Having had essentially this conversation with someone else yesterday, I'm starting to think so. My vector was the one person in our friend group who had seen the show and owned all the tapes through "Ouroboros" and just made a regular program of showing them on the TV/VCR belonging to a mutual friend. I've been trying to remember what we watched after we ran out of Red Dwarf. I was not part of the Buffy/Angel-watching group; neither of those shows ever really took with me. (I was shown some very good episodes of Buffy in grad school which introduced me to Ethan Rayne and confirmed my suspicion about Giles that nobody could possibly turn out that tweedy and mild-mannered by accident, but in general I bounce off Joss Whedon to greater or lesser degrees.)
although I am happy to report that X and XI have actually been pretty good, especially X, which did some nice character stuff.
Nice! The character work of the early seasons was a major factor in my preference for them, so I'm glad to hear it came back, even if it wasn't as fully utilized as it might have been.
This also seems to be pretty obligatory, I feel.
Thank you! I had fights about it with people!
but someone else I think mentioned Blake's 7. If you love JC, B5 and Red Dwarf as well as S&S and don't mind watching old stuff, you should definitely add it to the list.
Blake's 7 has been on my list since college! I actually discovered it through Tanith Lee. I know a fair amount about its premise, characters, and even finale; I've never seen it because of the availability issues and because long-form television is a major investment for me. I watched the most TV of my entire life during the period immediately after grad school when I had a couch to lie on, a TV to stare at, and the physical stamina of a damp Kleenex. The only thing I am actively watching right now is Sapphire & Steel, with Twin Peaks, Leverage, Person of Interest, Steven Universe, and Underground progressing irregularly whenever I'm around the people I watch them with. This situation might change if I had a TV rather than a computer, but on the other hand I'm not sure I actually want a TV. spatch and I talk periodically about getting hold of Blake's 7, though, so I am confident you will hear about it if it happens. It's been obvious since I read anything about the series that Vila is probably also carrying a placard with my name on it.
For the record, the age of a show or a movie is never going to be a dealbreaker for me. Content which may depend on the era in which it was made, absolutely: I got serious whiplash from Wonder Bar (1934) because of the blackface. But it didn't stop me from continuing to watch pre-Code movies like they're going out of style. I get thrown out of stories by bad writing, not special effects or production values. I actually have a lot of trouble when people can't take older art seriously on its own terms. (Rant about the arthouse audience that MST3K'd their way through a 35 mm screening of The Birds (1963) goes here.)
And, yeah, those fandoms aren't really ones I know, or am in, so we would have silently passed each other like ships in the night.
I'm not on Tumblr, either, which might otherwise have linked us up. I read a handful belonging to friends (and will periodically check in on yours if you don't mind), but do not maintain one myself.
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Having had essentially this conversation with someone else yesterday, I'm starting to think so. My vector was the one person in our friend group who had seen the show and owned all the tapes through "Ouroboros" and just made a regular program of showing them on the TV/VCR belonging to a mutual friend. I've been trying to remember what we watched after we ran out of Red Dwarf. I was not part of the Buffy/Angel-watching group; neither of those shows ever really took with me. (I was shown some very good episodes of Buffy in grad school which introduced me to Ethan Rayne and confirmed my suspicion about Giles that nobody could possibly turn out that tweedy and mild-mannered by accident, but in general I bounce off Joss Whedon to greater or lesser degrees.)
although I am happy to report that X and XI have actually been pretty good, especially X, which did some nice character stuff.
Nice! The character work of the early seasons was a major factor in my preference for them, so I'm glad to hear it came back, even if it wasn't as fully utilized as it might have been.
This also seems to be pretty obligatory, I feel.
Thank you! I had fights about it with people!
but someone else I think mentioned Blake's 7. If you love JC, B5 and Red Dwarf as well as S&S and don't mind watching old stuff, you should definitely add it to the list.
Blake's 7 has been on my list since college! I actually discovered it through Tanith Lee. I know a fair amount about its premise, characters, and even finale; I've never seen it because of the availability issues and because long-form television is a major investment for me. I watched the most TV of my entire life during the period immediately after grad school when I had a couch to lie on, a TV to stare at, and the physical stamina of a damp Kleenex. The only thing I am actively watching right now is Sapphire & Steel, with Twin Peaks, Leverage, Person of Interest, Steven Universe, and Underground progressing irregularly whenever I'm around the people I watch them with. This situation might change if I had a TV rather than a computer, but on the other hand I'm not sure I actually want a TV.
For the record, the age of a show or a movie is never going to be a dealbreaker for me. Content which may depend on the era in which it was made, absolutely: I got serious whiplash from Wonder Bar (1934) because of the blackface. But it didn't stop me from continuing to watch pre-Code movies like they're going out of style. I get thrown out of stories by bad writing, not special effects or production values. I actually have a lot of trouble when people can't take older art seriously on its own terms. (Rant about the arthouse audience that MST3K'd their way through a 35 mm screening of The Birds (1963) goes here.)
And, yeah, those fandoms aren't really ones I know, or am in, so we would have silently passed each other like ships in the night.
I'm not on Tumblr, either, which might otherwise have linked us up. I read a handful belonging to friends (and will periodically check in on yours if you don't mind), but do not maintain one myself.