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Post by Jon on May 11, 2024 17:42:12 GMT
Kind of weird to have a Beatles episode with no Beatles music but apparently it's very expensive to license.
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Post by nick on May 11, 2024 18:18:14 GMT
Kind of weird to have a Beatles episode with no Beatles music but apparently it's very expensive to license. But was the Chord the last note of A Day In The Life? Sounded like it. I suppose you don't have to license a chord? |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2024 23:24:37 GMT
They could have used the opening chord from a Hard Day's Night I suppose.
Using characters like the Beatles could the living members or the estates of the deceased ones have objected to their likeness being used I wonder?
Using original music can be very expensive but having someone cover it would make it cheaper or they could have had the Beatles doing one of their early rock and roll covers.
I like how Ncuti dresses differently for the various eras. A lot of former Drs have stayed in their usual ensembles whilst the sidekicks would dress "era specific".
Jinx's character can surely return in due course and you have another good recurring villain
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Post by nick on May 13, 2024 16:52:10 GMT
My theory is that this entire series is in an alternative universe so things will look different. There have been clues like the butterfly.
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Post by danb on May 27, 2024 16:14:28 GMT
Loved the Ruby-centric episode this week. I did wonder if she’d be chasing herself but at least it wasn’t that obvious. (Great to see Aneurin Barnard again, although I’d rather see him on Sunday night at the Spring Awakening reunion).
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jun 22, 2024 1:54:53 GMT
A mixed season overall. No spoilers here for the final episode.
Other than they got the sound mix badly wrong. The underscore music was far too prominent in the mix. The dialogue was frequently obscured by the orchestral swell.
Gatwa's diction didn't help.
I did spend a lot of time adjusting the volume to try to catch stuff and failed.
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Post by vdcni on Jun 22, 2024 22:24:56 GMT
Generally I enjoyed this series. Bonnie was the highlight in the finale but a great performance from Gatwa who was very clear all series but the last episode was a disaster.
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Post by danb on Jun 23, 2024 17:31:25 GMT
The last episode was indeed a disaster! Crappy CGI dusty dog monster, who may well have appeared before in a Tom Baker story, but hasn’t been referenced since! Assuming that your viewer is an avid geek of the show, and remembers a call back from forty odd years ago is reaching of the highest order. The result was beyond meh, and did Gatwa’s run a disservice. I appreciated Ruby’s story not being linked to anything else, and just being given the space to resolve itself. Ruby was ace, Bonnie was ace, Jemma was ace, Dobson was a mystery, but most of all I loved Gatwa. I just wish he’d been given better stuff to work with.
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