TV Show Hurdles

We've got the Movies and the Music hurdles. Most of mine are TV based

I have a real Hurdle when it comes to original series Doctor Who. I listen to podcasts reviewing them and I can talk to people about Troughton or Hartnell or Pertwee or my childhood Doctors, Tom Baker and Peter Davison....but I won't watch it. I've read books and listened to audio drama's. I know a little about the original shows but can't sit down and actually watch them....

I think it has more to do with the stereotypical "Whovian" than it does the actual shows.

Hard to explain, really!

As a kid I would immediately change the channel if I saw anything Whovian (think scarf). I don't really know why though. I've been since told that I'm missing out. I'm starting to realize that I need my hand held at the beginning of any nersploration. Who will hold my Who hand?

These heathen quotes burn my eyes!

This Whovian (who only learnt the word Whovian recently) loves all things 'classic' Who. New Who is good but it had to move with the times and lost a little of it's magic.

I can well understand why people wouldn't like it. I love it, I don't really need to push it down the throats of Philistines. As to whether I'm a typical Whovian, I don't think I am. Others may disagree.

Mandi, I will hold your hand. If you truly wish to explore the land of Who.

The Wire. There's too much to watch.

And Seinfeld. I don't think I've ever seen an entire episode.

My mom used to forbid my brother and I to watch Seinfeld. She said it promoted promiscuity. The funny part is that I was in my twenties and my brohter was in his teens. Needless to say, her decree had little effect on our viewing habits.

Sein... feld... I don't think he actually had sex in the ten years the show was on did he?

Mekka wrote:These heathen quotes burn my eyes!

This Whovian (who only learnt the word Whovian recently) loves all things 'classic' Who. New Who is good but it had to move with the times and lost a little of it's magic.

I can well understand why people wouldn't like it. I love it, I don't really need to push it down the throats of Philistines. As to whether I'm a typical Whovian, I don't think I am. Others may disagree.

Mandi, I will hold your hand. If you truly wish to explore the land of Who.

I enjoy listening to the Cadmium 2 podcasts and love thier reviews of original Who. I think my problem with actually watching it, is knowing that it will ruin the mental image that the C2 team have instilled in my mind. I love their review and retellings of the show. I seem to have all the Who love and participate in the same activities as Whovians do...except actually watching the show.... Like I said, weird!

Jakob wrote:Sein... feld... I don't think he actually had sex in the ten years the show was on did he?

It was based entirely on an episode she saw where Kramer was trying to get someone pregnant so he'd know if his sperm worked.

ori-STUDFARM wrote:

Mekka wrote:These heathen quotes burn my eyes!

This Whovian (who only learnt the word Whovian recently) loves all things 'classic' Who. New Who is good but it had to move with the times and lost a little of it's magic.

I can well understand why people wouldn't like it. I love it, I don't really need to push it down the throats of Philistines. As to whether I'm a typical Whovian, I don't think I am. Others may disagree.

Mandi, I will hold your hand. If you truly wish to explore the land of Who.

I enjoy listening to the Cadmium 2 podcasts and love thier reviews of original Who. I think my problem with actually watching it, is knowing that it will ruin the mental image that the C2 team have instilled in my mind. I love their review and retellings of the show. I seem to have all the Who love and participate in the same activities as Whovians do...except actually watching the show.... Like I said, weird!

Cadmium 2 and The Tin Dog Podcast are worth listening to. They're both great Who podacasts. I just can't understand why you would listen if you have no intention to watch. What is it that grabs your attention on the C2 podcasts? They're brutally honest about Whos faults. (Not that I'm putting down the podcast, it's one of my top 5) Have you ever tried to watch Dr Who in the last 10 yrs?

Sitcoms. Some of my favorite shows have been sitcoms, but it takes an act of God to get me to watch a new one. I'm told that The Big Bang Theory is awesome, but I just can't get myself to watch it.

Marius wrote:Sitcoms. Some of my favorite shows have been sitcoms, but it takes an act of God to get me to watch a new one. I'm told that The Big Bang Theory is awesome, but I just can't get myself to watch it.

Have you ever seen Full House?

The unfortunate ones have.

kumarhk wrote:

Marius wrote:Sitcoms. Some of my favorite shows have been sitcoms, but it takes an act of God to get me to watch a new one. I'm told that The Big Bang Theory is awesome, but I just can't get myself to watch it.

Have you ever seen Full House?

No.

Mekka wrote:

ori-STUDFARM wrote:

Mekka wrote:These heathen quotes burn my eyes!

This Whovian (who only learnt the word Whovian recently) loves all things 'classic' Who. New Who is good but it had to move with the times and lost a little of it's magic.

I can well understand why people wouldn't like it. I love it, I don't really need to push it down the throats of Philistines. As to whether I'm a typical Whovian, I don't think I am. Others may disagree.

Mandi, I will hold your hand. If you truly wish to explore the land of Who.

