Purchase Diary 2014 – May / June

Friends: The Complete Series (1994 – 2004) May 2nd – €53.20 (CA$84.99) @ Amazon.ca (paid partially via gift certificate) Collection no. 12686 – 12705 But I’m a bit disappointed. It’s really my fault because I didn’t check this beforehand (I just didn’t expect it): It’s only the broadcast version. As someone who knows the key…

TV Junkie: A History

I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board. Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old. I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story)….

TV Shows – A Decade in Retrospect

Deutsche Version Since everybody seems to be starting to count at zero instead of one the first decade of this century and millennium is now over. So it’s time to recap these past ten years and take a look at the TV Shows it has given us. Let me give my résumé at the beginning:…

Farscape: Season 2: Disc 7

Deutsche Version | Season 2: Disc 4 – 6 Won’t Get Fooled Again Synopsis: John awakes in a hospital and is told that it’s shortly after he crashed Farscape-1 and blew the experiment. But John is not falling for this again. Still, in the beginning everything is much more realistic than the holo show the…

Farscape: Season 2: Disc 4 – 6

Deutsche Version | Season 2: Disc 2 / 3 | Season 2: Disc 7 Disc 4 Dream a Little Dream Synopsis: Zhaan has still nightmares from the time when John and D’Argo destroyed the Gammak base and Moya couldn’t find them or Aeryn. When she’s alone with John in a pod she tells him what…

Farscape: Season 2: Disc 2 / 3

Deutsche Version | Season 2: Disc 1 | Season 2: Disc 4 – 6 Disc 2 Crackers Don’t Matter Synopsis: D’Argo has brought an alien onboard who claimed that he could cloak the electromagnetic field of Moya’s. They would become invisible to sensors which has become necessary since Scorpius deployed wanted beacons all over the…

Farscape: Season 2: Disc 1

Deutsche Version | Season 1 | Season 2: Disc 2 / 3 Mind the Baby Synopsis: Moya and what remains of her crew can’t return to the asteroid field as long as the Command Carrier is there. But she wants to go back to her son who is still hiding there and is now under…

Farscape: Season 1

Deutsche Version | Farscape Marathon | Season 2: Disc 1 Disc 1 Premiere Synopsis: John Crichton is a scientist and an astronaut and he wants to prove that one can use Earth’s gravitational pull to accelerate a spaceship. But something goes wrong and his tiny ship “Farscape-1” is sucked into a wormhole and John gets…

Farscape Marathon

Deutsche Version | Season 1 Farscape is one of the more unusual sciene fiction shows. The characters are thrown into a wild variety of storylines and we can watch how they behave and have fun with it. The first few episodes weren’t aired in production / logical order and thus I will shuffle them in…

Stargate SG-1: Season 10

Deutsche Version | Season 9 | The Ark of Truth I have bought the first nine seasons of Stargate SG-1 here in Germany. Each one had an average price of 80-90€. Back in the days that were simply the prices for season boxes, Star Trek boxes had cost a similar amount. But times change and…