Radioclare wrote:Russian input was not one of my goals this week, but I did end up watching an episode of the travel show 'Орёл и Решка' one evening this week when I felt too tired to do anything else in Russian. This was partly inspired by Ironmike and partly because I'd wanted to try it for a while anyway (some of the Russian travel videos I've been watching on Youtube about Iceland, Slovenia, Switzerland etc have been by Anton Ptushkin, who was a presenter on the show at some point, so it was on my radar as something to watch). I chose an episode about London, because I think that if you're trying to watch something above your level it helps if you at least understand the subject matter to start with. I thought some of the programme was really good; I didn't catch the names of the presenters, but it was the male presenter who ended up with the small budget, and I thought he had some really good tips for saving money. I even learned some things about London that I didn't know I thought the rest of the programme was kinda dreadful because I found the female presenter completely unbearable. I don't know if she was deliberately being unbearable because she won the toss or whether she's like that all the time, but once I'd met my 30 minute Russian target for the day, I actually switched the programme off because I couldn't take her any longer I did return and watch the rest of it the next day, when I was perhaps in a slightly better mood, but I still didn't really enjoy the luxury travel segments; it all just seemed too unrelatable. The good thing about choosing this programme though was that it had Russian subtitles. I don't know whether all the episodes on YouTube have subtitles or whether I just got lucky, but I definitely wouldn't have understood anywhere near as much as I did without them, so that was good I'm wondering whether watching this show would count towards a Russian Super Challenge or whether it's too far away from the concept of a film? I need to hunt down a copy of that diagram that explains what is/isn't within the spirit of the challenge.
I can tell you that the hosts of Орёл и Решка do switch out. Give it more chances! And I think it most definitely should count toward the SC when that comes back up.