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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #255, on November 19th, 2011, 05:34 PM »
I had to explain what was going on during The Wedding of River Song to them, fortunately I rewatched it on iPlayer later and then was not disturbed...
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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #256, on November 19th, 2011, 06:18 PM »
I'm not surprised that a 'regular' family, not especially into Who, would be lost with the new seasons... Moffat sort of upped the game when he jumped in. And probably lost a lot of casual viewers in the process. At least for the arc-based episodes. I'm pretty sure River Song is still a mystery to most British citizens...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #257, on November 19th, 2011, 06:22 PM »
They don't watch DW normally at all, so the season finale episode would have been a mystery to them regardless of which season it was from...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #258, on November 22nd, 2011, 10:29 AM »
I don't know but I actually liked it.  :)

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #259, on November 22nd, 2011, 02:46 PM »
I actually didn't like most of that episode, it just annoyed me for some reason but when you get to the end stage and the whole notion of the Time Lord Victorious, it's clear his days are numbered... you do not mess with a fixed event in time and space and  watch it end well, because time will always right itself in the end.

(In case it wasn't entirely clear, it wasn't for me on first watching, she realises that she was not supposed to have been saved, that it is her death that is fixed in time and space and that it is her death that must happen so her grandchildren go out into space. Even though the fiddly details are different, she realises that she has the power to make time continue in much the same direction as it had before.)

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #261, on November 22nd, 2011, 07:24 PM »
In other news, season 6 has arrived on DVD so I'm going to begin rewatching, probably with a run through of season 5 first.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #262, on November 22nd, 2011, 08:00 PM »
50 grand? Hmm I'll go check my wallet.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #263, on November 22nd, 2011, 08:03 PM »
It is for charity after all...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #264, on November 22nd, 2011, 10:15 PM »
Yeah, s'pose I coul' go up to 60. Tell ya what, I'll with the missus.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #265, on November 22nd, 2011, 10:16 PM »
BUT WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN? IT'S FOR CHILDREN!

Still, I have my boxed set, TV is currently set to watching some tripe, so I'm going to have to defer watching for a bit. Can't decide whether to just re-run series 5 (with Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead before it) or do a complete run through since the reboot.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #266, on November 22nd, 2011, 10:50 PM »
I dunno. I'm currently addicted to QI. Badly.

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #267, on November 22nd, 2011, 10:52 PM »
Quote from Nao on November 22nd, 2011, 10:50 PM
I dunno. I'm currently addicted to QI. Badly.
It's OK, I found myself a new shiny toy to confuse me during daylight hours (i.e. when I can take over the TV)... The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

I promised myself I'd implement the things I want to do with post moderation today but instead I found myself called to Skyloft, rescuing something, beating the snot out of some other stuff, generally training to be an awesome knight, that sort of thing...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #268, on November 23rd, 2011, 06:47 AM »
So you'd rather look skyward than wedgeward! :lol:
Me, I stopped Skyrim for now. I'm sick of the random dragon spawns in town when I fast travel or whatever. They kill frigging npcs and then I have to resurrect them with the console and sometimes it fails. And the quests aren't as varied and funny as in Oblivion. What happened to me?!
Posted: November 23rd, 2011, 06:44 AM

Btw instead of Skyrim I worked on, ahem... The Indenazi feature. And it works. And it's really called that ;)
Why don't you play Zelda on your pc? The Dolphin emulator is very advanced. Heck, I played my last Wii game on it because it's faster and in HD. While my Wii gives mr a blurry picture on my Telly...

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Re: Doctor Who
« Reply #269, on November 23rd, 2011, 11:04 AM »
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Why don't you play Zelda on your pc?
Do any of the emulators *properly* handle MotionPlus? You actually need to use that in Skyward Sword, because the Wiimote (with MotionPlus) is used to control the sword and it does actually reflect in the controls. Meanwhile, the nunchuk is used (motion-wise) to control shield and do forward rolls by tilting it forward.

Hmm, I just looked up Dolphin, seems like it would support the things Skyward Sword needs, but it will require my buying at least two pieces of hardware to make it work (and even then, that will likely have side effects on my system, I really need to upgrade my PSU sometime)
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