TV Shows

[Rowena]

What shows do you like to watch?

I don't really watch current TV, since I don't have cable (or whatever the current equivalent of that is ) so I watch a lot of old series on DVD. I've seen all of Full House, Cheers, Fraiser, and Friends, and we're watching Scrubs now. Fraiser is my favorite, although I've also seen up to season 4 (I think) of 30Rock, which is sort of awesome

[vividlyvisceral]

Television shows I enjoy watching. Hoo boy.

Here's a quick list of what my DVD collection offers. Favorites in bold. Ultra favorites in BIGGER.

- Back to You
- Black Books
- the Big Bang Theory
- Friends
- Glee
- Gossip Girl
- How I Met Your Mother
- The IT Crowd
- Just Shoot Me!
- the Nanny
- Pushing Daisies
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Scrubs
- Seinfeld
- Supernatural
- the Vampire Diaries

I buy any series that can pull a chuckle out of me. I don't like Scrubs too much (J.D annoys me as a character, only Cox is any good.) but I love, love- LOVE Friends. I've watched the series frontwards and backwards and it's still amazing to me.

+my anime collection
- D.N Angel, Full Metal Panic!, Galaxy Angel, the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, InuYasha, Love Hina, Lucky Star, One Piece, Ouran High School Host Club and Shuffle!

[Rowena]

We borrowed Friends from a friend (lol I had to and I really enjoyed it, although Frasier is still my favorite because I <3 Niles and the actor who played him, David Hyde Pierce.

I agree with you about J.D.'s character in Scrubs - he is *so* annoying. Like, Elliot can be annoying too, but she's nowhere near as bad as him. Cox really amuses me though

[vividlyvisceral]

Frasier is a good show, I just haven't gotten into it. However I'd be more into Kelsey Grammer because I love his voice, although Pierce has a nice voice too if I remember correctly.

Oh god Elliot. No offense to her fans, but she's such a... well, frustrating female character. I like ditzy blondes as much as the next person- but she switches up from ditzy to just plain bitchy based on who is writing the episode.
Then again, I didn't like Carla much either. I only liked Jordan, and that's because you knew she was a bitch. It was her thing.

I have a thing for older TV series because they lull me to sleep when I'm having panic-attacks. Friends works wonders (plus it's funny and Chandler (Matthew Perry) is cuuuute~!) and so does Sabrina the Teenage Witch when I'm not laughing at Salem.
I'll tell you a television series which I disliked so much I gave away the DVD's?

Sex and the City.

-I can sum up every episode. 'Carrie has sex. Regrets it. Rinse and Repeat until Big has the balls to shack up with her.' + her annoying friends.
Honestly, I can tell why some women like it- it's basically low-grade porn- but it just makes me feel depressed. Is this supposed to make me feel empowered or something, all these thirty-year old women whoring around? Yeesh.

-in short I prefer Friends and the like.

[Peeta the Frosting Prince]

I actually like JD because I find his inner commentary lulzy. Him and Turk's bromance is equally lulzy. Elliot is too highly strung--so highly strung that she's worse than me and I don't even like to think about me being crazy. xD

I feel mixed on Sex and the City. Because yeah, I have the first two seasons on DVD, and both of the movies, but it's mostly like fluff to me. Porny fluff. Carrie and Big annoyed me. Man up and tell her you love her, stop bouncing around and act like you don't. After ten years. >.<

I liked Charlotte. Because she had that idealistic "I believe in true love" thing going and she was cute and little and brunette. With excellent taste in shoes.

I don't see a problem with them having a lot of sex, or with Samantha being promiscuous. If that's her choice, whatever. But me and my friend Luna once had this long talk about female "empowerment" and how the idea that women "embracing their sexuality" (-eyeroll-) and using stripper poles and whoring themselves out and dressing like sluts is detrimental as opposed to empowering.

Yet people see it the opposite.

[vividlyvisceral]

Carrie and Big annoyed me. Man up and tell her you love her, stop bouncing around and act like you don't. After ten years. >.<

I'll shamelessly admit this though, out of all the guys- I thought Big was the hot one. (What? I like giant guys. Brayden can piggy-back me places and I'm on top of the world...)

