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hafitalI told myself I had to post something to live(dw)journal today! So here I am, posting... something. hah.
For reasons that are not really important, I am in possession of my mother's X-Box. I borrowed it from her ages ago because I needed to play a video game for work. (I know, I'm fully aware of how odd both those sentences are! lol) In any case, I never gave it back to her, but for the most part it's just been sitting there doing nothing. For a while there I was using it as a DVD player because ours had died on us, but then we got another DVD player so we stopped using it for that, too. I'm not particularly fond of video games (by 'not fond' you may as well read 'actively hate' despite I have to occasionally play them for work), so it didn't get used. But then my then roommate's then fiance would use it to log on to his membership or whatever and stream Netflix films on it, and that was cool.
So, when I eventually got around to moving into my own place I canceled my cable subscription (something I have been wanting to do FOREVER) and now I just use my mother's X-Box to stream Netflix stuff. I can also get a huluplus account and watch a bunch of television shows that way but honestly there is more than enough to keep me occupied with just netflix.
For some reason, when I moved into my own apartment I stopped watching shows on my computer, whether on DVD or computer file. I don't know why but for the most part it is a change I feel is for the best. I used to watch TV shows in bed a lot on my computer. It was cosy. But then I moved and now live alone and that habit has seemed to go away and for the most part I do not miss it. It's lovely just reading and going to bed. And now I watch TV almost entirely from my couch. Yay! But then what happened was that all the shows I had on avi files were not getting watched because I just couldn't make myself watch on my computer anymore and I didn't have one of those fancy DVD players that could play avi files. So I did a bunch of research of how best to fix this 'problem' and went through various solutions until I realized that with my magic X-Box all I had to do was load up a thumb drive (or pop in a data dvd), stick it in, and voila. I won't bore you with the details of the various trials and errors of how I figured out I could do that, because I wanted to make it so much more complicated than it ever ever was.
Magic X-Box FTW!!!!
Thus I am now caught up on Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, and almost done with Lost Girl but I'm savoring the second season slowly so I'm only midway through and loving it.
I thought of writing up posts about Doctor Who and Downton Abbey but both would pretty much boil down to LOVED IT LIKE PIE. Well, Downton Abbey I loved like pie. Doctor Who I loved like... I don't know... what's a messy sort of dessert - trifle? hahahah.
Gah, it's been so long since I made any sort of significant post to LJ I almost forgot how to cut tag...
Doctor Who - Joking aside, I did not hate any part of Doctor Who at all. In fact, I rather liked it. Did I love the ridiculously complex and ultimately meaningless plotting? No, not really. You will never find me waving a I Heart Moffat flag, but that hardly matters. Everything else? Yeah, it was all right. Loved Eleven and Rory more than the rest of it, but that's rather to be expected. I wasn't sure how I would feel about it, truly, but then I watched it and felt just fine, so there. It's wonderful not being invested! Also, it's been a few weeks now since I've watched it and I can honestly say I can't remember what happened, exactly... On right, the wedding, kiss, time stop, Doctor is really a big robot thing. I remember now. Yeah, rather silly, but I can watch Eleven all day long, so, can't complain.
Downton Abbey - I don't think there was one moment of either series 1 or series 2 that I did not love entirely. Wait... I think I was weirded out by the returning cousin that then ran away. And, I may have possibly wanted to hit several characters over the head with the clue stick, but aside from that? PURE LOVE. Thank GOD that Matthew and Mary are at last together and for the love of mike I hope they can manage to hold it together through whatever series 3 throws at them. And Bates and Anna!!! sigh. I was very worried I would no longer be able to love Lord Grantham but thankfully he pulled himself together and I still love him. Lastly, Maggie Smith is now and forever, my hero(ine).
For reasons that are not really important, I am in possession of my mother's X-Box. I borrowed it from her ages ago because I needed to play a video game for work. (I know, I'm fully aware of how odd both those sentences are! lol) In any case, I never gave it back to her, but for the most part it's just been sitting there doing nothing. For a while there I was using it as a DVD player because ours had died on us, but then we got another DVD player so we stopped using it for that, too. I'm not particularly fond of video games (by 'not fond' you may as well read 'actively hate' despite I have to occasionally play them for work), so it didn't get used. But then my then roommate's then fiance would use it to log on to his membership or whatever and stream Netflix films on it, and that was cool.
