Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Welcome! and Post #1: Complete Television Series on DVD

Welcome to the new and improved, more properly themed, updated blog: That's Wacky!

Rather than going on about whatever I want, and therefore being pretty uninspired to update this, I've decided to change it's theme. I will now be making posts about things which I find strange and wonderful... which was most of what I was blogging about anyway.
I'm hoping that now I will see stuff in my exciting life as library school student and think "that should be in blog!" Once again, we shall see. Once I get into the swing of writing in one of these, I'll probs keep up with it.

To be honest, my roommate, Stef ( check out her blog!) recommended that I make a blog about stuff which I think is wacky. I think she is amused that I use the phrase "wacky".

Anywho, on to the first wacky thing.

1# Complete Television Series on DVD

So the roomies and I watched the intro miniseries of Battlestar Galactica today. After many of our friends recommended it, we sat down to watch. This got me thinking about the concept of collections of televisions shows and the act of watching a TV series in its entirety after it is off the air.

The experience is so different when watching a show after it is completed. First off, many dramatic shows which have continuous plot lines and arches use suspense and the weekly episode breaks to their advantage. Also, you have friends who have seen the whole thing and go on about what they can't tell you.
And what does that mean to the viewers, like myself, who watch a season in a few days with episodes back-to-back?
I wonder how many people watch series on DVD? If more people are waiting until shows are over to watch them, are they potentially ruining the shows that they may potentially really like by not raising it's ratings?

Cult movies and TV series are really interesting and possibly a topic of another post... along with real cults.

That's all I have for now...
Goodnight Internetland