tv meme

[orangerful]

Stealing this from rogueslayer452 because I started to respond to her post and practically did the entire meme there LOL.





01. Earliest show you remember getting into:
I was hardcore into The Muppet Show as a kid. Apparently I used to get up and record episodes on VHS before going to school in the morning because we had a stack of tapes that I watched over and over for the rest of my childhood. I freakin' love the Muppets.

02. First anime watched.
I can't remember what it was, but it was when I was a kid and it had a unicorn and his friends were turned into wooden toys and it SCARRED ME FOR LIFE! I didn't watch another anime for a looooooooong time because that freaked me out so much. When I finally did give it a try, I think the first one I watched was Full Metal Alchemist, though I never finished it because damn it was long. My favorite anime is Attack on Titan. Only anime I've ever truly loved.

03. A show you've been meaning to finish.
Agent Carter and True Detectives. I've heard so many good things about both of these but just never found the time to watch. Excited that Agent Carter is getting a second season!

04. 2 shows you abandoned.
Walking Dead I watched longer than I meant to, just such a frustrating show with characters that made me SO ANGRY ALL THE TIME. I think I watched 3 season? I don't even know anymore. I really liked the first season and then it was all downhill.

Once Upon a Time sorta fell away for me. It wasn't an angry break up, like Walking Dead, but I just felt like they were trapped in the Lost-style flashback mode and wouldn't drop it and I was just tired.

05. A series you're currently watching.
HANNIBAL!!!!!!!! Oh how I missed it. Also, iZombie (though that is done for the year) and trying to finally finish Eureka.



06. A show you're sad is over.
Parks and Recreation. And Buffy. I will miss them, though I think they both ended at the right time.

07. Favorite series finale
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - both of them. :) Whedon said people who didn't want to follow the show to UPN could view The Gift as a series finale if they wanted, but I love Chosen so much.

08. A series finale you would change.
Scrubs. The thing I would change would be to end it sooner and just wrap up with our series regulars. Attempting to switch out the cast was a mistake.



09. Worst TV program you've ever seen
I can't stand Everybody Loves Raymond or any sitcom where the humor revolves around being MEAN to people. Also "reality" TV just promotes the worst in everyone.

10. A show that shouldn't have been cancelled
Firefly, Legend of the Seeker, Happy Endings...

11. A show that needs to end.
Supernatural. Seriously, let it GO! And any of the 400 CSI shows. Do we need one for every city?

12. Favorite cartoon
ADVENTURE TIME and BOB'S BURGERS!!!!



13. Favorite reboot
Battlestar Galactica. They took a show and made it so much more. I need to rewatch it so bad.

14. A TV adaptation you'd like to see
I really like the trend of adapting comic books to TV because there is TOO MUCH for a movie. I would like to see someone do any of the YA series this way, because anyone who reads them knows how much more there is to them. GREGOR THE OVERLANDER will be my nomination, Suzanne Collins first series, so good.

15. Saddest TV moment.
Angel. Finale. Death of...well...you know. I have never cried SO HARD. My boyfriend at the time told me never to watch that episode again.

16. Most satisfying TV moment.
Buffy, creating new slayers and empowering all of us (that's my headcanon, all women have slayer potential, all women are now slayers)

17. A character you identify with
Kaylee on Firefly. I always say that I want to be Zoe but I'm more like Kaylee. :) I love strawberries (though I don't know anything about engines...but she is cheery like me and wants to be friends when she can...but don't mess with her)



And Lumpy Space Princess. Because oh my glob, sometimes you gotta drop a drama bomb.

18. A character that reminds you of your friend
Fluttershy reminds me of my friend Laurel because she uses her as an icon everywhere LOL. Plus, she is kinda shy and love critters.

19. Favorite talk show
Don't really watch talk shows anymore. I used to be a die hard Daily Show watcher back in the day but news makes me depressed. We watch a LOT of Jimmy Fallon now, but only in clip format on YouTube and Hulu as we are just there for hashtags, thank you notes, and the stupid celebrity games.



20. Sports or nah
Nah. Tim likes Wisconsin teams and football so I have watched some Packers games but I don't really get into them.

21. A TV world you'd like to live in
While I love Sunnydale, I know I'd get myself killed pretty quick. Might be fun to live in the Star Trek verse, especially TNG where problems of inequality seem to have slipped away and science rules. I bet Librarians can do well there. If I have to stay on Earth, drop me in Stars Hollow because the Gilmores throw a great party and no matter how crazy things get, everyone is happy in the end.

And now a random gif of Raylan from Justified because why not?

