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I dunno, I'd have to pour several hundred pounds in to get that far. Some hope. This is why I usually stay away from MMORPGs, they take your money mercilessly!

It's vastly overrated or overdone.

Oh no, apparently they're giving away the TMP uniforms today, but I'd bought them with real money yesterday! ARGH! I want my money back!

Meanwhile, I've started getting into Star Trek Online - it's only my first day there and I've already bought the Original Series pack which includes the uniforms and classic Constitution-class ship! Admittedly I do stick out a bit, but it's a lot of fun. I've also considered getting the TMP uniforms and ships, but I dunno, I've already spent more than my usual limit...

Many congratulations are in order!

It is a shame that some people may not have seen how it was.

They may still... at least with the Blu-rays, they have that choice. (Unlike some I could mention!) That said, I always like to switch the angles and see what's been changed!

Oh!? I honestly thought we had twice as many members.

So I've finally gotten the whole TOS on Blu-ray (the Full Journey box set), and I can start watching them all through. I'm particularly grateful that they still give the option to watch either the original or enhanced effects too; believe me, you haven't experienced the originals unless you've seen it with the classic VFX.

How many times has this happened now?

I've had my eye on this one since watching the Ashens review of it. Perhaps I'll get one with my Christmas money.

Yeah, I did kind of find that unusual...

Hey everypony! Right now there's a Humble Pony Bundle available, offering $165 worth of digital My Little Pony comics for as low as $15 (though of course, it's pay-what-you-want and a portion of your choosing goes to charity, so some people have paid $50 to $100). This is easily the best deal I've seen on digital My Little Pony comics to date so I definitely recommend it!

 

Included so far are:

 

Issues 1–23 of the main series

All ten issues of the My Little Pony Micro-Series

The first ten issues of My Little Pony: Friends Forever

The first two My Little Pony Animated volumes (comic book adaptations of the TV series, with two episodes' worth of story per volume).

 

This will continue to be available for a little less than two weeks, and more comics will be added to the bundle next Wednesday — but as long as you pay more than the average, those new comics will automatically be made available to you as soon as they're added! So there's no need to put it off until then.

What! Aaah, I missed it!

They should just rent them out every so often.

I'm tempted, but... that kind of price...

Did I mention that I REALLY, REALLY HATE MUPPAT????

 

 

Watched the finale, not sure how to feel about it... Lot's of stuff has just happened that seems to make very little sense to me.

 

Danny is dead? Just as we started to get some decent character development from him (and he and Clara as a couple) they run him over with a car. But then they spend that whole episode suggesting he's still osrt of alive, and then in the finale he's basically brought back but is considered to be 'already dead'. Then at the very end he has yet another chance to come back but sends the kid instead. Where eactly did he send the kid back from anyway? The Nethersphere was shutdown so they can't have gone back there, and that kid probably wasn't a cyberman as he wouldn't fit the hardware so how could he and Danny have ended up in the same place? Essentially when the nethersphere shutdown, all the 'images' within it were either downloaded into Cybermen or purged from the system. So that kid should have already been deleted. Otherwise, I'm onboard with Danny's moral reasoning for that choice but it still leaves him dead which is a lame end for his character... Also, has everyone on the writing team forgotten that Clara has already met her great grandson or whatever he was? He said very clearly that his grandfather used to talk all the time about travelling through time and he stated time travel 'runs in the family' But if Danny is dead and Clara is leaving the Tardis then WHO is he talking about? Plus the fact that the only way Clara and Danny will ever produce a bloodline now is if she is somehow already pregnant. Conceivable but completely glazed over by the writers. So many loose ends like always!

 

Another p[roblem, already mentioned, is HOW do you make cybermen from skeletons and a digital 'image' of the former individual? Where do you upload that profile if there is no brain (which seems likely to be the case as all those in Dark Water have no organs remaining) The manufacturing process would be impossible too as what do you connect the armour to? It's kind of the difference between Darth Vader and a Storm Trooper. The troopers body holds their armour wheras Vader's armour essentially holds him! The one size fits all Cyberman approach simply wouldn't work on these deteriorated corpses, especially those already buried!

