JulesLuvsShinzon

Luck you, I wish I were going to France.

My mother-in-law pre-ordered a job lot for herself and all the grandchildren and then went and stood in line outside W H Smith at midnight to collect them! Methinks she quite likes queueing up with kids dressed as wizards!

JulesLuvsJethroTull, and spent a decade collecting their entire back catalogue! :biggrin: My husband and I have probably now got close on 1,500 CDs covering a very broad range from opera, Jazz, blues, classical, pop, rock, folk, TV & movie themes, Futurist, Punk, New Wave, New Romantic, Buddhist chants (oh yeah!)...you name it we probably have it somewhere, but what you won't find is anything by Elvis, Country & Western, or Christian Rock/pop. We play music all the time, and we each have our own likes and dislikes. My 15 year-old daughter often dips into our collection and samples stuff, and her picks can be surprising: recently she picked out Never Forever by Kate Bush to play in the kitchen. My husband has finally passed through his Kaiser Cheifs phase, but that was preferable to his Blackmore's Night phase. I'm currently listening a lot to Corrine Bailey Rae, and my hubby just tracked down the new(ish) Amy Winehouse for me so I can hop around the kitchen sing "I don't wanna got to rehab.........." The other two can't stand Amy Winehouse............

Not if Barrowman takes the role! And Tate should stick to comedy.

^^^Actually, I think the opposite. The new assistant is so wooden and bland she's kind of ruining it for me. I find her unconvincing lusting after the Doctor a big bore. There is no chemistry between them. Good chemistry is of course genuinely sexy. Billy Piper has a genuine presence and played Rose with a big heart and was genuinely touching. There was tangible on-screen chemistry between Piper and both Eccleston and Tennant, something not really seen in WHO before. I have lost interest in WHO recently. I still Tennant is very good the role, but I don't like the Torchwood crossovers with the appearance of Captain Jack and the somewhat backward Carry On style references to Barrowman's sexuality. I would have hoped for more sophistication in the noughties, and the shows just getting a little too silly with an all too transparent and forced attempt to "sex things up". Barrowman's presence is overpowering and distracting, and really a rather cynical attempt to promote the BBC's teeny-bopper WHO spin-off series. The new Master really doesn't cut the mustard, they could have got Rick Mayall to play that role with more genuine menace. The first two series were sharp, fresh, innovative, and sassy, but now there is too much of the BBC crowing about what it can now do with FX, and the whole thing is becoming intolerably dumbed-down. You know this is the case when matrons from the shires start writing to the Radio Times trilling about how the scary stone angel monsters caused them to hide behind their Laura Ashley cushions with Jemima and Harry. To make matters worse, it has now been announced that Kylie Minogue will appear in the Christmas special. I have nothing gainst Kylie, but I am not thrilled that WHO seems to be turning into a vehicle for star turns. It makes one weep for the days of Pertwee and the Brigadeer in glorious black & white when the matrons of the shires were urging us to turn the nasty, scary programme off and go outside and play nicely.

I'm sorry to hear that you're giving up the keys to the castle Ady, but I'm not really surprised since things change and life moves on and priorities have to change. Anyhow, you can be proud of raising this pheonix out of the dust and debris of the old art asylum forum, and have established a place for the minimates people to hang out. Shanester's a thoroughly good egg and will do you proud. I will continue to drop by when my increasingly manic life permits it (aren't you lucky), but I wish you well for the future. JulesXXX

^^^Maybe, it's supposed to be the equivalent of the Ancient Roman method of mopping up with sponges on sticks! ...............Only you can guess where to shove the sticks!!

I'm always having to put the seat down............ Hi, I'm female ~ or was the last time I looked ~ I saunter by occasionally. Welcome. You are not quite alone.

