Watching Red dwarf repeats (and the new series)? Watching Dr Who (I don't think there are ANY threads about Dr Who)? Listening to Alanis morissette's new album (I'm not gay)? Love this one. My friend bought me the album to cheer me up. Ironic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ3Xi5YXgGM"]Alanis Morissette - Empathy - YouTube
Nope, none of the above. a) We don't watch television unless there's something really worth downloading. b) Dr Who is for children. c) Alanis Morissette is for gays.
I'm not, but if I ever had the inclination to do options 2 or 3 I'd probably remember that there's always the option of spitting on the walls and timing the dribble's descent.
What do you normally tend to download? Nature programmes? Dr Who is for EVERYBODY god dam it The ponds depart tonight. Can't wait to watch. You are missing out. I was gay once. Ok, not really. Most of her new album sounds like she has been working with Coldpaly. But there are a couple of good tunes.
What do you prefer to do with your time? Apart from spitting on walls (which is totally disgusting, by the way).
I don't like him in Dr Who. Rose plastered her spotty face with far too much make-up. I prefer Matt Smith. Matt's are cool. This is quite funny, though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX0o-F4PYnU"]Red Nose Day - David Tennant and Catherine Tate for Comic Relief [subtitled] - YouTube This nearly made me puke: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...an-Chiles-comedienne-Catherine-Tate-item.html
You're correct there; Doctor Who was originally intended to be a semi-educational children's show, where he'd travel back to different points of Earth's history. Eventually the fiction overwrote the fact, and Doctor Who became what it became. Still, the day I decide not to do something I think I might enjoy for the sole reason that it's intended for children is the day that I die. Metaphorically speaking. When you said "old" I thought you were going to talk about Troughton or Baker or one of those guys.
I'm sitting next to lithium in bed right now. After I'd read this aloud he said "well yeah, but it's also really rubbish". So there you go. :bobby:
You're right that that's not a good reason not to do something. However, the fact that it's banal, derivative, unimaginative, tedious patronising guff suitable only for morons and simpletons is a pretty good reason. I should have said 'childish' rather than 'for children', but that formulation was required for the 'for gays' joke to work.
yes- sometimes i catch 'em when i'm eating, gentle humour makes the food go down, i find. yes- i grew up watching hammer horror and old VHS's of doctor who, so, although i far prefer classic who, i still watch the new series because they have the occasional good episode. also, i will watch anything written by mark gatiss, and he does the odd ep every now and again. the da vinci code and fifty shades of grey are "for adults" when did desired demographic decide quality? no- she's terrible
I can appreciate Dr Who has it's faults. I don't really like the older 'classic series'. I downloaded some of those episodes and could barely make it past the first 10 minutes. I would rather watch Dr Who than sit through a game of football (or any sport for that matter) where racism prevails and people are killed due the outcome of a game. You also have secterian violence. Give me disposable sci-fi where the worst thing that happens is people dress up in cheap outfits.
There's far more passion, linguistic creativity and subtlety of emotion in that Hi-5 song (even though that's the American Hi-5 and not the Australian team) than in any recent episode of Dr Who I've been unfortunate enough to see. I put adult afficionados of Dr Who in the same category as those businessmen and grown women you see on trains reading Harry Potter. I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago
to be fair, i look back at the classic series with rose-tinted specs, there were a lot of duffers. i can't stand most of sylvester mccoy's run and colin baker's ones were terrible too. tom baker and peter davison (my favourite one) had some great stories though. plus they don't have this new obsession with the doctor, every bloody episode, going "ohmigod! humans! your all so amazing! i love you! you're fantastic!" for about 10 sickening minutes like jedward on a sugar rush. AND they didn't have this new "sexual tension between doctor and companions" thing which seemed to have become a tradition (although matt's doctor seems to have put this on the back-burner a little, its still there, and still irritating) plus he generally used to have (especially in the case of davison) more than one or two companions, which meant there was more opportunity for them to be split up, which adds tension. the doctor's prescence is far too re-assuring, you need to get people away from him before you can be afraid for their safety. this is especially a problem in the new series, where the doctor is a lovely, cuddly man, who turns up and makes everything fine instantly (see; all too many of david tenant's episodes) Mark Gatiss understood this, thats why in "blink" (which is considered to be one of the scariest of the new episodes, along with "the empty child" which- naturally- was also written by Gatiss) he not only has the protagonists be entirely new characters (so it doesn't matter if they're killed off, thus creating uncertainty for their longievity) he also had the doctor be a more or less entirely absent prescence, appearing for the most part only on a TV screen. i too hate football, not for any social or political reason though, i just think it's dull as sin.
While you put forward a convincing argument here, I nonetheless challenge you to show me any moment of a recent Dr Who episode that matches that song for sheer exuberance, wit and depth of thought and feeling. (And that's not a particularly good example of Hi-5).
