I tend to watch TV series on DVD, or on TiVo. One way or the other, I make the shows fit within my schedule, not the other way around (although there's one or two notable exceptions, shows I subconsciously insist on watching live).
I never got into Farscape, because I hated starting in the middle of the show, and because the Farscape box sets cost just way too much ($100+ per season, due mostly to their completely crappy DVD layout, requiring 10-12 discs per season), to buy just on the speculation that I might end up enjoying the show.
But, I recently decided to get back on the Netflix wagon, so as to keep my DVD late-charges in check, and thought "well, grabbing the first couple DVDs from Farscape would be a good test as to whether I like it or not".
My first 5 DVDs, containing 10 total episodes, showed up on Friday. Between yesterday and today, I burned through all ten episodes, and am eagerly awaiting more. It's clear that the first season "builds up slowly" in terms of writing and such, but many first seasons of shows are like that. (And come on, let's face it, if someone can get through the first season of Babylon 5, they can get through the first season of anything)
I've got all the first four seasons now queued up in Netflix, and am hoping to somehow manage to figure out how to get through them all in time for the mid-October premiere of Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars, which is a mini-series to resolve unanswered questions, etc. Obviously, these are questions I don't even have yet, but I will. :-)
Somehow I don't think I'll make it, though, and I suspect that said mini-series will be sitting on my TiVo, tying up space until I finish watching the DVDs. That's just my prediction.
The downside to getting the seasons-on-dvd from netflix is that you end up going most of the way thorough a season, like the first season of 24. You spend your entire weekend watching. And then. You run out.
And then you're like a crackwhore looking for crack. I'll suck your dick for the next dvd in the series!
But, those netflix bastards don't always ship them in order. Which kind of sucks.
The M*A*S*H seasons are kind of fun to watch, as well.
I can't imagine spending $90 on a dvd season, though. I can't think of a single tv show that I'd want to do that with.
I can't say for certain, but I think they DO now always ship them in order... at least it seems like the queuing interface seems to "get" that they're a series and should ship in order.
Or are you saying that even after they added the "Series Disc" logic you can still get them out of order?
Yup. Even after I added 'series disc'.
I don't think i've had netflix now for ~6 months, but i did 'series disc' for the first season of '24', and one of the discs came out of order.
For some reason, I think M*A*S*H was the same way. One disc came out of order - but mash doesn't have the build-up of '24', y'know, so it didn't really matter.