I've been losing sleep over this issue too... it's destroying my life that someone somewhere said they didn't like Doctor Who. Damn everyone for not thinking exactly the same thing as me. oh wait... i'm not 14 anymore. Forget everything i just said.
Moaning Letters on Points of View
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Originally Posted by Tom Tit:
“I've been losing sleep over this issue too... it's destroying my life that someone somewhere said they didn't like Doctor Who. Damn everyone for not thinking exactly the same thing as me. oh wait... i'm not 14 anymore. Forget everything i just said.”
“I've been losing sleep over this issue too... it's destroying my life that someone somewhere said they didn't like Doctor Who. Damn everyone for not thinking exactly the same thing as me. oh wait... i'm not 14 anymore. Forget everything i just said.”
Haha
Yes, I actually spend far too much time caring about what other people think on here and arguing with them.
Dunno why!
Originally Posted by lordOfTime:
“Points of View is still going???
”
“Points of View is still going???
”
Originally Posted by CD93:
“Somebody should write to Points of View about that.”
“Somebody should write to Points of View about that.”
Just excerpt the latest whinge about Doctor Who and say the same thing about Points of View.
Originally Posted by CoalHillJanitor:
“Just excerpt the latest whinge about Doctor Who and say the same thing about Points of View.”
“Just excerpt the latest whinge about Doctor Who and say the same thing about Points of View.
”
Barry Took is a Yul Brynner rip off?
Originally Posted by PJ68:
“there were loads in hinchcliffe's era (all great too!)
planet of evil - forbidden planet
seeds of doom - quatermass / the thing
brian of morbius - frankenstein
deadly assassin - manchurian candidate
robots of death - ten little indians
weng chiang - fu manchu / sherlock holmes
pyramids of mars - the mummy (obviously)
which others are there from that period?”
“there were loads in hinchcliffe's era (all great too!)
planet of evil - forbidden planet
seeds of doom - quatermass / the thing
brian of morbius - frankenstein
deadly assassin - manchurian candidate
robots of death - ten little indians
weng chiang - fu manchu / sherlock holmes
pyramids of mars - the mummy (obviously)
which others are there from that period?”
Spearhead from Space - Quatermass II
Originally Posted by TheSilentFez:
“Who on Earth wastes time writing to the BBC moaning about the quality of a television programme?
”
“Who on Earth wastes time writing to the BBC moaning about the quality of a television programme?
”
...when they could sit on a forum instead!
"Dear Points Of View,
Why oh why oh why......"
...do people place so much importance on a show in which the BBC themselves broadcast carefully chosen letters from their mailbox and selectively undermine the validity of criticism with mockery by having them read out in ridiculously sterotyped regional accents.
It has always felt a little like the "let's laugh at the disgruntled peasants" show to me.
Why oh why oh why......"
...do people place so much importance on a show in which the BBC themselves broadcast carefully chosen letters from their mailbox and selectively undermine the validity of criticism with mockery by having them read out in ridiculously sterotyped regional accents.
It has always felt a little like the "let's laugh at the disgruntled peasants" show to me.
Some people should just be ignored. Its like when people write on that show say they are appauled about the sex and violence in some show yet they watch the whole programme .
Originally Posted by steven1977:
“Some people should just be ignored. Its like when people write on that show say they are appauled about the sex and violence in some show yet they watch the whole programme .”
“Some people should just be ignored. Its like when people write on that show say they are appauled about the sex and violence in some show yet they watch the whole programme .”
That reminds me of a "letter" in Viz which went something like "What's the world coming to? I stood and watched an elderly lady getting beaten up for nearly thirty minutes the other day and not one person went to help her!"
PS - Points of View is a rip-off of the letters page in newspapers - and it's not as good as it used to be when I were a lad - etc etc.
PPS - it's like deja vu all over again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuDph-3Lpuc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhmDt...feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4mHMTP4F8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr3tX...eature=related
Originally Posted by daveyboy7472:
“Robots Of Death
”
“Robots Of Death
”
Voyage of the Dammed is a Doctor Who version of a disaster movie - other than the design of the Robots it has nothing in common with Robots Of Death.
