Tell me about tele

Doctor Who isn't starting for aaaaaages this year.
There's nothing I'm watching on TV right now.
So, anyone want to tell me what I'm missing?

What should I be watching?
Preferably on UK Freeview TV, since otherwise I'd have to buy it on DVD or something.


My DVD collections have stalled as well though. ( Read more... )

I could just start a rewatch of my entire DVD collection. Possibly organised into thematic groups, like comparing all the vampire detective shows.
That would fill up a year or two.
... I could find how many of them still work. Do DVDs break just from being old?

I don't know though, I'd know all the stories and they'd all have the same flaws they ever did, usually in number and role of women. And people of color. And people with disabilities. My favourite things are always favourite for having some shiny in those areas, but that doesn't mean they aren't many sorts of flawed as well.
Also, number and role of queer people on TV... *sigh*

So what might be new to me and worth watching?
I don't mind if it were made any time after colour came in, as long as I wouldn't want to throw it across the room for some reason.

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Doctor Who is not like other things. Or it is like all of them.

I think I have just realised one reason that I can watch Doctor Who and stay watching Doctor Who for a very long time.

I was trying to think of a theme group to watch Doctor Who in. Like, vampire shows are a theme. Spaceship shows are a theme. Military shows. But Doctor Who is either none of the themes or all of them.

Like, you can pick episodes that are military spaceships (half of UNIT era), or vampire spaceships (that one where the ship was a stake), or probably military vampire spaceships (Fenris? it wasn't very spaceship though.) If you feel like a themed viewing you can pick Evil Robot Doubles and watch a whole bunch of them. Or you can watch them in order and have All The Themes Ever.

So there is nothing quite like Doctor Who, but Doctor Who is like all the things. Only with extra added goodness. Usually in the form of intelligent women who help save the Doctor and the worlds.

Is there anything else that is like that? Not necessarily like Doctor Who, but like All The Themes?
Stargate had a go. Hence 200 episodes.



If I was going to do something useful for my dissertation I could watch a bunch of Doctor Who and count who is in it.
... why is it I forgot that making anything For College makes it automatically a bunch less fun?
:eyeroll:

A wow story

"Story of your life" by Ted Chiang
winner of the 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novella
so I'm a bit behind on noticing it's really very good.

Also, now I want to show it to Daniel Jackson.

It's about language and ways of seeing the world and it builds up slowly but as quickly as it can and clicks together with that beautiful inevitability of a story where all the parts are doing their work.

It's about aliens and mothers and daughters and not understanding each other and why it's good talking anyway.
... if it could be said as quickly as an 'it's about' statement it wouldn't need to be a novella.

I stopped reading to tell the internet I likes it.