Just the start of it all

I may have just changed my Yuletide noms to include Bonekickers.

(At least this way I can claim the overpriced DVD set was for research.)

So here are three DVD things I bought today in a bit of a splurge I couldn't actually justify:

• Bonekickers complete series one (£30, 344 mins, 8.72p/entertainment minute)
  
• BSG S4 (£27.99, 518 mins, 5.40p/entertainment minute)
  
• Peep Show complete S1-5 box set (£25, 742 mins, 3.37p/entertainment minute)
  

Mathematically, it would seem that a minute of Bonekickers is only 0.5% less good than a minute of Peep Show and a minute of Battlestar Galactica put together. I find this unlikely.

OR IN OTHER WORDS: WHY DO I LET THAT SHITTY SHOW GET AWAY WITH BEING SO SHITTY AND BAD VALUE FOR MONEY? I really hope it doesn't get renewed because it does well on DVD, or something. I may have to write a letter to the BBC pointing out that I only bought it for the lols.

Also, it is a bit daft of me to buy BSG S4 when I have never got round to watching S3 yet, and by the time I do manage to do that S4 will have dropped in price massively. I am horrendously excited about Peep Show though as I am very bad at keeping up with C4 late night comedy stuff these days.

Unrelatedly, ( Green Lantern arc spec based on GLC #29 )

I aten't dead! But sorry, guys, skip=several billion is too much for me to cope with right now; what good stuff have I missed?

Oh, and I finally saw the Bonekickers finale at the weekend, which was fun on account of knowing all the places (do they do regional breakdowns of viewing figures? It is very West-Country-ish and it'd be quite interesting to see if that got it a higher audience there). Oh dear god. "Don't mess with me, I'm an archaelogist." ILU Dolly! Srsly, though, it's provided many lols, but if it gets renewed I may refuse to pay my licence fee.

I have hit a new low.

A low so low that I will inevitably die down here and my fossilised skeleton will never be found, even if there's a team of archaeologists being encouraged to DIG by the sword-bothering Dr Gillian Magwilde.

As I have moaned at several of you before, I don't really have properly-broad broadband. So the iPlayer, along with other less-legal things, represents a bit of a non-starter for me -- it takes a day to download an hour long proggy, basically. And yet, this is what's on my desktop right now ...



(I told you my download speeds were slow.)

Frustratingly, I have had to resort to this after what I thought was a very good brainwave (that I could use my T-Mobile wireless roaming account to go online at Starbucks and get it at a reasonable speed) turned out to be rubbish because of something I should have realised (that the T-Mobile servers live in Germany and so the iPlayer wouldn't believe I was sat in a Starbucks in Britain). Still, I got a nicer lunch than I'd have made for myself at home out of it.

The thing is, I missed 'kickers (oh god, I hope I haven't just invented a new name) on Tuesday and I have discovered that I actually do really want to see it. I would like to pretend that it's because I want to participate in the lovely, mockity mockity mock fandom but given that the fandom thrives on not actually watching the show properly this would be a lie. I have to accept that deep down I really want to know how Gillian ended up with an Etruscan spear that she was not afraid to use. And now from what I have seen while trying to avoid spoilers there may in fact be motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane. And I hate snakes, but the potential for lols inherent in them being on Bonekickers makes me even more curious.

I have had an idea for a batshit meta-not-very-well-disguised-as-fic thing, though. So it's not all bad.