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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2023 13:02:37 GMT
I like Revenge of the Cybermen far more than Genesis of the Daleks.
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Post by cyberhat on Apr 13, 2023 7:11:40 GMT
Season 17 has a lot more to offer than City of Death. Nightmare of Eden and Shada are it's equals.
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Post by iank on Apr 13, 2023 7:37:33 GMT
Shada yes, Nightmare not so much. Probably the weakest of the season IMO.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2023 13:47:46 GMT
Kinda is one of the best stories of the show.
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Post by iank on Apr 13, 2023 21:14:37 GMT
No, that's a very popular opinion. Wrong, but popular. Cause its shite.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2023 21:33:18 GMT
I wouldn't say that. The direction is dynamic and immersive and the storyline is multi layered and draws from religious texts such as the Snake in the Garden of Eden and the Buddhist themes of things repeating themselves like the turn of a wheel. I think it's fantastic personally.
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Post by iank on Apr 13, 2023 22:02:02 GMT
Ooh, it's got themes! They don't actually mean anything and the two sides of the story don't mix or make much sense but the writer included THEMES so it must be good! Nah, it's shit. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2023 22:15:51 GMT
"It's shit because I prefer watching Tom Baker being crushed by big fat giant green penises instead" |
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Post by iank on Apr 13, 2023 23:13:46 GMT
It's a bloody BIG penis!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2023 7:56:50 GMT
Ooh, it's got themes! They don't actually mean anything and the two sides of the story don't mix or make much sense but the writer included THEMES so it must be good! Nah, it's shit. Ah you just uncovered a pet peeve of mine. "Themes" will forever be a bullshit way of analysing media, whether it be film, TV, literature, etc. On this basis, I could bowl away any gullible audience by saying The Room explores themes of alienation in urban cityscapes experienced by the ever-marginalised working class and the impact that has on personal relationships. It's not difficult to come up with some wishy-washy bullshit to cover for the fact that you've simply got a crap movie on your hands. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2023 14:16:41 GMT
A few more to unload:
- Series 2 is the most misunderstood season of the entire show, hence why it is often ranked so low. There are episodes in there that border on ironical genius, but no one sees it because they're looking for something that isn't there and avoiding what is actually being offered to them.
- On that note, Love and Monsters is one of the greatest episodes of the entire show. No exaggeration.
- Philosophising Whovians who take the most profound moments to be those of the most marked sincerity are wrong. In fact, they're so utterly misguided that one should eschew their ramblings entirely. Love and Monsters is more important philosophically than The End of Time or World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls.
- Again, on that note, most of the Doctor's speeches in NuWho are philosophically empty and totally platitudinous. It seems that wherever the writers try to be deep, they only succeed in portraying a shallowness that thinks itself an abyss.
- The Doctor is not at all a free spirit and only ever partakes in dogmatic thinking, unless the writer wishes to grant him cognitive freedom, which nevertheless is plumbed into an episodic framework and therefore is in and of itself rooted in an impermanent, though no less potent, dogmatism; and besides that, bound to be cast aside for the next episode. Development is cyclical and what appears as transit is mere circumambulation. See that the same quandaries are not encountered, in various veneers, time and time again over the years! He is at once the tyrant and the tyrannised, a thrall to his own whim and to that of the writer. He is a universal constant whose supposed flux is but a tumbling pattern whose singular and idle chaos is multiform in motion, a rotating drum of monochrome paint; the undulating patterns thereof seeming to constitute our ridiculous notions of the Doctor's variety, when in truth he is a small ouroboros, scales without gilt, framed in a pacific and stupid visage, in whose cincture lies a diverse greyness. He cannot encroach even on the Abzorbaloff or Li H'sen Chang, whose tails are not swallowed but are swirling and extrapolating; their little origins beget sweeping cosmological paths. The Doctor is big; but bigness in singularity, without expansion, has no hold on infinity.
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Post by cyberhat on Apr 24, 2023 20:43:05 GMT
Shada yes, Nightmare not so much. Probably the weakest of the season IMO. I love it, it's got an Allo Allo German accent and some odd production decisions, but I love the script and the ideas. The Terrance Dicks novelisation is one of his best too. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2023 18:13:57 GMT
I agree it's the weakest of the season, but it's still quite a bit of fun.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2023 18:15:08 GMT
Casino Royale (2006) is utter shite and one of the most boring and overstuffed films in the entire Bond series.
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Post by Spark Doll King on Apr 27, 2023 19:00:21 GMT
Blokes in monster suits fighting in model cities is the highest form of entertainment.
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