Good guys and Supernatural both start up new this Friday.

At the same time!!

What I to do? [sob]

I don’t have DVR. =*(

Oh wait – the internet! XD

Go buy DVR...

Yes dear…

I fear for the toddler who actually got this joke.

I am now starting my journey through avatar (the good one).

Wish me luck (and follow along on my blog if you want)

So I guess no one watches or cares about How I Met Your Mother. Fair enough. I’ve rethought me theory and realised that other pre-existing characters could be having the wedding.

I cant wait to watch Community. It should only be about an hour but my internet is fair shitty. And there’s also Big Bang and 30 Rock. Why would any shot at Twilight feel out of place? Reminds me of the joke where Jeff is all crying going “she always gets to watch what she wants. I hate Glee. I dont see its appeal at all” It was freaking hilarious the way he said it and it was only till after I read on TVtropes that the actual joke was that Glee airs at the same time as Community that I actually got it properly.

Yeah agreed avatar season 1 was still pretty good, but season 2 is when it got really good. Toph owns all of the things. All of the time. Possibly my favorite character. I thought Sokka was my favorite because of his great comedic style but no Toph is the best. I know sansafro once said everyone should love Azula the most but nah…. it was freaking hilarious how her story ended. Not sure if it was meant to be….

Well its been an hour. Big Bang is done and Community has done almost nothing :( 30 Rock isnt that much better off than Community. Community is the only one I really care about. I’ve never seen Mad Men but they actually told you specifically that that was directly from Mad Man. That and The Wire I am definitely going to see but I’m not really making any headway. I’ll watch them eventually but I dont like that The Wire has 5 seasons to catch up on. And Mad Men 4. Seriously has anyone watched all of Breaking Bad. I assume its sort of in the same vein as at least The Wire and it is awesome.

Yeah not even the slightest bit interested in Outsourced. But there’s probably a lot of other good shows I never gave a chance or didnt have much of a chance to see. I dont really wanna waste my time with any shows where the writers really screwed up the story like Heroes. And I heard that Prison Break went bad. And 24. I’m probably going to be watching Firefly soon.

Hooray! Hopefully it will not disappoint. A friend of mine thought it was “alright…” after watching a few episodes I dont know how many but he obviously doesnt know brilliant writing/storytelling/acting/etc when he sees it. Pretty sure it’s won a few emmys.

Well thats 30 rock downloaded now to wait for Community then I’ll watch all 3 together.

Well when I watch stuff on TV I can zone out, but if I download stuff so I can watch it any time without adverts I generally pay attention but I might sometimes multitask. Anything I care about now I download because in Australia all the good shows are either not aired or aired at stupid times. And I dont have DVR or tevo or foxtel digital or anything to record shows. So yeah, watch Breaking Bad.

This season’s sitcoms are all off to a great start, especially Community. sansafro I was hoping the Twilight thing wouldve been better but still made a pretty good point and joke. 30 Rock was going considerably downhill last season I dont know what it was but with my odd sense of humor I just stopped finding it funny. But the season finale redeemed itself somewhat and this season premiere was good again so yay!

Now to wait for Supernatural, Dexter and South Park. And for Futurama to start up again ages away from now.

How was it? Worthwhile?

Has anyone seen The Event yet? I didn’t watch it even though I intended to, but now I’m getting conflicting reports about whether or not it’s good.

So Logo’s finally showing the episodes with Tara in it, now giving the show a reason to be on it. And their being unsubtle by calling it the “Willow & Tara Forever! Marathon”

Why must you taunt us with what can never happen, Logo?

Dexter is coming back this weekend! Yay!

Steph, when I first heard about that, I thought it was a series based on the movie The Castle. I was honestly disappointed.

Anyway, we have two new free-to-air channels now! Hurrah! One full of old movies (<1970s), and the other is basically the free version of Fox8.

Starting Breaking Bad as I type this.

Steph, when I first heard about that, I thought it was a series based on the movie The Castle. I was honestly disappointed.

