Friday 26 April 2024

TV

Doctor Who
6x42 The War Games Episode Eight
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
aka Satan's Skin (apparently the director's preferred title, and thus the title used onscreen on the Blu-ray I watched)

Videos

Talks Machina
#61 'Lost & Found'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

Thursday 25 April 2024

TV

Doctor Who
6x41 The War Games Episode Seven
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Videos

Critical Role
2x13 Lost & Found
This episode took a little while to really warm up (especially coming after how astonishing the last one was), but it eventually led to some great stuff — including some dialogue/acting so good they used the audio in the teaser trailer for the animated series, so, y'know, iconic stuff.
[Watch it (again) on YouTube.]

Wednesday 24 April 2024

Tuesday 23 April 2024

TV

Doctor Who
6x39 The War Games Episode Five
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Videos

Talks Machina
#60 'Midnight Espionage'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

Monday 22 April 2024

TV

Doctor Who
6x38 The War Games Episode Four
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Comics

2000 AD #2372

Games

The Leaf Riders of Wrenwood
22 April 2024

Videos

Critical Role
2x12 Midnight Espionage [2nd half]
"Whoa, we're fighting a carpet!"
As previously expressed, I love this show; but dang, it's hard to fit four-hour episodes into my schedule. So, I planned to abandon this episode for another day with about an hour to go... but it's so good that I just kept watching to the end (and what an ending it was!) Who needs sleep?
[Watch it (again) on YouTube.]

Sunday 21 April 2024

TV

Doctor Who
6x37 The War Games Episode Three
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Games

The Leaf Riders of Wrenwood
20–21 April 2024

Videos

Critical Role
2x12 Midnight Espionage [1st half]
"He took an hour to cosplay his dick!"
[Watch it (again) on YouTube.]

Saturday 20 April 2024

TV

Doctor Who
6x36 The War Games Episode Two
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Spawn: Director's Cut (1997/1998)
[2nd watch]
[#28 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]

Comics

2000 AD #23702371

I don't like to — indeed, I don't think I actually have before — but I've just given up on one of the current strips. I read through its last (half-)run and didn't enjoy it, it's just a pointless chore, so I'm just not gonna read the rest of it. Not ideal — it makes a fifth of each issue a waste of space and money — but at least I'm not also wasting my time on it.

Videos

Critical Role
2x11 Zemnian Nights [2nd half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube.]

Talks Machina
#59 Live from WonderCon 2018
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

After last week's epic, this week is almost the polar opposite: just one new addition. But it is time for the monthly running time update!

Number of titles in collection: 3,272 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,005 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,267 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 344 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 7,945 [up 1]
Number of films: 4,032 [up 1]
Number of additional cuts: 375 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,691 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,129 [no change]

Now, here's a funny one: despite the mass of new additions, the running time has gone down. What?! To be honest, I don't understand either. Did I do some maths wrong? Possibly. There were some upgrades this past month, so maybe that's fucked with things too. But to lose over two whole days... Yeah, worried this has gone wrong somewhere down the line. (Of course, it could've been wrong before and this is the course-correct. Let's hope it's that.)

Total running time of collection (approx.):
553 days, 6 hours, and 39 minutes.
(Down 2 days, 9 hours, and 32 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.