I can honestly not remember the last time I sat down and watched something on broadcast television. For the past couple of years, I have been watching various TV series on DVD or online.
So if someone asked me what my “must-see-would-be-really-bummed-if-I-missed-it” show was, I would have to say … Survivor. I have seen every episode of every season, and some more than once. It’s the only show I’ve not become bored of after a couple of seasons. It’s cheesy and I am aware that a lot of the action is a set up…I don’t think of it as ‘reality TV’, just entertainment.
Who will be the ... Sole Survivor?
Other than Survivor, I have a range of other faves that I watch or have watched in their entirety:
Star Trek (TNG, Enterprise, Deep Space Nine)
Firefly
Sarah Conner Chronicles
Sex and the City
Entourage
Top Chef
Project Runway
America’s Next Top Model (missed the whole last season on TV!
And I am hoping to start Big Bang Theory soon, thanks Mshel!
Well at least this one is easy! The Princess Bride. It has the best one liners and is quirky and fun. And I really like the song at the end.
I first watched this movie when my son was a baby and movies were one of the few entertainments I could afford. I was immediately charmed by it, and have watched it untold times since.
Like many other PB aficionados, I know most of the words in most of the scenes and can recite the lines along with the actors. I imagine this must be very annoying to PB novices.
Jeez, hard one first. Here’s the thing. I think I must be the only person of my generation who is fairly apathetic about music. I like it okay, I know the lyrics to a stupidly large amount of songs, but I don’t really ‘love’ music. I know, I’m a freak.
If I have to choose one song I like a lot right now it would be Bruises by Chairlift. It’s fun, it’s bouncy and it was the music that went with the new iPod Nano ad…
So Kacie posted this idea on Facebook (she got it from Tumblr), and I liked it. I think I’ll give it a go. I’ll try to keep ’em brief so your blog-reading muscles don’t get overworked. Play along at home if you like, share your faves with me as we go along.
So we went to Armageddon over Easter weekend. For those of you not in the know, Armageddon is a “pop culture expo” … basically a geek-fest. Ostensibly it is giant store for people to sell their wares (comics, figurines, t-shirts, movies, games, swords etc etc etc), but really it is SO much more than this.
Just another day in central Wellington: Spock holds hands with a Dalek
Armageddon is a strange collection of geeks, nerds, emos, weirdos, and aged Trekkies (that would be me and Stephen). The thing that brings us all together is a shared love of comics, anime and sci-fi. To be completely honest, I am not into comics at all. I never really liked the chaotic nature of the comic – text and drawings all over the page. I prefer my words all in neat straight lines. This is a somewhat shameful admission for a self-confessed geek.
And anime is a strange form of art that I just don’t get. I suspect that it is very referential – in order to enjoy amine, you need to have a working knowledge of every other amine series ever made, and it helps if you can remember the plot of every Marvel comic ever produced. And if you spent your childhood drawing manga, that would also help. Having not done any of this, anime, manga, and comics in general just don’t do it for me.
So what the heck was I doing there? Other than experiencing the joy of watching Stephen and Megan pawing, nay *drooling*, over the comics, I was there for the Star Trek. Specifically, a panel of three Star Trek actors: Dominic Keating (Lt Reed from Enterprise), Rene Auberjonois (Odo from Deep Space Nine), and John Billingsley (Dr Phlox from Enterprise).
The Star Trek Panel
It was awesome. They were entertaining and funny, and the crowd asked interesting (and sometimes ridiculous) questions. It was fun to see the interplay between the Trekkies in the crowd (with their scary and exact knowledge of everything Trek) and the actors, who are certainly not that into the whole Star Trek universe. Case in point:
Trekkie: “Can you name all the star ships in the fleet?”
Dominic: “I couldn’t give a hoot” (or words to that effect)
John: “Well…there’s Enterprise…”
All-in-all we had a really great weekend. It wasn’t perfect (food always an issue; Megan could have had more coffee, earlier; our dorm room could have been a *little* bigger) but no-one got hurt and everyone had lots of laughs.
The Secret Life of Bebe 