I just finished watching the season 3 finale of The Guild. Hidden for spoilers and squee.

I am too much of a shipper.

That’s goddamn amazing, Marquis. McNulty, Bubs/Johnny Weeks, Clay Davis, and Brother Mouzone’s hilariously smug face are the best.

To people who haven’t watched The Wire yet but are considering it, check out that picture just so you get an idea of how big the cast is.

That said, it left a few characters out. I don’t see Namond, Sherrod, Randy, Slim Charles(!), Bird, Stinkum, Savino, O-Dogg, Day-Day, Mrs. Bryce, Brianna Barksdale, Spider, Little Kevin, those two “40 degree day” Barksdale mopes, Fruit, Orlando, Nerise Campbell, Sergei, Santangelo, D’angelo’s girlfriend(I forget her name), that academic who does the project with Bunny Colvin, Shardene, Delegate Watkins, Marla Daniels, Theresa D’Agustino, the minister(who, fun fact, is played by the guy they based Avon Barksdale on)... Did I miss anybody who actually affects things?

[I am leaving out the newspaper characters because they are boring and I don’t care]

edit The Clay Davis one is now my facebook picture.

Just finished watching BSG season 1 and… and…

...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so thoroughly glad I’m watching this after the fact. If I had to wait six months to get that cliffhanger resolved, I don’t know how I could stand it.

How far in are you?

Ah. Keep going. The show only starts to hit its stride around the end of the first season.

I’m sorry, sansa.

I saw a Rolling Stone cover for True Blood...Google it and you will want to be a deal-breaking renegade.

No, those are conveniently ‘shielded’ from the viewer. By another man. Who is naked.

Who comes up with these photo shoots? I really want to know. Also, the thought process that goes behind these things- “Okay, and we’ll sandwich her uncomfortably close next to two other naked people, and just to make things fun, we’ll splatter them with blood. Get it? Because there are vampires!”

I find it more laugh-worthy than scandalous, honestly, but it’s amusing to think about.

No, I mean the show has boobs in it. Or so I’ve heard. The cover was just bizarre.

I watched season 1 of True Blood after a friend kept hyping it up. It has some interesting concepts and does vampires pretty well but the intense sex scenes and very very simplistic plot (to me at least) made me not care too much. I did start season 2 but a friend interupted an episode and i lost the momentum and could never get back to it. Whats funny is that Jason is played by an Australian actor who used to be on this horrible soap opera Home and Away.

I really dont care at all for the vampire craze, even if its vampires done well.

Still watching BSG! I’m now on episode 4 of season 2.

I never really liked Gaeta all that much, but now I really love the guy. He’s pretty awesome.

I love Seinfeld! I have several seasons on DVD.

I hate Glee.

Hate, hate, hate. Especially the drama queen (Rachel?). And the director. And everyone else. Grrrrrrrrrr.

No thank you. I saw an episode. Chevy Chase has not improved with age, and no one else was especially funny.

I like How I Met Your Mother. Neil Patrick Harris=win.

Season 1 of Community was effing brilliant. So far I am disappointed with season 2. The show I loved is kind of almost destroyed already and I dont know why. A friend believes it is because the characters arent acting like themselves anymore and are bickering way too much, and because theyre doing storylines set outside of the community college now. They are also making it a little more silly than it used to be, with one episode calling attention to them making the college more and more like a cartoon.

But the geniusness is still there sometimes like the space episode and the newest ABED episode. Community should be a writer’s best friend since it constantly expresses how much the writers know about how stories are structured and such. But most jokes are falling flat to me. The actors’ comic timing and delivery of saying simple things that shouldnt be funny used to be funny but now theyre mostly not. Maybe there is something wrong with me since it takes quite a bit to make me laugh. I need to go go rewatch all of season 1 to compare.

With not finding anyone funny, you have to get used to these characters I think. Though pretty much all the girls except maybe Anne suck but are necessary for jokes to be made about them and affect storylines. I think Chevy Chase has definitely improved with age. Or at the very least is still good.

Neil Patrick Harris is pretty awesome but I find How I Met Your mother so mildly funny most of the time that its almost not funny at all. Even the audience laughter seems less than other shows but maybe they quieten it down. What I like about HIMYM which keeps me watching is the clever storytelling and sometimes the characters.

No thank you. I saw an episode. Chevy Chase has not improved with age, and no one else was especially funny.

I’m sorry you feel that way, but I think the show is downright brilliant.

A friend had to point Abed delivering a baby thing out to me. You see the pregnant lady walking around other places in the background before then I think.

The writers are still brilliant but is it just me who thinks this season took a considerable step downhill? Out of all the shows that go downhill, I thought it wouldve been the Community writers who would know if theyre doing something wrong. Kind of ironic. Its possible theyre trying to expand their audience to stay alive while theyre competing against Big Bang but I want it to be funnier to a minority i.e. me than less funny to a majority.

My dad and I watched Glee today because they were doing Rocky Horror. The songs were entertaining, but I don’t still don’t like the characters.