 

Speaking of which... We've seen cyberman production lines in several previous stories so we know what's generally involved. In what universe is it possible for rain carrying the digital information of the recently deceased to locate it's previous body and then IMMEDIATELY carry out a full conversion without introducing any new tools or materials? Conservation of matter anyone? Water does not a Cyberman make... Besides, if this method was possible, how likely is it that the Master would figure it out before the Cybermen themselves???

 

Also about that rain... In the beginning of the episode, ONE cyberman from each city/area exploded in the sky to create this weird cloud of something or other... Anyone pick up what the cloud was? Was it natural rain clouds created by the eplosion or are we meant to believe that it was ALL debris from that one tiny cyberman explosion? Let's not forget the clouds continued to grow until they basically covered the whole world. The explosion must have created rain clouds and used them to distribute their cyber-pollen I assume but that's still just as ridiculous as any other theory. And again, how does cyber-pollen make cybermen? How did the water carrying it flow upwards??? Is the cyber-pollen some sort of nanobot which was using the water as a means of transport? Even then, how does it travel upwards INSIDE the water?!

 

And now the Master is dead too? I mean, you know, really dead... S/He was disintegrated by a cyber-blaster. Aint no regenerating from that. We saw the doctor regrow a hand once while still regenerating but that's quite different. Unless we're now to believe that timelords are Cell-like (Dragonball Z) lifeforms that can fully regenerate from even a single cell then that's the end of the Master for, you know, ever... A possible get-out would be to say S/He was teleported away but remember who was in the Cyber-suit that shot her? Pretty sure he'd be shooting to kill after the attempted murder of his daughter.

 

Pretty sure there is even more wrong with the episode than this but I'd have to watch it again to pick up more. It wasn't a bad finale if you're able to switch your brain down a few gears while watching but like most of Capaldi's other episodes it's been so far from believable I found it hard to truly enjoy. Seriously, Kill the moon? The egg hatched a creature less than half it's size which immediately laid another egg the same size as the old moon. Complete with pre-formed craters too... What kind of creature pupates for a hundred thousand years then hatches and reproduces in the space of a decade? Terrible.

 

Also those rain clouds again... How come blowing up one cyberman CREATED those huge clouds that covered the entire world. Yet blowing up THOUSANDS of them all over the world simultaneously caused the clouds to dissipate? It should've caused some catastrophic Nuclear, cyber-winter, not some pansy deus ex-machina get out of jail free nonsense...

 

 

Exactly! Exactly my thoughts! This was one of the worst series of Who history, and believe me, there have been some doozies!

So what, is Nindroids a Super Smash Bros. knock-off?

I usually eat cheddar. But sometimes I treat myself with a bit of swiss cheese. You know... that one... with the holes.

Now, I'd actually be eligible! ...if I had a collection that was actually intact.

Yeah... well... at least they didn't mess things up constantly!

Believe me, the only reason those episodes were good is because Helen Raynor edited them to be more sensible! Alright then. I'll have to refer you to these facts - and hear me out!:

