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anyone been watching it?

last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin amazing.

mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A LAND
ROVER!!"

(that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile tug, I think
it was...
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Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"You praise the firm restraint with which they write -_
I'm with you there, of course: They use the snaffle and the bit
alright, but where's the bloody horse? - Roy Campbell (1902-1957)
 

"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> anyone been watching it?
>
> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin amazing.
>
> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A LAND
> ROVER!!"
>
> (that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile tug, I
> think
> it was...
> --
> Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
> "You praise the firm restraint with which they write -_
> I'm with you there, of course: They use the snaffle and the bit
> alright, but where's the bloody horse? - Roy Campbell (1902-1957)

Yep my thoughts exactament ...Er am I bovvered? rofl
I had just commented to Vicky its not a jeep that's the motor we want for
a project rag top late series yummy- strange after motoring all those miles
nobody had a stiff back or was that why she had a tear in her eye .Wonder
what they did with it afterwards?
Derek


 
Austin Shackles wrote:
> anyone been watching it?
>
> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin
> amazing.
>
> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A
> LAND ROVER!!"
>
> (that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile tug,
> I think it was...

Aint seen tonights yet, but it is very good!! You're similar in age to me so you must remember the old
stuff??

I used to love John Pertwee & Tom Baker.

I have loads still to watch this season, but i find it very watchable for us 'old kids' !!!

Nige


 
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:05:44 +0100, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> anyone been watching it?

yep

> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin amazing.
>
> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A LAND
> ROVER!!"

damn right - picked that up in a jiff - even #1 son noticed :)

--
William Tasso

Land Rover - 110 V8
Discovery - V8
 

"Nige" wrote ...
> Austin Shackles wrote:
>> anyone been watching it?
>>
>> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin
>> amazing.
>>
>> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A
>> LAND ROVER!!"
>>
>> (that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile tug,
>> I think it was...
>
> Aint seen tonights yet, but it is very good!! You're similar in age to me
> so you must remember the old stuff??
>
> I used to love John Pertwee & Tom Baker.
>
> I have loads still to watch this season, but i find it very watchable for
> us 'old kids' !!!
>

No, Patrick Troughton was the best. He played it a bit dark and mysterious.

--
Regards
Bob
"Never get so busy making a living
that you forget to make a life" Anon.







 
Bob Hobden wrote:
> "Nige" wrote ...
>> Austin Shackles wrote:
>>> anyone been watching it?
>>>
>>> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin
>>> amazing.
>>>
>>> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S
>>> A LAND ROVER!!"
>>>
>>> (that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile
>>> tug, I think it was...
>>
>> Aint seen tonights yet, but it is very good!! You're similar in
>> age to me so you must remember the old stuff??
>>
>> I used to love John Pertwee & Tom Baker.
>>
>> I have loads still to watch this season, but i find it very
>> watchable for us 'old kids' !!!
>>
>
> No, Patrick Troughton was the best. He played it a bit dark and
> mysterious.

I may well have been alive (maybe?) but i cannot remember it! He was the second one i seem to remember?

Nige


 

"Nige" wrote
> Bob Hobden wrote:
>> "Nige" wrote ...
>>> Austin Shackles wrote:
>>>> anyone been watching it?
>>>>
>>>> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin
>>>> amazing.
>>>>
>>>> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S
>>>> A LAND ROVER!!"
>>>>
>>>> (that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile
>>>> tug, I think it was...
>>>
>>> Aint seen tonights yet, but it is very good!! You're similar in
>>> age to me so you must remember the old stuff??
>>>
>>> I used to love John Pertwee & Tom Baker.
>>>
>>> I have loads still to watch this season, but i find it very
>>> watchable for us 'old kids' !!!
>>>
>>
>> No, Patrick Troughton was the best. He played it a bit dark and
>> mysterious.
>
> I may well have been alive (maybe?) but i cannot remember it! He was the
> second one i seem to remember?
>

He also played the Vicar that had the church spire spike fall right through
him and pin him to the ground in "The Omen" if that helps. He actually died
whilst attending a Dr Who conference in the States many years ago.

