tv meme, because why not
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eleanorjaneIt's late, and I'm tired, so let's meme!
1: What television series did you last finish? When was that?
I am very very bad at finishing TV series, because I inevitably hit something my brain bounces off and I have to stop. Or they jump the shark. Last finished thing would probably have been a streaming documentary series about K-pop and the Korean music industry.
2: What are you currently watching?
I'm mostly killing time with a Mock the Week rewatch, and dipping in and out of a Brooklyn 99 partial rewatch.
3: What television series are you planning to watch next?
Loki, and the Leverage renewal.
4: What was the last television show you added to your to watch list?
Star Trek Discovery, probably. I skipped the first two series (not at all my cup of tea, based on the looks of the plot) and have started with Season 3, but I haven't had the attention for something serious of late.
5: Which television show did you last re-watch?
As mentioned, currently a Mock the Week rewatch. Before that, Red Dwarf.
6: Which television series was the last one you really, really loved?
Elementary, I think. I dipped out early, but I think the first season of Elementary is close to perfect.
7: What was/were the last television shows you bought on DVD?
I don't know, but it would have been many years ago. Possibly Leverage? I used to buy a hell of a lot of DVDs, but I stopped as soon as online purchasing and streaming became reliable. It saves so much space in the house! Last TV series purchase, at all, was a 10-series bundle of Futurama, through Apple TV.
8: Streaming, Cable or Broadcast? Why?
Cable doesn't apply - Pay TV's never had much of a foothold in Australia, and it's certainly not worth it for me. I refuse to watch broadcast TV at all. Streaming, downloads and DVDs all the way for me.
9: Children's, YA, NA or Adult?
All, although I'd want the kids programming to be on the mature end of the scale - Avatar the Last Airbender, not the Wiggles.
10: Sci-Fi or fantasy?
Sci-fi, generally; for some reason, most fantasy doesn't seem to make for great TV. (With some exceptions, like AtLA.) Whereas many of my favourite genre shows have been sci-fi.
11: Classic Television or modern?
I... don't know where they're drawing the distinction been "classic" and "modern". Depending on the cutoff it could be a line ball, but I'll say modern.
12: Political talk shows or comedic ones?
Comedy, though talk shows aren't really my jam. (Though I do love their related cousin, the light entertainment panel show.
13: Name a television series with a really bad book/comic/movie adaptation.
Firefly. Serenity was not a great movie for fans of Firefly at the time, IMO.
14: Name a television series where the movie/book adaptation actually was better than the television series.
Red Dwarf - the show was British sci-fi sitcom with super-sharp dialogue; the books were much more nuanced black (sci-fi) comedy.
15: What television series changed your life?
I'm not sure I have a really good answer for this, but if pressed I'd say Star Trek.
16: If you could bring three television shows to a deserted island which would you bring and why?
Something like QI with several hundred episodes, if that's not cheating. Perhaps Mock the Week, QI and Spicks and Specks - taken together, that would get me something like 850 episodes of television, and I can rewatch witty people being glib at each other a lot.
17: If you owned a television network what would you call it?
Um. I... don't have strong feelings about this?
Hell with it. If I'm owning a TV network I'm going to want to do something activist with it, because platform! Strong, positive, inclusive programming with a focus on representation for marginalised people. So I'd probably want to go with a name reflecting that in some way, but everything I can think of right now is incredibly on the nose.
18: Which character from a television series is the most like you?
Look, it's hard, because I'm not a hero, I'm an ordinary person, and they mostly don't make shows about those. (Except sitcoms, which I almost always hate.)
Amy Santiago from B99, in some respects (without the drive.) Failing that, let's say someone like Geordi LaForge or Harry Kim from Star Trek, or perhaps Abby Sciuto from NCIS - loving what they do, absolutely down to do a good job and see amazing things, but not Burning With Drive like a main character.
19: Which character from a television series is the least like you?
