Shiny!

[altariel]

My season 2 Deep Space Nine DVDs arrived this morning. At last! The Wire in proper-o-vision! With none of the dropout lines over all the bits I've rewound over to watch again and again!

The booklet inside is in Dutch, which is a bit weird.

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've them all on VHS - the complete series, and I mean original tapes, not recorded ones. But people keep telling me how much better everything on DVD is. Well, not ready to switch yet, as long as my tapes and my recorder is working. But I'm glad you are having fun. DS9 rules!

Which reminds me: may I put you on my newly acquired LJ's Friends list? I hope for some interesting discussions in my other fandoms, and this is easier than join dozens of mailing lists. :)

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

The booklet inside is in Dutch, which is a bit weird.

I know what you mean, though Dutch people probably think that English is a bit weird. :-) Personally, I find that I can generally make sense of Dutch if I set my mind to German, and then do the linguistic equivalent of unfocussing my eyes.

As for DS9, I was hunting through my off-air Star Trek VHS tapes over the Easter weekend (I wanted to see these pink triangles that you keep talking about in Past Prologue). But the tapes are a completely disorganised mess, so I may be forced to buy the DVDs after all. Anyway, hope you enjoy Season 2 (again!)

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

The main problem with my tapes (they're also original ones) is that I've watched them so often that the picture really is starting to denigrate (especially over the high angst Garak moments that I've watched again, and again, and again...). DVD picture quality is an awful lot better too.

By all means add me to your friends list :) I shall be adding you as soon as I finish typing this message!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I can sometimes make sense of Dutch if I read it out loud and cough a lot.

You are, of course, very welcome to borrow the DS9 season 1 DVDs, should you want to catch a quick sight of those pink triangles. Plus Past Prologue is full of Garaky goodness. Or buy them - the packaging is very, very nice!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I might take you up on that. The problem is that, if I buy season 1, I'll have to buy season 2, and then the rest as they come out. And I'll probably also have to buy TNG. And then there's B5. Depends how profligate I'm feeling. But if the packaging really is that nice, I may be lost.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, B5. Haven't begun buying those yet. There's 'The Water Margin' to finish first...

TNG is in permanent rerun, much more than DS9 is. And it's not that good, really. So you can feel OK about not buying that one. But B5 is a must, really (*sigh*)

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

TNG is in permanent rerun

This reminds me of yet another of Clive James's articles from the Observer, where he referred to the original series

...forever circumnavigating the universe on its way back to your living-room. By the time each episode returns there has been a red-shift in the dialogue. Astronomers assure us that white light stretches as its source moves away from us, showing up red. Star Trek dialogue stretches in direct proportion, yielding the dot-dot-dot effect.

'Am I ... seeing things?' cries the strangely named Chekov. The scanners have revealed that the force squeezing the ship is emanating from a giant, disembodied, green hand. Our attention is thereby momentarily distracted from Chekov's weirdo haircut, which would otherwise take a lot of explaining.

And so on.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* I have seen the future, and it is a never-ending space-time anomaly