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[muneca_brava]

Day Four: Your favourite show ever

Doctor Who.


There are shows that I think are better made, or more consistently better (DW has really terrible episodes, okay) like Firefly or Life on Mars,... But I don't love those in the same way I love DW. It's the show that made me really involved in fandom (I read Veronica Mars fanfic before, but that was it), and the level of excitment a really brilliant episode gives me is unique. I started in the fandom focussed on shipping, but after a while that stopped. And now, it's still my most active fandom but not really focussed on my OTP anymore.

I love the actors, the writers and the producers. I listen to the dvd commentaries and the podcasts (I don't do that with any other show). I really just care about it a lot.

I first fell in love with it near the end of S4, and I remember thinking that by the time it came back (year and a half later) I'd probably forgotten all about it. But by that time, I turned out to love it more than ever.

Day Five: A show you hate

I don't watch shows I don't like so it never gets to the point of hate, I think. Cliché answer is reality tv, but I just ignore that.

Oh! You know what I really despise? Those American family sitcoms type According to Jim and Still Standing. I do like some American sitcoms like Friends and HIMYM, but I'm talking about the kind that is all about a perfect happy all-american family that gets in to embarrassing and often offensive shenanigans that are painfully unfunny and are just meant to show how amazing the American suburban life is. Bah.

Comments

[frotcake.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way about Doctor Who. It isn't the best show ever, but it's so dear to me that even bad episodes cannot ruin my love for the show as a whole.

I have only seen bits when flicking channels, but I remember thinking once that yeah, According to Jim really is offensive. I can't remember very well what it was about, but it had something to do with gender roles and just, ick, the whole thing left me with a bad feeling.

[muneca-brava.livejournal.com]

DW is probably the only show where I even appreciate the occasional bad episode XD

I don't watch it regularly (or at all), but from what I've seen According to Jim seems to send out the message that it's okay for the bloke to lie on the couch watching tv all day while the woman takes care of the household. And sometimes she'll get mad at him, he buys her flowers and that's such a big gesture that everything is forgiven? IDK.

[frotcake.livejournal.com]

So it's a recurring element then, the gender role thing? Hmpf. Ugh!

[hanelissar.livejournal.com]

Yay Doctor Who! You already know my loving feelings for it, and I do not think they will ever go. I cannot imagine ever stopping watching it, even if gets horrendous I am sure I shall plough on relentlessly, continually hoping 'it will get better soon!' But let us hope it does not get to that point. :D

I have never seen either of those shows, they sound awful. I am not a big fan of US family comedy shows anyway, the children are always little adults with irritating wise-cracks and the mother's never get a look-in except to be the 'heart of the house'. I much prefer the friendship-based ones like, as you say, Friends or HIMYM.

[muneca-brava.livejournal.com]

It'll take a lot for me to stop watching Doctor Who. They'd have to mess it up pretty thoroughly before I give up!

I've only seen bits of those shows, just enough to realise how terrible they are. For some reason, they just seem to be on ALL the time. The friendship-based ones do tend to be a lot more bearable.

And, oh a Being Human icon! Reminding me I need to catch up on that :/ I sort of stopped after 2x3 because it was getting too bleak, but I do mean to go back to it...

[swift-tales.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who! *applauds* Awesome!

Also, yes, I understand the American Sitcom problem. I only watch it if I really want to watch something but there is absolutely nothing on! I'm with you on Friends and I also have a deep love for The Big Bang Theory but that's about where it ends.

[muneca-brava.livejournal.com]

I've also watched them a few times out of pure boredom, but I just can't keep it up. It just annoys me SO MUCH! Though I'm not the biggest fan of Big Bang Theory, at least it's enjoyable and entertaining.

[telwyndubois.livejournal.com]

Of course it's Doctor Who - that's probably my favorite too. It's one of the few shows that I just come back to, again and again. Also, I just finished reading DOCTOR WHO: The Inside Story (a surprisingly thick book, dude), and I love watching Confidential...like you said - none of this would happen for any other show.

Also with you on the American sitcom thing, excepting Friends, of course. However, Modern Family, while by far not one of my favorite shows, is still something I appreciate every once in awhile. Some of my friends really love it, so I'll watch it with them occasionally.

[telwyndubois.livejournal.com]

Also, According to Jim was canceled, yes? :)

[muneca-brava.livejournal.com]

No idea if it was cancelled. But even if it is, they just keep airing reruns over here - God knows why.

I really don't have any other show where I care about behind the scenes or about people involved other than the actors. Doctor Who is so unique in that sense.

I've never seen Modern Family! I don't think it's on tv over here...