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[neadods]

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.)

[Poll #936225]

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.

Comments

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

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?

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

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

[hildy.livejournal.com]

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.

[havocthecat]

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.

[evil_plotbunny]

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.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

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...

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

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.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

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

Also, it's what Netflix is for.