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Putting games out in a ‘broken’/incomplete state seems to be the norm now (thinking FIFA 20 Career mode).

Pointless Trumpeting the new features if the base game doesn’t work.

’Never Mind we’ll patch it in 3 months...’

On ‎09‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 17:42, GoGo Yubari said:

I have seen it now, and that was peak Supergirl being political and not being corny about it.

I like the satirical political edge the show has, seems appropriate for a character that's about 'Truth, Justice and the American Way...'

Not much in here about the most recent episode:

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By annulling his marriage, it makes any children of that marriage illegitimate, therefore, when his marriage to Ellaria was annulled, there was no longer an 'Aegon Targaryan'.

 

To be honest if Capaldi is going...I'd quite like to see a 'Doctor of the week' season really. A series of one-off stories over several regenerations (that occur in-between stories in previous seasons) with an over-arching arc-plot.

Cast Sean Pertwee as the Third Doctor, David Bradley as the First Doctor, bring back Smith and Tennant for one-off episodes. Have maybe 4 episodes with a pre-Time War Paul McGann, involve Tom Baker as the Curator/Future Doctor and (if bridges could be mended) have an appearance by Christopher Eccleston.

Try and set it at times where the Doctor could conceivably have been travelling alone and have one companion meet him over all those time periods, so the story is told through them and we see things happen chronologically from their viewpoint.

Then have the series finale bring all of them together (or as many of them as the Beeb can afford/sensibly include in the storytelling) to face that season's 'big bad'.

Would make a change from the established story-telling and might give the show a bit of a kick up the backside story-telling wise?

I'd wear that T-shirt...

...I mean, while watching the show? It could replace my current 'Comedian' T-shirt I've been sporting ever since Negan and his 'shit-eatin' grin turned up on the show...

On ‎19‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 01:23, Skummy said:

I really, really liked it. I thought it was at least twice the movie Force Awakens, and was a far better prequel than any of the previous prequels were - one of the many problems with those prequels was that you already know the parts of the story that matter, and they just try and fill in the blanks with a bunch of fluff, which makes the mythology and backstory of the original trilogy less enthralling, and all while conspiring to make the universe smaller, by drawing connections between characters that really didn't need to be drawn (Darth Vader built C3PO! Yoda and Chewbacca are friends!). This film did the opposite; it fleshed out a comparatively minor bit of the backstory into a compelling narrative of its own, and actually added a layer or two to the original film in the process. 

While, stylistically, it felt less like "a Star Wars movie" than Force Awakens did, it felt like it belonged in the Star Wars universe more than that movie did - does that make sense? It was less of a space opera romp, but it felt like it made better use of Star Wars' strengths; the mythos and the imagery that the universe allows them to have at their disposal. The numerous references and callbacks felt so much less forced, and - with only two exceptions I can think of - less of a nod and a wink than anything in Force Awakens, and there was nothing as cringeworthy as some of Han Solo's dialogue in that movie, or the big dramatic reveal of R2D2. Just hearing "Captain Antilles" over a PA in the background was a more pleasing nostalgic moment than forced references to trash compactors in Force Awakens, and contrast Leia's brief appearance to say one significant line to the ending of Force Awakens and the seemingly endless panning around a motionless Luke Skywalker in case you haven't figured out that this is important yet.

I love that they depicted the Rebel Alliance as flawed, and a little bit more morally ambiguous - in all the previous films they had always been whiter than white virtuous and always on the side of good, whereas this showed them to be human and fallible which, again, adds moral weight to the later films, not just to this one. The role of a prequel should be to add to the original text, which the Star Wars prequels had never managed before, and I think this movie just about does that.

