Doctor Who 2005

[Prover of Life]

Anybody in Canada or bordering states happen to tape this? Hasn't come to the U.S. yet and conversion to $$ makes DVD expensive. Sure would like to get a copy dvd/vhs.

[CovenantJr]

You think your DVDs are expensive?! We're the ones who pay 17.5% tax on all purchases!

[Prover of Life]

You think your DVDs are expensive?! We're the ones who pay 17.5% tax on all purchases!

Wow! That's high. We only pay 8.25%

However.... Amazon uk sports the dvds at 9.99 pounds = 18.26 US dollars. That's before shipping. Shipping puts them around 23.72 U.S. which is +/- seven dollars for 45min video.

A generous fan with homemade copy from TV would be a blessing.

[Edge]

Oh, stop whining, all of you!
9.99 pounds = 18.26 US dollars = 120.884 South African rands! Plus 14% sales tax, plus import duties!

On the plus side: I just download whatever I want to watch.

[Variol Farseer]

The series hasn't finished airing in Canada yet, and hasn't been released on DVD for Region 1. I've been taping it on VHS, for what little that's worth anymore. It's impressive on the whole, but two or three episodes have crossed over into the realm of the merely silly.

[Dragonlily]

What channel is it airing on? I haven't been watching much TV lately, and never noticed this in the TV Guide.

[CovenantJr]

The series hasn't finished airing in Canada yet, and hasn't been released on DVD for Region 1. I've been taping it on VHS, for what little that's worth anymore. It's impressive on the whole, but two or three episodes have crossed over into the realm of the merely silly.

The episode I saw must be one of those. I enjoyed it, but it was just daft.

Spoiler

The Doctor in the Big Brother house? Rose on the Weakest Link? That military bloke being made over by a mechanical Trinny and Suzannah?

[Menolly]

We can download episodes of the new Doctor Who? Where? Can you share a link?

[Ken Socrates]

They're all available as torrents. You just have to find a safe site.

The copies are usually 350 mb, encodded in XviD and very watchable at full screen resolution.

Wonderful stuff.

[Edge]

Personally I dl from the private ftp of a Swedish friend.

But as Ken said: they're freely available: as BitTorrent files, and also on p2p networks like kazaa.

[matrixman]

Menolly, the new Dr. Who is terrific and I hope you do get to watch the show in some form or other...but I think it would be a really BAD idea for us to start posting links to, um, not-precisely-lawful software sharing sites. Talking about them, like Edge and Ken did, is one thing...but to share an actual link to such places on the net might potentially land KW and our High Lord Jay in legal hot water.

[Menolly]

Oy, the reasoning makes sense. But, I have no idea what a torrent, kazaa, or any of the things y'all mentioned are.

:::wah!!!:::

[Loredoctor]

Menolly, the new Dr. Who is terrific and I hope you do get to watch the show in some form or other...but I think it would be a really BAD idea for us to start posting links to, um, not-precisely-lawful software sharing sites. Talking about them, like Edge and Ken did, is one thing...but to share an actual link to such places on the net might potentially land KW and our High Lord Jay in legal hot water.

Good point.

I just bough the first dvd - contains the first three episodes. By the way, Dalek was spectacular!

[Variol Farseer]

It was indeed. Funny, though, how one Dalek can be a thrilling and spectacular enemy for the Doctor, but 400,000 of them are just . . . well . . . a whole lot of CGI.

[Loredoctor]

It was indeed. Funny, though, how one Dalek can be a thrilling and spectacular enemy for the Doctor, but 400,000 of them are just . . . well . . . a whole lot of CGI.

Yeah, I saw images for that episode. The Emperor looked great. Thank god it wasn't Davros.

[Variol Farseer]

Actually, I thought the Emperor Dalek was a magnificently cool nod to the history of the series. It first appeared (in a much more primitive version) in the 1967 serial The Evil of the Daleks, which was voted the best Doctor Who serial of all time in a fan poll in 1993. This despite the fact that the tapes no longer existed, having been wiped by the BBC in the early 1970s!

[CovenantJr]

Funny, though, how one Dalek can be a thrilling and spectacular enemy for the Doctor, but 400,000 of them are just . . . well . . . a whole lot of CGI.

A lesson most Hollywood film makers have never learnt. A scary thing does not become more scary when multiplied (see Aliens, Predator, Terminator 2 & 3...)

[K9_nettle_min]

Actually, I thought the Emperor Dalek was a magnificently cool nod to the history of the series. It first appeared (in a much more primitive version) in the 1967 serial The Evil of the Daleks, which was voted the best Doctor Who serial of all time in a fan poll in 1993. This despite the fact that the tapes no longer existed, having been wiped by the BBC in the early 1970s!

It's funny - I collect newspaper clipping on the series (OK, I'm a nerd) and one of them quoted that Genesis of the Daleks (Tom Baker) was the one voted. Mind you that was in a poll in UK a few years ago.

[K9_nettle_min]

Here in Aus we're viewng the old series again... we're up to Frontios, in Peter Davison's era. A couple of weeks ago we saw The Five Doctors reunion. Fingers crossed The Christmas Invasion screens here soon! ps the new series started here in May, ended soon after.
Half my Strings group at school is obsessed with DW, Cate thinks Eccleston is cute, and we all call David Tennant WOMANHEAD . We don't like him that much. Anyway, my friend Daniel likes it too, he gave me a cd with all five DW themes on it. cool!

[K9_nettle_min]

Personal opinion: I think it's a bit foolish that the new series is getting a whole lot of haka with making the daleks fly. They did that in one of the old series except not quite as dramatically - just a cr**py blue glow in todays standards, a magnificent feat back then.