The Occasional Solipsist

It's been awhile since I've posted. It could be that it's from the girls being back at home and me being too content to bother with much else. If that is the case, this post decidedly does not signal a lapse into lethargy where they're concerned. I went a week without seeing either my daughter or wife and I have decided that if I have anything to say about it, that will never happen again in my lifetime.

Everyone likes a little breather from normalcy, if only to come back and appreciate what you have all the more. So my new personal dictum: the maximum length of any such breather needs to be substantially shorter than a week.

Now to Doctor Who:

Back in April I emailed the program director at CBC, requesting info on when they would be airing the forthcoming Season 2 of the new Doctor Who. I knew that the BBC was airing it beginning on easter weekend and wondered why I hadn't heard anything on CBC about it yet.

The response I got back was a little longer than the one word that explained everything:

HOCKEY.

Yup, the bastards at CBC were so worried about scheduling new episodes of the only thing worth watching on that network around the only other thing anyone tunes to that network for, that they decided to push off airing Doctor Who at all until the fall.

Don't they know that anyone who watches shows like Doctor Who have no life to have scheduling conflicts with? And that even if they did, being the rabid devotees that Who fans are, they would forego the national pastime to get their fix?

Anyway, here's the part where I take matters into my own hands:

I recently finished downloading every episode of what I hope to be another great season of a classic scifi series brought back to life and I am going to watch every single episode on my pc without the hassle of commercial interruption from the CBC. I'm planning to parcel them out, only a few a week, so I can make it last. I've watched 4 episodes so far and they have been just. Awesome.

And because I am one of the few Canadians that admits to hating hockey (I mean, I fucking hate hockey), I likely will never tune to the CBC network again. So no longer will I have to sit through advertising for shitty TV movies that my tax dollars paid for, or whatever inane journalistic gem the fifth estate will have next, or even anything about CFL Football. (shudder).

Except of course, for The Monday Report with Rick Mercer, The Rick Mercer Report, whatever the hell they're calling Rick Mercer's show this coming season.

Labels: doctor who, rants, scifi