DrCrowTStarwars

Okay the last episode was a complete turn around. the Doctor was working out a problem logically and is it just me or does he interact with children better then adults?  When it's a child he seems to soften just a bit and his sternness comes off as him being protective and the way he explains things doesn't seem rude and hateful. Maybe what this Doctor needs is a younger companion who for some reason he can't take back to her home,that would be interesting and new and I think it would play to Capldi's strengths.

Any way this was my favorite episode of the season so far so I am hopeful that the next three will continue to improve.

"That's my sister saving that bad guy!"

This show just keeps getting better and better,it has plot twists and characters that I like.  This is the best comedy I have seen since Better off Ted.  This is amazing.

Oh and as someone who has worked in the electronics section of a major retailer can i just say those bits are dead on. A perfect parody of what really goes on in those stores.

Oh and to add to the who's who of Sci-fi supporting characters Robert Duncan McNeal is a producer.  All I can say is wow.

twister111 said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:I just watched the first two episodes of a show that a lot of people have been bugging me to try for a while but I never got around to trying until now for some reason. I didn't even know this show existed until it was off the air.

It's a comedic spy series called Chuck and it has a Sci-fi twist.  Let's just say the people who said I would like this series were right on the money.  I loved every second of the first two episodes so much that I just ordered the first season on Bluray off of Amazon market place.

TV's Frink said:Now you've done it.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!RELEASE THE CHUCK LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D

 Now that's what I call moving some merchandise!

Still I am disappointed that Adam Baldwin didn't say "Chill out" when he put the guy in the freezer. Is post Kill quips 101 just not a required course at spy school any more?!

Well my family had to go to a funeral for a great aunt that I really liked so that was bad also now all my older relatives are dead and to top it all off my little brothers and sister got dressed up and they now look like short adults and not little kids any more.  So now I am feeling both old and depressed :/

I love the opening to the second episode where Jayne is about to murder the shoplifter right in the parking lot!:)

I just watched the first two episodes of a show that a lot of people have been bugging me to try for a while but I never got around to trying until now for some reason. I didn't even know this show existed until it was off the air.

It's a comedic spy series called Chuck and it has a Sci-fi twist.  Let's just say the people who said I would like this series were right on the money.  I loved every second of the first two episodes so much that I just ordered the first season on Bluray off of Amazon market place.  That is how much fun this series is to watch. it's smart and it is funny while also having a cast of who's who of Sci-Fi supporting characters in it such as Kern from TNG,Miranda Lawson from Mass Effect,and Freaking Jayne from Firefly.  This series is just perfect.  A sci-fi twist,fun spy plots,a bit of flirting between the leads,and the type of stories where the hero's knowledge of flight sims saves his life.  Talk about fun.  I am glad people kept pushing me to try this show because I am loving it!

RicOlie_2 said:

My nine month-old brother stood without support for about fifteen seconds. :) He wasn't sure what the big deal was, since he's always standing up at the coffee table or a chair or a pant leg. At this rate he'll be walking at ten months.

 That's cool. 

My youngest brother is 13 years younger then I am and the first time I saw him walk and I am not joking here he grabbed $10 out of my best friend's backpack that was sitting on the couch and ran away with it!

Hope your brother doesn't start off walking by embarking on a life of crime like mine did.

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV's Frink said:

Duracell's signature is large, annoying, and possibly against the forum rules, but I'm too lazy to check.

Very well -- I will remove it forthwith. But first ...

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"This is nine! Nine! This is nine! Nine! This is ten! Ten! We have killed your friends! Every friend is now dead! This is six! Six!"

"Eighteen! This is now eighteen! Take cover when the siren sounds! This is four! Four!"

"Five! This is five! Ignore the siren! Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room! Eight! This is eight!"

"Six! Six, this is goddam fucking SIX!"

 I like it.  Chewy looks like he has just seen the nude scenes from The Room for the first time.  I refuse to call them sex scenes because what they were doing was clearly not sex and bare in mind this comes from someone who has never had sex so if I can spot the problem there I don't understand how none on set caught it.

