Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: solar penguin Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who S01E02 The Devil's Chord Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 09:53:31 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 11:53:31 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5ee25d8535b7a89008a388ceb10181a8"; logging-data="2081940"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18GQ0rlUfjD/Smc669RJFoTX+SDtICr9JQ=" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wIfLmuv6Fli4t6Hai+TyNVL6Nt8= sha1:AQqBAGPd0+GU8JpJM61cQdMm9B4= Bytes: 2550 The True loon tried to make us learn a lesson: > > Gibson wants Gatwa to take her to see the Beatles recording their first > album at Abbey Road, and the Beatles are made to look like morons that > have no idea how to write good music. Then Cilla Black starts singing > into a U47 turned sideways with the diaphragm facing away from her > mouth. If the U47 was the multi-pattern version that lets you select a > figure 8 polar pattern then it wouldn't have picked up a single thing > she was singing if that was the pattern set. Was this deliberate in > order to demean Cilla Black or a production error? If you’re going to point out historical mistakes, there’s a much, much bigger one than minor details technical about the recording equipment. If that was London in early 1963, then why wasn’t there snow piled up on the ground everywhere? This was the worst winter of the 20th century, but no sign of that in the episode! Even if you try to blame it on Maestro changing history, that just opens up more problems. As the Doctor explains to Ruby, he lived through the original version of this time. He should’ve been surprised and confused when he stepped out of the TARDIS and found the wrong weather. And he definitely shouldn’t’ve let Ruby go out in clothes more suitable for summer than a cold February. Those would’ve been genuine, serious complaints about the episode. But instead you ignore them silly, irrelevant details. You really need to learn to look beyond your own personal obsessions! -- solar penguin