I don't see a problem with them having a lot of sex, or with Samantha being promiscuous. If that's her choice, whatever. But me and my friend Luna once had this long talk about female "empowerment" and how the idea that women "embracing their sexuality" (-eyeroll-) and using stripper poles and whoring themselves out and dressing like sluts is detrimental as opposed to empowering.

Yet people see it the opposite.

Samantha at first was sort of good for lulz. "Oh look at this one, talking about sex all the time and doing it up against a firetruck!" but then I started to just feel a bit worried about it, because that was pretty much all her character until later seasons. And by then I was tired of the series and wasn't enjoying it anymore.

I gave the movies/series to my friend who loves it. She said I don't enjoy it because I didn't have difficulty finding 'true love'- and most people identify with the show because they are having trouble. I wanted to say 'I did too have trouble!' but then I realised 'I found true love at 16. I guess I didn't have that much trouble.'

Haha.

(as for women empowerment and, since it comes naturally from that topic- feminism- I could totally see that being a WAR thread because I have a mouth-load of opinions for that too big for the TV section, haha.)

[Rowena]

I could go on a huge rant about how I annoy my English class by challenging my teacher and calling him sexist, and how I annoy my friends with my feminist-ness...

but I won't. I think we should make that a WAR thread, though.

I've never seen Sex and the City, and so have no opinion on it, but I do like J.D.'s commentary and weird fantasies in Scrubs. It amuses me greatly But then I get all annoyed with him as a character again...grr.

[Peeta the Frosting Prince]

I'd totally argue about it. I like having those discussions.

I loved all of JD's fantasies and stuff because it made him seem a lot more real than a lot of characters I've seen. Because we do have random, stupid thoughts pop into our head like that, and most writers don't really address that.

[Hannah]

Hmm...

To be honest, I don't really watch a lot of tv, either. I don't think I've just sat down and watched tv while I wasn't doing anything else since... since I was ten, I think. (And even that was just because of a special premiere) and that was almost four years ago, now.

Mostly, I just watch the Weather Channel/various news stations while I'm eating breakfast (my mom has watched the news every morning since 9/11, because it freaked her out when she almost went to work without knowing about it--good thing that my grandma called...)

And then at night, usually while I'm writing/reading/doing homework/eating dinner/talking, I watch a combination of Jeopardy and the Food Network (mostly Chopped).

On ocassion, I'll tune in to whatever my parents have on in the background--usually How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, NCIS, Eureka, The Colbert Report, House, or Grey's Anatomy.

That's about it for me...

[Peeta the Frosting Prince]

Chopped is so cool. Some of the stuff they get is just so weird it's fascinating to see how they put it all together.

I used to watch Project Runway but now I pretty much don't watch any TV anymore, so I fell off the wagon with that one. Parsons gets too much hype, though. 'S not as great as everyone thinks it is.

[vividlyvisceral]

I don't watch as much TV as I did when I was little. Back then I'd watch hours of it. Now I spend all my time online/writing and reading.

-however I do still have a soft spot for all the anime/TV shows I used to watch. There aren't as many anime fans in the Hunger Games fandom as there are in others though.

[skywriter9]

I watch Glee, Grey's Anatomy, The Amazing Race, Eastwick, and about half of each season of Survivor. I also will occasionally watch random episodes of random TV shows that a favorite actor/actress is in, or because I just randomly feel like it.

I also only do so because I have a lot of time on my hands. And I already write a darn lot. I used to not really watch TV.

[Peeta the Frosting Prince]

I used to keep up with The Amazing Race and now I don't anymore, which I actually feel bad about because my family is friends with a lot of the Racers. Mist notably Kent and Vyxsin (I always spell their names wrong; I suck) and she was over for dinner the other day, and I hadn't watched the new season she was in, which made me feel like a total asshole.

She's so, so sweet, though. <3

[vividlyvisceral]

We used to watch the Amazing Race for school, but I just couldn't get into it. I saw it as a reality show, and I've never been that fond of reality shows.

Does anyone remember Big Brother? Australia has stopped filming Big Brother series because they started to decline in popularity. I'm actually beginning to miss it, which isn't something I ever thought would happen!

[skywriter9]

Oh. My. God. You know Vyxsin? Wow.

It would be interesting to meet the racers. I know on the show they're portrayed in a much different way then they are in real life, so...