every previous football match that I have ever watched. I could start writing every thing down, pausing each episode at every scene change, but ... life's too short (especially for someone my age and with my diagnosis!)
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Dec 3, 2015 14:59:26 GMT
After the explanations from Paul and Tony (thank you both) I now realise that I actually understand much less than I thought : I didn't even realise he'd been in a teleporter! What made him go in there then? And why was everything repeating endlessly? And I hadn't noticed any reference to a 'hybrid' before this episode, and now can barely remember any in the episode either. I can't follow story-lines split over more than 1 episode unless they are explicitly re-capped at the start (in a 'Previously' segment ala SG1 for instance) which is why I find Moffat's long-ranging story-arcs so frustrating, where you're meant to remember a throw-away comment from 4 series ago to make sense of the latest episode ; also his constant insistence on the Doctor re-writing his own history, something that never happened in the old days. As to events in The Day of the Doctor : I couldn't make head nor tail of it at the time, and certainly have no memory of any of the detail of it 2 years on. I guess I'd better stop doing anything else in my life at all and make sure I re-watch every previous 'new' Doctor Who episode every week before the latest one airs, then maybe I'll keep up.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Nov 30, 2015 19:55:40 GMT
Finally got round to watching Heaven Sent : have enjoyed most of this series (apart from the Mark Gatiss drivel), and very much like Capaldi as The Doctor, but this episode was awful. So he's now aged 2 billion years? Or some sort of hologram of him has?? I didn't even 'get' what secret he was holding on to : was there one?
Have to say, after watching every episode since it started in 1963 (apart from The Space Pirates, documented previously), it may now be time to give up, if this is how it's going to be. "Next Time" seems to feature the Timelords : I thought they didn't exist any more? (No doubt they resurrected them during an episode when I'd lost track ...)
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Nov 11, 2015 15:10:53 GMT
To recap, all the episode masters are currently lost following the sales of all the archive material to SW Films which has subsequently gone bust. The only survivors known so far from the black & white series are the 6 episodes on the 2 VHS releases. (Plus now the episode you mentioned above, A ride on guinea's jeep). All I've done is buy VHS copies off EBay and use a 6 head Sharp VHS & record using HQ setting to DVD-R, using HQ cabling, etc. To be fair the results are pretty good. I have had to buy another VHS copy of Hammy leaves home off EBay as the original was damaged, looks like I will have to try and get a copy of A ride on Guinea's Jeep too! If anyone is aware of any more episodes on official VHS releases please let me know as it is probable that this is all that survives. I've got the Watch with Mother : The Next Generation VHS tape if you want to borrow it to create a copy - I've digitised all of my home-grown tapes but the pre-recorded ones are mostly copy-protected so haven't done anything with any of them. As I say, you're welcome to 'have a lend' but you can probably pick one up on eBay for less than the price of 2 lots of postage! Just let me know.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Nov 6, 2015 11:07:07 GMT
Good question,Christian. I still can't get this channel.It's on Freeview if one has HD and we don't got. I have Freeview HD and still can't get this channel because it is broadcast on the 'extra' HD Mux that only serves 'important' parts of the country, thereby excluding Ipswich!
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Nov 5, 2015 19:27:07 GMT
I was also disappointed with what is offered so far : nothing that's not already been available for years on other media. I wasn't looking for anything very obscure : all series of The Brothers (the best TV programme ever made) ; and Grange Hill (the best children's TV programmer ever made) ; and 2.4 Children (one of the best TV comedies ever made : vastly superior to the likes of Only Fools and Horses). Here's hoping it expands rapidly.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 27, 2015 16:50:58 GMT
Alexis Korner does that bit, I'm sure. Indeed he did. So it's racist to play an anti-racism song now?
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 23, 2015 10:10:52 GMT
Funny you mention the cosmic hobo, Dale - I'm currently in a Troughton-binge at present! Since you were there at the start, how did you react to seeing the version you preferred turning up in The Three Doctors, when that sort of multi-Doctor malarkey was all-new? Was Pat better in B&W? The Three Doctors was pretty exciting at the time, as I recall, and I was thrilled at Troughton's return ; less-so at poor old William Hartnell in his 'bubble'. I don't recall any particular thoughts on seeing them both in colour for the first time : but, then, those of us that grew up with B&W telly never really noticed the lack of colour!
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 21, 2015 13:29:18 GMT
Well, I've watched the show from the very first episode in 1963, missing only The Space Pirates (for reasons I've bored people with previously and won't re-visit here), and I think ... that some people here take the show, and themselves, far too seriously!
I thought the latest episode was good at the start and the end, but the bit in the middle with a tank and guitar was tripe : overall good enough to keep me watching (let's face it, I stuck with it during the tortuous unworthy McCoy years and the even worse Matt Smith years), but it's certainly not the highlight of my week, and hasn't been, really, since Patrick Troughton chucked it in.
Adequate, I think, sums it up.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 11, 2015 8:44:50 GMT
I can remember seeing the 'farmyard' performance of Mary had a Little Lamb on TOTP in 1972 : it has stuck in my mind because I had no idea until then that Wings was the name of Paul McCartney's band, and I can remember seeing this performance and thinking "that bloke looks like Paul McCartney" ... (well I was only 12 and only just getting into pop music ...). Previous to this I only knew of Wings from being in the chart with Give Ireland back to the Irish, which was of course banned from broadcast (and still is, I believe) and therefore I'd never seen any footage of them. In fact, some newspapers even banned the title and listed it as "A Record" by Wings.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 10, 2015 8:55:34 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=--1Fnt02zokThis was one of the Philip Schofield broom cupboard clips I found on an old VHS which I digitised last year : I asked at the time if this might be missing (being continuity) but no-one seemed very interested in it.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Aug 28, 2015 11:13:04 GMT
My all-time favourite TV programme : have been waiting years for anything other than Series 1 to be available, but not keen on paying nearly £40 for it - I'll wait for the price to come down. Wonder if Series 3-7 will follow any time soon?
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Aug 17, 2015 9:16:51 GMT
I've been thinking the girl in the Refugees video might be the actress Susan Penhaligon, though it's hard to tell given the quality. She's mentioned in the lyrics of the song as Peter Hammill was sharing a house with her and another drama student at the time. It's definitely not Penhaligon in my view : you can see her face quite clearly in the sequence a minute or so in, and it doesn't look like her.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jul 14, 2015 10:06:37 GMT
Terrific!
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jul 7, 2015 21:56:45 GMT
Censored again : and I thought I was a miserable git.
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