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AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! *squees and runs in circles* I thought George was a one-off guest star! Claude! Bad guy being seduced to the mutant side of the force! Claude! Baby Hiro! CLLLLAAAAAAUUUUUUDE!

What I love, love, love about this show is how they answer questions - they even *tell* you which questions they're going to answer - and then they open up five more cans o' worms. What makes the mutants (for lack of better verbiage, I'm slipping into X-Men terminology) work willingly with the company? Does George know? Who was Claude protecting?

And damn, that "I think you're better than tha-" *BLAM!* scene got me right in the gut. I'm with M: how did he *survive* that?

In short, Heroes rocks more than a geology college in a quarry.

And yet more musings on my stuff, complete with a "I think I know what I'm going to do, but it helps to have validation" poll.

I'm setting up new shelves for my DVD/VHS collection, and as I move things, I'm culling out old VHS tapes that will be donated to the library where I grew up. Now, some things are easy to dump, because I have them on DVD. It's the ones I don't that I wonder whether I should keep or not. (Bear in mind that things set aside for the library won't actually be delivered until around Christmastime, so I can always fish something out if I really need it.)

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We will return to our regularly scheduled Who squee soonish. If nothing else, one of the new shelves has become a "fandom du jour" shrine with all the videos and tie-in books. V. handy to have them all at once; I'm thinking to see if the DWMs will fit somewhere there as well.

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So many new questions!

Possibly Claude was protecting/hiding Simone, all things considered (especially the location where Bennett was given baby Claire...) Yeah, and how did Claude survive??

So, did Wireless Girl set Matt and Ted up? To aid Evil Eric, or was it a plan of Bennett's to ultimately get Claire into hiding?

I recommend finding someone with a DVR/VCR to burn your tapes to dvd, then get rid of the vhs tapes.

I've got one m'self, but it gets squiffy about things that are copyright protected. Even if you're burning a fair use copy of something that doesn't exist on DVD, damnit.

By VHSes, I presume you mean just the pro tapes? I'm making that decision too. I've been reusing the other ones, but I'd love to cull some of them too.

Yes, I do. Some things I can toss and never remember owning - Broadway Melody of 1940, for example - but others are more difficult.

I got rid of all my blank VHS tapes except for Farscape: PK Wars, and some assorted tapes to reuse for catching stuff while I'm not around. I kept the VHS pro tapes that I wasn't likely to get on DVD any time soon, like The Matrix. Frankly, the only stuff I've missed is the Birds of Prey TV show, and even then, I'm surviving just fine without it. Plus it cut down on my clutter a WHOLE hell of a lot.

Thankfully, Goodwill will take donations of blank tapes, so I didn't have to just pitch them in the garbage.

By the time I get around to pitching my formerly-blank tapes, they won't be in any fit state to recycle.

I keep waffling. I know I can get any of the Disneys on DVD any time I dial up amazon or half.com. But on the other hand, Hey Mr. Producer and The Regard of Flight aren't on DVD, so it's easy to say "keep them."

But "Funny Face" and "Lethal Weapon," both of which I have on tape but don't watch much... will I miss them? Do I even need to replace them on DVD, or should I just stick 'em on my Netflix queue if I ever feel the urge to see them again?

(Oy, I should have made that a poll answer, except I just thought of it.)

I never had much on commercial video, but I've made it a priority to buy those things on DVD as they appear, so my scheme probably won't help much.

For the homemade tapes, I had the issue of 6-8 hours per tape, not necessarily all one show, so about 4-5 years ago I rather energetically made a database by tape with what was on each tape. Show name, season, episode number etc. I also have a field for whether I have it on a commercial tape/DVD or don't need to replace it. As I buy season sets, I go through and mark what I've got and then check to see if I can discard any tapes. So far that's worked for the space I've allotted for the Video/DVD. And I just discard the ones I can. I don't use the VCR for recording anymore as I've got both a PVR and a DVD recorder, and some of the tapes are old enough that the quality would be very bad.

