No way, man!

Totally way! But I'm OK with it, because I get to know you, see.

ETA: And, I neglected... Ailleann! Hi!

ETAA:

Oh, we call each other on commercial breaks.

I used to do this with my friend, Tom, for Northern Exposure. So fun!

::glomps::

Why do I suddenly feel like Jensen at pretty much any public function with Jared? Yeah, glomping is good.

I am curious, but I don't know how to compare experiences, because if you watched weekly, then you can't have mainlined eps over a short time, and of course the reverse is true as well. I wonder which way the show holds up better, has more impact, what the first and lasting impressions are.

For example, I came into S1 FNL halfway through, so I sort of got who the characters were and the arcs and stuff by immersion. Then I blitzed through the dvds, and picked up a lot of nuance I'd missed in the first half of the season which informed the second half. But there were also what I thought of as plot points that were never developed. I tend to think tv as a whole is improved by the ability to plow straight through a whole season with fewer distractions. Opinions?

So Tivo told me last night that Nightshifter is running in the 8:00 slot tomorrow. Watch and post, anyone?

Yay for more W&P! A full night of SPN. Tomorrow is our last of the "new" episodes though, right?

::waves hello to JenP::

Opinions?

::waits for the post count to start spinning::

Until they restart production. They are planning to film four more eps for S3, have some sort of resolution, and then either have a definite S3 resolution in S4, with a forewarned foreshortened S4, or somehow combine S3 and S4 season arcs and resolve them both by 4.22.

Um. So I hear. But in any case, we should have four more new S3 eps in late April to mid-May.

Next new episode after tomorrow is April 24th.

sumi, the definiteness of your post just made my little heart go pittypat. I was so afraid we wouldn't have *any* more eps this season. I'll take four and gladly.

The CW announced the schedule sometime in the past week.

Yeah, I wish there were a way to compare mainlining v. watching week-to-week (that is, watching something week-to-week, then erasing the memory and mainlining it to see what/if reactions were different. But I don't think that's a valid use of mindwipe technology. Yet.)

I can say that mainlining 24 made it all much more coherent for me. I tried watching in one season week-to-week, and I couldn't hack it. It's so in the moment, that I needed to be able to follow it that way. Of course, that's unique to that show.

I know I'm glad I mainlined Farscape on DVD because of some of the crazy-long breaks and then the skittles at the end of S4... I caught up just in time for Peacekeeper Wars, which was convenient.

SPN I'm pretty sure I've mostly watched on DVD (S1; S3 via iTunes), though I think during S2 there was a long period when I was following along week-to-week - maybe the whole season. I think I think more and longer about an ep when I only see one per week, certainly. I guess depending on the ep, that can be good or bad. I also hold eps more strongly as individual entities when I watch week-to-week. Mainlining makes it all run together.

::waves to Austin::

ETA: Well, and there's also the added fun on W-n-P and post-ep analysis, which works best in real time. Though, people were very good about talking Farscape with me when I was doing that. But I do enjoy a good W-n-P.

Heh, I'm actually here a lot, but in full-on lurk mode. Except when I have really important things to contribute, like helping darlini solve her semantical crisis.

I do appreciate you de-lurking on my account. I think we have decided on "my person" however. This phrase being a reference to Grey's Anatomy and Meredith and Christina's exchange in the first season and something that won't make Brian's social anxiety come to the surface in public places.=)

I mainlined season one of Torchwood and I don't know if I had watched it week to week that I would have stuck with it. By mainlining it, I grew to love it before any of the troublesome aspects could derail me. Now I just love it.

I mainlined Spooks, Monarch of the Glen, and Ballykissangel the same way. I think I would have loved them even week to week. I'm really glad that I didn't have to wait though.

Supernatural, on the other hand, had me at hello. Actually I sat down to watch it thinking really bad things about the WB's parentage and Angel cancellation, and fell in love despite myself.