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The last two years, I haven't watched a lot of television. Sure, there are at least three shows that I will never miss seeing, in one form or another: - LOST
- Battlestar Galactica
- Doctor Who
Everything else I just see randomly when I have the time. The only time I have time to sit down and check out a show is usually when the wife and I have dinner every night. And, since it's really impossible to find anything worth watching most weeknights that isn't some crap-ass reality television, I have been using my Netflix account to accommodate this desire. Taking advantage of the fact that nearly every television show comes to DVD, I've decided to branch out and try all the shows I've either missed from the beginning, or just plain dismissed/ignored. The following are some of my thoughts, and what I have or am currently watching: 
HEROES: Season One- Oh I know. I know. Eat it up. Watch Prometheus shove his entire shoe into his mouth and gobble down some humble pie. Go to the HEROES thread and dig up every post I made denouncing this series as "I like it better when it was The 4400 or Rising Stars, etc.". I deserve it. Why?
Because I was wrong.
Now, don't get me wrong. I wouldn't be able to watch this show on network television. The first season drags on like the second season of LOST. In fact, they were about to lose me by episode six, when nothing much had actually happened.
Oh but then they picked up the ball and ran with it. And I have to say, it's damn good. It's not really the storyline itself that is the major selling point of this series. Nor is it the abilities (though those are fun). It's the actors and characters. If this show has a weak link, it's Jessica (Ali Larter) and the kid. And the convict husband. Etc, etc. Boring. And never quite picks up, I have to say.
But, Hiro! And the cheerleader! Both are DAMN excellent characters and actors. Their storylines keep me interested, and definitely make that show.
In the end, my two favorite characters and actors are Nathan Petrelli and Noah Bennet. Those guys are hard as fuck! I love the characters. Tight.
All in all, Season One is easily an 8-out-of-10. Can't wait for Season Two to hit DVD.
Jericho- A show about a small town set in a post-nuclear attack setting. Basically, it follows the whole generically modern type of story telling, where there is some very unusual/sci-fi/paranormal/disaster setting or tone or idea or mystery, but drenched in predictable characters and tv-normal settings. It's a story about a small town! (Oh, also there might have been a nuclear attack on the rest of the U.S., and some mysterious conspiracy might be at play with mysterious characters). Like the bastard evil that LOST plagued the industry with (and HEROES flirts around, as well), stories and concept is to be drawn out for as long as it takes for the viewers to realize how decompressed and fucking SLOW it all is.
I watched the first couple of episodes. Meh. I'm passing this one.
4-out-of-10.
Boston Legal: Season One- Man oh man, is the show the shit! I rarely laugh as hard or as long with any show. But Boston Legal really nails it for me. There's something about seeing Williams Shatner play a character with all of his own, personal eccentricities, quirks, and Shatnerisms. He's fucking DENNY CRANE! And I totally understand why he won an award for the show.
But...and this comes from a guy who enjoys Star Trek....James Spader owns the series. His character of Alan Shore is so meticulously crafted that it's impossible for me to describe him to any degree or expertise. Suffice to say, when he and The Shat are onscreen together, I understand why this series is still going.
And hell, I'm not even through with the first season yet.
A well-deserved 15-out-of-10
(+5 Bonus Points were awarded because of the heat Rhona Mitra puts out...   )
More to come, I'm certain...
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URG am need to catch up on Boston Legal.
URG am tried Greatest American Hero,but it am kinda slow and dumb and stuff.
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Sweet Jesus, I may just have to use this quote. (+5 Bonus Points were awarded because of the heat Rhona Mitra puts out... ) [/list] More to come, I'm certain... Please use tissues.
 Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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 Eureka's a really good show that's on Sci-Fi. I don't know if it's on dvd yet. worth your time.
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The last two years, I haven't watched a lot of television. Sure, there are at least three shows that I will never miss seeing, in one form or another: - LOST
- Battlestar Galactica
- Doctor Who
Everything else I just see randomly when I have the time. The only time I have time to sit down and check out a show is usually when the wife and I have dinner every night. And, since it's really impossible to find anything worth watching most weeknights that isn't some crap-ass reality television, I have been using my Netflix account to accommodate this desire. Taking advantage of the fact that nearly every television show comes to DVD, I've decided to branch out and try all the shows I've either missed from the beginning, or just plain dismissed/ignored. The following are some of my thoughts, and what I have or am currently watching:
HEROES: Season One- Oh I know. I know. Eat it up. Watch Prometheus shove his entire shoe into his mouth and gobble down some humble pie. Go to the HEROES thread and dig up every post I made denouncing this series as "I like it better when it was The 4400 or Rising Stars, etc.". I deserve it. Why?