One of the nice things about B5 – it was a slow burn show with a set timetable, so they could pace it just right, rather than having to constantly build the tension until there was no possible way to have a satisfactory end.

@ Marquis

Lumen is irritating on Dexter. She just is. Plus, Julia Stiles irks me.

Her voice bugs me.

^^Then you won’t be happy to know I started the fourth season.

puts up shield

In case there are any Americans who want to catch up Doctor Who for free and legally, BBC America is starting over replaying all the shows on Wednesday. It’s pretty much every weekday at 4:00 pm central time, though occasional they have more than one episode per day. They also come on the next morning at 9:00 am central time.

The Walking Dead looks promising. :) Anyone else catch the premiere?

Out of nowhere, I have the urge to watch nothing but The Wonder Years. But music rights fucking up DVD releases, not having The Hub, and living in a dorm mean that it’s impossible to properly watch the damn show. D:

Nostalgia can be such a bitch.

I saw The Walking Dead. Looks good so far, and they’ve managed to stay pretty true to the source material.

The only thing that took me out of it was when the guy was riding the horse along I-85 into Atlanta. I just looked at all the cars on the other side of the divider and went, “Oh, come on. That’s like 5:00 on a weekday in Atlanta.”

Scrubs is my favorite sitcom of all time regardless of it going downhill and flanderizing the characters. Season 7 is when it was most silly but luckily that season was cut short because of the writer’s strike and they got a second chance to fix Scrubs with the pretty good season 8. Then abc stupidly gave them a spin-off and they ruined it again. Scrubs was probably getting sillyish on season 6 and maybe as early as 5, but 5 had some fantastic episodes and overarching plots.

So yeah I think season 7 is what you want to avoid completely and 6 maybe a bit. But 8 while a little weird was mostly good especially the finale. I used to love JD but by season 9 (the spin-off) they made him so homosexual that I began to hate him. Zach Braff apparently even commented on how they made his character too gay.

I watched The Walking Dead today. It was interesting enough for me to keep watching, but I’m not sure if I like it yet. I’m not familiar with the source material, so the story is new to me. It will probably be good just because it’s AMC.

I watched the last episode of Sherlock last night. I think I’m in love. And I can’t wait for the next season! :D

House just made a vampire reference that I’m pretty sure was directed at Let Me In instead of Twilight.

Amber Tamblyn wouldn’t go into the patient’s house, so Taub said, “Are you a vampire? It’s okay. We’re inviting you in.”

I know, but I figured it was a pop culture reference, which is why I thought of that book/movie. Because it is recent.

Conan has risen. Praise be the conebone.

I really should stop playing games while watching serious things. It made the newest episode of Dexter feel really short and I probably missed a few things.

I’ve never seen Conan :( The only US talk show thingy that airs in Australia on normal TV that I know of is David Letterman and he’s definitely the worst of all of them.

Dexter:

@SWQ
I do that with shows all the time, and my parents are always like, “Why are there so many episodes?!” Is it on everyday on Chiller?

Here’s what I use for my Dexter fix. I’m not sure if it works outside the US, but give it a shot:

http://dexter-streamingonline.blogspot.com/

With Coupling, Sherlock, Jekyll, and Doctor Who already watched, I’m getting into really early Moffat stuff by watching Press Gang. It’s everything that my experience with the school newspaper wasn’t.

So, since I searched for “How Twilight Should Have Ended,” I started to look at some of there other ones. They have one for Lost. If you don’t watch it all, then watch from about 2:15-2:36.

I may have to temporarily my self-imposed ban on British TV to watch this “Brit Mad Men“ show starring Dominic West I heard about today. The guy needs to be on my TV more.

What is this madness?

I don’t have anything against the shows themselves, I’ve just known too many Brit TV fanboys/girls who were insufferably smug about it. I’ve still got plenty of American stuff I haven’t watched yet, so it’s very easy to avoid watching British shows.

I’m willing to make an exception for ol’ D-West, because he’s a true bro, whether he’s raping Spartan queens or doing wiretaps on drug dealers/sabotaging his personal relationships or playing a villain in that Punisher movie I didn’t watch.

I saw about half of it, I think, but lost interest because Lindsey was kind of annoying.

Yes, that Community episode was pretty freaking great.

If only Abed hadn’t stopped Annie…

Oh cool thats awesome that they showed the pen being taken. I think this episode was brilliant in terms of Community’s usual meta and tropey cleverness, but I still feel the jokes arent there and its just the cast getting angry with each other… Learning about bottle episodes with how shows are planned was pretty interesting.

I just watched the first two episodes of Archer, and it’s awesome so far. Recaptures the Frisky Dingo feel without just copying it.

It almost certainly was. The show’s pretty raunchy. Finished the first season, and it’s pretty great, although it doesn’t really have much in the way of throughplot like Frisky Dingo did. Maybe next season.

It was her! I thought so. :D She was pretty kickass…

All the Firefly references Nathan Fillion makes in Castle makes me sad.

Castle: Speaks Chinese

Beckett: Semester abroad?

Castle: Nah, a TV show I used to love.