Okay, so Becky from NetFlixFan posted a comment to a previous entry which got me thinkin bout the ol’ NF and some minor things that keep me from total stupid-grin fanboyism.

I’m a NetFlix addict. I always have between 490 and 500 movies in my queue. A lot of these at the moment are TV shows on DVD, so it’s important that certain items in my list always arrive in order (I’m in the middle of watching The Shield, and just finished a run of Buffy (still one of the most amazing shows in TV history, I think), so imagine my annoyance when instead of The Shield season 2 arriving, yesterday I got the second season of OZ, skipping season 2 and 3 of the first show and season 1 of Oz entirely.

Now, I’m sure the ones that were skipped are among the more popular rentals, but sending me season 2 of a show that I haven’t seen season 1 of doesn’t make any kind of human sense.

So perhaps NF can introduce some kind of “lock” mechanism on their queue page so that discs that are ‘locked together’ must be delivered in order. I’d much rather get a standalone movie from further down in my list and come back to the series discs than have to either return-and-readd or keep 4 discs while I cycle the one that came through on time in the hopes that the ones that I actually wanted would come through.

Reed, are you listening?

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