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apocalypsosYou know, I was reminded while glancing over the TV shows meme ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
artemis_child did (then again, I'm having a blond moment at the moment and aren't even sure where the hell I saw it on my friends list, on second thought) of how hard it was for me to get people to watch "The Amazing Race" last season because of the reality show bias. Which, granted, I totally understand -- if they don't stop putting on these annoying fucking dating shows where they get forty-seven gay men, a hundred and one straight men, thirty-four lesbians, three straight girls, a camel, a tree with a knot in the side and twenty-three blow-up dolls to hook up, I'm going to pitch a show to the executives where the dates who get dumped get shot in the head at the end of every episode. Now, that's entertainment.
Anyway, all of anything can't be bad ... there's inevitably some bleached-blond punk vampire who's going to be a nice guy even without a soul. (I'm sorry, did I say that out loud?) Which leads me to start a new meme ... which I'm probably going to be the only doing, but meh.
Shows I'm Hooked On That More People Should be Watching
1. The Amazing Race -- Yes, I've already bitched about this. But at the Emmys this weekend, TAR won the Reality/Competition Emmy over "American Idol" and "Survivor". For once, the Emmy voters didn't fuck up -- TAR beat two shows that clobber it in the ratings because it deserved to win. When the hell does that ever happen? TAR is addictive television for the pure and simple reason that it's good television, and I wish more people would give up on the all-reality-TV-sucks stereotype to watch this show.
2. Monster House -- "Enough idle chatter. Time to break stuff!" Dude, this show fucking rocks, and I know five people who watch it. Five, man, and that's including me. I cannot even begin to describe how much that blows. Basically, it's on the Discovery Channel every Monday night at 8, and what happens is five handymen/contractors/insane people and the host go into your house and turn it into a theme house, and you get no say. Trust me, it's a hell of a lot cooler than it sounds when written that way, especially since the first thing they usually do is go in and break stuff. :) They did a retro future house yesterday, which looked incredible -- not only did they completely redesign the place, they gave it airchute thingies like they have at the bank so you can have a beer sent to the living room, a metallic fireplace with sliding doors hiding the remote-control fire and new plasma TV, a newly designed "control center" desk, and a space ship through one wall. Hee. I want a Haunted Monster House like you wouldn't believe. *user bounces up and down happily*
3. Jake 2.0 -- I know far too many people in real life who go, "Jake 2.0? I've never heard of that." Well, stop that! Watch the damn thing. Yes, it's predictable at times, but dude, adorably cute geek! *user snuggles Jake* And he's all superpowered and whatnot. I knew I was lost when I saw the first episode and decided that the writers were nuts if they didn't put Jake and Diane together. I usually don't start 'shipping until at least the second episode. ;)
4. Dead Like Me -- I'm not complaining that people don't watch this. They do. But I've gotten hooked on it after downloading episodes and I have nobody in real life to fawn over Mandy Patinkin with. It's severely depressing. And the mom on that show? Still my mother. Still almost terrifyingly my mother. *user shudders*
5. The Shield -- Nobody I know watches The Shield in real life, and I love it. I went out and bought season one because I wanted to see it, I couldn't rent it where I was, and a friend said he'd buy it from me for what I paid for it if I didn't like it. Unfortunately for him, I got hooked. And unfortunately for me, I had a job where I couldn't watch season two, which means I've only seen season one and it's entirely possible that I won't see season two until it comes out on DVD. (To give you guys some perspective, I once bought Buffy season one, but sold it to a friend when Joss started pissing me off too much. The Shield season one? Never leaving my DVD shelf. Nope.)
6. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy -- And here you thought everybody and their gay best friend was watching this show. But the ones who could use a QE marathon for their own good -- like, say, my little brother, the one who lives in a pigsty, could use a day with Kyan at the spa, and definitely needs Carson to take him shopping and Jai to teach him how to stand up straight -- are not watching. Ugh.