Because I was wrong.
Now, don't get me wrong. I wouldn't be able to watch this show on network television. The first season drags on like the second season of LOST. In fact, they were about to lose me by episode six, when nothing much had actually happened.
Oh but then they picked up the ball and ran with it. And I have to say, it's damn good. It's not really the storyline itself that is the major selling point of this series. Nor is it the abilities (though those are fun). It's the actors and characters. If this show has a weak link, it's Jessica (Ali Larter) and the kid. And the convict husband. Etc, etc. Boring. And never quite picks up, I have to say.
But, Hiro! And the cheerleader! Both are DAMN excellent characters and actors. Their storylines keep me interested, and definitely make that show.
In the end, my two favorite characters and actors are Nathan Petrelli and Noah Bennet. Those guys are hard as fuck! I love the characters. Tight.
All in all, Season One is easily an 8-out-of-10. Can't wait for Season Two to hit DVD.
Jericho- A show about a small town set in a post-nuclear attack setting. Basically, it follows the whole generically modern type of story telling, where there is some very unusual/sci-fi/paranormal/disaster setting or tone or idea or mystery, but drenched in predictable characters and tv-normal settings. It's a story about a small town! (Oh, also there might have been a nuclear attack on the rest of the U.S., and some mysterious conspiracy might be at play with mysterious characters). Like the bastard evil that LOST plagued the industry with (and HEROES flirts around, as well), stories and concept is to be drawn out for as long as it takes for the viewers to realize how decompressed and fucking SLOW it all is.
I watched the first couple of episodes. Meh. I'm passing this one.
4-out-of-10.
Boston Legal: Season One- Man oh man, is the show the shit! I rarely laugh as hard or as long with any show. But Boston Legal really nails it for me. There's something about seeing Williams Shatner play a character with all of his own, personal eccentricities, quirks, and Shatnerisms. He's fucking DENNY CRANE! And I totally understand why he won an award for the show.
But...and this comes from a guy who enjoys Star Trek....James Spader owns the series. His character of Alan Shore is so meticulously crafted that it's impossible for me to describe him to any degree or expertise. Suffice to say, when he and The Shat are onscreen together, I understand why this series is still going.
And hell, I'm not even through with the first season yet.
A well-deserved 15-out-of-10
(+5 Bonus Points were awarded because of the heat Rhona Mitra puts out... )
More to come, I'm certain... I say go for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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I watch:
The 4400
BSG
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All good.
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
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"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!"
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The Shield.
Jaburg and some others got me hooked on it a couple years ago. Its simply the best show on TV. All you have to do is watch the first episode and you'll be hooked. Don't waste your time with anything else until you've seen this. There's six seasons out on DVD and the seventh and final season starts in a couple months.
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I keep forgetting you don't want me no mo well maybe you should've thought of that when you ran off with Hans Blix three years ago!
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Always Sunny and The SHIELD. Some of my college buddies are always emailing me about these shows, demanding I try them out. They're on my Netflix list.
Also, I've borrowed season one of Deadwood to give it a shot...
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I was pwn3d for wanting to spank it to the hotness of Rhona Mitra?  Eureka's a really good show that's on Sci-Fi. I don't know if it's on dvd yet. worth your time. You know...I tried Eureka a few times. For some reason, I just couldn't get into it. Given the premise, you'd think it would be right up my alley. But, it was just kind of "meh" for me. I don't know. Maybe I'll give it a shot again. Of course, I think a lot of the anti-Eureka thing for me is an anti-SciFi channel for being such a suck-ass channel. They cancel SG1 so that they can keep the weak-spam-sister show SG Atlantis going? Wrestling? Crappy C-Movies? That ass-tastic 'Flash Gordon' shitfest? My god that channel blows nuts... 
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Sweet Jesus, I may just have to use this quote.  Hey, when I'm wrong, I'm wrong. It just happens so very little it's always a shock, I know...  Well, if you would just keep your mouth open I wouldn't have to, would I?
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I'm currently in the process of Netflixin' every MST3K I can get. After that maybe a few movies and then I wanna start getting twilight zones and outer limits.
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Instead of paying for netflix, why dont you monkeys visit a site like this? With the amount of FREE sites it links to, you can pretty much find anything!
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This coming from someone who buys every crappy DVD he can.
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Instead of paying for netflix, why dont you monkeys visit a site like this? With the amount of FREE sites it links to, you can pretty much find anything! Nah. I'd rather pay my $13 a month and have a disc delivered to me, so I can sit down and watch it on television, as opposed to trying to download a "free" copy onto my laptop, and hope it doesn't take twelve hours to finish. Nice idea, though...
