If more films are made how will the refrences to God (The babelfish entry) and God's message to his creation be handled? In the current politically correct world will these be dropped or edited to refrence something different?
That's the public domain for you. As soon as you move something into a political arena it's no local public but it's propergander. Lets say we have a slip of a duck quacking and Labour use it as a slogan for their campaign. Every time we hear that duck it'll be "labour's duck" and then you can no longer claim it's public and free because to prevent others doing the same thing they would try and own the duck...
The laws work perfectly fine. The problem is in a post 9/11 world (no meme here) people don't care for laws or even common sense.
Giving a robot a shotgun and having it controled by a guy a few miles away is fine, but we're moving into sentinent robots with weapons which is where the laws MUST be enforced. These kind of things shouldn't even be around let alone be used to kill people.
Just wait untill robots become mainstream (for cleaning and other basic maintences) and we see the first one of these go nuts and start to shoot at a few cops (and unlike people these will be pinpoint accurate with EVERY shot and unless you have full body armour able to resist an assault rifle at point black range you're going to some pearly gates). We'll soon see these laws are something we MUST listen to and not become idiots with more weapons than sense.
I'm more a Nintendo fanboy but still. The Xbox holds no intrest to me what so ever. I don'tlike sports games or console FPS which is all it does seem to have. I don't like the FF series so that goes out the window.
I'll stick to my cube and DS. At least I know what I'm getting then
The Xbox has had about 12 decent games since it came our years ago and a whole lot of nothing (Halo and Halo 2 are the only games you ever see mentioned). So who cares whtn the Xbox 2 is unveiledor even out. May as well go "heres a useless box untill Halo 3 is out, have fun.
The mythos seems to have gone out the window a tad.. within 2 episodes we already saw the doctor as "human" and that his world was screwed over.. not so mysterious now is he?:P
You're on slashdot.. he probably hangs here too.. that AC guy probably..
I see your point but holding your own and being a bit of a gobby cow is different IMO. Right now I think he just brushs her off much like a pet per say (Oh she's a stupid human, WTF lets get her lost in time!). But as she learns more and stops holding his hand he'll listen a bit more... but who knows, it looks like someone has to save the doctor from a dalek so..:D
Hold her own as in try and get victorians to be sluts?:P
I get what you mean and I know she'll develope and become much stronger (infact she's already started) and more intresting. But she's always going to be Billie Piper and talk like that which is where my "issue" comes in. You can watch ANY reality TV crap these days and find it infested with non-famous Billie Pipers. Did we really need to send one to far off alien worlds and in time too?
You have an intresting point and I really didn't see the doctors accent as at all weird. He seemed normalish to me (except he could beat Dumbo in a big ears contest but then we all know that and it's a common joke). I get what the series is trying to do with Rose. But there is rather an annoying edge to her which just won't ever go. Billie Piper sounds like that and always will sound like that, so even if she developes to be the best character in the series we still have to have her sound like she's some no hoper. Can you really see her going "oh doctor the matric is misaligned, we need to re-adjust the quazimetamorphasis dialo and then reinstall the melifenium drive"? I'd love to see her try but it's never going to happen..
Maybe he could split or it could be "another" 12. As in he reverts back to say an older one (off screen obviously, just use the voice some how) and then revives from there to a "new-new" one.
But then you have to remember that this is Dr. who and no time frame is permant. What happened in Time frame A may not come to pass in Time frame B. So if the doctor prevented say the darleks shootin his 11th regeneration by killign them off early he could in theory save his own regeneration..
Indeed. if you see my above post you will see my "problem" with that. It's not really a problem at all.. I'd just rather not think "fucking chav" every time she talks. Which TBH is all I do think. I replied to another guy above (mentioning the TARDIS fields) and posted about it there. It's 6am and I need to sleep so I'll just point you there rather than mess around.
I'm working class myself. I grew up in the country side so I admit I'm a bit "out of it" compared to London and what I would consider the "UK slums" (AKA council estates and places like that). But I'm tired of her cutting off letters like "Happen" is now "'appen". It's really annoying to me personal. I like the idea of some girl going on a magical adventure with the doctor and they are doing it well, but I just wish she could use English in a better form. I'm not perfect with my English and don't claim to be, but I don't cut off whole letters in words repeatedly.
I understand where your comming from and I'm not saying all people with voices similar to hers are like that. But everything character wise (her mother.. says it all really, she's about as dirt cheap as you can get..) points to her being a no hoper working in a clothes shop all her life. Now I understand that the BBC is selling it to that crowd by doing it (Look, even some slag can travel the universe!). But I wish she would at least try not to use English a bit better.
