Thursday, August 02, 2007
Save the Cheerleader, Save the World
On one of my visits to an Afghan bazaar I picked up the first season of Heroes on DVD. Now, I'm SURE this wasn't a bootleg copy. Never mind that it only cost 10 bucks. Or that some of the words on the box and on the DVD menus are misspelled. Or that when we watch an episode we see a logo for a TV network sometimes NBC, sometimes an Asian network) in a bottom corner. Or that I bought it more than 2 months before it's actually available for sale.
I had meant to watch this show last year but never did so it was nice to have the chance to catch up. Adrian and I started watching it this week and got hooked, often watching 3 episodes a night.
Problem: there were 23 episodes in the first season...and there are only 18 episodes on these discs. We're missing the last 5.
Damn Afghans.
But wait...we realized the episodes are available on NBC.com. Yay! We looked, and sure enough, they are there.
But only until tomorrow.
With the DVD coming out later this month, NBC is pulling the episodes off their website on August 3rd. We realized this last night, after completing 12 episodes. We had to make a choice.
Do we:
a) watch the remaining 6 episodes on the DVDs Wednesday night (bear in mind, it's 9pm when we realized this, and we'd already watched 2 episodes) then watch the 5 online episodes on Thursday, or
b) just enjoy the remaining 6 episodes over time, and watch the last 5 when the DVD comes out?
Yeah, we stayed up until 3am watching the 6 episodes. And then we searched the web trying to find a translation of some French dialogue in one episode. And Adrian commented on what geeks we must be to be doing that at 3 in the morning.
We got up at 9 today, watched 2 episodes online, then watched the last 3 tonight. Cool show. Looking forward to the next season, starting in September.
I'll try not to be such a nerd about it next time.
I had meant to watch this show last year but never did so it was nice to have the chance to catch up. Adrian and I started watching it this week and got hooked, often watching 3 episodes a night.
Problem: there were 23 episodes in the first season...and there are only 18 episodes on these discs. We're missing the last 5.
Damn Afghans.
But wait...we realized the episodes are available on NBC.com. Yay! We looked, and sure enough, they are there.
But only until tomorrow.
With the DVD coming out later this month, NBC is pulling the episodes off their website on August 3rd. We realized this last night, after completing 12 episodes. We had to make a choice.
Do we:
a) watch the remaining 6 episodes on the DVDs Wednesday night (bear in mind, it's 9pm when we realized this, and we'd already watched 2 episodes) then watch the 5 online episodes on Thursday, or
b) just enjoy the remaining 6 episodes over time, and watch the last 5 when the DVD comes out?
Yeah, we stayed up until 3am watching the 6 episodes. And then we searched the web trying to find a translation of some French dialogue in one episode. And Adrian commented on what geeks we must be to be doing that at 3 in the morning.
We got up at 9 today, watched 2 episodes online, then watched the last 3 tonight. Cool show. Looking forward to the next season, starting in September.
I'll try not to be such a nerd about it next time.
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I have season 1 in my ITunes collection. Somehow, I don't think it will let me share it with you though? Hmmmm...
I love Heroes! And I could have translated the French for you (although probably not at 3 in the morning).
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: 5:19 PM
You are not nerds....this goes into the category of dweebs. Now that I think about it, probably geeks. Definitely not nerds. I know since I am a nerd myself. ~Ivan
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