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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Dec 18, 2002
Haven't seen the others for a long time, and I only saw the first half hour of the last crusade last night.
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Dec 19, 2002
They're good though.
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Dec 19, 2002
you're up early
, I like a good action film, have you seen Vertical Limit, Chris O'Donnell and Bill Paxton, it's good if you don't mind heights
Reefgirl
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Dec 19, 2002
No I haven't, I watched the TV series a couple of times, do you ever see the Brother Cadfael stories on TV?
Reefgirl
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Dec 19, 2002
I saw most of them recently, they're pretty good.
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Dec 19, 2002
My mum has a lot of the books, did you ever see Derek Jacobi in I Claudiaus he was really good in that, do you like detective stories, if you do try Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey stories, they're a bit hard going but the detail is fabulous.
Reefgirl
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Dec 19, 2002
I'm not really in to detective books. I prefer Scifi.
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Dec 19, 2002
The Sci-fi books I read are usually the TV tie-ins they are usually pretty good, cos they can go into a little more detail, the Babylon 5 and Star Trek ones are good and so are the Star Wars ones.
Reefgirl
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Dec 21, 2002
Have you read "how much for just the planet"?
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Dec 21, 2002
It's sort of the Hitchhikers' Guide to the galaxy starring captain Kirk and a N'gaan flavoured milkshake. It's really funny.
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Oct 21, 2003
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AliciaDavison Posted Oct 22, 2003
Unfortunately over here we never really had the radio series in the form that you have had in Britain. Our series' usually consist of a five minute comedy thing on the radio in the morning.
Having grown up with television and seeing what television has turned in to today, I have to say I'm not impressed. There's just so much rubbish out there now and we tend to get flooded with a lot of US television which, to me and I mean no offence by this, seems to be very dummed down. Everything has to be explained and there are no surprises.
I've listened to the radio version of Hitchhikers recently and I loved it. I also collect the Doctor Who audios and I think they would make such good radio plays. I think there is much more scope to the imagination with radio. When I listen to the Doctor Who audios I imagine the scene as I'm hearing it. I imagine what the room they're in might look like, what the Doctor's expression might be as he's trying to convince the bad guy to give up. There have been some really dramatic well paced scenes that, in my opinion, if I had have seen on the television, might have disappointed me, but to be able to imagine the action myself, it's been 100 times better. Drama and guesswork seem to have been taken out of television these days and I find myself retiring to my room to listen to a good audio more and more.
Has anyone else found this?
Alicia
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