What others shows are you starting to get into more?
POSTED BY: reginaroadie
UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 17:54
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Hey All
I was chatting with misskitten a while back and saw that she was starting to move away from FIREFLY and more towards the GILMORE GIRLS camp. And it got me wondering.
As much as I love FIREFLY, I'm not one of those fans that watches the whole series and the movie every month, or week. I havn't seen the movie since it came out on DVD a year ago, and I havn't seen the series since before the movie came out in Sept 05. And I think it's good that I don't watch it on a lopp so that I do discover new things and can still enjoy it when I do watch it. But I've gotten to the point where I actually want to invest my fandom into something that doesn't run the risk of cancellation each week.
So I was just wondering what other shows (sci-fi or non) are you folks getting into, and not just watching it every week, but invest the same level of obsessiveness into it that you have with FIREFLY.
With me, it's something actually a bit more down to earth. I like LOST and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. I'm a bigger fan of HEROES and DOCTOR WHO since they don't take themselves too seriously as the former two shows and can actually TELL A JOKE and be somewhat light, which Damon Lindeloft and Ron D. Moore seem to break out in hives if that happens on their shows.
But the one show that I've started to become really obsessed with is THE OFFICE. I think it's amazing that something that sounded so blasphemous has beaten the odds and has become it's own thing and is so consistently funny and emotional and incredibly honest and relatable. I can relate to what goes on in this show more than anything else on tv. I like that it has shattered all the normal sit-com standards and make it completely distinct. I like that it takes place in Scranton, Pennsylvania. I like how the characters on the show look like real actual people that one encounters in daily life instead of all beautiful people. And that each of these background people have their own distinct personality which leads to this very distinct and yet recognizable world.
It's just a really, really great show.
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The only thing that comes close to Firefly is Charlie's Angels for me! Child of the 70's!
But I recently bought The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. on DVD and Zoe's mare's leg is on the 4th disc (some of the guys from this show worked on Firefly) belonging to a bounty hunter (played by Sheena Easton). The goodnight kiss even shows up! It's a great show.
Kain
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To be really honest, I don't watch much hour-long TV at all. I enjoy Battlestar Galactica, but I just can't make myself invest the time. Firefly is really the only one I can sit through without feeling like I'm wasting time. I tend to prefer half-hour TV, right now being The Office, My Name is Earl, and even How I Met Your Mother.
But mostly I watch cartoons. South Park, King of the Hill, Metalocalypse (but I really can't stand the rest of Adult Swim's lineup).
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I am big fan of "The Office," "Veronica Mars" (haven't seen this season), and "BSG" (also haven't seen this season), and I'll even admit to really liking "Grey's Anatomy," but less and less as it goes on. I am not as obsessed with any of them as I was/am with "Firefly."
I would like to find something that I absolutely have to see regardless of what else is going on. So far that has only happened twice in my adult life, and neither show is on anymore.
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I'm into Sci-Fi's Friday night line-up of Stargate SG-1, Doctor Who and the Re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. Other than that I like Scrubs, but can't seem to time other things in my life around it, so I usually miss it. However, the TVlinks website someone mentioned a few weeks ago has all the shows I missed, even if it is down at the moment.
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Talk to me Kain, I love that Brisco County JR dvd set. A pretty penny ouch. I was never into Wild Wild West but this I liked. Jack of All Trades is ok not bad. Yeh Sheena Easton with Zoe's gun. If your into westerns check out the movies Will Penny and Mountain Men. Those are my favorites. I can't wait till Alias Smith and Jones, and Cimmarron Strip come to DVD. At least I hope.
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Battlestar Galactica (of course) Heroes has really impressed me.
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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
Hey All
I was chatting with misskitten a while back and saw that she was starting to move away from FIREFLY and more towards the GILMORE GIRLS camp. And it got me wondering.
As much as I love FIREFLY, I'm not one of those fans that watches the whole series and the movie every month, or week. I havn't seen the movie since it came out on DVD a year ago, and I havn't seen the series since before the movie came out in Sept 05.
Oy vey!
Well, I *am* one of those fans who watches Firefly and Serenity as much as humanly possible. And to each his own, of course. But when I saw the title of this thread, hope sank in me like the sun does in the evening. :(
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Doctor Who (of course!) is a regular watch of mine. David Tennant is so damn good! Torchwood's impressed me, too. I like the fact that each week, the episodes swing from personal/emotional one week, to action the next, then noir, then horror, then comedy. Keeps things fresh.
But it has to be said that I watch more Firefly then could generally be considered healthy...
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All TV changed for me after Firefly, everything that has come after it is just blah, i tried to give Heroes a chance but i lost interest. I will give Drive a chance and i probably will stick with that for a while. But nothing like firefly. The only thing i watch regularly is Hockey in the winter and baseball in the spring and summer that is it as far as regular viewing habbits well except for southpark and adult swim stuff.
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