Computer Entertainment
Before I came to Australia to be with Mr JM, I’d never heard of Doctor Who. Now, after seeing three seasons of it, it’s one of my favorite shows ever.
It’s quirky, funny, thought provoking and English. Mr JM tells me the original Doctor Who, while definitely a must-see program in his early years, was very cheaply made and had non-existent production values. But these modern episodes are well made and very well written.
And that’s important to me – in my other incarnations on 451 I am a writer and editor – I notice things like fine writing. Scattered throughout the three seasons there are little hints and clues, things that don’t quite make sense but aren’t wildly out of place – then at the end there is something that makes it all come together. Very few American shows are that clever.
What does all this have to do with computers? The lovely Mr JM downloaded them all and put them onto the media player I told you about in and we’ve been watching them over a couple of weeks.
It’s a new world where the local video and DVD store closed down and I guess part of the reason is people like us on the Internet. With multi-gigabyte high speed access to the web, with downloads of TV and movies from around the world, keeping up with the entertainment world is suddenly much easier and cheaper than ever.
And if the movie stars would work for less than $20 million per movie and movie houses charge less than $15 per movie or CD companies less than $25 per CD, the download industry wouldn’t have skyrocketed as it has.
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