Indoors-y things - of books and telly and new year type thinky-thoughts

[byslantedlight]

Hello! It's the Monday after Christmas, and it's a bank holiday Monday, and after three days of mostly sitting on my couch and reading books, interspersed with watching telly, I think I should probably try and be a bit more active today... *g* So - a post isn't a bad place to start, I think? Hope you all had good days over the break - and still are

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[fiorenza_a]

I've found Clara more and more hard work over the series. She's too smart, was it you, or someone else, who described her as a Mary Sue? I couldn't put my finger on what was irritating me, until I read that.

Dickensian is not in an iPlayer friendly format - 20 half hour eps - I can't use series link because it has no 'not over metered connection' option and I'm on an economy drive.

Maybe if they release it as an omnibus...

Next thing I intend to read is my Star Wars trilogy written as Shakespearean plays, complete with stage directions (pressie). And all the advent/bang stories I haven't been able to read yet.

I have no idea what to suggest for your 2016 projects, I'm intending to get some jobs around the house done and build on my recovering health by trying to get fit again. No idea how well that will go. Will review this time next year!

[byslantedlight]

Yeah, I've definitely said before that Clara is all-too-perfect and know-it-all and a bit of a Mary Sue - though I suspect I'm not the only one! And it's not even that she's smart for me (cos she's not, somehow, she's just a smug know-it-all - and it shouldn't be possible to be one without the other!) - Romana was smart, and Riversong is smart, and any number of other companions have been smart. I think it's somehow that she's condescendingly smart and that the Doctor almost defers to her, which just really really bugs me! He's the Doctor! *g*

Dickensian is formatted rather oddly - half-hour eps fine, but two half-hour eps each night? That's just odd! Not sure why that makes it iPlayer unfriendly, though? If anything surely it's more friendly - granted there's a lot of them, but smaller downloads/streams? Unless you've got a really lousy connection where you are. Ours isn't brilliant here, but it's good enough to actually be able to watch iPlayer on without it stopping every two seconds, which is what happened when I tried

[fiorenza_a]

Sorry for wandering off, it's the '20 ep' thing. Without series link it means manually initiating 20 downloads, not at all undoable, just irritating and fiddly.

Last customer survey I filled in for iPlayer had a question about metered connections, so maybe they'll consider adding that at the next upgrade.

[byslantedlight]

No worries - let's see if I can get my reply through before the lj maintenance starts!

I suppose I tend to stream iPlayer these days. Now though - what's a metered connection exactly? Sort of like pay-as-you-go, I presume, and so not fully broadbanded? Cos surely they should still be pretty quick if you've got broadband? But maybe not if you're on a dongle-type thing or having a lousy connection... Anyway - there's 11pm - can I post this...? *tries* (*g*)

[fiorenza_a]

Nifty footwork, getting in under the wire

[byslantedlight]

Oh interesting - I'm guessing that's not BT, then! I've never come across that kind of connection before, outside of dongles... I remember Economy 7, btw - it was popular for quite a while after the lads' era too! *g*

I suppose with series I'd want to watch each one separately if I was streaming/downloading anyway rather than saving them all up until the end. If I was going to do that I'd probably just wait until the dvds got cheap-ish. - but then I'd've watched one at least to make sure I liked it, so... *g* /ramble...