Obligatory post

[anthon1]

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OMG DOCTOR WHO. Just. Just. Just.

And I've only seen the first twenty minutes or so. Aaah. Aaaah.
So, so, so good.

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pee. ess. -- If someone were to happen to point me in the direction of somewhere I could somehow watch it or somehow upload it or something or anything I think I would probably have to marry them

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[faeriemaiden]

*chortles wickedly* (yes it's absolutely possible to chortle in an evil manner -- just watch me!)

It gets everyone in the end, you know.

That's -- let me see -- two people converted in one day (two people I know, that is). I'm beginning to think that this is not a television show, it's a MASSIVE WORLDWIDE CULT. (Alas, unlike the Trekkies, and the Tolkienites, we don't have our own language.) There will be rumours of migrations to South America and arsenic-laced tea any day now, I'm sure.

[anthon1]

I was really confused for a moment there because you had the exact same icon as Rita but aren't actually her. It was weird. :P

*watches, and takes notes*

I read an odd article in a little pull-out section of the Granuiad (the Guardian) about how My Name Is Earl is actually a secret propaganda tool of the EVIL SCIENTOLOGISTS trying to brainwash viewers and indoctrinate them in a softly-softly way. Oh, those evil Scientologists. But mm. Trekkies and Tolkienites have their own religions, and Star Wars fans have their own mumbo-jumbo religion (which is legally a religion in Australia, y'all) but we have a TARDIS. and wibbly wobbly timey wimey SO WE WIN.

(*adds TARDIS to spellchecker*)

(*adds spellchecker to spellchecker*)

Also, have you ever seen Arsenic and Old Lace? And did you hear about that cult in Papua New Guinea?

[faeriemaiden]

Hee! I have that problem often, what with ressie_noldo and avendya insisting on using the same icons all the time. I read an entire post by one friend thinking it was an entirely different one until I actually opened it. :p

Scientologists can't be evil; they are not quite sane enough for that. Evil requires careful planning. :DDDD And yes, we do have a TARDIS, which sort of trumps everything else, because if we got into a really bad mood someday we could ERASE STAR TREK FROM HISTORY HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. ...Er, did I leave the kettle on? *goes away for a very long time and hopes you've forgotten that little outburst by the time she gets back*

I have not actually seen Arsenic and Old Lace -- dear me, I am a bad film buff -- but I think I heard of the cult in Papua New Guinea, at least if we are thinking of the same one because that is the sort of area where cults thrive. :p (The one with the poisoned kool-aid?)

[wanderlight]

I KNOW. Why must the two of them insist on doing it? It confuses me greatly. I suspect it is part of an Evil Plan.

[faeriemaiden]

Of course it's part of an Evil Plan. They are always involved in Evil Plans. I suspect using the same icons frequently somehow induces innocent people into being obsessed with British television and being forced into piracy. SOMEHOW.

[wanderlight]

Arr, matey! Digital pirates! :D I don't get it though, honestly. NEITHER OF THEM ARE BRITISH. Well I guess Noldo technically was, once.

[faeriemaiden]

Um. THE BBC PAYS THEM. Or they are Plants, secretly thirty-something office workers cleverly masquerading as teenaged David Tennant fangirls. AH BUT NOW WE SEE THROUGH YOUR RUSE. ...Except for the bit where the BBC does not actually get any money from their encouraging us to be piratical and all. But, um. THAT'S TO MAKE IT LOOK REAL. THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON UNDERNEATH, I KNOW. DON'T BE FOOLED. :DDD

[wanderlight]

*wails* NOLDO, AVE, I THOUGHT YOU WERE REAL. But really, you're just elaborate constructs of the BBC! You know, maybe the BBC is trying something underhanded with ... um ... sure, they're encouraging downloading, but if they suck us in enough we'll watch the eps on TV when they air (eg., moi) and buy merchandise? Once we are not broke and have money to do so?

[faeriemaiden]

This is a fairly good game-plan, actually. I am either getting a sonic screwdriver for my birthday or buying one with birthday money afterwards, and I am already plotting ways to somehow get my hands on Ten and Martha action figures. And I suppose they get some profit from my renting S1 from Netflix.

Do you get your Doctor Who in Canada from cable or not-cable? Cos mostly over here it's on BBC America and the Sci-Fi Channel, neither of which my very very limited cable package covers (we need cable to actually get networks!). PBS has started picking it up, but NOT MY PBS. *weeps* Ukraine has Doctor Who now, but North-western Pennsylvania is completely in the dark. It's shameful is what it is.

[wanderlight]

EEE I WANT SOME OF THAT. I doubt they have it over in Canada though; I would have to special-order and all.

I don't get it on cable; I have no idea how one would go about getting BBC or the Sci-Fi channel here, they're not listed in most of the cable packages. Our networks pick it up -- but half a year later, and I am NOT willing to wait that long.

Downloading it is. :( Woe. (Ukraine has good taste, anyway?)

[anthon1]

No no, it is better than that; they believe in democracy. If enough people believe in the Doctor, than he exists. They love him enough to try to make him now matter what they have to do...

*did not just lift the laws of the universe from Terry Pratchett, honest*

[anthon1]

Um. I sort of fund the Beeb, sort of, a little bit...

[anthon1]

I haven't seen it as a film and didn't actually know it was one -- I went to see it in a semi-local theatre with my father last year and laughed pretty much all of the way through. 'sgood. :D

(I was actually thinking of the one which had running firefights with the police and won and had a leader called Black Jesus who according to the Telegraph 'killed and ate young sex slaves in the jungle'. I read it and just went 'bwaa?' and read it again and read it another time and went out at lunch time and bought a copy of the paper because it's the kind of thing that only actually happens inside of H.P. Lovecraft's head most of the time. Not to mention the weirdness at the wedding and the Cold War starting again and all the other bizarre things they reported that day...)

Also, um, milk, one sugar, if you're making. Because, you know. British. Tea.

[nosesaretasty]

Also, have you ever seen Arsenic and Old Lace?

*does double take* I've seen that!

...And I have Dr Who recorded if you want to see it... Or at least still need to see it.

And *pokes* I e-mailed you!

[anthon1]

It is really rather awesome, isn't it? Rather shocking for its day, too, apparently... :D