I must admit to not seeing any of the new ones, not wishing to spoil my
memories of the originals as most remakes are tarted up and dumbed down,
perhaps I'll get them on DVD seeing as you all reckon they are good.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden


 
Bob Hobden wrote:

|||| No, Patrick Troughton was the best. He played it a bit dark and
|||| mysterious.
|||
|| I must admit to not seeing any of the new ones, not wishing to spoil
|| my memories of the originals as most remakes are tarted up and
|| dumbed down, perhaps I'll get them on DVD seeing as you all reckon
|| they are good.

I was a big fan of the original series, and Patrick Troughton was my
favourite too. I started watching the new series but although the special
effects were pretty good the whole thing just didn't cut it for me and I
stopped watching after 2 or 3 episodes. I reckon it was better left in the
60s, with an old Doctor, a young and pretty airhead assistant and crap FX -
at least it was new and original then. The modern version seemed to be
trying too hard to be trendy for my tastes.

So I missed the Land Rover reference, whatever it was.

--
Rich
==============================

I don't approve of signatures, so I don't have one.


 
Bob Hobden wrote:
> "Nige" wrote
>> Bob Hobden wrote:
>>> "Nige" wrote ...
>>>> Austin Shackles wrote:
>>>>> anyone been watching it?
>>>>>
>>>>> last-of-series earlier tonight, just watched it on tape. 'kin
>>>>> amazing.
>>>>>
>>>>> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say
>>>>> "IT'S A LAND ROVER!!"
>>>>>
>>>>> (that's not a spoiler, if you've not seen it.) Rapier missile
>>>>> tug, I think it was...
>>>>
>>>> Aint seen tonights yet, but it is very good!! You're similar in
>>>> age to me so you must remember the old stuff??
>>>>
>>>> I used to love John Pertwee & Tom Baker.
>>>>
>>>> I have loads still to watch this season, but i find it very
>>>> watchable for us 'old kids' !!!
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, Patrick Troughton was the best. He played it a bit dark and
>>> mysterious.
>>
>> I may well have been alive (maybe?) but i cannot remember it! He
>> was the second one i seem to remember?
>>
>
> He also played the Vicar that had the church spire spike fall right
> through him and pin him to the ground in "The Omen" if that helps.
> He actually died whilst attending a Dr Who conference in the States
> many years ago.
> I must admit to not seeing any of the new ones, not wishing to
> spoil my memories of the originals as most remakes are tarted up
> and dumbed down, perhaps I'll get them on DVD seeing as you all
> reckon they are good.

They are very good indeed, i like the first series more than this last one.


 
Richard Brookman wrote:
> Bob Hobden wrote:
>
>>>>> No, Patrick Troughton was the best. He played it a bit dark and
>>>>> mysterious.
>>>>
>>> I must admit to not seeing any of the new ones, not wishing to
>>> spoil my memories of the originals as most remakes are tarted up
>>> and dumbed down, perhaps I'll get them on DVD seeing as you all
>>> reckon they are good.
>
> I was a big fan of the original series, and Patrick Troughton was my
> favourite too. I started watching the new series but although the
> special effects were pretty good the whole thing just didn't cut it
> for me and I stopped watching after 2 or 3 episodes. I reckon it
> was better left in the 60s, with an old Doctor, a young and pretty
> airhead assistant and crap FX - at least it was new and original
> then. The modern version seemed to be trying too hard to be trendy
> for my tastes.
> So I missed the Land Rover reference, whatever it was.

baah humbug ;)

Nige


 

Austin Shackles wrote:

> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A LAND
> ROVER!!"

OK, so, for the benefit of those of us who don't get UK Tv, what
happened? Did someone call a Landrover a *shudder* Jeep?

My Ancient Mother advises me that I hid behind the sofa when I saw the
Daleks on London Bridge. I refute this completely.

 
Peter A wrote:
> Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>> mind you, I think we should all email the producers and say "IT'S A LAND
>> ROVER!!"
>
> OK, so, for the benefit of those of us who don't get UK Tv, what
> happened? Did someone call a Landrover a *shudder* Jeep?
>
> My Ancient Mother advises me that I hid behind the sofa when I saw the
> Daleks on London Bridge. I refute this completely.
>

You're not alone, my sister & I watched from behind the sofa. And we
agreed Troughton sucked, Jon Pertwee was the cutest by far. And had the
best vehicle :)

Karen

--
"Sometimes I think I have a Guardian Idiot - a little invisible spirit
just behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile" -
Jake Stonebender
 
Peter A wrote:
> OK, so, for the benefit of those of us who don't get UK Tv, what
> happened? Did someone call a Landrover a *shudder* Jeep?