Ewwww Just their bums? What if they have a great bums, yet look like a horse? Thongs: any underwear that has to be surgically removed at the end of the day is a bad idea. Okay, I can't resist this one ~ do you mean ladies' products specifically, or just any kind of mopping-up equipment? I only ask because toilet paper adverts make me gyp. I mean what the HELL do labrador puppies have to do with wiping your arse, and what the hell is with the adjective "kitten-soft" when applied to loo roll? If I's ever been moved to wipe my arse with a kitten and keen to repeat the experience I may understand. But really.............

A year already! How quickly time flies! Congratulations to Ady and the the rest of the staff in really making a go of this forum!

^^^Yes I agree. I think it's funny whe fans are getting blamed for not being excited over this project (like we can help how we feel) by fans who are overexcited by it. While they cite a lack of knowledge to be depressed about, that also goes for the happy campers. My feeling is that this movie has fallen into some kind of developmental hell. There's a lot of talk, but no discernable action. How the hell can anyone be booking soundstages over at Paramount for May when they don't even have a cast?

^^^Well I have to say that when TWOK came out I was overall very impressed with the visual makeover from TMP. Those uniforms looked practical and a good approximation of what a futuristic military uniform would be like. A lot of fans at the time grumbled about the more 'militaristic' feel of TWOK but I approved of the really visceral way that TWOK made me feel how very dangerous a place outer space can be. That first clash with Khan in the Reliant was awesome and properly bloody. That was a real shot in the arm for Trek.

^^^Well one thing's for certain, if they want this alleged reimagination to fly, they're going to have to ditch that primary colour, retro velour pyjama nonsence and give us ships and uniforms that look the business. The look of TOS is the first thing I would toss into the skip!

Well, anyone from the old AA days knows that this is not the way I wanted this to go, but if that's what I'm stuck with then I'll try to do my best to embrace it, but I really do expect the writers to be true to their word and actually reimagine TOS and make this return to the past worthwhile. NuBSG has set the bar really high for reimaginings, and as far as I'm concerned recasts of the old characters have to be more than just pale lookalikes of the main characters, and some of those characters will have to change, otherwise we'll end up with a stale flat remake. I looked at the newly revamped title of this thread and thought it read "Colourless" LOL ~ and I thought to myself, hmmmmmmm, this news has left me feeling somewhat....beige! Being not one of the "narrow-minded trekkies" or "continuity freaks" myself, I am now keeping my fingers crossed that my excitement galnds will be stimulated by some evidence that the writers will start thinking outside of the box and not just remake all the previous episodes in movie format. I would rather see this movie as a spin-off from TOS that heads in a totally new ~ albeit parallel direction. I want something that feels different and looks different, and moves well away from a blokish obsession with Kirk as hero (real men don't need them) and miniskirts. I'm looking for a strong female role in here, and not some ironed-barnet, mocha, R&B babe simpering away in Uhura's chair, and I think we can lose the role of a female yeoman altogther. Oh, and BTW PL, I'm not certain that emotive rhetoric about "trekkies" isn't going to further fracture the existing fanbase ~ if not polarise it altogether! That's not a bad idea PL. And I have to agree with you that ~ as my favourite Trek ~ DS9 was a stand-alone series, and probably the most 'evolved' Trek of all. Voyager and Enterprise were always going to suffer in comparison. Oh..............if only! Now that might make me feel a little less beige!

.........and that is precisely why this project is probably doomed! :tongue: Paramount didn't learn that lesson from Nemesis did they? And as for this being a 'prequel'............check this out. http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news...icle/46176.html It's just another Hollywood rehash er sorry 'remake'. To say this project leaves me feeling unexcited would be a serious understatement. The idea of 'boldy going where no man has gone before' has flown right out of the window. I could even live with this lack of imagination and effort if I thought Abrams' crew might offer up an interesting new angle on TOS with some radical recasting, and dispense with some of the racial and sexual stereotyping that Roddenberry got stuck with just to get his show aired in the 60s, but I don't even see that happening. I think even the suggestion of any 'reimagining' is just phooey. I've seen TOS already, I don't need to see it again with new faces.