 

I did have a couple of criticisms, though...like many, I wasn't overly fond of CGI Peter Cushing. The CGI itself was ridiculously impressive, but that he appeared as often as he did meant that the initial sense of being impressed gave way to more "uncanny valley" stuff just because you had to look at him for rather too long. Things like the lighting were off, so I agree that it's an effect that will likely age badly. It's a shame, because it could have carried so much more weight if they just used it more sparingly. Tarkin's role didn't necessitate him being on-screen all that much - he could have been referred to or, as he appears a couple of times, only seeing the back of his head, and a glimpse of his reflection. If you only got to see him in full once, the effect would have been more impressive, and his role in the film felt more significant. It didn't help that, outside of one or two lines, the voice actor didn't sound enough like Peter Cushing for my liking, which was distracting.

Speaking of overused....I didn't like Darth Vader in this movie at all. I think him making a rubbish pun quip belongs in the same category as "NOOOO~!" as far as unforgivably rubbish Darth Vader moments go. And him residing in a Sauron-esque supervillain tower was just ridiculous - it's Darth fucking Vader, you don't need to give us a big old visual cue that he might be the baddy. I also felt that the depiction of Vader as the Emperor's right hand man was, while in keeping with Vader's role in most of the franchise, at odds with how he's depicted in A New Hope. In A New Hope, he's clearly subservient to Tarkin, he follows orders, he pilots his own TIE Fighter into battle, and an admiral even feels he can get away with mocking him openly - you don't get the impression that he's a figure of authority, he's a samurai, he's the dragon. It's only in the subsequent films that he's presented as being in control. Admittedly, I've always assumed that's a case of George Lucas making it up as he went along, rather than a conscious narrative in which Vader rises up the ranks, and how Vader is used in this movie probably fits the overall character arc, it just disappointed me as the rest of the movie seemed to try so hard to fit its place in the timeline. Like Tarkin, again, I think Vader would have been better utilised if he had appeared less. He really didn't need to show up at all until the closing few minutes; his introductory scene serves very little narrative purpose whatsoever.

I wondered how they did Tarkin when I was watching the movie, it wasn't quite lifelike to me, but really good CGI. I originally thought it might have been Wayne Pygram (Scorpius himself) performing the role again with some appliances to make him resemble Cushing more? I think it will be fairly glaring comparing it to a photograph of the great man himself, but for the purposes of the film I can't complain. Same with the Leia cameo, though there was less time for it to register with the tiny amount of screentime.

Regarding Vader: I think he was very much the Emperor's right-hand man in this part of the timeline, but kept separate from the Imperial Military. I always viewed him as something of a wild-card in the first movie and really enjoyed the 'hinted' relationship between him and Tarkin (which was explored in some of the EU, though not sure if it's still canon) in that Tarkin is the only one who will stand-up to him in 'ANH'. In retrospect there was always the idea (looking back from later movies) that Tarkin and Vader were on a similar level in the Emperor's eyes (born out from the 3 of them inspecting the Death Star together at the end of 'Revenge of the Sith') with Tarkin being the Military-Leader and Vader being the Dark Acolyte. In the later movies I'd see it as Vader having assumed both roles after the death of Tarkin, being akin to a 'Commander-in-Chief' in the Imperial Military in 'Empire' and taking charge of overseeing the second Death Star in 'RotJ'.

Loved the film, all the call-backs, Jimmy Smits(!) and the 'classic' era ships cutting loose in a movie with modern production values. Even little nods like 'Red 5' buying in in the battle (thus explaining why the callsign was 'free' for Luke when he joins up) and I'm sure there was a tannoy for 'General Sendulla' at one point on the Yavin Hanger?

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I would think a lot of the show will cross over into the other parks, but they're going to still feature most of what's going on in Westworld alongside it.

The other parks are a great opportunity to keep bringing guests in as Delos scrambles to contain the disaster at Westworld as well. Because somehow there has to still be outsiders coming in. I'm curious what the boundary between the parks are. Obviously hosts were programmed to never cross them, and they're probably some kind of natural boundary making it hard for guests. But all bets are off now that the hosts are "awake".

As for whether or not Ford made himself. It's possible, and I've been leaning towards him imparting his entire life's experience on a host to in effect make himself immortal.

 

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Season 2 is going to be Samurai World. Or Space World.

