then the houses came and ate up everyone like they were fishes

[frith_in_thorns]

Things which have happened today:

I got turned down from TeachFirst, which rather sucks, and justifies my guess that the interviews at the assesment centre didn't go that great. Ah well. I'm surprisingly not upset, actually - there are enough routes into teaching that I'm sure I'll be fine. And it's an incredibly high-pressured course, so maybe it's for the best.

This morning I accidently went to a lecture I shouldn't have gone to, because it was a genetics module I'm not taking. I have no idea why I wrote it down on my timetable. But when I realised I thought it would be rude if I just walked out, so I listened and made notes anyway. IDEK.

Oh, and I wrote a thing - well, actually I wrote and posted it in the break between that lecture and the ones I was actually supposed to go to! I woke up this morning and there was a prompt on whitecollarhc for "Peter and Neal are trapped in a dessert" and my brain started throwing bad puns at me. So, here is my attempt to cram as many of those terrible puns as possible into about 300 words. Again, IDEK. It's just been that sort of day. XD

Also, while I'm here: is there actually a consensus on how Diana's surname is spelled? Because I've seen about three different spellings being used, each by multiple authors. (This is not as bad as a brief period in the CSI:NY fandom where the actual show couldn't decide whether a recurring character was called Jennifer or Jessica for quite a long time, and her name kept changing between episodes. That was fun.)

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And before you ask, here's the extended pilot with disclaimer in all its glory. :-)

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Weeks ago, I had been searching the internet nine ways to Sunday to find the extended pilot. Without success. However, in the meantime, it has surfaced. Yay!!! And I'll bet you all would like to see it too.

The quality isn't great, but it's definitely watchable. Also, the first part has a very faint audio track with the Polish dubbing voice in the background. You can hear it during the quieter scenes. It also sounds as if the guy constantly hits the microphone or something, which is a little annoying. The audio for part 2 is much better, though.

There are two parts (it was split into two 45-minute episodes) and the actual video files are each around 230 MB in size. They're encoded in Xvid AVI and split into 50MB chunks for the download. The files on MegaUpload are self-extracting RAR archives. You should be able to unpack them by double-clicking the first file of each part, once you have them all downloaded (and stored in the same folder).

White Collar - Extended Pilot - Part 1
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YT3YF8KI
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U672M725
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AE24P17C
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QE661I58
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DX5G2TFX

White Collar - Extended Pilot - Part 2
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KF6N6U07
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YTD2K3FE
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JB4E31GC
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YIMK13KS
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3XZCUU84

Please don't credit me if you want to pass these links on. The video didn't come from me, I'm merely sharing the love.

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[sholio]

Also, the first part has a very faint audio track with the Polish dubbing voice in the background. You can hear it during the quieter scenes.

Oh, is that what the background audio is! XD I downloaded this awhile back (don't remember where I found it), and I had noticed the audio in the background, but I wasn't sure what it was -- some sort of encoding issue, or if it had been poorly dubbed off a TV version with some background noise, or what.

Anyway, I had so much fun when I watched this, seeing all the changes! I noticed that most of the character-relevant stuff that got cut was later worked into bits of dialogue in later episodes (one of the things I think makes the show so much fun is that the writers really care about that stuff; it's not just throwaway episode filler to them). Mostly I think it's a better episode for the cuts, but there are a few bits I really wish they'd kept.

[frith_in_thorns]

Wow, thanks! :D I shall definitely save and watch these :)