x-what?

ever notice how utterly repressed scully was in the x-files?... i mean, she had all of these haunting issues and did so much to distract herself with pseudo-science (the show really had no science in it, i mean, compare it with csi or ncis, it was geared toward conspiracy theory lovers and people who probably watch all the ghost and paranormal shows now... i wonder sometimes, now that time has passed and i see reruns in a different light, why i liked it so much... it was in that film noir stylee i supposed that made it a bit intriguing, but the acting, well, as much as i loved mulder and scully at the time, was pretty flat, stoic, and adversarial... so different than the family devotion feeling the acting and characters share in ncis...i guess it was the odd storylines that bordered on on outer limits and other exploration of the unknown shows that i enjoy... maybe i felt a little sorry for scully and related to the quixotic quest for truth that mulder portrayed... the government conspiracy stuff gets old fast for me, but it played it's role in the attraction from time to time...

oh well, stuck here with my injured foot i am watching way too much tv and overall, tv has been unsatisfying for me today, but x-files going down the tube?... maybe watching a dozen episodes would return the show back to it's top ten place in my list of favorite hows, but i think for now, it drops out... not that this is earth shaking news or anything, but then, this is just my background tv blog, so what did you expect? :)

thank goodness for youtube :)

then the long wait

mostly i don't like watching tv series because of the way season finales end and make you wait months for a conclusion to a cliffhanger... i'd rather watch the season finale in reruns when the next season starts... could be my ADD or just impatience or a headache or simply lack of interest in the pandering manipulation of commercial television, not to mention the lack of creativity in most cases, but anyway, ncis closed their seasons with a bang and there will be disappointment if they don't have a really creative way out of the explosive endings they stooped to...

surprising i stayed awake to watch, actually...

still, it's a way to pass the time, aye?

weekend tv

mostly sports... stuck at home cuz of the bum foot, i am watching a whole lot more tv than usual... crap on this weekend... even in the reruns... even the science and history channels are so full over drama, pandering, and scare tactics (much like the news) that they are as bad as the crap fictional shows... almost everything creative caters to the average human consciousness, which is so afraid, paranoid, insecure, egocentric, and delusional, there is just a narrow band of material that is acceptable...

so background tv has me waxing philosophical, sheesh, so much for creative escape :)

feeling cynical and bored with the limited choices i see, perhaps i should be writing in the journal of meaningless complaints... so i've watched with half an eye some nba playoffs and some odds and ends and switch channels a lot and have all this time on my hands, so here we are...

what's on your background tv?...

there's always ncis

seems that no matter how many times i've seen them, i will choose ncis reruns over most other background tv every evening when i actually turn on the tv... though the final three on idol might catch my eye for a moment... the one i picked way back when is still there, though she might not be old enough to reach the top spot, she's made and i am satisfied, knowing the business the business gives kids and what the show is looking for... but it is the characters on ncis that draw me in because the core theme is they care about each other so much that they would die for each other...

like really seriously close family, or so it seems...

it appeals to that deep part of me that longs for such bonds... imagining they are real is as close as i get these days... how's that for something deep and heavy and meaningful and personal out of background tv? :)