At 7/25/08 08:17 PM, Tramps wrote:

:I've not seen any of Dylan Moran, although I have heard the name.

Irish bloke. Bernard Black from Black Books. David from Shaun of the Dead.

Actually, I watch Doctor Who just so I can complain about it on the internet. I make notes and everything.

At 7/25/08 07:52 PM, Tramps wrote: I love the comedian Jimmy Carr. He's daring and loves the 'shocked' laughter he gets with most of his jokes. Ricky Gervais with his comedic tour on Animals and Politics. It's just him talking. He never gets in anyone's face or says something extremely offensive, but he's very funny.

My favourite comedian, by miles, is Billy Connolly. I love his joke style, where it's all just funny stories about things that have happened to him, and his performance style is brilliant, with loads of shouting and actions, and he'll sometimes work a song into it. Plus, he's got a purple beard.

I also like Dylan Moran, Frankie Boyle and Bill Bailey.

At 7/25/08 07:53 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: There's a 'Do Not Want' in that sentence somewhere, but I can't figure out where.

Wikipedia says it's going to have the Graske in it, who was the alien in that rubbish interactive web thing from a while ago, and it'll be causing trouble "not just for the Doctor, but for the Proms itself".

So yeah, don't expect anything good.

Also, 11:40am on Sunday, there'll be a new scene up on the website.

Since it's only described as a scene, I reckon it'll be about 5 minutes long, and since they're so specific about the time, I wouldn't be surprised if it's taken off at 12. Be quick.

Or, you know, watch it on youtube.

At 7/25/08 07:42 PM, BlueFlameSkulls wrote:

At 7/25/08 02:56 PM, tejowlyinsurancedog wrote: exactly and torch wood is a mature tv show sex is part of ppls life

I don't know about you, but I've never had kinky homosexual sex with an alien.

Personally, I have gay sex with aliens/Welsh people about 3 times a day, but I'm always sure to leave enough time in my schedule to go and fight cannibals with a tractor.

At 7/25/08 07:39 PM, Tramps wrote: Scenes we'd like to see with Lauren Laverne. I laughed at this one too, but I still didn't really get a good laugh out of her. I guess I just can't find women funny. If they're daring, it's not funny because it's not woman-like.

Wrong link, but I assume it's the "A little bit of wee comes out" one? I mean, yeah, that's worth a chuckle, but then Frankie comes in and goes "CITIZENS OF NEW ATLANTIS, I BRING GREETINGS FROM OUR BROTHERS, THE CRAB MEN" and puts everything into perspective.

Also, again related to Mock the Week, the time Lauren Laverne was on it, she came out with some decent stuff. Nothing amazing, but she was watchable. She's not even a comedian, too, and she was better than the vast majority of female comedians I've seen try to tell jokes.

Which do you prefer, playing video games, or shaking a TV remote that's just run out of batteries around in a desperate attempt to get it working again?

If it's the later, by all means, get a Wii.

I laughed at Mock the Week this week when during "If this is the answer, what is the question?" for the answer "Cheese, Wine and Rubbish" some woman suggested "What three words best describe France?", but that's nothing compared to how much I laughed when Frankie started the whole variety act thing.

"Before Mock the Week started, Russell, Andy and I toured Britain's seaside towns as which well loved variety act?"
"But where's rubbish?!"
"He can't hear you children! You'll have to shout even louder for rubbish to appear!"
"ARRGH FUCK OFF. I'M MADE OF RUBBISH."

At 7/25/08 07:00 PM, FailGrounds wrote: Trainspotting

This and Run Lola Run.

At 7/25/08 07:03 PM, Hollow-Ichigo-777 wrote: aw come on dude! getting PSN games can be as easy as going to a store and buying a visa gift card then putting all the money on the card into your PSN wallet, that's how i got PAIN and a few other nice little treats for myself. that reminds me i gotta go out and buy another $50 card so i can afford Siren Blood Curse.

Or, you know, I can just type in my debit card details. Sony are fucking cunts, anyway, only letting you add a minimum of £5. I've got £3.02 in the wallet, and want a £3.99 game pack, and they can get fucked if they think I'm adding another £5 to it just to get it.

I'll probably see Dark Knight in about two years time, when I can get it on DVD for £3. Why the fuck are we talking about it anyway? Isn't this a PS3 crew?

I can not do My Name Is Jonas anymore. I've got it 5 starred, I could nearly FC it, but after I practised it I just got worse and worse, and now I actually fail the song more times than I pass. It's the bit in the hammer ons where it goes Orange, Yellow, Green. I can't hit it. I don't know why, but I lose the combo there every time, and then can't get back into it, so I fail.