People who leap without looking, who act without consulting others, and who can't help but feel that their vision is how things should be. Protagonists, in other words. If I had to pick one, let's say... Gibbs, from NCIS.
20: Best summer television show?
21: Best winter television show?
This isn't really a thing here. Mostly these days we get overseas shows whenever they screen overseas, to minimise piracy. With the rise of streaming services and Netflix's "drop the whole season at once" model, is this still a thing O/S?
22: Pro or anti web-series? Why?
I don't have strong feelings about them either way, given that web series include shows that are very much like traditional TV, like Netflix and other streaming services' original series.
23: Streaming or DVD rental?
Streaming please! Leaving the house? No thankyou!
24: Do you prefer to buy television shows online streaming or on DVD?
Generally, I like purchasing digital copies rather than on DVD; I have a large DVD library but I've been known to repurchase something as a digital download rather than having to go hook a DVD player up.
30: Who’s your favorite television series writer?
I don't have strong feelings about most creators, but I think I'd probably have to say John Rogers.
31: What’s your favorite comedic television show?
Excluding light entertainment panel shows, probably Brooklyn 99 or Archer. B99 is pretty much the only sitcom I've ever liked, and Archer is hilarious in an edgy, trainwrecky kind of way.
32: What’s your favorite fantasy television series?
I'm not sure I have one, to be honest. Oh wait: AtLA.
33: What’s your favorite SF television series?
Star Trek: TNG is one of the shows of my heart, but this really still has to go to Farscape.
34: List five OTPs.
I tend not to be majorly OTP about my fannishness - I'm happy to buy into plenty of pairings if they're written well. That said, some of my TV-fandom faves: John/Aeryn (okay, I'm OTPish about this one), RayK/Fraser, John/Rodney (I never loved the show, but the fandom was tremendous), platonic Joan/Sherlock, Parker/Hardison/Elliot (for bonus OT3 content!)
35: Name a television show you consider to be terribly underrated.
I'm going to cheat with two answers here:
a) Star Trek TNG. Of all the Treks, I think TNG has the largest gap between how much love it warrants and how much it gets. and
b) Farscape, because the "muppets" turn off so many people from a simply incredible show.
36: Name a television show you consider to be terribly overrated.
Game of Thrones. I'm glad for the fans that they have a thing they love, but I found it completely repellent.
37: How many television series on DVD or VHS are actually in your bookshelf/shelves right now?
AtLA, about eight seasons of Futurama and six of the Simpsons, my ex's copies of Babylon 5 (I ... should give those back I guess?), all of Star Trek TNG and DS9, three seasons each of Star Trek Voyager and Enterprise, Leverage, six or seven seasons of NCIS, a couple of seasons of House, the first three or four seasons of Burn Notice, seasons 1 & 2 of House, season 1 of Heroes (such a shame they never made more!), the BSG miniseries, all of Farscape, two seasons of Danger Mouse and two of the Muppet Show, Red Dwarf Seasons 1-8, two different full sets of Buffy (no idea where the duplicate came from!), Ultraviolet (a 1995 BBC series about vampires, starring Jack Davenport, Idris Elba, Susannah Harker, Phillip Quast. It's hard to find but fantastic), the first two Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex boxed sets, a half-completed Stellvia boxed set, Macross Plus, MASH Season 1, and... doubtless more I'm forgetting, since that's from memory.
38: What language do you (most often) watch in?
English. Occasionally Japanese with English subtitles, for anime.
39: Name one of your favorite childhood television shows.
I honestly never watched much TV as a kid; it was the ABC or nothing in our house, and they only had limited programming I cared to watch.
40: Name one of your favorite television shows from your teenage years.
See above.
41: Do you have a library card to borrow television shows from the library? How often do you use it?
No; I'd much rather buy something to own it myself. I like knowing I can watch when I want, because the ability to watch is so dependent on how my brain is doing that day.
42: Which was the best television show that you had to watch in school or that was considered educational?
We saw a lot of multi-part David Attenborough docos, if that counts?
