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Post by Peter Ledwith on Oct 30, 2013 14:05:52 GMT
Our noses have been finely honed to sniff out rumours of missing episodes.....sniff sniff...marco polo.....sniff sniff........macra....oh..sorry,thats my crab sticks in the fridge.
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Post by Alex Dering on Oct 30, 2013 16:12:38 GMT
Who is the puppet you're using as your avatar, Peter Ledwith. It looks a little like Alan Greenspan.
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Post by Peter Ledwith on Oct 30, 2013 18:04:12 GMT
I created a stop motion animation. A short story, 9 minutes long. Built all the sets, created all the models. Did everything inc music and a voice with wife and son. I even wrote the story years ago Its on youtube. Do a search for planimation2. It's called FROGS. Its no Wallace and grommit. 100 budget but it was fun.
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Post by Peter Ledwith on Oct 30, 2013 18:07:10 GMT
I built that pupppet with latex, wire and foam. Beads for eyes.
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Richard Develyn
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Living in hope that more missing episodes will come back to us.
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Post by Richard Develyn on Oct 31, 2013 15:40:32 GMT
There is nothing wrong with enjoying a tv show. I have a vast collection of dvds, books and other memerobelia. But if a freak fire managed to destroy every episode of drvwho I owned, my life would go on. Millions survive daily with sewage polluted water supplies with no guarantee of the next meal. That is perspective. Go to india and tell me after seeing the abject poverty that a bbc entertainment show is more important. We all love dr who but people are more important. Treating the people who work hard for us to get to see these lost classic tv shows with a little respect isnt too much to ask. (And also each other) That was my point. Fish are friends, not food. I'm addressing the second point you made, not the first. Of course I agree that we should treat people with respect regardless of what they do (until they lose it). You're not the first person to come on the forum and tell us all to get a grip - think of all the starving children in India, Africa, wherever. The problem with the argument is that it conflates two different levels of abstraction. On the one hand we have this existential problem about living prosperous lives when so many people are suffering in the third world. I don't have an answer for that. I'm on holiday in Cape Verde in an all inclusive hotel and I've just eaten my nth meal from a pig-yourself-out buffet with all the trimmings. In the context of the state of poverty of probably even some of the families of the people who have served me, it's obscene. In that context, actually, most of my life is obscene. I'm not blind to it. I think about it every now and then and I don't know what the answer is. Then there's life when I don't think about that - the other level of abstraction. That's the bit where I look at brochures for the next holiday to go on next year, where I argue with my girlfriend about where to go out for dinner, and where Doctor Who plays a very important part of my life. That's the level at which Doctor Who isn't just a TV program, at least in the sense in which other TV programs are TV programs (IYSWIM). That's the level of abstraction at which most of us operate at and discuss things on this forum. Occasionally things happen to pull you out one level, but then everything changes meaning, not just Doctor Who. Richard
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Post by Peter Ledwith on Oct 31, 2013 16:03:37 GMT
Very eloquently put. My original post was about the level of emotion and sometimes venom that is displayed to others that disagree with someone's point of view. We have recently had a thread frozen and another threatend to be due to heated arguments. My comment was to keep some perspective. It is a tv show. It isnt real although no doubt it is very important to a great many people...me included. I do like this forum. It is interesting, informative and generally friendly. All this is very exciting. A good time to be a fan. Lets enjoy this time but remember we may not always agree but we do all agree on one thing, dr who is an awesome show...long may it last.
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 31, 2013 16:22:28 GMT
There is no place for venom here.
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Post by John Wall on Oct 31, 2013 16:56:06 GMT
There is no place for venom here. Perhaps we can have a board especially for venom:-)?
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Oct 31, 2013 17:29:35 GMT
There is no place for venom here. Perhaps we can have a board especially for venom:-)? ...or maybe get a small sample bottle to put it in!
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Oct 31, 2013 17:33:12 GMT
Perhaps we can have a board especially for venom:-)? ...or maybe get a small sample bottle to put it in! Actually no,make it a vat...
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Post by Peter Ledwith on Oct 31, 2013 17:58:30 GMT
As a dr who fan, I sometimes get over enthusiastic. As a new member of the forum I am learning to read the flow of the discussions, learning the pitfalls. Ive made the mistake of getting drawn into arguments about baseless rumours. I will try my best not to in future. We all want the same thing after all.
Love the forum guys.
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Post by Richard Marple on Oct 31, 2013 18:14:55 GMT
I'm still over the moon about the recent recoveries, & not put out at all by the amount of time it took to be officially confirmed.
It was certainly worth almost any odd rumours that end up leading to nothing
The situation reminds me of a loony fan of a singer who wrote into the Channel 4 music letter page threatening to crash the wedding of the singer, claiming buying the CDs of the singer had "put them where they are" & that the fan had earned the right to attend!
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Post by John F Brayshaw on Nov 1, 2013 2:09:00 GMT
Giant Hogweed more like it.....
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Post by stevehoare61 on Nov 1, 2013 7:21:01 GMT
You want a thread for venom ? Go to Gallifrey Base...my God, some of the things Ive seen written there border on the clinically insane. Nuff to make yer nipples shrivel it is...
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Post by Simon Smalley on Nov 1, 2013 12:22:35 GMT
If we are kept in the dark then its for good reasons
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