trinityvixen | Highly amusing

Oh the British. Do they even HAVE anything left to prove? They're hands-down better at everything than we are, and they still show it at every other turn.

Case in point: turned on over to BBC America and, before a re-run of Spooks came on, there was a disclaimer. Given the episode (it's the really freaky one in series two where they have the security drill for those of you who know the show), I expected a warning about violent and disturbing content (there's a VX atack for God's sake). Instead, it was a cheeky as buggers warning that the following program is chock-full of British accents and, in case of emergency inability to translate, how to set the closed captioning so the slow Americans can follow just the same. And there was another, different one before the next episode:

The British accent is ridiculous. So much so, that I'm struggling to keep a straight face as I'm talking to you right now. You might want to use the closed captioning.

Brilliant.

Also, they seem to be showing Torchwood come September. Part of me never really needs to see that show twice, but I am dying to know how they're going to play even half of the shit that went down in season one of that show. It hits all the wonderful purity sensors thrown at American TV--swearing, sex, gay-ness--and I don't think the de-lovely hotness of Jack Harkness is going to save it from some serious editing. Which...might actually improve the thing, who knows?