Koldov

Bit disappointed in both the latest film (although it was OK for a basic Horror flick) and TV series of Resident Evil. Maybe I'm just missing Milla Jovovich...

Yeah, I mean it's always been a thing... Maybe I just watched too many one after the other!

I guess it may come down to that in the end sometimes... You can get a great actor who plays the part well but looks nothing like the character, or a terrible actor who looks exactly as they should.

I see your point, as that's only say 50 miles apart and yet there is a difference (as a Sassenach I'm not sure I'd be really able to tell the difference between the Edinburgh and Glasgow accents though)... but those accents are really much older than American accents and at the time they were formed, 50 miles was probably quite a distance and not many people really travelled those sorts of distances and so they could form in relative isolation. Within the USA, possibly not. A much younger country with those sorts of distances travelled more often (it may be a false impression, but I've always felt Americans treat internal flights like we do trains or buses) because I think it's less city to city and more state to state (which are much larger than an equivalent regional variance in dialect in the UK). As everything is on a much larger scale, I guess you have to go further to see (hear) a difference?

FTFY! Agree with all of the above... shame my free month of Paramount will run out soon... but at least I finally got through Discovery! Also watching 'The Man Who Fell To Earth'... which is .... OK. I think some shows suffer from the 'are we going to get another season?' syndrome... It's got to be written in a way that leaves questions for the next season, trouble is a lot of shows then get cancelled. Big set up for a reveal in season 4 and get cancelled after 3, or just aren't written to be done in one season with a second already written but it never gets filmed. Sometimes it suffers the other way round and the seasons are actually just made up as they go along, so you know there is no real long term story arc (the shows that suffered a while back from the writers strike made me realise that) or although there may be some overarching principles of what the characters should behave like and there may be an ending they are supposed to get to, it isn't like a book adaptation, so there is nobody making sense of how they get there and they have to write the next season saying.... "ok so how do we get character 'A' into situation 'B' with no need to mandate what will happen after because it isn't even written yet... But never mind, I mean it was all a dream... right? I do agree quite strongly with the 'real world' situation comment... (although it has long been a tradition to shout at your telly when something so blatantly obvious is about to happen and everybody except the character can obviously tell). The well established trope 'you MUST trip over if you are being chased in the woods', or never go in a group or 4 or 5 teenagers to a remote house for the holidays etc... are so tired that it makes me mad when big shows use them. There have been so many occasions where pretty much the whole story would be undone if someone just said (or did) that one thing, which in reality most people would actually say (or do) given the situation... Then there is what I call forced jeopardy... such as when there is actually no need for a situation to have happened or for a character to be that situation but it has to (I mean seriously you would NOT go in there... NOBODY would go in there...), because without it the story would be wrapped up in 5 minutes. Not sure I should admit it, but I have a pet hate at the moment where a lot of the shows I'm watching (Voyager, Orville etc.) have characters introduced, or long term characters put into situations, or even have episodes specifically written only to deal with the 'issue' of the day. Most of them appear to be social issues based around gender identity, race, sexual orientation etc.... and whilst I applaud the fact that popular TV should be dealing with such things, it just seems that the writers have been told that X character needs to be Y thing and there needs to be a situation developed in the next episode to address it and have it all wrapped up, explained (to those of us that need such things explaining) and concluded in a PC way showing we can all get along by the end of the show (or it isn't bad to be a certain way, or feel a certain way) all good, noble and laudable endeavours of course... But the characters themselves are often stereotypical and it's all a bit blatantly in your face and unnecessarily created exclusively to highlight the 'issue' and not an integral part of the character's development (imho), it's not what I want to watch escapist, fantasy sci-fi for... well, save that for Eastenders (so I can happily NOT watch it)... I know the characters are supposed to be portraying believable (ish) 'real people' and 'real people' have those sorts of issues I guess, but it has been done (to death) before... Alien race 1 hates alien race 2 and has 'forever' because of what one did to the other, but to complete this mission we have to find common ground.... and they do... and they forget about all the war and hatred that's been festering for millennia (in 50 minutes), because they're not really all 'bad' guys and they didn't think of looking at it from the other's point of view etc...

I think 'original' American accents differ wildly, someone from downtown New York sounds a lot different to a Texan... and I'm sure Americans can tell where another American is from just by their accent, just as we can about other people in England. You can end up with a homogenised view of them though as most American TV shows have actors with an 'average' American accent (unless where they're from is a big part of the character). I guess with Carl Urban (he's from New Zealand... They have a Union Jack in their flag... So he's almost British, right?) playing someone from England and doing a Cockney (ish) accent probably sounded spot on to the American casting agents.... We all either sound like the Queen or someone who was born in the 1950s within earshot of the Bow Bells...

