h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You're ordered The Tomorrow People -Season 2. The following upcoming releases may be of interest to you:

Happy Feet
Open Season
The Last Kiss
Clerks 2

Might they? Might they *really*? You didn't think I may be more interested in the cheap re-release of The Survivors coming in March? You thought shite children's animation might be more my line. Well, thanks for that.

Still Play are generally rubbish. Back in the days when I actually used to buy DVDs rather than rely on the magic of t'interweb I always thought cdwow were a better bet....

Sendit are normally good too. I only used play because they'd got season 2 at £8.99 instead of 30 odd quid, and they'd got Doctor WHo -Inferno up for the same price.

But really, Happy Feet and Open Season? What?

Well maybe someone who knows you works there and it is a joke!

Happy Feet? Shite?!

That's it, young lady. You're going in my book entitled 'people who have hearts at least one size too small'.

Pah.

She wasnt in that book of yours already? Or are you downsizing her heart still further?

Oh dear, you done it now, KA...

And I have to say that frankly a) Happy Feet is about three times as entertaining as the Tomorrow People, which has aged with all the grace of Barbara Cartland b) HMV would have sold you Inferno for the same price just after Xmas.

You think I had money just after Christmas? Be serious.
Okay by the time you get to Peter Davison in blue pants it's all gone a bit, well, pants, but I think season 2 still holds up as solidly entertaining, and personally I think the commentaries alone are woth £8.99 of anyone's money.

You've only just worked out that the merest wiff of sentimentality sends me running SLG? That's only ever been one decent talking animals film, and that's Watership Down. Anything else in which my lunch talks can sod off.

You eat penguins?

One of the few chocolate bars I like.

Only one decent talking animals film... never seen Gay Purr-ee? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057093/

I think I'm gonna have to update my Netflix queue.

Cheap re-release of The Survivors? Would that be the Survivors a la BBC drama series of the late 1970s created by Terry Nation?

Gosho, that sounds like some sort of unfortunate beastiallity gay porn.

GD - yep. each season came out last year at £40 a throw - they're being re-released at the more pocket-friendly £18 a season (same extras, same everything) next month. If I'd bough the original releases, I'd be well pissed, as it is, I'm looking forward to it.

Watched Inferno last night. It was... duller, than I remember, although I was distracted by the ill coughing think lying on the couch demanding regular cups of tea.

Actually Kerr, they were thirty-nine ninety-nine each.

And no, I'm not entirely a happy camper about this...

Ah, one of the unfortunates, I take it?

It seems to have become something of a fashion of late to either re-release them or just drop the price of the existing sets a year to six months after the first release.

If it helps I got stung when The Champions first came out as a box set - I bought the inital virtually extraless boxset, only for a extra packed one to appear a couple of years later .

The curse of old Who is that it's not as consistent as our minds would believe. I've not watched Inferno yet, but I have watched quite a bot of old Who recently and it is pretty variable.

Dalek Invasion of Earth is pretty good stuff, quite Kneale-ian in feel.
Seeds of Death was an utter bore, despite Troughtons best efforts to clown it up.
The Mind Robber was much more jolly.
Claws of Axos was a bloody good romp, as was The Green Death.
Talons of Weng Chiang is still just as wonderful as I remember.

I have yet to watch Pyramids of Mars, Inferno or Tomb of the Cybermen, but I watched Pyramids and omb reasonably recently and know both of them are pretty good. The best of the original stuff has held up pretty well, but where it wasn't so clever the cracks show much more - for a start the stories are longer.

Tempted by the Survivors at that price, though I'd be a little miffed if I'd bought them at full price...Have to wait and see what else I need to spend money on, and what else we've watched by then, as we appear to have rather a large backlog of dvds to watch at present.

The seven parters drag like Hell sometimes, but I don't think that's any effect of the new series, I think they were always dull if you sat down to watch them all at once rather than once a week.

I haven't watched Seeds of Death in a very long time. Can't say I remember being that impressed even then.

Revelation of the Daleks is one story that very looks crap to me.

Oh, completely reverse the meaning of your sentence, why don't you?

"Revelation of the Daleks is one story that _never_ looks crap to me", even.

Which one is Revelation?

I've seen the Tom Baker/Davros one so many times it is getting a little...jaded now (Genesis?). I'd like to see the Pertwee one again, with the daleks in the ice cave (Revelation?). The Colin Baker Dalek story (Rememberance?) was probably one of the worst Who stories ever. Despite the crap daleks I have a sneaking fondness for McCoys dalek story.

I'm tempted by the new box set with Traken/Logolpolis and Castrovalva in it. Looks very...sparkly.

Ah, the Colin one *is* Revelation - McCoy's is Remembrance. Remembrance is good, but the DVD release is missing dalek extermination effect - one of the best in the series!

The Pertwee one you're thinking of is Planet of the Daleks - repeated on BBC1 in the 90s.

Traken - starts out promising but, dull
Logopolis - weird story. Half the universe destroyed and no one bats an eyelid
Castrovalva - Adric's (morning) glory is pretty much the only thing that sticks in my mind, no matter how hard I try to erase it.