If Firefly's your favourite show of all-time, what's your second favourite?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, December 5, 2005 21:40
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Originally posted by liminalosity:
I am very concerned about all this talk of regions 1-4! How is this messing with the sleepwalkers and zoot-suited?
There should be no unalterable -choices- to be made regarding cultcha! What are these powers thinking?
Is this a Brit thang?
I guess it is a Brit thing, only not really as I suspect it was the US that came up with regions originally - Just means that unless you have a multi-region DVD player you can't buy DVDs cheaply from other countries ... I think there's some technical reasons to do with pixels or whatever but reckon it's all just so much mumbo jumbo to get us to pay inflated prices ...
Becomes much more annoying when you discover that e.g. the region 1 (US) versions of Dark Angel have loads of fab commentaries and mini-docs but the UK (region 2) has none of it!! Grr Arhg!
And to Queen of the North, may I just say Spaced is superb – very, very funny – especially if you’ve ever had low self esteem and shared a flat with a geeky man, you’ll find it hysterical …
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I'm surprised no one has said Wonderfalls yet so I'll lock that in as my second favourite. Blackadder, Fawlty Towers and Red Dwarf all Deserve mention aswell.
The New Battlestar, House , Veronica Mars, Arrested Development and Rome are my favourite shows still in production.
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I said Wonderfalls!!!! 
Ohh and am totally LOVING House ...
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Originally posted by Hawk:
Angel, Buffy, Dark angel, new Battlestar Galactica and Spooks.
Love Angel, Buffy and Spooks (as well as many others)...
... but yay Mathew Macfadyen. Great in Spooks and that really good New Zealand movie My Fathers Den (and he's a good Mr. Darcy whatever people say)
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Thanks Lim! I don't think I can get Netflix here, but I can order it through Amazon. My way of getting anything not available in stores here. Maybe I can get Spaced too. I just bought Veronica Mars season 1 yesterday, so I'll have to see how I like that.
I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Valkyrie Warrior, the Gourmet Cook and the Truth Scoper.
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I thought he was an excellent Mr Darcy too, Elggin and not just 'cos he's unfathomably beautiful!!
He was also superb in Henry IV on stage - I was in the second row and could have reached out and touched him... (but for the restrainign order, of course) ...
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Picking favourites is not so hard, i'd have to go Buffy then FF.
I love FF but I grew up with Buffy through the good times and bad in my life, it was always there for me and we got to say goodbye properly too. Whereas with FF we hardly got to know each other, and then didn't have (horrible word coming up!) "closure" (don't have a brit word for that - sorry fellow-brits!). So it feels a little like we woz cheated hot damn it!
I was gonna list a load of other shows that i really really liked - but when it comes down to it you have ur favs, and then you always have your nearly favs that don't quite cut it - which is the difference between them.
Interesting to see that a lot of current shows make people's favourites, when so many people slate the quality of good televsion these days! it's just that the good shows don't stay around for long enuff!
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Originally posted by Zoot:
I guess it is a Brit thing, only not really as I suspect it was the US that came up with regions originally - Just means that unless you have a multi-region DVD player you can't buy DVDs cheaply from other countries ... I think there's some technical reasons to do with pixels or whatever but reckon it's all just so much mumbo jumbo to get us to pay inflated prices ...
Actually it was a combination of things. Studios wanted to make sure a release that was available for sale in one place (Be it the US, UK, or where ever) wasn't available in another market where it still needed to show on screens.
Very few movies release around the world the same day, there are still lots of places that haven't seen the BDM and won't by 12/20 when the region 1 DVD is released. By no releasing the film in other regions, theorically they are saving those box office markets.
The other reason is some countries, namely China, want to be able to control the content of the films released, so they have their very own region to allow for this.
The reality is the argument is now moot. You can buy a region free player for about $20 these days (I know because I did it), and other players can be hacked to removed the region information. However, manufacturers still want to live the dream they are controlling the content, only now it's getting more insidious: HDDVD and Blu-Ray the new DVD formats, have come out saying the DVD player will need to be connected to a phone line to insure content protections.
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Favorite: Lost
Second favorite: Murder One
Honorable mentions:
Firefly
Cheers
Married with Children
24
Family Guy
Potential to join the list if they can maintain the current quality:
Prison Break
My Name is Earl
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