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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2016 23:31:27 GMT
Hey everyone,
What if you could change anything about your favourite TV series, movie, video game, novel, etc? |
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Post by jasonward on Aug 29, 2016 12:34:04 GMT
Well a favourite of mine is the Lord Of The Rings film trilogy, for me, it should have been 5 films (the books were written as 5 books, published as 3) and The Hobbit films, probably should be reduced to two films and the battle of the five armies (the fictional event, not the film itself) should be ... uh made to make sense for a start, in the film it really is just a series of "wtf?" moments, but there was no need for it to be that way, in the book it made sense and apart from stretching the story to fit 3 films I can't see why the battle in the film can't just follow the book.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Aug 29, 2016 22:44:57 GMT
If I could change anything about Doctor Who, I would remove the terrible 'I can't hold on!' cliffhanger from The Daleks. It always makes me cringe, partly because the acting in that cliffhanger is weak and partly because you don't get enough of a sense of peril from the cinematography. The Thal who we are supposed to care about at this point just comes across as pathetic.
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Post by christmastrenzalore on Sept 10, 2016 21:46:29 GMT
Originally, Legend of Korra was only going to be a mini-series, and her arc is complete by episode 12. Then it got another 3 seasons, so they decided to back pedal some of her character growth, but they really went over-board. Season 2 had a lot of problems, but Korra acting like a total brat made the first half very unpleasant to watch.
I understand it was somewhat a necessity, but I would have dialled it back a bit, and had her slightly more pensive about her decisions, even if they're not good ones. (Pushing Tenzin away in particular set a dour tone, and if she had just been a bit more mature and respectful about it, she might have come off more sympathetic).
And her transition and learning from those decisions could have been more organically worked into the episodes. I loved the Beginnings two-parter as much as the next guy, but it seemed like after that story, a switch was flipped, and she suddenly went back to being a rational human being again.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2016 0:57:50 GMT
I think I may have said this elsewhere, but I'd have liked to rip up The Man from UNCLE's third season and have something closer to the first two in terms of tone and quality. They went really Batman-like in over-the-top goofiness and that really damaged the show. Having Harlan Ellison jump onboard as script editor and stories closer to the cleverness of "The Pieces of Fate Affair", "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" and "The Her Master's Voice Affair" in that year would have helped immensely. Never set comedy as your norm when you're taking over a dramatic show, kids.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Sept 12, 2016 12:18:21 GMT
I wouldnt have cancelled Firefly. I would have at least done a complete First Season to finish the Hands of Blue storyline properly and not in the quick three issue comic (which is still great btw) we ended up getting
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Post by mrperson on Sept 12, 2016 18:18:51 GMT
If I could change anything about Doctor Who, I would remove the terrible 'I can't hold on!' cliffhanger from The Daleks. It always makes me cringe, partly because the acting in that cliffhanger is weak and partly because you don't get enough of a sense of peril from the cinematography. The Thal who we are supposed to care about at this point just comes across as pathetic. It's not as absurd as the Doctor's inexplicable decision to try hanging from his umbrella in Dragonfire.... |
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Post by relativetime on Sept 12, 2016 19:51:53 GMT
For Doctor Who, I'd probably change {Spoiler}
the characterization of the Master in Series 3 and The End of Time to NOT include the nonsense about drums. And the whole conclusion for Last of the Time Lords... And the regeneration in The End of Time, I'd make that a bit more optimistic and I'd probably shorten the farewell tour. And in Moffat's era, I'd remove the scene between Clara and Ashildr at the end of Hell Bent and the shot of their TARDIS in space, leaving it entirely up to the viewer whether they went straight back to Gallifrey or got caught up in adventures.
To clarify, these are just some things that bothered me personally and I don't want to imply I think either show runner did a bad job. |
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Post by ryan on Sept 12, 2016 20:27:33 GMT
I think I may have said this elsewhere, but I'd have liked to rip up The Man from UNCLE's third season and have something closer to the first two in terms of tone and quality. They went really Batman-like in over-the-top goofiness and that really damaged the show. Having Harlan Ellison jump onboard as script editor and stories closer to the cleverness of "The Pieces of Fate Affair", "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" and "The Her Master's Voice Affair" in that year would have helped immensely. Never set comedy as your norm when you're taking over a dramatic show, kids. Yeah, Season 3 was pretty awful. The moments that stick out for me were Napoleon Solo teaching a gorilla to dance, the "wah wah waaaah" version of the theme tune that played whenever Solo or Illya were left looking like idiots, Illya's Broadway performance of "A Man is a Horn" and Illya riding a giant stink bomb as it plummeted towards New York. |
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Sept 12, 2016 21:21:18 GMT
If I could change anything about Doctor Who, I would remove the terrible 'I can't hold on!' cliffhanger from The Daleks. It always makes me cringe, partly because the acting in that cliffhanger is weak and partly because you don't get enough of a sense of peril from the cinematography. The Thal who we are supposed to care about at this point just comes across as pathetic. It's not as absurd as the Doctor's inexplicable decision to try hanging from his umbrella in Dragonfire.... Still makes me cringe though. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2016 21:26:24 GMT
