2012 End Statistics:

New Purchase Items: 193 (144 in 2011)
New Movies: 185 (thereof Blu-ray: 121)
New TV Seasons: 59 (thereof Blu-ray: 7)
New TV Specials: 3
New Special Interest: 7

Money Spent: 2,302.31€ (1,755.48€ in 2011)
Money Spent on Movies: 1,413.72€
Money Spent on TV Seasons: 839.59€
Money Spent on TV Specials: 22.61€
Money Spent on Special Interest: 26.39€

Avg Spent: 11.93€ (12.19€ in 2011)
Avg Spent on Movies: 7.64€
Avg Spent on TV Seasons: 14.23€
Avg Spent on TV Specials: 7.54€
Avg Spent on Special Interest: 3.77€

Running Time: 62,355m (43d 7h 15m)
Running Time Movies: 21,056m (14d 14h 56m)
Running Time TV Seasons: 40,043m (27d 19h 23m)
Running Time TV Specials: 456m (7h 36m)
Running Time Special Interest: 800m (13h 20m)

Cheapest Item: Clerks (2.07€)

Most Expensive Item: Bond 50 (111.51€)

First Item: (500) Days of Summer (3.33€)

Last Item: Smallville: Season 10 (16.73€)

Purchase by Locality:
United States: 25
Canada: 13
United Kingdom: 75
Germany: 80

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2012
Tags: (500) Days of Summer · Clerks · James Bond · Smallville · Statistics
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Melissa & Joey: Season 1: Part 1 (2010)

04 Dec – €0.00 ($12.78) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12243 – 12244

Melissa & Joey: Season 1: Part 2 (2011)

04 Dec – €0.00 ($12.78) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12245 – 12246

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

05 Dec – €12.90 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 1007

The Intouchables (2011)
(Intouchables)

05 Dec – €8.97 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 1008

The Punch Bowl (1944)
(Die Feuerzangenbowle)

08 Dec – €7.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1009

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2012
Tags: Batman · E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial · Friends with Kids · Glee · I Am Number Four · Melissa & Joey · Raising Hope · Smallville · The Hunger Games · The Intouchables · The Punch Bowl
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Beauty and the Beast (2012) @ Wikipedia
Beauty and the Beast (2012) @ IMDb

Nine years ago Catherine Chandler’s mother was killed in a botched robbery but Catherine herself was saved by a mysterious beast in the woods.

Now she is a successful police detective in New York. But it’s there that she meats the “beast” again. Vincent is a former soldier who took part in an experiment that re-wrote his DNA, making him faster and stronger but also more aggressive. The project was abandoned and Vincent believed to be dead. With the help of his friend he’s hiding from the world until Catherine steps into his life again.

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Categories: Short Review
Tags: Beauty and the Beast · Hellboy · Hulk · Smallville · Terminator · Terra Nova
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Arrow @ Wikipedia
Arrow @ IMDb

Five years ago a yacht sank in the middle of the ocean. Aboard were billionaire Robert Queen and his son Oliver, the girl Oliver was sleeping with (who’s not his girlfriend) and at least one business partner of Robert’s. Only Oliver survived and he washed up on the shore of an island where he lived for the following years.

Now he’s back in his hometown but his life has changed. On the surface he’s still the same playboy that he was before the accident (if it was one) trying to get back into the life of the high society and to reconcile with his former girlfriend Laurel who lost her sister on that yacht.

Beneath the surface Oliver has come back with a mission: To free the city of the corrupt and powerful who are destroying it. He becomes the Green Arrow, a mysterious vigilante who hunts down the people on his list until they’re either properly prosecuted by the law or dead.

Both his lives aren’t made any easier by the fact that his mother is somehow involved in the accident but also hired a trained bodyguard for her son (which makes it harder to slip away) but also the fact that his former girlfriend Dinah “Laurel” Lance is a district attorney and her father (who lost a daughter that fateful day) is a police detective who holds a serious grudge against both Oliver and the Green Arrow.

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Categories: Short Review
Tags: Arrow · Batman · Green Arrow · Smallville
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The Blues Brothers (1980)

02 May – €8.92 (£7.43) @ Amazon.co.uk

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

02 May – €9.48 (£7.93) @ Amazon.co.uk

Castle: Season 3 (2010 – 2011)

02 May – €22.99 @ Amazon.de

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

02 May – €11.68 (£9.89) @ Amazon.co.uk

Friends With Benefits (2011)

02 May – €8.37 (£6.94) @ Amazon.co.uk

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2012
Tags: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · Castle · Chuck · Dragonheart · Eurotrip · Friends With Benefits · From Dusk Till Dawn · Glee · Gossip Girl · Gremlins · Lethal Weapon · LOST · Men in Black · My Mom's New Boyfriend · Poison Ivy · Road Trip · Sherlock · Sherlock Holmes · Smallville · Suits · Supernatural · Tango & Cash · The Blues Brothers · The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air · The Specialist · Thor · Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy · Transformers · Valentine's Day
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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 · Statistics · 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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