@TimeChaser:

*sigh*
People T__T

@Hiko:

I don't know why they decided to cut that and not something else. It was a cut to "six months later" looking into the lives of the family the Doctor had saved from being killed by the volcano.

The important bit was that the family had new household gods, and at the very end you see the stone plaque of those gods, and it's the Doctor, Donna, and the TARDIS.

@TimeChaser:

yeah I guess but I rarely ever watch that much tv.... but why the last scene, its like a huge cliff hanger but with out the lead up to the next episode. XD

@TimeChaser:

Hahah, same here. I didn't even know there was a writer's strike for quite awhile, not until I randomly heard about it on The Daily Show one night.

Thank you, anime! ;P

@Miss Anonymous:

Si

Heh, I was probably one of the few people around here who didn't have any shows affected by the writers strike.

@TimeChaser:

This is part of why I don't watch much American TV anymore. They always keep the crap shows while throwing out the good and creative stuff.

@Miss Anonymous:

Too many good shows have been tossed aside. I hate the whole ratings system D:

@TimeChaser:

Plus, there's the added disappointment that Firefly got cancelled. Didn't even get to finish its season.
Such a good show, too.

@Miss Anonymous:

I don't think the first episode of Firefly ever actually aired, even in it's initial run on FOX. Firefly suffered the same lack of commintment from it's network that Crusade did from TNT.

I remember when SciFi was going to rerun Crusade, they boasted that it would be in the proper episode order... which it wasn't D:

I really hate when networks do that. Like with Firefly, Scifi didn't even show the first episode FIRST. They started on the second episode, therefore confusing everyone like crazy.

There's also the fact Nickelodeon hasn't been showing the latest episodes from Avatar season 3, even though it's already finished playing in Europe. When I heard that from my friend last night, I seriously thought, "WTF?"

So yes, quite annoying when networks do that, eh wot? At least there are ways to see the uncut stuff.

@Hiko:

Well, if you knew they had cut the last scene, I'm sure you'd probably feel cheated ^^

Editing and commercials = Pay less
No commercials and no editing = Pay more

eh I would go with all the edits and commercials because honestly if I saw the un-edited version and then the edited version I wouldnt notice the difference! XD

You know, it seems to me like all the Saturday Night Live I've watched seems like it's trying to be an American Monty Python... and fails. Miserably.

Just sayin'.

@red tigress:

No matter how many times I've tried watching Battlestar, I can't stand it. It is so unendingly depressing, nihilistic, misanthropic... probably many other descriptives I could come up with.

It's just too much. Serious drama is good, but when it's a neverending downward spiral with no hope in sight, I just can't deal with it.

I'm actually glad this is it's last season.

They're just putting the ads in there to get you to stick around for Battlestar Galactica. That's SciFi's ultimate agenda.

[Finishes the comment-reading. . .]

The more you know, huh? Thanks a ton, Calay'! Cheers!

@Ryo:

Well there ya go! ^^

Mininova is a trove of all kinds of downloads.

@TimeChaser:

Thats amazing! This is where I get most of my anime, XD!

@Ryo:

I always get mine HERE. Just type Doctor Who in the search field.

Where do you download the episodes?

@TimeChaser:

Agreed, thats annoying, it happens when I watch House actually. Usually our programs have ads every 15 minutes and they last about 3-4 mins. House, CSI and others that show on our channel 5, follow the format of 40mins worth of program stretched out in to an hour. Hence I get annoyed watching House because of all the bloody adverts they have to squeeze in to make it an hour long. I don't know how you people cope if that happens in all your programs!

Doctor Who fits neatly into the BBC 1's Saturday line up. You watch it on BBC 1 then turn over to BBC 3 to watch Dr Who confidential, which is usually 45mins long. Dr Who is then repeated the Sunday night and the following Friday, starting on the hour (8 or 9pm, on a Saturday in its first showing its usually 6.20pm) When its shown on BBC3 as a repeat on the hour, its 45mins of Dr Who, then the Confidential show is edited down to 15mins thus the hour is filled.

Why that's relevant, I'm not sure, but I thought I'd explain anyway.

@Calaya:

Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. Still, I'd rather pay for no ads than have important stuff editied out D:

Listen, we pay £130 a year to not have adverts on the BBC (and only the BBC channels, all others have adverts), and only a few like Dr Who make that money seem an acceptable amount. So no, we don't have to put up with adverts during Dr Who, but we pay for it

@:

In the case of Doctor Who, the edits are just to squeeze commercials in, it has nothing to do with censor editing.

Sadly, when you squeeze 15-20 minutes worth of commercials into what was originally a 50-minute, commercial free show, that's when they evil editors decide what gets cut for time.

Doctor Who's commercial free over here. Heh heh heh. XD But I think the channel they show that here's the only one that doesn't edit shows or add commercials. You should see some of the other channels here. It's horrible. They start a show, about 10 minutes in add a commercial... Then when the commercial's over, they start the show from the beginning again. O.o They did that so many times it's not funny. x.x

*pets NekoSenpai on the head*

I thought I had it bad with Lost's not airing here yesterday, what with the tornado warning coverage and all. At least that isn't habitual. I do feel your pain, though.

Yet another reason why waiting for the dvd's pwns regular television programming. XP

Maybe if they'd get rid of all that idiotic "Ronnie Doitch" crud, they'd be able to actually play their programs.