So I finally bought House on DVD. I have been watching them straight through Spring break, just kinda laying in my room and watching every episode. It's one of those amazing shows that if you watch the first 2 minutes, you have to watch the whole episode. I haven't been that drawn into a show since Stargate SG1.

So here's the new topic. What's your favorite TV show of all time and why? is it th plot, the characters, the interplay, the drama? And just a warning, if anyone says Degrassi or South of Nowhere or any of those other Teen Drama shows i will hunt you down and stab you in the jaw. Those don't even count as quality prgramming. They were designed exclusively for 12 year old girls who like to think that's what high school is like.

So sound off! Lets hear it!

CSI: Vegas and Scrubs are my favorites followed by the Daily Show and Colbert Report. I don't watch much TV it is bad for the mind. If it wasn't for Steven Colbert and John Stewart I wouldn't have any need Satellite at all.

Best show I've ever seen was HBO's Carnivale. It was practically perfect in every way. Brilliant, engaging, complex, and occasionally frightening storyline. Deep and fascinating characters played by highly talented actors and actresses. Innovative ideas, cool setting, great music... the whole works.

I would be literally counting the minutes from episode to episode.

And then HBO canned it after two seasons. May they burn in the pits of Hell! Some day I shall have my brutal revenge.

Lessee...

The Pretender
Stargate SG-1
House

Those are pro'ly my all-time favorites

~Bowen

Oh c'mon you guy! You forgort Voltron!

Let us not forget Rome. Same thing. Where's my promised 3rd season? What a great show! Time for a DVD re-watch, I think.

It mostly stretched out too long.

I couldn't really point to much that was going to waste but every episode was more than fifty minutes long and the show ambled with very little direction.

The last six episodes did pretty much kick all kinds of ass, though.

I will say that my experience may have been somewhat ruined by watching it with my cousin. He and I tend to argue and then wax poetic about the characters in any experience. It's not rare for a poignant, touching or tense moment to be ruined by some impromptu dialogue from the peanut gallery.


I'm pretty sure cost was a big factor in Rome.

Cost and a lack of cohesion.

See, the first season was perfectly timed. Caesar's grab for power went really well. The second season had a bit more trouble, Augustus' seizing of power and his later consolidation.

But splitting up the next few of the Julio-Claudian emperors would have been incredibly difficult. Not to mention that nearly all interpretations of Nero and Caligula are hotly contested in the small and nerdish circles they are considered in. Would sure have been sweet to see my favourite two rulers played out at that level of excellence, though.

Star Trek Voyager: I liked the concept of the story and the cast. Also being a Star Trek fan helps.

Stargate SG1: I saw the original movie and was intreged.

Lois and Clark: Cool series, wish they didn't cancel it after the fourth season.

A part of me just died inside. Its CSI. Wrong orginization there carcer. Any tru fan would not that mistake, even if the "s"and "a" keys are right next to each other. Also:

BSG
Heroes
Old SGI
And first two seasons of lost (it sucked it hard core after that, i swear to god the writer need to be shot.)

Hugh Laurie indeed is an awesome actor.
House M.D as a series is also very good, I have the season 2 DVD box.
The episodes resemble each other quite a lot, but that is not a big problem with such great writing.
House's expressions and pitch-black humour are the best parts ^^

I am Dyslexic.

So am i, but that just mean we switch letter (or in my case numbers) around, while maintaining the same general Make up. Dont blame dyslexia on your typing skills there car

I switch like words allot. CIA and CSI, auto and Otto. Dog and God. Vase and save. Are common swaps for me.

My favorite shows are:

Dr. Who
The Office
Heroes
Invader Zim
30 Rock

And relatively common swaps from people completely normal, too.

My word swaps tend to the bizarre, though. Never simple, explainable words. Always really complex ones. Works in my favour as a lot of people aren't sure enough that I messed up to call me on it.

They've done that to us more than a few times, haven't they? Mean old HBO, killing off good series.



I've found it to be the kind of show that needs to be watched all the way through two or three times before you can really come to apprciate it. There's little bits here and there that viewers couldn't possibly see the significance of the first time, due to all the foreshadowing and so forth.

The first season did tend to ramble a bit. It kind of felt like the "Prologue" to the story. Then season two was "Chapter One" and then it was cut horrifically short. *sigh* I still curse HBO for that one.

They give us good shows.

Far cry better than what a lot of the rest do. The problem is that most good shows don't really have room for product placement so they can't pay their own way. Meaning that they won't last long because they can't afford the good marketing.


I don't like arbitrary symbolism. I probably caught about two thirds, maybe three quarters of it all on the first run through.

The Preacher stole the show. I didn't want Hawkins to win at any stage because he spent so long being whiny. He pulled it together too late.

Clancy Brown was a wonderful choice for that character! He had that scary intensity about him that almost made you believe he actually was a crazy person. Excellent character.

Patrick Bauchau (Prof Loades) was really fun to watch too. And I was rather pleased with Clea Duvall as Sophie.

But yeah, Ben's character seemed overshadowed quite a lot of the time. He just wasn't as interesting.

Even when he wasn't crazy, he was intense and focussed.

You don't get that in your modern villains.