--I'll go with Davros for inventing the Daleks for $500, Alex...;-)
--So Atlantis gets destroyed; they can rebuild as long as a few people survived the last attack, and live to get flamed again.:roll:
--I can kind of see what you're saying now. But like I said, if they ignore the very things that made the public fond of the show in the first place, it won't go anywhere.
--This is what I believe necessary (not exhaustive, since I haven't seen any episodes since the Peter Davison (http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/davison.htm ) years, and not all of those:
o Establish the previous Doctor's character briefly, like they did in the Fox movie (hey, it was a nice gesture to give the guy a short role for continuity, even if they did kill him off.) He has to be a Timelord with a British accent and a unique (quirky) personality, and have 1 or more pretty female companions. I would give a lot to see Liz Hurley in this role, with the right chemistry, even for one episode. [G]
o If they don't continue with Paul McGann in the role, do the above and kill him off to establish the new Doctor. I think he did a good job in the role myself, just didn't like the plot very much (esp the ending.)
o Dude, you *have* to have the TARDIS as a blue Police Public Call Box. You just have to.;-) In light of today's CGI, you can temporarily morph it into other appearances, but it always has to return to the basic form. Say it's because the TARDIS, having a mind of its own, got rather fond of it.:b
o The Doctor cannot be romantically involved with his FC, unless you do it in a restrained way (X-Files) or with subtlety, like Baker rowing Ward in the boat (5 Doctors.) In other words, they can never actually kiss onscreen or hold hands except briefly, etc... Putting an arm across the shoulders is Ok, stuff like that. But with imagination and the right actors, you can do a *lot* with just a Smoky Look, atmosphere, chemistry, contemplative glances, frowns, looks of regret, and such.
o Who canon sounds a bit like Trek canon. There's good and bad about that. You don't want to alienate the True Fans that made the show what it is, but then again you don't want to utterly confound new viewers. So you strike a balance - throw the Fans a bone every once in a while by mentioning something from the past shows offhand, but don't make it a requirement for understanding the current plot. IIRC the Fox movie did this rather well.
o You have to bring back the old villains, like the Cybermen and the Daleks. It's OK to develop new ones, but don't completely ignore the history. Again, nostalgia is key.
--Sorry if I got on your case a bit. I'm 31 and have been a "fan" since about 8. My cousins bought me the 5-Doctors vinyl record from a PBS fundraiser years back, and I've seen most of the old shows thru Tom Baker and Davison, and read a few books. You my friend are a Fan with a capital F. I bow to your dedication.:)
ps - Leela (Louise Jameson) and Romana II (Lalla Ward) are my favorite companions, followed by Tegan. Any prefs on your part?
...Obviously you understand NOTHING about Dr. Who.
--What is one of the most valuable commodities? NOSTALGIA. If they *don't* refer back to the official canon, the fans won't accept the show.
--Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi should have understood this. Instead of trying to use name recognition on a show that was so mind-blowingly different from the original, they should have gone the rest of the way and done a completely different show.
--If you try to do Dr. Who without recalling the past body of work, the fans will abandon the effort in droves.
Actually I thought Aliens Resurrection might be the best since Aliens (#2.) The internal conflict that the Ripley character is experiencing, being a clone, and having alien superpowers besides... Interesting to watch....But I thought Alien 3 sucked.
--It's not really a Good Thing to just reflexively vote on something without considering the issues on a case-by-case basis. Good ideas tend to get thrown out with the bad.
--Hmm... That was interesting. When I click on your link all I get is a blue page with the "hide" link at the top. When I hit the "Hide" link the regular page loads, and the cute little worm and CD appears, with the menu to the left.
--I use ' jstar ' on a daily basis, it's the closest thing to the actual Wordstar keys.
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--That was disappointing as hell, I wanted to run it on my Riva TNT2 card.:( Didn't know about the fancy Geforce requirement until just now when I read your quote.
--Plus the layout of the CD wasn't exactly intuitive; I think the game itself was in/opt somewhere.
--Where were you when DOS 5.x was around, and you HAD to reboot to play games? That was the only way to get all the memory optimizations and your sound card working!
--Where were you when Win95 came out, and you had to boot INTO DOS to play most games?
--Where were you when Win98 came out, and you had to reboot AFTER playing Solitaire??
--Where were you when OS/2 came out, and you could format a floppy while looking around for nonexistent drivers for your hypothetical games?
--Why back in the day all I had was 640K and two 360K 5 1/4" floppies, IBM Pee-Cee Dos 2.1 and WE LIKED IT!!...Mod +1, Mostly True
Client of mine had problems with XP due to low system RAM. NTFS swap/thrash eventually wore a groove in the HD. Fixed by repartitioning and converting from NTFS to Fat32, but they still need to buy more Ram.
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--It also works with the Farallon USB>100M Ether version (loads the pegasus driver.) Came in quite handy when working with a client box that had USB but no network card.:)
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"Dark City" was pretty original, and I also liked "Cube" (1997) - except for the ending.
Seen on a .sig somewhere...
"That Jesus guy is getting truly awful lag - it took him 3 days to respawn!"
That's cuz 'trix is for kids.
Follow the silly white rabbit.
--I'll go with Davros for inventing the Daleks for $500, Alex... ;-)
:roll:
;-) In light of today's CGI, you can temporarily morph it into other appearances, but it always has to return to the basic form. Say it's because the TARDIS, having a mind of its own, got rather fond of it. :b
:)
--So Atlantis gets destroyed; they can rebuild as long as a few people survived the last attack, and live to get flamed again.
--I can kind of see what you're saying now. But like I said, if they ignore the very things that made the public fond of the show in the first place, it won't go anywhere.
