That's it I'm a TV Show Freak!
It was on Mag's journal so I'll also list my TV Shows (not definite, might be changed in the future).
+ Bold the TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
+ Bold and italicise a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
+ If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keeping the list in alphabetical order).
21 Jump Street
24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
Ally MacBeal
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America's Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Carnivale
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling - UK
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi High
Degrassi Junior High
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
Earth2
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Harsh Realm
Hercules the Legendary Journeys
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
Hustle
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
Highlander
JAG
Jackass
Jeremiah
Joan of Arcadia
Joey
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Life on Mars
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Magnificent Seven
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My So-Called Life
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Picked Fences
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Rome
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spin City
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Strange Luck
Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars etc
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Awful Truth
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Champions
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man (2000s)
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The John Larroquette Show
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Practice
The Pretender
The Professionals
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Sweeney
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Rock from the Sun
Third Watch
Three's Company
Top Chef
Top Gear
Tru Calling
Twin Peaks
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wonderfalls
Wolf Lake
Xena Warrior Princess
You Can't Do That On Television
And I was reading a fic in SG-1 Fandom and S/J pairing and for the umpteenth time I thought about how I didn't see the things in the same light than the author which leads me now to this S/J musing I am doing now.
~ What annoys me to no end: Fics where there are madly in love and are so angsty about those pesky regulations because they can't act on their feelings. They are quite abundant around, it's damned annoying.
-> You are all wrong guys, if they were already in love with others (on one side, the other or both), regulations would demand of Jack (CO) to move Sam (2IC) in another team. Regulations are there to prevent those type of mushy situations so please stop with this cheesy sappiness of yours and get real.
=> The situation is that yes they care about each other and yes they are beyond the term of friends... because they are teammates, nakama, brother in arms, family... etc I'm not saying there is no potential between the two but remind yourself that none of them even begun to wonder anything. And the real angst in their non-existent romantic relationship is not about not acting on their desire but really about not even be in the situation of evaluating or reevaluting their actual relationship. Their story is a series of unsaid and implied things.
~ What annoys me to no end (bis): Fics where Jack pretexts that now that there is no regs anymore (after reassignment, retiring), he can't be with Sam because there will be rumors about her having slept (implied with him in the past) her way up the career ladder.
-> It's so ridiculous. And when it's coupled with a "I'm too old for you, I can't offer you a family even if you dumped your last boyfriend and you're turning forty"... seriously my eyes are rolling till it hurts.
=> What is realistic instead if you don't want them to get together:
- him not being able to get it up and her having to dump him for sexual frustration
- Sam can't get over the CO/2IC dynamic and it is just hero-worship/crush only at distance
- Jack not making any move, Sam not making any move = by habit, fear... etc
- Sam dying during when of her mission
- Jack dying in an accident or of a heart attack
=> What is realistic instead if you want them to have sex but don't want them to stay together:
- Sam being a bad lover/Jack being a bad lover or both
- It was just an itch
- They realized they are only friends
Unfortunately, nobody writes those stories, why? Because people are cheap and authors cheaper. If it turns bad, better it be totally unbelievable and mushy and cheesy and sappy.
~ What annoys me to no end (ter): Fics where Jack reproaches Sam with moving on or Sam reproaches him with not talking to her/pushing her away. All in all, when one put the blame on the other for the problem in their potential romantic relationship.
-> I'm rolling my eyes. Get real! You're overanalyzing every single words they have said and twist them so it fits your own deluded universe. But truth is each time it was always a one-sided conversation and they never said anything relevant or clear. Plus they are not lovers and barely typical friends than these sort of pesky argument are just improbable. It's one of Jack/ Daniel banter (you did, i didn't, you did too... etc)
=> While there might be hesitations from both side, none of them will breeche the line before actually at least talking honestly of their relationship once, many times. There is no hard feelings from both of them one way or another and if a negative sentiment had to appear, it would be bittersweetness and regret.