Yeah that could stray into territory that is beyond the scope of this thread, probably many a long and intense discussion elsewhere in 'Gammon Land' about it I'm sure... obviously it's done for $reasons and that means we have to accept they have no intention of trying to represent the original description of the character. But I'm talking about those that are just blatantly wrong for no obvious reason (possibly apart from getting a big name actor)... Yeah I guess even voice 'actors' can have the same issues... The OH is an avid audiobook listener and sometimes complains that the reader has spoiled it as it wasn't the voice she 'heard' in her head whilst reading the original... I guess that's a completely different thing though unless the character is from a particular country/region, or has been described as having a particular accent and that is ignored. I take it you've seen 'The Boys'... 'nuff said... Talking of which (steering clear of colour/race/ethnicity) etc. But it seems that there is a real problem of say English actors being cast as Americans (or the other way around), sorry for any of you who like actors that do this... It honestly makes me cringe (almost to Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins levels) when I hear their accents and I just think, 'why couldn't you get an actual American/English/Scottish/Irish actor to play that part'? Obviously these are just ones I pick up on as I'm most familiar with them...

Just for a fun discussion (obviously there will be a lot of 'opinion') but some are just out and out wrong, not because of the acting as such, just that the characters are nothing like the actual characters as described in black and white in the book (or actually shown in the case of a game)... This of course relies heavily of the observer having read the book or played the game obviously... if they haven't it wouldn't even matter to them obviously (which is what I think some rely on as they just want the 'big name' actor to draw viewers regardless of alienating the original fan base). My OH always brings up the terrible casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat in 'Interview with the Vampire' (I always thought it was called Interview with a Vampire)... Anyway... Lestat describes himself as six feet tall. He has blond hair that is not quite shoulder length, and that is rather curly, which sometimes appears white under fluorescent lighting. His eyes are gray, but they reflect the colors of blue or violet easily from surfaces around them. His nose is fairly short and narrow, while his mouth is well shaped 'though slightly too large for his face', his skin deathly white. Certainly not describing Tom Cruise there are they (even in a wig).... On the other hand when I saw Kathy Bates portraying Annie Wilkes in the film of 'Misery'... it was like they pulled her out of my mind and put her on the screen. Not just the look though, the voice, the mannerisms, everything!

Wasn't there a post recently about how many schools they had just taken on? Seems there is a lot to be said for the near vertical climb their platform has had to scale up to recently?

Appreciate the sentiment, but apart from feeling like I'd need a wooden leg, eye patch and a hook (Arrrrrrrrrrrrr).... Think I'm going to pass.... not only am I not comfortable with the possibility of breaking the whole network, I'm not at the stage of desperation where I could justify downloading (and install on my network) anything from a site that looks like this!

There are quite a few 'interesting' smells in the corridors and classrooms. There are always kids that smell bad (not necessarily due to the heat), but it is making it much, much worse...

Well... I wasn't hungry until I read that...

I have not upgraded the firmware on the switches, I am keeping IE11 on my work laptop to connect.

Sometimes I'm glad I got rid of our old car... leather seats... scorching in summer (almost to skin melting temps) and freezing in winter! Just had a windscreen replaced due to a chip turning into a 6 inch crack whilst sitting in the car park...

Depends, but over a certain age collars and cuffs tend to sync up (errrr... or so I've heard)... and in any case, I'm not sure offering any sort of visual verification would aid his entry into a cinema... quite the opposite in fact! Although I'm sure you are probably talking about chest/armpit/arm/leg hair of course...

Yeah, but printers are a funny bunch aren't they... Shhhhh... they don't know it, but they're not really 'in' with the other I.T. stuff..... That stuff knows how to behave and promptly starts working when we walk in the room...

Awwwww, I was just about to be impressed by your water cooled servers set-up!!!

Funny... Thread title = Met Office Red Weather Warning [Risk To Life]... Content = Yeah, yeah, but how hot are your servers?!

Air-con here... actually that would probably make a good poll...?

Is there any set-up to integrate work between class/teacher (I mean do you have to set-up teachers and classes) or does it link into Google Classroom? "Canva for Education connects to all your classroom tools Canva for Education integrates with core classroom tools, including ...... Google Classroom ......" Or is it all just done in-platform, saved and then shared out? Also could do with someone proof-reading their website...

Servers are up by 1 degree so far and counting...

Might as well have just changed ESS to Capita and... Different company... Same ****! Have they publicly acknowledged this on a support portal anywhere?

Hopefully not one with a hairy palm...

Ah, yes that was it!

So, 'old wives' tale' and 'urban myth' it is! Although most agree no long term damage, they do all conclude it may induce eye strain/fatigue/dry eye... "As a result, the researchers discovered that less screen-use in poorly lit settings resulted in less frequent blink rates, less eyestrain, and less fatigue" "To be fair, viewing a bright screen in a dark room does have an impact on your eyes, but not in a way that directly affects your vision. Rather, the combination of bright-screen-dark-room causes you to blink less, and that causes your eyes to dry out. Dryness leads to irritation and aches, but your vision itself suffers no long-term effects." "You may experience some eyestrain or visual fatigue from viewing your screen in the dark" "The result of all this testing and observation was that there was less eyestrain, discomfort, and visual fatigue when the volunteers watched the movie against a lighted wall" So that's good enough for me, plus good shout on the 'safeguarding/classroom management' aspect. EDIT: Well, I didn't get poor eyesight from years of watching kids TV in the dark.... maybe it was the other thing she warned me about...?