lazypadawan's Holocron

Five years ago, I was able to go back to all of the anime OVAs I saw at the first anime club show I attended at university (and a movie that was mentioned on that first show’s poster but apparently not screened that night, according to the page of “previous shows” I found in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine). Five years before that, I made a point of watching through some long series from past decades. Five years before that, I watched one sample episode from each year stretching back into the 1970s (although there were gaps in the series I then had available from that decade, something I strove to redress in 2023, a general rather than personal anniversary year...) Five years before that (before I began posting here), I’d accumulated enough anime to schedule a series of “personal showings” revisiting bits of what I’d seen at the club, dropping in on the titles I’d seen someone call “the four revolutions of anime,” and striving to look ahead by returning to bits of some pretty new series that had impressed me. Five years before that, I was still managing to get back to university and stay with younger acquaintances from residence while going to the club shows (even if I’d made it through some “gap months” far from the university on a work contract I’d supposed didn’t pay well enough to seek out VHS tapes, much less those new-fangled DVDs, to start a personal collection with...) Five years before that, I was at that first show.
( Added up, that amounts to... )

Rod Serling’s next-episode preview had me thinking “Judgment Night” would be a sea story, which is more foreknowledge than I’ve carried into some Twilight Zone episodes. I was a bit surprised when selecting it from the Blu-Ray menu jumped straight into the episode without offering the chance to listen to a commentary, “isolated score,” or selected radio drama adaptation. A certain sense of “a minor instalment” might have set in. Then, what seemed a longer opening voiceover narrowed down not just where the story was set but when...
( Some brief anticipations )

Moving on to another Twilight Zone episode that had amounted to a title to me before, I did find my attention caught up by “Perchance to Dream.” That, though, reminds me of that recurring weakness of mine where I’ll suppose part of my interest came from “being surprised,” and then think that the best I can do with a post here is deny a comparable surprise to other people...
( Some of the surprises )