RETAIL EXTRAVAGANZA

[gogmagog]

Holy crap Amazon is having a gigantic sale on DVD box sets, mostly TV-related. But most interestingly to me is that the sale includes a LOT of normally somewhat expensive British TV sets (Doctor Who, Blackadder, Elizabeth R, Cadfael, Coupling, Jeeves and Wooster, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the original Forsyte Saga, etc.)

Anyway I added all the must-have things from it to my shopping cart, and now I'm faced with reducing my "must-haves" - which total $366.92 - so that they are more in line with my "can-spends" (especially since I do plan on buying some presents for other people too this holiday season, even if most of the ones I've bought have been for me).

Also why did I not know that this existed...does anyone know whether it was any good or not?

Comments

[braaaiiins.livejournal.com]

GODDAMMIT WHY DO YOU POINT THESE KINDS OF THINGS OUT??

WELL AT LEAST NOW I WILL HAVE 16 OR SO BAVA FILMS TO WATCH OVER BREAK AFTER I FINISH P4.

I need to lay off the caps lock!

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

I'm feelin' the pinch too, given that I just bought almost $200 worth of BBC DVDs. XD;;;;;;;

I got Elizabeth R, which I remember from my childhood; The Forsyte Saga (and not the recent remake, but the original one which basically sparked the creation of Masterpiece Theater; The Six Wives of Henry VIII with Keith Michell, because I am a Tudor freak and also it has the ineffable Patrick Troughton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Troughton) in; and the complete series of Coupling, which is basically like Friends but way raunchier and actually funny.

[braaaiiins.livejournal.com]

I actually managed to stop myself, but only because I knew I still had to get my parents presents (I already bought my brother and sister presents, ALTHOUGH MAYBE I'LL JUST GIVE MY BROTHER'S TO MY SISTER.). Plus, I still need money for my 15-20 dollar a week comic habit. I am also saving up for a PS3, for reasons I've forgotten.

I've seen Coupling before. It's cute, but I can only tolerate the fake-bisexual one (I forget her name... I forget all of their names). Everyone else is so annoying (including that Welshman and ESPECIALLY the blonde woman).

I adore that icon.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I basically need to make sure I don't eat out too often for the rest of the month so that I can buy presents for people. XD

I do admit, Coupling works better for me in small, season-long doses, and I think it definitely has its problems (which I think have a large part to do with the creator, Steven Moffat's, own explicitly expressed views on gender relations), but the writing is witty and frequently uncomfortably true enough that I manage to love it anyway.

(Haha, and my favorite character actually happens to be the blonde woman, Susan, mostly because she's the only one of the core gang of six who actually has something resembling a clue most of the time, not to mention any modicum of common sense...and yet she still manages to be hilariously deadpan bitchy a lot of the time. I like Jane, too - the fake bisexual - but she goes over the line from amusingly loopy to stupidly batshit a little too often for my tastes.)

And this icon is awesome, and it's also PERSONAL CANON, because the Second Doctor and Jamie were totes gay-married in space. (See Exhibit A (http://au.geocities.com/barbaras_chest/pervert_boys3.html), Exhibit B (http://au.geocities.com/barbaras_chest/pervert_boys4.html), and Exhibit C (http://www.crackerboxpalace.com/2pie.jpg).)

[braaaiiins.livejournal.com]

You know, I sort of hated Susan BECAUSE she was supposed to come across as so sensible and yet MORALLY INFALLIBLE, but also delightfully bitchy! If you're be an asshole, be an asshole! I think that's why I liked Jane? I dunno; it's been years since I've since I've seen that show.

Yes, the show's take on gender was pretty weird, IIRC. I remember this episode which was mostly split screen and had the girls start out at a beauty parlor or something and the boys at a strip club. The jokes were all about stereotypical gender roles being hilariously accurate. It was lazy, stupid, and mildly offensive. Can't wait to see how Moffat treats the lady-companions once he takes over Doctor Who! Although I did like "Blink" l(ike everyone else, I guess...).

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, I vaguely remember that Little Prince cartoon! It aired on Nickelodeon for a while in the 80s. :D Unfortunately, I can't recall anything else about it except that I liked it (of course, I was like, six or seven years old at the time)... and that the rose had a girl in it. Er. And for some reason I can still remember the theme song. It was pretty goofy.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

I found the theme song on YouTube, but was slightly disturbed by the fact that the credits explicitly made clear that it was not in fact based on the book. D:

(why do I have no Little Prince LJ icon, this should be remedied)

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I imagine it was probably pretty cheesy...

I used to have an icon of the star-over-the-hill landscape but I had to delete it because looking at it made me too sad.

[jokersama.livejournal.com]

Let's see if I can remember the theme song without actually watching the opening again since I was a kid!

THE LI-TTUL PRINCE, HE COMES FROM OUTER SPACE
CAN CATCH A SHOOTING STAR, AND SAAAIL AWAYYYY

...jesus christ, I was REALLY CLOSE. D: It kind of SINKS INTO YOUR MIND.

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, you too huh?

...it really does sink in, because after I went and looked on youtube I realized I had it word for word. WHY IS THIS TAKING UP SPACE IN MY BRAIN

[brandchan.livejournal.com]

Pretty much the same I remember watching it but don't remember much about it. I remember Maya the Bee a lot better personally.