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Always Sunny and The SHIELD. Some of my college buddies are always emailing me about these shows, demanding I try them out. They're on my Netflix list.
Also, I've borrowed season one of Deadwood to give it a shot... Deadwood is great and I'm sure I'd like Heroes too but I just can't get into another show......where are you finding the time for all this?
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This coming from someone who buys every crappy DVD he can. Thats cause I am a collector. Plus why rent when you can buy DVDs for the same price as renting if you wait a few months? If yer renting, ya might as well download for free.
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Instead of paying for netflix, why dont you monkeys visit a site like this? With the amount of FREE sites it links to, you can pretty much find anything! Nah. I'd rather pay my $13 a month and have a disc delivered to me, so I can sit down and watch it on television, as opposed to trying to download a "free" copy onto my laptop, and hope it doesn't take twelve hours to finish. Nice idea, though... Those sites dont work that way. They either have instant downloads (not torrents or P2P as they are hosted online), or you can watch them online, meaning with Firefox, you can download them anyway!
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This coming from someone who buys every crappy DVD he can. Thats cause I am a collector. Plus why rent when you can buy DVDs for the same price as renting if you wait a few months? If yer renting, ya might as well download for free. Don't try to validate your horrible taste.
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......where are you finding the time for all this? Easy. Every night that we actually sit down and have dinner, we just watch an episode or two of whatever show we are renting at the time. Understand, all the shows I listed as having watched has been over the past year and a half...
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Instead of paying for netflix, why dont you monkeys visit a site like this? With the amount of FREE sites it links to, you can pretty much find anything! Nah. I'd rather pay my $13 a month and have a disc delivered to me, so I can sit down and watch it on television, as opposed to trying to download a "free" copy onto my laptop, and hope it doesn't take twelve hours to finish. Nice idea, though... Dunno if everyone has this option in their state, but here there is a statewide library database, and you can select DVD's from any library in the state, they are delivered to your local library, you get a email when they come in and you keep them for a week. We get 2-3 movies a night like this. Unfotunetely they use a queing system like netflix so the neest stuff might take a few days sometimes, but collected series and such usually arrive within a day...
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We have that here as well. The local library even got thousands of DVDs from a rental store that shut down. The selection is good but its still easier to use something like netflix.
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Always Sunny and The SHIELD. Some of my college buddies are always emailing me about these shows, demanding I try them out. They're on my Netflix list.
Also, I've borrowed season one of Deadwood to give it a shot... Deadwood was good. Lots of harsh language to the point it was just funny to listen to them talk. I think the word cocksucker is used about thirty times an episode.
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I was pwn3d for wanting to spank it to the hotness of Rhona Mitra? no, for your repeated failure to use tissues.  that's not wrestling. that's Vince Mcmahon raping the corpse of wrestling.  but otherwise, yeah, I understand. there's a lot of shit pouring out from Sci-Fi, but Eureka's geniunely good. they ran a marathon over the holidays a couple years ago and I watched most of it and really got into it.
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Oh! Monk, just cause the ad on this page says so.
And, to be fair, one of my favorite friends there is blind and I take every opportunity available to make fun of that and we're still friends. That guy never fit there. He never got the spirit of the RKMBs. We're gonna keep an eye on the obits, see if he finally left or if he really did have a heart attack.
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no, for your repeated failure to use tissues. You just hate the facial... that's not wrestling. that's Vince Mcmahon raping the corpse of wrestling. Ah, yeah. I don't know a lot about wrestling. But, from everything I've heard on this board, the whole wrestling franchise is just silly these days. Too bad. I hope it experiences a rejuvenation at some point. I wonder who would take over the whole thing once McMahon is dead/gone? but otherwise, yeah, I understand. there's a lot of shit pouring out from Sci-Fi, but Eureka's geniunely good. they ran a marathon over the holidays a couple years ago and I watched most of it and really got into it. I generally don't think I have given Eureka enough of a chance to say whether it's good or not. I'd probably have to go through a marathon like you...
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Dunno if everyone has this option in their state, but here there is a statewide library database, and you can select DVD's from any library in the state, they are delivered to your local library, you get a email when they come in and you keep them for a week. We get 2-3 movies a night like this. Unfotunetely they use a queing system like netflix so the neest stuff might take a few days sometimes, but collected series and such usually arrive within a day... That's an idea. I've only lived in South Carolina for about a year and a half now. So, I don't know if they have anything like that. But, I'm willing to bet they do...
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the only real advantage to netflix is they come to your door, otherwise you get the same service and save $13 a month...
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The local library even got thousands of DVDs from a rental store that shut down. The selection is good but its still easier to use something like netflix. Yes, rex, anything to avoid having to leave your mother's basement and actually interact with humanity.
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