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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I can't think of any show that's not better watched via binge method.

Some times , when the stories aren't directly connected, it may not be such a big deal, but I find it really does help.

I think Wonderfalls is the last DVD series I bought. I mean, what's the point anymore ? What isn't on Netflix, or OnDemand, soon will be.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

I think Wonderfalls is the last DVD series I bought. I mean, what's the point anymore ? What isn't on Netflix, or OnDemand, soon will be.

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They rotate shows off and back on their lists. I thought Firefly was on Netflix, recently. And Serenity ? I have 2 copies of it , so it's a moot point.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I wonder if gone are the days of limited release. Once upon a time you could not obtain or watch a copy of Star Wars, for like decades it seemed. Joan Jett's I Love Rock & Roll was unavailable on CD for over 15 years, and when the vinyl copies ran out they were not resupplied. The Terminator was very hard to get for many years. I still have DVDs I would like to purchase but they are not available.

With the glut of entertainment being pushed out, I wonder how many of the really good works are being held back, and we don't even notice anymore.

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I wonder if gone are the days of limited release. Once upon a time you could not obtain or watch a copy of Star Wars, for like decades it seemed. Joan Jett's I Love Rock & Roll was unavailable on CD for over 15 years, and when the vinyl copies ran out they were not resupplied. The Terminator was very hard to get for many years. I still have DVDs I would like to purchase but they are not available.

With the glut of entertainment being pushed out, I wonder how many of the really good works are being held back, and we don't even notice anymore.

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I have noticed that James Cameron hasn't released The Abyss nor True Lies on bluray.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
How many of your favorite series do you prefer to watch as they originally air, and how many do you find are actually better when you can wait for the DVD set and binge-watch?

I was not able to see Firefly originally broadcast. If I had known, I could have taped it, but my taping largely ended with Dark Angel's end. after seeing Serenity in 2005, I finally saw Firefly in 2007 towards the end of a marathon on Sci Fi, starting with the end of Ariel. When I got the DVD set, I pretty much binge watched it, couldn't really stop.

Some current shows seem like I'd like them better if I could binge on them. Continuum seemed to work well when I binged. Due South seemed to work better when waiting a week between. Sometimes I am unable to watch certain weeks of Person of Interest, Castle, Elementary, and then the whole train has derailed.

Some parts of DVD viewing are much better - when I finally watched ER many years after it aired, I was able to skip over the ridiculous political gibberish and junk science parts to watch the decent storylines. Made me glad I never attempted to suffer through that crap on a weekly basis.


Which series do you think work better "live" or watching each newly aired episode? Why?
Which do you think work better in a DVD set, or other binge compatible viewings? Why?
Are there some that work well for parties or other group viewings?
How much does the depth of "arc" stories affect your answers?

I think Backstrom works well weekly.
I suspect Gotham would work better as binge - too many things change to keep track of from week to week, maybe missing one.
I can't tell whether Arrow would be better as binge, or not.
I wonder if SHIELD would be better as binge.

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
How many of your favorite series do you prefer to watch as they originally air, and how many do you find are actually better when you can wait for the DVD set and binge-watch?

I was not able to see Firefly originally broadcast. If I had known, I could have taped it, but my taping largely ended with Dark Angel's end. after seeing Serenity in 2005, I finally saw Firefly in 2007 towards the end of a marathon on Sci Fi, starting with the end of Ariel. When I got the DVD set, I pretty much binge watched it, couldn't really stop.

Some current shows seem like I'd like them better if I could binge on them. Continuum seemed to work well when I binged. Due South seemed to work better when waiting a week between. Sometimes I am unable to watch certain weeks of Person of Interest, Castle, Elementary, and then the whole train has derailed.

Some parts of DVD viewing are much better - when I finally watched ER many years after it aired, I was able to skip over the ridiculous political gibberish and junk science parts to watch the decent storylines. Made me glad I never attempted to suffer through that crap on a weekly basis.


Which series do you think work better "live" or watching each newly aired episode? Why?
Which do you think work better in a DVD set, or other binge compatible viewings? Why?
Are there some that work well for parties or other group viewings?
How much does the depth of "arc" stories affect your answers?

