Can anyone recommend more tv shows to watch?

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NERVOUSPETE

Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:43 PM

Oh! Oh!

And, 'The Prisoner'. A BIG influence on Joss. All spy-cool paranoia, fantasy and surrealism. Influence on Lost, Babylon 5, certain Joss episodes, the River stuff and occassionally even The Simpsons. You can get a box set of the 17 episodes. Critically acclaimed with a proper beginning, middle and end, and possibly the most intelligent TV sci-fi ever in the history of all things.

"Where am I?!"

"In the Village."

"Who's side are you on?"

"That would be telling."

"Who are you?"

"The new Number Two."

"Who is Number One?"

"You are Number Six."

"I am not a number! I am a free man!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha!"

"If you can keep your head whilst others... eurgh! Ack! I've spilt my ink! Ugh! Ink on my trousers! Agh! Ink on my shirt! My only hope! The window! Aieeeeee!" (Falls to death)
- Jonathan Nash

CANTTAKESKY

Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:57 PM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
canttakesky,
Give buffy another shot.

Oh, when I said I watched Buffy once, I watched the WHOLE thing once. From first episode to last. All 7 seasons. It just didn't connect with me enough for me to want to watch the whole thing again. So I didn't buy it. I liked the first 3 seasons well enough--esp the second season. But seasons 4-7 just didn't do it for me.

I think it might have to do with the fact that I am a big fan of David Greenwalt's twisted plotting. When he left at the end of the 3rd season to do Angel, I just went with him. I'm probably a bigger fan of Joss' colleagues (Greenwalt, Minnear) than I am of Joss himself.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

SMOKE

Friday, October 21, 2005 12:49 AM

There are other shows on T.V besides Firefly!?!?!?!?!?! :p

BRUISERSMOM

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:44 AM

I was wondering what would happen to the boards if we ever got tired of talking about Firefly/Serenity and there wasn't a sequel. Now I know. We have a lot of other shows in common!

If you like wit. I would recommend Dead Like Me. It has very clever writing and a very sick sense of humor. I love it!

I would also recommend Smallville. The first four seasons are out on DVD.

"You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals."--George Mikes

BRUISERSMOM

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:52 AM

I know that I stopped watching Buffy religiously after the third season. There were episodes that I liked like The Doublemeat Palace because my first job was fast food so I can appreciate the humor personally in that episode but overall, I lost interest in the show after the third season. The cast and the tone changed with the exit of Angel and Cordellia. I missed the tension between Buffy and Angel that was never recaptured with any of Buffy's later boyfriends and I missed Cordellia's shallowness and nastiness. As for the tone, I missed the campiness of the earlier seasons. What can I say? I need a lot of camp with the blood and the horror.

"You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals."--George Mikes

JOSSISAGOD

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:09 AM

This isn't actually a response to this board, but I'm not sure I'll ever get tired of talking about Firefly/Serenity.

GUNRUNNER

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:18 AM

A plug for ‘Space: Above and Beyond’. Its available on DVD but keep your receipt, it took me 3 exchanges to get a good set. But it was worth it. Just don't give up after the pilot it gets better...

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DAVCO

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:47 AM

Hmm...I'm a dvd junkie so I guess I'll give you some of my favories by category. Regarding the more recent shows...I generally do NOT watch them on tv. I prefer to wait for the DVD set to be released and then do a week long (or less) marathon of episodes back-to-back.

"High" Sci-Fi
1) Babylon 5 !!!
2) Battlestar Galactica - new series is great!
3) Deep Space 9
4) Farscape

Dramedy
1) Dead Like Me - ROFLMFAO
2) Arrested Development - ROFLMAO
3) Wonderfalls - LMAO

Drama / Suspense
1) 24
2) West Wing (specially the first few seasons)
3) CSI
4) Lost
5) Veronica Mars (Buffy-Noir-Nancy Drew)

Other Sci-Fi / Fantasy
1) Buffy
2) Smallville (Buffyish: Kryptonite = Hellmouth)
3) Dark Angel
4) Surface (new show, interesting so far)

Specific info available upon request. Enjoy!

GROOSALUGG

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:36 AM

What exactly is "Muffy the steak driver"? For me, this title brings two images to mind:

1) A 40-something former trophy-wife, who lives with her fabulously rich husband on Martha's Vineyard, speeding around town with 20 lbs of sirloin in her trunk.

Or 2) A former evil genius scribbling on a whiteboard that ubervamps "can be steaked", then crossing it out and changing it to "staked."

SUNDANCE

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:08 AM

I'd like to jump in on this one - but damn it... most of the show's i'd mention already been and done'd! But hey i have a few more for ya - although it's down to your taste of course.

Another Brit comedy i would recommend is Spaced and by the same token Shaun of the Dead the movie - both written and acted by the same guys (pretty much) v.funny and much for the sci-fi/star wars reference humour, if you can keep up!! (i did struggle in places!), quite british humour but a nice escape from your standard comdies.

Also two other favourites of mine are Monkey - which is a japanese TV Show from the '80's about demons, buddha and sacred scrolls - also very entertaining, especially the special effects - definately worth a few and actually v.funny if you bother to listen to what they are saying. It was obviously originally filmed in japanese but the more well-known version is the english dubbed one - a right old larf!

Also enjoy Takeshi's Castle - any 'keshi heads out there? Again Japanese game show where contestants make a real azzz of themselves to win - absolutely nothing, but v.funny - craig charles from Red Dwarf does the commentary, but i doubt as you could get hold of it - I think it is only shown here in the UK, very entertaining if you ever catch it though!

My only other recommendation which i would place above all others here is that you go out and buy the Tape/CD of the original Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Radio Recordings by Douglas Adams. Don't know if you've come across him or the books/film already but the original Radio Show is Hi-Larious and the writing really puts me in mind of Joss, down to the use of the show's own style of language and humour. I never get tired of listening to this and is one of the funniest and cleverest pieces of writing i've ever come across, apart from Buffy/Firefly!

So that's my 5 million penny worth! Sure you have enough to be going on with!

enjoy your viewing!!
x

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Another motorised rock?"

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