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avreliaI am still thinking about my year 2010 results. Now I am getting around to post about my TV viewing. It was... weird, I'd say. But in 2008-2009 it was non-existent, so there. The main difficulty was that P hardly wants to watch anything but Jon Stuart and occasionally Colbert, and I don't want to watch my TV with D – he gets enough of cartoons as it is.
So I watched in odd breaks. Obviously, I watched quite a lot when I was alone last year – when P was in NY, and I was still in Canada. I watched – (after having finally bought) – “Wonderfalls”, I watched “The Tenth Kingdom”, which I wrote about immediately after, I re-watched some old Russian favourites, and I watched “Dollhouse”. Which I almost forgot about until writing this post. And you know what? It is my review. It was controversial, and awkward, and uncomfortable. It had brilliant moments, it had great acting. But at the end it was utterly forgettable. What worse one can say about it?
In NY I discovered several things. 1) Not everything is available on HULU; 2) One can find almost everything to watch online these day somewhere else.
I watched... not much, still.
“The Big Bang Theory” - amusing, often funny, occasionally makes me cringe.
“Raising Hope” - hilarious, especially for the one with some amount of child-rearing experience. Kind of sweet, but asks to suspend one's disbelief really high.
“Lost Girl” - wonderful. Looking forward for the second season. I wish they were less coy about Canadian locations – I want to see less generic and more familiar sights. I also wish Kenzi spoke Russian more often. It's fun ;) I am not fannish about it though – I cannot get hot and bothered about any TV show anymore. I hope no one can take my fandom membership away because of it...
moving to 2011
I am in the process of watching Doctor Who, the last season. It's awfully confusing, having picked up all knowledge about show from osmosis and a half -dozen of assorted episodes from previous seasons. But fascinating. Very fascinating.
Shows I want to watch, but never get around to: “Fringe” and “Community”. Maybe some day.
So I watched in odd breaks. Obviously, I watched quite a lot when I was alone last year – when P was in NY, and I was still in Canada. I watched – (after having finally bought) – “Wonderfalls”, I watched “The Tenth Kingdom”, which I wrote about immediately after, I re-watched some old Russian favourites, and I watched “Dollhouse”. Which I almost forgot about until writing this post. And you know what? It is my review. It was controversial, and awkward, and uncomfortable. It had brilliant moments, it had great acting. But at the end it was utterly forgettable. What worse one can say about it?
In NY I discovered several things. 1) Not everything is available on HULU; 2) One can find almost everything to watch online these day somewhere else.
I watched... not much, still.
“The Big Bang Theory” - amusing, often funny, occasionally makes me cringe.
“Raising Hope” - hilarious, especially for the one with some amount of child-rearing experience. Kind of sweet, but asks to suspend one's disbelief really high.
“Lost Girl” - wonderful. Looking forward for the second season. I wish they were less coy about Canadian locations – I want to see less generic and more familiar sights. I also wish Kenzi spoke Russian more often. It's fun ;) I am not fannish about it though – I cannot get hot and bothered about any TV show anymore. I hope no one can take my fandom membership away because of it...
moving to 2011
I am in the process of watching Doctor Who, the last season. It's awfully confusing, having picked up all knowledge about show from osmosis and a half -dozen of assorted episodes from previous seasons. But fascinating. Very fascinating.
Shows I want to watch, but never get around to: “Fringe” and “Community”. Maybe some day.
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Date: 2011-02-04 01:22 pm (UTC)Huh. That's pretty damning.
I am in the process of watching Doctor Who, the last season. It's awfully confusing, having picked up all knowledge about show from osmosis and a half -dozen of assorted episodes from previous seasons. But fascinating. Very fascinating.
\o/ \o/ \o/ If you have any questions, just ask, although I know they designed S5 to be a 'hopping-on point'. :)
I myself don't watch all that much TV, to be honest. Doctor Who, Torchwood and Being Human, when they're on. Otherwise it's just various comedy things etc. but nothing I actually follow.
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Date: 2011-02-05 08:06 pm (UTC)re: Doctor Who. I would have found it easier to hop on, I guess, if I were watching it sitting comfortably on TV, in one piece, maybe with subtitles, instead of watching one episode in three settings while I am doing something else. Mostly my confusion goes" "What's just happened?" and if I read reviews - they make things even more confusing by referring to Other Stuff. ;)
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Date: 2011-02-05 08:10 pm (UTC)Good point. Plus, with Firefly there tends to be this HUGE amount of nostalgia, where Dollhouse is generally cited as the thing that put people off Joss...
instead of watching one episode in three settings while I am doing something else
Oh dear. Yes, I can see your problem. But like I said - if you have any questions, just ask. :)
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Date: 2011-02-05 08:21 pm (UTC)and sure, if I have good questions, I'll bother you with them :)
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Date: 2011-02-05 08:23 pm (UTC)LOL! You know, I didn't even see that...
and sure, if I have good questions, I'll bother you with them :)
Oh all questions welcome. (There is, after all, nearly 50 years of continuity to take into consideration. I'm hardly an expert, but I've picked up a lot of stuff, so I'm happy to be your expert! *g*)