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Post by Aldebaran on Jul 9, 2008 4:00:22 GMT
Is there a site where I can view full episodes of the classics? (8th doctor and lower) I've practically strip-searched youtube and I've found NOTHING. Just little snippits here and there, and none of them have been very good.
Can anyone help me?!
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Post by lynda on Jul 9, 2008 4:14:31 GMT
They're pretty well hidden, but this is a Good Thing because it means that there are still quite a few out there that haven't been discovered and taken down. I'll PM you a few links, but remember to be careful with them.
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Post by Aldebaran on Jul 9, 2008 4:15:32 GMT
Thanks.  |
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Post by Kit on Jul 9, 2008 5:26:14 GMT
They're really well hidden, as Lynda said. I have links to just about every serial, so if you need a specific one, feel free to pm me as well! =D
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 9, 2008 11:15:09 GMT
Well hidden they are. *Sighs* They used to be very much out in the open and easier to locate, but the posters were driven underground by massive copyright witch hunts, but if you know where to look you can find most things.
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Post by Aldebaran on Jul 9, 2008 16:32:25 GMT
Oooohh. So what we have here is a secret whovian society, then. Blood brothers. Secret pacts and contracts built only on shared passions and immense trust. I like it. |
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 9, 2008 16:43:47 GMT
Yep!
*crazy grin*
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Post by Aldebaran on Jul 9, 2008 21:48:32 GMT
;D Whovians are amazing. I'm glad I converted.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 10, 2008 0:53:00 GMT
What were you before? I was a.. whatever lotr fans were, but I never got into it enough to figure out the groupie name or learn elvish (probably a good thing)
But the Whoverse got me hook like and sinker. It's everything I ever wanted in a fandom plus everthing I never knew I wanted all gathered together, and the people are muchies cool. It's also the first fandom I've actually got involved in online stuff with (hmmm... might have something to do with actually have a decent connection) and writing fanfic and stuff.
Whoverse = WIN!!!
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Post by Aldebaran on Jul 10, 2008 2:21:18 GMT
I was... oh jeez... a few things. First, I was obsessed with LOTR, like you. Then I became an Anne Rice Vampire fanatic, belive it or not. (I still am to some degree) then there was my POTC phase. (Something I had fun with, but I can't say I was proud of. Then I had an encounter with the "Hellsing" manga and anime series. I never did much like Japanese anything, but this was an exception because it took place in London, and it had vampires in it.  And the storyline was good. I was addicted to "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" for awhile. (the TV series) So I was getting warmer. um... OH! And I had the "Monty Python" phase. ;D I STILL have the Monty Python phase. So, I was quite a few things. Needless to say, I didn't have all that many crazy people to geek out with in my previous addictions. Doctor Who has been the most fun, and by FAR the most widespread. I think this is going to be a lifetime's passion... maybe even a couple lifetimes. |
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Post by Kit on Jul 10, 2008 4:49:26 GMT
Oh, dear. Here it goes. My secret past. I was a PotC maniac. Seriously, I loved that film so much. Then I went to see DMC, eight times, but that rather killed it for me. And then I got out of it mostly with the Maritime Museum, cos we hate pirates there. And then the last film just completely and utterly killed it dead. I mean, seriously. They killed off all the awesome Navy people. But really. I was completely immersed in fandom. But wasn't happy with it 'cos it seemed I was the only person to ship canon.
But that's behind me and I never ever ever want to think about it again. After that I stayed in Age of Sail, but just moved over to the Royal Navy side. I'm still an Age of Sail fanatic, and I love anything related to the Royal Navy. Lord Nelson is my hero, and when I get a cat, I shall name him Horatio.
Period stuff, is really what introduced me to Doctor Who. If I hadn't thought Girl in the Fireplace was a period drama, I would never have known about it.
Now I'm getting into Hitchhiker's Guide (TV series, too! And I'm reading the books right now.), but not as much as Doctor Who.
But this is entirely off-topic. (Though it's what we do best, and quite fun!)
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Post by Aldebaran on Jul 10, 2008 16:06:27 GMT
Woo! HGttG! (First and second books are the best. Don't even bother reading the fourth.) I went down a similar track to you, Kit. The whole period thing. (Although I made a jump from POtC to Vampires to Doctor Who instead of sticking with the sea.) |
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Post by lynda on Jul 17, 2008 7:16:31 GMT
Ooh, former obsessions. Mine were all book series before Doctor Who, actually, now that I think of it. Very first, it was Harry Potter, then some obscure books called the Tennis Shoes series, which was about time travel. After that, there were several other book series that I visited the forums for and stuff but which never really rose to the level of obsessions, and then there was the Lemony Snicket series, A Series of Unfortunate Events. I was (and still am, actually) a member of the forum 667 Dark Avenue, my home away from home for quite some time, and the people there, being quite bookish, introduced me to all sorts of amazing classic books, as well as British awesomeness like Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. After the final book in the series came out in October 2006, that fandom kind of dwindled away, though we still do the occasional thing like send stuff to the author on his birthday. And then I discovered Doctor Who, and will hopefully never leave it because it's amazing.
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Post by Aldebaran on Jul 22, 2008 14:10:27 GMT
Ooooooh... Harry Potter. That was one I missed. |
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Post by jjpor on Jul 22, 2008 19:43:12 GMT
My past obsessions, hmmm...
Harry Potter has completely passed me by, I'm afraid, books and movies
I used to be really heavily into reading (and even writing) sword-and-sorcery fantasy type stuff - that was probably my first love, and why I got into Terry Pratchett - read every book of his religiously up to a few years ago, have read some of the newer ones, but haven't sought them out as obsessively. It's still all good, though.
I'm a real history buff, mostly the 20th century and the Middle Ages, but just about anything else as well. Love the Middle Ages, even while recognising I would have survived about two minutes if I'd actually been alive then.
Comics; anything by Alan Moore, Warren Ellis. "Queen and Country" by Greg Rucka is an awesome, epic, hard-as-nails secret agent series - amazing. Love Batman - I'm obsessively looking forward to the new movie.
Love anything by Iain (M.) Banks
As far as science fiction TV, film goes, all the obvious ones:
Star Wars
*cough*Trek*cough* (but only Kirk and the lads, none of these johnny-come-latelies)
Babylon 5 (love it to bits)
Battlestar Galactica (old and new)
X-Files (the only one I've ever been nearly as obsessed about as I am about Who - the only other one I've ever tried to write fanfic for)
Firefly/Serenity (if you haven't seen it, do - it isn't as annoying as its overbearing fandom would suggest)
Who is the best of the bunch, though, and the one I've remained truest to over the years.
So, that's my CV of fannishness (God, I'm such a nerd. Lol)
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