The Persona 4 Endurance Run is pretty daunting.  It's more than 150 episodes long, a lot of them stretch out for more than an hour long, and it's now been almost two years since it began.  Still, the Catherine quick look brought back some fond memories of one of the greatest Giant Bomb features, some users have expressed an interest in rewatching the thing.  Crazy, right?

Having already seen it in full twice myself, I feel a little awkward at the idea of going back and watching it alone, so I came up with an idea- I'm going to be rewatching it, and I'll be posting a blog here with the episodes I watched and some thoughts on them.  Those who want to rewatch, or who never saw it and feel the urge, why not watch it together?  Go back, watch the episodes starting from the first, post new comments and breathe some life into an old, revered part of Giant Bomb history.

Good idea?  Terrible?  Would anyone be interested in a community revisit of the old ER?  Give me your thoughts!  If I'm the only one interested, there's no point, after all.

Edit: Enough people here are crazy enough to want to do this.  Starting the 9th!

The Persona 4 Endurance Run is pretty daunting.  It's more than 150 episodes long, a lot of them stretch out for more than an hour long, and it's now been almost two years since it began.  Still, the Catherine quick look brought back some fond memories of one of the greatest Giant Bomb features, some users have expressed an interest in rewatching the thing.  Crazy, right?

Having already seen it in full twice myself, I feel a little awkward at the idea of going back and watching it alone, so I came up with an idea- I'm going to be rewatching it, and I'll be posting a blog here with the episodes I watched and some thoughts on them.  Those who want to rewatch, or who never saw it and feel the urge, why not watch it together?  Go back, watch the episodes starting from the first, post new comments and breathe some life into an old, revered part of Giant Bomb history.

Good idea?  Terrible?  Would anyone be interested in a community revisit of the old ER?  Give me your thoughts!  If I'm the only one interested, there's no point, after all.

Edit: Enough people here are crazy enough to want to do this.  Starting the 9th!

I feel that watching the ER again will be problematic not now, but later, when we'll have this and (hopefully) another Endurance Run to watch. That's a lot of watching stuff.
 
 Still, I often go back and watch the best ones.

I keep going back to my favourite episodes too often to warrant a full run through again. Really epic though.

@Chabbs0:

I'm continuing to endure from  where I left months ago. Only 40 episodes to go!

A community Endurance Run? I'd do that myself, but I can't really get screen-capturing software to work that well.

Could be a fun little experiment, god knows I've played enough of the Persona games to chime in.

I'd watch with you. It would be a good excuse to watch them all again. It would be one episode per day I presume?  
 
When do we start? :P

Count me in. I'll be watching every day, but we'll keep it to weekdays, right? Like in the original run. This is gonna be fun. I don't know if we should all be posting in this thread, however. Maybe start a blog each and then link to it here in the OP (or in an "official" thread).

Saying how I actually never finished the ER, I'm down like James Brown.

" @Walheimat:A single thread for each episode was my idea, but then again it might become too cluttered.  Linked blogs might also be a good idea, but not everyone is going to want to make a blog a day.  If you really wanted to be crazy about it, you could watch the episodes only on the actual date that they were originally posted, so skip the weekdays and the E3 related breaks.  It depends on what everyone wants to do, so get to deciding and offering ideas, duders! "

We could also just have someone download and stream the episodes via justin.tv (for example). We'd schedule a time, meet in chat and discuss (or riff on it) live. Someone would keep a log of the IRC chat, then dump (or summarize) it here. What do you say to that? Stupid idea? It might become difficult as to different time-zones, no one could watch episodes at their leisure. So yeah, stupid idea, I guess. I was just thinking about it, because it might very well be the case that the only thing I have to say is "dude, cool" sometimes.

I'd be up for it as long as it doesn't happen between now and next Saturday.
 
 
I LOOOOOOOOOOVE THEM BALLS.
 
EDIT: Forgive my stupidity, I missed the date. Looks like I'll have to put off my replay of P4....

I'm up for it. I never finished the entire ER so it'll be cool to have another reason to finish it off. Let me know you guys start!

I'm in!

I can watch the first episode with Mysterious Fox over and over again. It never bores me.
 
And when they meet Mysterious Fox the first time at Junes. Their reaction is priceless!

I watch MonoPingo's Best of P4 ER videos, every few months. 
It's missing the last 50 episodes but, it's it'll still fucking awesome compilation. 
 
I hope he finishes it at some point.

Damn son, I'm down with that hatchet.

I might watch the whole thing again come this summer, when I'll have the time to do so. Maybe. But yeah, unequivocally, the P4 Endurance Run is the second best thing on Giant Bomb after the Bombcast.

" @sharma55:
Excellent.
@CrazyChris:
@Vager:That's part of the reason I think this is a good idea.  Everyone remembers the classics, Funky Student, Mysterious Fox, etc, but plenty of great moments are forgotten entirely when the Endurance Run is brought up.  Who else remembers the Five Chambers of Death dungeon when the Wu-Tang clan got thrown in the TV?  The constant Hot for Teacher references during the episode Kashiwagi appeared in?  The brief time that Vinny and Jeff became convinced that a certain steak loving member of the investigation team was secretly behind the killings? "

Damn it! I started watching it about a week ago! xD For the very first time :)

you guys are getting desperate.

You know i would, but i actually finished my second run like... 3 days ago. Hmm... We'll see what happens.

" @Gabriel:I don't follow. "

An excuse to watch the endurance run again?  Im down!

" @Make_Me_Mad said:

" @Gabriel:I don't follow. "

They'll put them up for subs only and you'll be suckin' dicks in the street in no time. "

Lets party on this Marty!  I went back through a second time last year, but stalled somewhere in the 100's, so this can give me an excuse to finally finish it all again for a second time.  Endurance Run fo' life! 

" I watch MonoPingo's Best of P4 ER videos, every few months. It's missing the last 50 episodes but, it's it'll still fucking awesome compilation.  I hope he finishes it at some point. "

Even watching it through once is kinda crazy when you think about it. I mean, who watches people play games?  
 
Of course, that didn't stop me from watching the Persona 4 one, and both Deadly Premonition ones, and if/when they do another, I'll watch that too.  
 
But I think three times may be over doing it. I mean, there are some episodes that are absolutely amazing, and can be watched over and over again, but I think the whole thing is over doing it. 

I havent watched the entire thing of either I think I will

I'm in.

I'm in.. but what is the best way to watch them? I feel like I should download them all or something.

On the second thought... Naa, I'll just stream them.

On the third thought, I don't know if I have time for this... being a senior and all...

Ditto on the school thing.  I'm soon starting up a second batch of college nonsense, and that is going to eat my soul alive.
 
Regardless, I am ready to let Chie Galactic Punt my ass to where ever we need to go!

The ninth is when it's starting? 
 
In for sure. Nice.

Maybe all we need is someone to show the endurance run from start to back marathon mode on Jtv. 
 
That way it can be a big chatroom love fest

I've already rewatched it.
Twice.