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Post by grinch on Dec 27, 2020 15:57:18 GMT
Britain’s Favourite Novel
Definitely jotting down the names of several of these entries.
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Post by grinch on Dec 27, 2020 18:36:54 GMT
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017)
The second of the Mischief Theatre festive instalments. Guest starring The War Master himself Sir Derek Jacobi.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one as well. Even if I think Peter Pan Goes Wrong had more creative slapstick in it. Although one could argue that’s mainly because the source material of the former is far more fantastical then the latter.
Definitely will have to give the series a look sometime.
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Post by timegirl on Dec 28, 2020 3:16:58 GMT
Bridgerton I love this show! It’s gorgeous, intriguing, and a bit sexy. I love everything about this show from the acting to the production design to the music! It’s got “Personal History of David Copperfield” vibes which is never a bad thing! I love Daphne and Simon, they are adorable! Only a few episodes in but I can’t wait to see where it goes next!
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Dec 28, 2020 11:25:09 GMT
Zog Fun adaptation on the Julia Donaldson story
Ghosts Christmas Special Funny and Emotional in equal measure
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Post by polly on Dec 29, 2020 5:20:20 GMT
Star Trek TNG: "Contagion" - I've always been interested in these advanced precursor races that have been established in the Trek universe. Star Trek Online picks up the Iconian stuff and runs with it, but generally you get very little further information about them in-canon. They're just not explored the way that Babylon 5 would deal with their elder races.
Twilight Zone '85: "Love is Blind" - A seedy country bar with oracular musical performances, people wearing too much denim, running through the woods at night, distorted sound... This is damn near a Twin Peaks story. It's a shame they couldn't be this good more often. Three to go!
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Dec 29, 2020 11:24:31 GMT
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Charmed Season 2 Episodes 17-19 Hope they planned final 3 Episodes get expanded on for the start of Season 3
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Post by The Brigadier on Dec 29, 2020 17:28:04 GMT
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Season 1, eps. 7 to 9 ('Q Less' to 'The Passenger')
Funny the snippets that stay lodged in your memory from various episodes you watched an age ago ("You hit me! Picard never hit me!"). I'm still rewatching the first season and it's still enjoyable the second time around. This was grown up Star Trek to me back then - darker and grittier than TNG ever was and not remotely reliant on the 'f bomb' to make a statement.
Star Wars : Rebels Shorts - eps. 1 to 4 Star Wars : Rebels - Season 1, eps. 1 to 6
What can I say about this that most of you didn't know already? To invest in characters within two or three episodes is something of a rarity for me..but I've invested for sure. Half a dozen episodes into the first season and I'm not even remotely bothered I'm watching an animated series aimed primarily at children. Which either says a lot for Disney's family viewing policy or that my inner child is immensely satisfied..😊
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Post by doctorkernow on Dec 29, 2020 21:38:21 GMT
Hello again.
Loved Deep Space Nine. Great cast and not everything was tied up in nice neat bow as generally happened on Next Generation. I enjoyed the interactions between the regular cast and enjoyed the stories told by this iteration of the venerable franchise. The only thing I really disliked was the theme music and titles. It was so slow and when they speeded it up it seemed to make it worse. I don't know if with different titles the music would have worked better. The Voyager titles and music were just magical.
Also a great fan of the other space station set show, Babylon 5. It was just so odd. The aliens, the mischievous Londo baiting G'kar, those horrid shadows and my favourite guest star, Walter Koenig unrecognisable as the scary telepath hunter Alfred Bester. I think the lack of Who just made me appreciate something a bit different.
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Post by mark687 on Dec 29, 2020 23:26:14 GMT
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Season 1, eps. 7 to 9 ('Q Less' to 'The Passenger') Funny the snippets that stay lodged in your memory from various episodes you watched an age ago ("You hit me! Picard never hit me!"). I'm still rewatching the first season and it's still enjoyable the second time around. This was grown up Star Trek to me back then - darker and grittier than TNG ever was and not remotely reliant on the 'f bomb' to make a statement. Star Wars : Rebels Shorts - eps. 1 to 4 Star Wars : Rebels - Season 1, eps. 1 to 6
What can I say about this that most of you didn't know already? To invest in characters within two or three episodes is something of a rarity for me..but I've invested for sure. Half a dozen episodes into the first season and I'm not even remotely bothered I'm watching an animated series aimed primarily at children. Which either says a lot for Disney's family viewing policy or that my inner child is immensely satisfied..😊
When i watch this back I'm never too sure if its Sisko Character or Avery Brookes Actor throwing the Punch as if it conveyed "I Signed on for Serious Drama not this Silly ****!" Rebels story wise is as good as Mandorlian and has a few of brilliant surprising Guest Vocals the further on you watch. Regards mark687
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Post by polly on Dec 30, 2020 5:51:15 GMT
DS9 is a beautiful thing. And it is truly mature Star Trek - mature in its themes, its attitudes, and its thoughtful, intelligent storytelling. Well, not "Move Along Home" or "Profit and Lace", but we all make mistakes.
In any case, it's a smarter than the current crop of Trek shows could ever hope to be. To paraphrase another venerable SF franchise - The ability to say the F word does not make you intelligent.
Quantum Leap: "Genesis" - Man, I haven't seen this in years, and it'll be a first watch for Mr Polly. The pilot is not the greatest episode by any means, but it's very effective in setting up the premise and giving a sample of what the show will actually be like. So, I consider that a success. It's funny, in my head I always remember the test plane story and the baseball story as two separate episodes. But seeing it again, the two-in-one was a wise choice to establish how Sam's leaps were going to work.
What sets Quantum Leap apart from its contemporaries - Star Trek, Doctor Who, Twilight Zone etc - is its heart. There's a sweetness and tenderness to it that you don't often see on television SF. And it's just so darn earnest and endearing that only rarely does it become schmaltz.
The Simpsons: "Bart's Nightmare" - Man, Bart is a total cookie pig in the shorts. This is like the third one about him gorging himself on them.
Star Trek TNG: "The Royale" - Yes, I too feel like I'm trapped in a poorly written nightmare...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2020 6:08:12 GMT
Star Trek TNG: "Contagion" - I've always been interested in these advanced precursor races that have been established in the Trek universe. Star Trek Online picks up the Iconian stuff and runs with it, but generally you get very little further information about them in-canon. They're just not explored the way that Babylon 5 would deal with their elder races. Yeah, it's a bit of a shame really because there's some really nice ideas floating around the EU. The Preservers, for instance. Picking up rudimentary lifeforms and seeding other planets with them to... Protect the survival of said species from extinction events? It's never quite clarified. The Iconians are similarly good. I liked Picard's belief that they weren't inherently hostile. It was just a case of bumping into technology that didn't have the right analogue for Federation ships. Always nice to see Carolyn Seymour in stuff, too. She makes a good Romulan.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2020 8:45:50 GMT
Columbo Double Bill, Caution Murder Can Be Hazardous To Your Health & A Trace Of Murder.
I simply adore this character & actor the late great Peter Falk.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Dec 30, 2020 11:48:30 GMT
Roald and Beatrix - The Tale of the Curious Mouse This was okay. Not what i expected. Took half its running time to get going
Quentin Blake's Clown I love his art style and its a quaint little story
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Post by mark687 on Dec 30, 2020 22:18:26 GMT
Black Narcissus (2020)
(So apart from the great Dame Diana Rigg's all too brief Swan Song this has nothing going for it. Male lead with the charisma of a wet lettuce, no believably in a "Fall into Temptation" and the tragic conclusion is down to hypocrisy just as mach as madness.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2020 4:11:34 GMT
Black Narcissus (2020) (So apart from the great Dame Diana Rigg's all too brief Swan Song this has nothing going for it. Male lead with the charisma of a wet lettuce, no believably in a "Fall into Temptation" and the tragic conclusion is down to hypocrisy just as mach as madness.) Regards mark687 It was a bad idea from the outset. As much as you can use the "It's not a remake, it's a new take on the novel" - the film from 1947 looms MASSIVELY over it. And that film did more with repressed sexuality 73 years ago than this series did. Deborah Kerr made a career out of playing that kinda role and Gemma Arterton is a poor imitation. David Farrar gave the film that push of brooding masculinity that made you believe the secual tension. Sabu injected the film with his trademark charisma. None of that is present in the TV version. It was bold to have a go at a new take but....you won't beat Powell & Pressburger in their pomp!