• His writing is riddled with plot holes. His plots are so complicated that not only does he contradict the show’s past, he contradicts himself within his own single episode. In "Asylum of the Daleks" the Daleks say they cannot destroy their insane counterparts yet the entire plot is the Doctor giving them access to blow up the asylum, and all the mad Daleks in it. This is not done as some form of deception on the Daleks’ part; it is quite obviously a writer who has forgotten what they wrote a couple of pages beforehand.
• Amongst the shows many changes over the last 50 years, it has always managed to keep the same integrity and feel. Under Moffat’s control, the show has taken a completely new turn. It's now about making bad one-liners that wouldn't even be worthy of printing on a shirt!
• The Doctor's enemies have now become nothing more than a joke. The Sontarans were once written as great adversaries that took glory over war. Nowadays we have Strax, whose main purpose is to make bad slapstick jokes.
• Speaking of contradictions: in "Victory of the Daleks" one faction considered the purest of the most recent Daleks to be impure and destroyed them, yet in "Asylum of the Daleks" they seem to be best friends. Also, in "Time of the Doctor" the Daleks know both of the Doctor and even how his regenerations work, even AFTER they were made to forget in "Asylum". It’s too much! All of this thrown together complicated tat and yet the man who wanted to "make the Daleks scary again" hasn’t had them kill a main character in 3 years!
• Back in 2005, the Doctor was not the flawless hero Moffat now wants us to believe. He killed his people to save the entire universe from them and the Daleks. However in the 50th anniversary special "Day of the Doctor" (which only seemed to celebrate the last 8 years of the 50 year old show!) the two Doctors, and another that Moffat made up because he was too lazy to write out Christopher Eccleston’s planned involvement, bring back Gallifrey (his home). Or rather: they rewrote time so that it never happened! Quite apart from the fact that it ruins the entirety of the previous mentions to the Doctor’s loss and suffering for us as viewers, story-wise, rewriting time is nonsense! Moffat’s excuse is that time will fix itself, but this is coming from the man who believes he should be writing nonsensical tales. Surely all drama should have an element of tragedy and worry as well as the lighter sides. What is so dramatic about a world where you can fix time again by going back and it’ll sort itself out? There are NO consequences! Unbelievable! Consequences exist in relation to huge decisions as well as day to day events. People can identify with a reality where loss and seriousness come to play in situations of peril and/or heart break.
• Come to that, Moffat will create an artificial consequence when a cast member is leaving and he needs to create a last minute situation to attempt to pull at heart strings. In "Angels Take Manhattan" he makes it so the Doctor can never visit his companions due to complicated space-time events. He leaves a gaping hole in his logic - or lack thereof! - as there are endless simple ways around the situation. He is head writer of a time travel show yet has admitted he is clueless about theories on how it works in interviews. He hasn’t even picked it up from previous eras!
• It’s bad enough that he can’t write decent situations for his characters however it’s worse looking at the characters in question. They are all incredibly two-dimensional and in the case of the current companion, she has been nothing but a plot point... if you can even call her that. Steven Moffat seems to write his characters as the sort to be laughing in the face of danger, not caring about the chance of imminent death ["who’s scared, Geronimo"] and constantly making jokes about fish fingers and Fezzes with the insistence that it is "cool" to be this crazy. It passes bohemian, transcends over the top and hits the mental mark right on the spot! Every episode he writes has a character like this! Nobody acts like that, nobody knows anyone who acts like that and nobody can identify with that!
• Steven Moffat is a misogynist. In interviews AND in his scripts. He uses the same character preset for nearly all of his female characters - an endless amount of women he writes out to be nothing more than [insert hypocritically mysoginistic word here]! And anyway, if there's one thing I cannot stand, it's a misogynist!

Finally, a quote from him from an interview in 1995:

“When I look back at Doctor Who now, I laugh at it fondly. As a television professional, I think ‘How did these guys get a paycheque every week?’. Nothing from the black and white days, with the exception of the pilot episode, should have got out of the building. They should have been clubbing those guys to death. You’ve got an old guy in the lead who can’t remember his lines. You’ve got Patrick Troughton, who was a good actor, but his companions – how did they get their Equity card? They’re unimaginably bad. Once you get to the colour stuff, some of it’s watchable, but it’s laughable. Mostly now, looking back, I’m startled by it.”

He's useless, he knows nothing! In fact, George Lucas is far too benevolent for his favour. George Lucas does not expect anyone to be so degrading about women! ...come to think of it, he didn't even write in that many in his films.

I have been convinced that Steven Muppet is about as incompetent as older George Lucas - and probably worse. Tell me I'm wrong!

Another thing. If Kopaka's mask is now the mask of Ice, what would be the point of the lenses ?

Heat vision?

Darn it! I don't have Twitty. Still - I wouldn't win anyway.