"Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!"

[kattahj]

So settiai started uploading Doctor Who episodes, bless her soul, and I managed to get "Rose" working on my computer. (When I say "working", I mean that the sound was about ten seconds ahead of the image, but never mind that.) The next few eps promptly refused to play, so I coaxed axa into downloading them and letting me see them at her place. The resulting

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[kattahj]

Ten is even more Chrestomanci-like than Nine, I think. He's flashier, pretty, less introspective and more arrogant.

Oh dear. Thing is, I'm not very fond of Chrestomanci. I'm a Howl girl. (And Rupert Venables, but for some reason Howl and Chrestomanci is the either/or deal, like being a cat person or a dog person... which is silly, really.)

And Rose, like Sophie, is aware of the conventions of the story she's in, which is just *neat*.

I didn't think of that, but it's so true!

[calanthe_b]

for some reason Howl and Chrestomanci is the either/or deal

Not necessarily. I like 'em both!

[kattahj]

And I like both cats and dogs, so it is silly. But someone made a comparison once (can't remember if it was DWJ or someone else) saying that girls under 15 and women over 25 tended to prefer Chrestomanci while women between 15 and 25 preferred Howl, and the dichotomy is somewhat stuck in my head. (Of course, if they're right, it means this is my last Howl-year!)

[illmantrim]

Welcome to the madness! Pull up a Tardis and hang on for your life!

[kattahj]

Thanks, will do! I'm already drawing Tardises all over my notes...

[kattahj]

But if it is as you say, and the characterization is so much flatter than what we're getting with the new ones, I'm not sure I'd like the old ones any more than I did before.

Well, I hurry to backtrack here - I've only seen two old storylines (meaning eight actual episodes) and the TV movie, and that was years ago, so it's not like I'm an expert. There could be heaps of lovely character-heavy eps out there. It should be noted also that roseveare who chose and sent me the eps, is a lot more plot-happy than I am.

Or at the very least, all the old episodes won't serve the purpose of providing lots of fodder for my new addiction!

I'm tempted to pop the ones I own back into the VCR - I won't meet axa again until Monday and can get no new Nine eps until then.

[calanthe_b]

Hee. I'll have you know that it was your gleeful references to Press Gang in this journal that convinced me to spend $30 on the DVD of the first series recently. Have enjoyed it muchly, so thank you. Kenny is a sweetie, and I adore Lynda.

[kattahj]

YES! Yes yes yes! *dances around* It's really much too delightful a show to be forgotten. And Lynda is fabulous.

The only thing that pisses me off about the DVD is that there's so little extra material - season 2 is the only one with commentary and interviews, the others just have pdfs or nothing at all.

[calanthe_b]

~admires icon muchly~

The DVDs we get here, Season 2 has a behind-the-scenes feature of rather appalling quality, and nothing else has anything at all (I bought it last night and watched it straight through--I'm comfort-buying, and DVDs are better than jonk food). Although we are apparently supposed to be getting a box set out with some more in the way of extras...

[kattahj]

Although we are apparently supposed to be getting a box set out with some more in the way of extras...

Bleh. If that isn't a way of squeezing more money out of the customers, I don't know what is.

My s2 DVDs has a few commentaries with Steven and Julia. Unfortunately Julia has pretend amnesia and only remembers everything that has to do with kissing Dexter; it gets kind of tedious after a while. But Steven is wonderful. My favourite line of his during the commentaries was (from memory), "This episodes got a BAFTA. Well, a children's BAFTA, which is just like a regular BAFTA except that when you squeeze it, it goes 'eek'."