That was a great movie. We had an American lady stay with us once, and she told me and mum that she loved it because the guy called his wife ‘darl’ all the time. So later on, Dad was calling Mum ‘darl’, and the lady was in fits of giggles. Dad was like, “What?”
It was kinda hilarious.

Anyway, we have two new free-to-air channels now! Hurrah! One full of old movies (<1970s), and the other is basically the free version of Fox8.

SERIOUSLY?!!? What are they called? Do we get them across Australia or just in your area?

It’s on “freeview”, so I guess it’s across Australia.

Also, ‘Gem’ is shaping up to not be as good as I thought. It has a few old movies during the day (like other channels haven’t, but then it’s got things like Secret Millionaire and Highway Patrol in the evening. Urgh. I’m not even sure why it’s a new channel.

After finishing The Great British Bake Off, I now get to indulge my weakness for cookery shows with Masterchef: The Professionals.

Oooh yeah. Although at some point I have to start watching Merlin and Spooks on iPlayer. Ahh, I love you series catch-up.

Dexter was odd today. This season is going to be very problematic for him.

Dexter was good this season should be amazing. The Simpsons I regret watching. While the small bits of Bret and Jemaine were kinda good, they were nowhere near good enough to redeem such a crap episode/series nowadays. Family Guy had a pretty interesting plot but wouldve been more impressive if there was some sort of poem or something describing the deaths and then having the people die the way of the poem. It was hardly funny at all but better than The Simpsons, which is sad. Seriously how do the writers and Groening not know theyre crap? ARGH!!

The new Dexter episode made me sad, and the rest of the season preview looks interesting. If there’s one thing that show does right, it does a good job of making it seem like Dexter is screwed, and even though you consciously know he’s gonna get out of it somehow, it sure doesn’t feel that way at the time.

Yeah, the books had her find out at the end of the first one (so, the end of the first season). I didn’t like that in the book, but I think it would be okay in the show at this point in the story/character development. I’m excited to see what happens because her does look really screwed.

Nice. I like Colvin a lot too, since he’s so emblematic of the show’s central theme. He’s trapped in a broken system with no way to win, and even though he comes up with a temporary solution by coloring outside the lines, it’s bound to fail eventually. The system crushes all those who try to fight it. There’s a reason that line Marla Daniels has back in episode 2 or 3 was a featured quote(“You cannot lose if you do not play.”).

Bunny is featured in S4 in a new sort of role that fits with that season’s theme, though, so don’t count him out yet.

Carcetti features a lot more prominently in S4 too, but I think it’s more interesting, in large part because his adviser Norman makes me laugh my ass off.

S3’s ending reminds me of D’Angelo’s Gatsby speech in S2. The shit you get up to always comes back on you, man. Always.

The chloroform scene in tonight’s Community almost made me throw up from laughter.

The Office was great this week, Community was pretty good as well.

After years of people shilling it without convincing me, a friend of mine finally made a compelling case to watch Firefly.

Christina Hendricks plays a space hooker apparently. Do want.

I’m not even sure if he’s a man anymore.

I didn’t know that it was Christina Hendricks.

And I’d have watched it before if somebody had actually sold it well beyond using stock phrases of admiration that don’t really communicate anything.

Watching episode 9 of Breaking Bad S2. This is a very good show.

Oh. Well, I’m less interested now. That girl in the picture is no Christina Hendricks.

Well, I’m less interested now.

And starting season 4. Fucking hell, Prez’s class is violent. Stuff like that happened at my middle school, but not on the first week.

This Christina Hendricks:

And starting season 4. Fucking hell, Prez’s class is violent. Stuff like that happened at my middle school, but not on the first week.

Yeah, the school at large really isn’t quite that violent, but he has no control over his class so things just escalate like crazy. It was pretty excruciating for me to watch the first time, since I was still in the middle of learning how to control classrooms myself. Sympathy pains and all that.

