Doctor Who
Sunday, 8 January 2006 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daSo, I've been wanting to see the new 2005 Doctor Who for months.
As a kid, I watched the series rebroadcast on PBS, snickered at the bad special effects, had nightmares over some of the aliens, and was quite unhappy when the series went away, though by that point my interests had drifted a bit, and the special effects hadn't gotten any better over the years.
But the new series is supposed to change all that- or so I'd been told by lots of people who got CBC TV.
In an ideal world, we would be able to pick up the CBC using rabbit-ears, especially since my parents got CBC over the border in upstate NY in the '80s (which is the source of my many fond early Muppets memories). Unfortunately, we can't get it here, with the tuner in the TV in this house.
If we got internet access via cable, fish tells me we'd have "free" access to ~5 cable stations, which includes CBC. That would be tempting, but we did try Rogers Cable when we first moved here, and the installer physically cut the phone connection to the outside. And the Rogers internet connection still didn't work, three weeks later. Yes, they apologized. No, we're not going that route again.
In an ideal world, the DVDs would be here, and I could rent or buy them. Sadly, they're not to be released in Canada until February 14 2006, (and not in the US at all, apparently). I could have a British DVD collection shipped, and set our DVD player for Region 2, but one can only reset one's DVD player region a few times, and I don't exactly want to break it, so that option's no good. I could buy my way to a solution; either a region-unlockable DVD player, or just a second player set to region 2. That's expensive. And I don't want the hassle.
All this, to explain why I've installed a BitTorrent client (azureus) and patiently waited 26 hours for all 4gb of Dr. Who Season 1 to download.
And you know what? The first episode is awesome. The Doctor is just as weird/cocky/frenetic/alien as ever, the plot was amusing, and the special effects were... better. Cheesy, but I think intentionally so (No spoliers here, but I think it was intentional that they led with a sort of cheesy plot).
Well worth the wait, however long you wait to see it. :)
And now, to bed, because I've been up too late for three nights. Tomorrow, a movie review of "My Architect" and possibly a post on motorola ads from the early 1960s.
As a kid, I watched the series rebroadcast on PBS, snickered at the bad special effects, had nightmares over some of the aliens, and was quite unhappy when the series went away, though by that point my interests had drifted a bit, and the special effects hadn't gotten any better over the years.
But the new series is supposed to change all that- or so I'd been told by lots of people who got CBC TV.
In an ideal world, we would be able to pick up the CBC using rabbit-ears, especially since my parents got CBC over the border in upstate NY in the '80s (which is the source of my many fond early Muppets memories). Unfortunately, we can't get it here, with the tuner in the TV in this house.
If we got internet access via cable, fish tells me we'd have "free" access to ~5 cable stations, which includes CBC. That would be tempting, but we did try Rogers Cable when we first moved here, and the installer physically cut the phone connection to the outside. And the Rogers internet connection still didn't work, three weeks later. Yes, they apologized. No, we're not going that route again.
In an ideal world, the DVDs would be here, and I could rent or buy them. Sadly, they're not to be released in Canada until February 14 2006, (and not in the US at all, apparently). I could have a British DVD collection shipped, and set our DVD player for Region 2, but one can only reset one's DVD player region a few times, and I don't exactly want to break it, so that option's no good. I could buy my way to a solution; either a region-unlockable DVD player, or just a second player set to region 2. That's expensive. And I don't want the hassle.
All this, to explain why I've installed a BitTorrent client (azureus) and patiently waited 26 hours for all 4gb of Dr. Who Season 1 to download.
And you know what? The first episode is awesome. The Doctor is just as weird/cocky/frenetic/alien as ever, the plot was amusing, and the special effects were... better. Cheesy, but I think intentionally so (No spoliers here, but I think it was intentional that they led with a sort of cheesy plot).
Well worth the wait, however long you wait to see it. :)
And now, to bed, because I've been up too late for three nights. Tomorrow, a movie review of "My Architect" and possibly a post on motorola ads from the early 1960s.
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Date: Sunday, 8 January 2006 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:37 pm (UTC)Are you watching them in series, and if so, how far are you? Maybe I can catch up. :)
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Date: Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:56 pm (UTC)*considers*
When shall Her Roverness and I show up? ;)
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Date: Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:58 pm (UTC)I will certainly let you know as soon as I hear of another episode.
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Date: Sunday, 8 January 2006 08:41 pm (UTC)Truth is, I should go to bed early anyhow, I've been up late for the last 4 nights. Makes for a sleeeepy Daniel @ work...
Thanks for the invite; If it's not monday, wed. or thurs. next week, I'll likely take you up on it!
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Date: Monday, 9 January 2006 04:25 am (UTC)