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How often do you watch the same episode?

JesterFace

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There's the question.

How much time has to pass before you rewatch an episode? Do you have some kind of "rules" that you won't watch the same episode too often to avoid learning it inside out?

I watch all my favorite TNG episodes every summer, that's my tradition. All the other series... not that often, but I was thinking of pulling out some DS9 DVDs before the end of the year.

So, to answer my own question, once a year.
 
I watched the episode Sacred Ground on voyager something like 4 times in one week.

It depends on the episode and my mood I suppose.
 
It depends.
I have my "Voyager re-watches" and my "TNG re-watches" when I watch all Voyager episodes in seasons 1,2 and 3 and most of the episodes in TNG in Stardate order.

I'm going through the later seasons of DS9 right now so I 'll have to do that first before I will come up with a "DS9 re-watch".

I also watch certain episodes of TOS from time to time.
 
There are some episodes of TOS that I've had to have seen dozens of times in the last forty years. If I'm in the mood to watch something again, I just watch it. No rules.
 
When TOS was new to DVD (on the two-episode sets) and I couldn't afford very many DVDs yet, I think I watched "The Cage" practically every weekend.

Kor
 
When TOS was new to DVD (on the two-episode sets) and I couldn't afford very many DVDs yet, I think I watched "The Cage" practically every weekend.

Kor

I wore out my The Motion Picture VHS tape. Then bought the DE on DVD and wore that out. Now I own the Blu-ray, and watch it quite a bit. :lol:
 
There's the question.

How much time has to pass before you rewatch an episode? Do you have some kind of "rules" that you won't watch the same episode too often to avoid learning it inside out?

I watch all my favorite TNG episodes every summer, that's my tradition. All the other series... not that often, but I was thinking of pulling out some DS9 DVDs before the end of the year.

So, to answer my own question, once a year.

I try to give it a year between watching the entire TNG and DS9 series.

I'm watching Don Matteo right now.
And, I know it's horrifying, I really want to buy some Gilmore Girls DVDs.
 
I wore out my The Motion Picture VHS tape. Then bought the DE on DVD and wore that out. Now I own the Blu-ray, and watch it quite a bit. :lol:
I think I paid about $35 at Suncoast for the DE the day it was officially released, then I watched that over and over again too.

Oddly, the DE was included in a set of all the TOS movies that they had out on the shelf a couple days before the official release of the DE itself. Based on that, I tried to convince them to let me buy the DE early. But they wouldn't budge.

:razz: to Suncoast.

Kor
 
Of all the series, I rewatch episodes of TOS the most. By far. I've probably seen Journey to Babel and A Taste of Armageddon a dozen times or more.
 
And, I know it's horrifying, I really want to buy some Gilmore Girls DVDs.
That's OK, not everything needs to be scifi and/or action. :)
Besides, my sister likes Gilmore Girls so don't feel too bad. I'm a little bit interested to find out what it's all about...

Avoid learning it inside out??
It's more fun to watch any program if you don't know exactly what's doing to happen next.
Maybe that's impossible over many watches but I don't need to learn the entire script from quote to quote. :)
 
That's OK, not everything needs to be scifi and/or action. :)
Besides, my sister likes Gilmore Girls so don't feel too bad. I'm a little bit interested to find out what it's all about...


It's more fun to watch any program if you don't know exactly what's doing to happen next.
Maybe that's impossible over many watches but I don't need to learn the entire script from quote to quote. :)
If you don't want to know what's going to happen next then you would only watch ANYTHING just one time.

I don't NEEd to learn the entire script "from quote to quote" but i've watched my favorite episodes so many times that I do.
 
In my younger days I used to watch episodes repeatedly. Now I'll probably only watch an episode once a year and wait a couple years before watching it again. That's not a reflection of Star Trek, I'm like that with practically everything now. Weirdly, the exception seem to be Star Wars The Force Awakens, which I have seen four times in the nearly two years since its release, and I intend to get a fifth viewing in before The Last Jedi comes out.
 
I have enumerated all episodes (order, TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT), and every day, I take the next three digits of Pi. So, on day one, I watch episode '141' (which is number 40 of TNG, the Icarus factor). Next day, it would be episode 592, which would be VOY number 137, Spirit Folk, and so on.

There's a total of 725 episodes, in case the string value for that day is higher than that number , I'll do mod 725, so TOS, TAS and early TNG are slightly favoured in my watching scheme.

^ That, or I just watch whatever I'm in the mood for, whenever I want (well, not on my work). And that can vary greatly. Sometimes I don't watch any episode for weeks on end, and then I have a binge watch.
 
I'm tapped out with TOS. TNG I can still get into - just. Voyager I can watch and then start all over again.
 
There's the question.

How much time has to pass before you rewatch an episode? Do you have some kind of "rules" that you won't watch the same episode too often to avoid learning it inside out?

I watch all my favorite TNG episodes every summer, that's my tradition. All the other series... not that often, but I was thinking of pulling out some DS9 DVDs before the end of the year.

So, to answer my own question, once a year.
If 6 months to a year has passed, I will have a desire to see a certain episode again. Some episodes require a great deal more time for there to be a natural desire to see it again, and some episodes I've seen too many times, just because I wanted to watch something, and have know interest in finding new material to get into.

Watching Star Trek is a lot like cooking, actually..
 
My husband will watch the same episode over and over and over. Mainly because he falls asleep sometime during the episode and then has to watch it over to see the whole thing. But he falls asleep again the next time, and so on. He's seen and "not seen" the same episode many times.
 
There's no set time. Sometimes, I've watched the same one a few times in a short period of time, because I've been discussing it in threads here, but ordinarily, I take a break from one whole show for large stretches of time, like many months, but then I'll get the hankering & over the course of some weeks, watch a bunch & my favorites usually find there way into that run.

I'll rewatch TNG, TOS, & the movies, & I'll mostly frequent them one group at a time, until I've exhausted my craving for it, at which point I'll take a break for weeks/months & then when I get the hankering again, I move to another group, & so on. The good thing about Netflix is that while I don't care to rewatch DS9 in large blocks like the others, because of how arced it was, there are a few ones in there that I throw into the mix now too, & I'm trying to find ones in Voyager & Enterprise to do that with too

That's me. When I want to have a binge type period of weeks, I like episodic stuff, because it's lighter fare, & by finding episodes from the whole of the franchise, I can make a wider variety of a viewing experience than just binging on one show. It's changing my perspective on the franchise, because I'm growing to think of it all as one collection, even though I'm still not much of a fan of some the shows. I do accept them more & more... which is good, because I think it'll make me more tolerant of the modern things that are being produced now, even though they are so different & not really what I value in Star Trek
Avoid learning it inside out??
I know, right. I've seen TNG so much, it's impossible to not know them inside out. Pretty much TOS is getting that way now too, since Netflix. It was less memorized to me before that, as I've never owned any copies of it, & only knew it from televising, which was still surprisingly a lot of knowledge, just not inside out, so to speak
 
Apparently Netflix has looked into this. The results genuinely surprised me.
It's not too surprising, apparently people on Netflix like Borg episodes. It is strange that Endgame actually outranks TBOBW. The Gift is also an odd choice, but given Scorpion is there, and The Gift does basically cap off the Scorpion storyline, I guess I can see people who have just watched Scorpion deciding to stick around for The Gift.

Clues and Time and Again are genuine surprises given they are completely random episodes with nothing special to them at all. And they're not even really all that good.
 
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