I try not to judge people (fictional or not) on outer apperance or how they sound. But Rose's whole character is ment to be played off that way as far as I can tell. So I won't hold it against the writers or Billie to an extent but you'd think if the TARDIS can make you speak alien languages then it should be able to fix you missing h out of Happen no?
Well neither do you considering you can't tell the difference between a Gundam refrence to a totally and utterly different series. So I suggest you stick it.
It's a shame he is leaving after one season. As I grew up I never had any intrest in Dr. Who, it always seemed to drag on and be boring when I watched it (so did episode 3 of the new series to a point though..). But the new Dr. Who intrests me, the humour is very... classic so to speak. Rather then the "heres a few black people or a daughter living with her player father" crap we see every week in and out, Dr. Who is infact funny when it's ment to be. You don't sit there going "hey go on make a joke!" but when you do get a joke it's most the time at least slightly amusing. I'll probably follow the full series through and see how much I like/dislike the new Dr. as to what I do next season, but right now Christopher is carrying the series.
Billie Piper is "okay" but her tone just ruins it for me, she sounds like she needs to be pregnant and have several kids just to get a free house and some extra (free) money from the government. Now theres no problem with sounding like that in modern stuff, but when you're traveling time and no one notices you've got a weird voice somethings up... ep 3 did... minorly cover this issue, but again very minorly..
Where it really stands out is how Christopher plays the Doctor. He bounces and bounds and generally seems to rather enjoy traveling time, saving the Earth and quite frankly having a bit of a giggle while he's at it. I've not seen him in anything else and don't really desire to, but as the doctor he's perfect.
Hopefully the BBC can get him to do a few more seasons. Everyone saying "he's using it as a stepping stone", the other way could be he's trying to revive Dr. who so it will open up sci fi again beyond "star gate and enterprise" on channel 4 every bloody weekend. While he may "waste" a regeneration he's still managed to win over thousands of fans new and old, maybe even some hated enemies of the show.
So like him or not, or his actions. He deserves all the respect he gets for being a magnificent actor in his current rule and reviving not only Dr. Who, but decent comedy which isn't a parody or steriotyped.
Exactly. Not to mention they earn alot from "Piracy". I can name several companies I've "stolen" things off of only to go and buy relating merchandise several times the value of what I "stole". Ironicly they would of got nothing if I didn't do such an "evil thing".
Pfft, ethical means nothing to me. I see no problem with "stealing" a 20 year old game no one's got an intrest in any more. Infact anything pre PSX-Saturn-N64 as far as I'm concerned is free game.
But hey that's just me.
Seems alot of work to rip an image when I could just download it. I mean does it really matter if I rip it or if I DL it when I have the game in the cupboard behind me with all my other consoles?
aww yes. I have over 350 commador 64 games but saddly I lack a tape player or I'd set it up again. Maybe I should take a look on Ebay or something.. I tried a C64 emulator but it seemed to emulate it fully and I perfer windowed emulators with the classic "click to open file" type set up rather then messing around taking more effort then to set the damn system up yourself.
Sounds fun.. maybe you can finally aford to populate it now.. just think of how fast it'd be, a whole 256k, it'd run Doom 3 like a dream!
Yea I know roughly how it worked. I had an old C64.. I was in a wheelchair at that age.. I still have it some where.. well the second.. first one went up in smoke after several months of 12 hour playing...
lol. I'm one of them odd people in my age group who relises the world doesn't revolve around pop music or the latest fad. Odd hitting 19 and going "all the music sounds like noise to me" and perfering a nice cup of tea and a good TV Program to a night club.
but yea I didn't get the internet will about 5 years ago. Was a geek long before that but I'm sure you know how much worse you become when you get access to this place.
Just wait, when I get to your age I can go "When I was a kid we had dial up! We didn't have no fancy broadband, oh no, we got 3kb if we were lucky! 30 minute TV episodes took 2 days to download and if you pissed off the RIAA and MPAA you got sued 13 million pounds PER second PER song!"
Hehe. I ran into it with the newradio dramas and loved it from the second I heard Marvin in the swamps. I'm 19 now so a little older than mos tinto it but still adore it just as much as any.
Do you have an instant messenger things? Slashdot is so difficult to have a conversation on..
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Mod down please. There's no such thing as Brittish humour (I'm from the UK). It's a DARK sense of humour, lots of sarcasm and general "meh-ness".
If more films are made how will the refrences to God (The babelfish entry) and God's message to his creation be handled? In the current politically correct world will these be dropped or edited to refrence something different?