There. I have vented. Now I can go write fanfic. *user bounces off into the distance like a Tigger on a sugar rush*
artemis_child did (then again, I'm having a blond moment at the moment and aren't even sure where the hell I saw it on my friends list, on second thought) of how hard it was for me to get people to watch "The Amazing Race" last season because of the reality show bias. Which, granted, I totally understand -- if they don't stop putting on these annoying fucking dating shows where they get forty-seven gay men, a hundred and one straight men, thirty-four lesbians, three straight girls, a camel, a tree with a knot in the side and twenty-three blow-up dolls to hook up, I'm going to pitch a show to the executives where the dates who get dumped get shot in the head at the end of every episode. Now, that's entertainment.Anyway, all of anything can't be bad ... there's inevitably some bleached-blond punk vampire who's going to be a nice guy even without a soul. (I'm sorry, did I say that out loud?) Which leads me to start a new meme ... which I'm probably going to be the only doing, but meh.
Shows I'm Hooked On That More People Should be Watching
1. The Amazing Race -- Yes, I've already bitched about this. But at the Emmys this weekend, TAR won the Reality/Competition Emmy over "American Idol" and "Survivor". For once, the Emmy voters didn't fuck up -- TAR beat two shows that clobber it in the ratings because it deserved to win. When the hell does that ever happen? TAR is addictive television for the pure and simple reason that it's good television, and I wish more people would give up on the all-reality-TV-sucks stereotype to watch this show.
2. Monster House -- "Enough idle chatter. Time to break stuff!" Dude, this show fucking rocks, and I know five people who watch it. Five, man, and that's including me. I cannot even begin to describe how much that blows. Basically, it's on the Discovery Channel every Monday night at 8, and what happens is five handymen/contractors/insane people and the host go into your house and turn it into a theme house, and you get no say. Trust me, it's a hell of a lot cooler than it sounds when written that way, especially since the first thing they usually do is go in and break stuff. :) They did a retro future house yesterday, which looked incredible -- not only did they completely redesign the place, they gave it airchute thingies like they have at the bank so you can have a beer sent to the living room, a metallic fireplace with sliding doors hiding the remote-control fire and new plasma TV, a newly designed "control center" desk, and a space ship through one wall. Hee. I want a Haunted Monster House like you wouldn't believe. *user bounces up and down happily*
3. Jake 2.0 -- I know far too many people in real life who go, "Jake 2.0? I've never heard of that." Well, stop that! Watch the damn thing. Yes, it's predictable at times, but dude, adorably cute geek! *user snuggles Jake* And he's all superpowered and whatnot. I knew I was lost when I saw the first episode and decided that the writers were nuts if they didn't put Jake and Diane together. I usually don't start 'shipping until at least the second episode. ;)
4. Dead Like Me -- I'm not complaining that people don't watch this. They do. But I've gotten hooked on it after downloading episodes and I have nobody in real life to fawn over Mandy Patinkin with. It's severely depressing. And the mom on that show? Still my mother. Still almost terrifyingly my mother. *user shudders*
5. The Shield -- Nobody I know watches The Shield in real life, and I love it. I went out and bought season one because I wanted to see it, I couldn't rent it where I was, and a friend said he'd buy it from me for what I paid for it if I didn't like it. Unfortunately for him, I got hooked. And unfortunately for me, I had a job where I couldn't watch season two, which means I've only seen season one and it's entirely possible that I won't see season two until it comes out on DVD. (To give you guys some perspective, I once bought Buffy season one, but sold it to a friend when Joss started pissing me off too much. The Shield season one? Never leaving my DVD shelf. Nope.)
6. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy -- And here you thought everybody and their gay best friend was watching this show. But the ones who could use a QE marathon for their own good -- like, say, my little brother, the one who lives in a pigsty, could use a day with Kyan at the spa, and definitely needs Carson to take him shopping and Jai to teach him how to stand up straight -- are not watching. Ugh.
There. I have vented. Now I can go write fanfic. *user bounces off into the distance like a Tigger on a sugar rush*
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I feel your pain.....
Date: 2003-09-23 07:40 am (UTC)That makes me think....
Have you ever liked a show that you completely wanted to rewrite? I'd love to have rewritten TSAoJV. I'd have made Michael Praed Jules Verne and Chris Demetral the young Phileas. Or, better still, I'd have cast Peter Wingfield as Phileas, Praed as Verne and have them in a love triangle with Rebecca. Yeah!
