Stupid restrictions!

[wiseheart]

Am so very, very sad. The most gracious lhun_dweller sent me a set of Andromeda DVDs to my rather forgottable birthday. The thingies arrived today, and I was beside myself with happines, as they contained episodes I didn't even have recorded in German!

Well, I hopped to my brand new DVD-player (which I happen to hate, because the VCR part of his is incredibly complicated to use), put in one of my newest treasures - and the evil machine told me: "This disc may not be played in your region".

I don't know who makes these codes that make us, Europeans, unable to watch American DVDs, but I hate this person and hope his DVD player will spontaneously combust while he is watching his most favourite movie.

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[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

I knew you would want to hear certain males' voices in the original, so I made sure they said ENGLISH and Deutsch. I figure the latter will help you sort out any lingering questions about the English dialogue, as German is your second language, right?

As for the episode names, I thought at first it was just my meager German. Now I see I was doing better than I thought: at least I recognized that the names were NOT the ones I was looking for...

As for my line about what Tyr will do to whomever thought up region encoding, I wish I could claim it for my own, but it's a direct lift from one of my favorite lines, delivered by none other than your Master Marsters. Tyr asks what he wants, and he replies with something like: "The usual. 100 wives. 1000 grandchildren bearing my name. And the deaths of all my enemies by highly improbably accidents that cannot be traced to me." And when he asks Tyr what Tyr wants, Tyr replies with a scary smile, "The usual."

It's in one of the episodes I'm sending you. Oops: spoiler alert...