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The Day the Earth Stood Still and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (been remade three times) are arguably the two most famous and widely respected of fifties SF movies. Their ignorance was only underlined by mistaking Body Snatchers for Triffids and then failing to recognise Day of the Triffids when by chance it did come up!
They should try watching some movies now and again. But what about all the other questions they got right that you didn't? No one can be an expert on everything. Bright people might not waste their time in the fantasy world of sci-fi. |
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That Tolkien answer saved Edinburgh after fluffing one of the easiest rounds I've ever seen on UC - The 50s Sci-Fi stuff. To not get Day the Earth Stood Still, to mistake Invasion of the Body Snatchers for Day of the Triffids and to not get Day of the Triffids when it came up was risible.
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Basically you are saying you knew it, so they should.
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But what about all the other questions they got right that you didn't?
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No one can be an expert on everything. Bright people might not waste their time in the fantasy world of sci-fi.
Yeah, college types well known for not being into fantasy stuff......To namecheck Triffids and then to fail to recognise it was pitiful. |
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All the films were made before their parents (and quite possibly grandparents) were born. There's no reason at all to suppose that they have had any opportunity to see them!
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That Tolkien answer saved Edinburgh after fluffing one of the easiest rounds I've ever seen on UC - The 50s Sci-Fi stuff. To not get Day the Earth Stood Still, to mistake Invasion of the Body Snatchers for Day of the Triffids and to not get Day of the Triffids when it came up was risible.
What a close finish though, and Open would have won if the captain had not misheard an earlier bonus answer from the bloke on her right. |
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The Day the Earth Stood Still and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (been remade three times) are arguably the two most famous and widely respected of fifties SF movies. Their ignorance was only underlined by mistaking Body Snatchers for Triffids and then failing to recognise Day of the Triffids when by chance it did come up!
They should try watching some movies now and again. |
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Yeah, they've only been on TV dozens (if not hundreds) of times in their lifetimes. I wasn't alive when any of them were made - So what?
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That Tolkien answer saved Edinburgh after fluffing one of the easiest rounds I've ever seen on UC - The 50s Sci-Fi stuff. To not get Day the Earth Stood Still, to mistake Invasion of the Body Snatchers for Day of the Triffids and to not get Day of the Triffids when it came up was risible.
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I I knew the sci-fi films because I like that era of movies , but if someone put stills from a potter, or lord of the rings film, I wouldn't be able to name them.
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If the captain of Open had been a bit quicker answering the last 3 bonuses they would have won but now they lost on sudden death. OUCH
but what an exciting episode. How good was Crawford? |
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It was fair because Open gave a wrong answer, which Paxman allowed them to correct.
The captain answered 16th century although the correct answer, which indeed she did give when challenged, was 1530s as it was the decade that had been asked for, not the century. |
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It was fair because Open gave a wrong answer, which Paxman allowed them to correct.
The captain answered 16th century although the correct answer, which indeed she did give when challenged, was 1530s as it was the decade that had been asked for, not the century. Though Paxo would have been within his rights to say he had to take the first answer. If she'd nominated Crawford when she was unsure of the name he was saying, they'd have won. |
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They also would have won if in the last set of answers the captain had interrupted with one she clearly knew, rather than wait for him to finish the question. That would have got another correct answer in just before the gong went rather than just after. Great contest, though.
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That Tolkien answer saved Edinburgh after fluffing one of the easiest rounds I've ever seen on UC -
![]() As for Day of the Triffids, that is a classic SF book, but I've only seen the film on TV and turned it off as being a trashy american remake that mutilated the story. If the questions were about classic SF films, DotT should never have been included. It is arguable that because it was written by a brit, its "cold war" connection was bogus, too. It was much more about the dangers of genetic engineering. |
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That Tolkien answer saved Edinburgh after fluffing one of the easiest rounds I've ever seen on UC - The 50s Sci-Fi stuff. To not get Day the Earth Stood Still, to mistake Invasion of the Body Snatchers for Day of the Triffids and to not get Day of the Triffids when it came up was risible.
Good match last night I thought. |
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I got the first two questions right straight away then missed most of the rest of the programme because I was crowing too loud
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As for Day of the Triffids, that is a classic SF book, but I've only seen the film on TV and turned it off
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All questions are easy if you know the answer.
![]() As for Day of the Triffids, that is a classic SF book, but I've only seen the film on TV and turned it off as being a trashy american remake that mutilated the story. If the questions were about classic SF films, DotT should never have been included. It is arguable that because it was written by a brit, its "cold war" connection was bogus, too. It was much more about the dangers of genetic engineering. |
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A trashy British remake if its the film shown in the question, I'm afraid!
Far better, in my opinion, for any questions regarding John Wyndham novels to slip in questions about The Midwich Cuckoos, which was made as a movie titled Village Of The Damned. The title difference alone might be more challenging than endlessly regurgitating questions about a book / film that most people of all generations should have at least a decent knowledge of. |
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That Tolkien answer saved Edinburgh after fluffing one of the easiest rounds I've ever seen on UC - The 50s Sci-Fi stuff. To not get Day the Earth Stood Still, to mistake Invasion of the Body Snatchers for Day of the Triffids and to not get Day of the Triffids when it came up was risible.
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Not even getting one right was extremely lame at this stage.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (been remade three times) are arguably the two most famous and widely respected of fifties SF movies. Their ignorance was only underlined by mistaking Body Snatchers for Triffids and then failing to recognise Day of the Triffids when by chance it did come up!
They should try watching some movies now and again. Open were very unlucky but I knew Edinburgh would win as I have a matrix I do in advance and it rarely fails.
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They also would have won if in the last set of answers the captain had interrupted with one she clearly knew, rather than wait for him to finish the question. That would have got another correct answer in just before the gong went rather than just after. Great contest, though.
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I believe the expression is cutting your nose off to spite your own face! At least students in my day protested about things that actually mattered and didn't hide behind 'confidentiality agreements' to save themselves from admitting that it's probably a mountain being made out of a molehill. Do they seriously expect to be taken seriously on the strength of a vote in which nobody was actually told what it was that wasn't taken seriously and therefore could not possibly have any idea whether it wasn't taken seriously because it wasn't actually serious?
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Wow! Expecting others - especially those of a different generation - to know exactly what you know has to be the height of ignorance.
Open were very unlucky but I knew Edinburgh would win as I have a matrix I do in advance and it rarely fails. ![]() |
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I believe the expression is cutting your nose off to spite your own face! At least students in my day protested about things that actually mattered and didn't hide behind 'confidentiality agreements' to save themselves from admitting that it's probably a mountain being made out of a molehill. Do they seriously expect to be taken seriously on the strength of a vote in which nobody was actually told what it was that wasn't taken seriously and therefore could not possibly have any idea whether it wasn't taken seriously because it wasn't actually serious?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37926729 Incident involved a knitted Paxman. In a filming break Jeremy in front of an audience asked if they take it to bed with them. Apparently this was enough to cause such high offence that they're boycotting. Dear oh dear. |
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