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[Neonivek]

Ohh no I like Dr. Who.

My Dad just somehow ENTIRELY forgot about how silly Dr. Who could be at times and had a severe case of nostalgia goggles.

Yes I meant Toymaker sorry.

[Reelyanoob]

I like Dr Who too, don't get me wrong just Blakes 7 is a far better show as serious sci-fi, though it has the odd "comic" episode too. Blake's 7 is  such a downer too. Depressing bunch.

You're dad can't have watched Dr Who in a LONG time. British Doctors 5 - 8 were getting really silly.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Isn't Blake's 7 (in)famous for glaring continuity issues.

And Brian Blessed.

[Siquo]

when I have kids, I'll

Yeah yeah we've all heard and said all of that before. 

Here's the deal: When you have kids, you will change beyond recognition. No amount of planning will change that.

[Siquo]

What's legal and illegal is different from what is right and wrong.

I'd be disappointed if my kid never broke the law. 

[Siquo]

Try to read both lines of that post instead of just the first.

[MaximumZero]

when I have kids, I'll

Yeah yeah we've all heard and said all of that before. 

Here's the deal: When you have kids, you will change beyond recognition. No amount of planning will change that.

It's so very true. 

[Dwarf]

Oooh, what about when I teaching in Thailand, and decided to go backpacking in Myanmar, upon which I was deported for punching a man in the face that offered me an underaged prostitute.

Or when I was teaching circus skills to orphaned survivors of the SEA christmas tsunami.

Or when we were at angkor wat complex in Cambodia, and a group of boys with makeshift sandal sailboats in a lake were throwing pieces of the 800 year old temple to make them move. A tour guide yelled at them and explained to us about perspective - when he was their age, they used to play soccer with the decapitated heads of victims of the 1970s cambodian genocide.

And in the Killing Fields, three children, an 11 and 9 year old boy, and 7 year old girl begged us for cash while standing in a rain-filled mass grave still filled with hundreds of unearthed bodies. Their parents made cents a day making nikes.

Or reading where have all the butterflies gone while at bergen - art pieces by children about to be executed during the Holocaust.

Inner childhood death is a bit different for me #firstworldproblems

But yeah man, that Xcom remake.

In the pages of the thread I've read, it seems everyone conveniently ignores this.

[shadenight123]

speaking of the post starter about the smurf film...
i only looked at the trailer, so i have yet to see how the film turned out...but...
you do realize gargamella FINALLY USES MAGIC!? thunder! finally! for god's sakes he's a wizard! a sorcerer! and for all the cartoon series he never actually did something so blatantly magical.
(excluding potions of diminishing obviously but those were more of a chemical thing.) 

[Levi]

In the pages of the thread I've read, it seems everyone conveniently ignores this.

That is because he responded to the wrong topic.  He was looking for the "Outer adult" thread.

[Heron TSG]

Also, it was horrifying and I didn't know what to say.

also, when, if I do, have kids, I'll say (mentally) fuck the fear, fuck the lack of adventure, fuck it all, there is a large world out there, and my child WON'T be restricted by people saying it's too dangerous. how the hell do you think humans spread all over the globe? by staying where they knew it was safe? HELL NO! we bothered to get out, explore and find new pastures. we didn't cower and wait to die of old age. we didn't have health and safety restricting us to certain things and we got on perfectly bloody fine! [/rant]

I bet he'll have a long and fulfilling 30-year lifespan, just like them good 'ol days! [/sarcasm]

[Reelyanoob]

Isn't Blake's 7 (in)famous for glaring continuity issues.

And Brian Blessed.

Brian Blessed was in one episode. The series is hardly "known" for him. I had to look that up.

And Blakes 7 continuity is much better than Dr Who, but Dr Who explains away all errors as "timelines"

EDIT: Here's a list of the continuity errors from the Blake 7 show. most are in the early Series, and are of the "left hand / right hand" object swapping nature, NOT story plot holes. (inexperienced film crew perhaps?). There's some issues with props too. (they list 47 errors during the shows run but it includes peoples hair growing a bit between seasons 3-4 etc and stuff like that. The most glaring episode with errors is Season 4 episode 1  with props not matching the end of season 3 (total 6 errors including 3 related to characters haircuts or costume). By the show was meant to end in Season 3 and got a surprise extension to a fourth series which explains why props and some costumes might not have survived).

http://www.moviemistakes.com/tv4844?singletype=continuity

Is it really that bad that Avon has his wedding ring on in one shot then it's missing in the next shot? Can you not enjoy the story at all if that happens? I mean it's not something I even noticed. Hardly "glaring" unless your a real stickler for scene details.

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Since Dr Who was the series I was constrasting this with, almost all the Dr Who errors I've heard about, on the other hand, are story plot holes, or consistency errors / history changing between episodes. I'd rather have a gun shift from someones left to right hand etc, than a glaring plot hole.

http://www.moviemistakes.com/tv3572

Note that Dr Who had 5 continuity errors in the first ever episode and 12 errors in the second episode. Far greater than the one error noted for most specific Blake 7 episodes.

[SalmonGod]

I bet he'll have a long and fulfilling 30-year lifespan, just like them good 'ol days! [/sarcasm]

*insert cliche remark about "truly living" here (which is something I generally believe in)*

I think the difference is, the modern world tends to actively prevent people from endangering themselves today, even if they're fully aware of what they're doing.  In the process, we also tend to reduce our quality of life.

[Little]

I found out yesterday that the girl who played Ducky on Land Before Time was murdered by her father after doing the first movie... 

[Neonivek]

I found out yesterday that the girl who played Ducky on Land Before Time was murdered by her father after doing the first movie... 

O_O

And they still made the remaining movies?