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Post by polly on Dec 31, 2020 5:31:36 GMT
Yeah, it's a bit of a shame really because there's some really nice ideas floating around the EU. The Preservers, for instance. Picking up rudimentary lifeforms and seeding other planets with them to... Protect the survival of said species from extinction events? It's never quite clarified. The Iconians are similarly good. I liked Picard's belief that they weren't inherently hostile. It was just a case of bumping into technology that didn't have the right analogue for Federation ships. Always nice to see Carolyn Seymour in stuff, too. She makes a good Romulan. I liked that about Picard too, actually. He has the presence of mind to go, hang on, we don't know for sure this "attack" is an attack. After all, if the Iconians were so powerful, they could have automated some blaster to just vaporize the ship instead of giving it a computer virus. I forget if the Preservers are the same as the aliens in "The Chase" but I like how that episode offers an explanation for why most Trek races look like humans with prosthetics on. Quantum Leap: "Star Crossed" - I forgot that we get an episode centered on Sam's backstory immediately after the pilot. It's a good idea to keep fleshing out our hero, and when we get the lovely Teri Hatcher for our trouble, I can't complain. Another thing I'd forgotten is the little ongoing thread about the higher-ups wanting to pull the plug on Project QL. Twilight Zone '85: "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" - Similar in tone to The X-Files classic "Jose Chung's From Outer Space," only not as good. Still, it's something different from the same-old same-old, so A for effort. Star Trek TNG: "Time Squared" - I always get this one mixed up with "Cause and Effect," though I like them both. The time loop stuff only started to get tedious with Voyager, because they liked to use it as an excuse to do interesting things and then reset them scot-free. My only real gripe is that I can see a number of options they could have tried to break the time loop, but didn't. Such as - if you know Future Picard arrives in the past aboard Shuttle 5, jettison both the present and future copies of said shuttle. Or, since you know the ship blows up going down some weird tunnel, order all stop and do nothing until the time has elapsed. Even if they didn't work, you could have addressed them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2020 10:01:23 GMT
Columbo: Agenda For Murder, not even Number 6 can foil the genius that is Columbo.
I was in hysterics when Columbo investigates the crime scene & nicks the expensivee cheese.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Dec 31, 2020 11:17:45 GMT
Room on a Broom
The Lost Ghost Story with Mark Gatiss
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Post by The Brigadier on Jan 2, 2021 18:10:21 GMT
Star Wars : Rebels - Season 1 eps. 7 to 15
So I binged on these last night and might have forgotten to tune in to a certain 'Revolution'...😳 The further along I went the more involved I got to the point where I just had to see it through to the end of the season and hang the consequences.
The highlights for me (couldn't think of any lowlights)..
The lead vocal cast - lovely chemistry together that you couldn't help invest in the characters,
A couple of surprise cameos as @mark867 mentioned previously which most definitely had me pausing the end credits to double check my suspicions ("Is that who I think it is? Is it really THEM..? OOH! IT IS!"😁),
The appearance of YOU KNOW WHO midway into the season (nice vocal interpretation) and of course the appearance of YOU KNOW WHO at the end,
I'm guessing there was more significance to The Inquisitor than I knew about (should I have started with "The Clone Wars" first?) But that didn't spoil the BOO! HISS! aspect of his scenes one iota.
Mostly it was an excuse to be Ten years old again for a few hours.
Great fun. Rolling into Season 2 soon.....😊
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Post by grinch on Jan 2, 2021 19:34:32 GMT
Dr Seuss’ The Grinch Musical (2020)
Definitely the worst out of all the adaptations of all this classic story. Score is absolutely dreadful and it reminds me of all the worst aspects of a school production. Although at least with the latter, you can acknowledge that they generally have a low budget and it’s usually just another chance for the students to bond creatively rather then having any artistic value.
Have no idea what Matthew Morrison is doing as the Grinch in this though.
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