43: Are you the kind of person who watches several television series at once or the kind of person who can only watch one and complete it at a time?
Given the opportunity I'll binge a show, but I can definitely have several on the go at once. Provided there's little overlap in the content, I'm fine.
44: Do you like to listen to television shows in the background when you do other things? Do you do other things while watching tv?
Yes and no. I can't do anything requiring concentration when there's words in the background (whether music or TV) but otherwise frequently yes.
45: What is your favorite thing to eat when you watch television?
46: What is your favorite thing to drink when you watch television?
I basically only drink water, with the occasional caffeinated drink for kicks, so that's easy. If I'm watching TV As An Activity, probably nothing? If I'm watching it while doing something else, it's just whatever I'm eating, if anything. I don't really any special rituals around watching TV.
47: What do you do to get out of a television slump - nothing to watch?
I do something else.
48: Where do you watch television?
Mostly in my study, on my second computer's screen while I'm doing something (work, game, whatever) on the first.
49: When is your favorite time to watch television?
I can't answer this, really, as I don't have a really structured lifestyle/set of habits anyway. Mostly it'll get watched during the day if I'm doing some tedious work that could use a distraction.
50: Why do you love to watch television?
It's engrossing - it picks you up and sweeeps you away. And compared with a movie, there's so much more room for character and plot and world development - you don't have to rush and cut a story short just to fit it into two hours.
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1: What television series did you last finish? When was that?
I am very very bad at finishing TV series, because I inevitably hit something my brain bounces off and I have to stop. Or they jump the shark. Last finished thing would probably have been a streaming documentary series about K-pop and the Korean music industry.
2: What are you currently watching?
I'm mostly killing time with a Mock the Week rewatch, and dipping in and out of a Brooklyn 99 partial rewatch.
3: What television series are you planning to watch next?
Loki, and the Leverage renewal.
4: What was the last television show you added to your to watch list?
Star Trek Discovery, probably. I skipped the first two series (not at all my cup of tea, based on the looks of the plot) and have started with Season 3, but I haven't had the attention for something serious of late.
5: Which television show did you last re-watch?
As mentioned, currently a Mock the Week rewatch. Before that, Red Dwarf.
6: Which television series was the last one you really, really loved?
Elementary, I think. I dipped out early, but I think the first season of Elementary is close to perfect.
7: What was/were the last television shows you bought on DVD?
I don't know, but it would have been many years ago. Possibly Leverage? I used to buy a hell of a lot of DVDs, but I stopped as soon as online purchasing and streaming became reliable. It saves so much space in the house! Last TV series purchase, at all, was a 10-series bundle of Futurama, through Apple TV.
8: Streaming, Cable or Broadcast? Why?
Cable doesn't apply - Pay TV's never had much of a foothold in Australia, and it's certainly not worth it for me. I refuse to watch broadcast TV at all. Streaming, downloads and DVDs all the way for me.
9: Children's, YA, NA or Adult?
All, although I'd want the kids programming to be on the mature end of the scale - Avatar the Last Airbender, not the Wiggles.
10: Sci-Fi or fantasy?
Sci-fi, generally; for some reason, most fantasy doesn't seem to make for great TV. (With some exceptions, like AtLA.) Whereas many of my favourite genre shows have been sci-fi.
11: Classic Television or modern?
I... don't know where they're drawing the distinction been "classic" and "modern". Depending on the cutoff it could be a line ball, but I'll say modern.
12: Political talk shows or comedic ones?
Comedy, though talk shows aren't really my jam. (Though I do love their related cousin, the light entertainment panel show.
13: Name a television series with a really bad book/comic/movie adaptation.
Firefly. Serenity was not a great movie for fans of Firefly at the time, IMO.
14: Name a television series where the movie/book adaptation actually was better than the television series.
Red Dwarf - the show was British sci-fi sitcom with super-sharp dialogue; the books were much more nuanced black (sci-fi) comedy.
15: What television series changed your life?
I'm not sure I have a really good answer for this, but if pressed I'd say Star Trek.
