In the middle of Merlin Series 3 – Episode 13:

My little brother is now begging me to let him watch Game of Thrones when it comes out. I am such a corrupting influence.

D: I’m so jealous. I completely missed S2 because… I have no idea how. Probably dissertation stuff. ;_;

Yeah, they did show it, so it’s my own stupid fault. And what? remake… why… I don’t even… what… I…

O_o

This must be investigated.

Edit: what?! what?! THIS MAKES NO SENSE. I guess the concept is adaptable enough, but arrrgghhh.

Edit 2: Ok, so I like the production company behind it. That makes me happier, but, fuu, I still resist against remakes.

A wild Dwight Schrute somehow appeared in Six Feet Under. And I’m not calling him that just for the sake of it. He’s literally the exact same character that he plays in The Office.

I’m going to sign up for Netflix. There are a lot of shows I want to see that aren’t on TV, Hulu, or YouTube. Plus, searching in video rental stores and trying to watch them on time is annoying.

@NP: I love Netflix. My brother had it, and when we all got to move back home, at least I got that ;) It’s hard to get dvd’s in this household, but the instant play is great. I can actually find all those recommended tv shows everyone tells me about! And lots of British shows!

as for Skins, I hadn’t even heard of it, until it was mentioned on the radio this week, and then I saw a clip on some news channel, and now I’ve seen a reference here. As for what that means regarding the quality I have no idea.

I have now watched the pilots of Skins and Futurama.

UK, and I am undecided about what I think about it. I was impressed with the acting, though, and I’ll probably watch the whole first season before I decide if I like it or not.

I want to watch Six Feet Under too, and I plan to after I’m caught up with Dexter, Breaking Bad, and some other stuff. If you haven’t seen them, you should go waste your life on them. Otherwise Dead Like Me. The premise sounds silly, but it’s actually really good, and it’s only two seasons, so it’s not really wasting your life.

Off the top of my head…

Doctor Who
Torchwood
Babylon 5
Freaks & Geeks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
The Wire
Deadwood
Six Feet Under
Press Gang
Firefly

BREAKING BAD

Dead Like Me
Dexter
Breaking Bad
Wonderfalls
My So-Called Life
The 4400
3rd Rock From the Sun
Eli Stone
The Walking Dead
Being Erica
any kind of Star Trek

Black Books?
Spaced?
Kingdom Hospital?

^^He said best currently airing show.

Oh, fine then. I retract my teasing. :D

EDIT: Oh, and I started watching Castle. It has Nathan Fillion in it! Why did I not start watching this earlier?

Here’s a South Korean trailer for BBC’s Sherlock. Quite an accurate representation of the show.

And here’s another one.

Agreed. I love every episode pretty much, but I loved that episode extra.

And I want to know what Annie was saying. Less than three Allison Brea.

I watched ‘The Body’ (BtVS) today and cried. It was definitely the best portrayal of grief I’ve seen on television (so far).

I started watching Dexter season two today. Netflix has it streaming.

I also finished season two of Breaking Bad.

It’s been a while since I watched it, but: yes. :(

Watching Dexter S2:

^^See, school has made me a little burnt out on reading. I hate that because I love reading, but I’m never in the mood to anymore because I’m forced to read boring things so often.

You know, I was never that big a fan of Britta until tonight’s episode. Opinions have been revised.

I’ve been watching Roswell on and off lately, and I just finished season 1. It’s not all that spectacular (Liz is a total Bella), but everyone else is adorable and I can’t seem to put it down.

I finally got around to buying Buffy on DVD! It came with a signed letter typed by Joss Whedon, too. Currently halfway through season 2; just watched Ted. The twists surprised me completely. I love this show so much!

For here, or elsewhere?

For here, or elsewhere?

Elsewhere.

WOOHOO!!!

On a related note, a friend of mine got Firefly this weekend- both he and my roommate and a friend have never seen it. We’re doing a marathon sometime this weekend, hopefully :D

I’m two episodes in now, and it’s reasonably funny and entertaining, but I’m not ready to call it “good” yet. The only characters who really appeal to me so far are Jane(sp?) and Book, since it seems like they actually have some internal conflict. Pretty much everybody else is just kinda there so far.

Except River. She’s just irritating so far, and most of the time I just want her to get offscreen so the focus can go back to characters who can construct coherent sentences. Maybe she gets less grating and flat later, I dunno.

Just to check, are you watching them in proper order, or the order they were aired in?

Also, how can you not like the kickass-ness of Captain Malcolm Reynolds?

Are you charging through the episodes? Hahah, I’m impressed you’re on episode 6 already.

I don’t dislike him, I just don’t find him terribly compelling so far. It just seems like the show makes an effort to paint him in a somewhat ambiguous nature, but there’s really nothing ambiguous about him.