Unfortunately, not everything I archived on tape is available on DVD. (It took 20 years for Beauty and the Beast to show up, and then only one season!)

These days, though, I just use the VCR for timeshifting if I won't be home, because I know the DVDs will come out in about 20 minutes.

I'll be making homemade DVDs that I hope will someday be replaced/retrolegitimized with professional ones. But in the meantime, what do I want to with the professional VHSes?

I've just bought a new dvd cabinet that'll take 120 dvds - so that's one boxful sorted! As soon as I get a DVD version of something that I've got on commercial tape, I dump the commercial version. That leaves the stuff that I taped off-air - some of which is now available on dvd, but the off-air tapes usually have bits and pieces (sometimes even adverts) that I'd like to keep. This is going to mean going through all the tapes in turn, copying off the stuff I want to keep onto disc and then making the decision on whether to dump the 'original'. Fortunately I have a card index of everything on tape - so in theory I can put the 'bits' (things like odd horse races and one-off TV shows that aren't going to be released commercially or repeated) onto disc - but it's going to be a long and complicated job...

Or you could follow the 'if I haven't re-watched it in a year it may as well be thrown out' principle...

It's going to take a couple of years to go through the home-taped stuff. Which is probably going to make me dump much of it on principle, actually...

You're not catching the big picture here.

In ONE SCENE, you had:

George Takei (Sulu)
Chris Eccleston (The Doctor)
Eric Roberts (The Master)

THAT is what you call a fangasm.

They're trying to make us explode of squee. They're not even being subtle about it anymore!

What, after last week's guest shot from Stan Lee? Subtlety went out the window! (Rather like Peter...)

I know! This show just fills me with so much glee, it defies my tendencies towards exaggerated description.

I can't even think of writing fic about it, because unlike EVERY SINGLE ONE of my other fandoms, they leave absolutely nothing to be desired.

I think I can find room for the occasional drabble (scroll back my fic tag and you'll find Claude getting lucky in a rather depressed way), and eventually the crossover impulse will become overwhelming. But big stories? No way, there's no room for them! Everything is so obviously mapped out in the smallest detail.

Oh, admittedly, huge crossover cravings here too. Also with "The Office" US, for some reason. I want every science fiction hero ever to end up on The Office, just so I can play with Jim and Dwight in outer space.

But yeah, I agree the detail leaves no room. Anyway they give just the right amount of emotional responses to drama, as well as appropriately paced character development, so there's no temptation towards "missing scenes" or revealing vignettes, at least not for me.

I'm saving your drabble and other fic for tomorrow at work, btw, thanks ;)

As illustration for how meticulous the creators are in how they put the show together...

Last year at a con, there was a panel about myth building in TV. At the time, I was gently mocking the two show runners for a new fall show (Heroes) because every question that came up, they answered with, "Well, on 'Heroes' we..."

Now I know that they answered like that because they had actually considered ahead of time such questions and worked out answers. And it makes me love them so much.

I need more Heroes icons. Seriously.

I have no Claude icon and there is no Claude community. These things are wrong.

Well... you could just have a blank white icon and call it "Claude". ;)

*amused snort*

PS - which con was this? Because we need to go back and give them great big hugs.

San Diego Comic Con last year. And I only saw the panel because I was holding seats for people who wanted to come in for a larger panel later. (I also saw Forest Ackerman, Ray Harryhausen and Ray Bradbury basically sit around and let us listen into them having a reminiscence party for the same reason. ;)

I know! Unlike some shows *coughLOSTcough* they actually have some idea of what's going to happen next. And they give us clues about it, yet still keep us in suspense. The show is genius :)

Dump anything you can get on DVD; that's what Amazon invented wish lists for

Also, it's what Netflix is for.

And some things I'm willing to leave up to Netflix, I'm discovering - although usually, if it's in the house, it's because I wanted it close to hand.

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