TV Thread

[Tim]

Inspired by conversations on the Shoutbox.  Place to talk about TV shows and whatnot. 

Anyway, I'll list a few favorites, see if I get any bites:

Old/Cancelled favorites: Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica (2004), Caprica, Babylon 5, The 4400, Spaced, Scrubs, Batman: The Animated Series/Superman: TAS/Justice League (Yeah, I like cartoons, so what?  Bruce Timm is awesome.)

Currently Running Shows I watch: Doctor Who, Torchwood, Sherlock, Community, 30 Rock (though this last season was kind of meh), Futurama, Bones, Big Bang Theory.

Show I'm currently watching on disc: The Wire...and it is fucking amazing.

[V]

Loves: The Prisoner (old and new miniseries), Generation Kill (miniseries), La Femme Nikita, the new Nikita, Buffy, Firefly, Xena, Sons of Anarchy (DANNY TREJO THIS SEASON FUCKYEAH), True Blood, House, Colbert Report, Daily Show.

MehKinda: Angel, Hercules

To Watch Someday: Battlestar Galactica, Spartacus, Bones, Lie To Me (kept up for the first two seasons, got severely behind), Supernatural (someday when I develop fangirl immunity), Scrubs, Big Bang Theory

not always the most tasteful taste, but yeah.  i like what i like.

[V]

since it's not letting me edit, also To Watch: Doctor Who (kept up for a couple seasons of the new incarnation and got behind, i'm a Tennant & Eccleston Doctor mark)

[Thingybloke]

You can tell if a TV show will be good, because it will have Futurama in the name.  


I kid, I kid... well, mostly. It is true that I don't watch any current TV other than Futurama, The Simpsons and the occasional nature documentary. Oh, and Chikara, if that counts, which is the one wrestling company I'm still vaguely interested in. Don't even watch MMA or football [sorry, "soccer" ] any more either for that matter.

Favourite TV show of all time: Spaced.

Shows wot I have liked in the past: I Claudius, Monkey, Robot Wars, Thunderbirds, Oz, The X-Files, Firefly, Buffy/Angel, Farscape, Maid Marian & Her Merry Men, Eerie Indiana, Round The Twist, Jonathan Creek, Deadwood, Berserk, Azumanga Daioh, Haruhi Suzumiya. Probably a bunch of others I'm forgetting too. I likes my sitcoms - Red Dwarf, Blackadder and Frasier especially. I was really into The Mighty Boosh for a while, although series 3 was a bit meh and I haven't been following them since. Nathan Barley is hard to love but worth persevering with. And I'm always happy to watch stuff like Have I Got News For You and Mock The Week. Some of the big event shows (Lost and Heroes both spring to mind) I watched for the first season or two and was really into them, but never bothered going back for subequent seasons.

[V]

Farscape! Red Dwarf! 

I really loved early Heroes.

[Tim]

Favourite TV show of all time: Spaced.

Spaced. is. legendary. 


Also, to Kore, since she mentioned Doctor Who, they just aired an episode written by Neil Gaiman, and it was predictably the best thing ever.  While I think Eccleston is my favorite still, I like all three new doctors.  They haven't hit a major dud IMO.

[Archer]

Currently Watch: NCIS, The Office, Big Bang Theory, Archer, Supernatural, Community, Outsourced, Parks and Recreations, Family Guy, American Dad, Simpsons, Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, The Walking Dead, and Bob's Burgers

Used to Watch: LOST, Heroes, Smallville, Sex and the City, Queer As Folk, The Sopranos, Nip/Tuck

Shows I've Only Seen Some Of: House, True Blood, Dexter

Shows I Want to Watch: Firefly, Stargate SG1, Battlestar, Dr. Who

[Thingybloke]

Favourite TV show of all time: Spaced.

Spaced. is. legendary.

MAJOR FUCKING SHIBBY FOR YOU SIR!

Oooh oooh ooh for everyone who said Firefly: Blake's 7. It's like Firefly, except all of the main characters can't stand each other.

[V]

Also, to Kore, since she mentioned Doctor Who, they just aired an episode written by Neil Gaiman, and it was predictably the best thing ever.  While I think Eccleston is my favorite still, I like all three new doctors.  They haven't hit a major dud IMO.

i follow Gaiman on Facebook and Twitter both, so i heard plenty 'bout it.  haven't watched out of a demented urge to not spoiler m'self even though there'd be ages of eps before i'd get to see it.

also forgot to mention my one anime, Trigun.