To conclude, I will say that S/J is a pairing all in subtlety, restraint, control with a lot of unsaid and implied.
+ Bold the TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
+ Bold and italicise a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
+ If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keeping the list in alphabetical order).
21 Jump Street
24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
Ally MacBeal
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America's Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Carnivale
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling - UK
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi High
Degrassi Junior High
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
Earth2
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Harsh Realm
Hercules the Legendary Journeys
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
Hustle
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
Highlander
JAG
Jackass
Jeremiah
Joan of Arcadia
Joey
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Life on Mars
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Magnificent Seven
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My So-Called Life
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Picked Fences
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Rome
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spin City
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Strange Luck
Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars etc
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Awful Truth
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Champions
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man (2000s)
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The John Larroquette Show
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Practice
The Pretender
The Professionals
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Sweeney
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Rock from the Sun
Third Watch
Three's Company
Top Chef
Top Gear
Tru Calling
Twin Peaks
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wonderfalls
Wolf Lake
Xena Warrior Princess
You Can't Do That On Television
And I was reading a fic in SG-1 Fandom and S/J pairing and for the umpteenth time I thought about how I didn't see the things in the same light than the author which leads me now to this S/J musing I am doing now.
~ What annoys me to no end: Fics where there are madly in love and are so angsty about those pesky regulations because they can't act on their feelings. They are quite abundant around, it's damned annoying.
-> You are all wrong guys, if they were already in love with others (on one side, the other or both), regulations would demand of Jack (CO) to move Sam (2IC) in another team. Regulations are there to prevent those type of mushy situations so please stop with this cheesy sappiness of yours and get real.
=> The situation is that yes they care about each other and yes they are beyond the term of friends... because they are teammates, nakama, brother in arms, family... etc I'm not saying there is no potential between the two but remind yourself that none of them even begun to wonder anything. And the real angst in their non-existent romantic relationship is not about not acting on their desire but really about not even be in the situation of evaluating or reevaluting their actual relationship. Their story is a series of unsaid and implied things.
~ What annoys me to no end (bis): Fics where Jack pretexts that now that there is no regs anymore (after reassignment, retiring), he can't be with Sam because there will be rumors about her having slept (implied with him in the past) her way up the career ladder.
-> It's so ridiculous. And when it's coupled with a "I'm too old for you, I can't offer you a family even if you dumped your last boyfriend and you're turning forty"... seriously my eyes are rolling till it hurts.
=> What is realistic instead if you don't want them to get together:
- him not being able to get it up and her having to dump him for sexual frustration
- Sam can't get over the CO/2IC dynamic and it is just hero-worship/crush only at distance
- Jack not making any move, Sam not making any move = by habit, fear... etc
- Sam dying during when of her mission
- Jack dying in an accident or of a heart attack
=> What is realistic instead if you want them to have sex but don't want them to stay together:
- Sam being a bad lover/Jack being a bad lover or both
- It was just an itch
- They realized they are only friends
Unfortunately, nobody writes those stories, why? Because people are cheap and authors cheaper. If it turns bad, better it be totally unbelievable and mushy and cheesy and sappy.
~ What annoys me to no end (ter): Fics where Jack reproaches Sam with moving on or Sam reproaches him with not talking to her/pushing her away. All in all, when one put the blame on the other for the problem in their potential romantic relationship.
-> I'm rolling my eyes. Get real! You're overanalyzing every single words they have said and twist them so it fits your own deluded universe. But truth is each time it was always a one-sided conversation and they never said anything relevant or clear. Plus they are not lovers and barely typical friends than these sort of pesky argument are just improbable. It's one of Jack/ Daniel banter (you did, i didn't, you did too... etc)
=> While there might be hesitations from both side, none of them will breeche the line before actually at least talking honestly of their relationship once, many times. There is no hard feelings from both of them one way or another and if a negative sentiment had to appear, it would be bittersweetness and regret.
To conclude, I will say that S/J is a pairing all in subtlety, restraint, control with a lot of unsaid and implied.