I'd say, "Major concept shortage for the last five years". I mean, what percentage of movies this century have been re-makes of old ones, or adaptations of TV series or books? Or, while we're at it, TRILOGIES?
At least chicks will watch it now, which is more than could be said for Dr Who right through the 80s. A year ago, I would never have thought that I could be watching Dr Who with my young wife, hearing her say: "Wow, finally the BBC are making some decent television."
Actually Russel T Davies reckons that's part of the the reason there wasn't an 8th doctor series - after years off air, the first thing that happens in the McGann movie is that he lands on earth and dies. Then dozens of precious minutes sneak by while he comes back to life, and explains what's going on, and before you knew it the film was half over and all the main character has done is died.
I reckon RTD got it right this time. Maybe there can be some flashback or explanation for how McGann became Eccleston, but now Tennant's in the role and the kids understand it well enough, it seems less and less relevant.
At least the whiney-bitch comments are relegated to the small print. The damn advertisement is on the front page of a popular news site, pretending to be news, adding to the fog of bullshit that makes up the media.
Yes. Blowing your own trumpet is self-promotion, not news. I see enough advertisements around the place already without it taking the place of real news.
Yeah I know I'm too late. Advertising already has infiltrated the news just about wherever you look, what with reporters taking an easy day by submitting companies' press releases as a news report, but we can do without it here at Slashdot. There must have been another submission.
Heck, I'd even take another Jackson story in preference to this.
John Nathan Turner was at the helm, and his sole vision appears to have been to bleed the series for all it was worth. Very few fans ever liked the guy, and he was largely held to blame for the series being cancelled.
I think history has been very unkind to John Nathan Turner. Sure the show jumped the shark while he was in charge, but in all fairness he was producer for TEN YEARS, which was much much too long. According to legend, he didn't even want to do it most of that time.
Up until 1980 the production team was always changing, so the show's style was always refreshing itself: there was the educational phase, the monster seige phase, the gritty millitary phase, the space opera phase, the gothic phase, the h2g2 phase - perhaps others might identify more phases along the way - then finally the JNT phase: perhaps the "Space Panto" phase.
Of course JNT's era went through various flavours as the years went by, but I really wouldn't call any of it real evolution until the end in 1989.
I wouldn't call that JNT's fault, though. The mistake was leaving the same person in charge three or four times too long. The show didn't change, and times did: Doctor Who became nerdy and regressional.
I do hope that the same doesn't happen with Russel T Davies. If the new show even lasts that long.
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If you agree with so many of his points, what makes it a "troll article"?
How many? Well, 130 replies and counting isn't too bad for a slashdot story about a TV show that they can't get in the States. Except by torrent, of course...
39 percent said they found blogs less credible than newspaper articles
Who are the other 61% of people, who either think blogs are no less credible than newspaper articles, or who DON'T KNOW if blogs are less credible than newspaper articles?
and what's more:
From TFA:
Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said bloggers should have the same rights as traditional journalists
..and yet,
Most Americans believe bloggers should not be allowed to publish sensitive personal information about individuals
I can't remember whose law it was, but whoever said it was certainly right here: you cannot measure something without changing the measurement. Of course it's easy to see how entrusting someone to keep a diary of what they've watched can be abused. The set-top people meter illustrates this: if my preferences were being recorded, of course I'd be much more discerning in what I watched. If I came home one evening and really wanted to switch my brain off and rest, without a people-meter box I might... conceivably... though of course this has never happened... I might watch Survivor or Idol. But if this activity was directly supporting the creation of such crap I would make sure I NEVER watched it.
Same goes for the Portable Meter. If my perferences were being recorded, I would OF COURSE avoid commercial radio stations, Muzak I didn't like, and the myriad other things that I'd suddenly become aware of. I'd want to buck the system, baby. Everything I did would suddenly become a moral judgement: "If this little box detects that I'm doing this, then there'll be more of this in the world: Do I want that?"
And anyway, what type of person volunteers to wear a Portable People Meter? Is it someone extroverted enough to not mind having their lives analysed by advertising industry grunts? Is it someone idealistic enough to want to mess up these measurements? Is it the cunning and selfish person who is willing to sacrifice a little privacy in order to get more of the type of TV shows that they like? Are these normal people?
