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shadowkatWell, I either have a ghost or am merely absent-minded, since I keep coming home from work and discovering a light left on that I swore I turned off. I'm guessing the latter. Since it hasn't happened before. Busy brain.
Sci-Fantasy Genre Fan Co-worker and I have a wierd discussion about fantasy/sci-fi tv again, this is always odd. And I realized afterwards, that I really am an obnoxious tv geek. I sound like the guys on Big Bang Theory. Why-ever do you put up with me? Seriously? You know you watched too much tv, when you can explain the trope, how the pattern works, know who the writers and producers and actors are, what they've been in before, and the plot without looking anything up. Co-worker was holding his own, even if he watches a lot less tv than I do (probably doesn't write about it - when you write about tv, it does tend to stick with you longer) but he was wrong about one thing - the producers of Star-Gate are not the producers of Once, even though half the actors on Once used to appear on Star-Gate in small roles (which explains why so many of them look familiar - I did watch bits and pieces of Star-Gate over the years, trying to figure out the appeal. I still don't get it, but Co-Worker is an unabashed Star-Gate fanatic. I'm really not.) I tried to explain to Co-worker, who enjoyed Grimm, why it didn't work for me - it's mainly because I've watched too many episodes of similar tv shows. I've burned out on the trope. Co-worker thinks I should give it another chance, after all, he pointed out - Star Trek was a bit on the clunky side when it began. (He's not wrong, except I'm not sure Star Trek ever got better...but shh...don't tell the Trekkies I said that. This is however true of 80% of the tv shows I've seen in my life-time. Few start out of the gate brilliant, well unless they are on HBO or Showtime, which do not count. I'm also wondering if Grimm doesn't appeal to a specific demographic? Co-worker is 58. And male. Eh. Stupid to generalize. He loved Once Upon a Time too. ) But, alas, I'm currently watching far too many shows as it is - to make room for shows that don't hold my interest. I have 30 I'm taping, at least I think it's 30, I haven't really counted. I just know I am taping more than I can watch. DVR's are dangerous things for tv addicts. It's like giving a kid an unlimited pass to an amusement park.
My Favorite Scarey (actually not that scarey - I tend to be a nervous person, so really don't need the adrenaline rush, have enough troubles sleeping on my own thanks - don't need help) TV Shows and Scarey TV Episodes
1. Hush - Buffy S4
2. Twin Peaks - the series (season 1) - season 2 creeped me out.
3. American Gothic - the series
4. American Horror Story - the pilot, so far that's the scariest episode, with the creepy scene with rubber man. Yes, I know I said it wasn't scary at the time - changed my mind.
5. The episode where Angelus plays mind games with everyone and sings about the day Teddy Bears have a picnic directed by a former hobbit which I can't remember the name of. (Angel S4) (Scariest and creepiest episode, which I still find difficult to watch - "I Fall to Pieces.")
6. Early Twilight Zone episodes by Rod Serling
7. Walking Dead - the first episode or pilot
8. Stephan King's The Stand mini-series, runner-up Stephen King's IT miniseries
9. The Kingdom by Lars Von Striers (mini-series) - haven't seen? Rent. Brilliant. Best of Von Stries. I like it better than his movies.
10. The X-Files episode with Lily Tomlin and Ed Asner as crochety ghosts. I love that episode.
Sci-Fantasy Genre Fan Co-worker and I have a wierd discussion about fantasy/sci-fi tv again, this is always odd. And I realized afterwards, that I really am an obnoxious tv geek. I sound like the guys on Big Bang Theory. Why-ever do you put up with me? Seriously? You know you watched too much tv, when you can explain the trope, how the pattern works, know who the writers and producers and actors are, what they've been in before, and the plot without looking anything up. Co-worker was holding his own, even if he watches a lot less tv than I do (probably doesn't write about it - when you write about tv, it does tend to stick with you longer) but he was wrong about one thing - the producers of Star-Gate are not the producers of Once, even though half the actors on Once used to appear on Star-Gate in small roles (which explains why so many of them look familiar - I did watch bits and pieces of Star-Gate over the years, trying to figure out the appeal. I still don't get it, but Co-Worker is an unabashed Star-Gate fanatic. I'm really not.) I tried to explain to Co-worker, who enjoyed Grimm, why it didn't work for me - it's mainly because I've watched too many episodes of similar tv shows. I've burned out on the trope. Co-worker thinks I should give it another chance, after all, he pointed out - Star Trek was a bit on the clunky side when it began. (He's not wrong, except I'm not sure Star Trek ever got better...but shh...don't tell the Trekkies I said that. This is however true of 80% of the tv shows I've seen in my life-time. Few start out of the gate brilliant, well unless they are on HBO or Showtime, which do not count. I'm also wondering if Grimm doesn't appeal to a specific demographic? Co-worker is 58. And male. Eh. Stupid to generalize. He loved Once Upon a Time too. ) But, alas, I'm currently watching far too many shows as it is - to make room for shows that don't hold my interest. I have 30 I'm taping, at least I think it's 30, I haven't really counted. I just know I am taping more than I can watch. DVR's are dangerous things for tv addicts. It's like giving a kid an unlimited pass to an amusement park.
