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Anybody else else watch Dispatches? As an ex-squaddie that program confirmed everything people at my level think, although it was basically a rip of Lewis Page's book. Highly recommended watching if you're interested in the MOD and missed it earlier. Also being "in a bubble" was pretty much spot on. Is it just mine or do everybody else's facebook news feeds read like a screenplay of the Inbetweeners?
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ibroxmassive posted:Viva is the rebrand of TMF which was MTV's freeview channel. Those two programs epitomise exactly what is wrong with America.
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^^^ I was Rifles so I've noticed your avatar for some time now. Guessing you just really like Sharpe? My favourite example was comparing our hierarchy to that of the USMC, which is slightly larger than us. They have about 90 officers above the rank of brigadier, and we have over 400. 
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SeanBeansShako posted:Yeah, Sharpe and Hornblower are pretty cool. I'm a major history buff. Still sort of hoping one day we'll get a British high production WW2 series. Hornblower was awesome but I never got Sharpe, it just seemed a bit too cheesy! TheVertigoOfBliss posted:When they were talking about the new helicopter which was chosen ahead of the black hawk, surely they have to move on and attempt to improve the design considering the black hawk was flew in the early 1970s. They are both '70s aircraft, the Lynx flew first and both have recieved upgrades throughout their lives. The Blackhawk has room for troops but the Lynx is basically a lovely version of a Huey without room for troops. It's never been used for anything other than transporting generals around the UK, or sonar'ing the sea. We keep updating it even though it has no real purpose  (edit: except precious export value £££££££)The full absurdity of it all is explained in Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs by Lewis Page. He's an ex Navy officer who left because he couldn't stand the bullshit anymore - a bit like me! Daimo fucked around with this message at Sep 21, 2010 around 01:44 |
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Leyburn posted:Edit: Speaking of unrealistic portrayals of drug use, did anyone else stay up and watch the Breakfast Club last night? Got about 4 hours sleep because BBC insist on putting classic films on at stupid times. I was half watching it and honestly didn't know what to think! Very strange film. - Just finished watching This is England 86 and was really enjoying it for a change - until the last ten minutes. That surprise sex scene just killed all my enjoyment and made me feel like  . It wasn't even the fun kind of surprise sex. The most entertaining character is the utterly ridiculous guy in the egg blue ellesse tracksuit, and he never gets enough screen time. I guess he's the counterpoint for all the melancholy in the program. I don't know, to me good TV is something that makes me feel positive.
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Adrianics posted:"I'll count from thirteen." "Why thirteen?" "Why not ten?" ahahahahahahaha........
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Anyone else watching Seven days? I think its pretty crap but it's funny to watch the brunette playing up to the cameras and insisting on taking the blonde girl to a sex shop. Also, when has anyone seen a group of 'street' black guys talking about the economy?
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Tasty Pi posted:I missed the start, but I've been watching it for the past 30 minutes and it just seems to be people talking... about nothing we'd care about. Maybe I just don't get reality TV, or maybe there was something crucial at the very start of the show that explains why we should care about these people. No you're pretty much spot on. It turned into white noise after I posted that and then I started thinking about masterbating over nothing in particular.
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I've just seen Come fly with me for the first time and quite enjoyed it - for the most part. What's everyone else's verdict around here?
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"OMG liek the Earth will go bang, fire and brimstone will fall if the planets line up, in 2012!!!11" "Can I just make clear, the Myans didnt have a clue, they were useless." Shut up Briain, stop ruining my science  - I love how everyone missed the point about sending in 'YOUR OWN' pictures of the sky! Daimo fucked around with this message at Jan 4, 2011 around 08:29 |
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Nobody else apart from my mother dislikes the messianic smile he talks with then?
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goatface posted:I find him disturbingly over-eager. Apart from looking like a paedophile in a playground, he IS the best thing since Patrick Moore and should probably inherit The Sky At Night, but I sense he has bigger ambitions...
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BizarroAzrael posted:10 O'Clock Live trailer Reminds me of a cross between The Onion and the 11 o'clock show (please god let it be a modern version of the 11 o'clock show).