Rose says the line "... we got in to Dad's old jeep ..." as she is
climbing in to a series soft top. As soon as I heard it I thought "ooh
that'll cause a stir on a.f.l".

Dave.
 
Dave Gibbs wrote:
> Peter A wrote:
>
>> OK, so, for the benefit of those of us who don't get UK Tv, what
>> happened? Did someone call a Landrover a *shudder* Jeep?
>
>
> Rose says the line "... we got in to Dad's old jeep ..." as she is
> climbing in to a series soft top. As soon as I heard it I thought "ooh
> that'll cause a stir on a.f.l".
>
> Dave.

<flamesuit=on>

Mind you, Series and Jeeps, they do look the same. And Billie *IS* from
Swindon.

<flamesuit=off>

Dave.
 

Karen Gallagher wrote:
>
> You're not alone, my sister & I watched from behind the sofa.

Ah, you had back-up then...

Funny, haven't thought about this for aeons... but I grew up in Ireland
and back then, I was born in '57, we had those (Tardis) boxes dotted
around the countryside... only they were AA boxes, not police. Every AA
member had a key, and inside was an old black bakelite 'phone that you
could call the AA on.. who, incidentally, tooled around in bike/sidecar
combos and saluted your car if you had the AA badge on the front.

The boxes were kept immaculate so tended to look out of place anyway,
but I tell you, post Dr W's arrival on the tv , I viewed them with
*grave* suspicion for a looong time... I would have gone catatonic if
my father had ever had reason to open one, I reckon.

I knew that one of them wasn't an AA anything... and if he opened
*that* one by mistake, who knew what might happen? But which one was
it? (Freshly painted ones were thought very dodgy).

 
Karen Gallagher wrote:

||| My Ancient Mother advises me that I hid behind the sofa when I saw
||| the Daleks on London Bridge. I refute this completely.
|||
||
|| You're not alone, my sister & I watched from behind the sofa.

There were a lot of us behind that sofa, then!

Makes you think, though. I found the Daleks genuinely frightening and had
dreams about them. I can't see any of today's youngsters finding them
anything but laughable. I also found The Exorcist (book and film) and
Deliverance genuinely disturbing at around 20 years old. I imagine both of
them are screened at 8-year-olds' birthday parties now, before the hard
stuff. Younger people I have talked with seem to find them very tame and
even funny. Good or bad thing? Dunno.

--
Rich
==============================

I don't approve of signatures, so I don't have one.


 

Richard Brookman wrote:
I can't see any of today's youngsters finding them
> anything but laughable. Younger people I have talked with seem to find them very tame and
> even funny. Good or bad thing? Dunno.

They're desensitised, don't you think? They're bombarded with visual
imagery from day one, almost. One kid trying to out-scary the next.
Back when the first series ran though, the tv was the only day to day
source of imagery, and it was mostly talking heads or the flower pot
men or for lucky Irish viewers, Val Doonican sweating under the studio
lights in an Aran sweater and bobble cap. So the very idea of something
scary on the tv was kinda scary in itself.

Wouldn't mind betting though, that for today's kids, that unexplained
shadow in the night-time bedroom gloom is still *more* scary than
anything the screen can throw at them, as they stop being passive
observers and start to use their imagination. Hitchkock had it right -
he would *never* have allowed the special effects people to come up
with the blobby thing that lived inside the Daleks... they were *far*
more scary when you *didn't* know what was inside.

Pity the youngsters in a hundred years time when some holographic type
3D image generator conjours up their worst nightmare and has it crouch
on the end of the bed!

I agree with you ref the Excorcist and Deliverance - they had that
power I suspect, because they were going off in directions that hadn't
been explored in mainstream cinema up to then. Green projectile
vomiting not being a big feature in Mary Poppins or Chitty Chitty Bang
etc., as I recall.

