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#1: May 22nd 2012 at 10:30:24 AM

The only similarity between these images is the way that a character played by Michael J. Fox (I think?) is holding his watch. It's a bit vague, and I think I'd rather this be imageless.

Also, aren't multi-paged tropes supposed to put their images on one of the subpages? How strict are we about that rule?

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#2: May 22nd 2012 at 10:36:50 AM

I rather like the current image, though the quality could be improved; he even has the same body angle in both shots. You're right about the subpage rule, though, so this needs to be moved to ActorAllusion.Film (Paranoia Fuel is a specific exception).

edited 22nd May '12 10:37:03 AM by Telcontar

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#3: May 22nd 2012 at 10:45:17 AM

Previous IP thread. I'd be fine with moving it to the Live-Action TV subpage.

EDIT: Corrected per [down]

edited 22nd May '12 10:48:08 AM by Willbyr

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#4: May 22nd 2012 at 10:46:25 AM

The fact that Christopher Lloyd is guest starring on Fox's show is the actor allusion. Him holding his watch the same way is just a bonus.

It's from Spin City, so it should be on ActorAllusion.Live Action TV

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#5: May 22nd 2012 at 11:16:09 AM

[up] Except that Spin City is a TV show, Back To The Future is a film series, and thus the connection between the two creates ambiguity in which section it belongs in. o.o

I think I'll create a new thread about that rule.

EDITED IN: And yeah, the quality could use some improvement in any case. Anyone here have the DVD for Back To The Future and/or a DVD including whichever Spin City episode that screenshot is from?

edited 22nd May '12 11:17:34 AM by HiddenFacedMatt

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#6: May 22nd 2012 at 12:18:20 PM

The DVD for Back To The Future won't help, since it's not a shot from any of the films. It is, however, the poster for Back to the Future Part 2, which you can probably find with a quick GIS.

edited 22nd May '12 12:18:34 PM by ShadowHog

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#7: May 22nd 2012 at 2:17:25 PM

[up] My bad, I haven't actually watched the movies, just heard of them.

Anyway, google image search turns up various versions of the poster; which should we be going for?

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#8: May 22nd 2012 at 2:47:19 PM

The poster is painterly/stylized, supposed to look like that.

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#9: May 22nd 2012 at 6:29:03 PM

I think it's more okay to have it on the main page just because it covers both TV and film.

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#10: May 23rd 2012 at 9:02:45 AM

[up] Indeed the main page does seem a more fitting place, but it's a question of how strict we are going to be about that "images on the subpages rule."

Speaking of which, I forgot to make a thread about that one. o.o

[up][up] That still doesn't specify which poster to use; many of the posters in GIS have higher quality than what's up there now, and within that there are some slight differences in style.

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#11: Jun 7th 2012 at 3:12:37 PM

It's impractical. Take a look at Serious Business. It's hard enough to hunt up one concise image for the header, let alone for a dozen subpages.

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#12: Jul 19th 2012 at 1:41:49 PM

I say leave it.

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#13: Jul 20th 2012 at 1:26:44 PM

I think the current is fine.

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#15: Aug 25th 2012 at 5:36:52 AM

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