I
remember when my sister-in-law would rave and rave about this new
series called Alias. She told us it was a show we just had to watch,
but since we'd missed over half the season, we decided it was one show
we'd pass on. Then, out of nowhere, ABC announces a full-day marathon
of Alias's first season, bringing us up-to-date with the show. And so
we sat there all day, episode through episode, and caught up with the
series in what felt like a wink. The New York Times has a piece
about others who've done similar marathons, only through the magic of
DVDs. Have you ever sat through an entire season in one sitting?[via Hacking Netflix]












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10-27-2005 @ 4:43PM
Vince said...
Actually I passed through the first 3 seasons of Alias in a week, this summer
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10-27-2005 @ 5:32PM
chuck said...
i did! "24" seasons 1 and 2, "kung fu" season 1, "coupling" seasons 1 through 4.
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10-27-2005 @ 6:00PM
Vince said...
I also did 24 season 1 & 3; Battlestar galactica 2005 season 1 & first part of 2;veronica mars;and so many other shows...I had way too much time on my hands this summer...I mean I did all those in a month or so...
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10-27-2005 @ 6:33PM
scpukk said...
wow, alot of 24 marathons...i've done 24 season 2...need to do it for season 4 and 5 before it starts playing again early next year =
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10-27-2005 @ 7:06PM
Chris said...
House, Firefly, Wonderfalls, West Wing, Stargate, Andromeda, many more I'm sure.
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10-27-2005 @ 7:58PM
Zod said...
I've done two day marathons for 24 seasons 1 and 2. It was quite a long time to sit in front of my laptop, and I vowed to never do that to my sleep cycle again...
I have watched all of Coupling and The Office in a day though, but those seasons are like 6 eps, so that's easy. The longest that I've ever watched a season on DVD was The Wire, which was really really good, but hard to digest, so I spread that over like a year. :)
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10-27-2005 @ 10:01PM
Sean said...
I own a bunch of full season DVD sets, but the only one I watched from start to finish was the first season of Dawson's Creek. Hey! I love teen melodrama!
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10-27-2005 @ 11:24PM
Bruce Wayne-Johnson said...
I have to say some shows like Alias and Battlestar Galactica and the new Prison Break - all will watch better if you do actually marathon them because they are all so tightly linked (unlike shows like Smallville and Boston Legal, heh even Lost - where if you miss one you wont be completely lost)
I really cannot remember a show before Alias that had me by the balls to keep watching..I watched seasons 1 and 2 in 3-4 eps at a time...now I think that hurt it a bit in terms of no new viewers but I guess that is not that true seeing everyone else is following that model too now.
Also I applaud ABC for running complete seasons on their station when they have actual DVD's to sell. It's quite a striking argument against the movie industry who doesnt want to sell same-day DVD's because the theatres feel threatened.
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10-27-2005 @ 11:39PM
Treo Today said...
With my wife, only Firefly and Gilmore Girls, so far. Once you pop in that first DVD, you can't stop!
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10-28-2005 @ 1:37AM
Junne said...
"Once you pop in that first DVD, you can't stop!"
You really enjoy the movey.
Congrats.
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10-28-2005 @ 2:26AM
Susan said...
I actually watched all 4 seasons of Alias and the first season of Veronica Mars this summer...Im currently working on Lost season 1...I never sat in front of the tv for a whole season tho...24 hours straight...I couldnt do that...I have watched at most probably 5-6 episodes a day. Summer is such a great time to catch up on tv...screw watching reruns or reality show that I have no interest in.
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10-28-2005 @ 4:18AM
J said...
Entourage S1: clearly not exhausting (8 episodes), but worth it.
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10-28-2005 @ 3:17PM
Tucker said...
While not a whole series of a TV show, I did undertake a similarly daunting task... All three LOTR extended editions back to back.
I take my TV-on-DVD marathons a lot closer to a disc a night rather than a single day. Gotta have SOME anticipation in there!
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10-28-2005 @ 4:03PM
jeff stiefer said...
I have done all the seasons of 24 and the LOTR extended cuts wfter ROTK came out (my dad refuses to go out to the movies...go figure) and when a new season of Simpsons hit, i usually do a marathon of the audio commentaries (which are always great!)
jeffro
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10-28-2005 @ 9:15PM
surkansandy said...
yes, I have done that with Babylon 5, Star Trek Deep Space nine and Stargate SG-1, after a while it all becomes a blur! But oh what fun.
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