Re: Doctor Who [4]

by Pettytyrant101 Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:22 pm

Good can I have a buckie now?

by Ally Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:22 pm

Go watch GG!

by Pettytyrant101 Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:26 pm

Can I have a buckie at the same time?

by Ally Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:28 pm

Heck, why not?

by Pettytyrant101 Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:29 pm

Your round? Excellent I'll have a buckie please, in a barrel, with a straw, and an umbrella (Im a messy drinker when I quaff)

by Ally Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:31 pm

Just because it's GG doesn't give you the right to insult my body shape!

by Pettytyrant101 Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:39 pm

Fine I'll get my own buckie then. Evil or Very Mad

Back in a mo unless I get delayed by a series of unpredictable and highly unlikely events along the way.

by Ally Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:49 pm

HAHA my old english teacher that I had my first crush on commented on my facebook status telling me everything is gonna be alright #nowgowatchGG

by Mrs Figg Wed Apr 24, 2013 12:32 am

anyways I saw the full Hide episode, and it was great, really enjoyed it.

by David H Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:25 am

CC12 35 wrote:
David H wrote:
Ally wrote:amy did get a little annoying you have to admit

I've never seen Amy, but I honestly can hardly wait! Anybody who can generate this much controversy needs to seen!

No, you should just go and watch GG reruns.

OK CC I will. You've never steered me wrong before.

Let's see......That Golden Girls, right? afro

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Apr 24, 2013 12:42 pm

anyways I saw the full Hide episode, and it was great, really enjoyed it.- Mrs Figg

Thats 3 of 4 youve enjoyed this series cheers

Did you ever watch the rest of Bells Mrs Figg or did you just abandon it?

"I've never seen Amy, but I honestly can hardly wait! Anybody who can generate this much controversy needs to seen! "- David

You still not had a chance to download vlc player yet? Its quite small as programs go.

by Ally Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:13 pm

David H wrote:
CC12 35 wrote:
David H wrote:
Ally wrote:amy did get a little annoying you have to admit

I've never seen Amy, but I honestly can hardly wait! Anybody who can generate this much controversy needs to seen!

No, you should just go and watch GG reruns.

OK CC I will. You've never steered me wrong before.

Let's see......That Golden Girls, right?

Wel played sir...now go watch Gossip Girl!

by David H Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:25 pm

You still not had a chance to download vlc player yet? Its quite small as programs go.

It's proving a bit more challenging than I'd hoped. The new hotrod box of course doesn't come with a dial up modem, and my old external modem doesn't seem to play well with Windows 8 so I've got no way of getting the new box online without driving it to somebody's house and plugging it into a cable, and borrowing their monitor too if they'll let me. :facepalm:

It's a really cool box with a lot of extra bells and whistles once I figure out how to get it online, but practically for now it's turning out to be just a glorified external hard drive! Mad

Also Spring is a busy time in the cranberry bogs.

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Apr 24, 2013 2:20 pm

Um how do you post on here then? scratch

by Mrs Figg Wed Apr 24, 2013 3:46 pm

Spoiler:

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:04 pm

I too was a bit uncertain of Clara as a character- I thought Rings did a lot for her character, and I can see why its JLC favourite episode. That was the first time I felt that she was a real person in a full sense, not a plot device. And I was worried we were going to retread ground already well covered by Amy.
Rings dispelled that feeling and I am warming a lot more to her now.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'female' reproduction crap.
If you mean the family aspect of Amy/Rory/River I am glad they went there- it was completely unique in the shows history. There have been more companions on the TARDIS at once, but never a family or married couple.
The one shot that best somes up the unique feel it gave for me is at the start of the Flesh two parter.
Amy and Rory are playing darts. There are clothes over rails. Cups lying about, shoes. Mobile phones charging on the console. It looks and feels like somewhere they live, a home. Combined with the warm colours and almost womb like Console room it had the TARDIS has never quite had that feel before.

I wouldnt want it to be that way all the time but thats Who's saving grace, its never anyway all the time.
(And thats not a defense of anything! Wink

Just an explantion of how I see one aspect of the 'Pond era' on the show now I can look at it as a whole in the overall context of the shows history)

by Mrs Figg Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:22 pm

No it has absolutely nothing to do with family. That part has Always appealed to me. from Roses family onwards, I dont have a problem with showing the Ponds as a family unit. marrieds are ok with me.
My problem has Always been the use of the female body as a plot device. ie, pregnancy, forced or otherwise, Amy as a being defined by being a wife, mother, and being able or not to reproduce. I dont want to get into the question further than this as its one of those subjects where I feel strongly it has no place in Who being a childrens fantasy tv series.

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:25 pm

I find that interesting- not to argue the point, you know my views already, just that the idea that you feel it has no place in Who- which is overall my main objection to the Rose story arc!

by Mrs Figg Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:36 pm

yes but Rose doesnt go through what Amy has to suffer. its just icky and it makes a lot of women uncomfortable. Its not like its informational for youngsters or they could learn something from it, I think its more likely to worry some very young girls, but this is only my take on things.

by David H Wed Apr 24, 2013 5:52 pm

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Um how do you post on here then?

On my 12 year old dying XP laptop, with every script blocker in the Firefox arsenal engaged so that it's almost 'text only'.
It's almost a museum piece, but it's from an era when they truly understood narrow bandwidth and dial-up modems.
It's great for emails and forums, and not much else.

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:02 pm

"I think its more likely to worry some very young girls" - Mrs Figg

I have no way of judging that save by own observations of the female kids in my famly and friends families.
A very small sample group of course, but they were all very positive towards Amy as a character and of Rory. The fact they were married seemed to appeal to them too. Princess and her Prince fairytale element I would guess. And they liked her fiestiness, and when she slaps people or gives them the hard look- but then my sample group are all Scottish!

Queen Nefretiti- Are you a Queen also Amy?

Amy (hesitates a moment then sets her jaw)- Yes, yes I am.

It's great for emails and forums, and not much else.- David

Wel at least we have you here, we should be grateful for that mercy at least. Wish I'd thought to just include vlc player on the mem stick for you- in fact did you check to see if I did? 'cause I have a nagging buckie embued recollection of at least thinking about it at the time. scratch

by Mrs Figg Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:20 pm

as far as Young girls go I have the opposite view from my own observation, having an English friend with a young daughter,

Spoiler:

Its a bit like Daleks, my parents had to reassure me they didnt exist, some kids are just more impressionable and sensitive to these things.

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:24 pm

Spoiler:

by Mrs Figg Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:26 pm

Spoiler:

by David H Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:06 pm

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Wish I'd thought to just include vlc player on the mem stick for you- in fact did you check to see if I did? 'cause I have a nagging buckie embued recollection of at least thinking about it at the time.

It doesn't appear to be on the stick, but hang on. I think we may be onto something!

I've got an copy of VLC on my XP laptop. I think it's been updated within the last year or two. I wonder if it would be transferable and compatible with Win 8 ? I just tried to cop/paste the program across between the machines via a flash drive, but I seem to have only transferred the shortcut, not the program itself. Do you know if there's a better way to copy and transfer the program? Or does it need to be folded up into an executable file first? I'm afraid much of my knowledge of such things comes from the stone age.... rabbit