Topic: The TV Show Thread

Isn't Father Ted available for free on All4 or whatever the channel 4 streaming app is @ralphdibny? Though those adverts can be quite obnoxious on that

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy yes adverts 😤😤😤 😂😂😂

Can't stand them! I remember it taking an hour and a half to watch a 42 minute episode of agents of shield on 4OD or all 4 or whatever it's called lol. I've just given up on it.

To be fair, sometimes there were no adverts whatsoever but sometimes there were more than you would get watching it on TV. It's just a weird streaming service.

I might just have to pick up the DVDs of some of these older British comedies to watch when I'm feeling low. Can be difficult with the really really old ones like Dad's Army where there are lost episodes and then they find some more and you don't know what DVDs have the most complete records of the show 😅

@RogerRoger haha it wasn't that involved really 😅. I did a few days on it here and there, people were joking/worried that the the green screen treadmill would be the end of the extra as a whole. The set kept burning down or something so filming was heavily delayed and I don't think I could have done more than ten days on it, all in.

I've looked for myself in the scenes that I know I was there for. I can't remember if I found myself though. I didn't watch the whole thing and look for any green screen insertions of myself though, It would probably take days to do for very little result 😅

@RogerRoger I tend to do it more nowadays if I know where I am going to be in a film or TV show. It's actually a bit harder to do in TV because it will be random episodes so they are harder to find!

I have the potential for infamosity from one role. I don't think anyones noticed it though so should be ok. Not sure if I can send screenshots/YouTube clips over PSN but I'll look into it next week and send it over if I can. It is actually ridiculous 😅. Can't post here because it will reveal both my true identity and also raise my infamous profile haha.

I've changed my look a lot over the years though (through both laziness and necessity) so I look quite different in things that have come out over the years anyway!

@RogerRoger what, like Tuvok in Star Trek 6 or whichever it was? 😂 I wish! Nah, there's just one specific scene in a film I was in that was notorious for a while for bizarre reasons. I'll try to explain it better over PSN. It's probably not that exciting really, I just find it quite funny because i was in it. I doubt anyone else would give a monkeys about it to be honest!

@RogerRoger @ralphdibny

Are you ever following along with a conversation going in the forum but have nothing to add but then feel weird for coming in out of nowhere to talk about something else? Lol, anyway, just wondering if I'm the only one. I am curious about this bizarrely noteworthy extra role though.
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And yeah, caught up on Loki. I'm starting to think these characters just fit the superficial blockbuster formula better because this watching superheroes/villains walk around and talk and get turned down for bank loans and talk some more and take out generic train security guards is kinda boring for me.

Also the rules in Loki make no sense. So that's bothersome.

And last thing...I don't think they could have found a more bland counter Loki if they'd tried. Disney confuses me. They get a half Columbian half Polish chick to play the whitest character in animation history and then the blandest white chick in the world to play a character who could have been played by anyone.

Ah well.

@zupertramp you are definitely not the only one, I occasionally butt in on convos too!! I probably shouldn't be so mysterious about it, it's not that big of a deal 😅. Im only being mysterious because I don't want to post the full details and by extension a picture of my face on to a public forum if you know what I mean. I know that's weird to even say considering anyone can see my face in the film itself but there is an anonymity to both being a face in a crowd on screen and also being a voice on a forum. Tying the two together would reduce the anonymity and potentially result in some level of recognition, which I don't think I'm comfortable with necessarily.

I'm caught up on Loki too now! I actually quite like Lady Loki/Sylvie. It might just be the accent but I am getting some Jodie Whittaker/Doctor Who vibes from it.

With the gender swap being so notable, I reckon they wanted other aspects to be as similar as possible such as the British accent etc. Even if it's a different region of Britain that the accent comes from!

@ralphdibny Totally understand wanting to maintain some anonymity. Plus sure we could see you in a film but we really would have no idea it was you. So I get it.

Yeah, my family was making fun of me that this entire time I've never noticed Loki has a British accent. Idk, it just doesn't sound that British. Sometimes I'm slow I guess lol.

Finally caught up on the third episode of Loki. It was kinda rubbish. Maybe it was the lack of Owen Wilson or the exclusively green-screened episode or the lacklustre fight scenes but there was just something missing.

Loki episode 4 was a lot better. Looking forward to Lightning McQueen and the cowboy from Night at the Museum showing up next week.

@RogerRoger I saw this on Twitter last night and couldn’t stop laughing

New animated Doctor Who restoration!!!

Hmmm…. Just saw this on Star Wars: Visions

Star Wars anime…?
What do you think @RogerRoger , et al.

@RogerRoger I think I might try it, out of sheer curiosity. Notwithstanding the fact I’m currently drowning in animated Star Wars shows, not to mention Marvel and everything else in my TV backlog. I think I’ll move this up the list though because it strikes a peculiar note for me.

Still have several seasons of Clone Wars on deck, and perhaps Rebels. I actually think Bad Batch looks really appealing though and I know you’ve enjoyed it. Do you recommend my watching it out of order from the other SW shows? I’m prone to watch things systematically in release order for this kind of thing. It’s partly why I’ve resisted starting Loki because I need to finish Falcon and the Winter Soldier, even though I know the two have no dependent narrative threads and I have more interest in Loki.

@RogerRoger Thanks for the info, and for the offer to help with the navigation. I think I’ll try to go through the shows in their entirety for now. But yes — even me being a Star Wars nerd by most measures, I’m having trouble keeping up with the encyclopedic narrative! 😃

I watched Father’s Day, the Ninth Doctor episode as I very slowly make my way through New Who’s golden years. I forgot just how good it was. Easily one of the best Who stories since 2005, which makes sense as it was written by the bloke who was responsible for a lot of the best Big Finish audio plays. I think I’ll watch up to Ecclestone leaving and then maybe get my free trial of that BritBox and finally attempt to get into Classic Who.

@RogerRoger I feel like attempting to go through in order would be a very bad idea! I think I’ll dip in and out of different Doctors’ most well thought-of stories and then see which style I like and watch as much of that run as possible.

Classic Who seems to be… honestly a lot better than I expected. I’ve watched the first couple of serials with the First Doctor. The Daleks in particular was quite good, despite being a little lengthy. The incidental music/groans and assorted electronic noises weirdly reminds me of Eraserhead which is fitting. It’s incredibly eerie despite the dodgy sets and props. The Doctor himself seems to not exactly be the main character though. Ian and Barbara, the two main companions alongside Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter, do a lot of the heavy lifting on account of them being younger. Ian is a pretty cool guy, challenging The Doctor on a lot of his nonsense. Might just stick with going through the First Doctor’s stories for now, didn’t think I’d enjoy it this much.

@nessisonett I never went as far back as the first Doctor but if you do end up continuing through the back catalogue, keep an eye out for a Tom Baker mini-arc called City of Death. One of the co-writers was Douglas Adams… and while not quite as out there as Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy it definitely has that Adams ‘feel’. Still my favourite Who story to this day.

@colonelkilgore Yeah, I’ve only heard good things about that one, and to be honest a lot of Baker’s run. Pretty cool that Douglas Adams wrote it as well!