well, there goes one new show down the drain

[ivy_chan]

So, Legend of the Seeker got canceled, just as I was slowly watching and getting into it. ASDFGHJKL. Why is that always the way? Why, Firefly? WHY. All the good shows get canceled! Although the upside of that is that it didn't have time to degenerate into long, dragged-out awful, like some shows do. (Buffy. Charmed. The further I went along, the

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[yamiloo]

This is the exact same reason I can't watch Dr. Who, it just seems like it would be so much WORK to get up to speed. Like 70% of my friends and artists I follow are in love with the show, so it must be amazing, but... I dunno if being swallowed up by another massive fandom is what I need right now. XD;

[redbrunja]

Not really. Both the beginning of the new series (with the Ninth Doctor) and the newest season (with the Eleventh) were written with the intent that newbies could just start watching without being lost.

[ivy_chan]

The massive fandoms are the worst! THEY WILL CHEW YOU UP AND SWALLOW YOU DOWN AND YOU NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY. I, too, am being lured by all those people who watch and love the show. >_

[ivy_chan]

I'd like to try to watch TV shows, but I like some fantastical elements in what I watch. So, sci fi that doesn't take itself too seriously and fantasy that doesn't drone on are what interests me, and those are hard to find in TV show format.

[thegamehiker]

Seeker was canceled!? Lame! It was one of my favorite shows to watch...

As for Doctor Who? You only need to watch the New Series (starting with Christopher Eccleston). I've never watched an episode before it and I've had no problem following it. Likewise, you could probably start with this new guy and not be too badly off missing the old stuff.

[ivy_chan]

The New Series are what started just now, or the one with that Doctor that everyone was spazzing over forever?

[thegamehiker]

The new series starting four seasons ago with Christopher Eccleston, then with David Tennant (that fangirls never shut up about), and leading into the current season with the new guys whose name I haven't bothered to remember yet.

[ivy_chan]

Ohhhh David Tennant. See, I know the guy's face because it's been PLASTERED all over F!S, but never bothered to remember the damn name.

Four seasons. Jesus. How many episodes a season?

[redbrunja]

The fandom for Doctor Who is notoriously wanky, but a lot of people already on my flist (besides me) like it, and the new season IS really, really good.

[ivy_chan]

What is the show about, basically? I know, loosely, it's about spontaneously reincarnating space aliens and a multi-dimensional time machine thing called the TARDIS that looks like a telephone booth. And something called Time Lords.

[redbrunja]

Okay, the Doctor is a time-traveling alien (the last of a race called the Time Lords) who travels around space and time in his TARDIS, dragging along one or two (usually just one) earthling, the last several of which came from our present.

Each episode is a wacky space adventure - sometimes in our past, sometimes in the future, sometimes in space in our future, and usually each season has one motif that repeats (in the first season with the 9th Doctor it was the phrase 'bad wolf' in this current season it is a crack in space and time that is shaped in the exact same way) until the finale when the motifs relation to whatever horrible world/universe destroying thing is happening is revealed.

The much, much shorter version is 'an alien and a human go time traveling to meddle in other people's affairs; they usually manage to save the day.'

Are you clearer or more confused now?

[ivy_chan]

I am strangely reminded of Sliders, which must be blasphemy because I'm sure Doctor Who far outdates that show. But yes, that does sound cool. I am a fan of buddies going on day-saving adventures!