Favorite TV Shows

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[leigh137]

My favorite X-Files was the one with Peter Boyle in it, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose.  But any of the ones that were more on humor, less on grey aliens I really enjoyed.

Oh that was a fantastic one! And one of my favs too. These last few posts are making me remember how much I enjoyed The X-Files.

[FierFlye]

Oh that was a fantastic one! And one of my favs too. These last few posts are making me remember how much I enjoyed The X-Files.

I thought about buying it on DVD, until I saw that it was $100 a season!   

[leigh137]

I watched about half of it and gave up.  I was BORED.

It's like they took a random selection of X-files things and tried to turn it into a show, and forgot the concept of characterization or something.  yaaaaaawn.

I only watched half of it too. But I was laughing at them when I turned it off. The line delivery was so flat that not even my love of looking at Joshua Jackson could make me keep watching that show.

[leigh137]

I thought about buying it on DVD, until I saw that it was $100 a season!   

Ouch! Man, I haven't seen a season that high since Carnival. Sheesh! Can you get it cheaper buying it a few DVD's at a time instead of a whole season at a time? That's how I'm collecting Farscape.

[FierFlye]

Ouch! Man, I haven't seen a season that high since Carnival. Sheesh! Can you get it cheaper buying it a few DVD's at a time instead of a whole season at a time? That's how I'm collecting Farscape.

I'd imagine it's more expensive that way in the long run, but I'm not sure.  I don't even know if you can buy only a few episodes at a time.

[leigh137]

I'd imagine it's more expensive that way in the long run, but I'm not sure.  I don't even know if you can buy only a few episodes at a time.

In the long run it certainly can be, but sometimes you can get a real steal on Ebay  You're right though, I don't remember seeing The X-Files as anything other than season sets when I searched for them. But that was a while ago.

[EverFool]

I thought about buying it on DVD, until I saw that it was $100 a season!   

What?  I got all 9 seasons and the first movie for £75 ish.

Also, favourite episode?  Bad Blood from Season 5.  Another humorous one.

[Melamphoros]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this.  I occasionally joke that the stuff that happens in the show is just what they tell people.  The show is actually about a closeted gay couple who pretend to be brothers. :p

I gotta start watching that show.

(more directed towards the Americans) Is it the same teen-soap opera crap that the CW (and WB and UPN before it) was known for?

If it's like Charmed or Buffy, then I would watch it.

[catja6]

I gotta start watching that show.

(more directed towards the Americans) Is it the same teen-soap opera crap that the CW (and WB and UPN before it) was known for?

If it's like Charmed or Buffy, then I would watch it.

Well, it loads up on the ANGST (boy, does it), but it isn't soap-opera-y.  It's more a horror-adventure show, related, in many ways, to the X-Files (many of the writers and production staff are X-Files alums).  It also does really good folklore research -- not like, always academically sound (which would be asking too much), but the show is MUCH more knowledgeable about folklore than others of its genre, including the X-Files.  The first-season episode "Bloody Mary" is pretty much the ONLY pop-culture text I have ever seen that dealt with folkloric variation in a way that was both accurate and made sense for the story.  (They're in a town where "Bloody Mary" is murdering people, and are wondering why there, since the story is so widespread, and nobody's ever come to harm before.  The answer:  an angry spirit, a woman murdered next to a mirror (which is now haunted and in that town), is *using* the narrative as a way to manifest itself.  Very Terry Pratchett!)

Also, the guys are really, really hot.  And their every interaction drips with homoerotic tension.  So, yes. 

[Melamphoros]

Also, the guys are really, really hot.  And their every interaction drips with homoerotic tension.  So, yes. 

That (and the other things you said in that post) is all I needed.  I looked it up and the new season is starting up on Thursday.  Would I miss out on a lot if I started watching it now without watching it before?

[catja6]

That (and the other things you said in that post) is all I needed.  I looked it up and the new season is starting up on Thursday.  Would I miss out on a lot if I started watching it now without watching it before?

You'd be kind of lost, but there's hope!  Super-wiki has all the info you need -- episode summaries, characters, folklore (not always 100% accurate), links to fanfic, etc.  While the show does have a mytharc, it isn't like the X-Files in that the mytharc dominates all -- there are tons of standalone episodes.  Because of the events of last season's finale, you'll want to have a basic idea of what went down before you watch on Thursday, but a bare-bones summary will do. 

[Melamphoros]

You'd be kind of lost, but there's hope!  Super-wiki has all the info you need -- episode summaries, characters, folklore (not always 100% accurate), links to fanfic, etc.  While the show does have a mytharc, it isn't like the X-Files in that the mytharc dominates all -- there are tons of standalone episodes.  Because of the events of last season's finale, you'll want to have a basic idea of what went down before you watch on Thursday, but a bare-bones summary will do. 

Ah Wikipedia, you may not be good for much, but now you're my new best friend

And heck, I didn't start watching Charmed or Buffy from the very beginning and they are what you described and I was able to follow them.

[catja6]

Ah Wikipedia, you may not be good for much, but now you're my new best friend

And heck, I didn't start watching Charmed or Buffy from the very beginning and they are what you described and I was able to follow them.

Ack, I'm sorry!  I meant to link to the actual Supernatural Wiki site, which is what i was referring to. 

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

[Melamphoros]

Ack, I'm sorry!  I meant to link to the actual Supernatural Wiki site, which is what i was referring to. 

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

I guess that would be better, thanks

[Marilyn (ABSENTMINDED)]

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Thank you.  Streamlines my 'research' too.

Absent

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