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Not the TV meme
Dec. 6th, 2005 09:58 pmI wanted to do the tv show meme I've seen chez ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sophia_helix and upsy_daisy, but I feel like I don't watch enough TV. Which is strange because I have the TV on a lot, but with the sound off. It's on like that now, for instance; I meant to watch "Criminal Minds," but then my parents called and I lost interest. I'll turn the sound on when it's time for "House." Which is now.
Some of the answers are clear, though. My "I'll never abandon you, EVER" show is clearly Alias. I'm hanging on to this one for dear life, and am pleased as punch that it's good again. ::muffles a squee while thinking about tomorrow night:: There's very little I don't love about Alias right now. And please note that I say this while the show runs a pregnancy storyline -- I haven't liked a pregnancy storyline on a show since Daphne gained all that weight on "Frasier."
The show I love and wish you all did too is "Waking the Dead," which is on sporadically in the UK. I know, though, that you'll never love it -- it doesn't have any pretty young things, and in particular no angst-ridden, pretty young men. Actually, it has one young man who may well be angst-ridden by now and whom I think is rather good looking. Nevertheless, this is not a show for m/m slash, although I suspect that f/f fans might have a field day Instead it has cranky grown-ups solving long-abandoned crimes, and interesting female characters who care about their careers and almost never talk to each other about men (at least, it did before this most recent season). It may not have quite as much unrequited heterosexual tension as the X-Files, but it has more than most other things I watch, in part because it isn't clear that the romance or romances will ever happen. Indeed, it's likely that it won't. The characters are too busy solving crimes and dealing with their own neuroses.
You will never love this show. I don't even think it's available for download anywhere, although S1 is available on DVD in the UK (only 16 pounds!).
And the shows I'm catching on DVD? Well, in 2006 my goal is to watch all of Babylon 5, from the beginning. I missed chunks of this show when it aired, because I was moving back and forth between the US and the UK, and may not have had a TV for some of this time, and it was never really clear what the schedule was, especially in the UK. Five seasons of continuity, though; my mouth waters when I think of it.
There's also the show you all love and I kind of wish I did (and I even watched the new episode this week!), SGA. Or maybe this is my "I'll catch it on DVD show." Because maybe, if I saw the whole forst season, I would understand, or even care? I mean, I now do watch SG1 episodes, and read SG1 stories, because they have Sam in them. I adore Sam because she's smart as a whip and cute as a button, all at once. Maybe someday I'll click with an SGA character? i have a lot of potential types -- there must be someone there for me.
ETA: Oh, House is a rerun. Back to Yuletide, I guess.
sophia_helix and upsy_daisy, but I feel like I don't watch enough TV. Which is strange because I have the TV on a lot, but with the sound off. It's on like that now, for instance; I meant to watch "Criminal Minds," but then my parents called and I lost interest. I'll turn the sound on when it's time for "House." Which is now. Some of the answers are clear, though. My "I'll never abandon you, EVER" show is clearly Alias. I'm hanging on to this one for dear life, and am pleased as punch that it's good again. ::muffles a squee while thinking about tomorrow night:: There's very little I don't love about Alias right now. And please note that I say this while the show runs a pregnancy storyline -- I haven't liked a pregnancy storyline on a show since Daphne gained all that weight on "Frasier."
The show I love and wish you all did too is "Waking the Dead," which is on sporadically in the UK. I know, though, that you'll never love it -- it doesn't have any pretty young things, and in particular no angst-ridden, pretty young men. Actually, it has one young man who may well be angst-ridden by now and whom I think is rather good looking. Nevertheless, this is not a show for m/m slash, although I suspect that f/f fans might have a field day Instead it has cranky grown-ups solving long-abandoned crimes, and interesting female characters who care about their careers and almost never talk to each other about men (at least, it did before this most recent season). It may not have quite as much unrequited heterosexual tension as the X-Files, but it has more than most other things I watch, in part because it isn't clear that the romance or romances will ever happen. Indeed, it's likely that it won't. The characters are too busy solving crimes and dealing with their own neuroses.
You will never love this show. I don't even think it's available for download anywhere, although S1 is available on DVD in the UK (only 16 pounds!).
And the shows I'm catching on DVD? Well, in 2006 my goal is to watch all of Babylon 5, from the beginning. I missed chunks of this show when it aired, because I was moving back and forth between the US and the UK, and may not have had a TV for some of this time, and it was never really clear what the schedule was, especially in the UK. Five seasons of continuity, though; my mouth waters when I think of it.
There's also the show you all love and I kind of wish I did (and I even watched the new episode this week!), SGA. Or maybe this is my "I'll catch it on DVD show." Because maybe, if I saw the whole forst season, I would understand, or even care? I mean, I now do watch SG1 episodes, and read SG1 stories, because they have Sam in them. I adore Sam because she's smart as a whip and cute as a button, all at once. Maybe someday I'll click with an SGA character? i have a lot of potential types -- there must be someone there for me.
ETA: Oh, House is a rerun. Back to Yuletide, I guess.