I enjoy listening to the Cadmium 2 podcasts and love thier reviews of original Who. I think my problem with actually watching it, is knowing that it will ruin the mental image that the C2 team have instilled in my mind. I love their review and retellings of the show. I seem to have all the Who love and participate in the same activities as Whovians do...except actually watching the show.... Like I said, weird!

Cadmium 2 and The Tin Dog Podcast are worth listening to. They're both great Who podacasts. I just can't understand why you would listen if you have no intention to watch. What is it that grabs your attention on the C2 podcasts? They're brutally honest about Whos faults. (Not that I'm putting down the podcast, it's one of my top 5) Have you ever tried to watch Dr Who in the last 10 yrs?

What actually put me off was watching the Pertwee ones a few months back. The background music just grated. I think actually watching the pre-Tom Baker ones will all be a bit of a let down. I am interested in watching the Troughton ones though. Don't think I've ever watched one of his episodes

I can't be arsed with any British Sci-Fi. It's all shit.

One of my closest friends moved to Los Angeles to try to make it as a comedian. He ended up writing for Full House. Now he installs home security systems in Ottawa.

I'm with Marius. New sitcoms just don't cut it for me. Arrested Development set the bar so high, I can't handle laugh tracks anymore.

And The Wire, too. Everyone swears by it. I have all five seasons on DVD. And I can't make it through the first couple of episodes. It just doesn't seem like anything new.

I tend to reject Canadian programming automatically, then hear later that it's actually pretty good. So I check it out, but it turns out I was right the first time.

Marius wrote:

kumarhk wrote:

Marius wrote:Sitcoms. Some of my favorite shows have been sitcoms, but it takes an act of God to get me to watch a new one. I'm told that The Big Bang Theory is awesome, but I just can't get myself to watch it.

Have you ever seen Full House?

No.

You should. It's an awesome, glorious cheesefest that makes you smile a lot. It also simultaneously lets you enjoy sitcoms again by lowering the bar

Still, one of my favourite TV shows ever. Cheese at its very best.

I'm pretty ashamed to admit i watch Regis & Kelly and The View although less of The View now that Whoopi is on.

For some reason I've also seen every episode of Twice In A Lifetime which is horrible.

I used to watch 3rd Rock From The Sun which is terrible.

Why can't they make another Wonder Years that is as awesome? You can't even buy that on DVD yet! At least you couldn't last year.

Testees is Canadian and its AWESOME. So are the original Kenny VS Spenny.

Red Dwarf is a hurdle for me. I've watched seasons one and two, in fact I own them both on DVD and I enjoy them very much whenever I stick them in, but I don't care to go any further. I know that at the end of the day, its only another sitcom, and its almost a tenner per season. Also, I've seen the new episodes, so I know just how much the quality declines.

Domino wrote:I used to watch 3rd Rock From The Sun which is terrible.

Wow, that's so weird. In New Zealand we saw an American show by exactly the same name but it was hilarious and awesome. Like every single thing John Lithgow has ever done.

Coincidence? Or a result of robots taking over the planet while people are busy preparing for the zombie uprising?

(I prefer 'uprising' to apocalypse when refering to zombies, because I'm trying to embrace double entendre)

yohan wrote:The Wire. There's too much to watch.

There can never be too much Wire! Each season is like a more or less self-contained 12-hour movie, so you can just watch season one, and by the last episode every loose end will have been tied up. But, once you watch that first season, you will be unable to stop yourself from watching every other season.

Seinfeld did not age well. I loved it at the time, but now only a few episodes hold up ("The Contest" is an example, and the Soup Nazi). It's not bad and still has some great lines, like Teri Hatcher proclaiming "they're real and they're specatular!" It's less than it used to be.

Big Bang Theory may not age well, either. There is no way to know the future on this. Right now, though, it is the only TV show that I intentionally watch -- that I seek out. Well worth the 22 minutes spread out over a 30 minute time slot.

Dr. Who is a hurdle I fear I'd need a pole vault approach to overcome. And it's not a Brit-show thing because I love Monty Python and The Avengers.

Seinfeld aged worse than perhaps any TV out there ever. Disproportionally worse. It was good for the catchphrases and idioms. One of those shows far more entertaining retold at the water-cooler. It was Jerry's real-life jail-bait girlfriend (name escapes me) who uddered that line though.

Bear Police wrote:

yohan wrote:The Wire. There's too much to watch.

There can never be too much Wire! Each season is like a more or less self-contained 12-hour movie, so you can just watch season one, and by the last episode every loose end will have been tied up. But, once you watch that first season, you will be unable to stop yourself from watching every other season.

I have been thinking about taking the plunge.

Again with Netflix ... in addition to The Avengers, they have added what appears to be a large number of Dr. Who episodes. Not that I'm planning to take on the enormity of Dr. Who, but if I gave an episode a shot, well, what should I look for?

Is there a very good year? A preferable star or co-star? Even a favorite episode?
(Who knows, with what looks to be dozens of episodes on "watch instantly" they may have the good stuff in their queue.)