 

Also, this seems interesting: http://kotaku.com/westworld-fans-think-theyve-already-figured-out-a-seaso-1789701457?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow

Never saw Dexter but Sons of Anarchy was a great show for me, but went on about a season and a half too long.

There's plenty they can do with this universe, lots of stories to tell. they shouldn't sacrifice the ending to THIS story by dragging it out too long.

Plenty of the actors are going to be getting interest from other projects as well, for many of the actors GoT will have been their big break so it's only a matter of time before they will get offers, other roles, too good to refuse.

A prequel would be interesting, or simply show what's happening in another part of the world away from the spotlight of the 'main' characters for a follow-up series.

For me, I emotionally checked-out of Arrow last season about when Felicity decided she was really in love with Ollie (when she was in a relationship with Ray Palmer) and broke up with him, to travel with Ollie and crew to Nanda Parbat to try to stop him becoming Ra'iSH Al-Ghul (lol never knew that was how it was pronounced) because of luuuurve.

It was done in the space of a few scenes (literally breaks up with Ray, flies to N.P, ends up in bed with Ollie iirc) and just felt really false? Same criticism of Ollie and Felicity breaking up, it felt like it was done purely for drama and so they can reconcile down the line.

Up to that point (Ollie and Felicity getting together) I think the show had a nice groove. Both with its developing mythology, the relationships between the characters. I thought Ray and Felicity had good chemistry together actually, certainly more natural than Ollie and Felicity and I always felt they were put together for the benefit of the 'shippers' watching the show and commenting online rather than the story, I think the characters make better friends than they do a couple, it's like Batman dating Oracle? Ollie is this-universe' Batman effectively, I just feel he's lost his focus on 'the mission' and now the series resembles more of a soap-opera than an action-show, the bad-guys and 'saving the city' is almost in the background this season where before the 'family dramas' have all been a distraction from the main-story, an 'added extra' and that format worked and made the show so engaging.

Speaking of Oracle; Felicity was WAY more interesting when she was paralysed? (That sounds mean)! But it gave her character an arc, something to struggle against, and suddenly BOOM, cured with nanites! I know it's a fantasy show, but it would have been better to explore the consequences of it, it would have given Ollie a chink in his bad-ass armour (as Felicity was in a wheelchair because of him, his 'failure'). Instead it's almost like 'hey remember when Darkh attacked us and you were paralysed for a couple of weeks there?' I could have the same criticism of Arrow being back in action last year so soon after his duel with Ra's as well. He goes from 'Stabbed in the chest' to 'swinging on ropes' in the space of a few episodes. Show him doing re-hab, physical therapy, falling off the damn salmon ladder! You don't just shrug off being stabbed in the chest, even in peak physical condition.

I also never got the level of hate for Katie Cassady/Laurel? Yeah there were times when her character wasn't great, but then the whole series took time to find it's feet. And this was a damaged character, losing her sister at a young age, divorced parents, alcoholic father, addictions of her own? So she was unpredictable, and unreasonable as a character and people didn't like that but for me that somehow made her more 'real' in a way. Then she found her sister, and lost her all over again and I think that's when the writers realised what they wanted to do with her. Of course the backlash then was that Sara Lance's character had been killed off and Laurel was 'replacing her' but it all led to the stand-out moment (and it was the last truely powerful scene in the show for me) of her digging up her sister's corpse, flying to Nanda Parbat and immersing it in the Lazarus Pit to bring her back. Wow. From then I think Laurel was my favourite character on the show (Especially with Ollie/Arrow ever more marginalised), she effectively took the lead of the team when Ollie and Felicity skipped town to be happy in suburbia.

For me writing the show I'd have kept Felicity with Ray, she didn't win Ollie back from the League anyway with luuuurve it was all part of his plan to join them. And with Ray off with the Legends have her be paralysed. Let the story run. People end up in wheelchairs in real life and don't have a magic-wand make them all better. When Ray gets back and finds out, deal with him being angry at Ollie for not protecting her, have him feel guilty himself for not being able to save another woman he loved. Give the characters real dramas to agonise over. Relatable. Not 'you didn't tell me about your son that you never knew about who's Mum was blackmailing you not to tell anyone about...'