Yeah, we'll endeavour to behave and make your lives as boring as possible! :tongue: Congratulations all! :tongue:

Now you've really got me wondering! :tongue: As an American friend once said to me when I was determined to have 'closure' on something entirely unrelated to any message board ~ but in the real world ~ "Jules, we have a saying: you can't argue with City Hall!" In Britain, we don't have City Halls, but I really got the point: you can make your case known, but it probably won't change a damn thing, and in the end that's the only satisfaction you ever get. Once upon a time, being beyond anger at the way my ten year-old daughter was treated by the headmaster of her previous school, I demanded a meeting with him and ignoring the fact that this guy thought he could turn me round in ten minutes, I sat in his office for a full 45 minutes telling him exactly what I thought of his autocratic, bullying, arrogant ways, and argued him into the ground. It made fuck-all difference in the end, but I enjoyed making him feel very uncomfortable even though I knew I probably wouldn't get him to change. It's best to regard the various threads over at AA in the same vein. People have aired their grievances over there and they have largely been supported by the memebership. But nothing will happen, and nothing will change, but you can bet it made a few people over there uncomfortable, so it's a result of a kind. Let's be satisfied with acheiving that. Crikey, if the penny hasn't dropped by now, it never will, but things have gone as far as they can. The AA forum is dead ~ it just doesn't know it yet. It needs an exorcist to help it pass over to the other side :tongue: :tongue:

^^^Yep! There's an entire 'seduction' sequence on Mark's site, and they also appear as part of the ongoing "Shinzon Diaries" on one of Tom Hardy's fansites. I got good mileage out of those! :tongue:

^^^Hey Donster, no worries........you knows I lub you! I wasn't sitting here feeling whipped or anything! I think AA should can its forum because it ain't working. The heart and soul has never come back since it got yanked, and I know to my own cost how you can't express an opinion that isn't wholly ecstatic there without getting lashed by some troll. The forum doesn't give its members any information that you can't get elsewhere first, and I'm not wholly convinced that 'licensing terms' keep AA from disseminating new information directly to the punters on that forum, because the information seems to appear first in so many other places. So, my point? The two resaons why AA might maintain a forum are actually defunct, and the company ought now to direct its energies into mainataining the actual website as the company's shop window to the world. That has never been anything like as impressive as it ought to be.

^^^Yeah, I'd second that. Join us here, or in any of the other places old AA members have moved to in order to discuss their love of toys! I reckon you'll find life far more fulfilling as an ordinary member. And Deadpool's right, no one can fix the AA forum ~ as I realised back in December. I dunno what it is about that forum, but it seems to send ordinary folks ....squirly! Away from that place we all get on famously.

I've been playing with my toys again....

Sorry guys, I didn't mean to rip off the band aid or anything. I was lurking to see if they'd finally deleted my account after two months, and I saw that comment from Brandon. Its peevish tone amused me no end, and truly I believe that we can afford to look back and shrug and smile 'cos we are so waaaaaaaaaaay past caring now, ain't we? :biggrin:

Brandon responds!!! :tongue: You guys are going to love this............. http://artasylum.com/forum/index.php?topic=791.0 :tongue: :tongue: Could this be the end of the AA forum???

^^^Please, please, PLEASE! Show us the letter! :tongue:

Toy 'Karma'............as in 'Sutra'?????????? :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: But seriously, this is a lovely thread, and you've got to love a guy who keeps a stash of toys at work! I say that is you're tired of toys then you're tired of life. and I've certainly been having some fun with my toys recently! Too bad my family doesn't share my passion for plastic, but hey, I've got a little nephew who shows terrific nerd-potential, and I'm soing all I can to nuture it! Hey, MRPL, that Hellboy the Donster got you, that wasn't the 8" Club Mezco Exclusive was it? If it was, then you are one lucky man!