That's the public domain for you. As soon as you move something into a political arena it's no local public but it's propergander. Lets say we have a slip of a duck quacking and Labour use it as a slogan for their campaign. Every time we hear that duck it'll be "labour's duck" and then you can no longer claim it's public and free because to prevent others doing the same thing they would try and own the duck...
well thats a fucked up post..
In America you'll only get 2 BBC "channels". The first is the world service, which is as it says global and well the "world service".
The other is BBC America which is a spin off which would also have the American spin on it..
Will the full trilogy (5 books) be made or is it being played by ear to see how the first goes?
The laws work perfectly fine. The problem is in a post 9/11 world (no meme here) people don't care for laws or even common sense.
Giving a robot a shotgun and having it controled by a guy a few miles away is fine, but we're moving into sentinent robots with weapons which is where the laws MUST be enforced. These kind of things shouldn't even be around let alone be used to kill people.
Just wait untill robots become mainstream (for cleaning and other basic maintences) and we see the first one of these go nuts and start to shoot at a few cops (and unlike people these will be pinpoint accurate with EVERY shot and unless you have full body armour able to resist an assault rifle at point black range you're going to some pearly gates). We'll soon see these laws are something we MUST listen to and not become idiots with more weapons than sense.
I'm more a Nintendo fanboy but still. The Xbox holds no intrest to me what so ever. I don'tlike sports games or console FPS which is all it does seem to have. I don't like the FF series so that goes out the window.
I'll stick to my cube and DS. At least I know what I'm getting then
Welcome to slashdot. We either beat them all by a good 3-4 days or we lag the same length of time.
The Xbox has had about 12 decent games since it came our years ago and a whole lot of nothing (Halo and Halo 2 are the only games you ever see mentioned). So who cares whtn the Xbox 2 is unveiledor even out. May as well go "heres a useless box untill Halo 3 is out, have fun.
The mythos seems to have gone out the window a tad.. within 2 episodes we already saw the doctor as "human" and that his world was screwed over.. not so mysterious now is he? :P
You're on slashdot.. he probably hangs here too.. that AC guy probably..
:D
I see your point but holding your own and being a bit of a gobby cow is different IMO. Right now I think he just brushs her off much like a pet per say (Oh she's a stupid human, WTF lets get her lost in time!). But as she learns more and stops holding his hand he'll listen a bit more... but who knows, it looks like someone has to save the doctor from a dalek so..
Hold her own as in try and get victorians to be sluts? :P
I get what you mean and I know she'll develope and become much stronger (infact she's already started) and more intresting. But she's always going to be Billie Piper and talk like that which is where my "issue" comes in. You can watch ANY reality TV crap these days and find it infested with non-famous Billie Pipers. Did we really need to send one to far off alien worlds and in time too?
I think you'll find I'm in the midlands and don't look down on people much at all.
You have an intresting point and I really didn't see the doctors accent as at all weird. He seemed normalish to me (except he could beat Dumbo in a big ears contest but then we all know that and it's a common joke). I get what the series is trying to do with Rose. But there is rather an annoying edge to her which just won't ever go. Billie Piper sounds like that and always will sound like that, so even if she developes to be the best character in the series we still have to have her sound like she's some no hoper. Can you really see her going "oh doctor the matric is misaligned, we need to re-adjust the quazimetamorphasis dialo and then reinstall the melifenium drive"? I'd love to see her try but it's never going to happen..
but how would you explain the merging?
Maybe he could split or it could be "another" 12. As in he reverts back to say an older one (off screen obviously, just use the voice some how) and then revives from there to a "new-new" one.
But then you have to remember that this is Dr. who and no time frame is permant. What happened in Time frame A may not come to pass in Time frame B. So if the doctor prevented say the darleks shootin his 11th regeneration by killign them off early he could in theory save his own regeneration..
Indeed. if you see my above post you will see my "problem" with that. It's not really a problem at all.. I'd just rather not think "fucking chav" every time she talks. Which TBH is all I do think. I replied to another guy above (mentioning the TARDIS fields) and posted about it there. It's 6am and I need to sleep so I'll just point you there rather than mess around.
I'm working class myself. I grew up in the country side so I admit I'm a bit "out of it" compared to London and what I would consider the "UK slums" (AKA council estates and places like that). But I'm tired of her cutting off letters like "Happen" is now "'appen". It's really annoying to me personal. I like the idea of some girl going on a magical adventure with the doctor and they are doing it well, but I just wish she could use English in a better form. I'm not perfect with my English and don't claim to be, but I don't cut off whole letters in words repeatedly.
