Canadians Miss Out On Doctor Who Season Finale 303
darthcamaro writes "Canadians were among the last people in the world to get the season 4 finale of Doctor Who which already aired in the UK and Australia. The Canadian public broadcaster — CBC — decided to cut out nearly 20 minutes from the episode, leaving fans wondering what was going on. Doctor Who isn't the easiest show to follow at the best of times — but Canadians are now up in arms (or at least hockey sticks) over their taxpayer-funded broadcaster's lack of respect for SciFi hosers."
Re:A new companion? (Score:1, Insightful)
Donna Noble - A loud, obnoxiously self-absorbed office worker who, one one Christmas special in 2006, ironically was saved on her wedding day by the Doctor from being fed to a giant alien spiderwoman by her fiance. The irony is that the character is 100% exactly like the actress performing the role, Catherine Tate. Since she's essentially playing herself, one must question whether this is is really acting. For some reason she is now slated to be a more permanent companion for the fourth year of the New Series. Gawd help us all.
Re:Stuff that matters? (Score:2, Insightful)
Flaimbiat? ive been thinking there was a troll using mod points to disagree with people, this proves it. Canadians missing some new dr.who (maybe if it was one from the original series it would be geek worthy), is not news, its 2008 they have the internet.
Re:A new companion? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:BitTorrent (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Spoiler alert! (Score:4, Insightful)
'We can win, we have the power of SOUL!'
Seriously, your Star Trek idea totally sucks. And the borg would probably be even more dangerous to the federation when they adopted humanity's standards for what is right and what is wrong.
In a way, the Borg have dealt with this crap already, if memory serves, there was this unimatrix zero thing in the voyager series. The borg queen found a way to detect the borg that were affected by it, and blew up their ships. Along with millions of unaffected borg, but she figured it was more important to be perfect.
What's the fun of karma when you never lose it once you get to excellent?
So that's what happened... (Score:3, Insightful)
Changing the topic a bit, I find the new Dr. Who series to be overly sentimental, even maudlin. I prefer good ol' space opera without all the tears. Give me "Annihilate them!" over "I'll miss you, Doctor." any day.
Re:A new companion? (Score:5, Insightful)
The turnover is only "much faster" because A.) you're older; and B.) the seasons are shorter and the stories aren't episodic serials anymore.
David Tennant has already played the Doctor for three seasons. That's as long as William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, or Peter Davidson, and longer than Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy. Historically most of the Doctor's companions have only lasted one season, and the current show has actually made them all into recurring characters, so you can't exactly call it "turnover."
CBC did them a favour (Score:2, Insightful)
Given the episode in question, this is more of a blessing than a curse. The Season 4 finale is almost worse than the Season 3 finale.
I'm looking forward to Stephen Moffat taking over from Russel T Davies in 2010. Hopefully he'll be able to bring some intelligence (or just plots that make sense) back to the show.
Re:mised 20 minutes, eh? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:So that's what happened... (Score:2, Insightful)
As a long time fan of The Doctor, I dislike some of the over-wraught sentimentality, but I the somewhat darker, desolate, lonlier tones of the doctor recently to be welcome.
Re:Spoiler alert! (Score:3, Insightful)
"My idea was more like: We have something special. A will/power to survive, that outweighs even the Borg assimilation nanites."
Welcome to Star Trek, you must be new here.
This is essentially the idea of Star Trek. Humans somehow have something special in them so they can do what other races cannot.
Humans have:
-Cured the phage(thought incurable)
-Make piece between Vulcan and Andoria(thought impossible)
-Prevent civil war on Vulcan
-Travelled to the center of the universe(I, NEED, MY, PAIN!)
-Beat the borg on multiple occasions
-Prevented an invasion of species 8472
-Winning the war against the dominion
and so on. The whole idea of Star Trek is humans saving the day and doing the impossible and surving a multitude of dangerous situations by a matter of seconds.
Re:Spoiler alert! (Score:5, Insightful)
Then the magic would happen: Somehow, a child of a Human and one of the other major Species, would be able to resist in it's innermost Soul. Like i tiny flame in a storm, struggling to survive. You would experience this feeling with that child.
It was all going well, then you had to ruin it with this cheesey shit. Yes, humans are so advanced, that not even the borg can hold down our amazing spirit. Fuck this shit, really.
You want good sci-fi, you don't watch Star Trek.
Re:A new companion? (Score:3, Insightful)
I downloaded the rest of the season after a time glitch cut out the end of "Doctor's Daughter".
Luckily for my mom, she was over last Friday to babysit, so she got to watch the whole episode. (The power was out at her place, too, so it was doubly lucky.)
I can download the shows and then watch them on my regular TV, which is very nice. I've got a $20,000 DVR - at least according to Bill C-61.
Camp as a row of tents (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Plot/Series Branching (Score:3, Insightful)
"The Office" and "What Not to Wear" are two other examples.
The Office? WTF? It's on par with the British version. In some ways it exceeds it, because it has managed to sustain itself with many more episodes, while the British version was a very short run - it's much easier to reach heights when you can pack it all into a short series.
The US version of The Office is also great because it doesn't just mimic the British show - it is well translated to the American paradigm. America has its own unique business culture, which The Office reflects very well.
Re:Hold on... (Score:3, Insightful)
Utterly and profoundly terrible as well as completely unfunny come to mind as a equally valid descriptions of the US version
On what basis? If you don't find the US Office funny, then I doubt you have much of a sense of humor.
Re:A new companion? (Score:3, Insightful)
And they wonder why TV shows are so popular on Torrent sites..
You put people in the backseat not give them what they want and then wonder why they circumvent your revenue stream..