Spoilers Are A No No (Audioboo)

Hey everyone

Today's entry is an audioboo talking an interview that Steven Moffat had on Radio 5 Live eariler this morning talking about that people who spoil Doctor Who for others.

Doctor Who boss 'hates' fans who spoil show's secrets

Here are my thoughts on spoilers done by fans and media critics.



Be back soon with an exciting project that everyone can take part in.

Barry

Spring Mood Is Wonderful

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I thought I would do a normal blog today just talking about the mood of Spring and how wonderful it can be.

I have always preferred Spring to Summer and Autumn. I would consider Summer as the worst because it gets too warm. I love the air in Spring because it feels really fresh and even though Winter is very cold, the air in that is fresh as well but freezing haha.

The Spring to me always bring a new beginning in phase of my life, I think it does in people. I have stayed local a lot lately for the weather as we have been very lucky. A couple of weeks ago it felt like Summer in terms of weather and temperature which was different as I dont mind some differences. Its one of those things that can fully understand when you reach an certain age or when you are smart enough to understand.

Short thought of Spring.

I have been catching on Doctor Who a lot lately watching not only the new series and the classic series either on DVD or Youtube.

Thats all for now

Barry

Doctor Who (Curse Of The Black Spot) Series 6 Episode 3 Review

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Here is my review of Curse Of The Black Spot, latest Doctor Who review

Portal 2 Review (Playstaion 3)

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Here is my review of Portal 2 for the Playstation 3.

Fun enjoyable game and you have to have a high IQ to really enjoy the game in my book.

4.75 out of 5 overall

The music in the intro is "Enter The Party" from Incompetech.com which is a royalty free music site from Kevin McLeod.

Doctor Who (Day Of The Moon) Series 6 Episode 2 Review

Here is my review of Day Of The Moon (Second episode of Doctor Who Series 6)

Talking Who Episode 2 (Impossible Astronaut/Planet Of The Spiders Reviews)

Hey guys

I took part in an Internet show called Talking Who with Elisar and Sean

We talked about

1) The Impossible Astronaut
2) Predictions for Day Of The Moon
3) Planet Of The Spiders DVD Review
4) Sarah Jane CBBC Tribute show
5) Doctor Stew

Here is the show

Mortal Kombat Review (Playstation 3)

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Here is my review of Mortal Kombat which came out last week, I will say some of the images maybe distrubing to some people because Fatalities and X-Ray attacks are performed. If you are distrubed by these, do enjoy.

Talking Who Appearence Coming On Wednesday

Hey Everyone

Hows it going? Right I got some excellent news to present you to you guys. I am going to be part of vodcast talking about Doctor Who called "Talking Who".

Elisar and Sean asked me to if I wanted to take part in talking about Doctor Who and I said yes because I am a fan of the Doctor Who.

I saw Episode 1 of their Talking Who where they did a tribute to Elisabeth Sladen, talked about the new series and other news, which you can see below. Does go on for 51 minutes.



In the week that I am being a guest host on Talking Elisar, Sean and I will be reviewing The Impossible Astronaut and the DVD of Planet of the Spiders along with discussing the latest Doctor Who news.

Join us live in the chat room and tweet us your comments and reviews and we will be reading out some of them live on the show.

Watch Those Video Guys Talking Who Episode 2 straight after Those Video Guys:

http://www.youtube.com/thosevideoguys - click on LIVE (Youtube Live)
http://live.thosevideoguys.tv (Ustream Live)

Wednesday 27th April
9pm UK
4pm New York
1pm Los Angeles

Hope you can come along guys, if you like watching me or a fan of Doctor Who.

Will blog again soon

Barry

Doctor Who (The Impossible Astronaut) Series 6 Episode 1 Review

Elisabeth Sladen 1948-2011 (RIP) Tribute

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I was asked by people on Youtube and PSN to give my thoughts on Elisabeth Sladen who passed away on Tuesday by Cancer.

Here it is my tribute to one of the best companions in Doctor Who.

Crysis 2 Nano Edition & Mortal Kombat 9 Kollectors Edition Unboxings

Hey Guys

Today I got two collector editions of two different games

Crysis 2 Nano Edition


Mortal Kombat 9 Kollectors Edition

iPad 2 Review

Hey Guys

I forgot to put in this blog a week ago my review of the iPad 2 which Im still using now and I think it is really cool.

Here is my review



Have a great day everyone

Barry

Doctor Who Planet Of The Spiders DVD Review

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With Doctor Who beginning again on Saturday with the new series, I decided to get back into the flow with reviews again and I decided to review a Classic series story that comes out today on DVD but I got it on Saturday through the post.

PLANET OF THE SPIDERS

Planet Of The Spiders UK DVD Cover

This is Jon Pertwee's last outing as the Doctor and also stars Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith. The story is about when a former UNIT member Mike Yates takes Sarah Jane to a Tibetan retreat to show her a group of men using meditation rituals to make contact with an alien power. Turns out to be a connection from Earth to Metebelis 3 which was previously mentioned in the Green Death. On Metebelis 3 it is a planet ruled by Spiders who are masters over man on the planet who want the crystal back, in which Doctor stole and got back from Jo Grant in a letter.

