Ten Shows You Just Don't Get meme...

[dangermousie]

I thought it would be fun to do a meme on '10 shows your flist loves but you do not.' They could be shows you've seen or haven't and have no desire to check out.

Note: This is obviously not to denigrate the taste of anyone who loves these.



My list:

1. Stargate SG-1: I tried, I really tried. Half my flist loves this show. And I tried extra hard when Ben Browder and Claudia Black came onto the show. Because, BB and CB, you know? I found my mind wandering like crazy, regardless. The only way I would have snapped out of my coma would be in the unlikely event they got the puppets to guest star.

2. Stargate Atlantis: Guy with dreads is hot. I'd have other opinions, but despite trying, my brain fell asleep.

3. Prison Break: I hear 'Prison Break: it's sharp, it's clever, it's innovative.' But I see 'Prison Break: it's a show about dudes in prison.' I have no desire to interact with nasty, brutal criminals in real life, so why would I want to do that on TV? The only channel dudes with tattoos are cool on is Discovery. And they better be tribal tattoos.

4. Moonlight: There is definitely room for a show about a vampire detective. And it is known as 'Angel.' Or if you are Canadian, 'Vampire Knight.'

5. Hercules: Hercules wears pants. I cannot get over that enough to ever watch this without migraines.

6. Friday Night Lights: Everyone and their mother loves it. I am sure it's excellent. But I can't get past 'high school football' thing. I was never interested in high school football in high school! Why start now?

7. I love Lucy: I feel my brain lose some brain cells whenever I even try watching this. There is only so far nostalgia will take you.

8. Dawson's Creek: I praise Tom Cruise for marrying Katie Holmes and taking her out of the public eye. Now please, can he also marry James Van Der Beek? And the rest of DC cast,creators and crew? Hopefully through medium of a time machine, before they foisted this self-absorbed borefest on us?

9. The O.C.: I want the entire O.C. to go up in the flames of bloody communist revolution as the people from the poor areas run down the street with knives, ready to pillage the over-privileged, over-collagened twits. Plus, Ryan looks much too much like Russell Crowe and my brain breaks trying to imagine Crowe in this drivel.

10. Felicity. Forget the fact that stalking is bad. It is also incredibly boring. You know why Felicity's haircut caused such a stir? Because it was the most interesting thing about this show.

Your turn...

I need to do same list for dramas. And I left reality TV out on purpose.

Comments

[thelana.livejournal.com]

*steals this*

I hope I can come up with 10.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heeee. YES. I want this meme to spread like a rabid bateria :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Among all of them I MUST say - WATCH "Friday Night Lights", at least, try one or two episodes! It is so not about High School American Football (a game I know nothing and don't intend to in the future, really). The show is great. ** tries telepathic powers of persuasion **

[winterspel.livejournal.com]

I agree 100%. Friday Night Lights is only minorly about football - it's really about people and small town dynamics and the realism of the character behaviors and interactions is unbelievably good and and entertaining. Not to mention that the production's aesthetic value is incredible - I absolutely adore the way it is filmed and edited which lend it a quality and flavor that, along with the A+ solid writing, is wholly original on network television.

I don't usually pimp shows because taste is always subjective, but I agree with alexandral - give it a try, watch a couple episodes and see if it changes your mind. I can't stand football, and twelve episodes into the first season, I'm utterly enraptured.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

I could not care less about either high school or american football, but I LOVE this show.

Give it a try, you'll at least find Matt and Julie adorable if nothing else.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL.

I am sure it's excellent, but as I said I have zip interest. Not only football, but most characters are in high school, too! Nahhh...

[janlake83.livejournal.com]

i don't watch any of those, maybe felicity but i was in my teens then, i didn't know better... and yeah a vampire detective in love with a human, yeah ummm i like the original his name was angel......

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[fire-snake.livejournal.com]

I've got to add "Desperate Housewives." It was sharp and funny in the beginning, but how desperate are they really going to get?
I have a special loathing of all medical shows, so I have to include at least one in the list. My vote goes out for "Gray Anatomy." They just look too put together and well rested for surgical residents, plus I still have not been able to figure out what exactly they are training for.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

GA people are so plasticised!

[pourtant.livejournal.com]

Now please, can he also marry James Van Der Beek?

BWAHAHA. YES.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

OMG icon!!!!!!

*loves*

[grace-om.livejournal.com]

Oh Wow.

1. Stargate in all incarnations. I've tried, but no.
2. House. Hugh Laurie is great, but the stories are boring and the character is an ass.
3. Friday Night Lights. Like you, I'm put off by the football thing. Plus I'm the mom of teenaged athletes. Kids that age, even fit, mature kids, do not look or act like the "kids" in TV shows.
4. Prison Break.
5. Supernatural
6. Gray's Anatomy
7. Various soap operas. I don't care which one.
8. Bones. Some good elements, but overall not worth watching imo
9. Numb3rs.
10. 24.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Love your list.