I think Backstrom works well weekly.
I suspect Gotham would work better as binge - too many things change to keep track of from week to week, maybe missing one.
I can't tell whether Arrow would be better as binge, or not.
I wonder if SHIELD would be better as binge.

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I have the rare privilege of having watched Firefly 'live' from Day One and then binge watch with my son. I was hooked originally when I saw a promo on Fox - Serenity flying over a group of wild horses. That shot captured my imagination, I just had to watch. I was not disappointed.

Which way is better? With Firefly it doesn't matter, both have impact for the obvious reasons - the perfect storm of story, cast & crew, and the writing. I tend to lean towards binge watching because Fox had a tendency of interrupting the air dates (and as we later found out, the sequence of air dates). Nonetheless, this gem was well worth waiting for.


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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
I have the rare privilege of having watched Firefly 'live' from Day One and then binge watch with my son. I was hooked originally when I saw a promo on Fox - Serenity flying over a group of wild horses. That shot captured my imagination, I just had to watch. I was not disappointed.

Which way is better? With Firefly it doesn't matter, both have impact for the obvious reasons - the perfect storm of story, cast & crew, and the writing. I tend to lean towards binge watching because Fox had a tendency of interrupting the air dates (and as we later found out, the sequence of air dates). Nonetheless, this gem was well worth waiting for.


SGG

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
How many of your favorite series do you prefer to watch as they originally air, and how many do you find are actually better when you can wait for the DVD set and binge-watch?

I was not able to see Firefly originally broadcast. If I had known, I could have taped it, but my taping largely ended with Dark Angel's end. after seeing Serenity in 2005, I finally saw Firefly in 2007 towards the end of a marathon on Sci Fi, starting with the end of Ariel. When I got the DVD set, I pretty much binge watched it, couldn't really stop.

Some current shows seem like I'd like them better if I could binge on them. Continuum seemed to work well when I binged. Due South seemed to work better when waiting a week between. Sometimes I am unable to watch certain weeks of Person of Interest, Castle, Elementary, and then the whole train has derailed.

Some parts of DVD viewing are much better - when I finally watched ER many years after it aired, I was able to skip over the ridiculous political gibberish and junk science parts to watch the decent storylines. Made me glad I never attempted to suffer through that crap on a weekly basis.


Which series do you think work better "live" or watching each newly aired episode? Why?
Which do you think work better in a DVD set, or other binge compatible viewings? Why?
Are there some that work well for parties or other group viewings?
How much does the depth of "arc" stories affect your answers?

I think Backstrom works well weekly.
I suspect Gotham would work better as binge - too many things change to keep track of from week to week, maybe missing one.
I can't tell whether Arrow would be better as binge, or not.
I wonder if SHIELD would be better as binge.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Daredevil, its kinda dark, religious, political, weird like the Wire show or the Nolan Batman movies...

But its still part of the Marvel universe
Probably going to open up a whole new world of Black Panther, IronFist...or whatever other comics or movies they got going

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I'd like to compile a list, both for reference regarding what Browncoats like and recommend, and for a list of films to look for, considering the dwindling outlook for films this year.

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I have loved movies/films as long as I can remember - even went to school in Cali (briefly) to be in the film business. BUT... after looking at your list it occurred to me that recently I am more impressed by long story form TV shows. Breaking Bad, The Wire, Game of Thrones, etc... about as powerful as the medium can make.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Here's a list of good binge shows, IMO. Most of them are pretty old now and a lot of people have already watched them all. I only bothered listing ones that I do plan to watch again some day.

Fringe
Battlestar Galactica
Breaking Bad
The 100
The Vampire Diaries / The Originals (No more CW, I promise)
War of the Worlds (from the 80's)
Fargo
Killjoys
Dark Matter (before it's premature cancellation)
That Scientology documentary with the Queen of Queens
Firefly (of course)
Jessica Jones
The B from 23

I'm sure I could think of more. Just what was off the top of my head. I haven't watched Netflix or Kodi for about 3-4 months now, so I forget what shows I had in the queues.


