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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 15, 2024 11:00:26 GMT
Shockprowl: Ask us about the comic strip with Marinus and the Alien Vrood in
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 15, 2024 15:04:43 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 15, 2024 22:07:07 GMT
Hmm. That's not ideal, is it. Later the same day I could cope with, but if two eps drop day one but only one is broadcast terrestrially, the TV broadcasts are always going to be a week behind their online release. Rubbish.
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Post by Llama God on Mar 16, 2024 8:16:01 GMT
Yeah. I can totally understand why they're doing this - if they want a simultaneous worldwide release they *could* drop it online the same time that it airs on the BBC. EXCEPT that Who is famously all over the place depending on what sporting or other events the BBC is airing. So I can understand why they've gone for a fixed time slot. I just wish it wasn't midnight. Especially when they're dropping two episodes first time around - that's going to mean staying up until 0200hrs. 'Sake.
Of course, I "could just stay off the Internet", which is what many will helpfully suggest. Except spoilers for this will be all over everything - not just social media, but suggested Google articles, etc. I kind of need to speak to people and use t'Interwebs as part of my day. It didn't matter so much when we couldn't watch the recent specials live, that was just a couple of hours. But... yeah. I can see why they're doing it. But I don't like it.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2024 9:38:38 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 16, 2024 11:01:20 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2024 13:08:11 GMT
Yeah. I can totally understand why they're doing this - if they want a simultaneous worldwide release they *could* drop it online the same time that it airs on the BBC. EXCEPT that Who is famously all over the place depending on what sporting or other events the BBC is airing. So I can understand why they've gone for a fixed time slot. I just wish it wasn't midnight. Especially when they're dropping two episodes first time around - that's going to mean staying up until 0200hrs. 'Sake. Of course, I "could just stay off the Internet", which is what many will helpfully suggest. Except spoilers for this will be all over everything - not just social media, but suggested Google articles, etc. I kind of need to speak to people and use t'Interwebs as part of my day. It didn't matter so much when we couldn't watch the recent specials live, that was just a couple of hours. But... yeah. I can see why they're doing it. But I don't like it. Same. I understand but take a dim view of it as the priority is so DW drops at a good evening slot for the US. Makes it look like Disney money counts for more than licencee fee payer's money. Anyway, it'll be midnight showings for me to avoid spoilers. For a UK show I have paid for. Fuck sakes. -Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 16, 2024 13:22:25 GMT
I'm not going to panic. I haven't found it difficult to avoid spoilers for things like Who; I didn't get to see Ruby Road until a while after the broadcast and knew nothing about it. I didn't see The Giggle live either. I'm so knackered from work on a Friday night that I won't keep awake through a midnight broadcast, so I reckon I'll make it a Saturday night iPlayer treat post zoom call and just stay a day behind.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2024 13:45:33 GMT
It's still getting BBC1 broadcasts on Saturdays so you could watch it 'live'.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Mar 16, 2024 14:00:58 GMT
With my social media activity basically collapsed down to my Blusky "following" field, and the folk I follow not being the type to engage in spoilers on the first day a thing is going to be available, and also the day being a Saturday and my therefore probably not on social media much until the evening anyway I am not going to worry much about this. I'll likely just take it as an opportunity to move Doctor Who back to a late-afternoon/teatime slot on the Saturday.
I'm not staying up till midnight to watch something just because that is when the BBC puts it on their streaming service. Any more than I am going to spend eight hours of my day watching a Netflix series just because Netflix considers me to have given up if I don't watch the whole series in 24hrs. If they put it on a streaming service then they are putting it on my schedule, not theirs as far as I am concerned.
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 16, 2024 14:44:39 GMT
It's still getting BBC1 broadcasts on Saturdays so you could watch it 'live'. -Ralph Yes, but after the first episode, the Saturday night TV broadcast will presumably be a week behind the iPlayer release if they're dropping two episodes day one. I'd always be a week behind the hub discussion then. A day behind is fine, a week is going to be annoying.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2024 14:54:08 GMT
IIRC the press release correctly, the first two episodes are on BBC before Eurovision?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 16, 2024 15:23:46 GMT
Oh are they? Back to back? Blimey, that's going some for the beeb. That's going to wreck the weekly call that night!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2024 16:36:35 GMT
"For those in the UK, for the first time ever, the Doctor will land with two episodes premiering on BBC iPlayer at midnight, before arriving on BBC One later that day right before the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final."
As per the press release.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 16, 2024 17:08:59 GMT
That's got to be something to do with Disney surely. Two eps of Who back to back on prime time BBC1?!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 16, 2024 23:59:18 GMT
S15 BD dispatched!
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Post by KnightBeat on Mar 17, 2024 0:15:21 GMT
The Unearthly Child was repeated a week later as a result of the JFK assassination, wasn't it? Did it run back-to-back with the 2nd episode?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2024 0:22:08 GMT
Yes
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 17, 2024 10:09:39 GMT
Mine hasn't yet, but then I don't have Prime.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2024 10:24:26 GMT
Neither do I
It was something of a surprise given it was predicted to be delivered a week Monday
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 17, 2024 11:22:56 GMT
I have switched to waiting for the 'standard editions' of the boxsets. Take up less space and sturdier packaging.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 17, 2024 11:59:30 GMT
I'd have done that if it was clear from the start that the standard ones were coming, but by the time it did I was too far down the limited route. This collection will eventually take up much less space than the DVDs, so I'm not too bothered.
Not sure what to do about those. I regret moving on all the VHS tapes (bar about 8) but wouldn't have anywhere to keep them now. The DVDs will definitely remain until all the BR sets are out, but then what? Do we need both? Will I have retro pangs for DVD watching in 20 years when the BRs are effectively the same technology?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 17, 2024 16:02:32 GMT
I keep one copy of each story on DVD. For stories which had multiple editions on DVD, only the most recent is kept.
It is very satisfying to see on the shelves.
At some point I will flog the limited ed season blu ray booksets to replace with the sturdier standard editions.
Only VHS I still have is TRIAL OF A TIMELORD (in its tin). That will never be purged, no matter how rusty the tin may become! Cripes. That is...30 years old now.
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Mar 17, 2024 21:40:37 GMT
I was surprised to see Roger Delgado and Kate O'Mara working side-by-side in The Avengers last night ( in the 1968 episode, Stay Tuned), and even more surprised by the ending. Delgado's character is so similar to The Master that it could easily be a dimension-hopping escapade for the character. I hope this is officially part of Doctor Who canon by teatime tomorrow.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2024 22:10:54 GMT
Delgado's appearance in Randall & Hopkirk's The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo is well worth a watch alongside both Nicholas Courtney and Brian Blessed
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 17, 2024 22:30:11 GMT
You get them round and I'll bring the DVD.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 18, 2024 17:40:41 GMT
Hey! Get out of my living room!
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 18, 2024 17:44:23 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 18, 2024 17:45:21 GMT
Shockprowl: Ask us about the comic strip with Marinus and the Alien Vrood in Hey, isn't there a comic strip with Marinus and the Alien Brood?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2024 17:51:16 GMT
Yes.
-Ralpj
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