ilmaestro
State Alchemist
Not meaning "current" (ie. running on TV in Japan) shows, necessarily, but more specifically shows that you are watching or re-watching on (VHS?)/DVD/BD.
I think the answer to this question might have changed a lot for people over the last few years, as the release schedules and formats have changed so much in the UK, and especially the US. Whereas before you would have (at a guess) the vast majority of the shows you were buying coming out over a period of months or even years, three or four episodes at a time, now you get the initial releases of entire series released in the space of a couple of months, or even just in one go.
Does this mean you now exclusively marathon shows in half- or full-season sets? Do you still work through shows fairly slowly, one or two episodes at a time so as to space it out more? Would you "deliberately" stop watching a show so that you can watch a few episodes from another one to keep things varied? And how many shows do you juggle at a time when you more often have the option of watching a new show all the way through straight away?
Personally, I'm trying at the moment to not be watching more than five series concurrently on DVD, so that I don't end up leaving too much time between watching an episode of each show. Sometimes (although rarely) it can be just one episode, and sometimes an entire show (more likely if it's just one cour) but most likely a single disc at a time (not in one sitting, but before I move on to another show), whether that's three episodes of an old show, or seven episodes as with a lot of newer releases. In an attempt to clear some backlog, I'm also trying to make sure that only one show at a time is a "DVD rewatch" (as opposed to watching something on DVD for the first time that I watched when it aired, or haven't seen at all).
I think the answer to this question might have changed a lot for people over the last few years, as the release schedules and formats have changed so much in the UK, and especially the US. Whereas before you would have (at a guess) the vast majority of the shows you were buying coming out over a period of months or even years, three or four episodes at a time, now you get the initial releases of entire series released in the space of a couple of months, or even just in one go.
Does this mean you now exclusively marathon shows in half- or full-season sets? Do you still work through shows fairly slowly, one or two episodes at a time so as to space it out more? Would you "deliberately" stop watching a show so that you can watch a few episodes from another one to keep things varied? And how many shows do you juggle at a time when you more often have the option of watching a new show all the way through straight away?
Personally, I'm trying at the moment to not be watching more than five series concurrently on DVD, so that I don't end up leaving too much time between watching an episode of each show. Sometimes (although rarely) it can be just one episode, and sometimes an entire show (more likely if it's just one cour) but most likely a single disc at a time (not in one sitting, but before I move on to another show), whether that's three episodes of an old show, or seven episodes as with a lot of newer releases. In an attempt to clear some backlog, I'm also trying to make sure that only one show at a time is a "DVD rewatch" (as opposed to watching something on DVD for the first time that I watched when it aired, or haven't seen at all).
