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This is a sticky post of my TV habits: what I'm watching, what I want to try, what I've tried and rejected. Feel free to recommend me new stuff!!
I've added what I can remember thus far. Will add more as I recall them.
A note on my tastes & preferences: straight-up drama (cop shows, law shows, medical shows) tend to leave me cold. I like scifi and magic realism and quirkiness; if a show has a reasonably generous quota of those then I'll probably give it a go.
What I'm currently watching:
PLEASE DON'T SPOIL ME for these. I'm not up-to-date with all of them.
What I've seen:
What I've got on the agenda to watch: (* what I've got/tasted already)
What I've tried and haven't continued pursuing, but probably will:
That I enjoyed but probably won't pursue just for the sake of completism:
What failed to pique me completely (i.e. couldn't make it through first season/episode):
Other things people have recommended:
I've added what I can remember thus far. Will add more as I recall them.
A note on my tastes & preferences: straight-up drama (cop shows, law shows, medical shows) tend to leave me cold. I like scifi and magic realism and quirkiness; if a show has a reasonably generous quota of those then I'll probably give it a go.
What I'm currently watching:
PLEASE DON'T SPOIL ME for these. I'm not up-to-date with all of them.
- Beautiful People
- Merlin
- Life on Mars
- Doctor Who [up to S4]
- Torchwood [up to S2]
- Battlestar Galactica [up to S3]
- Scrubs [up to S6]
- Rome [up to S1]
- Gossip Girl [catching up on S2]
- The Sarah Connor Chronicles [catching up on S2]
- Skins [up to S2]
- House [up to S3]
- Being Human [seen pilot]
What I've seen:
- Bleak House
- Princess Tutu
- The IT Crowd
- Deadwood
- Dexter
- Six Feet Under
- Wonderfalls
- Firefly
- Carnivale
- Ultraviolet
- Oz
- Band of Brothers
What I've got on the agenda to watch: (* what I've got/tasted already)
- * Pushing Daisies
- * Strangers with Candy
- Big Love
- Journeyman
- Friday Night Lights
- Criminal Minds
What I've tried and haven't continued pursuing, but probably will:
- Eureka [seen pilot]
- The Mighty Boosh [up to S3]
- The Middleman [first couple of eps]
- Northern Exposure
- Supernatural
- Heroes
- Dead Like Me
- Farscape
- Xena
- Twin Peaks
- The L Word
- Arrested Development
- The X-Files
- Angel
That I enjoyed but probably won't pursue just for the sake of completism:
- 21 Jump Street
- Jericho
- Red Dwarf
- Dark Angel
- Veronica Mars
What failed to pique me completely (i.e. couldn't make it through first season/episode):
- Reaper
- Stargate: Atlantis
- Entourage
- Extras
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- Gilmore Girls
- Grey's Anatomy
- Smallville
- Chuck
Other things people have recommended:
- Nip/Tuck
- The West Wing
- Slings & Arrows
- Life on Mars
- Bones
- Burn Notice
- Kyle XY
- ReGenesis
- Spooks
- Skin
- Starsky and Hutch
- The Wild Wild West
- The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
- The Avengers
- Due South
- Ashes to Ashes
- The Shield
- Blade the Series
- Life
- The Wire
- Sleeper Cell
- Hu$tle
- Professionals
- NCIS
- Criminal Minds
- Magnificent 7
- Man from UNCLE
- Harsh Realm
- Young Riders
- Lonesome Dove
- Homocide: Life on the Street
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May I just say: HLOTS! The Wire! Hu$tle! SLEEPER CELL eleventy!!!!
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I saw an episode or two of LoM, it didn't particularly excite me. Possibly I need to see it from the beginning.
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I can see how someone would be less than fully on board with Life on Mars, but the only way to make *any* sense out of it is to see it from the beginning.
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Suck, total spoiler. And you'd have missed all the undercurrents of what was going on.
