Gallimaufry

[neadods]

Dedicated with love to karenmiller and lizbee: this YouTube link found by tamnonlinear.

I've finally gotten around to putting Naughty or Nice up on Teaspoon; I'm confident it'll get through the queue rapidly. (ETA: Yup.) I'd put this up too, if I could think of a title. Suggestions welcomed.

You snooze, you lose: while I've been waffling if I have the time to do the Who reviews, or if I'm just in it for the egoboo, the eminently suitable ponygirl72 skipped the public angst, pitched, and got the job. Serves me and congratulations to her; her first review is excellent.

(Speaking of reviews, I've told RtE I'll stay, but I'm out of books at the moment. Cross your fingers for me, y'all, as I gave a hopefully not-too-late request to get a book I've been waiting to be released.)

No wonder David Tennant was so grumpy about being put in the harness "that hurts your back" for the Tinkerbell Time Lord scene: he's got a bad back. And it's keeping him offstage from Hamlet. I hope he feels better soon.

(And yes, I would be really pissed if I go see it and he's not there. I don't happen to like Hamlet as a play, and really am just going to see him, even though I'm told Gertrude is amazing. I've already seen Patrick Stewart's Maccers, so him doing Shakespeare has no novelty. Shallow Nea is shallow.)

I am in the wrong country to see Captain Jack's stories of Christmas past. Damnit. (And what's with this lock anyway? They didn't lock it for the first two years, so why start punishing the overseas fans now?) Bless the person who put it on YouTube (Seriously, BBC, like you didn't know that would happen in 7 seconds?)

Comments

[tabula-x-rasa.livejournal.com]

Epic fail, BBC. I hate region-locking; it's so pointless. It's not like they're selling it and have to worry about the rights. Thank you so much for the link, though!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

What I don't get is that they didn't lock from the beginning. Used to be that the site was only locked until the show aired - that's how they did Who for 2 seasons, Torchwood for one, and SJA for one.

So I keep wondering - why were the rules changed?

[tabula-x-rasa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's bizarre.

Of course, when I was in London the site didn't always work for me either, so I guess I can't bitch too much about this year.

[purplecat]

I think, though I could be entirely making this up, that there was a vague outcry from some quarters along the lines that the BBC was being anti-competitive by making this stuff free which it could only do because of government subsidy via the licence fee and so the BBC restricted it to UK only in order to be able to claim that, by and large, only licence fee payers were actually getting the benefits of what they had paid for. There was also a lot of whimpering from ISPs about bandwidth overload and yet more accusations that the BBC was being unfair though that doesn't seem immediately obvious here.