You don't need the grave. They re-visited that grave scene so many times before we found out who was in it. Such a cheap writing trick, what's wrong with subtle forshadowing? Laurel's death would have had so much more impact if no-one knew a character was going to die! Don't have Laurel die. Have Felicity being paralysed as Ollie's big failure. Put Felicity in a glass case in the Batcave a-la the Robin Costume...an airtight one (jokes). But turn that into a big thing. It should have been a big thing! Is anyone going to even remember her in the wheelchair?

Have Ollie guilty for his failure because he took his eye off the ball and got his friends hurt. Have him become Batman in a green hood for all intents and purposes, driven, relentless about saving the city, beating up petty thieves. Give him a vicious edge, return him to being THE VIGILANTE. THEN the story could be how Laurel (the only girlfriend/ex-girlfriend of Ollie's on the show who we've never 'seen' him with since his return) brings him back from that. Always thought that Laurel/Ollie was the relationship the show was building to, after he sailed off with her sister, got stuck on an island for years then came back from the dead. And Amell/Cassidy always looked very natural with one another when they've shared screen-time IMO, I always really bought that these were two characters with a LOT of history who knew one-another the best. Can't see that Laurel would have left Ollie after finding out about his son and the circumstances around it because they've overcome worse (presumed dead, cheating with her sister, sister presumed dead, OMG you're actually The Arrow...).

Flash, by contrast, has been all about dealing with the BIG BAD this season. Girlfriend for Barry, how he and Iris feel towards one another is all good, but it's been an aside to 'How are we going to beat ZOOM. HE'S STILL OUT THERE" (Ok so maybe that phrase was a bit over-used this year). It's a shame that both shows, that share a writing room, haven't been able to deliver the same quality. 

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I don't really think you can say this movie robbed you of anything, considering its the first film in an announced, confirmed, definitely going to happen trilogy.  

 

Well that was underwhelming.

Well, it was going to struggle with living up to expectation. It was typical Doctor Who though with a few 'false reveals' and eventually using the Tesselector robot which we'd already seen to 'dodge' the Doctor's death. In that respect it was quite well-structured. I suspect it will hold up to repeated viewings better than the original run-through, sometime the anticipation of the ending will spoil the overall experience?

I think if it was a 2-parter it might have been more fun to explore the 'world where history is happening all-at-once'. Was a fun concept and interesting to see characters pop up in different roles.

Glad we got to see Amy and Rory in the finale too. Was a pleasent surprise with them being left off the teaser. And the ending hinted at some BIG happenings to come.

Gonna have to re-watch 'Silence in the Library' AGAIN now. Wonder if River really whispered The Doctor's name in his ear in that episode? Or 'Look in my eye?' Lol

They realised that they could never beat the away strip from the 1998 World Cup.

Shadow stripes and blue-collar? Was a nice one.

Well, that England away shirt kit launch with David Haye was strangely fitting - lots of talk, toothless performance and then defeat.

Was thinking that actually. Can we call the kit 'cursed' yet? Bad move to move away from the traditional (and wildly popular) red shirts anyway but for those of us who are superstitions it doesn't bode well that it's already 'unlucky'.

Though I suppose there is only so much Umbro could think of to do with a red shirt?

From what I've seen of Haye he doesn't seem that much of a dick, I mean you expect a boxer to be a bit cocky and arrogant. Hope he wins but I think Klitschko will win, probably on points.

I expect cocky and arrogant but if you want to do that and be likeable you have to have at least some character or class to your personality. Hayes a complete prick, and he's done a cracking job of making me buy a PPV to hopefully see him get an absolute pasting, which looking at his England shirt wearing pandering bollocks wasn't what he was aiming for.

Maybe it is what he wanted Colly?

For me it's classic pro-wrestling 101: They are in Gemany, where Klitschko is popular, so he's 'heeling it up'. They might even both be in on it to drive up buys for the PPV?