I think I may have said this elsewhere, but I'd have liked to rip up The Man from UNCLE's third season and have something closer to the first two in terms of tone and quality. They went really Batman-like in over-the-top goofiness and that really damaged the show. Having Harlan Ellison jump onboard as script editor and stories closer to the cleverness of "The Pieces of Fate Affair", "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" and "The Her Master's Voice Affair" in that year would have helped immensely. Never set comedy as your norm when you're taking over a dramatic show, kids. Yeah, Season 3 was pretty awful. The moments that stick out for me were Napoleon Solo teaching a gorilla to dance, the "wah wah waaaah" version of the theme tune that played whenever Solo or Illya were left looking like idiots, Illya's Broadway performance of "A Man is a Horn" and Illya riding a giant stink bomb as it plummeted towards New York. It had some real shockers. Illya's shot by Calamity Jane while dressed as a yeti, how they kept forgetting he was Russian, the hideous kazoo music for that episode with Sonny and Cher, THRUSH turn apples into bombs using some seriously bad science... Although the next year is more often than not too serious, Season 4 comes as a bit of a relief and almost feels like a return to the black-and-white days under Sam Rolfe. Restraint seems to be the name of the game whenever you're doing a spy fantasy series, whether it's The Man from UNCLE, Danger Man or I, Spy. I'd have preferred they adapt some of the novels maybe, there were some really promising ideas in there like UNCLE and THRUSH being forced to cooperate to counteract a third threat, Napoleon being put in charge of the organisation while Waverly takes enforced leave, a rogue space station and the duo tracking down missing uranium in the Middle East. Still, out of those good episodes, there was the most excellent characters like Ellipsis Zark ("Those with bubblegum cards and those without..."), literary critic Judith Merril ("We are each assassins, in our own way."), Jack Palance's neurotic Strago (the very antithesis of most of his performances) and the sadistic Mrs. Dyketon ("You're really very cute, I could just love you to death."). Napoleon's attempted suicide when threatened with being dismembered by an indestructible android girl seems almost chilling despite the show's tone. The whole concept terrifies him. Actually, both of the boys do rather well in those episodes as a whole: And as anyone else reading can tell, they're really quotable.  |
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Post by ryan on Sept 12, 2016 22:05:47 GMT
Yeah, Season 3 was pretty awful. The moments that stick out for me were Napoleon Solo teaching a gorilla to dance, the "wah wah waaaah" version of the theme tune that played whenever Solo or Illya were left looking like idiots, Illya's Broadway performance of "A Man is a Horn" and Illya riding a giant stink bomb as it plummeted towards New York. It had some real shockers. Illya's shot by Calamity Jane while dressed as a yeti, how they kept forgetting he was Russian, the hideous kazoo music for that episode with Sonny and Cher, THRUSH turn apples into bombs using some seriously bad science... Although the next year is more often than not too serious, Season 4 comes as a bit of a relief and almost feels like a return to the black-and-white days under Sam Rolfe. Restraint seems to be the name of the game whenever you're doing a spy fantasy series, whether it's The Man from UNCLE, Danger Man or I, Spy. I'd have preferred they adapt some of the novels maybe, there were some really promising ideas in there like UNCLE and THRUSH being forced to cooperate to counteract a third threat, Napoleon being put in charge of the organisation while Waverly takes enforced leave, a rogue space station and the duo tracking down missing uranium in the Middle East. Still, out of those good episodes, there was the most excellent characters like Ellipsis Zark ("Those with bubblegum cards and those without..."), literary critic Judith Merril ("We are each assassins, in our own way."), Jack Palance's neurotic Strago (the very antithesis of most of his performances) and the sadistic Mrs. Dyketon ("You're really very cute, I could just love you to death."). Napoleon's attempted suicide when threatened with being dismembered by an indestructible android girl seems almost chilling despite the show's tone. The whole concept terrifies him. Actually, both of the boys do rather well in those episodes as a whole: And as anyone else reading can tell, they're really quotable. Those books sound interesting. Shame I'm too young to have read them (born in 91). Yeah, seasons 1 and 4 were very strong. But I think even bad UNCLE is entertaining simply because of the chemistry between Vaughn and McCallum. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2016 22:23:10 GMT
It had some real shockers. Illya's shot by Calamity Jane while dressed as a yeti, how they kept forgetting he was Russian, the hideous kazoo music for that episode with Sonny and Cher, THRUSH turn apples into bombs using some seriously bad science... Although the next year is more often than not too serious, Season 4 comes as a bit of a relief and almost feels like a return to the black-and-white days under Sam Rolfe. Restraint seems to be the name of the game whenever you're doing a spy fantasy series, whether it's The Man from UNCLE, Danger Man or I, Spy. I'd have preferred they adapt some of the novels maybe, there were some really promising ideas in there like UNCLE and THRUSH being forced to cooperate to counteract a third threat, Napoleon being put in charge of the organisation while Waverly takes enforced leave, a rogue space station and the duo tracking down missing uranium in the Middle East. Still, out of those good episodes, there was the most excellent characters like Ellipsis Zark ("Those with bubblegum cards and those without..."), literary critic Judith Merril ("We are each assassins, in our own way."), Jack Palance's neurotic Strago (the very antithesis of most of his performances) and the sadistic Mrs. Dyketon ("You're really very cute, I could just love you to death."). Napoleon's attempted suicide when threatened with being dismembered by an indestructible android girl seems almost chilling despite the show's tone. The whole concept terrifies him. Actually, both of the boys do rather well in those episodes as a whole: And as anyone else reading can tell, they're really quotable. Those books sound interesting. Shame I'm too young to have read them (born in 91). Yeah, seasons 1 and 4 were very strong. But I think even bad UNCLE is entertaining simply because of the chemistry between Vaughn and McCallum. They're such great actors playing flexible characters. Born in '95, there are ways and means.  You can typically find them on eBay ( like The Dagger Affair here), it's how I've been tracking down Doctor Who VNAs and old 300-page hardcovers of original Thunderbirds books published in the mid-sixties when the show was still going strong. |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Sept 13, 2016 11:14:37 GMT
Oh I mentioned this in another thread, but I'll say it again here. I would have allowed Robert Hewitt Wolfe to have been able to have done his vision for Andromeda, not have forced him out half way through Season 2 and I would have kept Trance Sexily Purple |
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