The Awesome DVD Box Set...

Talking about Northern Exposure the other day got me to thinking about how AWESOME DVD Box Sets of TV shows are. When I was doing my BA my Cognitive Psych class was the first class (other than the requisite computer classes) to use the computer lab that had the AMAZING INTERNET CONNECTION!!! Yep, there was a room with about 15 computers hooked up to the new and shiny "Internet" for students at a large Sydney Metropolitan University to play with. It was frikin' awesome. A couple years later and two floors of the library were devoted to 'surfable' computers - it would not be beyond the realms of possibilities that if I went back now, there would be even less room for actual books in the library. You know what the first thing (not class related of course, Professor) that I looked up? The X Files . The second, my second most favourite show at the time, American Gothic . I think at that stage there were only one or two, maybe three sites devoted to The X Files (a couple also to David Duchovny), and only one real American Gothic site. The Internet was kind of intimate then. Wow I sound so ancient - but honestly kids, it weren't that long ago. Of course, I couldn't imagine a world without my computer now - whatever would I do? I love being able to look something up the minute I have the question form in the old noggin - it's educational that way. And of course it's also full of crap, but we all know that right? In any case, I digress. DVD Box Sets. I thought it was way cool when I ordered the Kindred  VHS box set (before I had a DVD player. Yup, I was alive when the Internet was invented, and way before the DVD was a gleam in some computer nerds eye, much less affordable. I didn't know that the Internet needed a capital I. But it apparently does, or at least my spell check thinks so. Weird.). All that Kindred-y goodness without the ads! And then (many, many moons later) The X Files DVD sets - with bonus interviews and added shinyness! And finally, after years of solid campaining by a determined and vocal few, American Gothic - not that long ago actually - a joy to behold after 10 or 11 years since the show aired. Again, added stuff and no ads. So where is this going? In my house, we've about given up on TV, EXCEPT FOR LOST . I would rather cut my own heart out with a spoon than miss an episode of Lost. The free to air stations jerk the viewer around by changing airing times, and stopping programs for now apparent reason what so ever - it is much, much better to just wait for the box set. Then you can enjoy it the way the actors and writers and directors wanted you to. Just bought Weeds today, couldn't get into it when it aired here 'cause it was moved around so much, so I'm looking forward to it! Can't imagine a world before Internet? My great grandmother thought that you would die if you went faster than thirty miles an hour. It's all about perspective, huh? Well, wasn't that a nice lot of waffling on?

In craft related news, I'll have some pics soon of a new creation - Cryptic Cryptlets. They talk in Rhyming Cryptic Couplets. That should be interesting!