--This is what I believe necessary (not exhaustive, since I haven't seen any episodes since the Peter Davison (http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/davison.htm ) years, and not all of those:
o Establish the previous Doctor's character briefly, like they did in the Fox movie (hey, it was a nice gesture to give the guy a short role for continuity, even if they did kill him off.) He has to be a Timelord with a British accent and a unique (quirky) personality, and have 1 or more pretty female companions. I would give a lot to see Liz Hurley in this role, with the right chemistry, even for one episode. [G]
o If they don't continue with Paul McGann in the role, do the above and kill him off to establish the new Doctor. I think he did a good job in the role myself, just didn't like the plot very much (esp the ending.)
o Dude, you *have* to have the TARDIS as a blue Police Public Call Box. You just have to.
o The Doctor cannot be romantically involved with his FC, unless you do it in a restrained way (X-Files) or with subtlety, like Baker rowing Ward in the boat (5 Doctors.) In other words, they can never actually kiss onscreen or hold hands except briefly, etc... Putting an arm across the shoulders is Ok, stuff like that. But with imagination and the right actors, you can do a *lot* with just a Smoky Look, atmosphere, chemistry, contemplative glances, frowns, looks of regret, and such.
o Who canon sounds a bit like Trek canon. There's good and bad about that. You don't want to alienate the True Fans that made the show what it is, but then again you don't want to utterly confound new viewers. So you strike a balance - throw the Fans a bone every once in a while by mentioning something from the past shows offhand, but don't make it a requirement for understanding the current plot. IIRC the Fox movie did this rather well.
o You have to bring back the old villains, like the Cybermen and the Daleks. It's OK to develop new ones, but don't completely ignore the history. Again, nostalgia is key.
--Sorry if I got on your case a bit. I'm 31 and have been a "fan" since about 8. My cousins bought me the 5-Doctors vinyl record from a PBS fundraiser years back, and I've seen most of the old shows thru Tom Baker and Davison, and read a few books. You my friend are a Fan with a capital F. I bow to your dedication.
ps - Leela (Louise Jameson) and Romana II (Lalla Ward) are my favorite companions, followed by Tegan. Any prefs on your part?
"It is a GOOD day to exterminate!"
...Obviously you understand NOTHING about Dr. Who.
--What is one of the most valuable commodities? NOSTALGIA.
If they *don't* refer back to the official canon, the fans won't accept the show.
--Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi should have understood this. Instead of trying to use name recognition on a show that was so mind-blowingly different from the original, they should have gone the rest of the way and done a completely different show.
--If you try to do Dr. Who without recalling the past body of work, the fans will abandon the effort in droves.
I always thought Tom Baker was still married to her, but IMDB for Lalla Ward says the marriage only lasted 16 months(!!) Darn.
...Imagine a Beowulf cluster of wet fish hitting a benchmark...
--Yep, the pros realize it's an ART FORM. Mad propz to them, they take pride in their work.
Actually I thought Aliens Resurrection might be the best since Aliens (#2.) The internal conflict that the Ripley character is experiencing, being a clone, and having alien superpowers besides... Interesting to watch. ...But I thought Alien 3 sucked.
Follow the white rabbit.
All will be explained.
...I guess he really didn't realize his job was @Stake...
(Mod -1 Horrible)
...If i had mod points I'd reverse that Troll ruling. I think you hit it right on the head.
--There can be a difference between stupid and arrogance. I can *easily* see MS's lawyers being arrogant.
--Thanks for the link, +1 Educational. I didn't believe you at first until reading the article.
--One of those "Everybody knows..." things I guess.
--It's not really a Good Thing to just reflexively vote on something without considering the issues on a case-by-case basis. Good ideas tend to get thrown out with the bad.
"One, is the loneliest number that you ever knew..." == Three Dog Night
http://www.threedognight.com/lyrics/One.html
--Hmm... That was interesting. When I click on your link all I get is a blue page with the "hide" link at the top. When I hit the "Hide" link the regular page loads, and the cute little worm and CD appears, with the menu to the left.
--I use ' jstar ' on a daily basis, it's the closest thing to the actual Wordstar keys.
--That was disappointing as hell, I wanted to run it on my Riva TNT2 card. :( Didn't know about the fancy Geforce requirement until just now when I read your quote.
/opt somewhere.
--Plus the layout of the CD wasn't exactly intuitive; I think the game itself was in
--I would bet the game only requires that much RAM because:
o It's designed to run only under Windows XP
o XP has **horrendous** MINIMUM memory requirements.
--This is one reason why lots of people are investigating Linux - because it gives them a way out of the Wintel upgrade cycle.
--Why you spoiled little--!
...Mod +1, Mostly True
--Where were you when DOS 5.x was around, and you HAD to reboot to play games? That was the only way to get all the memory optimizations and your sound card working!
--Where were you when Win95 came out, and you had to boot INTO DOS to play most games?
--Where were you when Win98 came out, and you had to reboot AFTER playing Solitaire??
--Where were you when OS/2 came out, and you could format a floppy while looking around for nonexistent drivers for your hypothetical games?
--Why back in the day all I had was 640K and two 360K 5 1/4" floppies, IBM Pee-Cee Dos 2.1 and WE LIKED IT!!
I'm on 6.12 in Linux. No plans to go up to 7.x because they disabled some usability features that I like.
Client of mine had problems with XP due to low system RAM. NTFS swap/thrash eventually wore a groove in the HD. Fixed by repartitioning and converting from NTFS to Fat32, but they still need to buy more Ram.
--It also works with the Farallon USB>100M Ether version (loads the pegasus driver.) Came in quite handy when working with a client box that had USB but no network card. :)