Re: Numb3rs. Any show with a numeral placed like this loses me. This is onyl cool when you are eight.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

i shall steal this.

for what it's worth, SG1 really only has appealing characters and some amusing situations for me, and if I hadn't watched Hercules when it first aired and knew squat about ancient Greece, I'd probably have the same problems as far as pants go(it is one of the 2 main things that got me interested in mythology, though)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yesss...wanna see your results!

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

01. Stargate and its spin-offs - though I watched the last season because of Ben and Claudia.
02. Star Trek Voyager - even though I would have loved a female captain that series was a no go!
03. Desperate Housewives - tried it, loathed it.
04. Prison Break - ummm ... not so hot guys in prison? No.
05. 24 - Hubby loves it but I just don't get it.
06. Gray's Anatomy - I hope real doctors aren't such loosers.
07. The OC - I really would drop a bomb on the whole bunch
08. Veronica Mars - an uppity, snobby, blonde High School twit? No thanks.
09. Battlestar Galactica - call me old school, but I really can't get my mind around a female Starbuck, and Apollo is just a whiny twit.
10. Rome - I watched it up till ep 3 and hated it.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Love your list. I gave up on Rome too. No, it was not all about sex back then, thank you.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

It's got to be Supernatural and all variations on the theme of Stargate for me.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Stargate is like a self replicating virus, I swear.

[fire-snake.livejournal.com]

3. CSI: all incarnations. Once again, I started watching Las Vegas in the first season, and it was entertaining as far as plot-driven criminal dramas go. But it is a case of too much of a good thing. They started multiplying like drones (or, rather clones).
4. Big Brother: no redeeming value whatsoever. Everyone lacks brainpower to be a good villain; they are kept too bored to do anything else, but very obviously and nastily plot against each other. In the end, you feel like you just stepped into something very disagreeable.
5. Seinfeld: don't see any point in many seasons of mediocre people sitting around, being existential, and complaining about being existential; snap out of it.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, I disliked Seinfeld for same reasons. Snap out of it,people!

[fivil.livejournal.com]

I feel ya on Friday Night Lights, although I watched the first ep to get a feel of the characters and I just .. did not feel them at all. And I'm a slasher, too, so I could get big on some male chemistries but I didn't feel those either. Plus yeah, American football. Just ..no thanks.

Felicity .. people actually love it?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Felicity: apparenly so.

I am glad I am not alone on FNL.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Friday Night Lights: you summed up my reaction to people talking about this. Plus the football coach at my old school watched it and liked which is VERY MUCH not a lure.

You're lucky you missed Moonlight.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Your reaction saved me from Moonlight. Eternal gratitude.

[tatterpunk.livejournal.com]

Canadian, 'Vampire Knight.'

And more recently (or if you watch Lifetime), Blood Ties, starring Kyle Schmid as the titular bloodsucker:





Rowr...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmm....

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

[quote]2. Stargate Atlantis: Guy with dreads is hot. I'd have other opinions, but despite trying, my brain fell asleep.[/quote]

What boggles me about that show is the John/Rodney fandom that's come from it, which I and everybody else must know by osmosis. I'm guessing you actually have to watch them together, because on a very shallow level, whenever I see a picture of them I think why would the really, really hot guy go for the not-so-hot guy? *g*

[quote]6. Friday Night Lights: Everyone and their mother loves it. I am sure it's excellent. But I can't get past 'high school football' thing. I was never interested in high school football in high school! Why start now?[/quote]

For me it's not that it's about football - there are lots of shows that heavily feature activities that I'm not interested in - it's that everybody emphasizes how realistic the setting is, and I believe them. I don't want to spend time in a small, depressing, backwater town that the characters are trying to escape. Setting isn't always make-or-break with me when it comes to a TV show, but if I like the setting of a show it can get me to try it out. (see: too many bad movies/shows set in the past.)

I can't think of many, but I can't get into -

1) Heroes. The cast kinda bores me.

2) Avatar: the Last Airbender which I've heard so much about and sounded really good. But I coouldn't make it through the first season, because there was nothing spectacular about it and the laugh of the kid voicing Avatar grated. However, everyone says that season 2 is when it really gets awesome so I might try again.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Avatar is another really good example. I really want to like it. I think the art is very lovely. But yeah, somehow doesn't work for me.

[gretazreta.livejournal.com]

I want the entire O.C. to go up in the flames of bloody communist revolution as the people from the poor areas run down the street with knives, ready to pillage the over-privileged, over-collagened twits.

OMG.
YES.
PLEASE GOD LET IT BE SO.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I would pay to watch it. Extra for pitchforks.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Prison Break, it's like Oz, but with less overt homoeroticism!

And that's Forever Knight, there. ;)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Clearly a freudian slip on my part :)

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

Stargate SG-1 you gotta get on in season two. One is a hit and miss until the end. You have to get early on all those relationships. It is a great show, but that doesn't mean everyone has to like it.

Atlantis never interested me because it had no heart or team camaraderie. They *kind* of started to get that in season three, but by then it was too late. Plus, they killed off my favorite character last season. Boo.

Moonlight - stupid with dumb looking effects. You're not missing anything.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Which chaaracter did they kill off in SGA?