16: If you could bring three television shows to a deserted island which would you bring and why?
Something like QI with several hundred episodes, if that's not cheating. Perhaps Mock the Week, QI and Spicks and Specks - taken together, that would get me something like 850 episodes of television, and I can rewatch witty people being glib at each other a lot.
17: If you owned a television network what would you call it?
Um. I... don't have strong feelings about this?
Hell with it. If I'm owning a TV network I'm going to want to do something activist with it, because platform! Strong, positive, inclusive programming with a focus on representation for marginalised people. So I'd probably want to go with a name reflecting that in some way, but everything I can think of right now is incredibly on the nose.
18: Which character from a television series is the most like you?
Look, it's hard, because I'm not a hero, I'm an ordinary person, and they mostly don't make shows about those. (Except sitcoms, which I almost always hate.)
Amy Santiago from B99, in some respects (without the drive.) Failing that, let's say someone like Geordi LaForge or Harry Kim from Star Trek, or perhaps Abby Sciuto from NCIS - loving what they do, absolutely down to do a good job and see amazing things, but not Burning With Drive like a main character.
19: Which character from a television series is the least like you?
People who leap without looking, who act without consulting others, and who can't help but feel that their vision is how things should be. Protagonists, in other words. If I had to pick one, let's say... Gibbs, from NCIS.
20: Best summer television show?
21: Best winter television show?
This isn't really a thing here. Mostly these days we get overseas shows whenever they screen overseas, to minimise piracy. With the rise of streaming services and Netflix's "drop the whole season at once" model, is this still a thing O/S?
22: Pro or anti web-series? Why?
I don't have strong feelings about them either way, given that web series include shows that are very much like traditional TV, like Netflix and other streaming services' original series.
23: Streaming or DVD rental?
Streaming please! Leaving the house? No thankyou!
24: Do you prefer to buy television shows online streaming or on DVD?
Generally, I like purchasing digital copies rather than on DVD; I have a large DVD library but I've been known to repurchase something as a digital download rather than having to go hook a DVD player up.
30: Who’s your favorite television series writer?
I don't have strong feelings about most creators, but I think I'd probably have to say John Rogers.
31: What’s your favorite comedic television show?
Excluding light entertainment panel shows, probably Brooklyn 99 or Archer. B99 is pretty much the only sitcom I've ever liked, and Archer is hilarious in an edgy, trainwrecky kind of way.
32: What’s your favorite fantasy television series?
I'm not sure I have one, to be honest. Oh wait: AtLA.
33: What’s your favorite SF television series?
Star Trek: TNG is one of the shows of my heart, but this really still has to go to Farscape.
34: List five OTPs.
I tend not to be majorly OTP about my fannishness - I'm happy to buy into plenty of pairings if they're written well. That said, some of my TV-fandom faves: John/Aeryn (okay, I'm OTPish about this one), RayK/Fraser, John/Rodney (I never loved the show, but the fandom was tremendous), platonic Joan/Sherlock, Parker/Hardison/Elliot (for bonus OT3 content!)
35: Name a television show you consider to be terribly underrated.
I'm going to cheat with two answers here:
a) Star Trek TNG. Of all the Treks, I think TNG has the largest gap between how much love it warrants and how much it gets. and
b) Farscape, because the "muppets" turn off so many people from a simply incredible show.
36: Name a television show you consider to be terribly overrated.
Game of Thrones. I'm glad for the fans that they have a thing they love, but I found it completely repellent.
37: How many television series on DVD or VHS are actually in your bookshelf/shelves right now?
