Comments | thefourthvine: Tell me what to buy, please.

thefourthvine

Tell me what to buy, please.

Jan 01, 2010 19:14

Thus far, we've been watching TOS mostly off of a Best of Star Trek DVD that appears to be marketed solely to me. ("You met Kirk and Spock as young men on the big screen, now join them on their later journeys." Yes, I know. The comma problem bothers me, too ( Read more... )

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the poll wouldn't let me vote kungfunurse January 2 2010, 03:47:42 UTC

Perhaps it thinks I'm an illegal alien? Betazoid perhaps?

Anyway, the 'Best Of' really does what it says on the tin. Trust me. In 6 months you're going to want that money that you've spent on all those really really *bad* eps to spend on something super shiny, like the next ST movie...

Re: the poll wouldn't let me vote thefourthvine January 3 2010, 06:00:31 UTC

Obviously, even the LJ poll wants me to buy TOS, since it prevented a no-voter from voting!

CONSPIRACY OMG.

I don't know! I really like the eps I've seen! And, let's face it, I'm going to watch the shiny next ST movie no matter what. This is a DISEASE, and I am just sad that no one warned me going in that it was a one-way trip.

cesperanza January 2 2010, 03:49:59 UTC

ONE A DAY. EVERY DAY. BUY THE THREE SEASON SET OMG.

thefourthvine January 3 2010, 06:05:09 UTC

I kind of knew how you would vote! I mean, I was not sitting there thinking, "I wonder if Speranza will think I should get just maybe one season and see if I like it?" Because I knew that if they offered a three-season set that including one episode per disk, with all the rest of the disk filled up with commentary and special features and still photos and early commercials and just a thing that made your TV go "ST ILU <3 <3 <3," you would not find it at all illogical for me to be considering buying THAT.

Also: THIS IS A SICKNESS OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HEAD? AND WHY HAVEN'T YOU WRITTEN SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND WORDS OF KIRK/SPOCK? I FIND MYSELF WANTING SOME!

liddle_oldman January 2 2010, 03:54:08 UTC

All three seasons. No more than two or three eps suck -- though several will cause any sensitive person to pee themselves. (See: Yangs and Kooms).

I have long found that every time I say "Oh, I'll never need *that* functionality", I need it within months. It's the same here!

thefourthvine January 3 2010, 06:06:20 UTC

I'm always the person going, "IPod? Why in god's name would I want one of those?" And then three years later I buy one, and within a week I love it so much I am making elaborate plans to be buried with a scale model so I will have it in the afterlife.

(Except cell phones. I have had one for a decade - not the same one all that time, of course - and I still hate it.)

liddle_oldman January 6 2010, 17:13:14 UTC

I did the same thing with my 'pod -- made fun of them until someone gave me one, and then discovered how great they are.

As for the phone, though -- most modern conveniences are for your convenience. Phones are for other people's convenience, and you get to dance at the end of their string. All right-thinking persons hate 'em. (I have one, and no one but my wife has the number.)

j00j January 2 2010, 03:56:40 UTC

It's really unfortunate that CBS doesn't seem to have captions in the online one. However, might your library have the DVDs for you to borrow? This is also a solution that allows you to see more episodes captioned without buying.

Season 3 contains episodes which are so horrible that they're actually wonderful, e.g. "Spock's Brain." It's AMAZING. I kind of love it for its sheer awfulness. The plot! The dialogue! The costumes! OMG.

kungfunurse January 2 2010, 04:17:49 UTC

Ok, actually this is true. "Spock's Brain" is perhaps the best ep ever created in TV history. It's even better when MST3K'd.

thefourthvine January 3 2010, 06:08:09 UTC

I am not watching Spock's Brain! No one can make me! *hides head in terror*

The library is a good point! BB is a librarian, and I will get her to check if her library has it. (Although she'll be all, "LET'S JUST BUY IT." I know her.)

grey_bard January 2 2010, 04:24:17 UTC

You can also watch them free and legal on Youtube. This is much easier than the CBS website which borks a lot.

thefourthvine January 3 2010, 06:08:50 UTC

I can't. I am such a terrible TV watcher that I can barely follow what's going on with DVDs; YT, with the lower quality and the stutters and the lack of subtitles and so on, would kill me.

grey_bard January 3 2010, 06:48:27 UTC

Oh. Well, that stinks, sorry about that. Well, at least someone else in the comments might have found it useful?