television!

Feb. 7th, 2011 09:34 am
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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.'

Date: 2011-02-08 03:51 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 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.

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