Comments

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

I love Bob's Burgers :DDD

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I had ignored it for so long and then a friend started posting gifs on her tumblr and I was like "Wait...this show gets me!" and we marathoned all the seasons in a month or something insane. It is one of the shows I get excited about when Hulu tells me a new episode is available. :)

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Once Upon A Time is a show I sometimes really want to quit, but I'm just not there yet.

LOVE Bob's Burgers.

Stacey

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

My quitting of OUAT just sorta happened. Episodes started to pile up and when given the option I would pick a different show to watch with my breakfast. And now I'm so far behind, I just can't bring myself to pick it up again. Plus, after all the market saturation of Frozen, the storyline wasn't really holding me. It just felt like a commercial.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, The Muppet Show! ♥

Yeah, OUAT went into a different direction than I thought it would. I stopped watching early on in S2 but I heard it just continues to be repetitive with the manner of its storytelling. And I'm still confused on why Storybrooke continues to exist? I would've thought that after the curse had been broken in the first season they would've all wanted to go back and to their lives in fairytale land.

"The Gift" certainly had the tone for a series finale, but I prefer "Chosen" since it was more optimistic and it was a perfect way of ending the show.

Aww, Kaylee! :3 I certainly have a bit of Kaylee in my personality, as well. Though I feel like I would love to be friends with Kaylee in general. ♥

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

LOL yeah OUAT definitely does a lot of "oh well that might be how you thought it works but...not this season!" and then "oh this year will be different..." then does the exact same plot lines. Meh. Maybe if I had little kids and was starved for a show the whole family could watch? It's just that eventually it stopped feeling like a show and more like a marketing machine.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

It's just that eventually it stopped feeling like a show and more like a marketing machine.

Especially when they brought Frozen into the mix. I know some have claimed that the storyline was better than advertised, but still, it's kind of obvious that the show was only doing this because that movie became so popular.

[interchanges.livejournal.com]

When I see that Once Upon a Time and Supernatural are still on and that people still watch them I'm just like why. I stopped seasons ago on both of them.

Scrubs definitely went on too long, but I did like the season 8 finale. I don't get why ABC picked it up for another season, it was just so unnecessary.

There are so many TV adaptions of book series/comic books I'd like to see. Why butcher a book into 2-3 hours when you can make a TV series?

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

So many shows that go on far too long, and others that end to soon. But I guess it's easy to churn out murder shows, just read the newspaper then throw in a bit of sexual tension to keep people engaged with the characters. To me, that gets old fast but apparently to most of the TV viewing world, it's the escapism they crave.

[interchanges.livejournal.com]

Right? I don't get why people look down on "genre" TV when it's so much more escapism, which is what TV should be, imo.

[impalalove]

I'm going to have to snag this. <3

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I fully expect everyone on my flist to do this LOL :)

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

True Detectives is on my to-watch list as well, and Hannibal and iZombie are also favs of mine :)

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

We started True Detectives but something else popped up and bumped it off our list. But I only hear good things about it. It's just so dark you can't really marathon it. We started The Americans too but that one is also SO DARK I need a drink after watching it LOL

[sideshow.livejournal.com]

Ooh totally snagging this!

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

can't wait to read yours!

[midnightwhisper.livejournal.com]

And any of the 400 CSI shows. Do we need one for every city?
Haha I couldn't agree more. At this rate we'll have "CSI: CSI". I'm actually pretty sure Cyber is close to that.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

CSI:Inception LOL

[pleasant-valley.livejournal.com]

Loved reading this!
I love The Muppets too although as a kid I was slightly more obsessed with Fraggle Rock.

I watch Supernatural and have done since it first aired but I agree that it's probably run it's course. To be honest the inclusion of all the Angel plots ruined the show for me.

I stopped watching OUaT a while back and I keep meaning to get back into it but it's one of those shows where I hate more characters than I like.

I definitely need to see Bob's Burgers.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I have the entire Fraggle Rock series on DVD too. :) Love them both SOOOO MUCH! You know you are among friends when you've all spent a night drinking and someone suggests watching from Fraggles LOL.

The Angel plots are what killed SPN for me. My feelings were that, prior to that, the show was about fighting demons, demons that spanned all cultures and religions and beliefs. But bringing the Angels into it, and God and such...just felt like an area that a show like SPN should avoid. Buffy never had that issue and it worked because every one has demons to fight, but not so many have angels...

(oh wait, I guess Buffy had ONE Angel to fight LOL)

YES BOB'S BURGERS!!!

[mousewings.livejournal.com]

I loved The Muppet Show (they were still airing re-runs when I was a child). I'm a Supernatural fan but I've... wondered about it and the creative direction. It was only supposed to go on for 5 seasons. Makes me think they may be making things up as they go along.

My bad for the spam coming up. I'm catching up on reading your entries.