Two wastes of time in one!

[urbpan]

From hummingwolf, a tv show meme, to show you how hopelessly narrow my taste is:

1. Bold the shows of which you've watched every episode
2. Italic the shows of which you've seen at least one episode
2a. Star the shows you consider "the best" (Addition by tidesong)
3. Post your answers



50. Quantum Leap --one of the best shows of the 80's which isn't saying much
49. Prison Break--saw part of one or two episodes by mistake
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine --Only seen a few. I think it's funny that it's self-contradictory; no one "Treks" on a star base. It's Mel's Diner to Voyager's Gilligan's Island.
46. Sex & The City one episode maybe?

45. Farscape --Best Trek takeoff with muppets ever.
44. *Cracker --working on having seen all of them--also, I assume they are talking about the British, Robbie Coltrane version.
43. *Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses--Never even heard of this one.
41. Band of Brothers--Nor this.

40. Life on Mars.
39. *Monty Python's Flying Circus --This changed everything.
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. *Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted

35. Alias
34. Frasier --Getting to the point where I've seen every episode, because it's on in reruns at bedtime, when there's nothing else on that's not upsetting (like CSI and Fox News).
33. CSI: Las Vegas--possibly the most overrated show on television. My Dad can't lord his cultural superiority over me (he likes boring depressing movies that don't have robots and zombies in them) because he watches this trash.
32. Babylon 5--except perhaps this one; never understood why this Trek takeoff was so well-thought of by my fellow geeks. I found it to be too complicated, with no sympathetic characters.
31. Deadwood

30. Dexter
29. ER --I hate to italicize shows that I hate
28. Fawlty Towers --pretty funny, but I wouldn't call it one of the best tv shows ever
27. Six Feet Under
26. *Red Dwarf --probably very close to having seen every episode

25. *Futurama
24. Twin Peaks --no, really, I've never seen a single episode.
23. The Office UK
22. The Shield
21. Angel

20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs --Seen some of several episodes. I can tell its well-written, but I've never bothered to get into it
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park One of the most noteworthy shows ever, but too inconsistent to be considered one of the best
16. *Doctor Who

15. Heroes --Haven't seen any of the current season, due to frustrations with teh television machines
14. *Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica
12. Family Guy --I'm guessing I've seen every episode--there aren't that many, and the reruns are on constantly
11.* Seinfeld --Probably the best American sitcom of the post 70's era.
10.* Spaced --Definitely the funniest sitcom I've ever seen
09. The X-Files --Stopped watching when it became more about the soap opera and less about monster hunting. Bo-ring!
08. The Wire
07. Friends I kind of hate to admit that I've probably seen all but some of the last season
06. 24 Brilliantly made, yet I find it unwatchable. Who wants to feel stressed out for a whole hour? Where's the comic relief? Tense and grim is not a good combination. Battlestar leans that way, but has lighter moments to let you relax.

05. Lost --No, I've never seen it either. I'm worried, because you have to watch them all, and supposedly the second season sucked, so I don't really want to start.
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos --Well made, but I don't care much for the Italian mobster genre.
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer --Saw the last half of one episode. I understand that I'm a heretic for not seeking out and watching every episode. I just don't care.
01. *The Simpsons --Despite recent declines (over the past decade) still the best show to ever have been on tv, by a mile.

Did you guess that I don't have cable?

Comments

[mas69ter.livejournal.com]

Wow, there's a bunch on here that I've never even heard of. Most show that I don't have cable either.
If you dig shows that involve serial killers, Dexter is good. It's on CBS right now so it's censored but still cool.

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I have to do this meme, it's sad how many shows I've seen all the episodes for...;)
Like seriously, ALL of these shows...:P

[pangolin.livejournal.com]

Ever so slightly irritating that you refer to every sci-fi in space series as a 'trek take off' as if it weren't a genre of its own, and as if some of those had *anything* to do with Star Trek aside from being in the 'space opera' genre.

In particular, Babylon 5 and Farscape are far superior to any version of Star Trek, and are rather different in character as well, both having full series story arcs.

I hate to get in what is clearly an argument about religion but...

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

You're right. Farscape is actually a Buck Rogers takeoff.

And I forgot to mention that BSG started as a Star Wars ripoff (nothing so clever as a takeoff) and then was remade as something that made Star Wars look stupid.

But back on the original point: Star Trek was about a ship full of different personalities going from place to place learning lessons about humanity and themselves and whatnot. Every show that follows that mode (including my beloved Firefly, which I otherwise describe as "if Han Solo had his own show, without the muppets") is a takeoff on Star Trek's model. Even that stupid submarine show with the talking dolphins.

Re: I hate to get in what is clearly an argument about religion but...

[smallerdemon.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, the "Guy On A Spaceship Wandering Through Space" genre. Seriously, that's what we call it at my house. But we are nerds.

[uneko.livejournal.com]

Dittoing Pangolin. :)

Star Trek may have been one of the first to be out ther and be popular, but not everything is a knock off of it. :)

of course, my opinions differ then yours. I've seen all of DS9... twice. It might not be a show about 'treking'... but in many ways: that's what made it better. TNG was an AWESOME show and I love it, BUT... the fact that every episode stood alone almost, and nearly every episode was a matter of "we are on our way to planet A, because of B, and on the way/once we get there, C occurs, which we shall resolve with method D." And generally there's some technobabble abuot inverting the forward power couplings, modulating the to give up psionic delta waves which should stablize the sun before it goes nova and give us the time to save this planet full of people.

DS9, especially after the 2nd season, I believe, starts following a real story line, which changes and evolves. The characters grow up, and I found I cared about them a lot more then I did most Next Gen characters. I do heartily recommend it. As with any trek series, it takes a season or two to find it's stride... by the the end.. well.. as I said.. I've watched it twice, in the last 3 years and I'd do it again.


Likewise, Babylon 5 shares the same principals. My guess is you did not find any sympathetic characters because you didn't watch it enough. This show amazed me when I watched it because of how the story progressed: it changed drastically from beginning to end, and many of the characters who I started out disliking, by the end, I really loved. There were many characters who ended up trapped by themselves, and other characters who escaped from their own trappings and made themselves better people. This is another show that I would watch again.


I can't speak for farscape though, but I will btut the DVDs once I finish with Star Gate.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

My guess is you did not find any sympathetic characters because you didn't watch it enough.

That may be true, but, why would I continue to watch a show I didn't enjoy initially?

[nutmeg.livejournal.com]

I liked DS9 a lot, after the first season and after I hated it first.

But I CONSISTENTLY hated babylon 5, so amen to that.

Agree about Seinfeld and Simpsons. I wish Firefly was harder to have seen all the episodes. I actually borrowed a friend's boxed set, as there are a few episodes that were made and never aired.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I hated the DS9 pilot, which seemed to have all the flaws of the first Trek movie. When I found out that people were loving it, I was mystified, but at that point I didn't have time in my life for a show which placed so much emphasis on Ferengis and other 'look like human but have latex on their heads' characters.

[nutmeg.livejournal.com]

The DS9 ferengis are a little hard to swallow especially after TNG set up ferengis to be barely humanoid and barely capable of walking upright and talking.

but after I gave it up, and ignoring season one and the last season, it shaped up to be a good show...

or maybe I was just so hungry for star trek that I would watch anything, and it was the only thing there was.

[officersun524.livejournal.com]

Every episode:

Farscape
Seinfeld
Firefly
The Xfiles
24

Of those five, Seinfeld and Farscape are actually etched into my psyche, making my psyche a very scary place indeed

Imagine, hearing Costanza and Crichtonisms all day long!

Or Elaine and Aeryn.