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shadowkatWhile I'm cooking root vegetable soup, a television poll or rather meme - where everyone who stumbles upon this checks off their current favorite television series, which they've been obsessing over. (I really should be working on my taxes...but, alas, the last time I did my taxes on Valentine's Day, someone broke in my apartment and stole my laptop while I was sleeping with all my tax information on it. So, I'm slightly superstitious, granted that was a different apartment, and it's close to impossible to do it here...but still.)
Anyhow, back to the poll/meme. Once you check off your favorite television series (the one you are obsessive about at the moment), assuming of course I managed to list it (if I didn't mark other and list in comments), go to the comments and make your case for the show - list any links to meta, fanfic, fanart, fan communities, boards, vids, etc - the links not the actual work. If someone else listed it first, reply to their response and list yours...who knows you might have made a new connection. Oh and here's the important part -- MAKE SURE YOU TELL PEOPLE, ie me, WHERE THEY CAN WATCH OR SEE YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW! (otherwise, how will it get new viewers?? If people can't find it, they can't watch it. Keep in mind we live in a world with over 1000 different channels and distribution venues.)
For people like myself that watch television but aren't obsessed with any tv shows or in any fandoms at the moment - I have "Nothing at the Moment" listed, because I'm not obsessive about any television series at the moment -- but I'm curious to see where everyone else is leaning. And if there is anything interesting out there that I'm overlooking.
[As an aside, once you insert the poll - you can't edit it -- which makes doing polls a dicey enterprise.]
[Poll #2036851]
Anyhow, back to the poll/meme. Once you check off your favorite television series (the one you are obsessive about at the moment), assuming of course I managed to list it (if I didn't mark other and list in comments), go to the comments and make your case for the show - list any links to meta, fanfic, fanart, fan communities, boards, vids, etc - the links not the actual work. If someone else listed it first, reply to their response and list yours...who knows you might have made a new connection. Oh and here's the important part -- MAKE SURE YOU TELL PEOPLE, ie me, WHERE THEY CAN WATCH OR SEE YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW! (otherwise, how will it get new viewers?? If people can't find it, they can't watch it. Keep in mind we live in a world with over 1000 different channels and distribution venues.)
For people like myself that watch television but aren't obsessed with any tv shows or in any fandoms at the moment - I have "Nothing at the Moment" listed, because I'm not obsessive about any television series at the moment -- but I'm curious to see where everyone else is leaning. And if there is anything interesting out there that I'm overlooking.
[As an aside, once you insert the poll - you can't edit it -- which makes doing polls a dicey enterprise.]
[Poll #2036851]
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Date: 2016-02-15 02:00 am (UTC)Iwould also include Galavant on the list. It just wrapped up its second season. Very fun.
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Date: 2016-02-15 04:56 am (UTC)Gravity Falls is a cartoon series about a pair of 12 year-old twins, Dipper and Mabel Pines, who spend a summer at the home of their great uncle ("Grunkle") Stan in Gravity Falls, Oregon--and almost immediately stumble on a bewildering array of supernatural phenomena.
It's the X-Files, it's Twin Peaks, it's the Bobsey Twins--but it's totally unique. S1 was Buffyish with MoTWs, but S2 ramped up the action, the suspense, the weirdness, the mythology to "Becoming" levels.
In case you're interested, s1 eps to watch:
The Inconveniencing
The Deep End
The Time Traveler's Pig
Sumerween
Recommended S2 eps:
Into the Bunker
Sock Opera
Not What He Seems
Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future
Weirdmageddon 1&2
Weirdmageddon 3 tomorrow.
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Date: 2016-02-15 02:10 pm (UTC)Thanks...this is on the Disney Channel, right?
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Date: 2016-02-15 02:37 pm (UTC)I'm also obsessed with Rick and Morty -- Gravity Falls' evil twin, you might say -- but that's not coming back until next year. Bummer.
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Date: 2016-02-15 03:23 am (UTC)Anyway....
GRAVITY FALLS!
The entire fam just bingewatched our faves from s1&2, caught details we'd never noticed before, laughed at jokes we didn't quite catch the first time around.
Next episode is a one-hour extravaganza at 7 pm tomorrow night on Disney XD.
Unfortunately, it's also the series finale.
Review to come.
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Date: 2016-02-15 03:36 am (UTC)What's Gravity Falls??? Never heard of it.
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Date: 2016-02-15 02:36 pm (UTC)I mean, I don't know if out of context clips will really help, but try this anyway:
https://youtu.be/kgN98jv5-NE
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Date: 2016-02-15 05:49 am (UTC)I'm slowly losing interest in Sam and Castiel, but there's just something about Dean Winchester that keeps me coming back.
