Best way to watch a tv boxset

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This may be a weird question but then again nothing is weird for us. I have over 50 boxsets and I'm wondering what is the best way to watch them. I can watch a season at a time e.g. house season 3, 24 season 5, lost season 4 etc. I can watch a disc at a time which has four episodes sometimes 3 on one disc and listen to the episode commentaries or I could watch a episode at a time but I wouldn't really want to watch the episodes that I don't like. What should I go for? Watching a season takes too long and I have to change the discs constantly to watch 1 episode. Think about it.

Good question. That's quite a few boxsets! I don't really follow any rules..I think it's more a case of how much I like it, if I'm not used to seeing it, what mood I'm in, etc. I have 3 or 4 series on the go at the moment..and sometimes it's difficult to make a firm choice. I've let one slide for a while as I feel somewhat obliged to others quite quickly. No denying I've blitzed through one or two series - House and The Wire spring to mind, but it was fun.

Recently, I obtained the boxsets of series 1 through to 3 of Blake's 7. As I had not watched them before, I watched them in chronological order (with the exception of the second episode, Space Fall, which I watched after the third episode, Cygnus Alpha).

Some Doctor Who boxsets from the classic series aren't 'consecutive', that is, they're not of stories from a particular season. Quite a few (like The Beginning, The Rescue/The Romans, the upcoming Dalek Wars, The Key to Time, The E-Space Trilogy, New Beginnings, the Tegan Boxset, the Black Guardian Trilogy and Trial of a Timelord) are based on either an entire season or else on consecutive stories. However, many others (Lost in Time, Beneath the Surface, Bred for War, the Davros Boxset, K9 Adventures) are based on non-consecutive stories linked by a common theme.

In any case, how one views them is entirely up to the viewer. I suggest changing discs for each episode you like, when necessary.

Quatermass:
Blakes 7 is one of my favourites!
I usually play all 4 boxed sets on sequence except I sometime watch Gambit (series 2) on its own when I need cheering up, it is my favourite

Your avatar "confirmed" that.

Happens to be my favourite of series 2, followed by Star One, Trial, and Pressure Point. And I always wondered WTF was the thing in your avatar. Now I know. What happens to Zen in Terminal is actually quite sad.