THE COMPLETIST'S GUIDE - Introduction

Collecting some movie and TV series is simple, buy the first film than the film with "2" after the title and so one.  However, some series are harder, have different names, change naming schemes are released it out of order or strange sets.  These posts are designed to help navigate certain film and TV series collections.

THE COMPLETE SERIES - Introduction

This series of blogs is designed to look at a TV show (or perhaps movie series) but a completed show or movie series.  To look at the whole thing from a completist's point of view.

It is designed to look at the when a show "got good", if it went bad and whether it came back.  It also looks, briefly at the ending (without spoilers) to say whether there was resolution or if the destination was worth the journey.

• The Hour (2011 - 2012)
• The West Wing (1999 - 2006)
• The Wire (2002 - 2008)
• Ultraviolet (1998)

~ DUG.

THE INCOMPLETIST - Introduction

DVDs I want to own, but can't find.

This blog is to detail the films and series that I want to own but cannot get on DVD.  If you see a copy around, send me details in comments.  Just remember the following guidelines:

• Must be Region 4 friendly.  Maybe my DVD player or computer's player allows other regions, but some of them let you change a couple of times before locking on a region and I don't want that.  And I don't want to take a DVD around to a friends to watch and find that their player won't play it.  This means if you can find it outside Oceania/South & Central America I probably won't be interest.
• Although I haven't really moved to Blu-ray yet (the thought that I might start to want to convert my entire collection scares my wallet), I'd consider it for films/shows.  However, the region rule applies (must be Region B).
• Used is fine.  Ex-rental also good.  As long as it's playable, obviously.
• Foreign release is fine, as long as region rules apply and it's in English if it originally was or has English subs if it was originally in a foreign language.
• It price has to be reasonable.  I don't need cheap copies, these are things I'm really interested in owning.  However, some stupidly high price because the DVD is discontinued isn't going to cut it.

Incompletist Posts

• Behind the Mask - The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Film)
• The Inside Story (Film)
• Underworld (TV Series)

~ DUG.

THE EXTRAS COMPLETIST - Introduction

The thing about being a DVD & TV completist isn't just buying stuff to complete your DVD collection. It's also about tracking down every episode, every webisode, everything you can. This blog is about trying to find as many of these extras and logging them as possible.

• Doctor Who (2005).
• Breaking Bad.
• The Walking Dead.
• Community.

~ DUG.

BREAKING THE COMPLETIST - Introduction

I first really noticed it with comics.  The comic book hasn't been good for over a year, but you've collected the last 12 issues because you have everything from #1.  Part of you is hoping they'll cancel the comic just so you can stop collecting it.

Watching a show you no longer like, year after year, because it's a spin-off of a show you love is one thing.  That just wastes time and brain-cells.  But what about buying it?

People always tell me that X is the worst Bond of the lot... but they have all the Bond films.  That a show was no good after Y left... but they have the final seasons.  What is it that compels us to not only spend time watching things we no longer like, but to spend money and shelf space to own a copy of it?

I have no answers, but I'm going share my experiences with being and with fighting being a completist.

*Breaking the Completist* posts will deal with those DVD I have managed to avoid buying part of the deliberate holes in my collection.  A victory against my completist tendencies but also an ongoing battle as it hurts every time I notice that I don't have the complete set of something.

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1980)
• Scrubs (Season 9).
• Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

~ DUG.