How Many Show Have You Not Seen Till The DVD?
12-06-03, 05:11 PM
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How Many Show Have You Not Seen Till The DVD?
If you eithier blind buy a show becuase it looked interesting or you heard about a show and wanted to watch a show but couldn't because you didn't get it on cable?
24 - I have never seen a single ep of season 1 24 but I know it is good. So I plan on at least buying 24 season 1 and 2 later on.
Angel - I got into Angel last year when he turned evil. Thats when I first tuned in, so I still haven't seen the first 3 - 3 1/2 seasons of Angel.
Dark Angel - I saw only episode Gill Girl or something like that and I plan on buying both seasons.
24 - I have never seen a single ep of season 1 24 but I know it is good. So I plan on at least buying 24 season 1 and 2 later on.
Angel - I got into Angel last year when he turned evil. Thats when I first tuned in, so I still haven't seen the first 3 - 3 1/2 seasons of Angel.
Dark Angel - I saw only episode Gill Girl or something like that and I plan on buying both seasons.
12-06-03, 05:13 PM
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A whole bunch:
Angel
Buffy
Coupling
The Ben Stiller Show
Clerks: The Animated Series
The Dead Zone
Felicity
Sex and the City
Sports Night
The West Wing
Those were all blind buys for me, and now they're some of my favorite shows.
Also, I'd seen Family Guy and Futurama only once or twice before buying them.
Rob
Angel
Buffy
Coupling
The Ben Stiller Show
Clerks: The Animated Series
The Dead Zone
Felicity
Sex and the City
Sports Night
The West Wing
Those were all blind buys for me, and now they're some of my favorite shows.
Also, I'd seen Family Guy and Futurama only once or twice before buying them.
Rob
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12-06-03, 06:34 PM
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Six Feet Under
Spawn [turns out I don't really like it.]
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
The Tick
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Lots of anime
Every other tv series I've got, I have seen at least a few episodes of; sometimes the show got abused by the network and was hard to catch [UCB]
Spawn [turns out I don't really like it.]
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
The Tick
Bottom
Lots of anime
Every other tv series I've got, I have seen at least a few episodes of; sometimes the show got abused by the network and was hard to catch [UCB]
12-06-03, 07:42 PM
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Family Guy... never saw a full episode before buying the first set... and never was particularly impressed with the snippets tht I did catch before that, though now I admit I really like the show. 
edit: oh yeah, and Mr. Show, which I can take or leave.. some of it's ok and some of it's not for me.. I prefer the Ben Stiller show by far... too much useless flaunting of the "F" word in Mr. Show for no reason to suit my tastes.
edit: oh yeah, and Mr. Show, which I can take or leave.. some of it's ok and some of it's not for me.. I prefer the Ben Stiller show by far... too much useless flaunting of the "F" word in Mr. Show for no reason to suit my tastes.
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12-06-03, 07:52 PM
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OZ
Sopranos
Sports Night
Man was I glad I took a chance on these sets!
Sopranos
Sports Night
Man was I glad I took a chance on these sets!
12-06-03, 07:55 PM
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I hardly watch any shows on network tv, but I did buy Alias (based on overwhelming positive reviews and Jennifer Garner being very easy on the eyes) seasons 1 & 2. I bought 24 season 2 sight unseen after borrowing a friends season one set and getting hooked. The only other tv sets I have are Sex and the City seasons 1 & 2, The Osbournes season 1, and season 2 of old fave NYPD Blue.
12-06-03, 08:53 PM
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Sopranos
24
Mr. Show
Dead Zone (still haven't watched)
Six Feet Under (still haven't watched)
Upright Citizens Brigade (still haven't watched)
24
Mr. Show
Dead Zone (still haven't watched)
Six Feet Under (still haven't watched)
Upright Citizens Brigade (still haven't watched)
12-06-03, 08:57 PM
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A ton of DVD's actually and one TV show... I never actually watched any X-Files episodes. I bought the movie though and loved it, so I was 90% sure I would like them...
