Alex Hawkins
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Sorry, last Who post.
[Chris Harlan] “Yes! The two parters! I wonder that, as well. And, I can still make my sister’s skin crawl by asking her, in just the right voice, “Are you my mommy?” Of those, the Library episodes might be my favorite”
Yes I loved both of them. You see, Steven Moffatt wrote them both. Great stories. (And the Library one had the all time best Dr Who ending I reckon.) But as an EP of the show?
Meh! Not so good.
Alex Hawkins
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Chris, tut tut!
“The Crimson Horror” and I believe Madame Vastra is a Silurian and Strax is a Sontaran.
I reckon the new series peaked at the end of Season 3 with Last Of the Time Lords. It’s been a slow downhill trend for me since then. Go back and have a look at some of those earlier eps like Girl in the Fireplace, Blink, Father’s Day, not to mention the good old 2 parters (what’s happened to them?).
I think Moffat’s all over the map frankly (too much pseudo clever timey wimey stuff) and I have a distinct aversion to Matt Smith I’m afraid. He keeps looking at the camera when he’s not supposed to. Check it out.
Yes, Clara’s nice to look at though, even if I’m not sure what her use is.
Tom Baker was definitely the best. And those stories were great back then. Good solid sci fi stuff. Imaginative and interesting. Unfortunately a sneeze used to make the sets wobble.
Oh well.
Alex Hawkins
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[Chris Harlan] “My fourteen year old and I are about to watch Doctor Who, as it plays in its proper time slot because its an event for us”
Hey Chris majorly OT, but what ep are you up to over there? Is it the same as the ones airing in the UK now?
Are you a post 2005 fan or were you into the classic series as well?
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[Julian Bowman] “The things they watch that are streamed to iPads, laptops etc. Are they clips of pussy cats and yodelling babies or of broadcast TV shows watched through an alternative medium? My money will be on the former.”
My daughter watches “broadcast tv” programs, if that’s what you want to call them. Homeland, Walking Dead, Desperate Housewives etc.
[Julian Bowman] “Kids/adults with console games will always have TVs. Given a choice of watching a film on a TV or an iPad the TV offers the better experience.”
Yes that’s true, but as far as using them to sit down to watch a particular broadcast program at a particular time. Never.
[Julian Bowman] “but given unlimited funds do you think all young people would forgo a 42″ plasma in exchange for an iPad? I don’t.”
Not all, but probably most, yes.
[Julian Bowman] “TVs are social. Families can gather around one and interact around what is on.”
Sad to say but this scenario seems about as common as a grown up at a Justin Bieber concert. . .
. . . from all the people I speak to, anyway.
[Julian Bowman] “So sure, TV is being consumed differently, but what is being consumed isn’t changing in the same way”
Agreed. So extrapolating that out, where do the free to air networks get their bucks in a generations time?
[Julian Bowman] “Bill, don’t let points outside your limited view get in the way of your rather zealous promotion of apple edited YouTube shite being the future of televisual production/consumption, because then your world may collapse around you and no one with buy your self published e-book/zine or invite you to report an NAB and then that will give you even more time to swan around these forums annoying people.”
Funny. . .
. . . But a bit unnecessarily cruel.
Alex Hawkins
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I have a daughter who’s 19 and she’s not really into sports. She still lives at home (mostly) and never watches tv.
That is to say she watches tv programs, downloaded onto her ipad mini. But as far as flicking on the set to veg out. Nada.
My 17 and 15 year olds (a girl and a boy) do not sit and watch tv either. Ever.
I reckon that even in the age difference from Herb’s son, 26, to my kids, there is a large demographic shift. And I know it is rare but I find myself siding with Bill here and find it difficult to see how broadcast tv will still be a viable business – under its own steam – within a generation.
But I could be wrong . . .
Alex Hawkins
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Seriously Bill you need to take off your blinkers.
Alex Hawkins
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[Bill Davis] “The two pholosophies are simple.
A – I need to keep working the way I always have because my investment in process is too deep to jettison.
(which is an extremely defensible contention, by the way)or
B – I’m willing to explore new ways to work in order to potentially benefit from some new ideas and thinking.
Everyone fits in one camp or the other. “
Hey guess what Bill!? News Flash! –
– I am in camps A and B. Guess I must just love Premiere Pro.
Alex Hawkins
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Great Alex. Excellent stuff, glad it’s working for you.
Alex Hawkins
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Yes Aindreas I see what you mean. A roll edit won’t go past the next edit but a ripple will.
Again, if I understand you correctly?
Alex Hawkins
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[Walter Soyka] “Thanks to all for indulging my ridiculous thread”
Not ridiculous at all Walter. Nicely warm and nostalgic in fact.
Many Thanks.
Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia