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RE: Doctor Who season eight
December 30, 2014 at 7:51 am
(December 30, 2014 at 7:12 am)Aractus Wrote: Wow, I can't believe the Christmas special got such good reviews. It was pretty good but I have two complaints:
1. Children watch the show and this episode showed them that Santa isn't real.
2.
I enjoyed it very much. Anyway, I think that:
1. The episode is pretty much ambiguous when it comes to Santa being real or not.
2.
(December 30, 2014 at 7:46 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Whoever wrote that episode has at some time played half life 2.
Hang on, a Half Life reference I didn't catch?
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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RE: Doctor Who season eight
December 30, 2014 at 7:59 am
(December 30, 2014 at 7:51 am)Lucanus Wrote: (December 30, 2014 at 7:12 am)Aractus Wrote: Wow, I can't believe the Christmas special got such good reviews. It was pretty good but I have two complaints:
1. Children watch the show and this episode showed them that Santa isn't real.
2.
I enjoyed it very much. Anyway, I think that:
1. The episode is pretty much ambiguous when it comes to Santa being real or not.
2.
(December 30, 2014 at 7:46 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Whoever wrote that episode has at some time played half life 2.
Hang on, a Half Life reference I didn't catch?
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
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RE: Doctor Who season eight
December 30, 2014 at 8:19 am
That was quite obvious, I guess I was too busy thinking about Alien and the way John Hurt died in that film!
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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RE: Doctor Who season eight
December 30, 2014 at 11:26 am
Doctor Who has never been shy about showing its roots, from Dracula and Frankenstein to Forbidden Planet. I honestly thought the Xmas episode was going to be far worse than it was, despite the nice performances from most of the cast. The little part of me that died when Santa showed up at the end of Death In Heaven (no, not that part of me) was partially revived by this one. I was glad my hopeful predictions about who and what he really was were mostly accurate; but then, it couldn't have been signposted much more blatantly, could it?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Doctor Who season eight
December 30, 2014 at 6:00 pm
I almost forgot about the Christmas episode. Thank you for reminding me.
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