Even if I managed to watch an entry a day, or an episode a day, from my Netflix queue, it would still take me a decade to watch everything.
This isn't a problem, this is me checking off the fact that I don't have to go out to find some entertainment if I don't want to. Not that being outdoors is a bad thing.
I have Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime racking up some large numbers in the To Be Watched department. Throw in some YouTube channels I follow and my entertainment world is in overload. The sad news is that even though I watched a bunch during my extended unemployment time, it didn't make too much of a dent in the collection.
In the queues are several TV shows that will take up a lot of time. Many of them are just waiting for me to find some time to binge watch them, but I really know is that if I get caught up on a series then that will be my series until completed. See the recent example of season 5 of Louie. I sat down thinking I would watch an episode or two and I went through 6 before I stopped to pick it up another night. That next night I ended up finishing them.
When something is good, I just want to consume it all. Between TV now and books... Books are something that I'm finding out about again. In particular, I'm being drawn to the collection archived editions of old comics. Usagi Yojimbo was a series I always heard was good, so I finally broke down and got the first book. Then the Saga editions came out that collection huge amounts of the series in one. I'm now in the middle of Book 5. Compare that to the Complete Case Files of Judge Dredd that I'm on book 10 for and you see where this is going.
There is something about seeing the whole story, knowing there is a direction or an end that you can get to now instead of waiting to see it all. When you wait, there are parts of the story that fall to the wayside. You get to see if the creators of the story had a direction to go in or if it was made up along the way. There is something so much more enjoyable about that to me than just getting an issue of a comic once a month and seeing how the parts go. Or watch an episode a week of a TV show. Fuck that, give it all to me and let me consume.
I have a stack of books that have traveled with me to the new apartment, and they take up a part of each night for me. I need to start mixing in more from the Netflix queue so I can try to get that down. That would be a headline to see - man finishes his Netflix queue just in time for more to be added.
I enjoy seeing stories develop. I enjoy reading them and I enjoy watching them. The different mediums offer so much potential, and watching that, consuming that to the end brings to me the same feeling a chef must have after devouring a meal they slaved over to create. A meal that has reached the right amount of ingredients and flavor combination that works.
Some people say that they prefer to collect experiences over things. Some people would look at my comic collection, Netflix addiction, TV watching, video game collection, and library of books only to scoff at me and say they don't want to collect material objects. To me, they aren't objects, but a guide to other worlds. This isn't fueled by a need to just collect them all, but rather to experience them all. I want to see as many worlds as I can, think of and experience each story coming to life, and then maybe, just maybe, help add to the collective with some works of my own.
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