Distribution

treehavn made a very good point earlier, so I suppose I should make it clear -- fair warning and all. Any spoilers, no matter how small or evidently pointless, that I receive for Serenity before I actually go and see it in the cinema will be met with wrath currently unknown to humanity. There will be torment, I tell you. This goes doubly for my American compatriots, who know full bloody well that it's released in the UK a week after it comes out in the US. I'm talking boiling blood and small amphibians sewn into the perpetrator's genitalia here.

I don't really understand the point behind delayed international distribution. Surely it's possible to get the damn films out all over the world in one day. I suppose the distributors are worried that shipping it to the UK or wherever early will give bootleggers a better chance to get their grubby mitts on it before release date. If films are still distributed to cinemas on celluloid (and they may not be, for all I know), is that really that much of a problem? You have a bigger problem, I'd have thought, with UK geeks with broadband, IRC and very large hard drives downloading some crappy version that some American has recorded with one of the teeny tiny digital video cameras they make nowadays. And they arrange it with some films. I was fairly sure they released the Lord of the Rings films on the same date internationally. And they can do it with books -- Harry Potter proves that (even though, thanks to time zones, I can get that one before my American friends. Hee!).

TV is worse. We're on Lost season 1, ep 8 or 9. The US has just got the Lost season 2 premiere. *snarl* And surely it's easier to get broadcast material from one continent to the other than it is film reels? It's kind of sucky that the Brits get the short end of the stick continuously. Consider Neverwhere. British TV series based off a British book ... and the DVD's only available in the US. How much sense does that make? England happily shares its entertainment with the Americans. Can we please be done the same courtesy?

Oh, yeah, and thanks to fan_dancer, ( As I change and grow, so changes my results for this D&D class quiz... )