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[trinityvixen]

Appliances have arrived at the new place! Appliances! Meaning, when I go home tonight, I can store a bottle or three of water so I can alleviate some of the frickin' heat! Woo!

Still haven't gotten any mail. Not sure what this means except that we haven't gotten our lease. I cannot fathom why the realtors have to mail the leases (legal issue?). I just returned a Netflix DVD, though, so a new one should be in the mail by about Friday. If I don't get it, then I start worrying about not getting any mail.

Speaking of Netflix, I rented Red Dwarf and watched all of it last night (I find that it's better to ingest BBC shows quickly like that, as they tend to build on what's come before, and it's easiest to keep track that way). It's funny, don't get me wrong, but I have yet to figure out why saikogrrl, much as I adore her, is so fascinated by it. It seems to me the attraction is Lister being a gross idiot and Rimmer reacting to it with horror and snappy one-liner insults. That's fine, that's pretty much why I watch House, after all, but Rimmer is so unlikeably annoying himself as to make it less funny a lot of the time. Holly's a laugh and a half, and the Cat scares me, but other than that, I enjoyed it. I'll rent the next few seasons if it stays consistently amusing.

But my next DVD in the queue is Bloodrayne (I moved it back up, 'cause, you know, stupid), and I'm in need of something that requires a good deal less thinking about what's been said than another season Red Dwarf. And I am confident Bloodrayne requires almost no thinking at all.

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Red Dwarf =-)

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Ok, by the lack of mention of a certain other character my guess is you only watched season one. Season one is ok, but as the season progress it gets more and more funny (I watched season 8 recently and was warning people not to mention "T-Rex" or "Vindaloo" as it would have me in hysterics).

Re: Red Dwarf =-)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I hope I catch up to the funnier stuff then. It's a bit tired when there're only four characters running about on any one show.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I agree--some of the later seasons are even better than the first, especially as the series riffs on more sf cliches and then itself. Stick with it! If they weren't so smegging expensive, I'd own the DVDs already.

One day I'll dig out one of the pilots for a US remake, which is truly awful.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I will stick with it. It's cute, just not as hysterically funny as promised. I have the rest of the seasons already queued at Netflix (when it came up, I figured I'd go ahead and put them all on while I was at it, just in case), so I'll let them roll to me as they come.

Why does the US bother to remake British shows? I hear The Office is pretty good, and that's about it.

[sols-light.livejournal.com]

The first season was done on a horrifically low budget, with actors who were improving a fair chunk of the lines, it gets polish around Season 3.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

People are so defensive of this series, it's adorable :)

I trust that it will improve. And, as the substandard start, it's pretty good. You will note that I didn't turn it off, and that I was sufficiently entertained to keep with it for three hours straight. I'm not giving up on it yet.

[sols-light.livejournal.com]

We're defensive because we love it to pieces, though I find it interesting that almost everyone who does didn't start with the first series. My favourite episodes are in Series 3, 4 and 6, so you have much to look forward to.

Also, read the books once you've seen up to the end of Series 3 for a whole lot of wacky stuf they couldn't include. Rob Grant and Doug Naylor wrote the books too.