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ART, SEX, & PSYCHOMAGIC

Glasgow, Scotland Katılım Eylül 2012
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@okeechoBree I’m not making out you’re pro-oppression, cool your jets. Clara doesn’t kill the Silence in the Papal Mainframe, so I think we can safely assume that people don’t randomly kill the nice ones. Just the baddies. Thankfully it’s fiction, so we can just imagine that’s how it works
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Bree Gold📚
Bree Gold📚@okeechoBree·
@cursttrap Idgaf about the oppressive sect of silence I care about free will and the innocent silence who are condemned to die if they ever encounter a human out in space one day in the future lmao but sure make me pro-oppression
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Bree Gold📚
Bree Gold📚@okeechoBree·
Not to be the Too woke friend but this scene is batshit crazy it glorifies the Doctor erasing the entirety of humanity’s free will and ordering them to commit genocide. Like every single person forever will violently attack a particular race on sight with no control over it.
Matthew@DiscipleOfBrad

Still gives me chills

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Making Blake's 7 / WHO FX
Making Blake's 7 / WHO FX@Blakes7Diary·
The first in a series of articles to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Doctor Who TV Movie is now live on Substack. Find out all about the Daleks that never quite made it to our screens! Link below ⬇️ #DoctorWho #PaulMcGann
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@Blakes7Diary Could’ve asked your little AI chatbot to come up with a better response than that, surely?
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@Blakes7Diary It wouldn’t have ever looked like this though, would it? Because the AI programme you’ve used is quite clearly taking design elements from the 2000s and beyond. These kind of problems happen when you lack the talent to create your own stuff though, I understand.
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@bobizgrate @IrenaPumices But SNL/ Late Show/The Simpsons are “sad public institutions” that are still ongoing. So their current output is still feeding into that reputation, which totally changes how that public relationship functions. There are no new Python bits to talk about. It’s just dead parrots.
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Bob@bobizgrate·
@cursttrap @IrenaPumices Well the public do. The whole point is about the public's relationship with them.
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Drew Panoply 🝐
Drew Panoply 🝐@IrenaPumices·
this is a distinct phenomenon from, say, The Simpsons peristing far beyond its peak. because of how they get written, American cultural televisual institutions have this skin-walker quality, where they trade on legacy long after the people who made them good have moved on or died
Drew Panoply 🝐@IrenaPumices

one of the worst things about Britain, which I do not think America shares, is that we turn things that were interesting once into insufferable public institutions that grow sadder over time. I liked Monty Python as a child, but I would be happy never to hear it referenced again.

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@bobizgrate @IrenaPumices But who turned them into “sad institutions”? Look at the process of how each programme got to be that way, and please *try* and see the difference
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Bob@bobizgrate·
@cursttrap @IrenaPumices Because it is another example of "something that was once interesting that is now an [arguably] sad institution". But one in the US. When the original post said it was a particularly British thing.
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@bobizgrate @IrenaPumices But, you’re the one making the SNL comparison to Python. I don’t think they’re alike in any way. I’m not angry, I’m frustrated. You don’t even know what the phenomenon being described is. The Late Show?! Why did you bring up The Late Show?!
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Bob@bobizgrate·
@cursttrap @IrenaPumices I don't, I feel like something is being made out to be a British phenomenon and saying it isn't, it happens in America too. If you don't know about the SNL sketches that are quoted, you can't make the comparison to Python. No need to get angry, mate.
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@bobizgrate @IrenaPumices Who gives a shit about SNL? I don’t even know what that first one you’re referencing is. Again, I feel like you think I’m dissing Monty Python - I’m really not, I think it’s brilliant. What’s depressing is how OTHER PEOPLE have bastardised what was once brilliant.
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Bob@bobizgrate·
@cursttrap @IrenaPumices I think a lot of people would put the old sketches that people still think of - eh "Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Cheeseburger" or "More Cowbell" - in a similar category.
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@bobizgrate @IrenaPumices Which is a bit bizarre because both myself and the original poster are quite clearly also British. It’s not a case of UK vs America, it’s just observation about the way the two countries interact with their media. Stand down mate.
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@bobizgrate @IrenaPumices No idea why you’re making some reference to cancel culture. I suspect it’s because you don’t actually understand what point is being made. I get the impression you’re just mindlessly trying to defend British stuff by saying “Oh but America does whatever this is too!”
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Bob@bobizgrate·
@cursttrap @IrenaPumices His assertion was that it is particularly British to turn something that was once interesting into an "institution".
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@bobizgrate @IrenaPumices Also, truly baffling examples to compare with Monty Python and the work Douglas Adams! Feel like you’ve just plucked two random TV shows that’ve been going for years without thinking about it!
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@bobizgrate @IrenaPumices These are still programmes that are being made. I put it to you again; they’re not still making episodes of Flying Circus, are they Bob?
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@bobizgrate @IrenaPumices British institutions are zombified by the public, while American institutions are zombified by the networks - to really simplify it.
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@bobizgrate @IrenaPumices No, that’s not what they’re saying. They’re saying that British institutions become mythologised, and (in the case of Python) the viewing public turned what was once exciting and interesting into a set of quotes and references, to be (dead) parroted until they’re no longer funny.
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Bob@bobizgrate·
@IrenaPumices So what is your analysis of how that differs from, say, Monty Python?
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