AtLA, about eight seasons of Futurama and six of the Simpsons, my ex's copies of Babylon 5 (I ... should give those back I guess?), all of Star Trek TNG and DS9, three seasons each of Star Trek Voyager and Enterprise, Leverage, six or seven seasons of NCIS, a couple of seasons of House, the first three or four seasons of Burn Notice, seasons 1 & 2 of House, season 1 of Heroes (such a shame they never made more!), the BSG miniseries, all of Farscape, two seasons of Danger Mouse and two of the Muppet Show, Red Dwarf Seasons 1-8, two different full sets of Buffy (no idea where the duplicate came from!), Ultraviolet (a 1995 BBC series about vampires, starring Jack Davenport, Idris Elba, Susannah Harker, Phillip Quast. It's hard to find but fantastic), the first two Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex boxed sets, a half-completed Stellvia boxed set, Macross Plus, MASH Season 1, and... doubtless more I'm forgetting, since that's from memory.
38: What language do you (most often) watch in?
English. Occasionally Japanese with English subtitles, for anime.
39: Name one of your favorite childhood television shows.
I honestly never watched much TV as a kid; it was the ABC or nothing in our house, and they only had limited programming I cared to watch.
40: Name one of your favorite television shows from your teenage years.
See above.
41: Do you have a library card to borrow television shows from the library? How often do you use it?
No; I'd much rather buy something to own it myself. I like knowing I can watch when I want, because the ability to watch is so dependent on how my brain is doing that day.
42: Which was the best television show that you had to watch in school or that was considered educational?
We saw a lot of multi-part David Attenborough docos, if that counts?
43: Are you the kind of person who watches several television series at once or the kind of person who can only watch one and complete it at a time?
Given the opportunity I'll binge a show, but I can definitely have several on the go at once. Provided there's little overlap in the content, I'm fine.
44: Do you like to listen to television shows in the background when you do other things? Do you do other things while watching tv?
Yes and no. I can't do anything requiring concentration when there's words in the background (whether music or TV) but otherwise frequently yes.
45: What is your favorite thing to eat when you watch television?
46: What is your favorite thing to drink when you watch television?
I basically only drink water, with the occasional caffeinated drink for kicks, so that's easy. If I'm watching TV As An Activity, probably nothing? If I'm watching it while doing something else, it's just whatever I'm eating, if anything. I don't really any special rituals around watching TV.
47: What do you do to get out of a television slump - nothing to watch?
I do something else.
48: Where do you watch television?
Mostly in my study, on my second computer's screen while I'm doing something (work, game, whatever) on the first.
49: When is your favorite time to watch television?
I can't answer this, really, as I don't have a really structured lifestyle/set of habits anyway. Mostly it'll get watched during the day if I'm doing some tedious work that could use a distraction.
50: Why do you love to watch television?
It's engrossing - it picks you up and sweeeps you away. And compared with a movie, there's so much more room for character and plot and world development - you don't have to rush and cut a story short just to fit it into two hours.
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Date: 2021-05-18 01:30 am (UTC)I think the first season of Elementary is close to perfect.
Absolutely. It was so interesting to watch, too.
I'd want the kids programming to be on the mature end of the scale - Avatar the Last Airbender, not the Wiggles.
(With an exception for Bluey, which is just lovely.)
B99 is pretty much the only sitcom I've ever liked
It is awfully fun. Although I haven't seen past season 5.
John/Rodney (I never loved the show, but the fandom was tremendous)
Hell yes! I grew to love the pairing long before I even encountered the show!
Game of Thrones. I'm glad for the fans that they have a thing they love, but I found it completely repellent.
Ugh. Agreed.
Ultraviolet (a 1995 BBC series about vampires, starring Jack Davenport, Idris Elba, Susannah Harker, Phillip Quast. It's hard to find but fantastic)
Someone else who's heard of this? Cool!
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Date: 2021-05-18 03:55 am (UTC)Ultraviolet! That was such a great show, but it got very dark very quickly.
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Date: 2021-05-18 01:23 pm (UTC)Also the start of my love for Idris Elba!
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Date: 2021-05-18 01:22 pm (UTC)Yes! I actually don't remember where I stumbled across it, but getting it on DVD was a trial and a half. :)
I used to be a HUGE Jack Davenport fan, so it had a lot of appeal for me, and it's very well-done IMO.