My all-time favorite TV shows

[dangermousie]

In order, here is my Top 6 show list:

1. Farscape: Best Show Ever. I am not kidding either. Wonderful, angsty, clever characters, OTP to end all OTPs, complicated twisted plots, and really tight plotting and writing. Not to mention all the arcs get resolved. Perfection. I cried, I laughed, I screamed, I participated in the fan campaign.

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[plazmah]

I'm joining in on the fun! For the sake of simplicity I'm excluding all the anime shows I love, which would be a list unto itself.

1. X-Files: My very first TV obsession, back when I was only 13 years old. I lived and died for that show. I couldn't breathe without it. I was a stalwart NoRomo, afraid that MSR would destroy the show like Lois and Clark. It was the fandom that first led me to fic and pr0n. So many sweet memories. I can't believe I don't have a single season on DVD yet.

2. Lost: What can I say? I'm in love with the complete WTF factor of this show. I prefer the lush creepiness of this to JJ's other creation, Alias. The multitude of hot characters doesn't hurt either.

3. House: I started watching this out of casual curiosity. Best casual curiosity ever. The snark, the insanity, the angsty relationship possibilities. It's all good. It's all VERY good. If I ended up being a doctor, I'd want a piece of that action :)

4. CSI (Vegas): My friends in undergrad were crazy about this show, and crazy about Nick and Sara in particular. Daily did I hear them wax escatic about George and Jorja. But I just didn't get into it. Fast forward a year or two later and I discover CSI reruns on Spike TV. It was the beginning of the end. My love for forensics and geeky science, seeded from my love for Scully, took hold. I fell in love with the stories and the entire cast. I really need to get some CSI DVDs.

5. The Simpsons: How can one not love this show. The sheer hilarity of the classic episodes are unforgettable. I seriously believe that everything in life can be related to an episode of the Simpsons. It's a part of my cultural consciousness.

6. Futurama: I'm watching it right now! Anthology of Interest, the one with the giant Bender, impulsive Leela, and the rip in the time-space continuum. Futurama is like the Simpsons, but ineffably different in some intangible way. It's more in your face, but not as in your face as something like Family Guy. Plus, Bender makes the world go round ;)

7. Alias: Come on! JG and MV are hot and kicking ass! What more could one ask for. The mythology is a bit too much for me, but it's still incredibly fun to watch the drama unfold when you're not too emotionally involved in the show.

[dangermousie]

Futurama is one of those "I can watch each episode 70 times" things. *loves*

[plazmah]

Exactly! wasabi_girl1 has every single season on DVD and I can't get enough of it every time I come home to visit. She's getting annoyed ;)

[dangermousie]

Bender icon! You rock so hard! (TM Fireball)

[crumpeteer]

Whoo! Scully and Mulder 4eva.

Really, this was an incredibly smart show that has influenced a lot of shows with its style since then. The X-Files showed stuff on television and seriously used the "parental guidence" status long before it was in fashion.

[plazmah]

Agreed; XF shaped the future of Creepy Drama.

[equustel]

Must chime in with the XF love. My all-time favorite show. Mulder and Scully are still two of the most complex and fascinating characters ever to grace the small screen, and their relationship pretty much transcends the romantic/platonic argument.

And Gillian Anderson is an amazing actress.

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[crumpeteer]

I agree. Scully and Mulder were soul mates if there ever were ones in a tv couple. It was more than the fluffy sitcom romances or the angsty teen drama stuff, these two loved each other on the deepest level. Both of them messed up beyond belief, both of them lonely, both of them looking for "the truth" whatever that may have been. They were two lost souls who found each other, which was beautiful to watch. It was just something you'd never expect in a show with so much gore and creep value.

[crumpeteer]

It was also one of the first dramas that would end on an "off" beat. Everything didn't wrap up nicely at the end and the episodes felt like they just stopped a lot of the time. X-Files was one of the first shows I remember doing that. A lot of them do that now days.