As for Teen Wolf, it's all about Scott McCall for me. The problem with finding fic in this fandom, is that the majority of it is about the show's worst character aka Stiles. (I mean seriously, he's just a blander, worse acted version of Xander Harris)
But I love that Scott is so unique as a character. He's kind, caring, considerate, willing to admit when he's wrong and made mistakes. He's grown up so much as a character, and the actor playing him has gone from good at the start of the series, to great. It's so rare to find a character who is genuine like that. And who doesn't react to all the crap he's gone through, by becoming some kind of asshole.
I would have also added Izombie. I don't read fic for this series, cause too much of it is pairings obsessed, while I'm all about Liv and the ensemble. But the humor of this show is just on point.
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Date: 2016-02-15 02:20 pm (UTC)Supernatural is available on the CW and on streaming channels (netflix/amazon) - I think?
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Date: 2016-02-15 06:42 am (UTC)And iZombie for the darkness of it's storylines, but also the tremendous levels of cleverness. It will never capture the level of cultural cache that Veronica Mars had, and Rose McIver will never be the star that Kristen Bell has become... but boy, iZombie might be the better of Rob Thomas' 21st century shows if it can get a third season and maintain its level of quality.
Both shows also have excellent use of music - generally to polar opposite ends.
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Date: 2016-02-15 02:19 pm (UTC)Americans is available on F/X and streaming channels.
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Date: 2016-02-15 07:42 am (UTC)I'm almost at the end of s1 of The Americans and not quite sure what to make of it. Yes, it's gripping enough drama-wise, but for a show about cold war shenanigans it's almost clinically scrubbed free of any actual political content, and I find it increasingly hard to swallow that the characters get away with all this. But at least I'll never be able to NOT see Keri Russell as an ice cold assassin again, which should make the inevitable Felicity reunion a lot more fun.
Danger 5 is so utterly ridiculous I can't not love it, even if s2 isn't nearly as good as s1. A WWII spy series set in the 60s (and later in the 80s), with our multi-national team of squabbling heroes trying to stop Hitler from building new superweapons. It's basically a live-action Archer.
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Date: 2016-02-15 12:37 pm (UTC)That said, there's more political content in season 2 and 3.
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Date: 2016-02-15 12:42 pm (UTC)Awesome, thanks!
It is a very good show about marriage and family. It just bugs me a bit that you have all these characters prepared to sacrifice their lives for The Cause... and so far, The Cause has been very very abstract.
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Date: 2016-02-15 02:18 pm (UTC)Currently on either F/X or Amazon Prime or Netflix (as far as I know).
Danger 5 is on Netflix?
The 100 is on CW and Netflix? (I'm actually watching this as well)
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Date: 2016-02-15 02:58 pm (UTC)Pretty much - the central characters are Soviet agents who have been undercover posing as a regular American couple for 20 years, with kids and all, and who are suddenly forced to become more active as the Cold War heats up again under Reagan. So one driving question becomes just how much they've actually become Americans rather than just good little marxist-leninists pretending to be Americans.
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Date: 2016-02-15 12:04 pm (UTC)Also, you can watch the three episodes of And Then They Were None, the latest adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel with Charles Dance. I enjoyed it very much.
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Date: 2016-02-16 11:42 pm (UTC)Hmmm...I'm wondering if that's why I stayed obsessed with Buffy as long as I did? The fandom was keeping me interested? This begs this question how much does a fandom or the people who make up a fandom influence how we love or feel about a work of art? Or rather continue to feel about it?
I've tried other fandoms...but they've sent me scurrying for the hills. ;-)
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Date: 2016-02-17 10:22 pm (UTC)The show is a very sitcommy subversion of TV Dramas - the legal aspects of the show are basically ridiculous, mostly because they are beside the point. The point of the show is mostly about Dean's delusions, people's willingness to go along with Dean because they either love TV or just want to go along for the ride, and Stuart's increasing frustration with Dean. (and the way his life has gotten beyond his control) The episode in which Timothy Olyphant (playing himself) challenges Dean to a mock trial over who is the more qualified fake lawyer is an excellent example of the show.
Most of the other characters are basically pegs for the plot (Dean Sr, Todd, Ethan, the judges) rather than real characters. If you can't wave your hand at the legal stuff, it's hard to watch. If you can go along with it, Fred Savage is fantastic and his chemistry with his wife Deb (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) is excellent. They need to use her more on the show, because she's great.
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Date: 2016-02-21 09:19 am (UTC)Add in the much older, but still superb The Good Wife, and that would be the three.
Mildly obsessed / seriously interested in, would be Once Upon a Time, Elementary, Homeland, Orphan Black, Justified, Orange is the New Black and, except for its much weaker final season, Mad Men. The latter ones I watch on DVD, since I only have basic-basic cable service.
The first show I had a true obsession for after BtVS would be The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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Date: 2016-02-21 07:04 pm (UTC)It's hard to be overly fannish about something all by yourself. You can sustain it for a while, I guess. But if you are like me, you lose interest fast. That's what happened with Farscape (no one else was into it when I was) and the X-men. I felt like I was talking to myself. ;-)