One show I haven't seen since I was a little kid and I didn't understand at the time that I think could make the list is Max Headroom. I recently watched a 20 minute youtube video on the show and man do I want to watch it again. I only liked watching it with my dad to see him acting nutty on the TVs. I'm not a fan of remakes for the most part, but now that almost everybody walks around with a computer in their pocket that has more power in it than the entire television network that Max Headroom was in on the show, I think it could make an excellent reboot if it were done correctly.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by Brenda:

Battlestar was great for its time and now that Richard Hatch is gone is well worth a watch.

War of the Worlds one of the first shows filmed in Canada. I enjoyed that one too when it ran originally.

I haven't seen Max Headroom since it originally ran. I've seen the DVDs in the stores though.

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Battlestar was great for its time and now that Richard Hatch is gone is well worth a watch.

War of the Worlds one of the first shows filmed in Canada. I enjoyed that one too when it ran originally.

I haven't seen Max Headroom since it originally ran. I've seen the DVDs in the stores though.

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Richard Hatch :(

My brother actually met him at a convention years back and somehow ended up meeting up with him and a few of his friends to play some board game in his hotel for a few hours. My brother is way different than I am, for sure. He's got all sorts of pictures just hanging out with celeb types. I wouldn't even go up to talk to one, especially if they were sitting behind a desk charging 20 bucks for their autograph. My bro said Hatch was a great guy.

It's hard for me to rank TV shows or movies, but Battlestar is definitely in my top 5. Maybe my top 3.



War of the Worlds was awesome for its time. I watched it every week with my Dad for the whole run. I was about 9 years old and had a huge crush on Rachel Blanchard's character Debby.

The funny thing is that me and my Dad didn't really care for the second season that much when it was first on, but we had both independently binge watched it many years later without knowing we were and got to talking about it and we both said we thought the 2nd season was actually better. Strange.


I'm going to see if Max Headroom is on Kodi. If it's not I'm going to see if maybe I can buy a used DVD copy. The 20 minute youtube video I saw about the show filled me in on all of the "adult" themes that were way over my head when I saw it as a young kid. I think I'm going to love it on a rewatch since it's right up my ally of the most enjoyable types of shows and movies.

Makes me wonder if somehow it left it's mark on my subconscious even though I have very little recollection of the show at all.




BTW... Speaking of shows that were made in Canada, have you ever seen the show "You Can't Do That on Television" for sale in any format? That's a show I've always wanted to watch again, at least a few episodes, but I heard because of the copyrights being all over the place that it would probably never get released.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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It is sad about Richard Hatch but he wasn't a young man and it was cancer again. :(

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"You Can't Do That on Television", I think I have seen for sale on DVDs. Don't think I ever watched it unless I caught the end of it waiting for another show to come on.

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It is sad about Richard Hatch but he wasn't a young man and it was cancer again. :(

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Yeah. I never watched the original and didn't know him from anything else, but I loved his character on the new one.

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I watched the original and of course I grew up watching Lorne Greene on "Bonanza". So I was familiar with at least 1 actor on the show. Richard Hatch did do a tv movie once with Bruce Davison and they played Jan and Dean, a 60s beach music group. Only time I've caught pieces of the reboot it seemed to be the one where they shot Adama. I hate that as I love Edward James Olmos.

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Cool for your brother. I haven't managed to meet any celebs. I would love too. Oh maybe one day. Close as I have come is having talked to Adam Baldwin on the OB for Firefly and getting messages from celebrity Chef Robert Irvine and Paul McGillion on a tv movie that he did and was filmed up here. :)

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Yeah, my bro has all sorts of stories of his celebrity meet ups. Usually D listers or used-to-bes. He went to one of those fancy movie theaters that serve food and drinks and frequently have cast reunions for old movies for Caddyshack once and ended up talking quite a bit with Cindy Morgan, who played Chevy Chase's love interest in the movie. I guess she couldn't stand him and still carries a grudge about it. I can't remember what she wrote beneath it, but as well as signing her own signature on his Caddyshack photo, she also signed Chevy's name on it and put something like "would have loved to meet you, but I'm too important". lol

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What I remember most about "War of the Worlds" was being upset when they lost Richard Chaves character of Colonel Paul Ironhorse. I wasn't impressed with Adrian Paul then.
Funny thing about "War of the Worlds" is that Philip Akin and Adrian Paul both went on to star in "Highlander" the tv series and that was filmed in Vancouver for a lot of its run.

