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Post by megagem on Nov 23, 2012 5:57:17 GMT
I've just gone through a list of Black Friday Weekend Amazon.com DVD deals and Eleventh Hour was listed (among loads of other Rufus works). There is ONE set available for $38.49 and the next best price is $41.83 and it's upwards and onwards after that. I think I got mine last year for around $35-ish, so I'm not sure how much of a steal this is (based on listings from this year); but I wanted to alert any Rooftoppers who have maybe wanted to wait until a deal came around to be introduced to our lovely Jacob  |
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Post by kygal on Nov 23, 2012 12:51:55 GMT
Thanks Meg. I paid full price when it first came out, but it was so worth it to me!
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Post by barbicanbelle on Nov 24, 2012 8:24:45 GMT
Does anyone know if Eleventh Hour is available as a Region 2 DVD? I've just double-checked and although I thought my current DVD player was multi-region, it appears not to be! D@mn@tion! There's a few Rufus gems I still haven't managed to see
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Post by kissmekate on Nov 24, 2012 9:24:09 GMT
I think there is no Region 2 version, but I bought the Region 1 box and it played just fine on my non-region-free player. (Believe me, I haven't tinkered with it - I wouldn't know how to if my life depended on it! ;D )
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Post by francesca on Nov 24, 2012 15:10:18 GMT
There was no region 2 DVD set when it first came out. I have a region free DVD player and it plays beautifully on it. When I bought the set, it cost £40 + P&P Hidden cost was that I had to pay £ 14 import duty on its arrival here in the UK .  |
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Post by barbicanbelle on Jul 31, 2013 20:12:11 GMT
Just want to say I've now FINALLY watched Eleventh Hour and boy is Jacob Hood lovable!! |
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Post by Laila on Jul 31, 2013 20:19:14 GMT
He is so sweet and vulnerable that I only want to hug him or listen to him talking science endlessy  In fact i have other thoughts but they are mostly censurable.... |
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Post by ginny on Aug 1, 2013 10:08:31 GMT
I still need to watch the last episode, but the first 17 flashed past like a high speed train. Pity that every decent series gets cancelled and nothing new comes up to take its place.
Just wondering though, is it just me or did something change after the third or fourth episode? I can't help but think that Hood changed somehow but I can't put my finger on what it is.
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Post by Rachel on Aug 1, 2013 12:36:59 GMT
I agree Ginny, there was a subtle change in the way Rufus played Jacob Hood over the course of the episodes. I don't know how to describe it either except to say that Jacob became a much warmer person. In the first few episodes he seems a bit uncomforatable with people who show strong emotions, not so much in the later episodes.
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Post by kygal on Aug 2, 2013 10:38:12 GMT
Yikes, how did I miss this yesterday. Agree with you all. A change in the Rachel character as well. I still miss this show!
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Post by ginny on Aug 4, 2013 11:25:34 GMT
Well, I wasn't attentive enough to notice the Rachel change but I'm happy the Jacob change wasn't a figment of my imagination. I don't know if it has been discussed before - I couldn't find it - but did anyone bother to look more closely at the problem Hood gives those kids in episode 2 (cardiac)? The one about the rocket and the first stage burning 25 seconds longer than the second stage and all that? It's ridiculously simple and that whizzkid needing a whole whiteboard to make all those difficult calculations...  (he got it right though) It's necessary to the story, but come on, a slightly more difficult question would have been nice. Or do I overlook something in the problem? |
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Post by kygal on Aug 4, 2013 12:05:59 GMT
 ...talk about attentive! I didn't even try to solve it...haha. I thought the addition of Felix was also an attempt to lighten the show up a bit. I liked the character but I already thought the dry humor was pretty funny. Agree, it was hard to notice anyone other than Jacob Hood! |
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Post by barbicanbelle on Aug 4, 2013 21:18:59 GMT
He is so sweet and vulnerable that I only want to hug him or listen to him talking science endlessy In fact i have other thoughts but they are mostly censurable.... mine too ... |
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Post by Rachel on Aug 5, 2013 0:06:40 GMT
Ginny,
That episode, Cardiac, had some huge plot holes. That problem was a minor one, I'm thinking the writers thought any type of algebra problem would be beyond 11 year olds which goes to show they either were really bad at math or didn't know to many 11 years old.
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Post by ginny on Aug 5, 2013 12:21:50 GMT
Apart from the other plot holes (call me about those when I've seen the episode a few times  , this may or may not be one. I've had maths for longer than I care to admit or remember so for me the question was simple. But apparently the transformation of the problem into formulas is the key. Something we would be taught at 13-14 years old over here. And indeed the boy has written the proper formulas on the whiteboard. On the other hand, they have a maths teacher so presumably they already know a thing or two about it. And I wonder what kind of calculation I got when I was at elementary school. I think we could have solved this kind of stuff. Not with the formulas, but just by solving the problem in a different way (145 minus 25, divided by 2 makes S (60s). And F is S plus 25 (85s)). But the challenge was the right solution and not the way to solve the problem. (Now can I have the handcuffs please?  ) Enough maths! I even forgot what I wanted to say about episode 18. |
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(he got it right though) It's necessary to the story, but come on, a slightly more difficult question would have been nice. Or do I overlook something in the problem? 
, this may or may not be one. I've had maths for longer than I care to admit or remember so for me the question was simple. But apparently the transformation of the problem into formulas is the key. Something we would be taught at 13-14 years old over here. And indeed the boy has written the proper formulas on the whiteboard. On the other hand, they have a maths teacher so presumably they already know a thing or two about it. And I wonder what kind of calculation I got when I was at elementary school. I think we could have solved this kind of stuff. Not with the formulas, but just by solving the problem in a different way (145 minus 25, divided by 2 makes S (60s). And F is S plus 25 (85s)). But the challenge was the right solution and not the way to solve the problem. (Now can I have the handcuffs please? 
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