This has the first time I seem to be mourning a series the way I mourn canceled ones.
I know. It's rare, and yet those seem to be the shows that suck me in and make me love them so much I get fannish about them. Some shows can get better when they change - M*A*S*H* and Babylon 5, even Star Trek: The Next Generation had their strongest episodes well into the run of the show. But Due South lasted two good years, and then limped home with a third, vastly inferior season (which, of course, has more fans than the "good" years, simply for slash reasons, even though it's shallow - they just think the new guy is cuter). NewWho had one fabulous series, then David Tennant arrived and the writing went to hell, and yet it became wildly popular for reasons I have yet to fathom (although I find it more perplexing that there are people who think DT can act than that there are people who just find him "cute"). But yeah, Numb3rs is the only show to keep all its major players and still have a dramatic drop in quality after the first 13 episodes. Even the episodes that I thought were "so-so" in the first season now look so much better than the vast majority of the rest of them.
BTW, your bento box today made my mouth water. I wish I could make myself organized enough to do something like that.
Bento box making appeals to the side of my personality that enjoys puzzles, I think. Putting it together is a little task that I find satisfying, when I can manage it, which is mostly only once a week.
M*A*S*H, wow, now that is a series that went through several transformations and managed to keep me interested. My brother just got into it, after years of not getting it. It's funny that now he want's to get all the DVDs.
Bento box making appeals to the side of my personality that enjoys puzzles,
I can definitely understand that. My biggest cuisine experiment lately has been an ice cream maker so that I can make my own sorbets. (That said, my first attempt was an incredibly high-fat egg nog ice cream just because I could in May!) I did make a very nice, tart passion fruit sherbet yesterday with milk, since the concentrated juice is so sharp. I need to reduce the clutter in my kitchen.
M*A*S*H is the only series I can think of where every change of character was either a good trade or even a step up (Charles Emerson Winchester is my favourite of all the characters, in part just because David Ogden Stiers is such an amazing actor. I fell in love with him before I was old enough to know what it was, and there began my long love affair with characters and not cute guys. The only real, irreplaceable loss was Radar, and that was almost at the end. Luckily, the DVDs are relatively cheap, so I have the entire run and have watched about half of them. Frasier was another series that lasted forever (11 seasons) and managed to be excellent for about 9 of them - even with that late slump, it was still so much better than most of what was on TV. I never liked Cheers all that much, and I didn't like Frasier as a character all that much either, but there's a case of a spin-off far outstripping the original, just as M*A*S*H was a better show than the movie.
Cheers was a curious show for me, because every time I tried to give it a shot I just never got into it. It relied a lot on humor that made me cringe, involving humiliation and cruelty that for some reason, with this particular show, I could not manage to overlook. Frasier on the other hand I thought was brilliant :D I loved Niles and his awful marriage to the invisible Maris.
I know. It's rare, and yet those seem to be the shows that suck me in and make me love them so much I get fannish about them. Some shows can get better when they change - M*A*S*H* and Babylon 5, even Star Trek: The Next Generation had their strongest episodes well into the run of the show. But Due South lasted two good years, and then limped home with a third, vastly inferior season (which, of course, has more fans than the "good" years, simply for slash reasons, even though it's shallow - they just think the new guy is cuter). NewWho had one fabulous series, then David Tennant arrived and the writing went to hell, and yet it became wildly popular for reasons I have yet to fathom (although I find it more perplexing that there are people who think DT can act than that there are people who just find him "cute"). But yeah, Numb3rs is the only show to keep all its major players and still have a dramatic drop in quality after the first 13 episodes. Even the episodes that I thought were "so-so" in the first season now look so much better than the vast majority of the rest of them.
BTW, your bento box today made my mouth water. I wish I could make myself organized enough to do something like that.
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M*A*S*H, wow, now that is a series that went through several transformations and managed to keep me interested. My brother just got into it, after years of not getting it. It's funny that now he want's to get all the DVDs.
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I can definitely understand that. My biggest cuisine experiment lately has been an ice cream maker so that I can make my own sorbets. (That said, my first attempt was an incredibly high-fat egg nog ice cream just because I could in May!) I did make a very nice, tart passion fruit sherbet yesterday with milk, since the concentrated juice is so sharp. I need to reduce the clutter in my kitchen.
M*A*S*H is the only series I can think of where every change of character was either a good trade or even a step up (Charles Emerson Winchester is my favourite of all the characters, in part just because David Ogden Stiers is such an amazing actor. I fell in love with him before I was old enough to know what it was, and there began my long love affair with characters and not cute guys. The only real, irreplaceable loss was Radar, and that was almost at the end. Luckily, the DVDs are relatively cheap, so I have the entire run and have watched about half of them. Frasier was another series that lasted forever (11 seasons) and managed to be excellent for about 9 of them - even with that late slump, it was still so much better than most of what was on TV. I never liked Cheers all that much, and I didn't like Frasier as a character all that much either, but there's a case of a spin-off far outstripping the original, just as M*A*S*H was a better show than the movie.
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