It took sweet nuisance buying the VHS boxset for me to watch this series. She held me prisoner on my own couch and forced me to watch the first episode. I then went out and got the boxset for myself and watched the entire first season in one nights viewing.

Not my usual series to get obsessed with at all. There was no spaceships or telepaths or ( Read more... )

"Do you watch Xena?" The stunning brunette asked me as we sat drinking cokes in th small hours of a miserable May Bank Holiday in a rundown hotel in Blackpool.

Xena? Xena? I racked my brains for whatever the hell she was talking about. "Oh you mean that X-ner (that's how I thought you pronounced it) thing. Wouldn't catch me watching that crap. Some ( Read more... )

I resisted this series for as long as I could. I was a staunch Star Trek fan, and Babylon 5 was 'the other show'; but gradually it was infiltrating the group I socialised with at Pages. One by one we all fell under the charm of it's flawed characters, the strength of the intricate storylines and the fact that as a portrayal of the future of ( Read more... )