Last night, it looked like the only thing in the mailbox was something from the CFA about "Is your home in a fire zone?" Which was rather depressing, because a) yes, I live in an area prone to cinder-ification and b) where was my Doctor Who box set!?!?!?
The answer was that the the little note that lets you know to go to the post office and pick up a parcel was lurking right at the bottom of the letterbox, where the spider lives. But it was there! (Hurrah!) And the post office was closed by that time! (pantomime-style Boo!)
At lunch, I headed to the post office with beating heart and joyous step. Mainly because there's been nothing decent on TV for ages and a box set with 1016 minutes or whatever it is worth of material will help to fill in a few moments of dullness. Not that things will be any better when the writer's strike ends - things are so gloriously average from the US in recent years.
Not that all English television is automatically good. I remember watching a little of some very shouty Jerry Springer-esque talk show with an incredibly aggrivating host who tried to pick fights with the "guests" in a "I'm the man with the microphone, shut your face!" kind of fashion when I was there.
It was actually kind of shocking.
I mean, yes, the British have come out with Corronation Street and Eastenders and so on, but they were quite tasteful compared. And perhaps Australian soapies could learn a little from their British counterparts. It wasn't even an end-of-season episode and they were killing characters off! And putting people in the boots of their cars and driving around like nutters. Before crashing and dying while sisters-in-law whinge about what a schlaaaaaaaaaaaag the lady in the boot was. Possibly because she was blonde.
Anyway. Doctor Who is fantastic. I quite love the bit in Evolution of the Daleks where there's the two daleks in the sewers having a bit of an office gossip about their leader and thinking he wasn't good. All that was missing was a watercooler.
"Affirmative!"
6 comments:
mmmmmm.... David Tennant.... *drools*
He's so cute. And makes a great Doctor, as well. I'm just kind of disappointed he's going to be taking a year off to do Shakespeare, which will put the Doctor on hold.
Although I guess Shakespeare does have a little more class than Doctor Who... ;)
who needs class when you have daid tennant? he could recite the alphabet fifty times for all i care, wouldnt stop we wanting more.
Good idea on the alphabet. We can call it conceptual art and get a government grant ;)
have you gotten into torchwood? its a bit more americanise...which is annoying...but it has its moments of greatness. (if you want examples check my blog for the torchwood clip) lol! nothing funnier than a "serious" sci-fi show doing a parody of Buffy)
*teehee* Thanks to my friend Mic, I'd already seen Torchwood's first series in its entirity before it aired here in Aus. You're right about it being more Americanised. I really do hope someone OTHER than Foxtel is going to air the second series in Australia. Apparently it has more things in it that tie in to the next series of Doctor Who and will kind of explain things more or something.
Captain Jack... Mmmmmm...
*ahem*
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