Good: Yay, we finally get Doctor Who in the States!
Bad: Commercials seriously mess with the flow of the episodes. Skiffy saw fit to cut chunks out of it, too. Should've expected that, really, but I'm a bit irked that they cut out the moment at the end of EOTW where Rose lays her head on teh Doctor's shoulder. Not to mention Cassandra's "old Earth ballad" line before the playing of "Toxic"; that really needed some introduction. And I think they must have cut something out of the intro to "Rose," although it was probably just incidental shots. It did seem like the BBC versions have longer beats in a lot of the scenes. Bah.
Still, outweighed by it finally being on the air here, woot!
Also: an entire community for Harry Potter/Doctor Who crossovers. Hmmm.
Bad: Commercials seriously mess with the flow of the episodes. Skiffy saw fit to cut chunks out of it, too. Should've expected that, really, but I'm a bit irked that they cut out the moment at the end of EOTW where Rose lays her head on teh Doctor's shoulder. Not to mention Cassandra's "old Earth ballad" line before the playing of "Toxic"; that really needed some introduction. And I think they must have cut something out of the intro to "Rose," although it was probably just incidental shots. It did seem like the BBC versions have longer beats in a lot of the scenes. Bah.
Still, outweighed by it finally being on the air here, woot!
Also: an entire community for Harry Potter/Doctor Who crossovers. Hmmm.
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Date: 2006-03-18 07:42 pm (UTC)I know! I think EOTW is one of the longest, but even so... Although I read somewhere that the frame rate per second for PAL format is faster than NTSC, and thus 45 minutes in PAL is 47 in NTSC, or something like that. Bah. I know networks like Fox do soemthing where they cut out "unnecessary" frames so they can shove more commercials in; dunno why that kind of thing couldn't have happened here instead of the blatant cutting.
Still, as you say, at least it's on here!
Yep!