Rewatch Saturday Round Up [15th Feb, 2014]

[lostdragonfound]

REWATCH SATURDAY
Firefly 1x03 HOMEBASE POST
Veronica Mars 1x09 - 1x12 HOMEBASE POST

LINKS
It’s less than a month until the Veronica Mars Movie is released!
The Veronica Mars Movie has a sneak peak clip over at Entertainment Weekly [EW, Veronica Mars]
Official Veronica Mars MovieTumblr [Tumblr, Veronica Mars]

Remember, there are threads for fanworks (old and new) for these shows.
You can link to your own works or do a rec list if you'd like. Right now not a lot is going on in those threads.
Here is the fanworks thread for Firefly.
Here is the fanworks thread for Veronica Mars.


POLL (just for fun)

Poll #14973

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

View Respondents

Do you rewatch your favorite shows?

View Answers

Yes, all the time.
2 (18.2%)

Yes, as much as possible.
2 (18.2%)

Yes, occasionally.
6 (54.5%)

I'm not really big on rewatching tv shows.
1 (9.1%)

No, I never rewatch shows. Not even my favorites.
0 (0.0%)

If you do rewatch shows...(check as many as you want)

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I wish I had more time to rewatch tv shows.
7 (58.3%)

I find rewatching shows to be comforting.
9 (75.0%)

I like rewatching to get a better understanding of the show.
12 (100.0%)

Some shows I just can't get enough of!
10 (83.3%)

ticky!
7 (58.3%)

Feel free to discuss your rewatch habits/your feelings on rewatching/your favorite shows to rewatch in the comments.

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>>REWATCH SATURDAYS<<

I'll be putting the new comment threads up each Saturday around 12 AM EST.
Each show also has threads for general discussion.
They both have threads for linking to your fanworks too!
I'll be collecting those links and adding them to the Saturday round up posts in case you miss them in the comments.

Comments

[lostdragonfound]

I rewatch shows a lot. Sometimes more than other times. Often I like to rewatch things while I do something else (hand-sewing/hand-embroidery), making the grocery list, occasionally even writing. When I'm working on an art quilt I often do a crazy amount of rewatching.

Sometimes I rewatch a show for the pure enjoyment of that show. Shows I love so much that I can't get enough of (Once Upon a Time, BtVS, Angel, and Veronica Mars are some of my go to faves).

Other times I just can't deal with any extra uncertainty in my life and I need to watch things (and read things) that I'm familiar with. Even if bad things happen in them I know that they do ahead of time and I know when they happen in the story.

And there are shows that I miss that I just need to revisit again even if I wasn't 100% happy with the ending (I'm doing a slow rewatch of Lost right now).

There are also shows that I just don't feel the need to rewatch. I like them but once is usually enough.

[colls]

I'm methodical about rewatching and am a completist (like to start with ep #1 and watch EVERYTHING). I have trouble jumping around even with a show I've watched before. ha!

I've never thought of why I rewatch something, other than the fact that I simply miss the show and like the certainty that comes from knowing where the narrative is going.

[lostdragonfound]

I used to methodical about rewatching too. I would have to start with the first episode and go through everything but somehow I relaxed about that. I'm not even sure how or when it happened, but it did. Now I can just watch one specific episode if I want. I could never do that before.

[adafrog]

I tend to not rewatch TV shows, but will rewatch movies.

[lostdragonfound]

That's interesting because I'm kind of the opposite. I do rewatch movies from time to time but it's much less frequent than with television.

I also don't watch as many movies. I've been trying to watch more movies this year because in general I watch very few. I haven't even been to the movie theater in years. Though I do watch them on DVD.

I'm up to a whole 4 movies this year so far and that's with me trying to watch more movies. I used to watch tons of movies when I was younger though.

[adafrog]

I go to the movie theater much less than I used to. Not enough extra time anymore. But I do tend to watch them on TV.

When I was younger I used to watch all the new movies. Crazy. lol

[lostdragonfound]

For me the money and the lack of transportation keeps me from the movie theater, that and the fact that I'm hard of hearing and I tend to miss too much without closed captioning and for the kind of money they charge for movies these days it's not worth it when I can't enjoy it fully.

When I was younger my family ran a couple movie theaters over the years. A drive-in when I was really young and indoor ones both then and later.

I had to go because that was my "babysitting". I'd hang out at the movies and watch what I wanted, while my family worked. Or sometimes I helped out. But it also meant I got in for free. And free was nice :)

And later on when I was older I worked at one of them for a while until they sold it.

But those days are long ago and far away. But at now DVDs are released fairly quickly and have nice closed captioning usually. So, I like that. Though sometimes I miss the whole cinematic experience of the big screen.

[adafrog]

Ah, the joys of 'working' for your family. lol Mine had a restaurant with ice cream. Everyone else always thinks you're so lucky, but after x number of years...not so much. ;)

Yeah, the big screen experience can be good.

[lostdragonfound]

Oh wow, my family had restaurants too. My uncle and grandfather had one next to one of the movie theaters (so they tied the whole movie theme in with it). I never really worked there but my dad did for years so we'd have Thanksgiving there every year for awhile because they didn't take it of. People think that's awesome, but I hated it.

Then once when I was young my dad started his own little restaurant that both he and my mother worked at but that failed and then later on when was an adult he tried again and I worked in the kitchen there. That failed within a year.

People don't understand how difficult the restaurant business is and that owning your own business isn't really fun. Lack of time off, often working on holidays and working for family not great either as you know.

[adafrog]

Restaurants are so hard. I think only 10% make it past the first few years. At least back then that's what I was told. I was very proud of my parents for making it work, even though it was so difficult to run for them.

ITA about owning your own business. I essentially do that now, and sometimes after everyone else gets paid there's not a lot left for the owner. And paying twice for vacations sucks (once for the vacation, and once for losing money by not working).