A Somewhat Risky Meme

I ganked this from anne1962. I never do these memes, because I don't know how to respond to them myself to be honest...and I'm always a bit afraid no one else will. They are like polls, if no one responds...you are sort of sitting there with egg on your face. But here it goes...just because I'm curious to see...assuming you do respond? And I honestly don't think there's much to be suprised by...but one never knows. Into the breach...

What's surprised you the most about me (if anything) since beginning to read my LJ (or when you met me IRL, for those who have)? Has anything about me been completely unexpected or have I always fit the picture of me you had in your head?

TV Slut Meme from various people...

But I ganked it from selenak


Name a TV show series in which you have seen every episode at least twice:

Buffy (although Angel, Farscape, and MASH also fall in there...)

Name a (current) show you can't miss:

Lost when it comes back next month, The Good Wife, Caprica (when it appears), Dollhouse (until it finishes), Supernatural..

Name an actor that would make you more inclined to watch a show:

I'm more inclined to follow writers than actors, but given that I'll check out anything that James Marsters and Anthony Stewart Head appear in regardless of how atrocious the show is...
and ahem, let's face it 99% of Marsters choices have been atrociously bad...will give him this, he does lose himself in roles, I barely recognize him and think, whoa, this is the same actor who played Spike? Okaaay. I'm getting better about that though...I did not check out the Prisoner reprise, even though Ian McKellan was in it.

Name an actor who would make you less likely to watch a show:

None really, if there are enough reasons for me to watch the show otherwise (i.e. premise, writers, other actors, etc.).

Name a show you can, and do, quote from:

Sigh. Buffy. Although not so much anymore. I'm horrid at remembering quotes. Quotes and names. Anything oral - I have no memory of. If I see it, I can remember it. If I write it down, never forgotten. But heard? Forget the next minute.

Name a show you like that no one else enjoys:

"No one" is a bit exaggarated, but sigh...do you want a list?? Hmmm, probably Smallville.

Name a TV show which you've been known to sing the theme song:

First - I don't sing. Second - I can't remember tunes. But that said, Suicide is Painless, you go through so many changes...oh suicide is painless after all...otherwise known as the brilliant theme to MASH. Black absurdist humor, with depth.

Name a show you would recommend everyone to watch:

Current show? I'm with selenak: The Good Wife. Chock full of great female characters, interacting with each other (the men are interesting as well), layered writing and good acting. Dead and gone show? Uh. See mileage differs...but I'd probably recommend Buffy, which continues to this day to be my favorite show of all time.

Name a TV series you own:

Buffy. (And now apparently Farscape...that makes two full tv series. Whoa. Now watch DVD players will go the way of VHS players which is the way of 8 track players...and I'll have to suck it up and get Blue Ray. I hate technology. OR rather I hate the people who feel the need to keep updating it every five seconds. )

What is your favourite episode of your favourite series?

Once More with Feeling from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it has everything I want in a tv show - songs, dance numbers, self-deprecating and at times slyly absurd humor, impossible romance,
horror, and a kick-ass heroine with an attitude.

A show you mean to watch, but you just haven't gotten around to yet:

The Wire.

Ever quit watching a show because it was so bad?

Alas. Heroes. (and several others won't bore you with...) 24 - tried different times, but it gets on my nerves - I don't buy the gimmick - there is no way you can get across LA in two minutes. Also the pro-torture stance and politics bug me. The season with Paul Blackthorne as the villian was by far the most palatable and the best.
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