# Something I discovered... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-discovered/268011 "2004-10-07T12:41:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-discovered/268011/1 "2004-10-07T12:41:57Z")
Perhaps this belongs in Cafe Society, but as it is extremely mundane and pointless I of course felt at home here. If I was wrong, my deepest apologies. In any case, I was watching HBO last night and we were watching one of the Harry Potter movies when I discovered that I couldn’t remember if we were watching the second or the third one. Now I have to admit I’m a Harry Potter fanatic. I have all the canon books and eagerly wait the next, though the title makes me twitch whenever I hear it. In any case, I ramble. So we’re watching the movie and I am trying to remember where it falls in line, then I realize that this has to be the second one as Draco Malfoy hasn’t had the dramatic changes to his physical appearance. Is that sad? I mean, I place the stories by how Malfoy looks. Have you ever had to do this for other series? Indiana Jones et al? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-discovered/268011/2 "2004-10-07T13:08:40Z")
I generally recognize what season of Farscape we’re watching by how artificially straightened Aeryn Sun’s hair is, so yes. Also Buffy by how anorexic - I mean thin and “fit” - Sarah Michelle Gellar has gotten. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-discovered/268011/3 "2004-10-07T15:39:22Z")
Yep. Within a couple minutes of watching an episode, I can generally place what season of Star Trek: TNG or Star Trek: DS9 I’m watching by the uniform, characters, or, more rarely, their characterizations.