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[dogwoodblossom.livejournal.com]

Just a quick (hopefully not tedious) intro post. Thanks to Netflix I just watched the entire series a couple weeks ago when I was off work sick. It was on PBS when I was a child but I refused to watch it because it had knocked Blackadder off the air, but I finally decided my long term grudge against it was silly. Now I'm thinking for my birthday next month I'll see if I can't secure the complete series because it is so awesome.

I didn't anticipate making it a fandom when I was watching it. Even though it is spectacularly slashy I just didn't think I'd want to read any. But I thought the same thing about Jeeves and Wooster.... Anyway, hooray that this comm exists! Now I'm off to re-watch some series 1.

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[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

*waves* I'm your senior in this comm by less than two weeks. LOL!

I too caught up by watching Netflix. Isn't play-instantly a great service?

[dogwoodblossom.livejournal.com]

Instant is freaking awesome. But they didn't have Back to Earth on Instant! I got to the end and had a little panic attack when I realized I'd have to wait 2 days!!! to watch the end.

Then I watched BTE and realized it wasn't quite The End so much as a little sort of coda. It was the only ep my brother watched despite a week of my raving, and he thought it was really weird. Couldn't really argue with him there. I kept stopping it and saying, "If you'd watched the show that would be totally hilarious right now."

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't really know what episode to recommend to people who say "what is that?" to give them a fair notion of the show. All of them are humorous. The pilot seems an obvious one, since it explains the basic premise, but there are far funnier/cuter/empathetic episodes that nonetheless require some advance understanding of details that I don't want to overload the person by explaining so they "get" what they're seeing. (I guess "Backwards" is always good, as anyone can understand that premise and it's easy laughs.)

[cran-apple.livejournal.com]

Ha, I'll always remember how I first discovered the show: on PBS, I tuned in about 10 minutes into "Camille". I didn't know a) who these characters where b) why or where they were in space or c) how they encountered this creature, but I found it really interesting and funny and enjoyable and was hooked. And if that's not a sign of a good show, I don't know what is!