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[skywaterblue]

Naturally, I am downloading the Doctor Who Christmas Episode as we speak. This is the most exciting bit about our gentile holiday, even though I couldn't convince my mom to let us go get Chinese food. (She doesn't think they're open to sell me duck.)

So far I've been pretty disappointed by Yuletide. (Wait, I change my mind, look at all the Pern fic.)

Also, Merry Christmas: Disney quits Narnia. I'm actually kind of stunned since I didn't think Prince Caspian was a flop. (It wasn't very GOOD either, but being good and making money have never necessarily been the same thing.)

Comments

[trollish.livejournal.com]

out of curiosity, where is it available for download, if you don't mind sharing the location?

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Try Pirate Bay. They've got four or five torrents going.

[darkblackghost.livejournal.com]

Question; does BBC America not show this as part of its Christmas Day programming? Or do you have to wait til some stupid time in the future to get it?

A Multi-Part Answer:

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

1a. The first-air rights to Doctor Who (and Sarah Jane, but NOT Torchwood) are owned by NBC-Universal, which airs it on SciFi channel right before Battlestar Galactica. They've gotten slightly better about the time delay -- last season it aired only a week or two after the UK, because illegal downloading cuts sharply into its viewing figures here.

1b. They edit the episodes to fit in a 42 minute commercial block, though, so it actually hasn't stopped people from downloading. (Last season I downloaded anyway.)

1c. But the Christmas special usually airs as a really long movie episode prior to the start of the next season here.

2. Because it's a special season, and Sci Fi isn't equipped to do much about it, other than randomly air them as movies, no one knows when we're getting the specials on air in the states.

3a. Even if it did air first on BBCA, BBCA is a third-tier pay station and my parents don't pay for it.

3b. Which kind of sucks, because BBCA is the only station that has rights to Torchwood.

4. I've had to edit this three times now because I'm woozy.

[adventurepants.livejournal.com]

Man, fuck that. The Dawn Treader is my favorite.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know cuz the only one I ever finished was a Horse and His Boy. Because that one has a talking horse.

[adventurepants.livejournal.com]

I read them all a couple years ago and pretty much the only one I didn't like was The Silver Chair, which is the second-to-last one (number-wise, but not the-order-they-were-written-wise, whatevs.)

[rosmar.livejournal.com]

Fucking word. :(

[wickedolbaggins.livejournal.com]

You know, I didn't think the Narnia movies were amazing, but to cut out before the relative closure of the third (and best) book? Really?

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

...but, but, but what about Susan?

IDK, I honestly do not know.