You’re right, but it’s more of a character piece about getting to know him and his history — nothing about his moral status exactly. He’s quite a Good Person morally, so, in that sense, there isn’t anything ambiguous about him.

But, to be fair, it’s hard to draw up any particular character development on that lot, as they didn’t have time to develop. :|

Jayne is running so far ahead of the other characters right now that I’m not sure anybody(except maybe Book) has a chance of catching him in the second half of the series.

There’s a lot of Jayne love comin’ your way. :D

You don’t love Wash with all your heart and soul yet? You soulless monster. :D

Well, War Stories is still coming up for you, so that’s good.

(the right order, by the way, is the two-hour pilot, The Train Job, Bushwhacked, Shindig, Safe, etc. I’m pretty sure you’re going in the right order, though)

Finished “War Stories,” and that’s where I’m gonna call it quits for the night. It was nice to see something from Wash. It added some good shading to him. It was filtered through one of the two traits that define him against the rest of the crew, but it’s interesting seeing what I’d think would be a natural feeling of insecurity among the noncombatant crew members(which they kinda underline there at the end with Simon and Kaylee and them trying to get in on the rescue and being totally useless, as expected) seep its way into his marriage. I mean, I still don’t think he’s anywhere near Jayne’s depth, but it’s a start.

Also, gotta roll my eyes at River having superpowers or whatever. I should’ve remembered this was a Joss Whedon joint.

They made a spin-off of Criminal Minds. So far…I’m not impressed.

The latest The Office episode was amazazazazing.

On CSI, this happened.

For purely nostalgic purposes, I’m watching Power Rangers Samurai. The acting is shit, the villains’ plan is to make people feel sad in order to fill up their river, the monsters of the week spout out crappy puns, the Bulk and Skull Spike segments are so obviously edited in at the last moment, and the Megazord looks so bloody boxy. Overall, it feels just like the Power Rangers I watched back as a kid.

But yeah, it’s a bad sign when even my own subconscious is telling me “You’re too old for this shit!” every 2 seconds.

I’m currently watching an anime based on The Count of Monte Cristo. It’s great so far, but it takes certain liberties with the source material.

http://geek-news.mtv.com/2011/02/16/top-10-anticipated-game-of-thrones-tv-moments-spoilers/

I can’t wait for this show.

@ Marquis: Um, wow? That sounds nothing like the Count of Monte Cristo…is he at least a cool vampire?

I just have one problem – Lady looks a bit small for a dire wolf. I thought dire wolves were supposed to be bigger than normal wolves, but they might have changed that so they could use real animals.

I’d actually rather they used real wolves than some lame CG.

Bring Back Firefly

Oh, Community. My nerdcrush on Alison Brie continues to grow.

@Dia: I hate to be a parade-rainer, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Even if they’re not doing anything with it, the rights to the show are still valuable to FOX. As I understand, inactive IPs get used as collateral in loans and financing and such, and moreover, the properties they put up are overvalued, so selling one could reduce the value of the rest of their stockpile, if that makes sense.

Speaking of Firefly, I finished it last weekend and have been too lazy to post my final impression. As it happens, I’m still too lazy.

The difference is that you can build an awesome Robocop statue for about 2% of the cash it’d take to purchase the Firefly.

Well, Family Guy and Futurama both already came back from the dead, but the former stayed on the same network and the latter got bought by a different network after doing gangbusters in syndication on a third network, so… yeah.

Another thing about the show: If it would come back, I fear the high expectations that are riding on it. Most of the hype for the show is based upon its potential rather than actual quality. (Basically, what could have been… because as it was, it was good, but nothing spectacular). And I’d hate to see it screwed up.

Agreed. Serenity pretty much shot the proverbial plot wad for what would’ve been the rest of the series, as I understand it.

My opinion is that after after one or two years, TV shows (at least live action ones) should not be brought back for additional seasons. It would most likely be disappointing and have a different feel to it. It’s better to have fond memories of a show that got cut short than have it brought back and ruined. It probably won’t happen anyway.

I still need to watch Firefly.

It’s pretty much the only musical I adore. Not just because it has the BEST reason for everyone bursting into song, unlike normal musicals which hurt my head.

I haven’t watched it for a while, but Walk Through The Fire used to be my favourite song (I can only assume it still is, as I say, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it in its entirety, so my taste might have changed).

Edit: Ok, I’ll admit it. In high school we used to spontaneously burst into song. If someone started singing one of the songs, the rest of us would join in. It’s like with Disney, but awesomer.

It seems like most of the stuff on the History Channel is about aliens, with the occasional Nazi/Hitler show thrown in there.