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Things I learned this week (last week): Mexicans are lazy Zionist Jews are naughty Humanity is amazing
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So I only just got around to hearing about Outcasts. I'm thinking it has potential, we already know it isn't like the deep so just gotta hope it doesn't end up like Defying Gravity (the last 'epic' BBC sci-fi which nobody else has remembered). Personally I'm pretty pissed there hasn't been a complete serious sci-fi since B5 (haven't seen BSG yet). I would say gently caress the kid too but we seem to have a paedo on the loose...Fatkraken posted:it crashes in the loving lake innit If that's a reference to Pandorum I love you! By the way if anyone remembers the end Ashes to Ashes you may recall that Daniel Mays was 'coincidentally' shooting in South Africa when the last episode aired (to avoid being lynched). Guess this was it! Edit: Comments on the BBC are great: "President: We decided to call this planet Carpathia. I can't remember the whole story but I think if they'd had more life boats... Ship's Captain: We don't have enough life boats! President: If only the planet namers had spoken to the ship designers..." "A religious mystic who will no doubt attempt to turn Carpathia into a religious state, a baby whom he would abhor as a product of man's playing at god and the outcasts themselves who could be the salvation or death of the new civilisation " "So far in the first two episodes 9 of the 10 main characters have either committed murder, attempted murder or conspired in murder. This is not an exaggeration. Of the one main character who has not, he engages in casual sex and takes drugs." Daimo fucked around with this message at Feb 10, 2011 around 00:29 |
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Fatkraken posted:nope, never even heard of it I'm afraid. It just seemed like a thing that would happen Its a film about a colonisation ship sent from a doomed earth, that lands in an ocean.
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Finally, Outcasts is going somewhere with the Human jaw bone.
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Beast posted:WHY IS OUTCASTS SO UNBELIEVABLY DULL UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE? And then if you're clever you can work out everything thats going to happen in the next episode from the trailer. You could follow the whole series in 10 minutes! And seriously, gently caress the American trend of putting trailers at the end of shows - If the writing has been good then I loving guarantee you I drat well will be coming back next week. Its even more irritating on the BBC because, well... you have no drat reason to sell shows on anything other than good writing!
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Make the international Iplayer fee $50, and remove the TV licence. I'd say thats fair.
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At my halls everybody just uses iPlayer and 4OD. I can see the licence fee model getting dropped though. As people become more tech savvy iPlayer will dominate viewing, but you can't charge subscription fees while the licence is in place. Its also illogical: $10 per month for TV licence Vs $10 per month for Internet and iPlayer.
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cloudchamber posted:Why? They're reporting developing news. They're turning it into 'Nukes are bad' instead of 'people died'. Not one of which has died from radiation.
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Mickolution posted:What's the quality like on the iPlayer? Can't get it here (Ireland) but can get 4od and while it's handy to have, the quality isn't anywhere near as good as TV. Same as youtube on 1080p. Actually thats a lie, its 480p for most things and only some are HD.
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Flatscan posted:Ha, not only was the last episode of Outcasts just as pants as the rest of it, it also ended on a cliff-hanger. Wishful loving thinking there. I'm going to watch it on Monday but let me guess: that ship?
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On 14 March, 2011, the BBC confirmed that Outcasts had been cancelled I don't know whether to even bother watching the last episode. Why do they even bother trying to make Sci-fi? -Outcasts -The Deep -Defying Gravity All poo poo.
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Kin posted:There are vast voids of time and space between Dr Who and good sci-fi. It's not like sci-fi is hard to write, there are a lot of good writers out there. It just seems that TV as of late seems to have incompetent writers behind every show and each attempt tries to mix in the modern day generic trash (like methods of storytelling, cliches, etc) that most of the popular shows have and it simply doesnt work because those who like that generic bollocks don't like the sci-fi and those who like the sci-fi don't like that generic bollocks. Hell I tried paraphrasing your post but it's all perfectly pertinent! I agree wholeheartedly with this and its exactly what makes the difference between Star Trek, Dr. Who, Firefly etc and Outcasts. - Holy poo poo I just discovered you can resize the post box! e: Oh only in Chrome.
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Flatscan posted:Given that every single historical figure they've run into, with the exception of Vincent van Gough, has been loving terrible I'm pretty glad they don't do it that often. With the exception of Madame de Pompadour 
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Oh god it's coming back. Its BBC Sci-fi so it'll be about the personal lives and histories of 5 people, completely ignoring the implications for the other 6783323243.
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Tried the 10'oclock show lastnight and got halfway before bed. Heres what I thought -Jimmy Carr can't read a loving autocue to save his life. -I am an idiot. Daimo fucked around with this message at Mar 19, 2011 around 11:14 |
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Glory Daze has been recommended to me, is it any good guys?
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Cool, now I have something to do on a saturday night 
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So I'm half way through the new episode of skins and I still haven't seen any PLOT. e: Oh there it is at :43 e2: What the gently caress did I just watch? Daimo fucked around with this message at Jan 30, 2012 around 18:41 |
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