I'm 15 years older then my sister,myself.  It has never seemed strange to me.

Warbler said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Warbler said:

The Doctor is the hero of the series, he is supposed to be likeable.

This gets to the root of my question: Why?

I don't think "that's the way it always has been" is a good excuse to not change things when the time comes to make a decision.

The Doctor is supposed to be a dynamic character, no? Maybe this unlikable Doctor will learn something in the course of doing unlikable un-Doctor-y things and his next regeneration will pop out someone much more down-to-Earth.

But meanwhile we are stuck with a doctor that is "doing unlikeable un-Doctor-y things", and you don't see a problem.    Actually,  "that's the way it always has been" is a good reason not to change things.    When he is a certain way for over 30 years, in multiple regenerations, its kinda difficult to explain the change now. 

As for your "Why?",

1. normally the good guys are likeable.  Its kinda difficult for a good guy not to be likeable.   Its normally considered good to be likeable.

2.  This Doctor isn't a "cool" not likeable.  He's not a guy that "you love to hate".  He is really unlikeable as in "I hate watching hime, I get no enjoyment out of watching" kind of unlikeable.  

3.  Its kinda difficult to make an enjoyable show when the main character is unlikeable.  Yeah, you can make him evil or unlikeable to the rest of the characters in the show.  But unlikeable to the audience?  That just doesn't work.

 Yeah why would i watch something when I don't like the character the story revolves around?  That is why the prequels failed.  Anikin was a whiny brat,Padme was so stupid she married a guy after he told her is slaughtered a whole village of people,and the Jedi came off as a weird cult that kidnapped children if they had a microbe in their blood.  It's hard to be invested in a story if you don't care about the characters.  Sorry that is just how I see it.  The 12th Doctor is the only Doctor I can't stand and so I don't care what happens to him and so I don't care about the story any more.  Sorry.

Warbler said:

Doctor Who isn't "Once Upon a Time in America".  There is a big difference between characters that are supposed to be evil and characters that are supposed to be the good guys but are rude jerks.  Also, You can't call how the character was on the original show for over 25 years(with the acception of the first few episodes) and how the character has been in the new show, a fluke.   The Doctor is the hero of the series, he is supposed to be likeable.  At least he has been for the overwheming majority of the time.  

 Thank you this isn't a dark story about gangsters and killers.  if that is what you want to watch then you are not a fan of Doctor Who,because you want the show to be something it is not.  Also the first doctor went through an arc in his first 13 episodes and he was likable by the end of Inside the spaceship and even before that he had a reason for doing what he did.  He took Ian and Barbra with him because he was afraid their knowledge of him would disrupt the timeline. In The Daleks he didn't mean to put anyone in danger he just wanted to explore a city that they had no reason to believe their was any danger in and in Inside the spaceship The TARDIS was driving everyone crazy so he thought Ian and Barbra were trying to steal the TARDIS so he did what he had to in order to protect Susan.  At no point did he seem to take joy in the deaths of others and at no point was killing people his ideal option.  Even at the end of the Daleks he expressed regret that the Daleks had to die and he tired to barter for the lives of the Thals. 

Now he seems to travel for no other reason then he wants to mock people as they die and he seems to be trying to turn everyone he meets into a monster.

Now maybe you think turning The Doctor into Jigsaw from the Saw movies makes the show more adult but that isn't what I have ever watched the show for so if that is the road it is going down you can count me out.  That isn't why the show appeals to me and I have no interest in watching the Doctor turned into the biggest dickhead in the history of TV.  Sorry.

If Moffat wants to write dark sci-fi with no heroes of any kind then he should create a new show along the lines of the new BSG and I wish him luck and all the viewers that want to see that could go watch the new show.  I just wish he would stop trying to turn Doctor Who into something it is not and has never been.

AntcuFaalb said:

DrCrowTStarwars: I'm wondering: How much of Classic Doctor Who have you seen?