Originally Posted by gslam2:
“Voyage of the Dammed is a Doctor Who version of a disaster movie - other than the design of the Robots it has nothing in common with Robots Of Death.”
“Voyage of the Dammed is a Doctor Who version of a disaster movie - other than the design of the Robots it has nothing in common with Robots Of Death.”
I agree that as an overall story they are completely different. One is set in a sandminer, the other on a Titanic style ship in space and both have various other storylines within their respective plots .
However, the central premise of both stories is about Robots going bad and being converted to evil. If you took out the robots from both stories, what would you actually have? Not a lot really. So I think there is a big similarity in the Robot aspect.
I wasn't claiming VOTD it is a total rip-off, but it does borrow more heavily than usual from a previous story from Classic Who.
Originally Posted by Shoppy:
“"Dear Points Of View,
Why oh why oh why......"
...do people place so much importance on a show in which the BBC themselves broadcast carefully chosen letters from their mailbox and selectively undermine the validity of criticism with mockery by having them read out in ridiculously sterotyped regional accents.
It has always felt a little like the "let's laugh at the disgruntled peasants" show to me.”
“"Dear Points Of View,
Why oh why oh why......"
...do people place so much importance on a show in which the BBC themselves broadcast carefully chosen letters from their mailbox and selectively undermine the validity of criticism with mockery by having them read out in ridiculously sterotyped regional accents.
It has always felt a little like the "let's laugh at the disgruntled peasants" show to me.”
Erm... don't the correspondents read out their own letters?
Originally Posted by wildbill_hicock:
“Erm... don't the correspondents read out their own letters?”
“Erm... don't the correspondents read out their own letters?”
Not in my day they didn't. Barry Took used to get all sorts of hilariously voiced people to read the letters out in what they hoped was a rough approximation of the persons intended tone, but probably wasn't.
Do they let the poor sods humiliate themselves by reading their own stuff out badly these days?
Spitting image used to take the piss by reading out letters in, eg, a deep booming old man's gruff voice, finishing the letter "Yours sincerely, Susan Smith aged twelve"
edit: oh - I've just seen lots of YouTube links above - examples.
Originally Posted by king yrcanos:
“There's still points of view? When and on which channel?”
“There's still points of view? When and on which channel?”
Yes, I know! It's a bit like finding out they're still cranking out Play Away or Jackanory. (except that would actually be good)
CBeebies do a bedtime story in a Jackanory style every night at seven. Get your warm milk and snuggle down
On-topic - just because a programme references a trope which is referenced by a film doesn't make it a rip-off of that film, does it? *sigh*
I'd love to see the justification for equating DoaS with Jurassic Park: "...errr ... it's got dinosaurs in it. And... err ... a bloke with a gun. But that's all, actually..."
On-topic - just because a programme references a trope which is referenced by a film doesn't make it a rip-off of that film, does it? *sigh*
I'd love to see the justification for equating DoaS with Jurassic Park: "...errr ... it's got dinosaurs in it. And... err ... a bloke with a gun. But that's all, actually..."
If you didnt see it, its here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...12_Episode_11/
and its at about 8:10
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...12_Episode_11/
and its at about 8:10
Originally Posted by mikey_hamster:
“If you didnt see it, its here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...12_Episode_11/
and its at about 8:10”
“If you didnt see it, its here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...12_Episode_11/
and its at about 8:10”
My God. They read out a letter from someone who thought Dinosaurs on a Spaceship was a rip-off of Jurassic Park simply because it had CGI Dinosaurs in it?
Some people are beyond thick.
what is a Whoists? are we really meant to believe that no one who works on Points of View, a show that has the BBC in every single cell of its body, is a Who fan, and knows that the correct term of Whovian?