I understand where your comming from and I'm not saying all people with voices similar to hers are like that. But everything character wise (her mother.. says it all really, she's about as dirt cheap as you can get..) points to her being a no hoper working in a clothes shop all her life. Now I understand that the BBC is selling it to that crowd by doing it (Look, even some slag can travel the universe!). But I wish she would at least try not to use English a bit better.
I try not to judge people (fictional or not) on outer apperance or how they sound. But Rose's whole character is ment to be played off that way as far as I can tell. So I won't hold it against the writers or Billie to an extent but you'd think if the TARDIS can make you speak alien languages then it should be able to fix you missing h out of Happen no?
Well neither do you considering you can't tell the difference between a Gundam refrence to a totally and utterly different series. So I suggest you stick it.
It's a shame he is leaving after one season. As I grew up I never had any intrest in Dr. Who, it always seemed to drag on and be boring when I watched it (so did episode 3 of the new series to a point though..). But the new Dr. Who intrests me, the humour is very... classic so to speak. Rather then the "heres a few black people or a daughter living with her player father" crap we see every week in and out, Dr. Who is infact funny when it's ment to be. You don't sit there going "hey go on make a joke!" but when you do get a joke it's most the time at least slightly amusing. I'll probably follow the full series through and see how much I like/dislike the new Dr. as to what I do next season, but right now Christopher is carrying the series.
Billie Piper is "okay" but her tone just ruins it for me, she sounds like she needs to be pregnant and have several kids just to get a free house and some extra (free) money from the government. Now theres no problem with sounding like that in modern stuff, but when you're traveling time and no one notices you've got a weird voice somethings up... ep 3 did... minorly cover this issue, but again very minorly..
Where it really stands out is how Christopher plays the Doctor. He bounces and bounds and generally seems to rather enjoy traveling time, saving the Earth and quite frankly having a bit of a giggle while he's at it. I've not seen him in anything else and don't really desire to, but as the doctor he's perfect.
Hopefully the BBC can get him to do a few more seasons. Everyone saying "he's using it as a stepping stone", the other way could be he's trying to revive Dr. who so it will open up sci fi again beyond "star gate and enterprise" on channel 4 every bloody weekend. While he may "waste" a regeneration he's still managed to win over thousands of fans new and old, maybe even some hated enemies of the show.
So like him or not, or his actions. He deserves all the respect he gets for being a magnificent actor in his current rule and reviving not only Dr. Who, but decent comedy which isn't a parody or steriotyped.
Exactly. Not to mention they earn alot from "Piracy". I can name several companies I've "stolen" things off of only to go and buy relating merchandise several times the value of what I "stole". Ironicly they would of got nothing if I didn't do such an "evil thing".
Pfft, ethical means nothing to me. I see no problem with "stealing" a 20 year old game no one's got an intrest in any more. Infact anything pre PSX-Saturn-N64 as far as I'm concerned is free game.
But hey that's just me.
Seems alot of work to rip an image when I could just download it. I mean does it really matter if I rip it or if I DL it when I have the game in the cupboard behind me with all my other consoles?
aww yes. I have over 350 commador 64 games but saddly I lack a tape player or I'd set it up again. Maybe I should take a look on Ebay or something.. I tried a C64 emulator but it seemed to emulate it fully and I perfer windowed emulators with the classic "click to open file" type set up rather then messing around taking more effort then to set the damn system up yourself.
Sounds fun.. maybe you can finally aford to populate it now.. just think of how fast it'd be, a whole 256k, it'd run Doom 3 like a dream!
Yea I know roughly how it worked. I had an old C64.. I was in a wheelchair at that age.. I still have it some where.. well the second.. first one went up in smoke after several months of 12 hour playing...
lol. I'm one of them odd people in my age group who relises the world doesn't revolve around pop music or the latest fad. Odd hitting 19 and going "all the music sounds like noise to me" and perfering a nice cup of tea and a good TV Program to a night club.
but yea I didn't get the internet will about 5 years ago. Was a geek long before that but I'm sure you know how much worse you become when you get access to this place.
Just wait, when I get to your age I can go "When I was a kid we had dial up! We didn't have no fancy broadband, oh no, we got 3kb if we were lucky! 30 minute TV episodes took 2 days to download and if you pissed off the RIAA and MPAA you got sued 13 million pounds PER second PER song!"
I can't wait for it.
Hehe. I ran into it with the newradio dramas and loved it from the second I heard Marvin in the swamps. I'm 19 now so a little older than mos tinto it but still adore it just as much as any.
Do you have an instant messenger things? Slashdot is so difficult to have a conversation on..