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I suspect that the foxes, badgers, hedgehogs and squirrels in the John Lewis advert are CGI.

Surely if they were real the actual outcome wouldn't be cute furry trampoline fun, but more... gruesome bloodbath, no?

Now, that would be one hell of a Christmas advert!

:evil: :lol:

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I suspect that the foxes, badgers, hedgehogs and squirrels in the John Lewis advert are CGI.

Surely if they were real the actual outcome wouldn't be cute furry trampoline fun, but more... gruesome bloodbath, no?

Now, that would be one hell of a Christmas advert!

:evil: :lol:


John Lewis have done an advert? <blank look>

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John_Vella wrote:
I suspect that the foxes, badgers, hedgehogs and squirrels in the John Lewis advert are CGI.

Surely if they were real the actual outcome wouldn't be cute furry trampoline fun, but more... gruesome bloodbath, no?

Now, that would be one hell of a Christmas advert!

:evil: :lol:


John Lewis have done an advert? <blank look>


Yes, they have, and it's HERE

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I suspect that the foxes, badgers, hedgehogs and squirrels in the John Lewis advert are CGI.

Surely if they were real the actual outcome wouldn't be cute furry trampoline fun, but more... gruesome bloodbath, no?

Now, that would be one hell of a Christmas advert!

:evil: :lol:

I wonder how many takes they went through before deciding cgi was better than cleaning up.

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John_Vella wrote:
I suspect that the foxes, badgers, hedgehogs and squirrels in the John Lewis advert are CGI.

Surely if they were real the actual outcome wouldn't be cute furry trampoline fun, but more... gruesome bloodbath, no?

Now, that would be one hell of a Christmas advert!

:evil: :lol:

I wonder how many takes they went through before deciding cgi was better than cleaning up.
Behind the scenes of the John Lewis Christmas advert

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John_Vella wrote:
I suspect that the foxes, badgers, hedgehogs and squirrels in the John Lewis advert are CGI.

Surely if they were real the actual outcome wouldn't be cute furry trampoline fun, but more... gruesome bloodbath, no?

Now, that would be one hell of a Christmas advert!

:evil: :lol:

I wonder how many takes they went through before deciding cgi was better than cleaning up.
Behind the scenes of the John Lewis Christmas advert

Mark


THAT'S IT! CHRISTMAS IS OFFICIALLY RUINED! LET'S ALL GO HOME AND NEVER SPEAK OF THIS AGAIN! </joking>

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CHRISTMAS IS OFFICIALLY RUINED!
Hooray!
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Booooo!

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That Offspring that Carolyn recommends, what a drama!! almost Eastenderish in cliffhanger of doom proportions.

In other news I'm enjoying Westworld and surprised nobody else mentions it.


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In other news I'm enjoying Westworld and surprised nobody else mentions it.
It is on my radar, but I simply haven't had the time to watch it recently.
Between watching stuff with my partner - who doesn't do sci-fi as much as she does horror (and who also has an aversion to westerns) - and catching up with The Walking Dead season 6, and catching up with The Flash from the very start of that show - my TV watching time has all been taken up.
I'll get around to it, probably when it's all over and I can sweep through the first season all in one go.

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All I know so far is that Mark, Jimmy Olsen and Peter Parker use Nikon and everybody else seems to use Canon.
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Yes, they have, and it's HERE


Sarcasm JV, sarcasm. I am allergic to Christmas adverts, or any adverts to be fair, and avoid them like the plague :roll:

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That Offspring that Carolyn recommends, what a drama!! almost Eastenderish in cliffhanger of doom proportions.

In other news I'm enjoying Westworld and surprised nobody else mentions it.


But are you enjoying it? I've watched them all now, even series 6. I laughed and cried. Loved it! Can't wait for the next series.


I'm watching Westworld too. Episode 7 is supposed to drop more information that's easily missed but I haven't checked what as I don't want to spoil it.

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I know there's a little bit of discussion about this in the Star Trek : Discovery thread, but I'd like to bring that discussion over the here if that's okay - not wanting to derail that thread.

I've been watching the first season of The Expanse (as I write this I have only the last two episodes to go) and it's sitting in a very odd place with me.
It has all the elements of a sci-fi show that I like - and it's enough of a different entity than say Person of Interest or Sense 8 or Orphan Black or Fringe to get my interests (not that I dislike those shows, because I don't!), space based TV sci-fi is a little thin on the grounds these days.
I don't know what it is that has me wavering over this show, it has some of the best character interactions this side of the Firefly cancellation and I'm totally sold on Thomas Jane's police character - I still think Thomas Jane would make the best Connor MacLeod in the forever delayed Highlander reebot - yet there's something that just holds me back from enthusing about it like others seem to be.
It has elements that are all too familiar to me - all the worldbuilding scenes on Ceres feels like it could've been lifted from a number of other shows/films, and at the same time, I can't think where I might've seen them all put together like presented in this show.
Likewise with the politics of the UN scenes set on Earth, or even the space scenes.

I think that's part of the problem I have with the show, it all seems familiar from lots of other things I've seen before, but I just haven't seen them presented all together in the same universe before - for whatever reason.
I don't dislike the show. It's not that I'm writing this through lack of understanding of the worldbuilding processes that sci-fi films and TV have to go through, especially one that's an extrapolation of our present world, but there's just so much familiarity with the world that's presented here - which I don't think is a problem of the show, if it was I don't think I'd have made it this far through it.
I guess I just have to let my baggage go and fully immerse in the world being presented, maybe then I'll enjoy it for what it is and stop thinking of other sci-fi that it resembles.

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I enjoyed `The Expanse. The last episodes are the best, in a 'woah, what the **** just happened?' kind of way.


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I've been watching the first season of The Expanse.....


Maybe say where you're watching it? Anyway I've found it on Netflix and I have actually watched some of the first episode already. I shall continue when I get the chance. Watching it with the other half so will have to be when we're in the same room etc

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