I sure as shit wouldn’t want to teach in Baltimore, though.

^^And if you’re complaining that it doesn’t have a decent ending, watch Serenity.

one for Firefly would be nice.

Serenity comics)

“Despite requests from fans, Joss Whedon has stated that Serenity is unlikely to be released as a regular publication series. He believes that the pacing and storyarc structure he created for Firefly would work poorly as a regular series, and unlike the monthly-issued Buffy Season 8, Serenity does not have the wealth of background material generated by seven seasons of television to draw from.”

Now through episode 5, I hate the Stanfield organization. The Barksdales were nowhere near as cruel as those guys.

I’m pretty sure the comics count as canon.

Felt weird to actually watch Avatar after seeing South Park so accurately make fun of it months before the film got released.

Finished season 4. Feels weird to like Prez after thinking he was a dumbass for the first 3 seasons. Cutty and Colvin have pretty much cemented themselves as my favorite characters on the show. And I found Namond to have one of the most interesting examples of character development I’ve seen in the series.

I’m starting to watch other stuff by the actors from The Wire, and it just feels weird to see them playing completely opposite roles.
For example, I can never take Stringer Bell seriously again.

So I started watching Battlestar Galactica. I got about halfway through the 2003 miniseries last night (before I realized I had to get up shortly after 7 AM and therefore should probably go to bed before 2 AM) and really, really liked it! We’ll see how the other half goes.

There’s a new channel around here, which has somehow got hold of Growing Pains and a bunch of other early-80s sitcoms.

One of the main characters in Growing Pains has multiple popped collars. And it is still COOL

There again, Kirk Cameron can rock whatever he wants to.

I feel like watching Mad About You. I don’t think it’s on any channels currently, though.

Why can nothing good ever happen on BSG? Everything just keeps getting worse! It’s like they set out to write the most depressing script ever, and then were like “Hey! Let’s also throw in the imminent extinction of the human race! And knotty moral dilemmas! Involving the fate of small, adorable children!”

:D It’s really, really good, though. I love it so far. I finished the miniseries, and now I’m moving on to the series proper—well, the new one, anyway. I know there was one before, but I haven’t watched any of it.

Yeah :/ I’m pretty sure S5 has the highest body count of named characters by a wide margin. That one’s not even the worst of it.

Weirdly, I think that’s the scene where I really came around to Chris Partlow.

I am now officially caught up with Breaking Bad. I won’t mince words. It’s excellent, and I’d probably put it right behind The Wire and Futurama.

Arrested Development!

The Game never changes :(

Anyway, congrats, Marquis. You are now officially down.

I’d recommend Breaking Bad and Mad Men next, in that order.

Neither are as great as The Wire, but I don’t think any show is.

Yeah, that’s a fair point.

As for interest, I can’t remember if you are one of the people who like Dexter or not, but Breaking Bad is a lot like it, except the supporting cast in BB actually behave intelligently, where as most of Dexter’s people tend to act pretty stupid/oblivious a lot of the time.

I’d certainly recommend Veronica Mars, though(and the show that bears her name, dohoho). I haven’t seen the other two. VM’s biggest problem, IMO, is that the first season is the best season. That, and that godawful Piz character they introduce in S3. More like PISS if you ask me.

Fezqueen has me watching Haven, which I can’t seem to form an opinion on.

I like Fringe for the sheer weirdness of it.

Dexter is just all kinds of awesome, Dia. I still need to watch the second and third seasons. The first and fourth were awesome, and the fifth has started out pretty good too.

^^You mean that scene with the kids pretending that they were Omar’s gang? What’s the big deal about—*realizes who one of those kids was* O.O

Yeah you have a good point sansafro. And I will start downloading The Wire, godammit. Or streaming it. Shouldve started when I first said I would. I think most of my internet goes to waste now when it replenishes each month because I’ve run out of things to download. So while all those seasons felt a bit daunting to download it probably wont end up being that much, especially if I span it over some months.