Originally Posted by handymelon:
“CBeebies do a bedtime story in a Jackanory style every night at seven. Get your warm milk and snuggle down
On-topic - just because a programme references a trope which is referenced by a film doesn't make it a rip-off of that film, does it? *sigh*
I'd love to see the justification for equating DoaS with Jurassic Park: "...errr ... it's got dinosaurs in it. And... err ... a bloke with a gun. But that's all, actually..."”
“CBeebies do a bedtime story in a Jackanory style every night at seven. Get your warm milk and snuggle down
On-topic - just because a programme references a trope which is referenced by a film doesn't make it a rip-off of that film, does it? *sigh*
I'd love to see the justification for equating DoaS with Jurassic Park: "...errr ... it's got dinosaurs in it. And... err ... a bloke with a gun. But that's all, actually..."”
No. I want Jackanory. Not a rip off of Jackanory. *stamps feet. writes letter to Points of View*
I think the Jurassic Park complaint was pretty much just that.
Originally Posted by MinkytheDog:
“That reminds me of a "letter" in Viz which went something like "What's the world coming to? I stood and watched an elderly lady getting beaten up for nearly thirty minutes the other day and not one person went to help her!"
PS - Points of View is a rip-off of the letters page in newspapers - and it's not as good as it used to be when I were a lad - etc etc.
PPS - it's like deja vu all over again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuDph-3Lpuc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhmDt...feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4mHMTP4F8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr3tX...eature=related”
“That reminds me of a "letter" in Viz which went something like "What's the world coming to? I stood and watched an elderly lady getting beaten up for nearly thirty minutes the other day and not one person went to help her!"
PS - Points of View is a rip-off of the letters page in newspapers - and it's not as good as it used to be when I were a lad - etc etc.
PPS - it's like deja vu all over again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuDph-3Lpuc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhmDt...feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4mHMTP4F8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr3tX...eature=related”
I loved the monty python one where a old woman complained about all this sex on the telly. Its disgraceful I mean I kept falling off.
Originally Posted by daveyboy7472:
“I agree that as an overall story they are completely different. One is set in a sandminer, the other on a Titanic style ship in space and both have various other storylines within their respective plots .
However, the central premise of both stories is about Robots going bad and being converted to evil. If you took out the robots from both stories, what would you actually have? Not a lot really. So I think there is a big similarity in the Robot aspect.
I wasn't claiming VOTD it is a total rip-off, but it does borrow more heavily than usual from a previous story from Classic Who.
”
“I agree that as an overall story they are completely different. One is set in a sandminer, the other on a Titanic style ship in space and both have various other storylines within their respective plots .
However, the central premise of both stories is about Robots going bad and being converted to evil. If you took out the robots from both stories, what would you actually have? Not a lot really. So I think there is a big similarity in the Robot aspect.
I wasn't claiming VOTD it is a total rip-off, but it does borrow more heavily than usual from a previous story from Classic Who.
”
I'm mystified how you can think that. The central premise of Robots Of Death is certainly about Robots going bad but that certainly isn't the case for Voyage where the disaster aspect with the spaceship in trouble after being hit by the meteorites is where the main thrust of the story comes from. The Robots in Voyage could be replaced by aliens and the whole story would stay intact particularly given the robots are incidental to the motivation of the villan in Voyage which certainly isn't the case for Robots Of Death.
Dear Pointless Drivel
On Saturday, I was watching Doctor Who with a friend and he pointed out more than twenty specific references to movies and other TV shows.
How do I get the boring little git to shut-up so I can watch the show in peace?
Yours,
M T Dog (aged 51 & 3/4)
PS - I'm not surprised that Amy person is leaving the show - she's left two other jobs this year already. When I were lad etc etc
On Saturday, I was watching Doctor Who with a friend and he pointed out more than twenty specific references to movies and other TV shows.
How do I get the boring little git to shut-up so I can watch the show in peace?
Yours,
M T Dog (aged 51 & 3/4)
PS - I'm not surprised that Amy person is leaving the show - she's left two other jobs this year already. When I were lad etc etc
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