It's fucking annoying.

At 7/24/08 10:46 PM, DirtySyko wrote: I think I was the only kid who was playing Pokemon Red. All of my friends bought Blue, because Blue was more of a guy's color.

I had Red. All the cool kids had Red.

Beadle's About added bleeps when people weren't even swearing, to try and make it funnier.

At 7/25/08 04:36 PM, DarkSytze wrote: jurassic park three

man that movie blows

This.

At 7/25/08 04:04 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: At least he's funny.

But he's not. He tries to do Tom Baker humour by pulling faces and that, but that only works when you've got fucking crazy eyes like Baker does. Besides, Baker's best bits are when he's going in huffs or just ignoring people and taunting villains. Mind, he did have Douglas Adams writing for him, which is obviously going to produce funnier stuff.

That's because the characters are all human, apart from the villains. Not omnipresent, immortal eccentric with an affinity for hair wax.

All the human characters in Doctor Who don't act like people either, though. I suppose it does have to be dumbed down a bit for the kids watching, and that's always been the case, the characters have always been relatively simple in comparison to less family oriented shows, but at least they were GOOD unbelievable characters. I mean, you've got really ace ones like Jamie or The Brigadier, who are one dimensional characters, but entertaining. The likes of Rose and Donna are one dimensional, and annoying.

Torchwood isn't much better, that Dead Ringers sketch points that out, but they are a bit deeper than Who characters.

I'm posh and a bit gay!

I only did 3 runs, Solid Normal on my first run, so I could get through the story without getting stuck, Big Boss Hard on my second run for a bit of a challenge, and Liquid Easy on my third to unlock the stealth, bandanna and solar gun. I'm a bit bored of it, but still plan to do a The Boss Extreme run eventually to get the Big Boss emblem.

At 7/25/08 03:37 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: That's no worse than the fact that he makes gays seem vital to society and ideal agents in Torchwood.

I'm sorry, I may be nitpicking, but that bugs the shit out of me.

The forced (gay) SEX AND VIOLENCE on Torchwood do spoil it a bit, but the characters are so much better than the Doctor Who cast. Tennant isn't a particularly good Doctor, and all the companions have been shit. Jack isn't that good, but he's okay, Gwen and Owen are good characters, and Tosh is definitely above average. Ianto is a bit shit, though. You even get good support characters like Rhys and that Captain John who James Marsters played.

Also, as much as you say it's forcing itself to seem adult, which it is in places, the characters are still closer to being real people than anyone on Doctor Who. It definitely requires less suspension of disbelief.

At 7/25/08 03:29 PM, Thestickcreator wrote:

Dunno where you got that idea from about RTD and religion.

He came out with it in an interview a while back, that he dislikes organised religion, and I've not problem with his politics, but I don't want to hear about them in Doctor Who. It's not making the show better, it's just forced in and as such episodes have to be written around it, making them worse than they could have been. It's the same as the fucking stupid "Everyone is gay in the future" thing he has going.

Alright, season 2 contains the worst episodes of the revival, ( love and monsters, fear her, the idiots lantern) but the cyberman episodes aren't bad, and s.reunion and the devil two parter are more than watchable.

School Reunion is just "HAHA OH WOW IT'S K9", and then there's that ace bit where Mickey and K9 ram raid the school, but the villains are shit. Which is surprising, because they had Anthony Stewart Head, and he could have played a good baddy, but he's just turned into a very bland stock character instead. Regarding the Satan Pit, I don't like the Ood. It would have been way, way better if the possessed bloke, or perhaps several possessed people had been the "soldiers" of the beast instead of them.

Blink is the best episode since the seasons revived and better than most of the classic episodes.

Blink was excellent, but I preferred Girl in the Fireplace. Saying it's better than most classic is going a bit far, because it's got nothing on anything before Baker, and a lot of Baker is way better than it. It's better than most of Davison and onwards, though, but then again you could give me a stick, a piece of cardboard and a funny hat, and I could make better episodes than most of the later classic series.

Utopia was good ALL THE WAY THROUGH, as was sound of drums. And I'll agree with you that the dalek double was the worst double since the revival.

Yes, Utopia was, but the Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords parts were poor. John Simm played a good Master, but it was still crap. One good actor can't save bad writing and crap endings.

Season 4 was the most consistent. its worst episode was its opener and the doctors daughter was poor. The sontaran double was average. Journeys end was good enough for me.