My Favorite Scarey (actually not that scarey - I tend to be a nervous person, so really don't need the adrenaline rush, have enough troubles sleeping on my own thanks - don't need help) TV Shows and Scarey TV Episodes
1. Hush - Buffy S4
2. Twin Peaks - the series (season 1) - season 2 creeped me out.
3. American Gothic - the series
4. American Horror Story - the pilot, so far that's the scariest episode, with the creepy scene with rubber man. Yes, I know I said it wasn't scary at the time - changed my mind.
5. The episode where Angelus plays mind games with everyone and sings about the day Teddy Bears have a picnic directed by a former hobbit which I can't remember the name of. (Angel S4) (Scariest and creepiest episode, which I still find difficult to watch - "I Fall to Pieces.")
6. Early Twilight Zone episodes by Rod Serling
7. Walking Dead - the first episode or pilot
8. Stephan King's The Stand mini-series, runner-up Stephen King's IT miniseries
9. The Kingdom by Lars Von Striers (mini-series) - haven't seen? Rent. Brilliant. Best of Von Stries. I like it better than his movies.
10. The X-Files episode with Lily Tomlin and Ed Asner as crochety ghosts. I love that episode.
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Date: 2011-10-31 11:21 pm (UTC)1. BtVS Conversations With Dead People (altho I agree: Hush is even better)
2. The Shining (the first version w/Jack Nicholson)
3. Halloween (the first w/Jamie Lee Curtis)
4. Psycho (the first w/Janet Lee)
5. Shawn of the Dead (I know it is hilarious, that's why it is a favorite)
6. Zombieland (a nice mix of scary and funny)
7. 'The Crawling Eye' and 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' and others of that early VERY silly creepy film fun.
8. Alien (scary sci-fi fun with a strong female character who takes over completely in:) Aliens
9. Lost Boys (my favorite of the teen vamp movies)
10. and of course I have to say the early Twilight Zone, even though you named it on your list, because I LOVED those (even though many of them scared me).
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Date: 2011-10-31 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 01:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 02:30 am (UTC)and kudos to everyone who said 'Blink' (because THAT was definitely scary)
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Date: 2011-11-01 01:18 am (UTC)Very creepy episode and by far one of the better ones of the series. (Now if only the rest of S7 had been as well crafted...but alas, that's network tv for you. No time. No budget. But considering they couldn't get the actors they wanted, a bang up job.)
* Agree on all of the movies you listed. Although I prefer "Tremors" to the one's listed in 7. Less creepy. And a lot funnier. Adore Tremors.
* And Lost Boys was listed as one of the inspirations for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In fact I think the name of the town is the same...
It is by far my favorite vampire movie. Keifer Sutherland is the original bad boy vampire.
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Date: 2011-11-01 08:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 12:50 am (UTC)Straight-up scary:
1) "Home," X-Files, (They were mutants! And they kept Mom under the bed! Eeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) :shudder:
Favorite episodes (no order)
* "Marionette", Fringe, since I don't think you've reached that episode yet, I won't say.
* "Blink," Doctor Who (the original "Weeping Angels" episode)
* "Bad Blood", X-Files, the one with the vampires in Texas and the "he said/she said" format
* "A More Permanent Hell" Forever Knight (the one where they thought that an asteroid was going to hit the earth, so Natalie wanted to become a vampire. And LaCroix explained to Nick that it's not that Vampires won't die, it's that they'll die slower because if all the people and animals are dead, what will vampires feed off of?)
* " Invaders", The Twilight Zone (Something is in the old ladies' attic. It's an alien, and it's terrorizing her... and the alien turns out to be earth astronauts)
* "Hush", Buffy
* "Post-Modern Prometheus", X-Files (the one that's an amusing rif on Frankenstein)
* "Reunion", Angel (the one where Angel allows the lawyers to be eaten)
* "The Stand" (80s mini-series)
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Date: 2011-11-01 01:13 am (UTC)Just finished S2 of Fringe. Haven't gotten S3 yet.
"Blink," Doctor Who (the original "Weeping Angels" episode)
Definitely. I forgot about that one. Close second is Silence in the Library.
The piranhas of the air really unnerved me. Clever, clever Moffat.
"Bad Blood", X-Files, the one with the vampires in Texas and the "he said/she said" format
Ah, two of my favorite X-Files episodes...also like the one about the body swap, although they did that more than once.
"A More Permanent Hell" Forever Knight (the one where they thought that an asteroid was going to hit the earth, so Natalie wanted to become a vampire. And LaCroix explained to Nick that it's not that Vampires won't die, it's that they'll die slower because if all the people and animals are dead, what will vampires feed off of?)
Odd, can't remember that one. But it was admittedly a long time ago when I watched Forever Knight, and I did miss a few episodes due to the fact that the channel they were on kept disappearing on me. It came it, and went out, depending on the weather.
" Invaders", The Twilight Zone (Something is in the old ladies' attic. It's an alien, and it's terrorizing her... and the alien turns out to be earth astronauts)
Whoa...clever. That I haven't seen. Or I have a vague recollection. Really clever concept.
"Reunion", Angel (the one where Angel allows the lawyers to be eaten)
Favorite S2 episode, except they let Lilah and Lindsey stay alive...because they liked them. LOL! And Angel has to have someone left to torment him.
Also should be noted that it was specifically the lawyers of WRH.
The Stand" (80s mini-series)
By far the best cast. And actually better than the book, surprisingly enough.
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Date: 2011-11-01 02:41 am (UTC)They had a lot of spooky episodes that frightened me as a kid that just seem silly to me now... But of course the bomb shelter one (where the neighbors turn on each other) is always incredibly scary.