 Every single episode. I have been watching it since 95. Hartnell at his darkest didn't come close to the 12th Doctor.  For one I have no idea why he is even traveling.  I mean he doesn't seem to enjoy exploring and he doesn't seem to care about anyone or anything,so why is he traveling.  Hartnell's doctor had twinkle in his eye and I always felt like he was at least enjoying the act of exploring a new planet or time so there was something to latch onto.  Also a lot of his darkness when the series started came from his trying to protect his granddaughter Susan.  So there was something understnadable about the way he acted and Hartnell managed to give his Doctor a sense of fun,that is missing from the 12th Doctor.

Sorry Hartnell is my favorite Doctor but I am really not getting a Hartnell vibe from 12.  He just seems more like an asshole who shows up to mock people as they die and is trying to turn Clara into a lying asshole who doesn't care about people just like him.  Sorry I just have yet to see a single likable or relatable character trait in the 12th Doctor so I am not enjoying his time on the show.

From the brilliant minds that canceled The Critic and Better off Ted but have left Last man standing on the air comes the airing out of order and cancelation of Clerks.

Who is driving?  Bear is driving! Oh no,how can that be!

doubleofive said:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/21/7026095/guardians-of-the-galaxy-mixtape-will-be-released-on-cassette-tape

Disney/Marvel knows what the people want.

 Now that is just cool.

I'll be honest the way the 12th Doctor has pretty much killed the show for me.  He is either stupid and more clueless about how to treat people then Data on Star Trek or he is a heartless bastard who doesn't care about anyone or any thing and doesn't attempt to save anyone and just puts people like Clara through hell and is cruel to them because he likes seeing people in pain and dying. Then there is his treating anyone who picks up a gun to save lives like dirt.

In short the writing this season has turned the Doctor into a bigger villain then the Master.  I really hope Moffat is fired soon because he has destroyed what used to be my favorite show.  There is nothing good about it any more and I hate The Doctor now because he is pure evil and just shows up to watch people die because he thinks it's funny.  He never even tries to save a single person he just mocks people as they die in horrid way.  So i am done with the show until Moffat and all the writers who have worked on this season are gone.

They have not only killed Doctor Who but they are now pissing on the corps.

TheBoost said:

NECROPOST!

So, I gots me a new laptop, with that cursed Windows 8.

It runs like a charm, streams video well, but for some reason Flash games (specifically Avengers Alliance on Facebook, my lil boys favorite) run rather slow and choppy. Everything else I do goes just fine.

Any thoughts why this would be so?

 Beyond the fact that Windows 8 sucks so bad that a friend of mine who is a computer programer downgraded his new laptop to a copy of windows 7 he bought?  I have no idea,sorry.

http://www.avclub.com/article/marvel-movies-are-declaring-civil-war-210446?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview%3A1%3ADefault

Well there goes my interest in the marvel movies. Civil War along with one more day is the number one reason I stopped reading comics despite the fact that I had been reading them since I was six. Come on Marvel you were winning,stop trying to be DC!

Tyrphanax said:

The States has a lot of varied accents, so there isn't really one "American accent". As an American living in Canada, there definitely is a difference between they way Americans and Canadians speak.

 Yeah just watch an episode of say Hill Street Blues and then follow it up with an episode of The Red Green Show for proof:)

Leonardo said:

---reads last couple pages---

I really am glad that everybody's cool now.

I take this occasion to apologize to Dr Crow for lashing out at him like a cowardly rottie. It was a crappy thing to do given the bad place he was in. Sorry for the mean shit I said to you Crow.

 That's fine I am in a much better place now.  I feel happy for the first time in a long time and I am going to try and update my fan fiction stories and get back to work on my original novels if I can.  That is how much better I am doing:)

It's water under the bridge.

twister111 said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

 Have your tongue and stomach declared war on each other?

I hope not. Peace negotiations between body parts can't be easy to handle. . .

 Yeah i hear ya.  When my left foot and my butt declared war on each other it was a real blood bath.

twister111 said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Why not just wait for them to cool down before eating them?

Because my tongue was telling me "yes" but my stomach found out .

 Have your tongue and stomach declared war on each other?

Why not just wait for them to cool down before eating them?

I had a Scapple sandwich for dinner.