The thing about Doctor Who, at least the original, is once they started airing them as "movies" instead of 25 minute episodes in the US order didn't matter. There never was much continuity between stories apart from maybe them landing on the next planet at the end of the previous episode. I kinda wish the new version would go back to that... also, if you're going back to the series now keep in mind that even more then Star Trek it's very hit and miss, and each era is different. The original dynamic (grandfather, granddaughter, and two teachers who have a thing for each other) was never really repeated unfortunately. Someday...

As for the movies, yeah they were an attempt to market the Daleks outside the UK. They're adaptations of the first two Dalek stories, but the originals are oh so much better.

Gotta be honest, I'm hoping the gods don't realize it's up there until after they're safely on the ground

Naturally if true it doesn't matter how much others suffer as they're all you. Sure, at some point you're the one suffering, but it may have already happened and you won't remember anyways.

It is a rather fun retelling, with interesting references to the book for fans to catch. I was surprised you guys didn't mention the first movie at all, or the TV series, and obviously you're not familiar with the rock opera

The fun part is the Japanese public loved that Godzilla as well, as it was everything the Japanese films of the past 20 years weren't and had a better budget. This is exactly why fans hated it naturally

I think Primer and Clerks would make a fun double feature, as you can compare two different ways to do a low budget first film.

Yeah, that's the one. It's a silly movie that knows what it is and has fun with it. The last "classic" Carpenter film, really, as the movies from the 90's are a much more mixed bag. His previous film, Prince of Darkness, is one of my all time favorites and one of the few horror movies where the idea itself is fun.

The plan, assuming they stick to their guns, is for them to do an all day tag team commentary for all three LOTR movies (probably the extended versions). Needless to say some of us are waiting for a day to be named so we can clear our calendar.

It would depend on how good it is, naturally My respect for someone in one area often doesn't extend to other topics. Do it, by all means, but something in that vein should not use the DIF podcast feed imho unless it's using films as a jumping off point.

It is VERY common, in other podcasts, for them to put out extra episodes containing interviews they've done with other podcasts or whatever else doesn't fit into the current format. Sometimes this is used as filler instead of a real episode, sometimes it's a bonus for that week, and sometimes... it's used as a reward for donations to the podcast. You can also have spinoffs. Irreligiosophy recently had two sets of people who had been guests on their show start their own podcasts.

Are they starting to gear up to tackle Lord of the Rings?