tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post1512000275377142568..comments2024-03-18T22:10:10.549-04:00Comments on The Deadly Doll's House of Horror Nonsense: Ya Gotta Get a GimmickUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-11444042641069255182012-10-09T22:20:28.302-04:002012-10-09T22:20:28.302-04:00Ugh. Don't they understand?! If I wanted a con...Ugh. Don't they understand?! If I wanted a continuous story, I'd watch cable!deadlydollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061028044836745499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-42924776941751250772012-10-09T22:10:24.829-04:002012-10-09T22:10:24.829-04:00NCIS briefly developed the same problem recently. ...NCIS briefly developed the same problem recently. Five episodes in a row focused on the same bad guy! There weren't even any breather eps in between!Chris Hewsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566568274862884325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-82280726137813403242012-10-09T21:39:06.405-04:002012-10-09T21:39:06.405-04:00True House. I continuously told my fella "I p...True House. I continuously told my fella "I promise it will get better!" and considering anyone alive today has heard their friends and family ramble on and on about what a good show it is, I think season 1 shows enough kernels of possibility to keep the dubious going. Thanks for the advice on Who!<br /><br />And Chris, I do appreciate the ease of non-continuity based shows. Even Law & Order:SVU has gone the storyline route! It's maddening to the short attention spanned!deadlydollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061028044836745499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-39229998095648341932012-10-09T21:36:23.846-04:002012-10-09T21:36:23.846-04:00Nevah fear, Emily, Classic Doctor Who barely has c...Nevah fear, Emily, Classic Doctor Who barely has continuity outside of 'the Doctor is the Doctor and he has a Tardis'! Atlantis was destroyed three seperate times, and Earth has about thirty different futures! (That's what happens when the BBC doesn't show repeats for decades! Continuity shrivels and dies painfully! haha!)Chris Hewsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566568274862884325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-60078777396872324982012-10-09T19:52:37.522-04:002012-10-09T19:52:37.522-04:00New Who is a bit more continuity heavy than the ol...New Who is a bit more continuity heavy than the old series, but that's only a problem if you don't want to start with New Who season one or season five, really. There's not much continuity you need to know about in the older show at all, unless you watch very late period Tom Baker.<br /><br />I think it's easier to live with the weaker beginning of Buffy when you already know it's going to improve. I kind of enjoyed watching the actors improving from whatever they think they're doing at the start of the show.houseinrlyeh aka Denishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04548069611516508274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-38994358015295511172012-10-09T16:25:25.715-04:002012-10-09T16:25:25.715-04:00I have a feeling I will hate the original with the...I have a feeling I will hate the original with the same fury.<br /><br />Hmm on the start time. We discussed this recently with Buffy: some people say it's better to give potential viewers a tease of the great episodes, and THEN go back to the weak season 1 (which worked on me). I recently started initiating my fella into it and started right from the first episode and all is going well. It's tough, since SO many shows improve as time goes on and if continuity isn't a huge deal (am I correct in assuming it's not from season to season on Dr. Who?) then the jumping around might be the best, if not purest way to go. deadlydollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061028044836745499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-53440042636906753802012-10-09T15:16:23.598-04:002012-10-09T15:16:23.598-04:00I shudder to think how you could make the original...I shudder to think how you could make the original ending even <i>less</i> subtle. It doesn't leave anything ambiguous, and makes as little sense with what we <i>saw</i> happening as it seems to do here.<br /><br />I'm afraid Who fandom is so fractured in its tastes, everyone will recommend a different era/lead writer/whatever as the best and most appropriate thing to watch first. Though I really think starting at the beginning is something one does once one has already fallen in love with the whole thing.houseinrlyeh aka Denishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04548069611516508274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-59550007142861963832012-10-09T11:48:17.923-04:002012-10-09T11:48:17.923-04:00From what I understand (I haven't seen the ori...From what I understand (I haven't seen the original), the ending here is a little more definitive. I don't know the specific differences, but the Internet led me to believe the Uruguayan ending was a little more suggestive. This one all but punches you in the face with what happened, even though it STILL makes no sense because WE SAW EVERYTHING HAPPEN IN ONE TAKE!<br /><br />(Serenity now!)<br /><br />AnyWHO, Doctor Who is daunting! I have some people telling me to start with the TEnant seasons, others saying that's blasphemy and I should start at the start. I feel like between friends, readers, and Community's Abed, I REALLY need to start before I don't get ANY joke or reference ever again!deadlydollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061028044836745499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-4571415981025463972012-10-09T11:42:35.270-04:002012-10-09T11:42:35.270-04:00Huh, so they kept the same bad twist that ruined t...Huh, so they kept the same bad twist that ruined the Uruguayan original they needlessly remade here? Brilliant.<br /><br />Danger, another Doctor Who nerd here. I'd recommend just starting with "season 5" of New Who, which is a fine point for starting out - and great - and then dipping your feet into some of the classics (early to mid Tom Baker era for the quality and less than tight continuity, for example).<br />Umm, yeah.houseinrlyeh aka Denishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04548069611516508274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-84361432784577224872012-10-09T11:03:51.458-04:002012-10-09T11:03:51.458-04:00Well the classic series is awesome all the way thr...Well the classic series is awesome all the way through (minus a few bad eps), but it's the new series that is a MINEFIELD! It's tough to watch unless aware of the bad eps and the good ones! haha! So yeah, the new version is a 'took years to be near consistently great', but since the series practically rebooted itself five years in, it's no problem! haha!<br /><br />...Yeah, NERD ALERT! Doctor Who is to me what Buffy the Vanpire Slayer is to you!Chris Hewsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566568274862884325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-89370530351156973562012-10-09T10:30:50.482-04:002012-10-09T10:30:50.482-04:00THat's the thing! And I've been told that ...THat's the thing! And I've been told that the series gets better as it goes, but that I shouldn't start in the middle so it's REALLY hard to be motivated to start watching a series that takes years to get good!deadlydollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061028044836745499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-91589337068543932002012-10-09T08:58:06.590-04:002012-10-09T08:58:06.590-04:00Never fear, I haven't thrown a vase or any rot...Never fear, I haven't thrown a vase or any rotten fruit at you, since there are well over 700 individual eps of DW! Yikikes! (The way I can hold the claim of having seen pretty much all of them is thanks to them being on tv a few years ago, with one ep every weekday!)Chris Hewsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566568274862884325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-71368777468853426042012-10-09T08:44:35.447-04:002012-10-09T08:44:35.447-04:00That's actually rather awesome. Although it al...That's actually rather awesome. Although it also makes me admit I've never watched a single episode of Doctor Who.<br /><br />(Ducks!)deadlydollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061028044836745499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003758772971289930.post-64706099067846526312012-10-09T08:02:06.104-04:002012-10-09T08:02:06.104-04:00The whole one shot filming reminds me of classic D...The whole one shot filming reminds me of classic Doctor Who. It wasn't all shot in one continuous stream, but there was no time at all for reshoots, so if an actor forgot or flubbed their line ("You'll end up as a couple of burnt cinders flying around in space" became "You'll end up as a couple of burnt cinders flying around in Spain"!), or screwed up a big moment (like shooting the bad guy with the gun not actually aiming at said bad guy) there was no reprieve! It stayed in the episode! haha!Chris Hewsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566568274862884325noreply@blogger.com