And you don't even want to get me started on Highlander, the series....
hugs,
Teri
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Date: 2003-09-23 07:45 am (UTC)YES. That last season of Buffy ... but is that really a surprise to anyone who knows me?
I think me and at least four or five incredible Buffy fic writers that I've read could have done so much better than Joss & Co. did. Ugh.
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Date: 2003-09-23 07:47 am (UTC)*veg*
Teri
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Date: 2003-09-23 07:51 am (UTC)Highlander, Roswell, Farscape, Guiding Light, Angel, Friends, West Wing, Will & Grace, The Dead Zone, ER ... I don't have to stop anytime soon, do I? ;)
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Date: 2003-09-23 07:53 am (UTC)*G*
Teri *knowing she's going to get an avalanche*
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Date: 2003-09-23 08:05 am (UTC)1.) Ross/Rachel. What the hell?! This stupid ship has sailed for too freaking long. If any of my friends acted the same way about a guy that Rachel has with Ross, I'd smack her upside the head with a two-by-four in the hopes some common sense would come with the concussion.
2.) Emma would be Joey's daughter, not Ross's. When Rachel turned up pregnant, that was fine. I could buy that. But when it turned out Ross was the father, was there anyone who wasn't surprised by that? It sucked, and it pissed me off. Joey being Emma's father would a.) have been an interesting turn of events, b.) could have made for a nicer set-up for Joey/Rachel than they ended up with, and c.) would have brought out the same sort of reaction in me that Chandler and Monica first sleeping together did. I remember jumping up and down happily when that happened. When Ross was Emma's father, I didn't care.
3. Joey getting his own series. Joey is a supporting character, damn it. And so much for not spoiling the end of the season.
4. The whole let's-see-what-special-guest-we-can-get-this-week thing. The bigger the star, the worse the episodes got. Ick.
And that's just off the top of my head.
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Date: 2003-09-23 08:09 am (UTC)Next?
*in an evil mood*
Teri
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Date: 2003-09-23 11:07 am (UTC)I appreciated it for the first couple of seasons but then they kept beating the dead horse. I. Don't. Care. They fall in and out of love with each other like people change socks. If you're that wishy washy about it there's nothing real behind it.
2.) Emma would be Joey's daughter, not Ross's.
Yes, I've thought about this possibility. It would have been nice ::sigh:: And not extremely predictable. See since R & R have a baby together now they *have* to get back together and then get married. End sarcasm.
And what irritated me was that when Rachel became interested in Joey and Monica was strictly against it. Nooooo! 'That can't possibly happen. You can't hook up with a friend. Even if me and Chandler did it. Even if you did exactly that with Ross, who I think you are meant to be with forever and ever.'
And that's just off the top of my head.
Roswell! Roswell! Give that a turn.
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Date: 2003-09-23 06:14 pm (UTC)Three words. Tess, Tess, and Tess. Just when you thought it wasn't possible for one character to tear a show to pieces all by her lonesome, along came Tess.
I stopped watching when Tess came along. And I only came back for the last few episodes. I did love how they ended it, though ... it's a nice thought, them out in the van, riding around, saving people as they go. I approve. :)
Re: I feel your pain.....
Date: 2003-09-23 08:20 am (UTC)mmmmm...pretty....
And you know, I could talk about Due South, but I didn't watch it when it was on the network, so I have some atoning of my own to do. *g*
Re: I feel your pain.....
Date: 2003-09-23 08:25 am (UTC)Say it ain't so, Teeny!
horrified hugs,
Teri
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Date: 2003-09-23 08:24 am (UTC)Re: I feel your pain.....
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Re: I feel your pain.....
Date: 2003-09-23 08:33 am (UTC)Michael Praed would be good, I can see him working well with Peter Wingfield.
Or how about casting Keith Hamilton Cobb as the Highlander? So what if he doesn't have an accent, Adrian Paul didn't have one either most of the time.
Heck anyone would be better than Adrian Paul.
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Date: 2003-09-23 08:39 am (UTC)T
Re: I feel your pain.....
Date: 2003-09-23 08:45 am (UTC)Re: I feel your pain.....
Date: 2003-09-23 08:51 am (UTC)8-}
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Date: 2003-09-23 08:51 am (UTC)