Plissken
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I apologise if this has been done before. I apologise if it is in the wrong place. I apologise if the bloke involved is the guy who owns this forum. Please mods feel free to remove or edit as you see fit. I just need to vent.
I've downloaded TG - Season 2 from another place, and happily sat through the first six episodes. I've got to episode seven and before the episode starts, I've got a spinning Ferrari logo, then a click of the Great Clarkson (complete with bubble perm hair) in an F355 and then an oh so hi-hi-hilarious clip of Jabba the Hutt.
Now, I could live with that. Its pointless, but, you know, the show starts after it. But what has absolutely, utterly completely got my goat is the fact that the bloke who encoded it has shoved "Another Release By The O'Mighty Jabba", a third of the way down the screen, all the way through every single episode.
In the name of God, why? It just bloody *ruins* the whole thing? I wouldn't even have minded if it was a tiny logo up where BBC Prime would be. Fair enough. Stamp some authorship. Just don't stamp it on using big bloody size 12s. I mean, the BBC doesn't have "Series Producer Andy Willman" in 72 point flashing letters all the way through each episode, does it?
It's like the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indy steals the gold statue, evades the spikes and the boulder, outruns the Nazis and delivers the statue to Marcus at the University.
Marcus: "Well done Indy, the Museum is delighted."
Indy: "It is the best place for it."
Marcus: "Hold on a second. Somethings wrong."
Indy: "What is it?"
Marcus: "There appears to be something scrawled on it."
Indy: "Oh?"
Marcus: "Yes. Someone has scrawled "Another Valuable Antiquity Stolen For You By The Most Excellent Indiana Jones." right across the statues forehead."
Indy: "Well. Just so you know who did it, like."
Like I said, I don't know who the O'Mighty Jabba is. He is most likely a lovely guy. Keeps kittens. Gives money to charity. I imagine he sleeps on a bed of rose petals, with soothing music in the background while women in bikinis clean his fleet of Ferraris with extra soapy water. But as far as I'm concerned, he's a blethering egomanical idiot.
By all means credit yourself at the start and/or the end. Fine. But to plaster your name in stonking letters all the way through... argh! Its like Michaelangelo scrawling "I woz 'ere" on the statue of David.
I'd like to buy Jabba a pint for bringing me Top Gear season 2. As a token of my appreciation.
But then I'd feel compelled to wee in it, so that he remembers who bought it for him.
I've downloaded TG - Season 2 from another place, and happily sat through the first six episodes. I've got to episode seven and before the episode starts, I've got a spinning Ferrari logo, then a click of the Great Clarkson (complete with bubble perm hair) in an F355 and then an oh so hi-hi-hilarious clip of Jabba the Hutt.
Now, I could live with that. Its pointless, but, you know, the show starts after it. But what has absolutely, utterly completely got my goat is the fact that the bloke who encoded it has shoved "Another Release By The O'Mighty Jabba", a third of the way down the screen, all the way through every single episode.
In the name of God, why? It just bloody *ruins* the whole thing? I wouldn't even have minded if it was a tiny logo up where BBC Prime would be. Fair enough. Stamp some authorship. Just don't stamp it on using big bloody size 12s. I mean, the BBC doesn't have "Series Producer Andy Willman" in 72 point flashing letters all the way through each episode, does it?
It's like the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indy steals the gold statue, evades the spikes and the boulder, outruns the Nazis and delivers the statue to Marcus at the University.
Marcus: "Well done Indy, the Museum is delighted."
Indy: "It is the best place for it."
Marcus: "Hold on a second. Somethings wrong."
Indy: "What is it?"
Marcus: "There appears to be something scrawled on it."
Indy: "Oh?"
Marcus: "Yes. Someone has scrawled "Another Valuable Antiquity Stolen For You By The Most Excellent Indiana Jones." right across the statues forehead."
Indy: "Well. Just so you know who did it, like."
Like I said, I don't know who the O'Mighty Jabba is. He is most likely a lovely guy. Keeps kittens. Gives money to charity. I imagine he sleeps on a bed of rose petals, with soothing music in the background while women in bikinis clean his fleet of Ferraris with extra soapy water. But as far as I'm concerned, he's a blethering egomanical idiot.
By all means credit yourself at the start and/or the end. Fine. But to plaster your name in stonking letters all the way through... argh! Its like Michaelangelo scrawling "I woz 'ere" on the statue of David.
I'd like to buy Jabba a pint for bringing me Top Gear season 2. As a token of my appreciation.
But then I'd feel compelled to wee in it, so that he remembers who bought it for him.
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