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Saw Bee Movie and thought it was an absolute corker. Tremendously silly, plenty of hearty laughs and pleasingly short in this age of three-hour epics.

Kickstart is apparently also doing an animated version of Ennis's The Pro, according to their website.

Are you talking to me? I don't recall that scene. If it was in the second series then I probably haven't seen that episode.

She was so happy, so relieved, that she wept like a child. For the which my hate of Lance has doubled. What filth, that he would make his mother eat out her heart thinking she would never see her grandchild. All these months, all he had to have done was ring her up and say "When the time comes will you come see the child, mother".

Maybe he was just as anxious about it as she was? It's not an easy thing to go to the parents that you fell out with five years ago and try to make amends. Maybe you should be happy that he made the right decision, even if it took him so long to do it.

The makeup must have been a bastard for continuity.

With a beard!

Shweeet!

 

For the lazy...

 

 

Me? I LOVE IT!

I may well be buying a copy of Empire for the first time in years!

Kind of ruined that website though, no?

SPOILER from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...entertainment/7114699.stm

Billie Piper to return to Dr Who

 

Actress Billie Piper is to return to Doctor Who, the BBC has confirmed.

 

She will star in three episodes of the sci-fi drama, reprising her role as the Doctor's companion, Rose Tyler.

 

Rose's return will mean the Doctor has three assistants in next year's series - Donna, played by Catherine Tate, and Freema Agyeman as Martha.

 

The new series begins in March and will run for 13 episodes. There will be three special editions in 2009 before the show takes a break until 2010.

 

Her character had proven a hit and the star won a number of awards for her performances. She was named most popular actress at the National Television Awards in 2005 and 2006.

 

A separate show based on Rose had been planned by writer and series producer Russell T Davies, but was scrapped when Davies decided the programme was "a spin-off too far".

 

Filming is currently under way in Cardiff for the new series of Doctor Who, which sees the Doctor meeting an old group of enemies - the Sontarans - 35 years after first encountering them.

 

Before that, the programme will return to television screens at Christmas with a special episode set on the Titanic, which will co-star singer and actress Kylie Minogue.

They flip over two cards a day or something? The joker seems to be sitting inside a holding cell.

I think they do one a day. Three were face-up yesterday and four were face-up today.

Don't you just watch DVDs through your PC, Matt?

I thought Moore did a pretty good job there.

What's with all the Robin covers, by the way? Did they go through a phase of reinventing Robin all the time?

And are Marvel really so much more litigious than DC that they couldn't use the real Thing or Hulk? Or is it that those jokes wouldn't count as a parody of the original works?

I imagine Lost and Heroes will keep going after the strike.

Does anyone have a screengrab of the Lost Girls poster?

Well you might want to pick up "Empathy is the Enemy", which is the first part of the story that concludes with "The Red Right Hand". However, many people on this site weren't very enamoured with that story so they may disagree.

I'd say move on to Mike Carey next. His books are, in order:

"Red Sepulchre"

"Black Flowers"

"Staring at the Wall"

"Stations of the Cross"

"Reasons to be Cheerful"

"The Gift"

(Denise Mina's "Empathy is the Enemy" and "The Red Right Hand" run straight off the back of Carey's run)

After that, try Garth Ennis:

"Dangerous Habits"

"Bloodlines" (released this December, which is why I thought it might be better to read Carey first)

"Fear and Loathing"

"Tainted Love"

"Damnation's Flame"

"Rake at the Gates of Hell"

Ennis and Carey also did two other books that can be read at any point. Carey's is "All His Engines" and Ennis's is "Son of Man". However, you might want to read Son of Man after the rest of Ennis's books anyway, because it features some of his old characters.

now i will climb back in to be and finish reading On the Road to Perdition which I've had for about a year.

I haven't started it, and I've had it for two years. Beat that!

I have nothing, absolutely nothing against the CONCEPT of a Transformes movie (Robots banging each other to bits), but quite a lot against the actual execution of the idea (Boring drivel with way too little actual robot action)

Yup. It went on too long, focused far too much on peripheral human characters and was generally pretty boring. And the robot designs were awful.

I hope they make a fanedit that totally cuts out about half the cast.

I don't think will see it in 08 as was said due to the WTG writers strike and by the looks the actors guild will probably go strike to so look for things in pre development to get squashed

Which is one reason why it may never make it out of development at all.

I love those pics, especially anime Romana II, who is adorable (much like the real thing). I also love the way the PhBB software makes each post in its little box, so that a post that stretches the screen doesn't affect the rest of the page.

I can't see why they can't have Dr Who be about any one of them, or all of them, at any time.

 

He is a fucking. TIME. TRAVELING. TROUBLESHOOTER.

Well, if you've got the old stars of the show coming back all the time it does kind of reduce the importance and primacy of the current Doctor. Doctor Who, starring David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston and Paul McGann? His agent would hate that.

And, of course, it's a lot more fun to have it as a big special event - or a little special event in this case - rather than a mundane element of the series.

How hard would it be to justify any of them turning up together, to shoot some trouble together?.

For that matter, how hard would it be, for fifty or one hundred of "Him" to turn up at some particularly troublesome point?.

When you start introducing that as a plan then you have to start asking why he doesn't do it all the time. Besides, as a guy who fights with his brains and wits rather than his fists (most of the time, anyway), there's no big advantage in having three versions of The Tenth Doctor hanging around with each other.

Oh, and the Blinovich Limitation Effect combined with the Reapers would make it a bit tricky.

And why does The Dr ever have to hurry?. He got a time machine, writers, what about using it sometimes?

Dramatic neccessity. If he could just jump in the time machine to avoid danger all the time, the series would be very dull indeed. And if he used it to undo the events of the story then it would be tiresomely predictable.

Besides, The Doctor usually gets seperated from the TARDIS early on in each episode, so story-wise it's not a big problem either.

Even the obligatory sexual preference nod was funny.

Yeah, although Davison slightly fluffed the line. It should have been, "does he still have that rubbish beard?" not "does he still have that rubbish beard?"

The third season was easily the best one so far. It was the first one that I'd give to someone without couching it in "well, there are some duffers" or "just try to stick with it..."

Anyway, the CiN special: seeing David Tennant (and, presumably Steven Moffat by proxy) enthusing about "his" Doctor was heartwarming, and Davison was splendid. Love the way Moffat's able to iron out little wrinkles in continuity (Tennat's Doctor not always needing glasses, Hartnell's Doctor being a grumpy old man despite technically being the youngest of them, explaining how the Titanic breached the shields etc) with just a few funny lines.

Here's hoping his duties on the Tintin movies won't preclude him from writing any more episodes. And good grief, I really would like to see a two-parter with a proper Davison/Tennant adventure.

I think the Knepper thing is down to people saying "wouldn't it be great if..." and then that somehow transforming into "he's up for the role". See every second Sun story about Doctor Who in the past three years.

I don't usually go mental over derailment unless people start arguing nastily with each other, or it turns into people being HELLA WACKY!!! LOLZ. If it turns into another discussion then I don't really mind at all.

We don't know. I'd guess that the Absolute edition will be oversized (like all the others have been), and might feature some form of 'bonus material', most likely Moore's script and some miscellaneous concept design sketches and preliminary work from O'Neill.

...and the vinyl record that was going to be in the original edition, apparently.

It's all my fault. How could I get angry?

I'm just jealous because nobody wants to be English-American. :(