Watched anything good on TV lately?

[countjimmoriarty]

Originally Posted by CARLTON BROWN

Let's see - A transsexual alien, partly dressed in a clown's costume arrives with their human companions in Cape Town, which has taken on the mysterious look of Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Rather an appropriate location for filming, as South Africa had much in common with this kind of place until recently. They soon come face to face with many hateful white people, fascist police and downtrodden black people. Then, they make contact with civil rights activist Rosa Parks.

She is apparently being hunted by a rogue time travelling assassin (a Terminator?), who wants to alter history, for no clear reason. I feel sure that I've seen a similar recent story in Timeless with the Rittenhouse Group trying to do the same thing, but never mind. However, I was unable to tell where this time traveller was from (he is listed as a South African actor called David Dukas), or how he knew about the Tardis. Anyway the Doctor's crew manages to keep things on course and the time traveller is despatched to somewhere or other remote, probably the Phantom Zone. Unfortunately, there is no explanation as to why this individual is so stupid and didn't simply shoot Rosa Parks when he had the opportunity, diverting the course of history onto a parallel timeline. After this, the Doctor and her merry band depart in the newly re-vamped Tardis, which has the most awful interior I can ever remember. Well done BBC art department!

This episode represented the new PC obsessed BBC at its best. The message was obvious. After the show, there was certainly plenty of initial criticism on IMDb, followed by a massive block of overwhelming 10/10 praise and I'm rather inclined to believe this was put there by BBC staff, as this seems to be the modern way that promotion works in the TV and film business.

Again the plot had a limited sci-fi content, the script was poor, filled with holes and stuffed with political statements about historical events and attempts at social engineering. Jodie Whittaker remains just about okay in the part of the Doctor, although still not as good as she was in an excellent episode of the sci-fi series Black Mirror. Yes, the other actors were a bit better in episode three. But really, this is no longer the Dr Who I recognise. No doubt, the BBC would like to do episodes where they could do some extreme Trump bashing, or show viewers how the idiots who voted for Brexit had created a dystopian future for Britain where the Daleks eventually took control.

Couldn't disagree with you more.

[CARLTON BROWN]

Originally Posted by countjimmoriarty

Couldn't disagree with you more.

Fair enough, as life becomes a real bore if we all think alike and I always like to hear another side to any disagreement, so I can try to be fair about things. So it would be quite nice if you said what you thought about the show.

For me, this was pretty blatant hijacking of a long standing TV sci-fi series to put a message across about race relations.

The BBC is now out of control with its PC attitudes and the production of particular episode is almost as bad as the Corporation claiming to be a non-commercial organisation, while allowing massive product placement in almost every sporting event and sporting report they show on TV.

Aside from the current Dr Who being generally poor in quality due to bad scripts and rubbish production, this current approach of making use of one thing for another purpose doesn't seem at all right to me.

[Devius]

Originally Posted by CARLTON BROWN

Let's see - A transsexual alien, partly dressed in a clown's costume arrives with their human companions in Cape Town, which has taken on the mysterious look of Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Rather an appropriate location for filming, as South Africa had much in common with this kind of place until recently. They soon come face to face with many hateful white people, fascist police and downtrodden black people. Then, they make contact with civil rights activist Rosa Parks.

She is apparently being hunted by a rogue time travelling assassin (a Terminator?), who wants to alter history, for no clear reason. I feel sure that I've seen a similar recent story in Timeless with the Rittenhouse Group trying to do the same thing, but never mind. However, I was unable to tell where this time traveller was from (he is listed as a South African actor called David Dukas), or how he knew about the Tardis. Anyway the Doctor's crew manages to keep things on course and the time traveller is despatched to somewhere or other remote, probably the Phantom Zone. Unfortunately, there is no explanation as to why this individual is so stupid and didn't simply shoot Rosa Parks when he had the opportunity, diverting the course of history onto a parallel timeline. After this, the Doctor and her merry band depart in the newly re-vamped Tardis, which has the most awful interior I can ever remember. Well done BBC art department!

