I do feel like everyone should watch M*A*S*H before talking about TV. Well, not really, but it helps. While I have a decentish background with sitcoms and the Star Treks, my knowledge of TV drama is limited -- I need to see NYPD Blue and Homicide and Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere, plus Babylon 5 and Farscape and the like. I'm (re)watching Cheers right now. I am admittedly very poorly read, unfortunately, but I'm trying to catch myself up. About the only area where I'm pretty confident is in movies.
I agree about AtS. I like season two, and I like, with caveats, the end of season three -- Loyalty onward. I also love Lullaby. In season three, I'm interested in Wesley, Holtz, Justine, Darla, Lilah, and (teen/adult) Connor, and sometimes Angel when he interacts with the above. I find Fred and Gunn interesting in season four (after the professor's murder), but emphatically not in season three. Season one bores me except for a few key episodes -- Tim Minear's, and the Faith episodes, and Blind Date -- and I think Hero is bolstered by a good performance by Glenn Quinn but is otherwise dull and heavy-handed. Season four and five, while some of the messiest seasons, are the ones that grip me by far the most. To an extent I actually think this ties in with the gardening/architect metaphor -- season two, before the Pylea arc, is pretty well structured, whereas season five is all over the place, but season five hits on a greater number of interesting ideas. I feel like season one and the first two thirds of season three are neither good gardening nor good architecture, though....
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Date: 2012-03-23 10:59 pm (UTC)I agree about AtS. I like season two, and I like, with caveats, the end of season three -- Loyalty onward. I also love Lullaby. In season three, I'm interested in Wesley, Holtz, Justine, Darla, Lilah, and (teen/adult) Connor, and sometimes Angel when he interacts with the above. I find Fred and Gunn interesting in season four (after the professor's murder), but emphatically not in season three. Season one bores me except for a few key episodes -- Tim Minear's, and the Faith episodes, and Blind Date -- and I think Hero is bolstered by a good performance by Glenn Quinn but is otherwise dull and heavy-handed. Season four and five, while some of the messiest seasons, are the ones that grip me by far the most. To an extent I actually think this ties in with the gardening/architect metaphor -- season two, before the Pylea arc, is pretty well structured, whereas season five is all over the place, but season five hits on a greater number of interesting ideas. I feel like season one and the first two thirds of season three are neither good gardening nor good architecture, though....