I like buying TV shows on DVD, but I keep thinking about various issues. First, I think about how sad it is that shows that I watched in high school (ex. "Buffy") may not have the same affect on me as I am getting older. Seems irrelevant, but I think about random things like this sometimes (and obviously I think about them on a deeper level than I really should, heh). I think about if people will still be watching their DVDs (from the past few years) like 10-20 years from now.

Secondly, I always wonder if I am actually going to watch the DVDs of shows I love. I think the most useless DVD I have bought is "Nip/Tuck" season 2. While I like the show (although I like it less now compared to how I felt about it when it started out), I never watched the DVD at all.

I recently discovered that I probably shouldn't buy many dramas or things that don't have much humour in them, because then I wouldn't watch them as much as I would have to in order to justify the purchase. For example, I really like "Lost", "Heroes", and I love "Dexter" even more, but because I know how all the mysteries end up so far (since I keep up with every episode as it airs), I would have no interest in watching them right away. I may watch them years from now, but by then everything could be out in HD DVD, or whatever. It makes sense that I would feel this way since I do the same thing with music. I get bored with it quite quickly if I listen to something over and over again - so much so that I will purposely NOT listen to a song too much. Just in case I get bored of it soon after acquiring it, and skip over it in my playlist. Of course, I keep nearly all these music and video files stored somewhere, because I usually feel like going back to them after months or years. I don't want to remember how it felt to listen to or watch a specific TV show, movie, music, etc. I want to have the experience of discovering / getting into something all over again. This doesn't usually happen to me unless I wait a long time before re-visiting that piece of entertainment.

Examples of TV shows I recently bought that I could definitely watch in the near future (without remembering everything that occurs and therefore getting bored during the viewing): "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "The L Word", "Arrested Development", and "Flight of the Conchords". I plan on getting "Veronica Mars" and "Journeyman" (if that ever comes out) soon. Some of "The Office" DVDs may be interesting, but I should probably watch the British version too and see which one I like better. I like the US version but I'm not sure it's worth buying on DVD right now. Unless I want to get friends into it - then it's usually worth it

"Battlestar Galactica" is worth it too, but it's very heavy (ex. depressing), and requires a certain mood (in my opinion). And I don't want to get ripped off and pay double the amount for seasons 2.0 and 2.5. I will wait for the box set that combined all of season 2 into one package. Season 3 is coming out in a few months too. "Rome" is another great series, but too expensive right now.

Yeah...I've just been in the TV-show-on-DVD mood lately.