So, when I eventually got around to moving into my own place I canceled my cable subscription (something I have been wanting to do FOREVER) and now I just use my mother's X-Box to stream Netflix stuff. I can also get a huluplus account and watch a bunch of television shows that way but honestly there is more than enough to keep me occupied with just netflix.
For some reason, when I moved into my own apartment I stopped watching shows on my computer, whether on DVD or computer file. I don't know why but for the most part it is a change I feel is for the best. I used to watch TV shows in bed a lot on my computer. It was cosy. But then I moved and now live alone and that habit has seemed to go away and for the most part I do not miss it. It's lovely just reading and going to bed. And now I watch TV almost entirely from my couch. Yay! But then what happened was that all the shows I had on avi files were not getting watched because I just couldn't make myself watch on my computer anymore and I didn't have one of those fancy DVD players that could play avi files. So I did a bunch of research of how best to fix this 'problem' and went through various solutions until I realized that with my magic X-Box all I had to do was load up a thumb drive (or pop in a data dvd), stick it in, and voila. I won't bore you with the details of the various trials and errors of how I figured out I could do that, because I wanted to make it so much more complicated than it ever ever was.
Magic X-Box FTW!!!!
Thus I am now caught up on Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, and almost done with Lost Girl but I'm savoring the second season slowly so I'm only midway through and loving it.
I thought of writing up posts about Doctor Who and Downton Abbey but both would pretty much boil down to LOVED IT LIKE PIE. Well, Downton Abbey I loved like pie. Doctor Who I loved like... I don't know... what's a messy sort of dessert - trifle? hahahah.
Gah, it's been so long since I made any sort of significant post to LJ I almost forgot how to cut tag...
Doctor Who - Joking aside, I did not hate any part of Doctor Who at all. In fact, I rather liked it. Did I love the ridiculously complex and ultimately meaningless plotting? No, not really. You will never find me waving a I Heart Moffat flag, but that hardly matters. Everything else? Yeah, it was all right. Loved Eleven and Rory more than the rest of it, but that's rather to be expected. I wasn't sure how I would feel about it, truly, but then I watched it and felt just fine, so there. It's wonderful not being invested! Also, it's been a few weeks now since I've watched it and I can honestly say I can't remember what happened, exactly... On right, the wedding, kiss, time stop, Doctor is really a big robot thing. I remember now. Yeah, rather silly, but I can watch Eleven all day long, so, can't complain.
Downton Abbey - I don't think there was one moment of either series 1 or series 2 that I did not love entirely. Wait... I think I was weirded out by the returning cousin that then ran away. And, I may have possibly wanted to hit several characters over the head with the clue stick, but aside from that? PURE LOVE. Thank GOD that Matthew and Mary are at last together and for the love of mike I hope they can manage to hold it together through whatever series 3 throws at them. And Bates and Anna!!! sigh. I was very worried I would no longer be able to love Lord Grantham but thankfully he pulled himself together and I still love him. Lastly, Maggie Smith is now and forever, my hero(ine).
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Date: 2012-03-31 06:45 pm (UTC)Have you seen the new version of Upstairs Downstairs? It took a while, but I was hooked by the end of Season 2.
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Date: 2012-03-31 06:53 pm (UTC)I have not started the new Upstairs Dowstairs but I probably will eventually. I have the old one on netflix but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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Date: 2012-03-31 07:26 pm (UTC)Any recommendations for getting started for someone who has never seen even one scrap of any episode from any version?
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Date: 2012-04-01 12:39 am (UTC)If the former, that would probably be all right but you'll miss out on Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor and he's lovely. If it's the later, I feel that you will be confused. It's better to start at the beginning of the 11th Doctor (technically season 5 of the new series).
With Doctor Who, every doctor is different, and with the 11th doctor we have a new show runner so it's very different from the 10th and 9th doctors. If your friend is giving you the first season with 10 you should be okay.