Yeah-nah, you need to see the first episode - it's the make or break. If that didn't ping you in the slightest (and if there was anything you liked in it, trust me, it continues), then don't bother watching any more.
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That stoning scene was the most horrible thing I've ever seen
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The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Angel
The Avengers * rec
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Due South
Gilmore Girls
Northern Exposure * rec
Red Dwarf * rec
Starsky and Hutch
The Wild Wild West * rec
Friday Night Lights
The X-Files
Dark Angel * rec
Also... "Wolverine/Edward Scissorhands". NGAHAHA. What prompted? Anything other than the obvious funny?
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re: interest - Obvious funny, but I also think they'd be ADORABLE together. Their love! So bashful and angsty! Unfortunately I've never seen any actual fic, sigh!
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Starsky and Hutch starts off serious and gets progressively sillier. It's kind of dumb, but I have a place in my heart for it. Same goes for most of those on the list. :)
And I couldn't finish watching Friday Night Lights once they played down the football and amped up the relationship stuff, but I still recognize it's damn good tv.
But... you haven't seen Northern Exposure? For serious?
It's probably in my top five.
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Re: the adventures of bashful &/or angsty; I have not read the X-Men comics, so I guess just film Wolverine. *dreamy sigh of OTP-ness*
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I am so intrigued.
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I never miss The Shield. You may also want to catch Blade the Series or Ultraviolet (1997 TV series with Jack Davenport and Phillip Quast) Veronica Mars, the first season was excellent TV.
I guess it all depends on what you like
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Have updated the list, thanks!
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Life is not Life on Mars, different series!
I like your listing. I may want to make one myself...
Rome is excellent, btw. Haven't watched it all, but I really like it.
Give precedence to Torchwood (is refreshingly different!)
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Watch NCIS, and Man From Uncle (a classic!), and HARSH REALM, and you're lacking Westerns up there, where are the Westerns!
Magnificent 7, Young Riders, Lonesome Dove.
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Lonesome Dove first series is pretty much straightforward Western of the mild variety, whereas the second season changes drastically (for the better).
Mag7...is a slashfan paradise, seven men, you can pair them up as you like and swap. Ehm.
HARSH REALM is def QUIRKY! Very few eps (9? I think) because Fox axed it (as they do), but a virtual reality world...does that grab you?
(and there's DB Sweeney *fangirls him*)
NCIS is a procedural, basically, but it's fast and silly, and I like the characters' interaction.
MUNCLE is...well, it's pre-Avengers, similar surreal flavour, 60s spies *G*
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I think the first series is now available on DVD, btw. Lou could have easily been a way young/bookish boy, so, yes, it was very intriguing :D
(and IKE, oh IKE!)
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I loved the old dude's reaction to finding out! 'I just thought you two were ... you know.' XD
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I have to watch my funds as well, but I hope to get it before it disappears :D
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*shuts up and leaves you be*
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I saw Summer Glau on the telly this morning being interviewed by Richard Wilkins. It was weird because I expected her to say "I don't know what I'm saying! I never know what I'm saying!" But she didn't. She totally knew what she was saying.
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Also, not long before I left Aus I rewatched the first few seasons of Northern Exposure and it was just as good as I remembered, it's held up really well! So it's good to see that up there :D
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*takes breath*
So.
That's what I've been doing.
I forgot how fun it is to squee!
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I have Torchwood & Who on my list of things to-watch, and sooo many fangirls around me here to lend DVDs *g* I will get to them eventually, hopefully!
I tried some LoM when I was in the UK, I think I need to start from the start, though. Thanks for the tips! I am glad you're having fun :D
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Also oh, lookit: What have we here (http://ciceqi.slashcity.com/Claws.htm)?
*buffs nails*
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(also a melbournite: HI.)
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If I minded the crazy, I JUST WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH MYSELF *dramatic hand-to-forehead*
HI.
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Do you have IM? It's fricking cold and I'm feeling social.
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