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Just for funsies

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:33:22 GMT

Shows that both my wife and I watch:
Sherlock
White Collar
Doctor Who
Justified
Haven
Castle
Once Upon a Time

Average of about 2 hours a week.

Shows that my wife watches without me:
Elementary
Downton Abbey -- I need to start this one
Bones
Revenge
Suits
Covert Affairs
Beauty and the Beast
Newsroom
Warehouse 13 -- I haven't decided on this one yet

Average about 3 hours a week.

Shows that I watch without my wife:
Clone Wars
Game of Thrones
Venture Brothers

Average about half an hour a week.

My total average per week: ~2.5 hours
BJD's total average per week: ~5 hours

And that's not counting movies, recently finished shows (Leverage, Fringe), shows we used to watch that are still going (Burn Notice), or non-ongoing shows that one or both of us are finally getting around to watching (Dollhouse, Joan of Arcadia, Brisco County Jr.).

We watch TV, yo.

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Dirk Gently

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:36:18 GMT

I finally got around to actually watching Dirk Gently and I cannot. Stop. Laughing.

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Doctor Who awesome

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:06:21 GMT

If you've seen the new series, check this out.

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Oh, I kill me

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:37:55 GMT

I had a fleeting idea for a Torchwood/Buffy crossover this morning and then realized that if I were true to the original creators' visions, everyone would end up dead by page 10. :-P

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Torchwood

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:09:10 GMT

Fuck you, Russell T. Davies. Burn in hell.

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Am I a bad person

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:21:07 GMT

If every time the elder Stark daughter shows her stupid face I want to punch it? Possibly with spikes?

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Screw you, depression

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:33:05 GMT

I have an amazing girlfriend who brings out the best in me, makes me laugh, and will always be there for me.

My good friends just gave birth to a lovely baby girl with an absolutely fabulous name.

I get to go visit my closest friend-family tonight and have tea and play with their wonderful kid.

I'm making plans on visiting other out-of-town friends instead of waiting for them to come to me.

I'm buying a sexy laptop.

People want to play in the games I run, and tell me so.

White Collar is back today.

The book I'm reading is good.

So BUGGER OFF, depression. My life is pretty awesome right now.

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A moment of fannish glee

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:58:33 GMT

I promised myself that I wouldn't watch Season 10 of Smallville until it was over, and now I'm going back through it. I just had to drop a note to say: "GOD DAMN am I happy to see Lionel Luthor chewing the scenery again."

Seriously. Glee!

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TV Calendar

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:01:50 GMT

White Collar: Tuesday, June 7
Burn Notice: Thursday, June 23
Leverage: Sunday, June 26
Torchwood: Friday, July 8
Haven: Friday, July 15
Sherlock: Fall
Clone Wars: Fall
Doctor Who: returns Fall

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Comprehension dawns

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:23:10 GMT

After watching this week's Game of Thrones, it finally hit me:

They're all screwed, aren't they. Every single character. All of them. Screwed. Irrevocably.

For whatever reason I hadn't realized I was watching a post-modern Shakespearean tragedy.

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So I finally caught the season finale of Castle

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:27:54 GMT

And I thought, "Yes. Hell yes. This is what television is supposed to look like."

Except that it was a lot louder, and with more swearing.

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Reaction: Day of the Moon

Mon, 02 May 2011 19:34:18 GMT

( Spoilers. )

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Insta-reaction: The Impossible Astronaut

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:07:30 GMT

( Spoilers! )

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True friendship

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:30:58 GMT

...is not watching the new Doctor Who while you wait for someone else to come over.

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Game of Thrones tv

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:31:03 GMT

I think I may have been oversold on this a little. I haven't read the books yet, but from what I understand a lot of what makes them so good is that the world is so richly dark-- full of violence, betrayal, grit, sex, and tragedy. It's very much the kind of series that belongs on HBO. The problem for me is that actually seeing someone's guts fall out or two people rutting like minxes snaps me out of the drama pretty much every time. In my imagination it's terrifying and sexy, but on screen I've never seen a severed head that didn't look fake and almost no nudity that didn't feel staged.

The first episode is also very much the flying overview of characters; the cast is enormous and there are a lot of people to introduce. My expectation is that we're going to get a hell of a lot of character development going forward, but it will take time. Like any other series, they're opening with the overture and we'll start getting the individual themes later.

