Mr Mockery

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  5. Episode 42: Highlander - The Source

    in Tranquil Tirades

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    I really liked the Highlander series because it tried to expand on the ideas in the first film and attempted to make sense of the conflicting continuity of the films. If anything I think they made a mistake in acknowledging the existence of Connor. It just made a rod for their own backs by claiming the show existed in the same universe as the films.

    Having said that I have never had the desire to give the later films a go and I now know I'm not missing out.

  8. Week 07

    in A Cure for the Common Podcast: A WWF 1997 Retrospective

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    I shall miss Ahmed Johnson when he goes. Not for anything he does but for the involuntary sigh of resignation that Stavros makes whenever his name is mentioned.

    I did manage to watch the first Rocky/HHH match. Having not watched wrestling during this era it's very strange to watch 2 men who I know are amazing preformes working gimmicks that they will both evolve beyond. While seeing the Rock as a please everybody babyface is just wrong I think for me the biggest difference was HHH. The whole bowing thing and upper class arrogance is very removed from his later more cocky persona.

  12. Street Hawk

    in Twice as Bright, Half as Long

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    As the full podcast is now out there once you have heard it you will have discovered that the next show we are covering is 80s super-vehicle one season wonder Street Hawk.

    Ian and I are going to be viewing these on YouTube so it seemed reasonable that I also put the episodes here. That way people can watch alone without having tho search for them. With this in mind (and providing the link works) below should be the Feature length pilot which we are going to be covering in Earth-2.net's signature beat-by-beat style.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrRwigj0sHM

  15. Episode 141

    in Bigger on the Inside

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    Great podcast and nice to have BOTI back.

    I'm with Dan on Deep Breath. I want to like it but I just don't. It has too many of Moffat's reheated leftovers for my liking. Reusing the robots from The Girl in the Fireplace with a slight twist just felt lazy as does having to consciously not do something your body does automatically (I'm expecting a monster who attacks people who think next series)

    Moffat going back to his limited bag of tricks is also the reason I don't like Listen either. I felt that his solo written stories were the weakest of the season and for me it is becoming clear that he's use all the arrows in his quiver and now he just repainting them and firing them again in the hope that no one notices.

  18. Episode 747

    in Earth-2.net: The Show

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    I never saw this when it was on but after hearing the Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis and Brent Spiner in the clips I looked up the cast list and my word but this show is like a second income for the cast of TNG.

    More importantly though the character of Griff is played by none other than Mr Neil Dickson who was also BIGGLES! Freaking Biggles was in Gargoyles which automatically makes it awesome.

  19. Episode 11

    in The Edge of Forever

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    Holy crap! I thought that I was the only one who broke Webstor's backpack grapple. Had no idea that it was a general thing. I feel slightly better about it now.

    Enjoyed hearing you guys talking at length about something completely unrelated to the show and then realising that you've probably got to the end of actual episode discussion. That's something that happens on TABHAL pretty much once and episode if not more.

    I'm a real sucker for Space Seed. I think Ricardo Mantleban (sp?) Is amazing. While I agree that casting a Latino actor as an Indian is racially insensitive at least they cast someone non Caucasian. It could have easily been a white guy in make up. I love Scotty in the original series and I'm happy that you guys are picking up on that. I find his reduction to comedy relief in the Abrams films (particularly Into Darkness) so annoying because TOS Scotty is so badass.

  20. The Tabletop Game Thread

    in Banter

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    Just come home from a lovely weekend spent at with our regular feedback contributors Peter and Anne-Marie (the Orgs) where they introduced us to Star Trek Attack Wing. It was much more fun than I initially thought it was going to be and we are looking to get our own copy. Having said that the cost of extra ships is crazy high. Over 10 quid for a tiny plastic ship, two cards and a move wheel? bloody hell that's steep.

  21. Favorite One-on-One Fights in Film

    in General Discussion

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    Martin Blank Vs Felix Lapubelle in Grosse Point Blank

    Westly Vs Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride

    Inigo Montoya Vs Count Rugen in The Princess Bride

    Nick Angel Vs Simon Skinner in the model village from Hot Fuzz

    Sherlock Holmes Vs Jame Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Because the physical battle is played out entirely hypothetically by both men)

  24. The Doctor Who thread

    in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy

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    I quite enjoyed it. The look of it was really reminiscent of the comic strips in Doctor Who magazine in the late 90s to early 00s written by Scott Gray and drawn by Lee Sullivan. The Teller was like a piece of Lee Sullivan artwork come to life and it was only emphasised by the brief shot of Absalom Daak as drawn by Sullivan showing up in the criminal database.

    Not a stone cold classic, not every story is going to be, but for that reason it had a warm glow of familiarity for me as Scott and Sullivan had an amazing run.