TV meme, continued

[madlori]

Ok, so it seems there were a fair number of people who DID care about my answers to the TV meme. So I'll keep going. My last entry was last Friday so I'll need to do days 5, 6, 7 and 8 for today.

Comments

[kiwiria]

I've never seen a single episode of Sex and the City - I just don't care to. I was convinced to watch the movie to keep a friend company, and it wasn't too bad, but I still have no desire at ALL to watch the show.

Ooh, Twin Peaks! I was so sad it ended where it did, so we never got the third season.

[owlmoose]

Yes yes yes on favorite episode of favorite show. DS9 is my all-time favorite too, and "In the Pale Moonlight" is sheer genius. There are many brilliant episodes to choose from (Duet, The Visitor, Far Beyond the Stars...) but I find Pale Moonlight to be a clear winner.

Least favorite is harder, and you picked a real clunker, but for me it would probably have to be a Ferengi episode. I lost patience for those about halfway through the series run.

[madlori]

I almost picked Duet. That's a sentimental favorite. Ferengi eps weren't generally my favorites either but there were a few of them that were damn good. 'House of Quark' is one of the series' best.

I almost picked "Second Sight," Sisko's romance-of-the-week, or "Move Along Home," which is just horrific on every level. I guess Sound of Her Voice seems worse because the show overall had gotten so much stronger by season six that it was just even more jarring.

[owlmoose]

(using the icon I meant to use before...)

I agree, there are some brilliant Ferengi episodes, including House of Quark. Also good point about Sound of her Voice being jarringly bad in the context of Such an excellent season.

[slice254]

Move Along Home would have been my least favorite. I rewatched it recently (I know, I know...but iTunes started carrying the series, and I've been downloading), and my reaction the whole time was "WTF?" Compared to most of the rest of the series it was jarringly bad.

And the moral ambiguity is one of the things that makes DS9 my favorite series in the Star Trek franchise. It was a war story, and in times of war, people make moral decisions they might not otherwise make...and are sometimes justified in doing so.

Season 5 is the next one I will download. I'm so looking forward to season 6.

[kitewithfish]

I was with you on Sex and the City, but then I got stuck in Italy for a week without anywhere to go and almost no money, and just the Sex and the City season DVD's. The show grows on you (like a fungus) when you only watch the relationships between the long running characters and ignore the rest.

Mind you, I still hate Carrie. But that's for another day.

[eawen_penallion]

I loved the quote from 'The West Wing' I would definitely put the series on my shortlist for favourite TV series ever. Two favourite scenes/quotes come to mind:

The first is similar to the one you quoted, but this one involves a reception at the White House for radio show hosts, where President Barlett rips to pieces a right-wing female 'advice columnist' whose doctorate has nothing to do with psychology or counselling. He blasts the bible-base homophobic advice she spews, pointing out her 'cherry-pickeing' by quoting a whole ream of obsolete 'laws' of Leviticus. Fun

Even more fun is the excellent episode 'Celestial Navigation', where there is a scene where Toby and Sam are driving to bail their Supreme Court nominee out of jail (he was pulled in on racial profiling similar to that just legislated in Arizona). Sam is navigating (badly) and Toby tells Josh on the phone that Sam was 'navigating by the North Star', that was actually the Delta shuttle out of La Guardia - classic!!

WW

[suthern_belle]

One of the most spine-tingling (with excitement) scenes from WW has to be when Sam gets a emergency page from POTUS and informs the audience that POTUS stands for President of the United States.

Another amazing monologue is when Zoey gets a lecture from dear ol' daddy Bartlet regarding her security, and he talks about her potential kidnapping. Frightening.

And, finally, I love C.J. Craig, her pet goldfish, and her secret service codename, "Flamingo".

[ladyphoenixia]

By Gargoyles do you mean the old animated TV show? Because, as a coincidence, a couple of weeks ago I was talking with friends about how awesome it was, so the boyfriend and I searched out the whole series to download. Finished watching Season 1 last night, and it's still awesome. :)

Tell me about Twin Peaks, if you're so inclined - what is it about, and why is it so awesome?

[madlori]

Oh, God. Lack of Twin Peaks knowledge gives Lori a sad and makes Lori feel old. :-)

Twin Peaks is a TV series created by David Lynch. Yeah, that David Lynch. It is about a small town in the Pacific Northwest. The series began with the murder of the local homecoming queen. Who Killed Laura Palmer? It involved crying deputies, Zen Buddhist FBI agents, bikers, dreams about midgets, lots of coffee and cherry pie, giants, Log Ladies, and eventually possessing spirits from dark places and light places.

It is so awesome because it defied the straightforward narrative of TV conventions of the time and dared to be 100% crazy while being 100% compelling.