Now the Doctor has to go back to Metebelis 3 to face his worst fear of the Great One who is a giant spider and all of mankind.

I remember first watching this story on UK Gold back in 1998 when they were doing on a Sunday morning depending on the time they were shown. If it was 4 parter it would be 9am in the morning but 6-7 parters would be a 6am start for the story.

This story was written by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts (Uncredited), they came out with a great story, not the best 6 parter story but a good one indeed. I felt the performances of Jon Pertwee was still top of his game and brought the best out of everyone and that is something I notice when I watch Troughton, Tom Baker, Matt Smith as well which is a brilliant quality.

I loved Jonny Kane's performance of Tommy who starts off as someone who has learning difficulties and then once he looks into the crystal he becomes a genius and a great protector. I liked how Sloman and Letts wrote that piece. I do notice in the commentary that Letts said they couldnt do that anymore which I can understand which people would find it a bit shocking how someone with learning difficulties can be treated.

I wished that Nicholas Courtney was in it more but it felt more of an off Earth story than a Earth Story which was one of the reasons why Pertwee decided to leave. Richard Franklin makes an appearence as Captain Yates who is not with UNIT after what happened in Invasion of The Dinosaurs, it was nice twist.

It does feature a lot of actors that were in past Pertwee stories that I didnt know until I watched the Final Curtain.

They were a lot of comedy moments in there which helped the pacing of the story that if it was too serious then I would have lost interest in the story.

I liked how Jon's Doctor was scared in this story when confronting the Great One and thought it gave it some important value that Pertwee's doctor had to face a demon/fear that would lead into the next step.

I loved the final scene involving the Doctor, Sarah Jane and The Brigader where the Doctor is close to death and the touching scene and dialogue from them is really moving and made you close to tears. I thought the way they did the regeneration wasnt the best but the build up to it was great.

Great story overall with great picture and sound quality again from the BBC and 2Entertain.

Onto the extras I listened to the commentary after watching the story later on Saturday and found it interesting to listen to and features Elisabeth Sladen, Nic Courtney (RIP), Richard Franklin, Barry Letts (RIP)and Terrance Dicks. I always enjoy listening to stories by Letts and Dicks on the production which you gave some insight behind the scenes of any story which is great. I was a bit surprised that Elisabeth Sladen was only in the commentary and not in the documentary but to know she doesnt like Spiders back then.

The Final Curtain documentary was really good to watch as it starts with Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks talking about why they wanted to leave and why Jon Pertwee wanted to leave. We will never know why Pertwee really wanted to leave as Pertwee had said that he would have stayed on if his friend Shaun Sutton had paided him more money in which Letts says it is nonsense that Pertwee left because the family was breaking up. It was great to see some Pertwee Archive interview footage in this documentary as it helped with certain parts.

Glen Allen was the narrator in this documentary and did really good job with it. Allen produced a great flow into linking parts of the documentary together which is needed. Great documentary

I liked the Jonny Kane documentary where he talked about that he was in character when he went on a taxi price from his place to the BBC which didnt please the security guard afterwards and it was nice to know that he did Theatre before Doctor Who. Some funny stuff in there.

Directing Who with Barry Letts is really interesting and was glad it was recorded before Letts death in October 2009. He talked how he made the switch from an actor to a director and how he involved with Doctor Who at first with the Enemy Of The World story starring Patrick Troughton. It was good when he became producer that he was allowed to direct at least one story per season under his run. Letts also talked about the Classic Serial that he did afterwards. Now the music used I know is called "Eternal Hope" from Kevin MacLeod because I used this piece of music in my World Autism Awareness Day video that I did eariler in the month, which was really cool.

The Now & Then documentary was good to see where they filmed and what they turned into now which is great for any fan.

The Omnibus Edition is a shorter version but done as 105 minute film version of the story which is one they showed to audiences in 1974 the day before Tom Baker's debut story "Robot"

Overall I found the DVD to be a real joy to watch with the story being good and the extras being fantastic as they seem to get better in every release that I get.

I give this 9/10 defintely worth getting if you are a Pertwee fan and a Doctor Who fan

Bye for now and cant wait until Saturday

Barry

Becoming Youtube Stars Event in London 14th of April 2011

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The other day I went to Becoming Youtube Stars event in North Greenwich, London at Ravensbourne Design College by the O2.

I did an audioboo to talk about the day and a Youtube video about the event.





Had real fun at the event.

Barry

Yakuza 4 Review (Playstation 3)

Great Days Are Always Around

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I realise that I havent done a normal blog entry in a really long time talking about whats going on in my life but I have Youtube, Audioboo and Dailybooth just to help me out.

Anyway I decided to give my blog another go. Lots of great things have happened to me lately and I felt that I wanted to share them.

