I was slightly alarmed today (well ok, yesterday, I’m clealy not writing this on Thursday…and really, isn’t it depressing, the kind of mindless ephemera that I get alarmed about?) to realise that I’ve not picked up a new Doctor Who DVD since perhaps May or June. It was The Invasion of Time, if you’re interested. It just seems very odd to me as there was a time when I had a genuine hunger to fill the gaps in my collection, and having spent the last two years doing just that and devotedly picking up each new DVD on the day of release, I now lose interest. I suppose at the very least it means there are now five or six releases which I don’t own, which I suppose allows me the thrill of completing my collection a second time.
It’s part of a wider drift in my interests recently, as almost all of my collecting habits have stalled a little over the last six months, apart from Big Finish CDs (of which I now own twice as many as this time last year) and the lovely lovely lovely Character Options toys. Comics seem to have been hit particularly hard.
The collecting thing gets particularly frustrating when I realise that the things I have actually been picking up aren’t even being appreciated. I was recently lucky enough to find a copy of The Age of Chaos, a full-length Doctor Who graphic novel written by the Sixth Doctor himself, Colin Baker. It was very scarce when it was published in 1994 (for some reason in very small numbers) and I was sadly unable to find a copy at the time. I’ve dearly wanted one ever since. So of course today I realised that since FINALLY finding a copy, it has sat on a shelf in a cabinet, and that I’ve not once even bothered to flick through it or even look at it. Isn’t that awful? That something I’ve wanted for so long – FOURTEEN YEARS!!! COUNT THEM!!! – finally falls into my lap only to end up unloved and ignored is quite disgraceful, really.
Still, it’s not just me. Two months ago Jen bought a Friends boxset – all ten series, presumably more than two hundred episodes – and as far as I’m aware she’s not watched a single minute of it. Ah well.
It’s snowing pretty heavily out there today. So perhaps I should stay in and get some reading done.
Regards,
Marwood.
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