30 Day TV meme

[orangerful]

Whoops, got a little bit behind on this one, didn't I????

Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Might as well go with the first one. As bittertwee said to me, great love spawns great bitterness. I speak of none other than THE X FILES.

Seriously, I devoted almost every Friday night of my middle school and high school life to this show. It started out so solid: great characters, great stories, actually SCARY television, a huge mystery to solve...and then it just got ridiculous. Our theory is that Chris Carter didn't know how to handle the Internet and instead of embracing the fan speculation, he paniced when he saw people guessing correctly what was probably his plot twist, so he veered into weirder directions. And then they PROMISED that the first movie would be an EPIC series finale...then FOX was all "Why don't you talk to our friends Grant and Jackson CHA-CHING!" and the show dragged on. And I kept watching...up until the infamous butt-genie episode (midget w/ no legs on a squeaky cart hides in people's BUTTS!!!!!!!!) and then I could no longer deny how horrible it was.

Runners up in this category would be Heroes and Lost. Gotta think BEYOND the first season people.

Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once More, With Feeling. Best Musical Episode of TV ever.
Angel - Smile Time
Firefly - Shindig
Battlestar Galactica - Hand of God
Arrested Development - Top Banana
Season 1 of Scrubs

Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
The only childhood show that actually survived my childhood - The Muppet Show. I can still watch that show and love every minute of it. I used to wake up and watch it before I went to school because some network in Virginia was rerunning the series. I think my mom must have taped them too because I had at least 3 VHS tapes floating around of lots of episodes. Henson humor is the best kind of humor. I wish they would put out the rest of the series on DVD and also get the Jim Henson Hour on DVD too. So much great TV from one man. *tear*

Day 14 - Favorite male character
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. Wesley was the Willow of Angel. Of all the characters, he had the biggest developmental arc that lasted all five seasons. And while I was frustrated with his actions sometimes, I never disliked him completely. He managed to evolve from a leather-clad dork falling off his motorcylce to a master of magic. But you could always see that glimmer of the man we met in Season 3 of Buffy - insecure, scared, shy. Especially when Fred was around.

Comments

[starbuck92.livejournal.com]

Definitely with you on XF. I remember running home to watch... and then be very disappointed after the genie episode. Not the butt-genie one of season 8/9 (can't remember what season it was, but I do remember it scared the hell out of me and I heard creaking everywhere I went for days after), but the one where Mulder and Scully hang out on at his apartment at the end and have a beer. I would have preferred the series to end there, LOL.

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

midget w/ no legs on a squeaky cart hides in people's BUTTS!!!!!!!!
Oh my god, THAT EPISODE. I saw that episode when I was a kid and it was the scariest thing I had ever seen. And I've tried telling people who know the X-Files better than I do about it, and nobody knew what I was talking about. Finally I have proof that this was a real episode! I was not just making it up!

Maybe there's a reason they all seemed to have forgotten about it...