I'm wondering:

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What's worse to get into, this, or this? Being the geek I am (and having been kind of starved for serious geekiness in my life, in recent years), the sheer MASSIVENESS of either kind of intrigues me... but attempting to tackle even one seems like an investment in life hours I'm not sure I'm ready to make.

Are there reliable "best of" lists? What do you do if you want to get conversant in the larger Whoniverse and the Star Wars EU without spending the next twenty years on it?

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Re: Oh, I'm actually committed to watching all the eps.

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But there's like, a thousand of them! How could I listen to them all?!? I heard there are more DW audio productions than there are eps of the TV show - and since the TV show has well over 700 eps, that is a *seriously* daunting prospect!

Re: Oh, I'm actually committed to watching all the eps.

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Pick a Doctor and go for it! You'll be surprised how addictive they become - I have the first Eight & Charlie audio if you want to have a listen. (Actually, I think I have the first audio of all the Doctors, if you so wish, but I feel obliged to pimp my favurite audio Doctor first :-P)

Re: Oh, I'm actually committed to watching all the eps.

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Yeah, checking out the audio material for Eight is actually firmly on my To Do list - what with him being the only Doctor who didn't get any TV eps at all... I'm just not sure how much of the audio stuff beyond Eight I "should" try. I suppose if I plan this as an endeavour for the next decade or two, the answer is "all"... but I think I'd prefer a slightly less time-consuming approach. ;-)

Also, I'm not sure I want to check out the Eight stuff before I actually reach the Eigth Doctor in my extended watchathon... I'm currently somewhere in the early years of Four. And, simultaneously, at the beginning of the last series of Ten. And, soon, hopefully, the second of Eleven, of course. *g*

Re: Oh, I'm actually committed to watching all the eps.

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

[Grins] Well, all I can say is may the force be with you...

...oh wait, wrong fandom :-P