I'd rather have that conversation than to go over the plots of the crap on the tube last night. Honestly, do we really have that little to think about, that we need to discuss who is going to be next to be voted off Survivor, or which of the Idol competitors has the least annoying voice? The most interesting people are those who can say "Last night I went out and did something" e.g. "I saw a band at a pub" or "I went to a cooking class".
I don't want to hear "That Brian sure messed up on The Apprentice last night, eh?" or "Hey how about that ball game?" any more than I want to hear "I bet you wasted your life last night: I don't have a television you know, and I'm so much better for it."
Yes, you're right. I remember now. There is, and the Time Lords offered it to the Master near the beginning of "The Five Doctors" in exchange for his help.
You represent most of what is wrong with the slashdot community, you consider yourself full of technical prowess but your feel to superior to allow any innovation so you instead slam anything new as just a waste of time.
To respond, I'll have to make some assumptions as to what you mean by that crazy jumble of words.
My guess is that you consider Flash and similar technologies "something new" for us to bitch about - and that's a bit ignorant. How long has Flash been around? Seven years? Eight?
And a general assertion that we won't allow new innovations? Have you looked at the front page of Slashdot? It's almost always about our enthusiasm for new things!
No. What most people around here "slam" as "a waste of time" are things that are a waste of time. Like content-low, data-high mostly-marketing crap.
Web designers should have been worrying about 56k speeds all along. Not everybody happens to have broadband yet, and even if they do, why should you bleed it all away with huge flash files, etc. If you have to add splash and flash, perhaps your message isn't as good as it could be.
I agree. Despite what many in large US cities may believe, Broadband hasn't properly rolled out all over the planet yet, in an affordable, usable way. Where I live, broadband is very expensive unless you accept a low monthly data limit, like around 2GB, and I resent the fact that advertisers are stealing my first 2GB away with their flashy crap.
Should I have to browse the web with images, java and flash turned off? I'd rather be on 56k in that case.
I disagree. The market is saturated with it and is forced to change technology in order to put up with it. Because it's easy to sell whizzy-looking things to CEOs, and because the it's the MARKETING industry that benefits from promotion of flashy better-than-html websites, users are forced to adapt.
Man, that is the stupidest thing I have ever seen - and I've got broadband! An attitude that says women should eat enough to not die advocates obesity? I really hope you're deliberately trolling. I'd hate to be an impressionable young woman anywhere near you.
FWIW, I think Billie Piper has gotten much better looking as she's grown up - and filled out.
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I'd say, "Major concept shortage for the last five years". I mean, what percentage of movies this century have been re-makes of old ones, or adaptations of TV series or books? Or, while we're at it, TRILOGIES?
The script for Feast of Steven is available, with all the other missing episodes, here.
Absolutely. Russel T Davies is proving to be something of a modern, big, gay, Welsh version of Ben Elton. It's all good.
At least chicks will watch it now, which is more than could be said for Dr Who right through the 80s. A year ago, I would never have thought that I could be watching Dr Who with my young wife, hearing her say: "Wow, finally the BBC are making some decent television."
Actually Russel T Davies reckons that's part of the the reason there wasn't an 8th doctor series - after years off air, the first thing that happens in the McGann movie is that he lands on earth and dies. Then dozens of precious minutes sneak by while he comes back to life, and explains what's going on, and before you knew it the film was half over and all the main character has done is died.
I reckon RTD got it right this time. Maybe there can be some flashback or explanation for how McGann became Eccleston, but now Tennant's in the role and the kids understand it well enough, it seems less and less relevant.
At least the whiney-bitch comments are relegated to the small print. The damn advertisement is on the front page of a popular news site, pretending to be news, adding to the fog of bullshit that makes up the media.
Yes. Blowing your own trumpet is self-promotion, not news. I see enough advertisements around the place already without it taking the place of real news.
Yeah I know I'm too late. Advertising already has infiltrated the news just about wherever you look, what with reporters taking an easy day by submitting companies' press releases as a news report, but we can do without it here at Slashdot. There must have been another submission.
Heck, I'd even take another Jackson story in preference to this.
I think history has been very unkind to John Nathan Turner. Sure the show jumped the shark while he was in charge, but in all fairness he was producer for TEN YEARS, which was much much too long. According to legend, he didn't even want to do it most of that time.
Up until 1980 the production team was always changing, so the show's style was always refreshing itself: there was the educational phase, the monster seige phase, the gritty millitary phase, the space opera phase, the gothic phase, the h2g2 phase - perhaps others might identify more phases along the way - then finally the JNT phase: perhaps the "Space Panto" phase.
