harry's law

lol... yeah, lol... not that the show is funny, though it seems to have some decent quirk possibilities, but more cuz i was just (earlier tonight and a few times in the past week or so) thinking about how i've not really had much to say about the background tv lately and here i am inspired to write a few words (and smile a sappy smile a shed an emo tear) by a show i accidently tuned into as i was looking for something to disctract myself from an achy neck and body discomfort that was keeping me awake when i should be asleep but what really has me awake is wanting to write/share more cuz it's been a while, too long a while, since i gave myself some time to take care of myself and the truly personally importantly meaningful things in my heart and mind (not to mention babbling and creativity) and wouldn't you know, that is pretty much what harry's law seems to be trying to be all about (with the usual poetic license)...

also enjoyed fringe tonight...

and wow, dying changes everything episode of house, ever see it?...

fascinated, no doubt

while i am watching tv with half an eye and listening with half an ear and even watching with almost both eyes and listening with both ears more often than i have in a long time because my roommate enjoys tv and i enjoy watching with someone (but we both often are somewhere else on the computers or on the phone during even the shows we both enjoy just the same), i a still only sitting in front of the tv for an hour at most before 11pm and catching up on the shows on the (if i can find time) list when i stay up past midnight and find them on the on-demand channels... i do watch more since re-installing cable, so i'll make a note to myself to find time to come here to relate whatever the tv might inspire in me cuz that's what this blog is about and it exists to continue, not to end in forgotten obscurity... i mean, in case anybody other than me wondered, aye? (smirk snicker nyuk narf)...

watching, not much

though the tv is on a lot, i am not watching much except to glance up and sort of follow the re-runs listed in catching up on the revised lists on the left... though this week i caught the first new episodes of eureka and warehouse 13 and will probably catch those in first run cuz they are on at least a half dozen times a week and in free on-demand... i don't stay awake for craig as much, but can find him on youtube... wonder if he is on free on-demand too... actually, i am watching/listening to audio and video on youtube a lot more than on tv... anyway, since you are so fascinated by my tv viewing habits (is your name neilson?), i've revised the lists on the right and continue reporting just for you... and for me too, posterity, and the one, but until they get here it's just for you :)

caprica

as i watched another episode of caprica, the prequel series to battlestar gallactica i remembered why i did not watch battlestar after catching a few random episodes... on a subconscious level the series turned me off at first glance for a number of reasons... war does not appeal to me at all... i have not sat through star wars, for instance... i've seen bits of some of the nine films, but the whole buck rogers war genre of sci-fi turns me off (i only glanced at buck rogers as well)...

so why did i choose to pay for the downloads of caprica a few weeks ago?... impulse, yes... the same impulse that leads me to occasionally glance up and get into smallville and that seventies show and dollhouse (though dollhouse had the dual appeal of a mystery and/or intriguing premise like the dead zone and dead like me and heroes, maybe) and even dawson's creek, simply, a pretty face... though caprica's pretty face is not in the same league as others, maybe smallville, which i seldom actually choose to watch... caprica offers an intriguing premise and possibilities, though i sense it will not live up to the possibilities i see in it because, after all, humans are creating it and it will most likely reinforce all the stupid human beliefs in the end...

give me some heinlein or sci-fi that actually challenges human beliefs and that i will want to see, probably go out of my way to see, even... and after seven or so episodes the grating aspects of battlestar are starting to reach a repetition that is challenging to ignore... the moronic use of the word frack, for instance... i mean, fucking frack this and frack that and even substituting frack for shit and other words... the lack of creativity (and guts) is a purtid stench in the script and the puritanical language fear is nauseating to my ears...

and then there are other ignorance fears and prejudices played upon to what the writers must believe is either an ignorance audience or an audience who wants to see human superstitions and prejudices and fears played out by other races, maybe in that insecure human desire to validate their own fears and prejudices... like a train wreck or a plane crasj attracts an audience... and yet, i want to see if the possible enlightened outcome might be where the writers are going (that is so very rare in human literature and arts)... so i download the episodes...

then the next irritant shows itself, the ultra-slow pacing of the story as draggin on and on as any soap opera ever was... i will further alienate most of my human audience by stating that i feel the only way i could actually watch a soap opera day after day is if i was severely retarded... at least... i have yet to see one, and i have tried watching for stretches of time in this life, that does not move so slowly that is is utterly predictable and overall, asks so little of the brain outside of sit and watch in a vegetative state...

meanwhile, the commercial for the news just urged me to watch to see the opening of python humping season... yes, tv news, python humping, the news... the founders of the fourth estate would no doubt be proud...

anyway, back to caprica, i'm tired of talking about it at the moment (awwww, what a let down, aye?)... there's more, but perhaps now we see why, at least for me in this life, tv is little more than background noise...

Defined

(CURRENTLY ON TOP) the shows i try to find time to watch regularly cuz i enjoy them enough to want to watch them regularly, as if this one needed explaining... i don't get to watch anything regularly and seldom to i feel compelled to try, but i know what i like...

(IF I CAN FIND TIME) used to be SORTA WATCHING and are the shows i enjoy watching or my roommate enjoys (asterisks) so it's on if we're home (maybe one of these days i'll separate this list into two or three lists cuz that's what this is about, after all, making lists)... i've not scheduled myself to be home to watch a specific tv show in years, but these are as close as i am at the moment to wanting to and if i shared life with someone who also wanted to, we might make a date to watch these and others...

IF THEY RETURN are shows that are gone as in no new episodes, but if they returned they'd be on the list above so they rate a bit higher than the shows on the lists below this one... the main difference between this list and the lists above is that these are mostly reruns while the ones above are still in production, i think...

CONSIDERING (NOT WATCHED) are shows i might enjoy based on genre, theme, word-of-mouth, or whatever, but i have not found myself in front of a tv when they were on...

RERUNS (WHEN THERE"S TIME) are the shows i will choose over other shows if i am in the mood to watch, or at least listen to and glance up at, tv (most of the time i turn the tv when i am home alone and in the mood for more than music, mostly just to have some audio-visual stimulus in the space while reading something online or writing or cooking, eating, cleaning, playing, or some other activity and now and then something attracts my attention to watch a show...

RERUNS (OCCASIONALLY) are the shows i will choose to watch before the RE-RANS but after the list of RERUNS above this list, partially cuz there are so many shows and therefore, so many lists (or something like that)... I'll usually pay less attention to these than the ones above, more than the ones below, and so on...

RE-RANS are the shows i will chose after the RERUNS primarily because i've seen most of them more than once, but in some cases cuz i simply like the shows lsted in RERUNS better... and once again, I'll usually pay less attention to these than those above, etcetera...

HAVE WATCHED are the shows i have watched at one time or another in this life, however given the choice, i would probably choose one of the shows on the RERUNS lists or RE-RANS list over these, or maybe they are just old shows i've seen in reruns so much over the years that i've seen enough for the moment (until memory fades further into the dim light of forgetfulness as it so conveniently does when i want to watch something i love but don't want to remember it all so i can enjoy it's magical experience all over again, thought that usually happens with movies much more than tv and i may digress, aye?), though some are not that special, or something like that... no really, i absolutely loved some of these shows the first time around and still do if i find them (and someday maybe i'll divide them up and maybe even make a all-time favorites list from a gazillion to one if anybody is ever really that interested to share that experience)...