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Originally posted by VegaRiad:
If that's what I wanted to see I'd go to a sports-bar-and-grill and watch large Americans stuff themselves with chilly fries and complain the serving size is too small.

Hey now, leave me and my too-small portion of chili fries out of it!

But... but you and your chili fries are so fascinating to observe in your natural habitat!

And that's another thing, sure maybe chops can be special, as a phenomenon in themselves, but you should at least tell us why. Think about it and give us the argument!

Listen:

Chops- a preparation of the seared flesh of a mammalian vertebrate domesticated and raised for the express purpose of consuming its body as food, and depending on species, use of its fleece in textiles. The name refers to the way the flank and ribs of the animal are divided after slaughter- each rib is hacked apart separately from the neighboring rib using a large, heavy knife: hence, "chopped." These and other pieces of the animal are usually then offered as barter items, displayed before purchase in a raw (uncooked) state behind plate glass in refrigerated alcoves designed specifically for that purpose. The bipedal primates who end up consuming the meat after cooking are often ones who never saw the original animal in its unbutchered state; parts of what was once a single animal may be shared between over a hundred individual humans, many of whom may never even see one another.

There's this weird, oblivious intimacy to it all, creepy and poignant and nobody hardly ever thinks about it. That's what gets lost when you call things "normal:" it's an excuse not to think about it, a slapdown to any acknowledgment that normality itself is an illusion, created by not thinking about things. A science fiction show should be about breaking down that supposition of normality, not using the hugeness of the universe as a mere prop to constantly reassure ourselves "Normal is special!"

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I concur with that result. (Provided that Sailor Moon doesn't count as sci-fi.)

Deep Space Nine would probably have to be the worst.

someone has to help me; all the girls in my office LOVED the specail and this RTD is amazing!!

They stared at me with devil eyes when i said that his stories are too simplisitc and lacked character archs or development!

...help me

Tell them they're all retarded!

interview about the leaving of certain people.

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someone has to help me; all the girls in my office LOVED the specail and this RTD is amazing!!

They stared at me with devil eyes when i said that his stories are too simplisitc and lacked character archs or development!

...help me

I think RTD had some great ideas, but I wish he would have flung them to his writers and just let them fix the plot holes and write dialogue. And RTD cannot or will not be subtle.

The one bit that comes to mind was during the Agatha Christie ep - one of the young toffs was yammering on about taking a walk, he was alone, oh yes, all alone. I completely understood that he wasn't and I didn't really need to be sitting with my son, watching a tv show that we should both be able to enjoy and then being forced to sit through a scene with that actor groping and slobbering another human being (and I don't care what gender that other person was, it doesn't bother me that he was male and we saw two boys kissing. I don't really care if Devlin sees that or knows it happens - as it is he has some natural opinions - but that scene was inappropriate because it was a children's show essentially, but also because it was unnecessary. It was implied just enough beforehand.

But it wasn't just that, the one with the fat blobs, when he met Donna again - a whole show of them nearly running into each other, but not quite, oof.

So, I quite look forward to David Tennant being in other things, I think he's a great actor. I just wish we could get on with the next Doctor Who because I am impatient.

Mmm. Mr Tennant - I am offended - I watched Dr Who as soon as. Obviously not as a 1 year old (which was when it started!) but as a 15 year old definitely. That's when I watched it the most, when Tom Baker was the Dr - I met him and got his autograph at that age!

I wonder what the future will bring? DT in a new sci-fi thingy which he can't talk about.

I think there still is this stupid stereotype that girls don't watch SF or read comics or watch action flicks. It's slowly wearing away though, 'cos Dev doesn't think it's weird that some girls in his class like Star Wars.

I think I first watched it when I was about 12 and Tom Baker was the first Doctor I remember, but I've always loved the Tardis. the whole concept of it tickles me.

But where would you keep it Maeve? I'd worry about it and would much prefer a jaunting belt (Tomorrow People style!)

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But... why would I keep it? It's a home/cave/lair as well as a time machine. It keeps you.

And I'd like to think that I would take off on an adventure, but actually, just for a two days trip I need to pack pillows and blankets and clothes and shower stuff and hair stuff and ...

...which would already be in there!

You could take the TARDIS to the shops on a trip but more likely it'd send you to Metebelis 3 to have your face sucked off by a carnivous flower.

But you'd get to the shops eventually. 5 minutes in real time, 4 years in your time.

Ah, the logistics of shopping in time travel. Thank goodness you were here DM!

I got The Rescue/The Romans the other day. The Rescue is a short two-parter but has some clever twists.

Will watch The Romans now, which is supposed to be semi-farcical!

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would much prefer a jaunting belt (Tomorrow People style!)

*loves The Tomorrow People*

I had SUCH a crush on John (the giant dork) when I was little.

Aha, my major crush was Stephen!

Okay.

They're not just jumping the shark, they're doing fucking acrobatics over it.

*sobs for his favourite show*

I don't understand Mark? What do you mean? (being thick) (PS where's Lilia? Has she gone home?)