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I don't know where else to post this-- but I just wanted to say. Any future X-Men movies... Billie piper = Emma Frost

Just saw the finale of the CE run. Not a bad episode...

Man-- i didn't mean to get TP excommunicated!

Looking into it a bit further-- the NTSC to PAL transfer does create SOME artifacts, especially when things are in motion, but come UKLK.. those things in father's day weren't very good fx! At least not compared to anything I have seen on BSG for example...

but don't get me wrong-- I like the show!

Oh I totally enjoy it-- I just keep reading how people talk about how the fx work is amazing... and it isn't! Keep in mind I have only seen half of Eccelson's run thus far, but the CG is bad, the monsters are usually hokey rubber suits, and the general quality of the image is very low-quality video looking.

Granted, some of these things might be asthetic to connect it to vinatge WHO, but compared to shows like BSG, Firefly or Trek it just looks really low budget. I love ths hw don't get me wrong, but it's visuals-- everything from fx to lighting and cinematography just looks lame.

Is it cause the BBC really has limited budgets? After 50 years of television can't the UK come up with a better way to run things?

Is it cause there aren't any good FX houses or film crews in the UK? Is there American superiority with this? I'd hope not...

Or is it just cause transferring PAL things to NTSC is mucking it up and heightening the flaws?

Not to be an ass-- but why Do British Sci fi production values always look so crappy? is it a money thing? Is it PAL? I just don't get it.

I was busting on the OLD school Daleks. I'm saying this episode kind of managed to make them seem threatening, where as watching old 80's episodes with them has a cheese effect.

See-- you've made it clear that British people have no standards. this is why their sci-fi is hokey.

I rather liked the Dalek episode. They managed to make a silly looking villain from the 60's actually look scary and menacing.

Still not sure about the Cybermen though... have to wait and see the episode.

Here's a link to a season 2 preview trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZOiUem8lWw

We won't get these episodes in the US (legally anyway) till who knows when.

The link pong showedme was a guy ina suit and it looked hokey...

Why did Eccelson leave so soon? I really like him!

Tom Baker is best known mostly due to the fact that he had the longest run, and had the most exposure in America.

Heh... "Fox" is the network it aired on.

It should be noted too, that Paul McGann, the Dr. UKLK is touting, is in fact the same one from the TV movie, and that was his debut. 7th Doctor Synlester McCoy even cameoed in the beginning for a death/regeneration sequence.

I remmeber the Fox thing-- it failed here, but they love dit in the UK, and he is considered canonically the 8th Doctor!

And yeah I saw the Americna Red Dwarf and it blew.

I'm just saying it's a possibility whether you like it or not. TONMS of American shows are remakes from UK TV.

I agree that Dr. Who is inherently Britishy, if America did it, it would be a very different format. The TV movie Fox did was trying to tie into the existing Franchise with Americaan sensibilities and it was a bad mix.. plus it was just a lame story. I'm talking about a ground-up remake, like BSG. Not ties to the original series beyond basic concept.

Sci Fi adding the show to their roster is the first step in doing their own version...

Just like the repeated airing if Lynch's Dune and the classic Battlestar galactica.

There will be ratings, but they'll think an Americanized version will get MORE.

New Series has 14 episodes, and it is the 9th Doctor, played by Christopher Eccelson. he decided to leave the show though, and the last episode of the season show him regenerating into the 10th doctor, David Tenant. Tenant is in a fair amount of the episode, and will start in the new seson later this year.

Episode guide here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/index.shtml

I'v egot the first three on a bootleg DVD and I'm a fan

I have to say, why BASTDOORS was funny, I am rather tickled by "Star War Part 4 a NEW HOOP"

HAHAHAHHAHHA ohhh me

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OMG 4 pages....

nice legacy tank

I just want to say that I have been posting at Nightly for 6 years, and RARELY has a thread I started made it to page three. Thanks guys.

SSSH!!!!!

Sadly, SLS is real.

SLT however...

(whistles innocently)

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