I got a little excited this morning to see this trailer:
No, really, it’s true! I even tweeted it! So you know my emotions are authentic, unless I’m forced to issue a retraction because social media moves just too damned fast for accuracy to be a factor.
And, oh, this is embarrassing. I might need to do that. Or at least re-frame my excitement, since I just realized that there’ve been four seasons (or “series” as they say in BBC-land) and I’ve maybe seen two and a half. So in actuality, there’ve been “new” episodes for quite a while.
But it’s still exciting to build a social stockpile, a library todo list that I’m in no hurry to complete, but that I know won’t disappoint. When I watch (or read, or listen to) them, it won’t be out of a sense of “doing homework” or just trying to get through the backlog; it’ll be because I want to enjoy them, I’m reasonably sure I’m going to enjoy them, and it’s a good time to do just that.
Work with me here: I was talking to someone who just bought a new condo. My building’s 20 years old, and back then, units were simply built bigger. I used to think it was simply greedy developers maximizing the revenue per square foot, but I think it’s also that we simply had more stuff back then. I grew up in an era where I knew multiple people who ordered entire TV seasons of MASH on VHS, three episodes per tape, delivered one tape per month, maybe not because they wanted to watch it right now, but it’d be nice to have the option someday. I fall prey to the data hoarding instinct from time to time, but it’s increasingly comforting to know that there’s entertainment out there when I need it, no ridiculous amounts of shelving required.