Collection Count

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

After a quiet few weeks, discs are flooding in now, a mix of new releases and sale purchases. Most unusual this week is a pair of short film collections, boosting that stat an uncommon amount.

Number of titles in collection: 3,764 [up 10]
Of which DVDs: 959 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,805 [up 10]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 575 [up 5]

Number of discs in collection: 9,022 [up 20]
Number of films: 4,861 [up 12]
Number of additional cuts: 523 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 10,145 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,375 [up 30]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Children in Need 2026
Watching this every three years now, apparently.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Fiction

The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 2
Exile by R.A. Salvatore
Chapters 4–6
End of Part One.

TV

Loki
1x03 Lamentis
1x04 The Nexus Event
This is where the show gets good.

Fiction

The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 2
Exile by R.A. Salvatore
Foreword by Matt Chapman
Prelude
Chapters 1–3

Issues 5 and 6 of the D&D Novel Collection arrived today, so I'm already well behind as I start reading my second volume. That was inevitable — I mean, by my standards, it's an achievement that I've read any at all.

TV

Loki
1x02 The Variant

Fiction

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Chapters 10–12 [the end]

An underwhelming experience all round. Felt like a short story padded out with a repetition of ideas and claims, not to mention a similar overuse of certain words and turns of phrase. I guess it was highly influential for its ideas and concepts, but I didn't care for the actual story or style.

Fiction

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Chapter 9

TV

Loki
1x01 Glorious Purpose
With the new Avengers movie out in six weeks, it's long overdue that I thought about catching up on the MCU. Rather than try to get through it all, I found a list of what Marvel recommend you see before Doomsday, so I'm aiming to tick off the things on there that I haven't seen. As this series is the oldest thing on the list that I haven't seen, it seemed the logical place to start.

Tabletop Games

Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing.

TV

House of Games
10x15 Week 3: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

this month on 100Films.co.uk

2026 races towards the end: October has flown, so 100Films.co.uk is here with a look back at my last month of film viewing...





...plus the things I didn't get round to watching...





Same again next month.