30 Days of Telly Meme - Day 05
Day 05 - A show you hate:
I have to waste a post on something I don't like? A meme is a harsh master. I suppose the top candidate would be Big Brother for starting off all the reality TV shows and not even being an actual talent context or something where there's a point to anything# other than, well, voyeurism that sends me back to watch Vengeance on Varos and feeling smug about the foresight of my favourite TV show.
Mind you, there are two shows I can't bear to stay in the room with, but for reasons of inexplicable fear picked up at some point rather than actual hate: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (I can't stand being in the room with it. I want to run away very fast. I blame my Dad for making me play the computer game of it years ago. It panicked me. ("Is that your final answer...?" *shudder*) But then I never like quiz shows anyway. So, yes, it's a perfectly good quiz show, if they don't bore you solid in two minutes as they do me, but I am traumatised by the computer game version).
And the other thing, which is silly, because I even quite like it in it's own way, but Columbo. It's the way he hunts down his victim so remorselessly in that old mac solves the crimes. I reason my aversion to it has to do with the way we so often see things from the murderer's point of view, but I think it was something to do with the episode in which Johnny Cash was the murderer. I have no idea what happened in the episode now, or why it bothered me but after that I was scared of Columbo. Before that I liked the show and thought it was funny. (Mostly). And I still have to slide out of the room with a muttered excuse when it's on even though it's about 20+ years later. I can watch about 3 minutes and then I have to go.
I'm weird, yes. I was also scared of Miss Marple, but I got over that.
(#confesses accidental addiction to the Maria/Joseph/Nancy/Dorothy things. I know. I knew one day one of those things would get me when I wasn't taking proper precaution not to watch them. This is the real reason I refuse to watch, ditto soaps (and football). I already have enough trouble fitting things in my life, without getting addicted to something else time-consuming. I have once or twice pretended it's to do with being intellectual and superior, but this is an utter lie, so I've stopped. Things that other people genuinely love aren't really to be sneered at without good reason, I decided.)
Days of Telly Meme:
Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled: Blake's 7
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching: Spooks
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season): The West Wing
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever: Doctor Who
Day 05 - A show you hate: Big Brother/ Who Wants to be a millionaire?
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series: BBC North & South
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
I have to waste a post on something I don't like? A meme is a harsh master. I suppose the top candidate would be Big Brother for starting off all the reality TV shows and not even being an actual talent context or something where there's a point to anything# other than, well, voyeurism that sends me back to watch Vengeance on Varos and feeling smug about the foresight of my favourite TV show.
Mind you, there are two shows I can't bear to stay in the room with, but for reasons of inexplicable fear picked up at some point rather than actual hate: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (I can't stand being in the room with it. I want to run away very fast. I blame my Dad for making me play the computer game of it years ago. It panicked me. ("Is that your final answer...?" *shudder*) But then I never like quiz shows anyway. So, yes, it's a perfectly good quiz show, if they don't bore you solid in two minutes as they do me, but I am traumatised by the computer game version).
And the other thing, which is silly, because I even quite like it in it's own way, but Columbo. It's the way he hunts down his victim so remorselessly in that old mac solves the crimes. I reason my aversion to it has to do with the way we so often see things from the murderer's point of view, but I think it was something to do with the episode in which Johnny Cash was the murderer. I have no idea what happened in the episode now, or why it bothered me but after that I was scared of Columbo. Before that I liked the show and thought it was funny. (Mostly). And I still have to slide out of the room with a muttered excuse when it's on even though it's about 20+ years later. I can watch about 3 minutes and then I have to go.
I'm weird, yes. I was also scared of Miss Marple, but I got over that.
(#confesses accidental addiction to the Maria/Joseph/Nancy/Dorothy things. I know. I knew one day one of those things would get me when I wasn't taking proper precaution not to watch them. This is the real reason I refuse to watch, ditto soaps (and football). I already have enough trouble fitting things in my life, without getting addicted to something else time-consuming. I have once or twice pretended it's to do with being intellectual and superior, but this is an utter lie, so I've stopped. Things that other people genuinely love aren't really to be sneered at without good reason, I decided.)
Days of Telly Meme:
Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled: Blake's 7
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching: Spooks
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season): The West Wing
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever: Doctor Who
Day 05 - A show you hate: Big Brother/ Who Wants to be a millionaire?
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series: BBC North & South
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death