 
Peter A wrote:
> Richard Brookman wrote:
> I can't see any of today's youngsters finding them
>
>>anything but laughable. Younger people I have talked with seem to find them very tame and
>>even funny. Good or bad thing? Dunno.
>
>
> They're desensitised, don't you think? They're bombarded with visual
> imagery from day one, almost. One kid trying to out-scary the next.
> Back when the first series ran though, the tv was the only day to day
> source of imagery, and it was mostly talking heads or the flower pot
> men or for lucky Irish viewers, Val Doonican sweating under the studio
> lights in an Aran sweater and bobble cap. So the very idea of something
> scary on the tv was kinda scary in itself.
>
> Wouldn't mind betting though, that for today's kids, that unexplained
> shadow in the night-time bedroom gloom is still *more* scary than
> anything the screen can throw at them, as they stop being passive
> observers and start to use their imagination. Hitchkock had it right -
> he would *never* have allowed the special effects people to come up
> with the blobby thing that lived inside the Daleks... they were *far*
> more scary when you *didn't* know what was inside.
>
> Pity the youngsters in a hundred years time when some holographic type
> 3D image generator conjours up their worst nightmare and has it crouch
> on the end of the bed!
>
> I agree with you ref the Excorcist and Deliverance - they had that
> power I suspect, because they were going off in directions that hadn't
> been explored in mainstream cinema up to then. Green projectile
> vomiting not being a big feature in Mary Poppins or Chitty Chitty Bang
> etc., as I recall.
>
One of the scariest movies I ever saw was the original Alien. Why?
Because you had *no* idea what it was that was taking the people, except
that it started life as a small joystick handle that burst out of
people*. Tense, psychological stuff

Stuart

*interesting trivia: that particular scene (alien bursts out of John
Hurt) was not scripted. Ridley Scott told actors + film crew that they
were filming some filler, to go behind the titles or something. The
only people who knew what was really going to happen were Scott, Hurt
and the SFX person. The screams that the actresses came out with were real.
 
Srtgray wrote:
> Peter A wrote:
>> Richard Brookman wrote:
>> I can't see any of today's youngsters finding them
>>
>>> anything but laughable. Younger people I have talked with seem
>>> to find them very tame and even funny. Good or bad thing? Dunno.
>>
>>
>> They're desensitised, don't you think? They're bombarded with
>> visual imagery from day one, almost. One kid trying to out-scary
>> the next. Back when the first series ran though, the tv was the
>> only day to day source of imagery, and it was mostly talking heads
>> or the flower pot men or for lucky Irish viewers, Val Doonican
>> sweating under the studio lights in an Aran sweater and bobble
>> cap. So the very idea of something scary on the tv was kinda scary
>> in itself. Wouldn't mind betting though, that for today's kids, that
>> unexplained shadow in the night-time bedroom gloom is still *more*
>> scary than anything the screen can throw at them, as they stop
>> being passive observers and start to use their imagination.
>> Hitchkock had it right - he would *never* have allowed the special
>> effects people to come up with the blobby thing that lived inside
>> the Daleks... they were *far* more scary when you *didn't* know
>> what was inside. Pity the youngsters in a hundred years time when some holographic
>> type 3D image generator conjours up their worst nightmare and has
>> it crouch on the end of the bed!
>>
>> I agree with you ref the Excorcist and Deliverance - they had that
>> power I suspect, because they were going off in directions that
>> hadn't been explored in mainstream cinema up to then. Green
>> projectile vomiting not being a big feature in Mary Poppins or
>> Chitty Chitty Bang etc., as I recall.
>>
> One of the scariest movies I ever saw was the original Alien. Why?
> Because you had *no* idea what it was that was taking the people,
> except that it started life as a small joystick handle that burst
> out of people*. Tense, psychological stuff
>
> Stuart
>
> *interesting trivia: that particular scene (alien bursts out of John
> Hurt) was not scripted. Ridley Scott told actors + film crew that
> they were filming some filler, to go behind the titles or
> something. The only people who knew what was really going to happen were Scott,
> Hurt and the SFX person. The screams that the actresses came out with
> were real.

Indeed, a true classic, one i watch again & again.

Duel is another classic.

Nige


 
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