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[shadowkat]

Concerning the Torchwood Miniseries? Please continue to keep ANYTHING resembling a spoiler beneath a cut. I will not be able to catch this miniseries until July 20th - when it airs on BBCAmerica, and most likely will not watch live. From what I've read in reviews this is a suspenseful miniseries that you do not want to be spoiled for.

Sigh. Might just have to avoid flist for the next two weeks or filter out all the people who are watching Torchwood on flist. Could just do that.

It's highly annoying when this happens. I had to do the same thing with the dang Buffy comic, Retreat, because my comic store didn't get it until this week. Also had to do it with Doctor Who - which is FINALLY being televised here. The Doc Who Xmas Special was horrid by the way, I was bored out of my mind and wrote a post while it played in the background.

Hmmm, wonder if this is how you guys who live outside of the US felt when we discussed tv shows you hadn't gotten yet? Aggravating isn't it? When you finally see the thing everyone is rattling on about, you have to hunt for their reviews of it...which are usually about five to six days ago or weeks or even months. And by the time you want to discuss? They've moved on to the next thing.

While the net has to a degree made this less of a problem - it has only done it for those who actually can download tv shows, comic books,books, or movies from the internet and watch them. Those of us who can't? Are just aggravated. ;-)

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[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

BSG must have been...even when I wrote about it, it was hard to remember to put stuff behind cuts. You forget that half your flist/readership does not live in the same broadcast territory that you do.

I remember people from the UK screaming at folks on discussion boards back when Buffy was airing - because they got the episodes a year after we did. I think it lagged a year behind, just as Doctor Who and Torchwood used to for the US, before BBCAmerica picked them up and decided to show them a lot closer together. BBCAmerica is showing in succession the following series: Doctor Who, Torchwood, Being Human. So while you are getting Torchwood, we're getting Doctor Who. And of course Being Human aired more than a year ago.

The internet really has changed how we watch movies, tv and read books - hasn't it?

[curlymynci.livejournal.com]

Thank god. Up here in North Wales I only get 3 TV channels!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

You're in North Wales? Where? I only ask - because I spent some time in 1987 and 1988 in North Wales. Was collecting Welsh Folktales (actually more ghost stories there really aren't any folktales being orally passed about) in 1988. Very beautiful countryside.
(Reminds me a bit of the Hudson River Valley in NY, except prettier. (Or it is in my memory, been a very long time.)

[curlymynci.livejournal.com]

Well I live in Llandudno, work in Rhyl and once upon a time went to university in Bangor. And yes, it's gorgeous. If you're into the outdoors it's kind of a paradise at this time of year. :)