really miscellaneous television

[vaznetti]

As usual, I am not dead, just dragging my feet about updating. It's so much easier to read my friends list than to think of something to write -- and the less I write, the more I need to write when I finally do get around to updating. It's like a vicious cycle! And there are so many things to talk about (and I am so behind at work...)

On the televisual front...

I don't know what to do with my Saturday Sunday nights, now that Being Human is over. (I have a non spoilery theory about that show. You know the myth about the Norns, or whoever they are, where there's three of them and they only have a single eye and have to pass it around? Well, Mitchell, Annie and George only have one dose of common sense between the three of them: one of them can exhibit common sense at any given time, but no more than one of them. Exhibit A: pretty much every episode in season 2.)

I have other things to say about Being Human, but they belong in a post of their own, under a cut.

As usual with American shows, I'm more than a step out-of-step. So I am enjoying Glee very much (in part because I've never seen such a collection of horrible people in a single show), and wondering why everyone on my friends list is so enthusiastic about The Good Wife (I saw the first few episodes, and it seemed very by-the-numbers; obviously this changes at some point?) And even though I mean to watch NCIS (only two seasons behind!) somehow I keep forgetting to.

I actually acquired the most recent flashback episode of Supernatural, despite not having seen any of this season or the last. I haven't watched it yet, mind you, but it's on my computer. The next question is: will the desktop melt down before I get around to viewing the episode? I have concerns about that.

And on that bombshell, as they say (and this is a whole 'nother issue, because I totally blame Jeremy Clarkson for the fact that Spartacus' favorite word is "car"), I must go figure out how I managed to lose all my ink pens, and why I still have so many essays to mark for tomorrow.

Comments

[camille-is-here.livejournal.com]

I think I have to seek out Being Human. I may actually have to break down and get the pay cable instead of the free-with-the-building cable, but I am watching so little tv right now that spending and extra $50 bucks a month for it seems absurd.

Alas, that Supernatural's gender issues reached their tipping point for me. I stopped ranting and just stopped watching. The show would be awesome if it didn't hate women so much.

[vaznetti]

Being Human is very, very good -- but I'm not sure that extra cable will help you see it. It is funny and scary and just generally excellent.

I think that if the last season of SPN I saw in full (actually, saw any of, because I have a feeling I have one or two episodes from S4 also on my computer, still unviewed) hadn't been S3, I might miss the show more. But as it is, I just haven't felt the urge to go seek it out. I read some comments on LJ, but mostly I am just not that interested. Also, I hate to watch TV on my computer.

[camille-is-here.livejournal.com]

I think they show Being Human on BBC America, which I would get for my $50, along with hockey in actual HD rather than the old square picture. But, you know, I grew up with four channels and an antenna in the attic, so it seems excessive when I get most of the channels for free.

I miss early SPN that didn't need to kill all the women as its trademark trope. I liked the boys more then, too. But I am loving Chuck more every episode.