Continuity

Now that I’ve been using my PVR for a while now, one thing I’m noticing is that there are certain series where I’ll record a bunch of episodes, not watch any of them, and then later on have to delete them to free up space.

So why hadn’t I gotten around to watching them? Simple: they didn’t have enough continuity yet. The series where this happens are almost invariable long story-arc based ones like ST:DS9, Farscape, 24, and so on, where I’ve started recording episodes while they’re already in the middle of some storyline. Instead of just going ahead and watching them and ‘picking it up as I go along,’ having the PVR’s recording ability deludes me into thinking that I can just wait long enough and then I’ll have all the episodes and *then* I’ll be able to watch them in order properly.

Except then a month later I’m almost out of disk space and something’s got to go and I don’t want to burn them to DVD out of order and with some still missing and hey, I haven’t even watched any of this one yet…

I’m either going to need more disk space (a coworker of mine has an almost-a-terabyte array set up for his recordings), or just give in and start picking them up on DVD.