TV Slut Meme from various people...

[shadowkat]

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.

Name a show you aren't interested in watching, not in the least:

The Bachelor (ewww) and Real Housewives

Name a show that's made you cry multiple times:

Several. Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Buffy, Battlestar Galatica, Desperate Housewives (weird I know)

Oldest TV show you like?

Kimba - premiered in the 1960s, but it isn't still around. General Hospital (been on since 1970s). Doctor Who? - Not sure that one counts, since unlike General Hospital it doesn't have actors who were actually on it in the 1970s.

Newest TV show you like?

Caprica and The Good Wife.

What do you eat when you watch TV?

Depends on whether I want to loose weight or not.

How often do you watch TV?

I plead the fifth.

Do you have a favorite talk show?

No.

What's the last TV show you watched?

Leverage

What's your favourite/preferred genre of TV?

Sci-Fi/Fantasy, she says defiantly.

What's your least favourite genre of TV?

Game shows, talk shows, and reality tv.

What was the first TV show you were obsessed with?

Kimba. (later ripped off by Disney when they made The Lion King, but hey, they ripped off Hamlet as well, so Kimba was in good company), which I watched as a toddler and invented new stories for. Highly inventive tv show - with lots of room to write and invent own stories. Was rather obsessed. Kimba was my first tv crush. Followed closely thereafter with The Monkees and Davy Jones.

What TV show do you wish you never watched?

Uhm...can't really think of one at the moment.

What's the weirdest show you enjoyed?

Twin Peaks.

What TV show scared you the most?

Again drawing a blank - but probably Rod Serling's Night Gallery and Space 1999 episode about the plant people.

What is the funniest TV show you have ever watched?

MASH - the first season. Also...hmmm, lots of shows.

Which do you think is the best TV series ever made?

First season of BSG, maybe. I don't know. Seen too many. They all have their pluses and minuses.

Comments

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who? - Not sure that one counts, since unlike General Hospital it doesn't have actors who were actually on it in the 1970s.

What about Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith)? ;-)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Don't know...do rare guest-starring appearances count?
I think she was in a total of four episodes in the New WHO. And she's the only one from the former versions that I know about.

(Not sure you can count the Sarah Jane Adventures...)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

do rare guest-starring appearances count?

Alright, the TARDIS, then? Surely she counts as a character? :-)

Oh, and you really should watch The Wire. Incredible show, and I say that as someone who's usually bored stiff by cop shows.

Teaser 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i8za-fUnqU)

Teaser 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM) (very NSFW)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Alright, the TARDIS, then? Surely she counts as a character? :-)

Oh yes. Okay, you got me there. Plus, you can argue that the universe and concept are more or less constant, unlike say Star Trek...which changed.


Oh, and you really should watch The Wire. Incredible show, and I say that as someone who's usually bored stiff by cop shows.

thanks for the rec! (you're the third person, whose taste I trust, that has heavily rec'd that show).

usually bored stiff by copy shows

Hee. Me too. With the exception of the excellent Homicide Life on the Streets and Hill Street Blues, although I did enjoy the BBC series Life on Mars for the pure surrealism.
I think Homicide ruined me for cop shows.

I keep meaning to watch the Wire. My brother raves about it - sent the first season to my parents for Xmas (I got Dr. Horrible). It's three down on my netflix queue. I just have to be in the right mood. (very moody

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

You know that The Wire is made by the same people who made Homicide, right? It's essentially the same feel, only with a much bigger scope, and without network censorship...

And I used to love Hill Street Blues. I'm afraid to re-watch, though.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

You know that The Wire is made by the same people who made Homicide, right?

I did not know that. (For some reason I thought it was by the same guys who did the Sheild...which is another series I always meant to watch but never got around to it.)

And I used to love Hill Street Blues. I'm afraid to re-watch, though.

Sigh. Me too. Me too. (I haven't seen it since it first aired.) Some tv shows do not survive the test of time.

Be curious to see what I think of Buffy in fifteen years.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

The Shield is really good too, though nowhere near the Great American Novel that The Wire is. It's got several Angel writers, and Shaun Ryan (showrunner) learned a thing or two from Joss. Plus, some really good actors. It drags in places, but the s5 finale is one of the best hours of television I've ever seen.