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[llywela]

1. I have new neighbours! They moved in on Wednesday, a young couple named Lisa and Phil. So far so good, but I have to get used to hearing people moving around upstairs again now - it's been so lovely and quiet since Samar and the kids moved out back in the summer.

2. I am loving the new season of Scott and Bailey.

3. But find I have lost interest in New Tricks - I forgot to watch it one week early in this new season and never quite picked it up again, and feel no urge to do so. It's a little sad, as I loved it so much, but with 3/4 of the original cast gone, I find my emotional bond with the show is gone with them.

4. Enjoying having Downton Abbey back, on the other hand, for all its manifold flaws. I suppose that's the thing about TV: everything is flawed in one way or another, what matters is whether what you enjoy about it outweighs those flaws. If the show captures you, you barely even notice the flaws, whereas if it doesn't capture you, the flaws are all you see. And then there are those that start out as the former but slowly become the latter - every show ever made exists somewhere on that spectrum!

5. tvtorrents has been down for ages. I didn't expect to miss it, as I watch so few shows these days, but because I can't dl anything without it (I don't trust other sites) I find I want to!

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[thisbluespirit]

3. I only managed the first episode! Drama are repeating some old episodes; I am watching those!

4. *nods* Downton is such an escape, really. *waves away flaws as long as it still has Mrs Hughes, Carson & Maggie Smith*

If the show captures you, you barely even notice the flaws, whereas if it doesn't capture you, the flaws are all you see

I think this is so very true. I just wish more people could be a little less ready to leap on the ones that don't capture them and declare their flaws so much worse and super-evil than the ones that do. :-/

5. Is it down or is it that new law blocking things? (I wouldn't have a clue. I know they took down the radioarchive site, which is so sad. There is literally no other way to get hold of old radio dramas, legally, illegally, anyway.) Anyway, if it is the new law, apparently there are totally plug-ins that can get round it if you search. (I haven't, but... pass a law, someone works out how to internet round it. :lol:)

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

For me, the shows I grumble about the most are the ones that started out as 'captures me so I barely notice the flaws' but have begun the slow, sad descent into 'the flaws are all I see', because that journey toward letting go really hurts, I want so badly to recapture the magic and get back to the state of contentment I once enjoyed!

Because yes, it is annoying when people are all over the flaws in a show you love while denying that their own favourites have anything wrong with them at all! I suppose it's the same with eras in Doctor Who. They are all flawed, in one way or another, but the balance of the flaws and strengths tends to be different in each era, and which combination of flaws and strengths we are content with is a very subjective thing. But what's current is always going to attract the greatest ire, because it's current.

tvtorrents is down generally - according to their twitter feed, it's a hosting issue and they're looking for a new solution. It's so stupid that it's so impossible to get hold of this stuff, especially the archive material that isn't available commercially anyway so who does it hurt?

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, true - where is the show I once loved and what is this crap you have put in its place syndrome. Which, of course, as you say, DW, which changes regularly by its very nature, is one of the most likely to be affected.

Ah, well, in another 50 years, they'll laugh at internet wars, and in the meantime, we do have the Dowager Countess! :-)

I just wondered, because I have hit a few streaming sites - which I wasn't even particularly wanting to get into, but clicky links are things! - and have come up against it being inaccessible. But, yeah, that's a whole other annoyance! And I suppose people might be planning eventual DVD releases - or, with the way technology is going - the possibility that any individual series/episode might be for sale as a download in future. But in the meantime, while we sit around and wait, thinking that seems unlikely and also will we even live that long, what do you do?

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

in the meantime, while we sit around and wait, thinking that seems unlikely and also will we even live that long, what do you do?
Personally, I sit and seethe...

In 50 years the televisual styles seen as so sophisticated and modern today will look just as dated and clunky as anything made in the 1960s does to us now, and there'll be a whole new narrative fashion that all the shows will be emulating, to greater or lesser success, with a whole new generation declaring that anything not conforming to that standard must be crap...:D

Of course, knowing that won't stop us grumbling about perceived mistakes made today and what's current will always be the most disappointing because they're making it right now they have the chance to make it perfect and it isn't!

[catsdownunder.livejournal.com]

I too have lost interest in New Tricks ... the new cast actors may be fine actors themselves but they just don't gel together as a team. It is a shame as it was a very good show

My scribbles on my calendar tell me a new series of Lewis starts your way this weekend. Love the dynamics of Robbie and James and OXFORD.

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

That's just it, 'cause I like Denis Lawson and I like Nicholas Lyndhurst and I like Tamzin Outhwaite, but. But I loved the old team and these new people just didn't capture my heart.

There is indeed a new series of Lewis starting soon. I never watched that show, not sure why, I'm sure I'd enjoy it, I just never did!

[catsdownunder.livejournal.com]

The new cast is good but they are patches bought in to plug the leaks and we have not seen them develop as a team and even after a few episodes it is just not the same.

Did you ever like Inspector Morse? If not maybe this is why you don't like Lewis.

[bagpuss1966.livejournal.com]

I loved Lewis - and yes, Whately, Fox and Oxford are a winning combination.

I didn't know it was coming back, so thanks. I guess Lewis is out of retirement then!

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

I only knew 'cause I've seen adverts for it! Starting soon, I think.

[catsdownunder.livejournal.com]

Yes out of retirement ... apparently Fox was way in over his head. Have not seen the episode yet ... the US have it but Australia doesn't ;(

[bagpuss1966.livejournal.com]

ITA with what you write about both New Tricks and Downton Abbey. I watched one series of Scott and Bailey, which I liked, but for some reason I haven't managed to watch any more.