Multi Media Discussion

Having watched the first two episodes of this season's Doctor Who on BBC America, and having really not understood what was going on, I decided to go back to the (current) beginning and have been watching from the Eccleston season onwards. I really liked Eccleston; I'm enjoying Tennant as well, but not quite as much. I'll reserve judgment on Matt Smith until I catch up.

Smith seems to be too close to Tennant, as though he's aping mannerisms and assuming he's the same person. And then there's that massive, clay-colored brow of Smith's... doesn't help that he has no visible eyebrows to speak of. Creeps me the fuck out.

ddt

(This, by the way, is an excellent example of what a great thing Netflix and Amazon streaming are. I wouldn't pay for all these seasons, but I can happily stream them and watch on my computer, iPhone, iPad, or tv. What a great world.)

Yeah, the first one is always free... then you reach the end of the free episodes and start thinking, "Hmm, I could watch the next episode for $1.99... that's not so bad. I mean, I can't wait 18 months to find out what happens to River Song. Oooh... for another dollar I could get it in HD!"

Now you're 6 episodes in for three bucks a piece and you're foaming at the mouth for the next one.

Now HERE'S a new superhero comic for you...

Awesome x10...

Sorry, China. Another tragic case of "too much democracy." Look forward to next year's series: "Central Committee Idol!"

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... following government pressure on a programme that some officials saw as subversive because the audience voting too closely represented Western-style democracy.

When I have to pay to vote (even if it's a 55 cent text) - that's when I won't be voting.

"Terra Nova" makes no sense. It might have been good as an '80s British series, where they'd have taken a whole first episode to decompress what in this was the first 17 minutes. No characters, just denotations of where we're supposed to fill in entire character beats and contexts, and amazingly incoherent ideas behind this colonization project. I can guess that the masses they're allowing to arrive on public transit have been selected carefully through a long process, but the show makes it seem like you mail in an application, and then get told to meet somewhere, like it's a flash mob. Don't you think they'd, dunno, train these people intensively for months? But no, they just get shuffled through a stargate (which they treat like no big deal -- really, it's the most amazing thing and the hope for humanity, and one character almost just wanders into it backwards?) while a PA system tells them, seemingly for the first time, that they might find the new world a bit odd, what with O2 and sunlight.

No way to run a railroad!

Of course, with Spielberg's influence, it all has to be about OH MY GOD THE FAMILY and THE CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE, DON'T YOU THINK.

Yeah, scrubbing through the rest of the first hour, the plot beats are so predictable and the line writing is crap. Ugh. Will not bother.

ddt



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I turned it off.

Heads up to comic fans: http://5by5.tv/ia/1



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The kids are just fun-size meals for the allosaurs.

Thanks for the link, Bill.

Yeah, the nuDCU has been a topic burning up the interweb-waves -- even indie artists are roiled up about it.

ddt

I really liked the movie Drive. Ryan Gosling is very dreamy. It's a great, gritty(!) film noir. Suondtrack is amazing as well.

http://www.startrek.com/article/the-next-generation-blu-rays-launch-in-2012

Yes. Yes. YES.

"Make it so."

I saw that ST Bluray announcement and thought it would only expose crappy CGI and sets.
I was very upset I was unable to get tickets when Patrick Stewart was at the RSC theater when I had the night free. We waited in the line for some to become available to no avail. :(

So, are torrents dying or what? I used to see torrents with thousands of connections but now rarely do. Why? Am I missing some new technology? Anyone know what's up?

Kinda more comic related. Have you guys ever heard of Quentin Peeples? Seems like an interesting guy. Writer and such.
Anyway, he has some commentary on comics.
http://quintonpeeples.tumblr.com/

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El Jeffe
I saw that ST Bluray announcement and thought it would only expose crappy CGI and sets.

That was my thought, too, but they're redoing all the CGI stuff. I'm not worried about the sets. I have the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series on HD-DVD and it's great!

I used to watch Hogan's Heroes in High Definition on HDNet. The only thing that sucked about that was the fact that they felt the need to crop it to 16:9.

What CGI? Or you just mean VFX? There was no CGI on TNG that I know of. I'm pretty sure the first Star Trek show to use CGI was Voyager.