My Favorite TV Shows
This entry was posted on 8/4/2006 4:39 PM and is filed under Lists.
I figured I would do some lighter fair. I do not watch much TV. In fact, I only have one show that I currently watch, which is Lost. As I think back, there are only a handful of TV shows that have made a big impression on me
1. X-files (9 Seasons!!! Everytime this show was about to lose me, it won me back with some great stories. It nearly lost me in season 8, but ½ way through that season, they figured out what to do with Dogget, used Scully in a powerful way, and added Reyes permanently, and brought Mulder back. WOW)
2. Lost (Yes, I’m hooked. It is the only television program I watch)
3. Star Trek (the original series. There is nothing like the original, though the writing and production values were definitely better the second time around. Just as an aside: The Next Generation only grabbed my interest when Gene Roddenbury died. Why? Before he died, Gene was adamant that people in the future would overcome the petty bigotries and conflicts with which we currently struggle, which I think is ridiculous. As long as there are two people, we will struggle. This lack of personal conflict also made for some boring shows. Once he died, the producers began to write the characters a little more realistically)
4. M*A*S*H (I have fond memories of watching re-runs of this with my wife after the evening news.)
5. Black Sheep Squadron (An absolutely dreadful series that would probably be in a garbage heap were it not for the Corsairs. As quirky as it was, I loved it. This show single-handidly saved 7 or 8 Corsairs from destruction)
