[this barely getting by is really getting old]

[minervacat]

paraphrased recreation of a conversation had this week:minervacat: i think i should write spin city fic.
oracleasb: usually i encourage your crazy ideas, but this time, i think, just ... no.
minervacat: yeah, i guess so ... but carter was canonically gay! it would be so easy!
oracleasb: seriously. no.
sometimes i stop and take a long hard look at my life and think how the hell did i

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[plumtastic]

what should i be getting on dvd from netflix?

I would try to pimp Tour of Duty, because the 80% that was really good, was friggin' awesome. And, remember, cute guy! And a fair amount of gay, yes indeedy.

But, I know that's an acquired taste, so. *g*

Magnificent 7! Not fabulous, but cute, and rampant with the HoYay. Um...sadly, that may all I have.

I've picked Homicide as my summer series. I've seen the first several episodes and have always wanted to get back to it eventually.

Kitchen Confidential, man. My sister just sent me all the KC promo pics from TVGuide and such and I am just verklempt about it all over again. Though I do have this hilarious picture of Jack with one of the bunnies hanging just above my monitor. Does a girl's sense of wackiness good.

[bantha_fodder]

Darling, where is your list?

[plumtastic]

I'm too scattered to do a list. And I love to many things. Big ol' whore, that's me!

though I would agree with three out of your five. like that's any surprise.

[bantha_fodder]

I was going to say, let me guess yours! But then I realised it would be no great surprise. ALAS FOR OUR LOVE.

[bantha_fodder]

Space: Above and Beyond. This was the first time that Fox broke my heart, but it was not the last.

The Pretender. This, on the other hand, got a respectable four seasons and two telemovies, and I am satisfied with that. It got a little weird towards the end, but it ended before it all went to crap, and I'm glad for that. Plus, how could you go wrong with Jarod and Miss Parker? (see my explanatory picspam as to the awesomeness of Miss Parker here.

La Femme Nikita. This also got a respectable amount of episodes, four seasons and one mini season of eight episodes. If you loved Alias, you should catch this on dvd and see just how many of those ideas came from this serious of awesomeness. It was so twisty, and so confusing, and the people were just so underhanded and horrible that you couldn't help but love them.

The West Wing, especially seasons one and two. Because what you said up there is absolutely correct.

Wildside. An Australian cop drama of the late nighties that was all about really horrible things, and it was filmed in this

[tablesaw]

S:AaB just barely missed my Top 5.

[minervacat]

sometimes i stop and think about what if we had gotten seven seasons of s1/2 quality west wing, and then i think that i probably would have expired from the sheer joy of it if we had.

[serialkarma]

These all seem so...unoriginal to me. But then I guess there's a reason they're at the top of the list, yes?

Homicide: Life on the Street

M*A*S*H It's a toss-up as to which of these is the best show ever to air on television, in my opinion.

Buffy

OZ (er, if you're okay with graphic, uh, everything: language, violence, rape, sex, crucifixion, immolation, branding, drug-taking...have I left anything out? Probably.)

Farscape (canonical crackfic. Seriously.)

It hurts my heart not to say X-Files, but I just can't, because seasons 5 through 9 were just...not.

[minervacat]

sometimes i'm sad because h:lots doesn't have a bigger, more active fandom, but then i remember that it was so damn brilliant most of the time that there's hardly spaces to feel in with fic. still. i wish it had been on for as long as law & order, but at that higher caliber of writing that it always had.

also, i keep thinking i need to watch OZ. maybe this summer.

[plumtastic]

I second the OZ rec. It's brilliant and whacked and oddly, er, poetic and literary. And of course, Meloni.

[minervacat]

meloni is an awesome reason to watch anything, i say.

[tablesaw]

I made my decision based on shows I wished were still continuing; shows that I liked, but which I felt ran their course, got bumped.

• Arrested Development
  
• The Ernie Kovacs Show
  
• The Twilight Zone
  
• Samurai Jack
  
• Mystery Science Theatre 3000

[minervacat]

oh, yes, yes, arrested development - what a fuckin' travesty that AD was cancelled. such an innovative, smart, funny show. and it never really got its due.

[penguingal]

wow, that was better than the book! and also, what an incredibly poorly paced movie. Huh. I actually liked the book more. (Yes, yes, I know Brown's a hack, but he's an enteratining hack.) But I agree, the movie was INCREDIBLY poorly paced. *shakes head

[minervacat]

i HATED the da vinci code when i read it; i felt like dan brown thought his readers were stupid, and i thought all the narrative voices were patronizing and condescending, and it just made me want to fling the book across the room. i felt like howard made a much smarter movie out of a book that thought i was stupid, and so consequently i preferred the movie. :)

if ally mcbeal was on in reruns, i would totally watch it.