2011 End Statistics:

New Purchase Items: 144 (131 in 2010)
New Movies: 113 (thereof Blu-ray: 69)
New TV Seasons: 72 (thereof Blu-ray: 5)
New TV Specials: 1
New Special Interest: 6

Money Spent: 1,755.48€ (1,586.10€ in 2010)
Money Spent on Movies: 962.86€
Money Spent on TV Seasons: 762.17€
Money Spent on TV Specials: 8.49€
Money Spent on Special Interest: 59.96€

Avg Spent: 12.19€ (12.11€ in 2010)
Avg Spent on Movies: 8.20€
Avg Spent on TV Seasons: 10.59€
Avg Spent on TV Specials: 8.49€
Avg Spent on Special Interest: 9.66€

Running Time: 61,605m (42d 18h 45m)
Running Time Movies: 12,753m (8d 20h 33m)
Running Time TV Seasons: 48,110m (33d 9h 50m)
Running Time TV Specials: 99m (1h 39m)
Running Time Special Interest: 643m (10h 43m)

Cheapest Item: The Butterfly Effect 2 (4.20€)

Most Expensive Item: Smallville: The Complete Series (77.31€)

First Item: Back to the Future 1 – 3 (24.01€)

Last Item: Tucker & Dale vs Evil (10.03€)

Purchase by Locality:
United States: 22
Canada: 4
United Kingdom: 63
Germany: 54
Netherlands: 1

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: Back to the Future · Smallville · The Butterfly Effect · Tucker & Dale vs Evil
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Harry Potter 1 – 7

02 Dec – €40.43 (£32.03) @ Amazon.co.uk

Raising Hope: Season 1

06 Dec – €1.68 ($17.49) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)

Due Date

07 Dec – €4.44 @ Penny

Come Fly With Me: Season 1

08 Dec – €11.99 (£8.91) @ Amazon.co.uk

Smallville: Season 10

08 Dec – €34.50 (£27.76) @ Amazon.co.uk

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: Bad Teacher · Bedtime Stories · Come Fly With Me · Dexter · Dragonball · Due Date · Green Lantern · Grown Ups · Harry Potter · Iron Man · Mr. Deeds · Raising Hope · Salt · Shrek · Smallville · Source Code · The American · The Losers · Tucker & Dale vs Evil · Unknown · X-Men · Your Highness
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Love Happens

03 Nov – €7.19 (£4.95) @ Amazon.co.uk

Rawhide: Season 1

03 Nov – €17.74 (£13.88) @ Amazon.co.uk

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

04 Nov – €0.00 ($6.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

04 Nov – €0.00 ($7.65) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Starman

04 Nov – €0.00 ($9.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: Batman · Billy Madison · Grease · Happy Gilmore · Harold & Kumar · Love Happens · My Name Is Earl · NCIS · Picture Perfect · Rawhide · Scream · She's the One · Smallville · Star Trek · Starman · The Object of My Affection · White Collar
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Note: The general idea of this story is the aftermath of 6×21 Prototype combined with the Bones episode 6×22 The Hole in the Heart in which one of the recurring characters gets killed and the two lead characters deal with the loss. The story goes AU from there.

Disclaimer:: I do not own Smallville. The rights to the characters remain with DC and Warner.

It hurt. Both physically and emotionally. His back still ached and his mind couldn’t come to rest.

It hurt. Both physically and emotionally. Her throat was still sore and her mind couldn’t come to rest.

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Categories: Misc
Tags: Bones · Smallville
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Let me start this by saying that it was better than LOST’s ending. But that isn’t saying much…

Smallville has always been an uneven show. It had good years, bad years and worse years. It never had great years. It rarely had great episodes. They were there but there weren’t as many as one would hope in a ten year run with a total of 217 episodes.

And yet: Ten years and 217 episodes. There aren’t that many shows overall and even fewer shows in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genre that can bring that much to the table.

For all its faults I love Smallville but I am also at peace with it ending now. I nearly gave up on it after what is commonly referred to as Failsday.
Seasons nine and ten became better again and quite a few episodes of season eight have grown on me.
But season ten and its finale also showed that even though they knew exactly how it was supposed to be ending they didn’t really have a clear idea of how to get there.

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Categories: Short Review, TV Season 2010/2011 Diary
Tags: LOST · Smallville · Superman
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Categories: Misc
Tags: Burn Notice · Smallville · True Blood
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In the last few weeks I didn’t feel much like watching anything. But then the hill turned into a mountain. Luckily some of the series are pausing for some weeks and I decided to play catch up before I have to cross the Alps. Since this was a bigger marathon session I won’t talk about every individual episode but rather about I like the season so far.

