Video Nasties
I had a very strange occurance happen to me this evening. I foolishly sat down to watch disc one of the first season of 'Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict', which, now I have watched it I can voice my opinion. It had a weak storyline, was badly acted and had rubbish effects. C'mon, I mean they cancelled top Sci-fi like Firefly and Farscape, but left E:FC on the air for 5 miserable years? What is the world coming to?
But I digress, back to the story... I sat through the tedious first two episodes and I was contemplating whether I should watch anymore tonight. I looked up at the clock and noticed that the time was rapidly approaching 11pm. So, decision made I reached for the remote and hit 'eject'. The tray ejected, but no disc. It surpised me so much I had to look twice. I stabbed the button again and again, but the damn disc would not appear.
I realised that maybe the DVD player was trying to tell me that the disc was evil, and was clinging on to life in my player like a demon in a small child. I had no choice, I reached for my holy philips screwdriver and started unscrewing the lid.
(small pause while I remove 15 billion screws)
I pulled back the casing, and there it was in all its hellish glory. I tried to pull it out, but it would not succumb to my efforts. I knew at this point that I had to outwit it. I placed the lid back on and plugged the player back in. I once more ejected an empty tray, but before it could react I swiftly yanked out the power lead, opened the lid and ripped the disc from inside as it had nothing to cling onto now.
The disc is now safely back in its prison-like envelope and will be returned to screenselect with a warning to any unfortunate souls who may attempt to release it once more.
And yes, I did put all the 15 million screws back again.
But I digress, back to the story... I sat through the tedious first two episodes and I was contemplating whether I should watch anymore tonight. I looked up at the clock and noticed that the time was rapidly approaching 11pm. So, decision made I reached for the remote and hit 'eject'. The tray ejected, but no disc. It surpised me so much I had to look twice. I stabbed the button again and again, but the damn disc would not appear.
I realised that maybe the DVD player was trying to tell me that the disc was evil, and was clinging on to life in my player like a demon in a small child. I had no choice, I reached for my holy philips screwdriver and started unscrewing the lid.
(small pause while I remove 15 billion screws)
I pulled back the casing, and there it was in all its hellish glory. I tried to pull it out, but it would not succumb to my efforts. I knew at this point that I had to outwit it. I placed the lid back on and plugged the player back in. I once more ejected an empty tray, but before it could react I swiftly yanked out the power lead, opened the lid and ripped the disc from inside as it had nothing to cling onto now.
The disc is now safely back in its prison-like envelope and will be returned to screenselect with a warning to any unfortunate souls who may attempt to release it once more.
And yes, I did put all the 15 million screws back again.
posted by Redrawn at 10:15 PM
1 Comments:
E:FC lasted 5 years? That is depressing. I think your dvd player was punishing you for inflicting that show on it. After having played Firefly it's used to the finer things in life.
:)
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