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Movies & Entertainment / Re: Christmas Movies
« Last post by RottingCorpse on Yesterday at 12:27:16 PM »Violent Night is on my holiday list.
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TV / Re: Doctor Who: NuWho Thread
« Last post by nacho on Yesterday at 10:33:48 AM »So... The 14th Doctor doesn't die. Tennant gets to live on with Donna and have his own adventures concurrently with the 15th. Talk about hedging your bets.
15 is just a part of 14, born because two companions helped pull the Doctor in half after his regeneration cycle failed for no particular reason except "it's different this time."
The first thing they ask 15 to do is play a ball game to defeat the Toymaker, who here is retconned not as one of the Eternals but as a multi-dimensional monster who exploited some fabric of space time. Yet he still has Eternal powers in that he's captured the Master in his gold tooth.
15 runs around to all the white people and says "It's okay. I'm here now. You're going to be okay."
Oh, and wheelchair girl stood up and walked around. Gotta pay more attention to that script, writers room!
I have zero desire to watch the Christmas episode.
15 is just a part of 14, born because two companions helped pull the Doctor in half after his regeneration cycle failed for no particular reason except "it's different this time."
The first thing they ask 15 to do is play a ball game to defeat the Toymaker, who here is retconned not as one of the Eternals but as a multi-dimensional monster who exploited some fabric of space time. Yet he still has Eternal powers in that he's captured the Master in his gold tooth.
15 runs around to all the white people and says "It's okay. I'm here now. You're going to be okay."
Oh, and wheelchair girl stood up and walked around. Gotta pay more attention to that script, writers room!
I have zero desire to watch the Christmas episode.
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Movies & Entertainment / Re: Christmas Movies
« Last post by nacho on December 09, 2023, 01:15:01 PM »The Guardians Holiday Special has entered into our usual pre-Christmas routine. Just watched it again last night. And fell in love with it all over again.
Also our second year in a row watching Violent Night again. Quickly becoming a tradition there...
Also our second year in a row watching Violent Night again. Quickly becoming a tradition there...
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Intensive Porpoises / Re: dc stuff
« Last post by nacho on December 09, 2023, 11:49:15 AM »This thread on the Arlington house explosion is wild:
https://x.com/aphilosophae/status/1732910829110956033?s=46&t=OklvJ8nw-gGi_lhiWt5nLg
Woah....
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Newsday / Re: Israel v Hamas
« Last post by nacho on December 09, 2023, 11:48:18 AM »Agreed with Monkey here.
Israel made this bed and....we're the ones who will be sleeping in it.
Israel made this bed and....we're the ones who will be sleeping in it.
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TV / Re: Doctor Who: NuWho Thread
« Last post by nacho on December 09, 2023, 11:46:09 AM »That there is a 15th doctor is totally lost in Tenant madness.
I feel so bad for the poor bastard. The fandom is already up in arms that Donna married a Black man and has a trans kid. If they can't swallow a mixed race couple how in the world will they accept a Black Doctor? He'll get worse treatment than poor Jodie Whittaker, who was basically slut shamed out of the role.
And, already, Russ Davies is saying things like the Christmas episode will be a musical and the new companion Ruby is the real star of the new era. They've sidelined the 15th Doctor before he's even had one minute of screentime!
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Intensive Porpoises / Re: dc stuff
« Last post by RottingCorpse on December 08, 2023, 07:34:11 PM »This thread on the Arlington house explosion is wild:
https://x.com/aphilosophae/status/1732910829110956033?s=46&t=OklvJ8nw-gGi_lhiWt5nLg
https://x.com/aphilosophae/status/1732910829110956033?s=46&t=OklvJ8nw-gGi_lhiWt5nLg
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TV / Re: Doctor Who: NuWho Thread
« Last post by RottingCorpse on December 08, 2023, 01:18:53 PM »That there is a 15th doctor is totally lost in Tenant madness.
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Newsday / Re: Israel v Hamas
« Last post by monkey! on December 08, 2023, 12:01:34 PM »A fairly simplistic yet nonetheless accurate analogy for this situation can, more or less, be summed up as such:
You live in your home, with your stuff in it, maybe a dog or cat, maybe some children and/or elderly relatives who live with you. A few guys have rented out an Air B&B in your neighbourhood... these guys then do something bad. So... the military fire-bombs your whole neighbourhood 'just in case' and if your animals, children, or (grand)parents are there when this happens... well, you shouldn't have been there. If you're lucky, you'll actually receive a phone call to warn you but maybe this happens at 3am and the bombs falls earlier than the phone call stated... whoopsie!
Not to mention that real life there is basically living in an open-air-prison. You live in a shitty neighbourhood, within tall, concrete walls and you have a curfew; your children must leave the compound and 'cross the red line' to go to school and may or may not be shot, beaten and/or imprisoned between home and school for any variety of reasons; if you want water you must also cross the 'red line' because your 'town' has been separated from all elements of sustenance by walls and military controls. The incumbent government has publicly referred to your people as 'animals' and also publicly declared that military retribution is about 'damage' not finding those responsible.
You live in your home, with your stuff in it, maybe a dog or cat, maybe some children and/or elderly relatives who live with you. A few guys have rented out an Air B&B in your neighbourhood... these guys then do something bad. So... the military fire-bombs your whole neighbourhood 'just in case' and if your animals, children, or (grand)parents are there when this happens... well, you shouldn't have been there. If you're lucky, you'll actually receive a phone call to warn you but maybe this happens at 3am and the bombs falls earlier than the phone call stated... whoopsie!
Not to mention that real life there is basically living in an open-air-prison. You live in a shitty neighbourhood, within tall, concrete walls and you have a curfew; your children must leave the compound and 'cross the red line' to go to school and may or may not be shot, beaten and/or imprisoned between home and school for any variety of reasons; if you want water you must also cross the 'red line' because your 'town' has been separated from all elements of sustenance by walls and military controls. The incumbent government has publicly referred to your people as 'animals' and also publicly declared that military retribution is about 'damage' not finding those responsible.
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TV / Re: Doctor Who: NuWho Thread
« Last post by nacho on December 08, 2023, 09:04:14 AM »We get to meet the 15th Doctor tomorrow. Yay, he says unenthusiastically.