Bingowings

adywan said:

" It’s yours to squeeze! And squeeze! Give me spice!"

suspiciouscoffee said:

In my dream, a small Borg scout ship was attacking a beachside town. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman all showed up to defeat it, but they didn’t know what to do. They didn’t want to kill them, but they also didn’t want to get assimilated. Someone had the idea of introducing the Borg to Philip K. Dick, so they did that. The Borg suddenly became so pleased that they gave Superman the trunks he’s been missing since 2011.

Best anything ever.

Am I male or female?

Yes… sometimes.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Is tonic water supposed to taste like bitter Sprite?

The bitterness comes from quinine which was a malaria treatment which is why the fizzy water is called tonic water. During the years of White Mischief the flavour of gin and IT became desired irregardless of its medicinal properties.

Tobar said:

There will never not be a day I resent Moffat for not making McGann the War Doctor.

That could have worked as it would have been a sublime contrast to have the optimistic romantic 8th Doctor turn into a hardened and broken pessimist who is renewed as the guilt stricken but jolly 9th.

Alternatively I would have made the War Doctor a warrior woman (like Leela or Xena) and be very violent.
That way you would have got the whole Doctor can’t turn female thing out of the way and made the War Doctor something he would rather regret. Not because of the gender but because of the violence. Hurt’s War Doctor is just another Doctor. He’s much less prickly than some of the classic ones. There seems very little justification in him removing him from his own memory.

TV’s Frink said:

I think it’s when your religion tells you to give alcohol to your baby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UvF2_k0eZI

Terminator Genisys (2015)

I’ve put my name on the line as saying none of the sequels are necessary and only the television show is consistently enjoyable. They are all pretty awful but with some nice bits. This was another one.

Chrome balls

I did notice that Missy seemed to slip something to the Doctor as they parted. The Master has hidden his essence in objects before. Either way you can’t keep a bad girl or boy down 😃

Warbler said:

Does anyone wish to disagree with when I say that Capaldi was the “depressed doctor”?

I would say he is the latest in a short line of Curmudgeon Doctors. The First, The Sixth and The Twelfth could be distant, short tempered and have very alien values. But seeing 12 on top of a tank, playing the theme tune on an electric guitar wearing shades it’s hard to see him as ‘depressed’. There are lots of different modes of depression.

Moffat has with his version of Sherlock depicted some of his ideas of what people on the spectrum are like. The Doctor being an alien has sometimes an alien outlook. He isn’t necessarily mean he just doesn’t understand things in the same way we do. As Colin Baker once put it “stepping over a field of corpses to weep at the death of a butterfly”.

I think after the War the Doctor became increasing the focal point of the universe (or even the multiverse by the end of the 10th Doctor’s tenure). I think this manifested as a crisis of identity in the 12th. “Am I a good man?” can you wear that badge when the most blood drenched monsters of creation run away at your command? And then you have Missy. Basically him but lacking a few vital mental components like empathy. But sometimes the Doctor also lacks empathy (why he needs the very funny crises cue cards) so how are they different? This self reflection I think sums up the Twelfth the most.
He delivers a lot of soliloquy, Heaven Sent (arguably the best episode ever made) is almost all soliloquy and self reflection.

Interestingly at the beginning of the 50th Anniversary episode Clara is writing a quote from Marcus Aurelius (and this is the first time we see the attack eyebrows). “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” The Twelth Doctor spends most of his first year fathoming if he is a good man and what that means. Towards the end, facing highly probable death he delivers the final of many impassioned monologues (this time to the Master, his dark reflection) Spoilers for those who haven’t seen it yet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOaVJufPqUU

He acknowledges that the Master has changed for the better, albeit only somewhat and with her own motivation for doing so. This fuels his own weariness of continuing to change. If you keep changing the parts of the mop you still have a mop but if you change the head to a broom is it even remotely the same thing? Maybe the Doctor would be worse than the Master was (as seen with the Valeyard).

I don’t think the Imperial March belongs in the prequels (until the very end).
I would use the Imperial Attack motif for the clones though as they prefigure the Stormtroopers.
I would use the same theme in the later original trilogy movies where only troopers are in the scene.
There are some scenes in ESB and ROTJ where you have Troops without big ships, vehicles or figures like Vader.

“Good and evil has nothing to do with God. I collect church collapses. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? The facade fell on 65 grandmothers during a special mass. Was that evil? Was that God? If he’s up there, he just loves it. Typhoid and swans, it all comes from the same place.”

I had a really weird dream it must have been Twin Peaks inspired. It had these agents who (in the style of Mission Impossible) could make masks out of the faces of dead people but they looked kind of marbled. Pale with dark veins in them.
One black woman volunteered to put on the mask of a white woman and her body completely changed to match the new face. And she went to make some meeting with what looked like a man wearing a similar mask and he detonated a vest bomb and they exploded leaving nothing but a puddle. The dream then shifted to a child pushing a tree branch that was very close to his bedroom and trading small statues of various gods. It was compelling stuff.

moviefreakedmind said:

I’ve been having these regularly occurring feelings that I’m about to die. Sometimes it’s just a hunch and sometimes I actually feel like I’m physically and I’m not sure what to do about it.

