Handman

I’m in a similar situation. Nobody’s friendly or if they are, they’re obnoxious, fake, and annoying. Not sure what to do. Thankfully I have some support structure with some very old friends, but we don’t do anything, have little in common, and it probably won’t last much longer. Anyway, good luck to both of you, I offer my support as well as a fellow isolated grump.

AmbrosiaSaladSandwich said:

Handman said:

The old links are dead. Asking for anything in this thread is no longer helpful. Please go to the stickied MySpleen thread to ask for an invite, you will find this project there.

and how do we get to that?

Here is the thread you are looking for.
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Post-in-this-thread-to-request-an-invite-to-MySpleenorg-you-MUST-read-the-first-post/id/8592

Warbler said:

Handman said:

Warbler said:

resis?

Missing one.

He said first letter of each paragraph, I have included them all.

The last line starts a new paragraph. The paragraph is only a single line, but it’s still another paragraph. I was confused at first too, but then realized it must include that as well if it’s to make any sense.

Warbler said:

resis?

Missing one.

NeverarGreat said:

SilverWook said:

Check out the hidden message.

I love it.

I might be missing it, so I’ll ask for explicit info. Does it have to do with the one guy who didn’t resign?

Leonard Nimoy is nice.

It is very late. This is what I saw today.
Angel Face - Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons film noir. Otto Preminger directs. 3.5/5
Stagecoach - The film that made John Wayne a star and the western genre more than schlock. 4/5
Blow-Up - Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings. Photographs. 4/5
Camelot - Ran out of Gene Kelly musicals, this one with Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings (again) wasn’t so bad. Music wasn’t good (besides the catchy theme they kept repeating over and over again to the point you’re sick of hearing it), no dancing, but nice visuals, themes, and plot. 3/5

DuracellEnergizer said:

I plan on watching The Yellow Submarine next, then Roman Polanski’s Repulsion then Fritz Lang’s M. Depending on how things go, I may watch TESB Revisited between any of those movies.

Let me know what you think of M.

Chicago is very nearly the murder capital of the nation, why would murder be surprising there?

Crossfire - Another 1947 film about antisemitism, but not as good as 1947’s Best Picture winner Gentleman’s Agreement, I don’t think (that one wasn’t too good either). 2.5/5

The Defiant Ones - Sidney Poitier in the role that made him famous, alongside Tony Curtis. Lon Chaney Jr. makes a surprise appearance by not turning into a wolf. I wish there were more to this one, as it seems to be split into four main sections, with the third one not being very interesting. Still great to see. 3.5/5

To Sir, With Love - Another Sidney Poitier movie. I really enjoyed this one. A template for all teacher/student movies to follow, with some good lessons. Poitier is really playing an ideal, and I have no issues with that, I wanted to be him. 4/5

Summer Stock - Can’t end the day without a musical. This time, it’s Judy Garland’s final performance with MGM. Two things worth watching: Wow and wow.

I know the feeling. Hang in there.

The old links are dead. Asking for anything in this thread is no longer helpful. Please go to the stickied MySpleen thread to ask for an invite, you will find this project there.

Dunkirk - I think this is the first movie I’ve mentioned here that I actually saw in the theater. Worth seeing. I thought it was weird that they got Vangelis to do the music. Worth seeing, I regret not finding a 75mm showing. 4(.5?)/5

Got home and made another dent in my DVR.

Once Upon a Honeymoon - Watched for Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers together. Forgettable. 2.5/5

The Pirate - I always seem to start musicals around midnight. Probably because the stories are simple and I can just relax. This one had great visuals, a weird pre-“Make Them Laugh” song with the same melody, but nothing extraordinary. I’d have to say this was the least engaging of the musicals I’ve seen in the past few days. Cover Girl had that one good number, and Brigadoon was just weird all around. This had none of that. Judy Garland was good in it, though. 3/5

I’ve got less than a week before I don’t have access to my DVR for awhile, and about twenty more movies to get through (before someone decides to erase them). I look forward to it.

It was similar here in my northern high school much more recently, though we didn’t have enough black students to take a whole table. The Asians usually all sat together, anyway, at least the ones who didn’t assimilate to the dominant nonthinking airhead culture. By the time I graduated, that was beginning to change. Might have reversed by now. Who knows.

The cultures everyone grows up with still depends heavily on race, and since people like being near people they can relate to, it leads to a lot of separation between the races. It’s unfortunate, but there’s not much you can really do about it. You see it a lot in college too, despite all the talk of integration and diversity. Cultural divides. I wish I could say “At least we’re not hostile about it”, but recent events in the nation have proven otherwise.

I see I inspired some rewatches of The Night of the Hunter. Good. Goooood.
My TCM binge continues.

A Summer Place - The theme is more memorable than the movie. 3/5
Inherit the Wind - The fact that we’re still having this argument today is silly. 4.5/5
Cover Girl - Columbia doesn’t seem to understand a musical needs more dancing and singing. One good number worth watching. 3/5

Robert E. Lee doesn’t deserve this. He’s like the least awful Confederate figure you could honor, and he’s pretty fascinating. I don’t have to be a “white nationalist” to think that.