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Yeah. Ironhorse dying sucked. I didn't even remember Adrian Paul was in the 2nd season until I rewatched it almost 20 years after it aired. I thought he did alright for a side character, but he was no Highlander yet. ;)

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Yeah, it did. I wasn't impressed and no he was no "Duncan Macleod of Clan Macleod".

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I liked Max Headroom when it ran. Just quirky enough for me back then.

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I'm afraid that it's going to be a little too campy for me when I rewatch it all these years later, but the youtube video made it seem really good. Matt Frewer was perfect as Max Headroom. They'd have to find somebody really special to fill those shoes if they wanted to reboot it or it would never take off. I wasn't aware of the history of Max before the Show. I thought it had started there. It was actually a big thing in the UK first and he even hosted a variety show for a year or two before he came to the states.

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"You Can't Do That on Television", I think I have seen for sale on DVDs. Don't think I ever watched it unless I caught the end of it waiting for another show to come on.

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[quoteIt's been years since I looked for it. Maybe they finally managed to negotiate a release. I hear because Canadian laws were a lot more friendly to the actors and writers to shows, at least back then, that a lot of people would have to be paid a pretty decent amount if it ever got released.

I was pretty young when it was on. Maybe 5-7 years old. All I really remember were the scenes where they told jokes from inside of their lockers in a "Laugh In" style, and Barth the disgusting school chef that would grumble "I heard that" whenever one of the kids would talk about how gross he was. It was where the Nickelodeon slime started. Alanis Morsette was on it too, and I believe her song "Jagged Little Pill" was about Dave Colier (Uncle Joey on Full House). I'm assuming they met while she was doing that show and he was doing "Out of Control".

It would probably be pretty terrible to watch today, but I've always wanted to at least watch a few episodes again.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I'm enjoying Humans 2.0 on binge.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I wonder if gone are the days of limited release. Once upon a time you could not obtain or watch a copy of Star Wars, for like decades it seemed. Joan Jett's I Love Rock & Roll was unavailable on CD for over 15 years, and when the vinyl copies ran out they were not resupplied. The Terminator was very hard to get for many years. I still have DVDs I would like to purchase but they are not available.

With the glut of entertainment being pushed out, I wonder how many of the really good works are being held back, and we don't even notice anymore.

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I have noticed that James Cameron hasn't released The Abyss nor True Lies on bluray.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Last few months I've been sorta binging on BSG (this century), Good Wife, The Closer, Star Trek Voyager, Enterprise.


A new favorite show for me is Genetic Detective. Non-fiction, and about a half hour of content crammed into an hour show, quite a bit of boilerplate repetition, but I still tune in whenever I can find it.

I do have an interest in geneology, started my family tree in 1977 or so. Got it up to about 130 pages single spaced by the time I graduated in 1982.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Tried some of Punisher but it was really grim and dark, still a good show. I wanted to watch some comicbook tv show but Gotham, Flash and AgentsOfShield are too long to Binge watch

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Last few months I've been sorta binging on BSG (this century), Good Wife, The Closer, Star Trek Voyager, Enterprise.


A new favorite show for me is Genetic Detective. Non-fiction, and about a half hour of content crammed into an hour show, quite a bit of boilerplate repetition, but I still tune in whenever I can find it.

I do have an interest in geneology, started my family tree in 1977 or so. Got it up to about 130 pages single spaced by the time I graduated in 1982.

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Thr Golden State Killer is one case which was solved witht this method. On the Final episode, the postscript mentioned that he had pled Guilty.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/golden-state-killer-sentenced-life-173516588
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