Bones
With Bones it’s business as usual. I like their cases and their chemistry and I just enjoy watching them.
And I loved it how Brennan managed to jump over her own shadow for this kids show:

Castle
The same is basically true for Castle. Castle and Beckett are hilarious together and I love the way they solve their cases. Both shows have put the WTWT topic on a back burner which is good for now but it’s obviously still there and will become an issue again. I don’t mind as long as it’s well executed.

Chuck
Chuck’s family tree is becoming more complicated than the one Jennifer Garner had in Alias – and that’s saying something.
Chuck as a person has grown but luckily that doesn’t take away the humour and the appeal of the show. If anything the addition of Morgan as Casey’s “partner” made it even better.

Community
I love it how every episode is mainly about one or two characters but it doesn’t really feel that way because everyone is contributing their own point of view and in the end it’s always an ensemble show.
The zombie movie homage in the Halloween episode was so cool – and I don’t even like zombie movies.

Cougar Town
The show continues where it left at the end of the first season. I’m glad that it doesn’t really matter that Travis is in college because he’s either at home or they are visiting him, so he’s still a full cast member.
I also love how they toy with the series name, for example in episode five the title card read 100% Cougar Free Cougar Town.

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Categories: TV Season 2010/2011 Diary
Tags: $#*! My Dad Says · Alias · Bones · Castle · Chuck · Community · Cougar Town · Gossip Girl · House M.D. · How I Met Your Mother · Life Unexpected · Melissa & Joey · No Ordinary Family · Raising Hope · Smallville · Supernatural · Terriers · The Big Bang Theory · The Good Wife · The Vampire Diaries · Two and a Half Men
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Two and a Half Men 8×03 A Pudding Filled Cactus
Alan really has become the new Charlie. Loved it how he handled the whole situation.

The Big Bang Theory 4×03 The Zazzy Substitution
And I thought Leonard was the one with the cat fixation when his love life took a dive. Sheldon and Amy are perfect for each other even when they split up.

Smallville 10×03 Supergirl
This (final) season brings a whole lot of confusion. In the season nine finale Salvation Clark had become a leader, confident of himself and his destiny. And now Jor-El suddenly tells him is doing everything wrong again, even disowns(!) him in this episode and everyone except Lois is on the Clark-bashing train again. I just hope there’s something wrong with the Jor-El A.I. because otherwise this makes no sense at all. But making no sense is not unheard of in Smallville land either…
The Darkseid story could be interesting but it’s that back and forth again that muddies everything. For example: At the end of last episode we saw a confident Clark in a new costume on top of the Daily Planet and suddenly his cousin comes back and flat out tells him that he has too many doubts and cannot defeat Darkseid.
The only thing I’ve enjoyed so far this season is all the Lois scenes, either with Clark or with Carter.
And Lois extended her costume collection.

Categories: TV Season 2010/2011 Diary
Tags: Smallville · The Big Bang Theory · Two and a Half Men
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Better With You 1×01 / 1×02 Pilot / Better with Firehouse
I watched the first two episodes but I don’t really get it. I think it has to do with the fact that I don’t see the irony in not being married and why that’s supposed to be a source for humour.
What also doesn’t work for me are these scenes where they show all three couples doing the same thing – just differently.

Community 2×02 Accounting for Lawyers
Jeff in his natural habitat. It was cool to see the lawyer from the pilot episode back and how he could twist anything to his liking.
It was also cool to see them all in formal wear and going on a Mission Impossible.

$#*! My Dad Says 1×02 Wi-Fight
Shatner as the grumpy old man totally works for me. I’m not sure about the older brother and his wife though. Maybe they need a bit more time to find their pace. They are lucky that they have Shatner and I am willing to give them that time.

Melissa & Joey 1×08 Dancing with the Stars of Toledo
It was an OK episode. I really loved the all-male Tango, it was incredibly funny to watch them dance and they really pulled it off. I also liked the drug-induced dream sequence. It’s of course a staple of these kinds of sitcoms but you also have to find two people that can actually pull it off and I think these two can.

Raising Hope 1×02 Dead Tooth
Even the show acknowledges that it’s weird. And as the cast is getting wider, more weird people come into it. But it also shows the genuine care between father and daughter.
What makes it more fun for me is the fact that I can’t stop seeing Garret Dillahunt as the Terminator from The Sarah Connor Chronicles and then to watch him here.
And Sabrina reminds me a lot of the young Ally Sheedy from WarGames.

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Categories: TV Season 2010/2011 Diary
Tags: $#*! My Dad Says · Better With You · Bones · Buffy the Vampire Slayer · Community · Cougar Town · Gossip Girl · House M.D. · How I Met Your Mother · Life Unexpected · Melissa & Joey · Raising Hope · Smallville · Stargate SG-1 · Terminator · The Big Bang Theory · Two and a Half Men · WarGames
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4×08 Spell

4×18 Spirt

5×06 Exposed

6×03 Wither

6×07 Rage

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Categories: Misc
Tags: Smallville
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