ALSO... you know what they STILL NEED to make a series on?  the Garth Ennis comic Preacher.  though anybody who knows Preacher and follows V on twitter undoubtedly put my fandom to that together with his username.

[Tim]

Also, to Kore, since she mentioned Doctor Who, they just aired an episode written by Neil Gaiman, and it was predictably the best thing ever.  While I think Eccleston is my favorite still, I like all three new doctors.  They haven't hit a major dud IMO.

i follow Gaiman on Facebook and Twitter both, so i heard plenty 'bout it.  haven't watched out of a demented urge to not spoiler m'self even though there'd be ages of eps before i'd get to see it.

also forgot to mention my one anime, Trigun.

ALSO... you know what they STILL NEED to make a series on?  the Garth Ennis comic Preacher.  though anybody who knows Preacher and follows V on twitter undoubtedly put my fandom to that together with his username.

I hope they don't TV-ify Preacher though.  There's just no way it can be done right.  I mean maybe if some CRAZY ballsy fillmaker teamed up with HBO and was given total free reign and Ennis actually wrote episodes.  But seriously, do you think arseface has any chance of getting past TV execs?  At all?  Ever?  Not to mention the scale of the Saint's bad-assery probably can't be done right on a TV budget either.  Hell would be all CG, Genesis would have to be CG.  I just don't see it ending up well.

However, Preacher is the best comic series of all time, as far as I'm concerned.  But that's a topic for another thread.

Also, the Gaiman Who episode has a few nods that are obviously there only for hardcore DW fans, so while it's self-contained it has of continuity easter eggs in it, so it might be better to wait until you have time to plow through the entire thing anyway.

[Blitzkrieger]

Since we're talking about television, did anyone watch House last night?  Badass episode

[Thingybloke]

So I'm guessing this is the wrong crowd for me to give my opinion on Garth Ennis's books

HOW HAS NOBODY MENTIONED LIFE ON MARS YET. Especially me. It's amazing.

[Maleficente]

XD I was about to mention Life On Mars. I prefer the UK version (MUCH better ending) although I also (kinda obviously) like the US version. Mostly because of my Harvey Keitel fangirl-geeking. I can't get into Ashes to Ashes though. Kinda Blah.

I've just finished Season 2 of UK Being Human, which means it will be some time before I watch the US version. I'm a Supernatural lover, although less Season 1, more 2 onwards. (Not that Season 1 was bad, it just got significantly better) I also love Red Dwarf, Firefly, V, Deadwood, Torchwood (but not Dr Who, more on that later) Buffy, Angel (although I was really really hoping that they'd made Angel a far-in-the-past series where he was Angelus, when it first came out, and was disappointed). I run hot/cold with Medium, Lie to Me, and House. I have to be in the mood for those.

Did somebody mention Monkey? SANDY!! SANDY!

[Tim]

For other Torchwood fans, Miracle Day looks/sounds pretty freakin' cool, and it's on Starz so you know they were allowed to write whatever they wanted.  And Jane Espenson is on the writing team, so that's awesome.  I'm pumped.

[Thingybloke]

I can't get into Ashes to Ashes though. Kinda Blah.

Me too! Ashes to Ashes felt like Life On Mars fan fiction. I haven't seen the American version. I heard it's crap, but I <3 Harvy Keitel so I might give it a try at some point.

Being Human looks interesting and it's one people keep telling me to see. The problem is there's a lot of shows people keep telling me I need to see and I don't know when I'm supposed to find the time for them all.

I'm another in the camp of not liking Doctor Who. I saw the Christmas special (with Katherine Jenkins) and it was easily the best of the... three and a half episodes I've seen since the show's rebirth? I also saw one where they're on a bus that gets transported to another dimension and there's, like, these flying things which eat metal? That was alright. And one with Peter Kay as a guy who absorbs people into his body, which was a pile of shit. And half of one with John Simm being a crazy motherfucker. Not playing to type or anything there John, I see...

Random aside: When my flatmates were geeking about how Torchwood was an anagram of Doctor Who, I was like "WTF? No it's not. Dr. Who only has five letters in it..."

The show I sometimes stick on as background noise when I'm writing: Thomas the Tank Engine. Oh, nostalgia.