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As someone who enjoys watching Red Dwarf when it's on, but who hasn't actually seen that much of it, and someone who hasn't seen Blade Runner either, nor Coronation Street for that matter... I liked it.
First episode could have been a bit tighter to account for the missing audience laughter (I didn't mind not having a laughter track, but I thought the early bunkroom scenes had too many long pauses where one should be), and it could have done with a quickj 'Next Time' teaser to overcome the chopped up nature of the shows.
Second and third episodes had lots of laughs for me.
re: on the DwarfCasts - yes, I think it's just you.
As someone who enjoys watching Red Dwarf when it's on, but who hasn't actually seen that much of it, and someone who hasn't seen Blade Runner either, nor Coronation Street for that matter... I liked it.
First episode could have been a bit tighter to account for the missing audience laughter (I didn't mind not having a laughter track, but I thought the early bunkroom scenes had too many long pauses where one should be), and it could have done with a quickj 'Next Time' teaser to overcome the chopped up nature of the shows.
Second and third episodes had lots of laughs for me.
^this.
The ad breaks could have done with at least a RD logo or something.. Particularly in episode one where it just literally flicked from RD to a Mitchell and Webb advert..
Overall, I liked it. I'll probably pick up the DVD when it's out to compliment the other eight RD DVDs on the shelf.
Message #109786, posted by andrew at 20:48, 13/4/2009, in reply to message #109782
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re: on the DwarfCasts - yes, I think it's just you.
As someone who enjoys watching Red Dwarf when it's on, but who hasn't actually seen that much of it, and someone who hasn't seen Blade Runner either, nor Coronation Street for that matter... I liked it.
First episode could have been a bit tighter to account for the missing audience laughter (I didn't mind not having a laughter track, but I thought the early bunkroom scenes had too many long pauses where one should be), and it could have done with a quickj 'Next Time' teaser to overcome the chopped up nature of the shows.
Second and third episodes had lots of laughs for me.
^this.
The ad breaks could have done with at least a RD logo or something.. Particularly in episode one where it just literally flicked from RD to a Mitchell and Webb advert..
Overall, I liked it. I'll probably pick up the DVD when it's out to compliment the other eight RD DVDs on the shelf.
Andy.
Yes, how much effort would it have taken to add a title before the break.
The story was very much like Back to Reality. I thought the ending was quite good with Lister choosing to leave the hallucination and the surprise (for me) appearance of Kochanski.
I thought the ending was quite good with Lister choosing to leave the hallucination and the surprise (for me) appearance of Kochanski.
Awww. I know the thread title said 'spoiler' but I looked and the first few posts (over the frist few days) didn't spoil much, until this one. That's a shame. I haven't watched it yet - you didn't need to make it such a blatant spoiler
Message #109792, posted by SimonC at 14:42, 14/4/2009, in reply to message #109791
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First part - valid criticisms given above, but it felt more like Red Dwarf than the rest. The other two episodes were far too self-aware, and whilst the Blade Runner stuff was mildly amusing there didn't seem to be any actual point to it.
Yeah, but the only place I've ever seen the code used is doctorwhoforum.com
Nah, I've seen it on use on many forums. I'm sure it's probably (at least, by now) standard on many phpBB forums, or at least an easily-accessible plugin. Damn you TIB for having non-generic forum software.
Message #109797, posted by rich at 12:48, 15/4/2009, in reply to message #109795
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They do?
Yeah, but the only place I've ever seen the code used is doctorwhoforum.com
Nah, I've seen it on use on many forums. I'm sure it's probably (at least, by now) standard on many phpBB forums, or at least an easily-accessible plugin. Damn you TIB for having non-generic forum software.
I thought about putting them in many a time, but I couldn't think of a proper way to implement them that would work properly on Fresco, Netsurf et al. (no CSS in Fresco, no Javascript in Netsurf). I even thought about black-on-black invis-o-text for a while, but for some reason even that wouldn't work (I think some browsers didn't redraw the colours properly when you selected text, or couldn't select text properly, or something). ________ Cheers, Rich.