That said it annoys me seeing him do it. I prefer sportsmen representing our country to be a bit more respectful? I'd kinda like to see a British guy unifying the belts, would be good for British boxing, but wouldn't be too upset to see Klitschko "shut the heel's mouth" in proper pro-wrestling storytelling!

If it's not all one big hype-fest that they are all in-on then I think the taunting by Haye could backfire badly. All the pressure will be on him and he's given plenty of ammo to Klischko to motivate himself to take him apart in the ring!

Burnley's kit is CAMOUFLAGED!

Anyway, Tottenham's goalie kit isn't their best effort ever:

But then it never is.

The black/grey effort (officially the 'Away' goalie kit) doesn't look too bad though? Thought I might get that one, passed on all of last seasons!

Sunday papers (outside of the biggest of broadsheets) are all a waste of time anyway. They have all week to come up with a good story but just throw out made up junk instead.

I'm starting to side more and more with Gary Mabbutt - if Modric really DOES want to go (and not just trying to improve his wages) then let him go but get as much money as possible to invest into the squad.

If Modric is only on £40,000 though that's pretty low compared to a few other guys in the team. Tottenham's max is £60,000 right? If he's that important then he should probably be on that.

Shouldn't have signed that 6 year contract huh.....Should sack his agent.

No way to know for sure; but I was of the opinion that Modders was one of our 70k brigade? Wasn't that what the new, longer contract was for, to match him with the highest earners at the club?

Hughes has never been Chelsea manager in any form, you are indeed making it up.

Hoddle, Gullit and Vialli were though, yes.

Ah yeah, he was playing for them back then, looked it up and he didn't manage anyone until after his retirement though.

Phil McNulty's been plugging the "Villa will get Hughes eventually but they're being secretive for now" line for a while, but now says that "someone" has told him Hughes might yet be in line for, quote, "something" at Chelsea.

Hmm.

Wasn't he once Player-Manager at Chelsea or am I making that up? They had a succession of them at one point didn't they? Hoddle/Gullit/Vialli?

Well what a bllinding sucess he was then!

Didn't he cost the same as we paid for Van der Vaart?

Looks the same template as our Spurs one this season, which has grown on my as a c;assic design all season. Interesting to see what a simple pallet-swop does fo it!

Did a count recently and had 47 I think? So 49 as I've got a few since then, maybe 50?

I started with the 99/2000 Adidas Spurs home shirt. Have got one or two Spurs shirts from most seasons (funds permitting), with the exception of our yellow-streaked number from last season! Particularly proud of my #1 SULLIVAN GK shirt from 01/02 season, tends to be worn as a jumper whenever the weather takes a turn.

Have a complete set of 60/61 Double-winning shirts from the clubshop collection and Toffs (Home Cup Final/Away and GK)

Got a load of England shirts, bar the new Home one (though it is growing on me?)

And a friend of mine last year got me into collecting older shirts off of E-bay, so I've filled in my Spurs collection back to 1991, which was the year I started to follow them (and older stuff is prohibitivly expensive anyway?)

Also have sex with girls though...the two aren't mutually exclusive.

...and no I never get them to wear them during...you filthy lot!

West Ham losing has actually made the final day more exciting. Two not-officially-relegated teams in bottom 3 one point from safety > two on 36 and one on 39, and one on 39 and one on 37.

As for Liverpool - meh. For some reason I desperately want to qualify for Europe despite not caring at all about the Europa League. It's just the principle of it.

Final day looks good! Some friends and I have a predictions contest going, I was 9 points in the lead with 2 rounds to go, going to be extra exciting.

@ Pesci: That's the way it's supposed to be mate, teams fighting it out for Europe, regardless of the competition. I was gutted when Harry was going on about 'not wanting 5th', 'extra games' and 'playing on Sundays'. Actually had a bet on for us to lose today, rare for me to bet against Spurs. To be honest I can still see us losing next Sunday, Birmingham still have something to play for and it would be just our luck!

I think all of them got revived apart from the kid (who was sat up but still plugged into the machines)? Didn't do a headcount though!