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....its hardly art now is it.

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That depends entirely on how much clothing she was wearing!

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I was going to a musical ff, for my wedding anniversary

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Sorry for the Off Topic, But Blimey, one year already??

I know, crazy isn't it how time flies...

@Esquilax, it can stand alone i think ti is better than most sci-fi shows out there, it has depth and while some may see it as run of the mill it is one of the few shows that has good strong characters that are more than a few well phrased lines. I will put it to you this way 11 episodes aired in 2002 in the US but many millions of fans have gone on to buy the DVDs, the show has grown to such a fan-base that the SCI-Fi networked picked up all 14 episodes to air. So go see this movie it won't dissapoint, almost every critic recommends it and none i have watched or read can say this movie has no appeal. So it is worth the money nad time. Not mention you may find a new universe to play in.


and congrats on the one year, great job

Thanks for that Impera. Hmm, I may have to look into acquiring the DVDs for some weeknight viewin'. After all, there's nothing worth watching on Aus. television and hasn't been for a long time .

oh yeh? what about..

Skippy
Flying Doctors
that thing about the big family in Victorian Times
Skippy

see? Aus telly, full of choice and discovery..

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that thing about the big family in Victorian Times

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now, are you confusing "How we used to live" with "The Sullivans"? The former was the programme that followed the victorian family through a period of about 50 years, ending up at the end of world war 2....but I'm pretty sure that was british...the later was the soap-type programme that followed rainbow at 12.30 and followed a family through world war 2...but even though aussie, I'm pretty sure it wasn't pre-war.

Or are you talking about something else?

Yeah, but them programs is all old skool! I'm talkin' 'bout *modern* shows. *Dispenses with annoying accent* They may be classics Taw, but how often do they replay shows like "Skippy", etc here in Aus.? I'll tell ye, *very* rarely! And how do you two know about those shows? Aside from that internationally-aimed propaganda called "Skippy" () I wasn't aware that those shows had an international audience.

Ok, I just saw it and I have to say the screenplay, if nothing else, was brilliant. Acting for some parts (Summer Glau, Nathan Fillion, and Chiwetel Ejiofor especially) was pretty damn good, and the visuals on the Reevers were stunning. Great movie!

My only complaint is that the crew seemed a bit of a Matrix ripoff. That, and the fact that there wasn't enough of Sean Maher's sexy body on camera.

not the Sullivans, that was ITV, set around and during WW2. there was another series on BBC (kids show) about this huge family in this rambling house in the Blue Mountains, the dad was some British colonel of the 19th century, he'd takewn his tribe to live there, the eldest girl was a bit of a rebel (she ended up dying when the baby nearly got killed by a tree) - probably before your time. can't remember what it was called. it was a bit like a kids version of The Thorn Birds or The Flame Trees of Thika.

Esq - something had to fill up those hours on a Sunday morning and during holidays when there weren't even home-grown or Yankee shows to go round. the BBC tried Czech and Polish cartoons like Worker Robot v Capitalist Robot, and Carry On Down The Collective Farm, and there was even an effort with French Saturday matinee mini-series, which you usually joined at ep 26 when Ahmed was about to be abducted in the baddie's Citroen van that he'd stowed away in after running away from the pirates who'd kidnapped him from his uncle's melon farm. However such determined efforts to break away from the pattern of filling dead time with antipodean culture failed, Skippy had already blazed a trail for cheesey down-under plots. Many a happy hour was spent by British children trying to the train the dog to come heel by blowing through a privet leaf and saying "g'day" "cobber" "sport" "Skeep" although it tended not to work when you called your mum "Sheila". We did however have our own *down-under* show in the form of the legendary Tingha & Tucker and *Auntie* Jean Morton - this was however religious propoaganda in the form of children's entertainment. Recently I discovered that Tingha converted to Islam and is now known as Yussef al-Tinga, whereas Tucker fell into a drink and drugs hell and has been in rehab for years now. Auntie Jean ran off with someone we know all too well.

at least Lassie got reincarnated. Skippy got stuffed. You know they made her (because she was a she, not a he as the porog would have you believe) talk via eleastic bands wrapped round her muzzle and tongue.

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the BBC tried Czech and Polish cartoons

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aah so true. remember The Moomins on ITV? Lordy, that used to freak me out.

As for the programme you described, it does ring a bell, but for some reason the only name that springs to mind is "Heidi"

it wsnt Heidi. anyway Heidi doesn't die, she goes back to Grandfather, and it's set in Swiss Switzerkand amongst toblerones and cuckoo-clocks, not Orstrayluh.

the Moomins still freak me out a bit, theyre very odd. Mrs Taw loves em though. but the Moomins were Scandinavian I think (Finland?) not Eastern European. I was thinking of Hero Worker Mouse v. Evil Capitalist Exploiter Cat, critically acclaimed at the 36th Party Congress and winner of the 1963 Workers Award for Socialist Culture.

or that bizarre thing with the Mole.

I shouldnt really laugh at them, I enjoyed them at the time cos they were so different from Tom & Jerry or Bugs or Daffy. And there was The Bluebird of Happiness which was an all-star Soviet/US production, and I thought it was brilliant.

hmm can't think of any other kids progs from Orstralyuh.

Ya know, I always thought The Moomins were Czech...as it turns out, you're correct in saying that the author was finnish, but the production I was thinking of was German/Polish. Very eastern european looking it was.

Moomin Facts

The only other aussie programme that I can think of is that one with the gang of kids who lived in a big fort and rode around on quads - lucky buggers - can't remember the name, but it was a bit like The Red Hand Gang on a beach.

...Heidi wasn't australian??!!

that you can link so quickly to a Moomins website is in itself highly disturbing.

anyhoo, getting back onto something more like the subject, I just picked up the entire collection of U.F.O. on DvD, which I'm rather pleased about. I can carry on lusting after Wanda Ventham and Gabrielle Drake now. Oddly, Wanda was a full colonel in S.H.A.D.O just like Alec and Foster, yet all she ever did was bring Straker brews and memos. At least Gaby got to launch Interceptors and talk to S.I.D.


Wanda Ventham as Col Virginia Lake, the highest-ranking brew-maker in sci-fi..



Edited by - .Tawakalna on 10/10/2005 9:09:47 AM