I’ve just realised…

[Smeg4Brains]

This year, we’re as far away from Series X as Series X was from Series VIII

Anyway, I hope that didn’t ruin your day too much. 

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[Ben Saunders]

[Flap Jack]

Not quite, because Series VIII was in the spring of 1999 not the autumn, so that pushes the milestone into next year.

Thankfully 21st May 2026* is AGES away, so we will never need to feel old.

(*If calculated BitR1-to-Trojan and Trojan-to-now. OtG-to-Trojan and Beginning-to-now will be 10th May 2026.)

[Unrumble]

I always come back, ad nauseum, to the gap between original broadcast and the series I DVD, which is just shy of 15 years.

‘The End’ was first shown a week after my 1st birthday, so a literal lifetime ago. When I’d watch with the cast commentaries, they might as well have been looking back at classic Ealing comedies.

We’re now 23 years on from that DVD release… 

[Warbodog]

I always come back, ad nauseum, to the gap between original broadcast and the series I DVD, which is just shy of 15 years.

I have that big time with Series I, but that one especially has a more dated or otherworldly look that at least III+ don’t. Might also be because I saw Series I on video at the same time as the early Blackadders in 1997, so associate it with being older than I know it is.

[Moonlight]

What’s really horrifying to me especially is that we’re now nearing a decade since XI and XII were shot.

[Stephen R. Fletcher]

What’s really horrifying to me especially is that we’re now nearing a decade since XI and XII were shot.

THIS. 

Time is an utter, utter bastard. 

[Podey]

I don’t think anything hits me as hard as when I realised I’ve existed on this side of the millennium for longer than I did before it (which was a good decade ago now!). 

[Moonlight]

Back to Earth feels like a lifetime ago. But I was also in 7th grade when it aired, so that was more than half my life ago at this point.

Everyone here is at least several decades older than me. Cappsy I know is a Crimean War veteran.

[Rushy]

Back to Earth feels like a lifetime ago. But I was also in 7th grade when it aired, so that was more than half my life ago at this point.

Everyone here is at least several decades older than me. Cappsy I know is a Crimean War veteran.

Allow me to ease your pain, I was in 5th grade when it aired

[Nick R]

Gap between the releases of The Avengers (US, 4 May 2012) and Avengers Endgame (26 April 2019): 2548 days.

Gap between the releases of GoldenEye (UK, 24 November 1995) and Die Another Day (UK, 20 November 2002): 2553 days.

Gap between the releases of Please Please Me (22 March 1963) and Let It Be (8 May 1970): 2604 days. 

Gap between the releases of Sonic 1 (PAL, 21 June 1991) and Sonic Adventure (Japan, 23 Dec 1998): 2742 days. [See Sonic Mania thread!]

Gap between the broadcast of Skipper (16 November 2017) and now: 2881 days.

[Ben Saunders]

The Beatles’ career is crazy because they really went from ooh yeah I love you babe, I wanna dance with you to shit like Eleanor Rigby and For No One within the space of about three years, which is almost absurd.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Bands careers in general used to be incredible compressed

Even in the 90s and 00s bands had entire careers in the time most of us completed secondary school.

I was going to make some comments about some well known bands but fuck it …

Geri Halliwell was only in the Spice Girls for around 1460 days apparently.

[Warbodog]

Yeah, comparison to a Bond era is fair, but young bands and rapidly advancing game systems should be a lot more prolific than the revival era of a very old show anyway.

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