NES games can still be plenty of fun. I still play that version of Tetris as my go-to.
Nintendo or Tengen?
Nintendo. I was brought up on the GameBoy version, and the NES one is essentially the same but in color.
memes have ruined me because this is the first thing that came to mind when i saw that image
It looks like I’ve been out of the meme game for too long. And I have no regrets.
NES games can still be plenty of fun. I still play that version of Tetris as my go-to.
Rewatched Burn After Reading, and enjoyed it much more than the first time around.
Ha! I loved it both times I saw it.
The first time around, I was trying to sympathize with at least one character and just got frustrated. It helps to know they’re all idiots, and I was laughing so hard.
Rewatched Burn After Reading, and enjoyed it much more than the first time around.
I would still rather watch a crappy Blu-ray than a crappy non-anamorphic DVD.
It started when I was critical about Venom, and he used it right, but it was still irritating. The phrase is meant to silence criticism. Then it sort of nose-dived from there, with the various permutations and alterations further muddying the waters that now, it’s a dead meme.
I particularly liked the scene where The Doctor is irritated at Tim Shaw for pulling a tooth from someone he just killed, as though that crossed the line for totally disrespecting the victim. She seems genuinely more bothered by that than the killing. For me, that’s the kind of depth of character & scene that’s been missing the past few years.
Exactly! I loved that.
How could she fall from the sky down into a train without breaking every bone of her body and having to regenerate again?
I’m glad you enjoyed the episode, but… there was also that one scene in The End of Time where the Doctor freefalled several hundred feet, crashed through a glass ceiling, and was still well enough to aim a gun…
What I mean to say is… the incredible improbability here is nothing new… and can easily be explained away by the weirdness that is regenerating.
What are your Blu-ray wishes (besides the OOT)? That is, other movies that have yet to make it to the format. I want Roman Holiday, Hud, and The Days of Wine and Roses, but I’m sure there are others. Paramount needs to get the ball rolling.
I love it.
Oh, definitely. I really enjoyed World Enough and Time and Oxygen of Capaldi’s final season.
I actually take back what I said about the writing being awful by the end of Capaldi’s run. It gradually got better over time. Outside of that three parter, and the finale being a bit too “Moffat”-y for me, it was a very solid season.
For every five average episodes, there are two damn near incompetent ones, and one that’s absolutely fantastic.
So, I’ve just started rewatching Matt Smith episodes, and I forgot how uneven his start was. However, there’s a reason it’s remembered so fondly, because this is the rare season that has three of those absolutely fantastic episodes.
Series 5
Fantastic:
The Eleventh Hour
Vincent and the Doctor
The LodgerGood:
Amy’s Choice
The Big BangAverage:
The Time of Angels
Flesh and Stone
The Vampires of Venice
The Hungry Earth
Cold Blood
The Pandorica OpensIncompetent:
The Beast Below
Victory of the Daleks
If that’s confirmed, then it sounds like a great time to try again.
Well, they haven’t explicitly said as such, but whenever the show gets a whole new creative team, they like to start fresh. It happened when Russell T. Davies left with Tennant, and it’s happening again with Moffat leaving with Capaldi. The show is really pushing the idea of being completely refreshed, even getting rid of Murray Gold, who wrote the music for the show since its revival. It’s safe to say this is an entirely different interpretation of the show. Right now is the perfect time to try again.
Every time I’d just about given up on the show, a great episode would appear and convince me to give it another chance. I can’t think of another show with which I’ve had such a love/hate relationship. I so desperately want to like it.
Oh, definitely. For every five average episodes, there are two damn near incompetent ones, and one that’s absolutely fantastic. And that episode, along with the surprisingly solid concept for the show, is enough to keep you going. The actors who’ve played the Doctor have been so consistently good, that there have been many times where I’d watch an episode just to see more of that performance, regardless of how bad the writing gets. And by the end of Capaldi’s run, it got really bad…
And how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?
What is the purpose of continually using this phrase towards me? If you can’t think critically about the things you love, well… that’s boring.
Ah, well, let us know if you need anything.
Oh, and congrats on accepting who you are.
Are you coming out as trans?
If that’s confirmed, then it sounds like a great time to try again.
Well, they haven’t explicitly said as such, but whenever the show gets a whole new creative team, they like to start fresh. It happened when Russell T. Davies left with Tennant, and it’s happening again with Moffat leaving with Capaldi. The show is really pushing the idea of being completely refreshed, even getting rid of Murray Gold, who wrote the music for the show since its revival. It’s safe to say this is an entirely different interpretation of the show. Right now is the perfect time to try again.
Every time I’d just about given up on the show, a great episode would appear and convince me to give it another chance. I can’t think of another show with which I’ve had such a love/hate relationship. I so desperately want to like it.
Oh, definitely. For every five average episodes, there are two damn near incompetent ones, and one that’s absolutely fantastic. And that episode, along with the surprisingly solid concept for the show, is enough to keep you going. The actors who’ve played the Doctor have been so consistently good, that there have been many times where I’d watch an episode just to see more of that performance, regardless of how bad the writing gets. And by the end of Capaldi’s run, it got really bad…
Tennant gets better. I never particularly cared for him with Rose, but he’s great with Donna (Series 4).
I like the costume.
Now is the perfect time to get back into it! You can just skip the parts you missed and continue with this new Doctor, the new showrunner won’t be referencing anything from the Matt Smith/Capaldi years.
In addition to the end credits, we didn’t even get a title sequence!
And one of those four people was Wil Wheaton.
Nobody got a title sequence for the first episode. It was announced a week or two ago that it wouldn’t appear until episode 2.
Indeed. Though BBCA lacked the end credits as well. I later watched the digital version, and the theme (at least over the credits) is quite good. Has a lot in common with the 60s version’s melody (and the full version of it), but with modern heavy drums.
That’s because it is basically the original theme, remixed with modern heavy drums.
Oh, if only this had a proper Blu-ray.
most people are happy with the venerable audio CD or have moved on to digital downloads.
Not to mention the return of vinyl records!
Ehh. It’s just the theatrical poster.
