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30 Days of TV - Day 4
May. 20th, 2010 10:41 am
( The Days )
Day 4: Your favourite show ever.
If I'd done this meme three years ago, I would have answered Supernatural without any hesitation. Since then, though, SPN has gone downhill somewhat. It's still a show I'm fannish about, but I can no longer declare it my favourite show ever. Shouldn't a favourite be one that didn't break my heart and stomp on it?
I don't know if I have a true favourite. I'm not even sure how to define "favourite".
Shows I've been fannish about (seeking out the fandom, reading and writing fic or meta, going to cons): Hercules/Xena; Highlander/Highlander the Raven; Stargate SG-1; Sentinel; Supernatural.
Shows where I've done some fannish things, but don't really think of myself as "in the fandom": Robin of Sherwood; Star Trek TNG and DS9; Babylon 5; Stargate Atlantis; Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel; Alias; True Blood (that last may yet move to the first list).
Shows I've loved but haven't really done the fandom thing: Farscape; Mutant X; Lois & Clark; The X-Files, Sapphire and Steel; Firefly; Dollhouse; Millennium; Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles; Legend of the Seeker; Blakes 7; Heroes; The Middleman; The L Word; Queer As Folk (UK version); (new) Battlestar Galactica; Caprica; V (both incarnations); Friends; Ally McBeal; Sex and the City; Hamish MacBeth; Cracker; Merlin; Deadwood; Lexx; Dexter, Veronica Mars.
Plus childhood favourites and probably a bunch of others I don't remember right now.
Of those, there's no way I can pick out one and call it a favourite. Do I pick my fannish obsessions? If so, I'd have to choose SPN, and I've been so pissed off with that show lately that it seems laughable to say that's my favourite. True Blood is the only one that's gone more than a season and hasn't let me down...but although I love the show it doesn't inspire me in a fannish way as SPN or HTLJ did (partly because the fandom is all about Eric, and I don't like stalkers). Babylon 5, Alias and Battlestar Galactica I loved until the end but I never felt the need to seek out other fans or do the whole online community thing.
But for the sake of this meme, I'm going declare my all-time favourite a show that most of my friends probably haven't seen: the BBC-made Hamish MacBeth. ( Because it's awesome and funny. )
Day 4: Your favourite show ever.
If I'd done this meme three years ago, I would have answered Supernatural without any hesitation. Since then, though, SPN has gone downhill somewhat. It's still a show I'm fannish about, but I can no longer declare it my favourite show ever. Shouldn't a favourite be one that didn't break my heart and stomp on it?
I don't know if I have a true favourite. I'm not even sure how to define "favourite".
Shows I've been fannish about (seeking out the fandom, reading and writing fic or meta, going to cons): Hercules/Xena; Highlander/Highlander the Raven; Stargate SG-1; Sentinel; Supernatural.
Shows where I've done some fannish things, but don't really think of myself as "in the fandom": Robin of Sherwood; Star Trek TNG and DS9; Babylon 5; Stargate Atlantis; Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel; Alias; True Blood (that last may yet move to the first list).
Shows I've loved but haven't really done the fandom thing: Farscape; Mutant X; Lois & Clark; The X-Files, Sapphire and Steel; Firefly; Dollhouse; Millennium; Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles; Legend of the Seeker; Blakes 7; Heroes; The Middleman; The L Word; Queer As Folk (UK version); (new) Battlestar Galactica; Caprica; V (both incarnations); Friends; Ally McBeal; Sex and the City; Hamish MacBeth; Cracker; Merlin; Deadwood; Lexx; Dexter, Veronica Mars.
Plus childhood favourites and probably a bunch of others I don't remember right now.
Of those, there's no way I can pick out one and call it a favourite. Do I pick my fannish obsessions? If so, I'd have to choose SPN, and I've been so pissed off with that show lately that it seems laughable to say that's my favourite. True Blood is the only one that's gone more than a season and hasn't let me down...but although I love the show it doesn't inspire me in a fannish way as SPN or HTLJ did (partly because the fandom is all about Eric, and I don't like stalkers). Babylon 5, Alias and Battlestar Galactica I loved until the end but I never felt the need to seek out other fans or do the whole online community thing.
But for the sake of this meme, I'm going declare my all-time favourite a show that most of my friends probably haven't seen: the BBC-made Hamish MacBeth. ( Because it's awesome and funny. )
