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Day 4 - Your favorite show ever
This is a difficult question for me. There are three real contenders for this top spot, and they are:
1. The X-Files
2. Gilmore Girls
3. Veronica Mars
I watched the X-Files religiously when it started in 1993. (This was honestly kind of odd, because I was a senior in college in the fall of 1993 and watched almost no television. However, as I recall, the X-Files aired on Friday evenings in those days. Being as it was college, we would watch the show BEFORE we went out on Friday nights. (Compare this to my most recent Friday night...wherein my family ate curried beef stew, watched "Muppets from Space", and we all were in bed by 10PM. The 1993 me was up a lot later than the 2010 version of me.)
Anyway, I was a big fan from the beginning and I stayed loyal to the show throughout its run. (When my husband and I lived in Japan from 1995 thru 1996, we were not able to get first run episodes of the show. although we were able to rent prior Seasons, in English, at a video store close to our apartment in Japan, which was pretty lucky for us.) (Considering that our other English options were Doogie Howser MD and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and Twin Peaks, the X-Files was pretty great to have.) (We did watch the other shows, though, because, sometimes you just get desperate for entertainment in your own language.) (I actually loved Twin Peaks, until the last episode and the nightmare that was Fire Walk With Me, and those made me so frustrated with the writer that I am sour on the whole show.)
(This entry has really taken off on some parenthetical tangents, hasn't it?)
I was actually watching an episode of the X-Files when I went into labor with my son in 2000. (And I have never seen the end of that particular episode.)
My point is, I have a huge history with Mulder & Scully, so I am tempted to say that X-Files is my favorite show ever.
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BUT, then there is Gilmore Girls. I didn't start watching GG until the fifth season. I caught an episode with a girlfriend of mine, and it was funny and the dialogue was great and I was intrigued by the characters. I borrowed the other seasons on DVD from my friend and I gobbled up the first three seasons in about a month's time, and I proceeded to watch the other Seasons in order as they were released on DVD, and I watched the last Season as it aired. I have a lot of love for Rory and Lorelei and Luke and Jess and Sookie and Kurt. I pull out my DVDs of this show when I'm feeling like I want some comfort food in the form of a television show, so, in that way, GG is a favorite show of mine.
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BUT, and again with BUT - there is Veronica Mars. VM sucked me in like no other television show has ever sucked me in. I was hooked from about five minutes into the pilot. (I was watching the show on DVDs from Netflix, and I lost more than one night's sleep because I stayed up until 2AM watching episodes. Because I didn't want to have to wait for the Season 2 premiere episode to come from Netflix, I actually drove to Meijer after finishing the last episode of Season 1 bought Season 2 that same night. I just HAD to know who was at the door!!!)
VM is the only show that I have truly felt compelled to write fanfiction for, and one of the very fews shows I will read fanfiction for. I've spent a lot of time at this blog writing about VM (and I've now wasted way to much time writing this post) - but after weighing all three contenders for favorite show...I'm going to have to say that VM is the one.
So, Day 4, favorite tv show ever - Veronica Mars. :-)
This is a difficult question for me. There are three real contenders for this top spot, and they are:
1. The X-Files
2. Gilmore Girls
3. Veronica Mars
I watched the X-Files religiously when it started in 1993. (This was honestly kind of odd, because I was a senior in college in the fall of 1993 and watched almost no television. However, as I recall, the X-Files aired on Friday evenings in those days. Being as it was college, we would watch the show BEFORE we went out on Friday nights. (Compare this to my most recent Friday night...wherein my family ate curried beef stew, watched "Muppets from Space", and we all were in bed by 10PM. The 1993 me was up a lot later than the 2010 version of me.)
Anyway, I was a big fan from the beginning and I stayed loyal to the show throughout its run. (When my husband and I lived in Japan from 1995 thru 1996, we were not able to get first run episodes of the show. although we were able to rent prior Seasons, in English, at a video store close to our apartment in Japan, which was pretty lucky for us.) (Considering that our other English options were Doogie Howser MD and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and Twin Peaks, the X-Files was pretty great to have.) (We did watch the other shows, though, because, sometimes you just get desperate for entertainment in your own language.) (I actually loved Twin Peaks, until the last episode and the nightmare that was Fire Walk With Me, and those made me so frustrated with the writer that I am sour on the whole show.)
(This entry has really taken off on some parenthetical tangents, hasn't it?)
I was actually watching an episode of the X-Files when I went into labor with my son in 2000. (And I have never seen the end of that particular episode.)
My point is, I have a huge history with Mulder & Scully, so I am tempted to say that X-Files is my favorite show ever.
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BUT, then there is Gilmore Girls. I didn't start watching GG until the fifth season. I caught an episode with a girlfriend of mine, and it was funny and the dialogue was great and I was intrigued by the characters. I borrowed the other seasons on DVD from my friend and I gobbled up the first three seasons in about a month's time, and I proceeded to watch the other Seasons in order as they were released on DVD, and I watched the last Season as it aired. I have a lot of love for Rory and Lorelei and Luke and Jess and Sookie and Kurt. I pull out my DVDs of this show when I'm feeling like I want some comfort food in the form of a television show, so, in that way, GG is a favorite show of mine.
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BUT, and again with BUT - there is Veronica Mars. VM sucked me in like no other television show has ever sucked me in. I was hooked from about five minutes into the pilot. (I was watching the show on DVDs from Netflix, and I lost more than one night's sleep because I stayed up until 2AM watching episodes. Because I didn't want to have to wait for the Season 2 premiere episode to come from Netflix, I actually drove to Meijer after finishing the last episode of Season 1 bought Season 2 that same night. I just HAD to know who was at the door!!!)
VM is the only show that I have truly felt compelled to write fanfiction for, and one of the very fews shows I will read fanfiction for. I've spent a lot of time at this blog writing about VM (and I've now wasted way to much time writing this post) - but after weighing all three contenders for favorite show...I'm going to have to say that VM is the one.
So, Day 4, favorite tv show ever - Veronica Mars. :-)
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Heh--in college, we used to watch Star Trek: TNG on Saturdays *before* going out.
I also was watching VM on Netflix DVDs, and after watching the s1 finale, I went to Best Buy the next day to buy s2. Great minds... :)
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Regarding celtic_flicka's comment, I got thru my incredibly tedious steady weekend job in the late eighties, only because I knew that STNG was waiting for me on video when I got home. And when I lived in Spain, it was STNG tie-in fiction that kept me sane (well, relatively). (Now I read VM smut on my phone on the job to keep from going nuts. Ah, technology.)
Uh, I don't do memes, but I'm completely with you on favorite show—but my runners-up are Firefly, the aforementioned STNG, Farscape, and the first season of Six Feet Under. And possibly (also surprisingly) Cheers.
I did watch The X-Files and mostly liked it. Gilmore Girls--I watched the first few seasons, and then I just couldn't tolerate it any more. I think that Sookie was my biggest pet peeve on the show, but also Lorelai just got irritating. (Do you know that some people {Ausiello et al} use the term "Sookie" to refer to zapping through unwanted content on your DVR?)
To conclude: And you thought I was just about the angst.