I thought about putting them in many a time, but I couldn't think of a proper way to implement them that would work properly on Fresco, Netsurf et al. (no CSS in Fresco, no Javascript in Netsurf).
It would have to be server side.
If any messages on the page have spoilers, replace the text with "**** SPOILERS ****", and display a link somewhere to the same URL with an additional query string parameter that disables the replacement.
Message #109855, posted by rich at 06:51, 22/4/2009, in reply to message #109798
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I thought about putting them in many a time, but I couldn't think of a proper way to implement them that would work properly on Fresco, Netsurf et al. (no CSS in Fresco, no Javascript in Netsurf).
It would have to be server side.
If any messages on the page have spoilers, replace the text with "**** SPOILERS ****", and display a link somewhere to the same URL with an additional query string parameter that disables the replacement.
Bleh.
Presumably you'd either have to have the page revealing all spoilers[*], or have serial numbers built in to go to multiple different "pages" to reveal individual spoilers. But a nasty kludgey idea either way, compared to just manipulating the css display property.
* Although admittedly that's fairly similar to some code I've been messing with recently - caching blog posts to flat files, you have to strip out contextual links (e.g. log in/log out) before writing the cached version out. Mine replaces them with a message warning people, and a link to a proper, uncached version of the page (which assumes most people just want to read the content and don't care about these links).
Of course all four versions - to view the page in whatever state the admin decides, to generate the cached version, to view the uncached version, and to delete the cached version - are the same page called slightly differently (very differently, with .htaccess magic). And the make- or delete-cache versions don't actually display anything, triggered by an AJAXy contextual button and just returning an OK status. ________ Cheers, Rich.
Message #109856, posted by rich at 07:02, 22/4/2009, in reply to message #109846
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Was the spoiler that it wasn't very good?
The first episode was quite good (production values were surprisingly good) but sorely missing the laugh track: having once seen M*A*S*H where the BBC had forgotten to remove the American canned laughter track, and finding it bloody awful, this seems almost an odd thing to say. A proper studio audience laugh track though, that can really add to a comedy, instead of jokes just tumbling into the vacuum of space.
It ended really abruptly, like they'd filmed this as one big film and chopped it into three.
Then it got a bit silly in the second episode and I switched off. It was basically a rip-off of the idea behind the League of Gentlemen movie[*], although they go on to "homage" Bladerunner a lot apparently. I did see the eye designer chap during channel surfing.
I've got them saved on my PVR, but I'm not that fussed about finishing it.
* Note: *not* LXG, that didn't have any ideas ________ Cheers, Rich.
Message #109858, posted by Loris at 08:32, 22/4/2009, in reply to message #109855
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It would have to be server side.
If any messages on the page have spoilers, replace the text with "**** SPOILERS ****", and display a link somewhere to the same URL with an additional query string parameter that disables the replacement.
You want multiple spoilers per page? You want Rot19.
Message #110137, posted by rich at 13:11, 26/5/2009, in reply to message #109858
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It would have to be server side.
If any messages on the page have spoilers, replace the text with "**** SPOILERS ****", and display a link somewhere to the same URL with an additional query string parameter that disables the replacement.
You want multiple spoilers per page? You want Rot19.
As RISC OS browsers don't have plugins that allow for decoding, I'll stick to ROT26[*] encoding for now.
* It's similar to ROT13, but twice as secure ________ Cheers, Rich.
Message #110324, posted by Games at 23:11, 25/6/2009, in reply to message #109794
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Any guesses why Rimmer was not the "alive" Rimmer from series 8?
Probably the same reason that almost the entire crew has been killed and the Squid being in the Water Tank. They forgot several things that happened in the last couple of series before it and/or the writer could not be bothered to explain that the story went on for 10 years after the end of Series 8.
I thought it was quite good the way the story explained certain aspects, but there were a few missing explanations (such as Rimmer being a Hard-Light Hologram, I think).
Really need to re-watch it. ________ http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/46884.html?type=1 Guides I have written
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