television!

[jazzfish]

I have a vague desire to drown myself in television. Which of these, o lazyweb, would you recommend? (ETA: I've seen none of these except the BSG pilot)

• Babylon 5
  
• Farscape
  
• Battlestar Galactica
  
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
  
• Something else entirely

(No poll because I'm more interested in the Whys.)

Not that this will be happening anytime soon: the next four months or so are kinda busy. But once we get settled I may do something like 'i made my wordcount for the week so i get another episode of X.'

Comments

[jazzfish]

Huh, okay. In that case I may bump up the first half of BSG depending on how I'm feeling. I /might/ be able to restrain myself; I have a really bad track record of stopping when the stopping is good if there's more 'official' material.

Pretty much the only television I've seen since 1995 is, um, Slings & Arrows and Due South. Oh, and Kindred: The Embraced when it originally aired, but that doesn't really count. I have a vague desire to watch Middleman, and also Leverage and Birds of Prey. Wonderfalls... sounds very odd, in a good way. I shall add it to the list.

I'm looking for things with big overarching plots that can draw me in, really. Episodic doesn't do a whole lot for me; I need forward motion.

[desfido]

As mentioned in my own comment, I'm sort of working my way through the rest of the comments post hoc.

Birds of Prey has some great writers and actors, and yet is mostly crap. Also, not really very arcy.

Leverage is also not very arcy, or at least not in the first two seasons plus the first few of the third that I've seen so far. Pretty enjoyable frivolous TV, though, which is usually fairly well written and excellently acted.

Wonderfalls is a truly exquisite gem of TV. It is excellent on basically every front, and I think it suits most moods one can be in (which, coming from someone w/ major depression, I think is really saying something :P ), in addition to just being one of the best damn series ever; it reinforced my existing inclination to watch anything Minear is involved with, and created such an inclination for Fuller. However, the arcs are mostly character or relationshippy, not plotty. It sounds like Fuller's plans for future seasons might've changed that a bit, but, well, we never got those further seasons.

[jazzfish]

Dammit, I really wanted Birds Of Prey to not suck.

Leverage would fill the same niche that Due South is currently occupying: occasional candy. I deeply adore caper stories.

And, yeah, I shall have to look into Wonderfalls, I think.