Saturday, 24 May 2025

TV

Doctor Who
41x04 Lucky Day [2nd watch]
41x05 The Story & the Engine [2nd watch]
41x06 The Interstellar Song Contest [2nd watch]
[Watch this season (again) on iPlayer.]

Friends
7x03 The One with Phoebe's Cookies [5th or so watch]
7x04 The One with Rachel's Assistant [5th or so watch]
7x05 The One with the Engagement Picture [5th or so watch]
7x06 The One with the Nap Partners [6th or so watch]

Games

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game
Chapters 1–3

Another game based around the storyline of LotR, although this one is somewhat simpler as it's a trick-taking card game, with gorgeous stained-glass-window-esque art. It's quite fun, and having the gameplay based entirely around one mechanic (trick-taking) means it doesn't feel like you're learning a brand-new game every chapter.

Collection Count

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

Six additions this week, all brand-new releases (five from last week, one an early arrival for Monday). The two UHDs are both upgrades from Blu-ray (which, in both cases, were upgrades from DVD), but neither BD is removed yet. One I thought wouldn't be but, on closer comparison, I think probably should (it's the BFI UHD of Throne of Blood — with previous BFI Kurosawa UHDs, I've kept the Criterion BD for differing extras, but all their Throne of Blood offers is different subtitle options); and the other has to wait a little bit (my For a Few Dollars More BD is in a trilogy set with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; once the latter arrives on 4K I'll take the BD set out of the count). Fun times!

Number of titles in collection: 3,546 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 985 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,561 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 471 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 8,544 [up 9]
Number of films: 4,498 [up 9]
Number of additional cuts: 443 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,146 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,237 [up 4]

See you next week, faithful reader.