TV-series that I currently follow
Not long ago, movies was the new black. Everyone watched movies. Movies were shown on TV and in the cinemas. Even more not so long ago, people started downloading movies from the internet, and thus more and more people watched movies.
Movies started to get boring thought. To watch a movie where you might get attached to the characters, and then they suddenly drop out of your scope when the movie ends. And if the director was even slightly wrong in the head, you didn’t actually connect with the characters at all in the timeframe of the movie.
Enter TV-series! Today many people are downloading TV-series instead. I know I am. In TV-series you can take your time developing the characters and introducing a story arch. There’s plenty of time to twist the plot around until your head spins and you ache to know how it all ends!
There are drawbacks of course, with TV-series. First one is the lack of finishing off story archs and essentially leave us hanging. This is the case with Lost, which I stopped watching right at the beginning of season 2, and am waiting for it to finish and see if they managed to tie up all the lose ends in a satisfactory way.
Second one is that the TV-networks may decide to cancel the show before we get to know how the story ends! As was the case with Surface and Threshold. Extremely annoying!
Nevertheless, I’ve watched many TV-series, and currently I’m following these (the links below lead to www.tv.com and I recommend using Adblock with Firefox if you want to start using the site, many ads they do have):
- Supernatural - Into it’s second season, and unfortunately getting worse. Two brothers battle ghosts and other evil creatures.
- Veronica Mars - Into it’s third season, and fortunately only gets better! A school girl as detective. Very smart show.
- Heroes - First season now running, it’s one of the best shows out there today! Ordinary people around the world wake up with super powers.
- Battlestar Galactica - Third season running right now, one of the other best shows out there. Really dark science fiction! I love it! Remake of the old TV-series; humans on the run from Cylons, robots they themselves once created.
- Torchwood - First season just started, a spin off of the new Dr Who series - has potential. Secret undercover agency in UK, created centuries ago, seeks to protect earth from alien threats.
- Ghost Hunters - Third season just finished, I like this show a lot! Documentary with soap like qualities about TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) searching for ghosts, but they go into a place trying to debunk there’s a haunting. It has almost turned me into a believer. No actors in this show.
JenEriC wrote,
Firefox with Ad-block is teh way to go. :pom:
Gotta go and check some of those shows out!
November 21st 2006 at 20:40 (8:40 pm) — Using
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Edward Aschan wrote,
Don’t forget these cancelled gems:
Firefly - an excellent series that got cancelled after one season. Luckily Josh Weadon managed to get the funding to do a movie that tied up all loose ends.
Babylon 5 - Crusade: Started of as a mediocre series, got progressively worse to suddenly get inte true jms gear. You just _had_ to know what was going to happen next. And that’s when they cancelled it, after just over half a season.
November 21st 2006 at 22:06 (10:06 pm) — Using
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Mika Perälä wrote,
Ooo yeah, Firefox rocks! Hehe, tell me if you find any of them appealing!
Yeah, I’m going to write a post about past TV-shows too
Going to try to rank them.
November 21st 2006 at 23:45 (11:45 pm) — Using
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Traian wrote,
You should give also a try to “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”. And if you enjoy sitcoms, “How I met your mother” is the new “Friends”.
November 22nd 2006 at 00:40 (12:40 am) — Using
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Mika Perälä wrote,
Thanks Traian! This is the third time I see the Studio-show mentioned! Time to look it up!
Yeah, “How I met your mother” also features Alyson Hannigan, aka Willow from Buffy the vampire slayer, so I’m definitively going to look it up!
November 22nd 2006 at 03:21 (3:21 am) — Using
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Mari wrote,
Since Battlestar Galactica is a re-make of a 70’s series, I guess you can find out how it ends.
I started watching Supernatural, but forgot to watch it this monday, I guess that’s my unconscious way to say it sucks! The only thing I got out of it was to try and name what kind of entity they were up against before they themselves mentioned it. I won both times… So, a series that’s only a kind of supernatural Wikipedia with two not even remotely interesting bland guys - nah, not my test tube of blood!
November 22nd 2006 at 10:45 (10:45 am) — Using
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Mari wrote,
Oh, I forgot: the TV-series I’d really would like to see: “Spike”! But with my script. And me as leading lady. Good thing I’ve got a vivid imagination.
November 22nd 2006 at 10:55 (10:55 am) — Using
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Jens wrote,
Another really good tv series that got canceled way to soon was Profit. It was originally shown on tv in 1996 and it became available on DVD in 2005. I have the dvd:s but I haven’t seen the series since it was aired in -96 so it might not be as good as I remember ….
November 23rd 2006 at 12:21 (12:21 pm) — Using
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Windows 2000