The schedules for the 2008-09 television season have come out and I'm really amused by the fact that half of the shows I'll be watching are airing on FOX, the station that I said I would never watch again after what happened with Firefly.

( my projected fall schedule )

( spoilers for Atlantis -- Missing )

Why couldn't some of that Tuesday stuff been on Wednesday?

( spoilers for Bones )

I wanted to wait until all of my 'non-summer' television was over before I posted this, and Doctor Who had to go and air oddly, crossing over between fall-spring television nearly into summer. But now it's done and I feel able to sum up how I felt. So, in alphabetical order, what I watched this year:

( spoilers for Battlestar Galactica )

1. Torchwood. I've seen some negative responses to it, both on my flist and in various other places online, but I've gotten to a place where that's not making me doubt my own reaction to the show, which has been overwhelmingly positive. I love the characters, I love the dynamics, I love where they seem to be going.

2. Lois Lane on Smallville. In ( Read more... )

I've now seen to the end of the fourth disc and am waiting impatiently for the final disc of the season. This show is totally crack -- once you start watching, you seriously do not want to stop. And when you have to stop, there's this horrible sinking "Oh, no!" feeling. Just like when I was mainlining Stargate for the first time (hmm... there's a ( Read more... )

Three things.

Item 1: ( Alan Shore is the most effective lawyer in the universe (also, he is made of awesome). )