16th December 2009.

Hello and welcome back to my junk blog, the Halloween all-nighter is behind us and Christmas is upon us once again.

After the all-nighter I caught up with the The Hammer festival which ran from the 28th of October to November the 15th,a feast for the eyes of poster art, photographs & stills from the golden days of the studio that dripped blood.

For those that may not have caught the exhibition I snapped everything I could and you can find the images here, with more images to be added soon.

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/CinemaniaUK/HammerHorrorExhibit#

Box sets of programmes are always a sure fire winner as presents, but once we have them do we actually watch them? Christmas TV programming isn’t what it once was with people making their own viewing entertainment, blu-rays & movie downloads, makes Christmas programming not the be all it used to be.

So keeping the TV box sets in mind I had a census of them in my collection and found that of all the sets I had I hadn’t actually watched any of them to any great extent, I start out with good intentions sticking them in front of the DVD player, as a visual reminder to sit down and watch them, but getting through a box set takes dedication & stamina to keep the momentum going through them, so that is where I found myself working my way through seasons of 1-4 of Lost.

Now when your consuming episode after episode time becomes important,(Time that’s irony for you how can time be important when your giving your life over to 4 seasons that’s 2520 minutes approximately) you don’t want to sit through the exposition at the start of each episode that minute and a half or 2 minutes is valuable time wasted and the end credits can be skipped too, as why waste time on that oh and I didn’t bother with extras either ,I’m not here to browse, I have to get through the seasons when skipping all that can speed you into the next episode this becomes an addiction.

The 1st season of Lost I saw on TV, I watched it again on DVD and decided to go for it again and follow it with the next season and subsequent ones right up to season 4, I wouldn’t look at the episode notes on the discs as the less I knew the better it would be for me.

I became engrossed in the characters least of all Michael and his constant whining for Walt , I cried plenty of times, found my loyalty to one character switching back and forth and found the quality of the programme was for the most part was very high, there did seem a couple of extraneous episodes, Season 3’s Tricia Tanaka is dead & Expose but those are the only 2 that spring to mind that seem out of place in the seasons.

The census in my DVD collection threw up this pile of box sets and when you put them next to each other that’s a lot of TV seasons some I had forgot about others I had just on the shelf still sealed.

In no particular order

Firefly , Taken, Planet of the apes , The 4400 season 1, Heroes seasons 1&2,Prison Break season 1, Over There, Band Of Brothers, Supernatural seasons 1-3,Tru Calling,24 Seasons 1-4,CSI seasons 1-2,NipTuck seasons 1-2 ,Alias seasons 1-2 ER seasons 1-7, the A-team season 1.

That doesn’t sound a great deal of box sets compared to some people’s collections. But when I haven’t watched them it does seem rather pointless, so at least I know what I’m watching over Christmas.

Untill next time

Nicola.
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