12-06-03, 09:22 PM
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Shows I hadn't seen before:
Alias
Dead Zone
The Prisoner
Spooks (MI-5)
Sandbaggers
A ton of mystery shows (Cadfael, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, Poirot, Rumpole, Ms Marple, Tommy & Tuppance, Sherlock Holmes)
Shows I hadn't seen all of before:
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Battlestar Galactica
Roughnecks: STC
Stargate SG-1
Good Eats
CSI
Mini-series:
Longitude
Taken
Gormanghast
Chronicles of Narnia
Shogun
Dune & Children of Dune
Band of Brothers
Shackleton
A ton of documentaries (2,000 years of Christianity, Ancient Secrets of the Bible, several National Geographic programs, misc "weapons of war" & law enforcement [SWAT] type things)
Alias
Dead Zone
The Prisoner
Spooks (MI-5)
Sandbaggers
A ton of mystery shows (Cadfael, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, Poirot, Rumpole, Ms Marple, Tommy & Tuppance, Sherlock Holmes)
Shows I hadn't seen all of before:
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Battlestar Galactica
Roughnecks: STC
Stargate SG-1
Good Eats
CSI
Mini-series:
Longitude
Taken
Gormanghast
Chronicles of Narnia
Shogun
Dune & Children of Dune
Band of Brothers
Shackleton
A ton of documentaries (2,000 years of Christianity, Ancient Secrets of the Bible, several National Geographic programs, misc "weapons of war" & law enforcement [SWAT] type things)
12-06-03, 10:08 PM
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Angel
Band of Brothers
Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
Children of Dune
Clerks
Coupling
Dune
Farscape
From the Earth to the Moon
Malcolm in the Middle
Mr. Show
The Office
Red Dwarf
Serial Experiments: Lain
Shackleton
Sports Night
UFO
West Wing
Angel
Band of Brothers
Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
Children of Dune
Clerks
Coupling
Dune
Farscape
From the Earth to the Moon
Malcolm in the Middle
Mr. Show
The Office
Red Dwarf
Serial Experiments: Lain
Shackleton
Sports Night
UFO
West Wing
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12-06-03, 11:53 PM
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Interesting why some people are buying a lot of TV boxsets of shows they've never seen. I mean blind-buying a movie is one thing... but 20-odd episodes of a TV show?
Along with Walter Neff and lesterlong, I wouldn't buy a TV boxset unless it's a show I know and watch.
But for those that do (and it pays off) then that's cool. Part of the fun of collecting, eh?
Along with Walter Neff and lesterlong, I wouldn't buy a TV boxset unless it's a show I know and watch.
But for those that do (and it pays off) then that's cool. Part of the fun of collecting, eh?
12-06-03, 11:58 PM
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Coupling / Sopranos, not at all...
Alias, I'd seen the premiere, nuthing since.
Love 'em all!
And I'll add The Office to that list as soon as DDD gets it to me.
Alias, I'd seen the premiere, nuthing since.
Love 'em all!
And I'll add The Office to that list as soon as DDD gets it to me.
12-07-03, 05:25 AM
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24
The office
OZ
Band of Brothers( now I own the r1 and the korean satchel release )
Alias(hated it, so I traded it)
I don't see the big deal with not blind buying a tv show, but it is fine for a dvd movie?
If I buy a movie for $15 and sell it for $12 on ebay I "lost" $3
If I buy a tv show for $50 and sell it for $43 on ebay I "lost" $7
not much of a differernce, epsecially if you watch all of the discs in the tv show, and then rleasize you do not want to keep it
The office
OZ
Band of Brothers( now I own the r1 and the korean satchel release
)Alias(hated it, so I traded it)
I don't see the big deal with not blind buying a tv show, but it is fine for a dvd movie?
If I buy a movie for $15 and sell it for $12 on ebay I "lost" $3
If I buy a tv show for $50 and sell it for $43 on ebay I "lost" $7
not much of a differernce, epsecially if you watch all of the discs in the tv show, and then rleasize you do not want to keep it
12-07-03, 07:45 AM
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Farscape is the only television show that I started buying on DVD without having seen it first.   I just had to buy the first two discs before I was hooked for good.
12-07-03, 07:56 AM
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The only show which I purchased blind was Coupling The complete First Season. I had heard great things about it, and it was a one disc set which only cost $19.99 at Best Buy. It was an impulse buy at that price. I would never invest in a more expensive set unless I had seen the show.