Halfway Out of the Dark

 

Paradoxically Christmas both is and isn't a time for Doctor Who; it is a time for sitting with the family and watching the Doctor Who Christmas Special and it is a time to look forward to some Time Lord-related presents under the tree but it's not a time to focus on self-indulgent, time-consuming challenges.

So with that in mind I had a last little push this past week to get as many of my DVDs I'd yet to watch for this challenge ticked off the list so I was free to enjoy the festive period with my family.

So far my calculations just include any Doctor Who related TV shows produced or co-produced by the BBC (so I guess the major omission is the Australian K9 show which I haven't ruled out including yet, just no great desire to watch it at this stage based on the handful episodes I've seen).

Anyway just focusing on the stuff for the challenge I'm now 98 DVDs, 29 Blu-Rays and 12 CDs down (the CDs being the audio recordings of lost TV episodes) and I'm pleased to announce that I'm halfway through the dark having just hit 50.07%!

May not sound a huge amount but this does include all of the extras which 2 Entertain cram onto their releases. So I've listened to every single commentary track (some episodes having multiple ones), read all of the production subtitles, listened to every isolated score track, watched every retrospective documentary, and watched more Blue Peter than I probably watched as a kid!

I am starting to get to the stage where I'll have nothing left on the shelf to go to so next year a big part of the challenge will be regularly picking stuff up to fill gaps in the collection, still I have just under two years to get the other 50% so I'm confident that I can do this thing! :)