This episode represented the new PC obsessed BBC at its best. The message was obvious. After the show, there was certainly plenty of initial criticism on IMDb, followed by a massive block of overwhelming 10/10 praise and I'm rather inclined to believe this was put there by BBC staff, as this seems to be the modern way that promotion works in the TV and film business.

Again the plot had a limited sci-fi content, the script was poor, filled with holes and stuffed with political statements about historical events and attempts at social engineering. Jodie Whittaker remains just about okay in the part of the Doctor, although still not as good as she was in an excellent episode of the sci-fi series Black Mirror. Yes, the other actors were a bit better in episode three. But really, this is no longer the Dr Who I recognise. No doubt, the BBC would like to do episodes where they could do some extreme Trump bashing, or show viewers how the idiots who voted for Brexit had created a dystopian future for Britain where the Daleks eventually took control.

I was going to post this in the "13th Doctor" thread, but saw your post...
While I liked "Rosa" in parts, It felt wrong for Doctor Who at this point in time. My main criticism was that as the third episode of the new series, "Rosa" came too early for Jodie Whittaker's Doctor and her new companions. We're still getting to know about them, and then suddenly they're dropped into a heavyweight situation involving Rosa Parks.
It reminded me of ST:TNG's second episode "The Naked Now" which was also panned for coming too early in Picard's Enterprise career.
Also the bad guy was VERY forgettable - reminded me of Steppenwolf in Justice League (who? ). I was also somewhat depressed that he was a future racist - am I to believe that 20-odd CENTURIES from now, mankind would still be obsessed with Racism?

PS: not a fan of the new TARDIS interior either...

[Greenman]

Reminded me of the Red Dwarf episode with the boys going back to the shooing of JFK and by them being there, causing the gunman to miss it changed history. The Doctor Who episode was clever with the Rosa Parks idea but the villain of the piece took so long to explain what he was doing there and even then I would have liked a flashback to how he was jailed and escaped. I like the new look of the TARDIS it needed an update for the next generation to be engaged in this video game age. Beats running down endless corridors.

[Sir Honkers]

The Charmed reboot: I liked the original and this one has the potential to be even better.
Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina: The first episode was surprisingly good. Campy with a morbid sense of humour and definitely darker than the original. It just needs to kill Harvey off...preferably gruesomely...and give Sabrina a badass boyfriend.

[Reclaimedwg]

Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

^^^

I just came here to say I just saw the entire first season posted on torrent right now and I saw your reply post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybKUX6thF8Q

Getting it now.

[KissArmy]

Watched on TV the 1962 movieWhatever Happened to Baby Jane? last night. It wasn't as good as I heard it was. No real plot twist, no surprise ending, no She-got-what-was-coming-to-her in the end. Just one twisted sister tormenting her wheelchair-bound sister until the twisted sister got too crazy to do it anymore and the cops caught her. The end.

[Sir Honkers]

Originally Posted by KissArmy

Watched on TV the 1962 movieWhatever Happened to Baby Jane? last night. It wasn't as good as I heard it was.

Yeah, but you've got to remember fifty six years have gone past since. Earlier audiences saw it very differently. Scared the bejesus out of me at the time.

[Reclaimedwg]

I watched the 1st episode of The Haunting Of Hill House: I like it!!

This may be as good as Sharp Objects.

I also watched the 1st episode of Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina:

not sure to make of it.

Appearance wise it looked polished (from the trailer and the nice opening cartoon like credits) but so far the story and execution is messy.

Maybe it will get better?

Will give it another episode or two.

[Sir Honkers]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

I also watched the 1st episode of Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina:

not sure to make of it.

Appearance wise it looked polished (from the trailer and the nice opening cartoon like credits) but so far the story and execution is messy.

Maybe it will get better?

Will give it another episode or two.

I guess it's all subjective it. I liked the subversion of the original show. Satan worshippers, eating human flesh, blood sacrifices. I suspect that will all turn out to be some kind of misdirection, but I think I might enjoy finding out.