Kevin's post just now about BBC on I-Tunes reminds me of a question I have been meaning to post here.
My household is still really digging the Netflix. We were motivated to get the 2 week trial because my son and I wanted to watch season 3 of Buffy. 3 weeks later we are almost done with season 7. We have also enjoyed a number of documentaries that fit in nicely with the summer academic program we put together for my son (who did not do as well as he should have last year in 7th grade). We loved the Louis and Clark documentary, a few biographies on selected Founding Fathers from A&E I think, and will soon be doing a Civil War marathon. At night while I am working on a few projects I have the Jazz documentaries on in the background. All of this is very cool. Plus we have stumbled upon the wonderful world of Dr. Who, which I was only vaguely aware of from occasional mention here (which I usually skipped) and from the ravings of a few family friends (who we also usually ignore). In any case we both are really liking the Doctor. Through Who we also started watching some other British shows, which have been okay to great. I had only seen probably half of Fawlty Towers, and that many years ago though lots of static in my parent's home. It has been a kick to watch that again. I had seen all of Yes, Minister, but that hasn't stopped me from enjoying it again (I don't think I have seen it in more than 10 years) and I just noticed they also have all of Good Neighbors, which I liked a lot but never saw in complete sequence. All of this is available for instant online viewing. Very cool. Anyway, it leads to a couple of questions. #1. We are now on Season 3 of Dr. Who. As I understand it, Torchwood started between Season 2 and Season 3 of Dr. Who. We watched the first episode of Torchwood, but my son is less interested in that show, and wants to press on with Season 3 of Who (we are about 3 or 4 episodes in now). Will we miss anything by skipping Torchwood and just continuing on with Dr. Who? Can this question be answered without too many spoilers? I will probably watch Torchwood, but my son won't unless I tell him it is important for fully appreciating the Doctor. (BTW, this 12 year old California boy is starting to speak with a London accent). #2. As part of my British TV surfing I got hooked on MI-5 (my son doesn't like this so much). I noticed that around Season 3 the on-screen title changed to "Spooks", even though it is still listed as MI-5 on netflix. A little googling revealed that the show is actually called "Spooks" in the UK, and goes by MI-5 in the US (which seems a little strange - I might have thought the reverse would have made more sense, since "spook" is kind of a universal term for spy). Anyway, my question is, does anyone know why Netflix shows the MI-5 titled episodes from the first two seasons, and now the Spooks versions starting in season 3, and are there any actual differences in content between the two versions? MI-5 has given me my first bit of frustration with Netflix - after season 4 they are no longer available online for instant viewing. I did not realize this until late one night this weekend when I was jonesing to see the next episode and was horrified to see that I had to wait for the DVD to arrive (which thankfully came today). I had been using the DVDs to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm (which I had never seen, except for one of the recent Seinfeld episodes). Now I will put that on hold to ram through MI-5, and I am almost tempted to upgrade my plan so I can get more than 1 measly DVD at a time. I had to call the Netflix help line to fix a small viewing problem (promptly solved) and told they guy I was afraid to tell him how happy I was with the service for feat they would raise the price. He told me he was a customer too, and already knew what a good deal it was. I feel about Netflix the way I feel about my digital camera - the more I use it, the cheaper it feels. I most likely would have paid for the last 4 seasons of Buffy on DVD if it were not for Netflix, which I figure has saved me at least $100.00, which should pretty much cover the cost of Netflix for almost a year. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
