A New Years Resolution I Can Keep Without Doing Any Real Work

[hobsonphile]

For 2006, I resolve to be a total genre television whore. *g*

I have already completed or am in the process of watching:

Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Babylon 5
Crusade
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Firefly/Serenity
Farscape
Stargate: SG-1
Stargate: Atlantis
Battlestar Galactica: 2003
Blake's 7
Early Edition

Comments

[hobsonphile]

I think sabr_matt would be very happy if I started watching Dark Angel. He loooves Jessica Alba. *g*

M*A*S*H is actually on my queue also, but I didn't list it because when I used the term "genre," I was referring primarily to sci-fi/fantasy-ish shows (though of course one can legitimately use "genre" to refer to "military genre," "hospital genre," "mystery genre," etc.).

[poor_choices]

Veronica Mars is awesome. Often compared to Buffy, Whedon's a fan, first season is awesome.

[hobsonphile]

Ah, but why will I like VM? I'm not inclined to accept things on authority, even if that authority is Joss. *g*

[abigail_n]

Well, if you did like Buffy there's a good chance you'll like this show - not a lot of superficial similarities but beneath the surface a very similar attitude. It's not a show you're meant to like or just occasionally enjoy but a show that you're supposed to love with every fiber of your being.

Plus, a smart, determined, spunky heroine, fantastically smart mysteries and even smarter solutions. Since you're such a fan of B5's multi-episode structure, you'll certainly enjoy the season-long mystery and the fact that the writers clearly knew the mystery's solution before they started shooting the pilot. The actors are wonderful, and the relationships are real - prickly and complicated. It's an absolutely superb show and I'm sure you'll be in love in no time.

Oh, and if you're going to watch The X-Files, do yourself a favor and don't go past the sixth season. Hell, you could watch the first five seasons and the movie and quit there without missing much except for a few fun episodes in an otherwise mediocre season (sort of like

[poor_choices]

Way to eat notifications, Gmail.

Anyway, a lot of good stuff already got covered--the season long myteries are a really big draw, especially in the first season because it's so well done. It has excellent dialogue, lots of really fun banter, and even in the less individually exciting episodes, there's enough development of the overall plot that they're worth watching.

[ch1pper]

Roswell ~ Angsty teen aliens. Blows Smallville outta the water (except for Lex. mmmmmm Lex). Breakout performances by Nick Wechsler, Brendan Fehr and Majandra Delfino. Jason Behr is smokin hot. And Colin Hanks is adorable.

Sliders ~ Pros: Very cool idea, written well for the first two seasons, funny tongue in cheek bits. Cons: Jerry O'Connell.

Invisible Man ~ Hilarious and heartbreaking. Subversive and hot.

The Pretender ~ Top secret think tank's prodigy breaks out and experiences the world for the first time. Very cool and cute and heartwarming. Like a Hallmark special with guns and sunglasses and stiletto heels. Yeah, cool.

I'd recommend Now and Again but it's not on DVD yet. :( ~ Sharp as a razor writing, awesome cast, chemistry out the wazoo (whaddaya expect from the guy who created Moonlighting). if you can find it rerunning somewhere lemme know. I think I lost my tapes.

[hobsonphile]

Thanks for the list! I'll do some research and see what looks attractive. *g*

[grey_bard]

I second Invisible Man (the version that showed on the Sci Fi channel). Very sweet and more dark and complex than it looks on the surface. Lots of strange interdependences, sticky moral quandries and trust issues (of self and others) in a bright candy shell.

[asgoesohio]

Star Trek: Voyager. One word: Janeway. Go forth. I can't tell you why you have to watch, but once you do, you will never turn away, no matter how bad it gets.

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[bubosquared]

Space: Above and Beyoned!

Pros:

Only one season, so if you don't like it, you won't have wasted too much time;

It has some really cool concepts to explore;

Kick-ass female characters;

Conspiracies and other plotty goodness, whee!

Cons:

Only one season, and it ends on a mother of a cliffhanger;