Can I Binge?

Skanky Vamp

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A new website tells you how long it will take to binge a show in a set amount of time. For example you can binge Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a week if you watch 21 episodes a day, whereas Angel only takes 16 episodes a day.

Because @Antho asked start starting Dr. Who from scratch... well, good news, Dr. Who, in its entirety can be binged with watching just 8 episodes a day for 12 weeks.
 
whatdBuffyDo
whatdBuffyDo
Seems to be another gift to humanity by web developers hehe
Antho
Antho
Good to know that
Wow! There's a thing,
given that the first episode of Dr. Who was called The Unearthly Child (when the police box was given the name TARDIS by Susan) and was 2 and a half hours long. Going by the law of averages 8 episodes could be 16 to 20 hours long, A DAY! That isn't binge watching that is borderline fanaticalism. How many episodes of Dr. Who are there, after 12 weeks you'll need a stay in a house for the emotionally disturbed.
At a guess your favourite words will be eggs - ter - min - ate.
 
Well, the average Buffy episode is 42 minutes long. let's call it 40 if you fast-forward through opening/end credits. So 21 episodes would be about 14 hours, which is a heck of a binge. Although my wife and I binged the first season of 24 straight through.
 
I've seen every surviving episode of Doctor Who (as well as some of the reconstructed episodes--I love Two and Jamie, so that helped). Personal best were some Classic seasons that I did blast through in a day. Some of those T. Bakers might have been two seasons a day.

I take that back. I still haven't finished Whittaker's era, though I finally did power through Capaldi's after semi-leaving the fandom. I joined the fandom right before series 5 started, so the Eccleston and Tennant eras got blasted through in about a week.

I was definitely going fast around the Pertwee/T. Baker/Davison eras. The '60s were actually some of my favorites (Ian and Jamie are legitimately two of my favorite companions), though I was watching before even the last batch of missing episode finds came in. Then the C. Baker/McCoy eras started giving me the sleepies and I only finished McCoy off years later. Note that after the '60s with 40ish half-hour episodes, seasons from the '70s until now are really half the length of a typical American series. You might see 26 episodes cut into around 6 serials, but those are half-hours. I've done all of The War Games (10-episode serial that ended the Troughton era) in a day easy multiple times because it's a favorite.

One time, I inexplicably pretty much just watched Amadeus on a loop for a week. It's a 3-hour movie and I probably watched it 30+ times in that week alone. Asperger's alert. When I was 8 years old, I watched Hocus Pocus 6 times in a day. Should've been a hint that I had Asperger's way back then. I have a history of this.

I hit my binge roadblocks when I'm starting to fall asleep during things. I mean, that happens when you stay up for over 24 hours or more (I've done 36 hours), but it's definitely noticeable when the binges are keeping you awake and when they're not. Marvel films most recently have been giving me the sleepies during all the bloated CGI action scenes. I tried. And nobody can blame that on my attention span (LOL). I literally have an easier time watching the most dated media you can imagine.

My all-time binge is still all of Buffy season 2 (yep, all 22 episodes) in a single day. Another one of my monster binges was the Star Wars Original Trilogy (theatrical release, baby) and Indiana Jones Trilogy both in a single day together.

I did watch all of Supernatural, Smallville and The X-Files (though I actually stopped watching that one in season 2, only to pick it up again months later and blast through the rest) in roughly a month each. Those are some of the all-time monsters in show longevity. The Buffyverse is similar due to having two very connected shows to the point where I long ago stopped separating them. Smaller shows I can blast through in days, not weeks.

I pretty much give up on doing anything else when I'm in binge mode. It's snuggle-up-in-bed time. And yes, 15 seasons will do your head in watched that closely together. I've done it. You're living and breathing it by that point.
 
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Buffy Summers
Buffy Summers
Don't bother with Whittaker's. It will just break your heart.
So how long will the binge be for a member to read every reply on every thread on Buffy-Boards.com, though in all fairness one would be allowed not to include the Dorm Houses. And look on the bright side if it takes longer than 24 hours to complete a read of every thread you will have to start again. Now, how many will say Yippee!
 
Stake fodder
Stake fodder
Does that include the cemetery? That would take a lot longer than 24 hours.
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