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Film Failure
Aug. 14th, 2008 08:07 amOr, the downsides of Netflix.
We finally succumbed to the new Doctor Who (I was a fan way back; I still have a Tom Baker Tardis coin bank and some autographed novelizations. The wife was aware of the show in the TB years but was not really a follower.) I enjoyed Christopher Eccleston's portrayal and it's a shame he only did one season. Having snappier writing doesn't hurt either.
Anyway, I opened the envelope for David Tennant's first season... and the DVD was cracked in half. Shrug, it happens. Report it damaged and send it back; a replacement arrives Tuesday.
Sit down to watch the first episode. It gets about 35 minutes in and is approaching the climax, where the companion confronts the Big Bad... and the picture pixellates and freezes the DVD player. Clean the DVD, same result. There's a manufacturing defect bump on the DVD rendering it unplayable. Repeat "notify Netflix" routine.
And now they're having delivery problems and not mailing out any discs. Maybe I should just delete the series from the queue, because the universe certainly seems to be conspiring against our watching it.
Oh well; sit down to watch the other movie, Trainspotting. We get about ten minutes in and can't make it through the "Worst Bathroom in Scotland" scene. Time to switch back to the Muppet Show.
We finally succumbed to the new Doctor Who (I was a fan way back; I still have a Tom Baker Tardis coin bank and some autographed novelizations. The wife was aware of the show in the TB years but was not really a follower.) I enjoyed Christopher Eccleston's portrayal and it's a shame he only did one season. Having snappier writing doesn't hurt either.
Anyway, I opened the envelope for David Tennant's first season... and the DVD was cracked in half. Shrug, it happens. Report it damaged and send it back; a replacement arrives Tuesday.
Sit down to watch the first episode. It gets about 35 minutes in and is approaching the climax, where the companion confronts the Big Bad... and the picture pixellates and freezes the DVD player. Clean the DVD, same result. There's a manufacturing defect bump on the DVD rendering it unplayable. Repeat "notify Netflix" routine.
And now they're having delivery problems and not mailing out any discs. Maybe I should just delete the series from the queue, because the universe certainly seems to be conspiring against our watching it.
Oh well; sit down to watch the other movie, Trainspotting. We get about ten minutes in and can't make it through the "Worst Bathroom in Scotland" scene. Time to switch back to the Muppet Show.