It has the potential to be very, very good. It's extremely well put together television in all respects. But I'm not instantly sold and it wasn't realistic to expect me to be.

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Oh my freaking god

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:31:41 GMT

Classic Doctor Who fans, check out these shirts.

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The Day the Movies Died

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:22:35 GMT

Via Rotten Tomatoes.

There's a bit where the author talks about the marginalization of women as a potential audience that's... worded poorly... but otherwise it's an interesting article.

It also underscores what a lot of us have been saying for a long time: we watch tv instead of movies because the quality is quite simply higher. I can stack pretty much any two episodes of White Collar against pretty much any heist/action/comedy picture last year and I can guarantee with 95% certainty which one is going to be smarter, classier, more human, and less hackneyed.

Per the last episode, it's Cary Grant versus Ratso Rizzo.

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Doctor Who in a nutshell

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:55:25 GMT

Link.

I really need to start pointing people at this as I introduce them to the show.

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I <3 Matt Smith

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:31:01 GMT

So, I've been watching the last season of Doctor Who again. Can I just say how nice it is after two blistering competent and bossy Doctors to have one that's daffy, vulnerable, and a little incompetent?

It's brilliant.

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Life is weird

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:07:41 GMT

I'm avoiding the obvious joke, but I'd just like to say I'm jealous of both of them.

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Because crossover humor is the best humor

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:26:47 GMT

If comics were psychic.

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Why was I not informed?!?

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:05:16 GMT

Dirk Gently as a real TV show?

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10 more random fannish things

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:44:49 GMT

The successor to this note which in turn followed from this one.

1) I'm watching more television now than at any previous point in my adult life: Castle, Venture Brothers, Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures, Fringe, Smallville, Burn Notice, White Collar, Leverage, Human Target... and I'm sure I'm forgetting some. If you ran all my shows together in one sitting it'd be like Saturday morning when I was a kid.

2) There are only two game shows I will ever love: Whose Line Is It Anyway (the British version) and QI. In other words, game shows that aren't really game shows but excuses to get neat people together to do neat things. I love the fact that they both embrace failure and that both crews are always willing to embarrass themselves for the greater laugh.

3) The Kids in the Hall were my Monty Python growing up. I loved the Pythons then and I love them even more now, but the Kids were the ones that me and my friends would rush back from classes to eat in front of.

4) I try only to keep books that I want other people to read, and that goes double for graphic novels. About a third of my comic library is floating around to different people at any given time. Right now I have one friend reading 100 Bullets and another reading Fables, and I'm waiting gleefully to start passing around Ex Machina and Astro City.

5) Every year I set myself a media consumption goal. For three years the goal was to watch 100 movies in 12 months, and I made it every time. Since then I've mostly fallen off the movie wagon--the last couple of years I've seen maybe a dozen new movies per annum if I was lucky. Recently, however, I got Netflix... and built a collected queue of about 200 in under two weeks. It still grows every time I look at it. I haven't even touched it for television series.

6) In the car earlier today I was reflecting that I really need to get a copy of Brick, LA Confidential, and Wag the Dog now that I have a real job and can afford it. Wag the Dog has a special place in my heart, and anyone who loves it is always welcome in my house.

7) A couple of weeks ago I found someone else who was introduced to The Prisoner by watching Harlan Ellison do an all-day marathon on the SciFi Channel in his bathrobe. It made me so happy.

8) I never got around to watching Buffy even though I always intended to. It was one of those series that everyone hyped up so much that I didn't want to touch it with a ten foot pole. I'll probably start cranking through it some time next year, safely insulated from the show's attached phenomenon.

9) There's a local comic shop that I love dearly and have been supporting for ten years now. I started off there because I wanted to get in on J. Michael Straczynski's Rising Stars from the ground floor, being a big fan of superheroes and Babylon 5. I ended up hating it by the end (and his current run on Wonder Woman makes me want to shake him really hard), but I do owe him a little gratitude for the hundreds of comics by other writers that I now have in my house.

10) I love bad movies. My dad used to watch MST3K with me (my mom and my sister didn't think it was funny at all), and eventually I branched out with my friends to start heckling movies ourselves. Old favorites include Zardoz ("Starring Sean Connery's chest hair."), Sinbad of the Seven Seas ("Oh no, not the nipple trick again."), Beastmaster 2 ("Some guy masters some beasts. He's done this before, apparently."), Dungeons and Dragons ("I attempt to disbelieve!"), and many others.

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