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[nialla42]

Real life stuff has been keeping me from posting about fannish stuff, so this is sort of a catch-up post.

Went to see Wreck It Ralph at my local theater Thursday night. It's a cute film, with lots of gamer in-jokes that even an oldster like me who played Pac-Man back in the day could get. I mean, they even had Pong in it if you look carefully. If

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[sg_wonderland]

Re: Downton Abbey. If you're referring to the Christmas special where

spoiler, spoiler, spoiler

Matthew and Mary in the swirling snow, yes, it did air here in the US.

[nialla42]

For some reason my friend missed it. She said she was a bit thrown at it jumping straight to marriage prep in series 3, but thought perhaps they'd finally settled offscreen.

One of our mutual friends had already checked out both seasons of Downton Abbey from my library, so I told her to make puppy dog eyes at our friend to watch the special in the series 2 disc.

[sg_wonderland]

i was raving about Downton to a friend and she said "I don't really care for shows about rich people." I'm like, you missed the whole point of the show. I love the below stairs storylines as much as I enjoy the rich people problems.

But I've also always been a sucker for anything set in England, Ireland or Scotland.

[nialla42]

The downstairs stuff is much more interesting. Bates is probably one of my favorite characters, though the very naughty Thomas is also entertaining.

What's interesting to me is you see the heir to the estate marrying an American heiress for her money, because they mainly just have the land and the title, not the money to keep it going. This was pretty common then, and from what I understand, the modern day estates often have a similar issue with cash flow. They have land and title, but nothing to spend on much needed repairs on the "old pile".

[iloveatlantis]

I had no idea the new season of Downton Abbey had aired in the UK I'm so glad you mentioned it, and spurred me on to finding it. Thanks! I am so looking forward to watching it.

[nialla42]

I'm leery of watching it on PBS due to the cuts they make to get in their Masterpiece credits. A couple of cuts in Sherlock ruined some scenes. Plus I didn't want to wait until January to watch it. :)

Hope you enjoy it!

[sidlj]

I really enjoyed the latest series of Red Dwarf. I LOLed lots!

I've watched a couple of missing-footage Doctor Who storylines, and I found it worthwhile. One had the missing bits animated, which was easy to get into after a few minutes, while the other used stills, where at least you get the actual actor's faces to look at. *re-reads* Oh, but you're coming to one with missing parts still totally missing? That's a tougher call. It's hard to be a proper completist when your source is incomplete!

[nialla42]

Red Dwarf was really a blast from the past, wasn't it? I can't really think of another show that's ever managed to do that level of crazy sci fi.

Doctor Who being incomplete really gets to my OCD side. I know they're still working on restoring episodes. I watched the currently available version of The French Revolution, which used stills and the audio to fill in the gaps, but in January they're releasing a version with animation. I hope they're able to do that with all of the missing bits.

[spikedluv]

Our local theater was just forced to go digital as well. I'm glad they were able to do so because, even though I bitch about the movies they get most of the time, they're the only close & cheap place to go, unless I want to drive 45 min or more. Their prices have gone up to $5. I remember when it was $3, and it was that price for many, many years before they started slowly raising them 50 cents at a time.

(Also, it's kind of a fixture in town. I don't know exactly how long they've been there, but my grandparents talked about seeing movies there. I just looked at the pictures on their website, and there is one from 1935, so they've been around at least that long.)

[nialla42]

Out theater was originally intended to play movies we normally wouldn't get in this area. So a bit of an art house thing mixed with mainstream films when necessary. That wasn't making enough money, so they switched to primarily mainstream movies, though a few "art house" movies would show now and again

[kitzen_kat]

I've been watching Red Dwarf X and enjoying it, too. It's more old school Red Dwarf. The previous outing was awful.

[nialla42]

I was so excited to hear Red Dwarf was coming back, then sorely disappointed by what they did the first time out. This new series is so much better and closer to the spirit of the original. Definitely makes me think twice about saying "Jesus Christ!" if I ever travel back in time. ;)