Of course JNT's era went through various flavours as the years went by, but I really wouldn't call any of it real evolution until the end in 1989.
I wouldn't call that JNT's fault, though. The mistake was leaving the same person in charge three or four times too long. The show didn't change, and times did: Doctor Who became nerdy and regressional.
I do hope that the same doesn't happen with Russel T Davies. If the new show even lasts that long.
If you agree with so many of his points, what makes it a "troll article"?
Yeah. Doctor Who should be a part that British Actors can only get when they're too old to be James Bond.
How many? Well, 130 replies and counting isn't too bad for a slashdot story about a TV show that they can't get in the States. Except by torrent, of course...
Bill Nighy!
Bill Nighy!
Bill Nighy!
Bloody hell!
and what's more:
From TFA:One more law falls by the wayside because people won't obey it. Cue excited discharge of semi-automatic rifles.
I can't remember whose law it was, but whoever said it was certainly right here: you cannot measure something without changing the measurement. Of course it's easy to see how entrusting someone to keep a diary of what they've watched can be abused. The set-top people meter illustrates this: if my preferences were being recorded, of course I'd be much more discerning in what I watched. If I came home one evening and really wanted to switch my brain off and rest, without a people-meter box I might ... conceivably ... though of course this has never happened ... I might watch Survivor or Idol. But if this activity was directly supporting the creation of such crap I would make sure I NEVER watched it.
Same goes for the Portable Meter. If my perferences were being recorded, I would OF COURSE avoid commercial radio stations, Muzak I didn't like, and the myriad other things that I'd suddenly become aware of. I'd want to buck the system, baby. Everything I did would suddenly become a moral judgement: "If this little box detects that I'm doing this, then there'll be more of this in the world: Do I want that?"
And anyway, what type of person volunteers to wear a Portable People Meter? Is it someone extroverted enough to not mind having their lives analysed by advertising industry grunts? Is it someone idealistic enough to want to mess up these measurements? Is it the cunning and selfish person who is willing to sacrifice a little privacy in order to get more of the type of TV shows that they like? Are these normal people?
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I'd rather have that conversation than to go over the plots of the crap on the tube last night. Honestly, do we really have that little to think about, that we need to discuss who is going to be next to be voted off Survivor, or which of the Idol competitors has the least annoying voice? The most interesting people are those who can say "Last night I went out and did something" e.g. "I saw a band at a pub" or "I went to a cooking class".
I don't want to hear "That Brian sure messed up on The Apprentice last night, eh?" or "Hey how about that ball game?" any more than I want to hear "I bet you wasted your life last night: I don't have a television you know, and I'm so much better for it."
Yes, you're right. I remember now. There is, and the Time Lords offered it to the Master near the beginning of "The Five Doctors" in exchange for his help.
To respond, I'll have to make some assumptions as to what you mean by that crazy jumble of words.
My guess is that you consider Flash and similar technologies "something new" for us to bitch about - and that's a bit ignorant. How long has Flash been around? Seven years? Eight?
And a general assertion that we won't allow new innovations? Have you looked at the front page of Slashdot? It's almost always about our enthusiasm for new things!
No. What most people around here "slam" as "a waste of time" are things that are a waste of time. Like content-low, data-high mostly-marketing crap.
I agree. Despite what many in large US cities may believe, Broadband hasn't properly rolled out all over the planet yet, in an affordable, usable way. Where I live, broadband is very expensive unless you accept a low monthly data limit, like around 2GB, and I resent the fact that advertisers are stealing my first 2GB away with their flashy crap.
Should I have to browse the web with images, java and flash turned off? I'd rather be on 56k in that case.
I disagree. The market is saturated with it and is forced to change technology in order to put up with it. Because it's easy to sell whizzy-looking things to CEOs, and because the it's the MARKETING industry that benefits from promotion of flashy better-than-html websites, users are forced to adapt.
Yeah, heh heh. Smilies, heh heh. No fat chicks, heh heh.
And you're suggesting that Billie Piper is unfit?
Man, that is the stupidest thing I have ever seen - and I've got broadband! An attitude that says women should eat enough to not die advocates obesity? I really hope you're deliberately trolling. I'd hate to be an impressionable young woman anywhere near you.
FWIW, I think Billie Piper has gotten much better looking as she's grown up - and filled out.