and summer is over...

[wraithfodder]

Well, okay, it's got two days left, or three, can't recall.

I actually got to a beach three times this summer - a record!! I'd love to do it every week but there are no free beaches here :( Sigh...

TV-wise, well, let's see. Nothing has caught me fannishly, like Stargate Atlantis. Virtually everything on SyFy is meh to me, although I do watch Z

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[suekay_87]

I'm much the same with TV these days...was really into NCIS for a little while, but drifted away from it a bit. Nothing's ever gonna replace SGA for me!!

And you need to pay to go to beaches??

[wraithfodder]

Yeah, no freebie beaches for me. Every town has them sewn up. One charges $50 for a weekend visit (and that's just one!) if you don't live in that town. Totally insane. I want free beaches.

Oh, I also watched Whispers on ABC, but that's probably gone, and Zoo on CBS. Did watch Under the Dome and finally (phew) they did not renew it. Should have been just one season.

[suekay_87]

Yikes...We've got a million and one beaches in Scotland, all of them free. We've got legislation which gives us the 'right to roam' so we can walk just about anywhere. I've never been charged to go to a beach anywhere and I've been all over Western Europe.

Charging to go to a beach just seems ludicrous to me...I feel so spoiled, there's literally hundreds of beaches and coves within a 20 mile radius of where I stay.

I hate to say I barely watch TV these days.

[wraithfodder]

Or, get this, the beach is free, but there's nowhere to park due to private houses along the beach and although laws state they must provide passage, they do their best to deny people access to what they consider 'their' beach.

damn, I'm jealous. I want a free beach, but I get to pay for a beach with not the best water quality either!

I watch TV but honestly rarely record anything anymore. If I like a show, I'll buy the DVD set when it comes out, so that's, um, just Person of Interest. More interested in getting some older shows on DVD and not the newer stuff.

[wraithfodder]

True, but they're stuff I recorded off TV. Don't think I can eBay them due to copyright. Still have to go through.Some I'll never toss (mostly Canadian shows that just aren't on DVD).

[wraithfodder]

I've got a hundred videotapes with JUSt interviews with actors from the 80-90s from Entertainment Tonight, etc. and when Pierce Brosnan was only doing Remington Steele, and reality shows did not exist...

[dieastra]

You don't know anyone in New York who could go to that shop and buy a ticket for you? Or, don't know, call the shop over the phone or something? This sucks indeed. Attending conventions gets more and more complicated - and expensive.

I am afraid I will have to watch the new American Horrow Show season, just because I like Matt Bomer so much. I loved him in White Collar.

I've recently totally unexpectedly fallen in love with the original Star Trek series, bought tons of action figures and have lots of fun with them ;) Trying to catch up with almost 50 years of Trek in the past few weeks, plus everything one certain William Shatner has ever done in his life. Which is A LOT.

While I still love to watch and discuss new series like Arrow in real time when they come out, I must say that binge watching and concentrating on only one thing has its merits as well. Plus the occasional rewatch of old loved fandoms.

I also have chucked away my Stargate tapes now. Ebay is full of them nobody wants. So yeah, I don't think you'll have much luck

[wraithfodder]

Alas, the NYCC tickets were just too tough to get. have a friday ticket but really wanted Saturday too. NYCC mucked up their online sales with lousy servers, then gave several hundred tickets to only one store in NYC, announced their sale less than 24 hours before sale. Not practical for those who don't live in NYC or the boroughs. Sigh. And didn't know anyone willing to stand in line for 6-12 hours to get Saturday tickets....and nope, the store wouldn't do phone orders. Heck, they don't even answer their tweets.

I chucked my Stargate tapes only because I have them on DVD now. I need to clear clutter, get back space and downsize. DVD is the way to go. Don't trust streaming for longevity though...

I miss the days of passionate fannishness. Wish they'd make a show that would suck me back into that mode. Last passion I had was killing a rat that decided to take up residence in my yard next to house (like two feet away!)

[dieastra]

Of course, I own the DVDs since they originally came out. The tapes are from back when I started with the show - I was late and only started in season 4 and didn’t want to wait for re-runs on TV. My local video library was selling their tapes cheaply

[wraithfodder]

Ah, Broadchurch was good (UK version, not US version, which was strange) and Granchester. Still enjoy Sherlock when that pops up on PBS. No, have not seen the action figures. Maybe I'll see what's out at NYCC next week :)

At rate I'm going, I'll watch Arrow when it ends. I had plans to watch it but first six eps were thwarted by squabbles between CW affiliate and Cablevision, so I got six weeks of baseball reruns (which of course I did not watch).

[ext_2810322]

I saw the Twitter posts about the tickets on sale for NYCC. I thought that was ridiculous. Going on about the tickets available and that there were no lines for tickets. Seriously, if they had that many available for a comic book to sell that really makes me mad. They should have saved fewer for the store and left more for the online crowd. I'm almost considering going on Sunday just to participate in the NYCC staff panel so I can get on their case for that. Nothing else for Sunday excites me.

I actually tossed a slew of VHS tapes about a year ago. We still have a working VCR so I saved the rare and special (all my versions of Star Wars, the Indiana Jones trilogy, and a copy of the first episode of seaQuest DSV without the visual effects) and got rid of everything else. It was hard though. Some things I have copies of on DVD now but some I don't. But sometimes you just have to purge.

[wraithfodder]

I purged boxes of VHS but still, er, um, have many more boxes of VHS tapes. It's the shows that aren't coming out on DVD, or that really strange 1960s scifi movie. Took me forever to find the killer bone-sucking turtle monster movie with Peter Cushing; keep forgetting the name of it ;)

As to NYCC, they refuse to say how many tickets they gave to Midtown, only that it was a 'large' amount. If you had literally hundreds if not a thousand fans standing in line, and there are still some available (not Saturday,alas) then fans who could only get tix via online definitely got the shaft. They should sell tix only online, not at Special Edition con (that in inself creates an artificial sale of SE tix for people who go there just to buy NYCC tix) or at one comic store. Shame they denied other tri-state stores the chance to sell tickets. If I was going on Sunday, I'd attend and speak my peace on their business model, which still hasn't improved.Sigh.

[adafrog]

I haven't found anything that I'm fannish about, either. I do like Z Nation. The Zoo is also good.