Consistently bad, yeah. The Doctor's Daughter, with it's nice little twist, reminded me of a lot of classic Who, and Martha distracted you from Tate, which was good. Journey's End was terrible. Davros utterly wasted, he did fuck all during both parts of the two parter, the "Doctor-Donna" thing was almost as bad as the flying, glowing Doctor from Last of the Time Lords, and while I get that RTD was trying to tie up loose ends, most of the characters are forced in and have little effect on the plot and just mean Davies can try his hand at more of his "emotional" goodbyes, which he's terrible at.

Hey Sam, remember those times I told you that you waste money on domains?

At 7/25/08 02:58 PM, Thestickcreator wrote: you really are the most pessimistic creature in creation yes I'm talking to you themaster. doctor who is ten times better than the low-budget rubbish that is Torchwood which has a few good episodes but mostly poorly scripted and dull to the eye to watch. Dr who is what keeps the bbc alive at the moment and the only other "series" that appeals to evryone on the bbc apart from it is Robin hood which just seems to get worse and worse.

What good episodes has Doctor Who had since the revival? You've got Moffat's ones, yeah, but just looking over the list of them, I can't pick any which stay good all the way through. Dalek is good most of the way through, but has a terrible ending, the Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways two parter is good for a bit, and then RTD shovels his politics in for no reason AGAIN by making the Daleks religious so he can go "LOL RELIGION IS BAD" when the fact that they were religious had no effect on the plot, and they just act like they always had.

Moving onto season 2, you've got Girl in the Fireplace, which is excellent, probably the best episode of the new series, but then you've got what? School Reunion and the Impossible Planet/Satan Pit two parter are watchable, but then RTD rapes the Cybermen and turns them from their own character into Daleks on legs, and then gives us a couple of terrible, terrible episodes like Love and Monsters and Fear Her.

With season 3, things looked up for a bit, with Martha being significantly better than Rose, and while the episodes weren't bad, it didn't really have any stand out episodes. Blink was about what you'd expect from Moffat, there's not much. Utopia was very well done, if only for reintroducing The Master in a more interesting way than just having him show up, but the episode just gets too ridiculous in the later parts. I mean, seriously, THINKING about him to make him hover and glow for a bit, and then some bullshit Deus Ex Machina so you don't have to deal with any of the episode's repercussions? Get fucked, Russell. The Dalek episode in the series is poor, too.

Season 4 was dreadful. Tate was shit. Really shit. Again, good episodes from Moffat, and The Doctor's Daugher was above average, but the rest range from enjoyable, but not brilliant ones like the Sontaran two parter, to absolutely awful sappy rubbish like Journey's End.

It's a shame, too, because the serious has proven that it CAN be good, with Moffat's episodes and whatnot, but Davies caters too much to 12 year old girls and not enough to fans of the original series. You read quotes of him saying he put stuff in wind up fans of the original series, which is a terrible stance for a man in charge of one of the UK's most popular TV series to take. Thank fuck Moffat is taking over.

At 7/25/08 02:14 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: I stopped reading there.

Need I refer you to my 'Up the ass' remark?

Torchwood isn't the best show by any stretch of the imagination, but Doctor Who with RTD in charge has been some of the worst stuff on TV. There's, what? 3 good episodes a season, tops? Probably by Moffat? Even they're not as good as everyone makes out, they're only better in comparison. Torchwood comes out with a consistent string of good, but not brilliant, episodes. It's a better show.

Torchwood is vastly better than new Doctor Who. With Torchwood, I'm surprised when it's a bad episode, with Doctor Who, I'm surprised when it's good.

At 7/25/08 12:39 PM, Thestickcreator wrote: cool. trial of a timelord and the war machines were both great episodes.

Trial of a Time Lord is a whole season, not just an episode. 4 serials for just under £40. Not bad, really.

Dates for the already announced DVDs released:

Trial of a Time Lord - August 18th
Four to Doomsday - September 15th
The War Machines - September 29th
Battlefield - December 29th

At 7/25/08 12:20 PM, Wreckages wrote: FUCK RAINING BLOOD FUCK SLAYER FUCK MOSH 1 FUCK THE ROCK METER FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

I have to agree.

At 7/25/08 12:00 PM, Thestickcreator wrote: Partners in crime was the worst episode of season 4. midnights first 15 minutes were some of the poorest doctor whos ever seen but once the banging on the wall started the tension really started to kick in and from then on it just got better and better although I can imagine people being unsastified with the ending.

It's was predictable and very, very poorly written. Davies' dialogue is awful, and with so little going on he had to rely on, and the episode just falls apart.