Binge watching TCM lately.
Key Largo – This takes some time to build up, but it’s another fantastic Bogey and Bacall flick, and John Huston’s knack for examining the human spirit in a very pessimistic way works well here. Edward G. Robinson was absolutely horrendous in the best way possible. This appears to have been a major influence for The Hateful Eight.

Night of the Hunter – Speaking of being absolutely horrendous, Robert Mitchum here was terrifying. Can’t say anything that hasn’t already been said. Stylistically gorgeous, great tension, perfect characters. Best of the bunch tonight.

Brigadoon – Nice way to end the day. None of the numbers were all that special except “Almost Like Being in Love”. Can’t help but enjoy a nice colorful MGM musical anyway.

Possessed said:
it seems he’s so obsessed with the past he’s not living in the present

Sounds familiar.

There was something going on with “The Wheel in Space” at some point this year.

This thread is where I get my news half of the time.

I’ll give you one guess.

towne32 said:

Tantive3+1 said:

Warbler said:

Tantive3+1 said:

Warbler said:

Tantive3+1 said:

just on how regeneration was established.

please elaborate.

Not counting the EU, the classic series established 12 regenerations, no more no less, and then that was the end. While the closest thing a Time Lord could control was their appearance; Night of the Doctor comes along claiming to engineer the Doctor to a “warrior” and that the ninth, tenth, and eleventh incarnations were in name only.

With the 2013 Christmas special, the long awaiting of looking forward to the final thirteenth incarnation where his death would be on Trenzalore, the prophecy of
"the oldest question in the universe would be asked…" (Clara read the book w/ the Doctors name in Journey to the Center of the TARDIS then had flashbacks of it in The Name of the Doctor) with the Silence, and the Doctors future encounter with Lorna Bucket was all thrown in the trash when the BBC made the changes in the 50th anniversary special. It was a sorry excuse of trying to wrap it all up.

Well they kinda had to do something about a timelord having only 12 regenerations. If they did not, the Doctor would eventually die and the show would be over.

The show was supposed to end after 12. The fact that it was going to have an ending is the core reason why people tuned into it especially I. First off, the Meta-Crisis Doctor was not meant to be an actual regeneration because he didn’t change in appearance and the War Doctor was something clearly not thought through enough. Claiming that Matt Smith was the last incarnation and the Time Lord’s surviving and being the one the prophecy was talking about were last minute changes to keep the show going on forever for the BBC’s own selfish agenda’s.

Also, for a show like this that’s going to be going on forever with no series finale end in sight, what’s the point in continuing to watch it? They could’ve easily rebooted the show after it ended.

I don’t think there’s any reason to necessarily stick with something Robert Holmes came up with (12 regenerations) after the show had already been on the air for 13+ years. This is certainly the first time I’ve ever heard a fan say that the core reason (or a reason) they watched the show is that it was going to have an ending or final regeneration. And I, sometimes against my better judgement, regularly talk to fans of all ages (20-65 or so). People generally see this as the show with a formula that allows it to renew itself forever, and continually change and evolve. Suggesting that it’s ‘the show that’s great because it will have an ending’ is a 100% novel idea to me.

In my opinion, Moffat made the first Tennant non-regeneration count towards the total so that he could dispose of the regeneration limit before handing the show over to the next person. After increasing the count with the War Doctor, this would mean that whomever was in charge at the end of Capaldi’s run (Moffat clearly wanted to leave earlier than he did) would be stuck dealing with some dumb rule Robert Holmes came up with. So rather than have his successor deal with it, he included the hand thing as a regeneration and got it over with.

100% this.

It was not his place to tackle the problem.

Then whose was it? I’m just glad it was addressed at all. The other solution would be to simply ignore it. Ending a popular show because an earlier episode decades earlier made a silly rule is simply nonsensical.

Whoever the writer would’ve been for the thirteenth incarnation is the one who would’ve tackled the problem, but they grew impatient with this and did it with Matt Smith who was as stated the Eleventh Doctor before they retconned it.

I guess we agree, then. Moffat wanted to get rid of all the longstanding nagging problems while he could. I highly doubt the BBC itself knows the show well enough to have asked for the 12-regeneration rule to be solved, again if it were up to them it would probably have just been ignored.

I don’t think when they established the 12 regenerations rule, that they realized the show would go on as long as it has. It’s been shown in the classic show that The Master got around these boundaries, and I don’t think there was any big plan leading up to the final incarnation, seeing as the rule was established nearly 40 years before the payoff. I don’t understand this complaint at all.

It was not his place to tackle the problem.

Then whose was it? I’m just glad it was addressed at all. The other solution would be to simply ignore it. Ending a popular show because an earlier episode decades earlier made a silly rule is simply nonsensical.