It’s quite common and eventually of course will come true (hopefully not for a very very long time). If it genuinely worries you it’s worth mentioning it to a doctor. Hopefully he or she will give you a quick checkup and tell you everything is fine.

RicOlie_2 said:

I appreciate it.

The shock has worn off now, but I don’t think the reality of it has fully sunk in yet. I’m on the other side of the country, so I guess i still feels sort of distant and not entirely real.

The nearest situation I can think of to what you are going through in my life was coming back from the summer holidays at college and finding out that a young lady I had known since I was twelve had suddenly died of Menengitus.
She too was a radiant human being with so much potential. She worked particularly hard on one subject which I had just waltzed through without revising, much to her annoyance. I was looking forward to seeing her return for the new year in a new set of courses. And she just wasn’t there anymore. The funeral had happened while we were away. Representatives of the college had gone to it. It just felt intensely strange and difficult to process. I had already experienced the passing of my elderly great grandparents at this point but this was someone my age (17 at that time so thirty years ago). I’ve experienced too many long goodbyes since. Mortality sucks. You have my sympathy.

TV’s Frink said:

Bingowings said:

I would have announced a doctory male actor and a female actor so that everyone would assume she was the companion when the location photos started to leak and then do the switcheroo at Christmas and surprise everyone.

They’re running a business, right? I’m assuming the way they did will drive bigger ratings.

They are running a public service broadcaster by royal warrant, technically they aren’t supposed to think about running a profit but they do.
I think these leaks are more to try and turn the inevitable leaks by the tabloids into something positive but the power of surprise is tangible and if everyone found out on Christmas day the new Doctor was a woman you can bet your bottom dollar even people with very little interest in the show would tune in to watch the first episode just see what the fuss was all about.
Giving it a half a year to stew as they have some of that expectation would have worn off by the time the first episodes with the 13th Doctor start showing. BTW they should have done this when Tom Baker left as they had done the Doctor getting younger thing to the point of breaking. Maybe the Doctor should be female for the next 13 incarnations. Plenty of great actresses out there to keep her going.

Lazy Lazy was Lazy

I would have announced a doctory male actor and a female actor so that everyone would assume she was the companion when the location photos started to leak and then do the switcheroo at Christmas and surprise everyone.
So much or the last series was ruined by premature reveals.
I also hope that Michelle Gomez is fibbing and we get a female Master and female Doctor face off a few times.
I will miss Capaldi though. He is a great actor and some of his episodes are the best the show has ever had and he is good in the not so good ones.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I don’t think I’d try getting into a long-term relationship with a polyamorous woman in real life.

Luke never thought he would return to Tatooine.

There is clearly something about this person that you respond to so figure out what it is.
Maybe it’s something you can learn to adopt into your own persona or help you identify realistically meetable people who you might develop a real bond with.
Most situations have a positive lesson to teach us about ourselves or others.

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

I hope this doesn’t come off as insensitive but it kind of sounds like you might just need new friends or something.

Yeah, probably. I don’t like anyone else either though.

You haven’t met everyone yet.

I’ve met more than enough for my taste.

This is where you are going wrong. You are never going to have friendship of a long lasting nature if you eat who you meet 😃 Seriously though people tend to be nuanced. There is usually something salvageable from even the most wretched of us and most people never meet the most wretched of us… they are far too famous 😄

Well, I’m glad you like it, I have had several. I used to have an old grey model before this. Some people liked it.

RayRogers said:

Bingowings said:

Finally finished Alien Isolation. A very good game in many ways but those awful quick time events.
The ending is a bit of a let down too.
Looks like someone too a leaf our of the Prometheus book by not actually ending the story and leaving stuff for a sequel that may never happen.
I’m away for my summer break soon so as a palette cleanser I’ve fired up the Orange Box and started playing Portal 1. The difficulty gradient on that game is a bit abrupt. It’s a load of fun still though.

Really hoping Creative Assembly makes more ALIEN series games. Already was a huge fan of their TOTAL WAR games and glad they did it right. Still don’t know if I’d want to play ALIENS: Colonial Marines.

I’ve got it but it might be too soon after battling one (…) unstobbable beast to enter into a badly received war with many squishable ones.

I want a Wampa hand… I want a Wampa hand.

Finally finished Alien Isolation. A very good game in many ways but those awful quick time events.
The ending is a bit of a let down too.
Looks like someone too a leaf our of the Prometheus book by not actually ending the story and leaving stuff for a sequel that may never happen.
I’m away for my summer break soon so as a palette cleanser I’ve fired up the Orange Box and started playing Portal 1. The difficulty gradient on that game is a bit abrupt. It’s a load of fun still though.