Doctor Who Fourth Season

Thorin · October 10, 2008, 08:48:03 PM

I have spotted Doctor Who's fourth season on TV! It's on at 9pm tonight on channel 4, good ol' CBC delivers me the goods!

http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCProgram.do?method=getDetail&pgmId=EP007501780049&sch=1223694000000&stn=15941&chn=4

Unfortunately I missed the Christmas special and two or three episodes so I'll probably go "find" them online to watch later.

Thorin · October 10, 2008, 08:49:58 PM

Oooh, episodes 1, 2, and 3 of the 4th season are still available online at CBC:

http://www.cbc.ca/doctorwho/#clipId=875448819

I know they'll eventually roll the older ones off, so I might just watch them tonight or tomorrow!

I'm excited!

Mr. Analog · October 15, 2008, 09:49:10 AM

@%&#! Now I gotta download again to get caught up

Thorin · October 15, 2008, 12:57:03 PM

Yeah, Pirate Bay has nice Dr. Who collections. If you want to watch the episodes from earlier this season, they're much better quality from Pirate Bay than they are from CBC.

Because I knew I'd end up missing episodes during the season, I just downloaded them all and watched them all. Wowie! It's a good season, with a good ending!

Mr. Analog · October 15, 2008, 02:44:20 PM

Curse you and such! lol

There goes the weekend hahaha

Thorin · October 15, 2008, 02:51:04 PM

Hey, I'm busy downloading a complete Fourth Doctor torrent. I'll be busy for a long time! Plus, there's a Fifth Doctor and Sixth Doctor compilation waiting for me to download, as well.

You know, TV stations should just offer download services where we pay 25 cents per episode of a program - they'd make a killing, even with pirates downloading for free. I wonder if the Bit Torrent system works with restricting access per payment?

Mr. Analog · October 15, 2008, 03:59:09 PM

Quote from: Thorin on October 15, 2008, 02:51:04 PM
Hey, I'm busy downloading a complete Fourth Doctor torrent. I'll be busy for a long time! Plus, there's a Fifth Doctor and Sixth Doctor compilation waiting for me to download, as well.

You know, TV stations should just offer download services where we pay 25 cents per episode of a program - they'd make a killing, even with pirates downloading for free. I wonder if the Bit Torrent system works with restricting access per payment?

That's for sure, especially if it was DVD quality rips we're talking about. Heck I've been downloading a bunch of cartoons I want to catch up on but has become impossible any other way because either they aren't on DVD or if they are it's only a few episodes.

Trial of a Time Lord just came out on DVD and I want to buy it but places like HMV don't carry it, so hearing that there is a Sixth Doctor torrent is very intriguing.

Thorin · October 15, 2008, 10:21:19 PM

The downloads are pretty slow, though... The Fourth Doctor download, for instance, has been going three days and I'm only at 6% so far.

Mr. Analog · October 16, 2008, 09:40:13 AM

Quote from: Thorin on October 15, 2008, 10:21:19 PM
The downloads are pretty slow, though... The Fourth Doctor download, for instance, has been going three days and I'm only at 6% so far.

Well, 4th Doctor is a lot of episodes...

I'm used to slow downloads, sometimes it takes days to get the stuff I want.

Thorin · October 16, 2008, 09:55:02 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on October 16, 2008, 09:40:13 AM
Quote from: Thorin on October 15, 2008, 10:21:19 PM
The downloads are pretty slow, though... The Fourth Doctor download, for instance, has been going three days and I'm only at 6% so far.

Well, 4th Doctor is a lot of episodes...

I'm used to slow downloads, sometimes it takes days to get the stuff I want.

Yeah... 178 files all in all. Many of the serials are split into four separate AVIs, just like how they were shown on TV. I'm expecting this download to take a couple of weeks or more. I'll probably seed it for a month or more after that. Gotta spread the love!

Mr. Analog · October 16, 2008, 10:13:47 AM

Quote from: Thorin on October 16, 2008, 09:55:02 AM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on October 16, 2008, 09:40:13 AM
Quote from: Thorin on October 15, 2008, 10:21:19 PM
The downloads are pretty slow, though... The Fourth Doctor download, for instance, has been going three days and I'm only at 6% so far.

Well, 4th Doctor is a lot of episodes...

I'm used to slow downloads, sometimes it takes days to get the stuff I want.

Yeah... 178 files all in all. Many of the serials are split into four separate AVIs, just like how they were shown on TV. I'm expecting this download to take a couple of weeks or more. I'll probably seed it for a month or more after that. Gotta spread the love!

Absolutely, I seed for usually a week or so if it's something that was hard to get.

Thorin · November 03, 2008, 02:41:47 PM

Okay, my Fourth Doctor download has been going for 19 days now, and I'm still only at 64%. At least there's 40+ seeders online most of the time, so I know it'll finish eventually.

I prioritized the first ten files. Each file is one aired part of a serial, with serials usually being four parts (but sometimes two parts or six parts), each running about 25 minutes. I watched part 1 (of 4) of the first serial, named "Robot", with my son last night. For all the cheesy special effects, he was completely hooked within two minutes. That's a testament to the storytelling that happens in Doctor Who, considering that my son likes to watch the fluid, organic transformations in the latest Transformers movie, and those are visually spectacular compared to "Robot"'s K1:

I think I might've gotten a Doctor Who convert in my house!

Thorin · November 03, 2008, 02:44:45 PM

And now some sad news, David Tennant is resigning from Doctor Who, and the 2009 season is only going to have four "special" episodes with him as the Doctor... No confirmation on who will replace him, although there's lots of speculation about two guys. I sure hope they don't pick another David Eccleston! He just didn't do it as The Doctor for me...

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3281397/David-Tennant-to-quit-Doctor-Who.html

Mr. Analog · November 04, 2008, 09:35:48 AM

Quote from: Thorin on November 03, 2008, 02:44:45 PM
And now some sad news, David Tennant is resigning from Doctor Who, and the 2009 season is only going to have four "special" episodes with him as the Doctor... No confirmation on who will replace him, although there's lots of speculation about two guys. I sure hope they don't pick another David Eccleston! He just didn't do it as The Doctor for me...

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3281397/David-Tennant-to-quit-Doctor-Who.html

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH no! Like the second best Doctor ever!

Thorin · November 11, 2008, 03:37:12 PM

Quote from: Thorin on November 03, 2008, 02:41:47 PM
Okay, my Fourth Doctor download has been going for 19 days now, and I'm still only at 64%. At least there's 40+ seeders online most of the time, so I know it'll finish eventually.

IT FINISHED! IT FINISHED!! WOOHOO!!!

Gonna take me six months to watch all seven seasons...

And I've got the Fifth Doctor and Sixth Doctor compilations downloading now.

Kids keep complaining this computer's so slow