Off Topic TV, Entertainment and Arts thread

I am wise enough to NEVER get caught making a long car journey with Elf unlike a younger member on here

 

He's older than me.

 

Indeed. Bear in mind that they left David for dead, but he made the greatest comeback since Lazarus, and the wily old greybeard used his guile to brush his young rivals aside and regain his former position....Be afraid, be very afraid.....

 

Who is?

 

@Clb74

 

Err...he isn't, is he ????

 

Don't be daft ?

 

Looks are deceiving.

 

based on his user name he was born in 1974 which makes him 44.... you .. young man... are 54!

 

He made a mistake, it should have been CLB64.

My birthday is the 9th March 1966.

 

Stop derailing this thread with your triviata.

 

It's what I do.

 

David the chimp is a shrewder politician than some of ours.

 

A contrast on TV tonight between the best and the worst of the BBC.

The best - the 2nd episode of David Attenborough Dynasties

Tonight it’s about cheetahs - the 4 legged kind, not @baraettmattesvensson avoiding his train fare.

Then the worst - Doctor Who

You would think it would be hard to cram anymore politically correct afflictions into the Doctor & her assistants - they tick every box. But in one episode recently we saw men having babies in the future

The programme is fvcked

 

Have to agree about Dr Who - and I have always tried to be open minded about it.

Just about the only thing they have done well this series is use the locations in South Africa to give a cinematic feel to some episodes.
But as far as characters and storylines are concerned, they have rarely been weaker.

Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford are the all-time low water-mark (which was a pity for Baker as he was a better actor than they allowed him to be) and the early Sylvester McCoy stories, which also featured the ginger squeaky one.
The current crop aren't quite that awful but they are poor. The poorest since the 2005 relaunch, and that includes naff companions Freema Agyeman and Catherine Tate.

This weekend's episode was set in a giant Amazon warehouse. The very pinnacle of employment dreams for most young school leavers today. And the moral of the story? Don't fight the future. Accept automation and be a happy little robot on the packing line. Don't get upset about the lack of real jobs in the world, because that will turn you into a terrorist. Basically CONFORM.

Discontent with authority of any kind is now viewed as subversive. This Chinese style post-Communist doctrine is becoming ever more pervasive.

• Be good
• be PC
• be quiet.

Watch, consume, pay, obey.

 

Attenburgh is about penguins. Attenburgh thinks that they will be threatened by climate change, clearly he hasn't been listening to Donald.

 

I gather next week's episode will be based at the Valley but with the same storyline

 

The episode about Rosa Parks and the bus went straight off the minute I cottoned on. Last night's was also particularly feeble. Every single character is riddled with a politically correct message, which is a great shame. It simply doesn't represent Britain.

The black street kid trying to go straight
The boring white guy who married the saintly black woman who then died
The teenage Asian police woman

And now..the Doctor in love with the latter...the first lesbian scene rumoured for later in this series ...

Im all in favour of live and let live, but the vast majority of Dr Who's audience are still kids.

 

Dr Who used to be good. Then Russell Davies changed the format, concentrating on expensive effects at the expense of carefully structured plots. When he left it got worse, so I stopped watching it. It sounds pretty desperate. Maybe people don't have the patience for the slow build-up of the storyline which this program used to have.

 

They Shall Not Grow Old