Pretty good b'day pressie
Especially for me. Yes, I did watch quite a few of the episodes online already (the means shall remain quiet). Yes, I don't have regular access to a TV (I'm planning on begging/bribing E to tape the episodes for me) but how could I miss the new series of (well, newish since there's another Doctor this season as Christopher Eccleston's left the show) Dr Who?If we are having a regular series on posts about TV shows and linking them to our research, Dr. Who's a brilliant candidate--lots of othering/making of differences/what to do with other people/bad science and just loads of fun.
Sci-Fi channel, starting 17 March at 9pm EST. Can't wait.
posted by Priya @ 5:35 PM
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Hooray for the Sci-Fi channel doing a second thing right since cancelling Farscape. As an old Whovian from many years back I am thrilled to be able to watch the new Doctor in full-screen format :-)
If you need me to videotape the episodes as they air, we can probably work something out.
Oh, that would be fantastic, thanks very much! I will talk to you in Real Life :-)
I'm not sure about having Eccleston as the Doctor and us knowing what will happen at the end of this series but that's a minor quibble since I reckon it'll all be good fun anyway.
I never liked Farscape, even though for us over in Asia it was one of the first Sci-Fi shows which didn't have all the people speaking in American or English accents!
Wait, are you saying that cancelling Farscape was a good thing?
I'm not sure I can talk to you two anymore if that's the case.
But, then, I don't much like TV shows set on space ships (with the exception of Red Dwarf :-))
I'm still happy about Dr. Who! Yay for TARDIS!
No, Elizabeth, you misunderstand -- when the Sci-Fi Channel cancelled Farscape I thought it unlikely they'd ever do anything to make up for it. A network that cancelled that excellent show was likely, I thought, to keep on making mistakes. But since that time they've done two things right: Battlestar Galactica, and now picking up Dr. Who.
Sheesh, E! After all these years how could you not have known our reader(s) are massive Farscape fans :-)
Again, I'm the odd one out-- I've never even watched Battlestar Galactica so no comments on that!
No watching of the Battlestar! SHAME ON YOU!
Well, that's my mistake, then. See, I knew that Priya was crazy and hadn't liked it, but I wasn't sure if you were agreeing with each other.
Good to know that it's just P who has absolutely no taste when it comes to pop culture. No taste whatsoever.
Sure, she sometimes stumbles on something interesting. But that's more accident than ability to see media genius. :)
Lol--if that means I avoid shows which seem to feature interchangeable casts on space ships (the fighter/the foreign one/the token alien/the naive yet sharp hero/the techie) then I would say it shows good taste.
Farscape did have lovely cinematography, I'll give it that. Oh, and I liked the bad guy (well, the "baddish" guy--the Aussie bloke with good hair and beard who stole the small ship at one point). Why do sci-fi shows/films have awesome bad guys and so-so good guys (Serenity, the film, being another example)?
Off to do proper work for a change instead of trading insults with one who likes Rent.
Ah, but the goodness comes out of the things you do with those basic tropes. As in the medieval epics, all the artistry is in how you cope with a set of characters that have already been established.
This has Gerard Butler as Beowulf. You'd find it entertaining since I presume Beowulf isn't a SC :-)
Nah, snark away about Beowulf. Even Gawain, if the mood strikes you.
Hey, it could turn out the whole uniform-weapon-great hair thing is medieval in nature.
Beowulf, Gawain, Tristan, Roland--it's always been about the bad boys, hasn't it? The ones with the swords?
Or, you know, pulse pistols.
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