I went to a Bristol Youtube Gathering 13 days ago and it proved to be one of the best gatherings I ever went to. It so reminded me of 2007 and early 2008 gatherings I went to because it felt new and fresh. As a friend said on Facebook it is a new generation of Youtubers that attended the event and had fun along the way. It was a wonderful feeling returning to Bristol. I consider it a place like Bath a place away from Home that made me feel comfortable.

There are a number of gathering videos including a couple of outstanding ones from my friend Ray (Ir0nIsland)

















I know it is a lot of videos but there are some really funny ones and well edited ones. Bristol 2011 gathering will be remembered.

After that everything that was a dream became a reality apart from my Dad going into Hospital for a shoulder injury, lucky though he had an operation and is ok, I hope to see him again in hospital if not this weekend maybe next week before I go for the Youtube Stars event in London.

Like I said in the title, great days are always around as long you dont take them for granted.

On Wednesday I got an Ipad 2 through the post as I ordered one as soon they were in stock at Tescos because I get a 10% discount and Im loving it. On the same day it was when Michael Aranda was trapped in France which is a surprise, I hope he does get back into the UK but at the same moment no luck.

On Thursday I received my prize from a competition that I won for review of the month for my review of Gran Turismo 5 I did back in November.



I won all this kit and problem is I aint got a Desktop PC so it could be a while before I can try out this kit but hope to one day. My friend Michael (Micgamer16) suggested I could give it away to my subscribers in a competition, if I remember one day and if I feel I aint going to get any use out of it after a while.

Heres a picture of the kit

What a week for me but I hope others are having a great week at the moment.

Also I would like to leave on a positive note

Its always brilliant to see a great video from my man NSG and his friends Miz Kaz and Logic



Take it easy everyone

Barry

World Autism Awareness Day 2011 2nd April

Here it is my video for World Autism Awareness Day 2011



Have a great day

Barry

Why Dont Video Game Shows Exist Anymore?

I remember a time as a child there used to be a few video game shows that was TV whether it was Free TV (ITV and Channel 4) or Sky. There are three shows that I can remember

Gamesmaster (Channel 4 between 1992 and 1998)
Games World (Sky 1 between 1993 and 1995)
Bad Influence (ITV Yorkshire Production between 1992 and 1996)

These three shows formed my childhood in the later years leading to my Teenage years. These three shows were very good in their own way.

Gamesmaster was a show presented by Dominik Diamond and Patrick Moore apart from Series 3 done by Dexter Fletcher who I thought was good in small doses but Dominik was way better in the presenting role. Never saw Patrick Moore to be a gamer type probably someone who thought of doing the show just for money but thats my opinion.

There was Games World which I found more interesting probably because it was 5 days a week and it would have Monday and Friday doing the main show and the rest of the week covered by reviews, Live show and cheats in the first series. By the second series they had a series called Barry JoyPad's which featured a pre-fame David Williams from Little Britain which was a really funny show on a Tuesday, bit childish for my liking nowadays but hey. I remember Jet from Gladitors was in it and god she was hot.

Finally there was Bad Influence which was more a feature show on a Thursday afternoon on CITV when it was free TV and not have its own channel like now. I liked that they focused on the game in more detail than the other two shows and felt more for a younger audience but felt it didnt have the punch of GamesMaster and Games World.

In 1996 Bad Influence was put to dust as it was a shame that people werent watching that I have found out.

By 1998 all 3 of these shows were gone. Games Master didnt fit into the Channel 4 under their new controller I found out recently and ended a week before my 15th Birthday. Games World really sucked in 1998 by doing 15 minute segments every morning along with the new series that everyone knows as a Pokemon.

Its weird, I think it was also a period where I lost interesting in gaming in a way. I dont know I was more into watching music videos and TV shows also trying to get my coursework.

A lot of people take video games only for the younger market but thats not true maybe around that period of the mid 90's I would have believed that.

The mainstream media in my view dont take video games seriously at all unless it is the release of a new Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty which have been labeled for Criticism for being really violent and real. There are times with the media that I feel that they only report on it when they havent tried out the game itself then I would believe their argument.

I have played of God Of War games and its more violent than them two but doesnt get the media coverage of them two games.

Im going off the point here, I know there are video game programming on Youtube and Internet but I do wish there was one show like the 3 I mentioned that was on TV but then again people have said TV is dead.

Ah well I thought I would leave you with clips from each of the 3 shows to give you an idea

Thanks for reading everyone

Barry

GamesMaster Series 1 Episode 1

Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Games World

Beat The Elite (Friday Show from Series 1)

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


Here is a clip with Games Mistress being played by Gladitor Jet


Bad Influence

Series 2 episode looking into the Atari Jaguar



Family Guide to Computers

World Autism Awareness Collab Details and London yesterday (Audioboo)

Hey guys

this entry is going to be audio based about World Autism Awareness Collab that Rose and I want to do



Here's the video about the collab



Have a great day everyone

Barry

New Reviews - Dragon's Lair and Killzone 3

Hey everyone

Here is my latest entry with the last 2 game reviews I did.

Dragon's Lair (PSN)



Killzone 3 (Playstation 3)



Another entry coming soon

Barry