Dr Who

[Valka]

That brief glimpse of a brown-haired John Hurt reminds me of how he looked in the movie Night Crossing, about a family that escapes from East Germany in a hot-air balloon.

[Dio]

That brief glimpse of a brown-haired John Hurt reminds me of how he looked in the movie Night Crossing, about a family that escapes from East Germany in a hot-air balloon.

I have never watched Dr. Who because it always appeared more as a British show.

[Buster's Uncle]

...I think I know what that means, but what's wrong with it being British, to you?

[Dio]

...I think I know what that means, but what's wrong with it being British, to you?

The accents occasionally irritate me for an unknown reason. I have nothing against people from the U.K.

[Buster's Uncle]

That's one of the things I had in mind, yes.  -Also, a certain amount of slang and references you'd never get even if the accents weren't a problem and the sound quality better - also the Beeb, and British movies, too, have tended to really noticeably lag behind contemporary American stuff for production quality, if not as inevitably dumbed-down, in the past.  I really notice the poor sound, being hard of hearing, and am glad to see them catching up in recent years.

[Valka]

That brief glimpse of a brown-haired John Hurt reminds me of how he looked in the movie Night Crossing, about a family that escapes from East Germany in a hot-air balloon.

I have never watched Dr. Who because it always appeared more as a British show.

Maybe because it is a British show?

...I think I know what that means, but what's wrong with it being British, to you?

The accents occasionally irritate me for an unknown reason. I have nothing against people from the U.K.

There are certain accents that grate on my nerves, particularly the ones that sound like the speaker has a mouth full of pillow stuffing and is trying to talk through it; I can't be bothered to try to decipher that. And I also get annoyed with people who talk too fast.

But there are some UK accents that I could listen to all day. There's a phrase that "I could listen to (insert actor's name) read the phone book." That's how it is with certain UK actors, such as Patrick Stewart, Brian Blessed, Tom Baker, John Rhys-Davies, and so on. And David Tennant's natural accent is very pleasing (to my ears).

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah; those guys are all pretty pleasant to listen to.

[Buster's Uncle]

It doesn't look good, this morning, for finding the new episode.  It looks like they've cracked down at DailyMotion.

I'll check again later...

[Buster's Uncle]

SUCCESS!  Took enough wading through bait-and-switch scam postings all over creation, and probably only a matter of time before someone who can read German takes this down, but here it is for now...

<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x37wsob_s09e02-die-vertraute-der-hexe_travel" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x37wsob_s09e02-die-vertraute-der-hexe_travel</a>

[Buster's Uncle]

Interesting.

[Buster's Uncle]

The Mastress didn't annoy me unbearably, and -eh- not as good as last week, but good.

[Valka]

Well, the Doctor finally got the cup of tea he asked for 40 years ago! 

This was better than I expected, but what happened to the sonic screwdriver? I don't remember if Davros picked it up.

[Buster's Uncle]

The Thals took it?

[Valka]

In that case, wouldn't they have been able to mop the floor with the Kaleds long before Genesis of the Daleks? They would have had enough time to figure out at least some of how it works and boosted their technology accordingly.

But that didn't happen.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmm.  Advanced scanners and hand mines alongside biplanes and bows on the battlefield in the previous episode indicates that it probably wouldn't have mattered.  There's plenty of high tech still around they're not able to exploit.

Also?  Aren't the Thals really lame and hard to believe in not extinct?  They were brought back several times pre-Pertwee as some sort of threat to the Daleks, but isn't that pretty hard to believe once the Daleks got established and started conquering the universe?