Recent content by MartinRoth

I'm just wondering how you translated "BLLLAAAAARGH!!!!" Did it come out as "Your wife is a big hippo"? (Somebody here will have to get that reference, I hope...)

I can't recall exactly where I heard/read this (so it may not be terribly reliable), but there seemed to be some indication that BBC America had outbid Seymour Fy and would be the sole home of Doctor Who going forward. (For however long the contract runs, at least.)

GRRM has done a lot more as a screenwriter than as a novelist. So... On the one hand, he might very well be keeping things offstage that would be difficult to film... On the other hand, keeping all the action offstage is probably not the best strategy for a TV series to be successful...

Including the HHG theme strikes me as cheating, given that it's actually a track from an Eagles album.

Once you see Mel, you'll wonder why you ever complained about Peri. With the sole known exception of Gary Russell, former editor of Doctor Who Magazine and writer of some DW novels.

Re: New Joss Whedon show Quite frequently these days, the production houses are owned by the same parent companies as the networks that air the shows. And Hulu is largely owned by the parent companies of the NBC and Fox networks. But that's separate from the issue of the ratings, which is...

Re: New Joss Whedon show Problem is, with the exception of Tivo and other DVRs (which are now included in the ratings under certain circumstances including being within a certain time of original airing), none of those other methods have anything to do with the purpose of the ratings, which is...

This is the only one with which I'd argue, not because it isn't true, but because it's frequently just as true of really bad shows as of really good shows... :) Otherwise, these points seem to fit B5 perfectly.

What I'd like to know is where you managed to find a phone booth these days...

*just walks away, shaking head*

Actually, as far as I'm concerned the whole thing makes perfect sense, since there were actually no aliens involved in the incident. :D

I actually liked Adric in Full Circle, the story in which he first appeared. It was only once he became a regular that he became annoying, and only once the Doctor regenerated that he became truly intolerable. Which, to me, puts him way up on Wesley... :)

Maybe. There was some extra technobabble someplace, which may have been in the TVM or may have been in one of the novels, which explained why it could happen when it did but couldn't happen when it didn't. Something to do with the Eye of Harmony being open, IIRC (though I may very well not RC...

Why would you ever think something like that might happen here? :p (And yes, it is amusing. Well worth the risk to forum tranquility... :))

Thanks. Sometimes it's good to know that there are people to whom that matters...