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Around the world in 80 Days with David Tennant
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I can't be the only one being OBSESSED with "Around the World in 80 Days"? Where are you? I need people to talk to!
For the unaware amongst us: It is a new 8 part series, NOT made by the BBC. It's made by a TV alliance of several countries, mainly Germany, France and Italy. But it does currently air at the BBC and in America it is airing at PBS. Poor guys only getting it once a week on Sundays. It will take them forever to go through.
In Germany it aired over three days before Christmas. I recorded it but hesitated to watch as usually German TV is dubbed. But to my delight it was available in original language and there are several different original languages from whichever country they travel to which makes it rich and full. So I only watched it last Sunday. When I say watched, what I mean is I binged it within one day. Yes, it's that good.
I was not yet sure after the first episode. David's Philas Fogg is a very insecure angsty man. But of course he grows, and with him grow the other characters. It is a modern and fresh take. It's very funny, I have been giggeling at times. It's also heartbreaking. David can show the full range of his acting.
Yes, there are those that say it does not stay true to the book, and how dare they have a black man and a woman in main roles. Ignore those ignorants! Go watch for yourself! On Twitter we are loving it, and we even already have fanfictions. One of them is by me:
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Around%20the%20World%20in%2080%20Days%20(TV%202021)/works
Everyone is embracing this new fandom, and a second season (with a different adventure) already was confirmed before it even aired.
Did I say it's good? How could I have even any doubt. Everything David Tennant is in is good. I am just falling in love with him all over again. It also has a certain Doctor Who feeling, which I think may be intentional. Him travelling the world with companions, running around with coat tails flapping, and looking at a fobwatch.
What are you still waiting for? Go watch, watch it now! Watch it till the end, and then come talk to me!
alumfelga!I can't be the only one being OBSESSED with "Around the World in 80 Days"? Where are you? I need people to talk to!
For the unaware amongst us: It is a new 8 part series, NOT made by the BBC. It's made by a TV alliance of several countries, mainly Germany, France and Italy. But it does currently air at the BBC and in America it is airing at PBS. Poor guys only getting it once a week on Sundays. It will take them forever to go through.
In Germany it aired over three days before Christmas. I recorded it but hesitated to watch as usually German TV is dubbed. But to my delight it was available in original language and there are several different original languages from whichever country they travel to which makes it rich and full. So I only watched it last Sunday. When I say watched, what I mean is I binged it within one day. Yes, it's that good.
I was not yet sure after the first episode. David's Philas Fogg is a very insecure angsty man. But of course he grows, and with him grow the other characters. It is a modern and fresh take. It's very funny, I have been giggeling at times. It's also heartbreaking. David can show the full range of his acting.
Yes, there are those that say it does not stay true to the book, and how dare they have a black man and a woman in main roles. Ignore those ignorants! Go watch for yourself! On Twitter we are loving it, and we even already have fanfictions. One of them is by me:
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Around%20the%20World%20in%2080%20Days%20(TV%202021)/works
Everyone is embracing this new fandom, and a second season (with a different adventure) already was confirmed before it even aired.
Did I say it's good? How could I have even any doubt. Everything David Tennant is in is good. I am just falling in love with him all over again. It also has a certain Doctor Who feeling, which I think may be intentional. Him travelling the world with companions, running around with coat tails flapping, and looking at a fobwatch.
What are you still waiting for? Go watch, watch it now! Watch it till the end, and then come talk to me!
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There are some pay-per-view services, such as Amazon, where you can either purchase a digital copy of something and watch it any time, or pay to rent it (I don't know how it works, like maybe you get two viewings, or maybe it's for three days). They also have a subscription service, too, just like Netflix.
I think Netflix in specific is designed the way it is because it evolved out of its original DVD service, which was pay X a month, then request any DVDs you want, which are mailed to you and you mail back after you've watched them. When they added streaming, they probably couldn't easily change from that model. And then the other streaming services followed the leader.
One of the reasons why my husband and I have not seen all the content we want is because everything is so fragmented with all the different services - for example, we haven't seen most of the newer MCU stuff because it's on Disney+ and we haven't bothered to subscribe. At this point, we choose what we want carefully and usually just buy whatever it is on Amazon, so that everything we care about is in one place, as you said.