Half way through Veteran's Day, I ran into an issue that I have come across time and time again. There was something on TV that 1.) I own and 2.) It is part of a series. So of course, while watching it, the conversation went to 'don't you own this and can watch it whenever you want?' 'Yeah, but it's on right now and I don't have to get up and put the DVD in the player.' This happens with me and my wife. We're petty like that from time to time.
What was on was the mini-series 'Band of Brothers'. It is so good, but so draining. Let's just start with the fact that it is ten parts, each about an hour long. I watching three parts today during my day off. Now I'm invested to finish watching it. Some how I'll make it. Another way it is draining is mentally. From beginning to end, you see these actors portray actual events. You know that what you are watching actually happened. All the lives that were lost or disrupted. You really have to be in a good place yourself to start watching the mini-series and see it through to the end. Especially if you watch several parts back to back.
The problem I have is once I watch one part of a series, be it a movie or television series, I feel that I should watch it all the way through. All the parts. So it's a time consuming process. You can't watch 'The Fellowship of the Ring' without watching the other two movies, can you? Hell no. You want to be the Aragorn of movie watching, see it all the way to the end. You don't want to be the Boromir of movie watching and only get through one part of it. I can't tell you how many times I have wanted to watch 'Star Wars' but didn't because I didn't have time to watch the entire trilogy. And let's be honest, no one wants to watch the prequels.
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