Excuse the rambling I am about to spew out.
My first season DVD set for DS9 arrived this weekend. I now have all seven seasons.
I have been following the show since its debut. I taped every episode on video tape and I even purchased most of the first two season's eps on the old Paramount-produced video tapes that used to be common. So its not as if I never had access to all the episodes.
Still to get all 7 seasons on DVD was something of a goal of mine. Its been a year and half since I had purchased my last DS9 DVd set and I can't explain why it took me so long to get this last one to complete my collection. I guess for awhile I placed my focus on building up my movie collection instead. But now its done and I'm feeling a bit nostalgic about the whole thing. When the DVDs were first close to coming out (can't remember whether it was 2001 or 2002) I recall how excited people on this message board were. Even more I remember the excitement that had been generated on the now defunct AOL Trek message boards. Anyone here participated on those AOL boards? It feels like a lifetime ago. I was not in a financial position to buy all the DVDs unfortunately so I knew I had to hold off buying some of the seasons for awhile. I skipped the first season but when the second season hit the shelves months later I snapped it up. I would the use the little I had left on a credit card to buy season three when that came out. Then over the next two to three years I would pick up seasons four, five and six. By the time I got around to buying season seven my economic situation had really improved and, ironically, the prices had been much reduced anyway.
And now its all done and I can say that I can't sit back and watch the series unfold all over again but this time via a DVD quality format. And I must say the seven sets look beautiful when standing shoulder-to-shoulder on a shelf. How many here have purchased all seven seasons on DVD by the way? DS9 and B5 are the two series that I can claim ownership of every single season.Who says you can't love both shows?
Of course I may have to soon start worrying about doing all this over again for the blue-ray edition.
My first season DVD set for DS9 arrived this weekend. I now have all seven seasons.
I have been following the show since its debut. I taped every episode on video tape and I even purchased most of the first two season's eps on the old Paramount-produced video tapes that used to be common. So its not as if I never had access to all the episodes.
Still to get all 7 seasons on DVD was something of a goal of mine. Its been a year and half since I had purchased my last DS9 DVd set and I can't explain why it took me so long to get this last one to complete my collection. I guess for awhile I placed my focus on building up my movie collection instead. But now its done and I'm feeling a bit nostalgic about the whole thing. When the DVDs were first close to coming out (can't remember whether it was 2001 or 2002) I recall how excited people on this message board were. Even more I remember the excitement that had been generated on the now defunct AOL Trek message boards. Anyone here participated on those AOL boards? It feels like a lifetime ago. I was not in a financial position to buy all the DVDs unfortunately so I knew I had to hold off buying some of the seasons for awhile. I skipped the first season but when the second season hit the shelves months later I snapped it up. I would the use the little I had left on a credit card to buy season three when that came out. Then over the next two to three years I would pick up seasons four, five and six. By the time I got around to buying season seven my economic situation had really improved and, ironically, the prices had been much reduced anyway.
And now its all done and I can say that I can't sit back and watch the series unfold all over again but this time via a DVD quality format. And I must say the seven sets look beautiful when standing shoulder-to-shoulder on a shelf. How many here have purchased all seven seasons on DVD by the way? DS9 and B5 are the two series that I can claim ownership of every single season.Who says you can't love both shows?
Of course I may have to soon start worrying about doing all this over again for the blue-ray edition.
